Human Beings can be very Unpredictable, Untrustworthy and Sanctimonious

Without mentioning names, I shall be recounting a true story but in a generalised form. This story goes to tell how human beings, especially my fellow Ghanaian compatriots, can in many occasions be found to be unpredictable, untrustworthy and sanctimonious.

As said, this story is mainly about a certain man who has proven himself uncertain in his conduct, very unreliable and hypocritical in his outward show of righteousness. This behaviour is not peculiar to him, but common to many a Ghanaian with mostly those living overseas becoming victims.

There have been occasions where you may decide to help somebody but may not want your family members or other people to find out that you are the one helping Mr A or Mr B. You will then decide on using an intermediary Mr C to put out a public face as the one assisting say Mr A. You will give say, all the money needed for helping Mr A, to Mr C without even hinting Mr A about what you have done. All that you want happen in the life of Mr A is to see him succeed through the assistance you are offering him without he knowing the actual origin where the help is coming from but for him to assume or know it is coming from Mr C.

When Mr C hides the money, refusing to do as you had instructed him, but keeps the money for himself, with Mr A eventually not becoming the prosperous person you had envisaged for him through your monetary assistance, how will you feel when you come to realise how your objective has been defeated through the dishonest conduct by Mr C? Mr C, how will you feel if the person who entrusted you to do a service to someone, say Mr A, finds out that you did not do as had been agreed, subsequently upon which he gave you all the needed money?

Assuming you initially presented yourself as a saint to your friend, but has done the unexpected, by hugely disappointing him, how will you feel? Do you think your friend will forever remain a fool not to investigate, or finally tell Mr A in a way that he once gave you all the money needed to assist him but you didn't, however you kept the money to yourself?

Some people had done it to me. Some people had done it to many a Ghanaian residing overseas when they had tasked those at home to do something for others in Ghana passing all the needed money to them but they ended up keeping the money for themselves. A certain respected Christian has done it to a friend who trusted him a lot but rather proved himself a cheat and untrustworthy. Someone may have done it to you, Mr/Mrs/Miss Reader.

This is how untrustworthy the Ghanaian could be. Upon all this, the Ghanaian still believes he is a true Christian or a devote Muslim? Why should we do that to people who trust us to do certain jobs on their behalf? Anyone who has disappointed somebody who had trusted them to do a job but failed to, and squandered the money so given to them to ruin the life of the needy or poor person to whom it was intended for their good, must bow down their head in shame. They must confess to both the person who trusted them to do the job and the person who was to be helped but never was, their sins and asked for forgiveness.

If the money given to you is still sitting in your secret bank accounts, remove it to give it back to whom it was originally intended for.

Are you not ashamed to prove yourself before your friend that you are not the predictable person of honesty that he knew, you are not reliable and that you are a hypocrite in your outward show of devotion to God?

The message in this publication, wound in an enigma as it is, can be unravelled by anyone who has been disappointed by a once trusted friend who was charged to execute a project of helping another person on his behalf but failed to, and whoever has cheated their friend by failing to do as they had been trusted to do but had kept the money involved for their personal selfish desires. This is the Ghanaian for you!

Rockson Adofo

Wednesday, 20 May 2020