Positive Attitudinal Change Matters (1)

In the name of God I write, and for mother Ghana I serve and pledge to defend with all my might.

Every four years comes an election, an election to elect competent people to our high offices, an election which offers the ordinary Ghanaian the opportunity to decide who should manage the affairs of this country.

During the electioneering campaigns, politicians and their communicators infuse our ears with their sweet and mellifluous promises. Vowing to find solutions to all our pertinent problems but after we vote for them what happens? They trash our concerns and begins to drive in luxury cars and live in the finest homes with their family. Leaving the larger population under the canopy of frustration and hardship.

Due to the fact that most Ghanaians don't scrutinize or ask probing questions on the promises they make for the fear of intimidation, gives room to politicians to promise heaven on earth here. Sadly, the technocrats, opinion leaders, youths etc have enslaved themselves to be used as instruments to cheat the vulnerable Ghanaian population.

Due to the prevailing economic hardship, Some vote not based on policies but tend to vote based on monetary influences or even family ties or affiliation to political parties without thinking of the after election consequences of their actions.

Few months after the election, they begin to regret and complain unendingly and hope for another four years but amazingly, when another election draws closer the politician returns with juicy excuses and few Cedis to lure them into believing and voting for them once again. Sadly, you would notice that these same used and dumped youth are solidly behind these politicians defending them back and forth.

We (Ghanaians) continue to complain about our poor education system which can only produce unemployed graduates, poor health care services, poor road network, high cost of living etc but we are not yet ready to be responsible for our actions and change our attitude towards the development of Ghana. Why do I say so?

Some of us (Ghanaians) build on waterways, dump refuse indiscriminately, open defecate etc then turn to blame our political leaders for the spread of cholera, malaria and even the choked gutters resulting to flooding.

Most Ghanaians are blinded by party politics, making themselves slaves to these rich politicians who in truth don't even care about them but only needs them to achieve their parochial interests.

To be frank, politicians are only using Ghanaian voters to get rich, live a luxury life so that you and I can honor them as heroes and heroines. They ensure their children are given first class education abroad so that they may also rule our children and grandchildren. When is this going to change?

In a nutshell, almost everyone is being influenced by the politician. How long will we be mentally slaved, used and dumped? When will we embrace positive attitudinal change? how long will it take us to tell politicians in their face that enough is enough?

Knowing at the back of their minds that, when the truth is told and the right thing is done, they can no longer use and dump the Ghanaian voter, they intimidate or even push away anyone who they think will be a stabling block.

Instead of rigorous campaign on sanitation and enforcement of sanitary laws, we choose to spray our homes yearly and spend huge sums of money treating same sicknesses at the hospitals.

Positive attitudinal change alone can save billions of Ghana cedis. Rise up and play your role effectively and that will translate to the development that we all are wishing for.

Your success in life depends more on the person you become than the things you do or acquire. As Aristotle wrote, "The ultimate end of life is the development of character."

Don't hate your brother because of somebody's political ambition. Never allow yourself to be used by a politician, be a patriotic citizen of Ghana and work towards a peaceful and a better Ghana.

As TheGreatwall Wrote "To tell the World is rather better to allow time to speak to it All"

I'm a citizen not a spectator.