66 Years Of Independence, What Next?

Congratulations to Mother Ghana and all citizens and residents as we celebrate our 66^th Independence from colonial rule. It is indeed a real milestone.

With our checkered history of constitutional rule and intermittent military takeovers, we have indeed come a long way as a nation and people.

Unless a person has experienced what, it takes to be under a military rule, one cannot properly appreciate what we currently have.

Democracy and constitutional rule, in my opinion and from my academic study of our political history as a nation, is always a better choice, despite the challenges we are having now with how to get it right.

Perhaps as we are considering changes /amendments to our 31-year-old Constitution (1992), we must not lose sight of our peculiar customs and traditions as a people.

Modernism as we tend to call it sems to be shutting out completely our beautiful culture and way of life out and one area of grave concern is the lack of discipline rearing its ugly head within our society. Prominently within our body politic.

Emancipation and self-emulation/glorification are the current trend, where respect for authority, leadership and the elderly has been thrown into the gutters.

Surprisingly even within the Church and religious setting, this emerging trend of everyone suddenly being their own boss with even the most recent school leavers calling themselves experts; Edifying words such as; apprenticeship, tutoring, mentoring and servanthood have been worryingly minimised.

Perhaps we need to go back to the roots, otherwise we are digging our own trenches.

We haven’t done too bad as a people, what we just need to do, is to adopt the strong will to make changes where they ought to be made, implement the right policies and programmes where necessary, discipline and sanction where it is mandatory to do so …

I will end it by saying: “posterity is looking to the present for guidance and direction …”

EKUA EGUAKUN
MANAGING CONSULTANT
KEDE LAW