Attah Mills Can't You See The Warning On The Wall?

Right from the time I was given birth to, people who were present speculated that my first reaction was to flash out a benign smile as a gift to Africa and the world as a whole.

To Malcolm X, without education one cannot get to a lot of places. This cannot be comprehensive without acknowledging the considered opinion of our illustrious son of Ghana and Africa, Kwadwo Aggrey that, “if you educate a man you educate an individual and if you educate a woman you educate a whole nation”.

In our bid to educate our society we are rather gearing towards 'illiterating' the few educated ones in the society so how can we achieve our set target?

The educational reforms for some years have taken a nosedive with subsequent governments reforming the sector to suit and satisfy their individual whims and caprices. The infamous SHS four years of the erstwhile Kuffuor-led-NPP-administration which took an obstinate stance even in the face of opposition of the committee set to advice the government in relation to any need for reforms. This single act of the Kuffuor led administration shows the extent to which our leadership in the country is becoming insensitive and rather finds interest in holding the whole electorate at ransom.

The Attah Mills-led-NDC-administration cannot escape from the sharp insensitive of our leaders. This was a leader who professes to care for the people of this country but his haste in changing the Kuffuor four years SHS to three years is too petty and shows the lack of empathy of the NDC administration.

We the students are not surprise in the least because the persons under discussion enjoyed free education, had access to free meat, fish, desert and even had their shoes polished for them which we are not demanding upon knowing the exigencies of our time and the peril our country faces.

Their action is a perfect epitome of what I have been mouthing to my colleagues that, “if a rich man comes to talk to you about poverty one will not understand him because he/she will be speaking mere jargons and will definitely not make any sense. However, when a poor man comes to talk to you about poverty you will understand him so much that, he will give you a perfect and vivid picture of the horrors of the hardships and the misery s/he goes through”.

Attah Mills, Kuffuor and their cohort can be tantamount to the rich man in the above quotation. They are okay so they don't really know how the poor cry and had to scratch their butt in order to make ends meat.

The NDC and the NPP are just going about corrupting the youths who are getting educated by creating disloyalty and tantrums throwing which is now their past times.

They never had the faintest idea that our educational system is broken down. Ghana, like any other African country interested in educating their people rather goes about “illiterating the few literate ones”. Our national leadership is blind towards this and rather spends over 1.3 billion old Ghana cedis on tea.

Our campus is overpopulated while our infrastructures have not been kept at par with the teeming students being admitted.

Our professors too are not teaching anything which must be taught in the 21st century. Whereas the developed countries are learning things meant for the 22nd century we those from the 'dark' continent and narrowly Ghana are rather learning things meant for the 18th and 19the Centuries.

Grow up, Kuffuor, Akuffo Addo, and Attah-Mills and admonish your people to stop throwing tantrums and casting unnecessary insinuations and help educate our illiterates and you as well.

Most professors are using notes they were used in 1999 down to this time. 2009 yet our notes are the ones used by students in the 1998 down to this time around.

Our leadership too is funny. Laugh (you reader). They are not interested in upgrading our existing institutions yet they are vainly and frivolously promising to establish more institutions to accommodate may be their family members.

Though in tertiary institution, I feel I am being 'illiterated' than educated.

God help people like you who are disillusion and always want to hazards the opinion that we are trying. This is hogwash and Mills knows that.