“We Are Destroying Ghana”

Our attitudes, our demeanors, our lifestyles and everything we do as humans is gradually halting the progress of this Nation.

The Daily Graphic on February 28, 2017 carried its Editorial column perfectly on our attitudes toward the building of Ghana. The headline- “We are destroying Ghana” caught me thinking. I have lived to understand that, it takes people with clear conscience and people who think of others more, People who have issues of others at heart irrespective of how they feel, People who will make that sacrifice to get the right thing done to comprehend what the Daily Graphic put there.

Ghana is finally 60. If Ghana had been a human, she would have been given a letter to exit the public service. She would have been told to retire ‘compulsorily’. If Ghana had been a politician, she would have taken home huge cowries as her pension benefit. Am sure in this regard, Ghana may be a Teacher or a Nurse – she is obviously taking home nothing. Politicians don’t work for 60 years before retiring. Do they retire? Ghana obviously isn’t a Politician. Politicians take millions home every four years. Teachers, Doctors, Nurses, Police and other Civil servants, take home few millions for working for 30 and more years.

So…… 60 years on and we are here? Celebrating independence? While we are ‘in dependent’?

My heart bleeds for this country. The truth is expensive these days. The meaning of the truth has multiplied over the years. Every Ghanaian has his/her side of the truth.

Pictures of senior and junior Doctors sleeping around with young Nurses to assure them of abstract jobs is evident in my homeland, Ghana. Our Teachers and Lecturers sell grades to students. This is the country people sacrificially laid down. But today, out of greed, self -seeking and our corrupt attitudes, we cut all corners to get rich overnight. Good life in Ghana is building a mansion, driving luxurious cars; air conditioned, eat junks and have women around. Our definition of ‘good life’.

60 years on and our attitudes to everything is awkward. We sell air, blood, human parts and even the obvious truth. The richer one is in Ghana, the less expensive the truth is.

60 years on, we are ‘in dependent’ on other Nations. We have exchanged our rich natural resources for pea nuts. Our leaders have consistently misled us and it’s not funny.

Am sure Osagyefo Doctor Kwame Nkrumah will be tossing up and down in his grave as I alphabetically construct these words. We have destroyed the foundation of this country, we have destroyed the construction, and we have destroyed the building itself. We have destroyed Ghana with our greed, self conceited and arrogance. Assistance is not offered freely here anymore; the highest tender wins the favour. Results don’t matter here; who knows you matters.

The farmer is using dubious means to store his produce. The fisherman is using chemicals and lights to catch fishes for the market. The female student is spreading her legs for marks. That Lawyer is taking money from people to economize the truth. That Teacher is leaking questions to innocent students for cheap favours. The Doctor is sleeping with patients and Nurses for self gains. Pastors are selling the word of God to us at exorbitant prices. Our Ministers and Parliamentarians are twisting the truth to win political points; they sign dubious contracts to enrich their pockets. River bodies are in terrible states-Cattle and Humans drink from same rivers and we are here celebrating? Pupils in our basic Schools prostrate to grab concept in class and we are here celebrating 60 years; subjecting these Pupils to an exasperating match past in the scorching sun?

After 60 years we can’t have stable power supply but we spend huge money celebrating her birthday.

Our successive Presidents mount platforms to sing for us to dance while we sleep in mud houses and feed on what they assign for dogs…….

We are destroying Ghana. Yes we are. You and I, they, he and she, virtually all of us. We all are contributing to the destruction of this peaceful Nkrumah-left- behind African Nation.

It’s time we probe our God-given conscience arrest the issues and device ways to help build and reshape this country. You…. Yes … you and I have a role to play.

It is my prayer that in the next decade, Ghana will not import noodles, toothpicks and ‘koobi’. It is also my prayer that Ghana in ten years will use the teeming youth who can stand and defend the good name to build this Country. It is my last prayer that, in the next decade, Ghana will not have those Pastors, Teachers, Lawyers, Nurses, Doctors, Police, Soldiers, and Politicians who will prioritize money over results.

God bless Ghana, God bless us all.
Happy 60^th Anniversary.
Wisdom Bonuedi
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