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Business as…going down

Feature Article Business asgoing down
MAR 24, 2017 LISTEN

TV3, Daily Rant, 22.03.2017, 06:55 am, World Water Day, Students outside Ghana Journalist School, young Lady: “We as people have a style that nothing is changing unless we get pushed.”

June 3rd 2015 is just around the corner during which night over 150 people died at the Kwame Nkrumah Circle due to flooding caused by poor sanitation. Much words were used to mourn the dead but in the end, no lesson learnt, business as usual…that is not quite right, it is getting worse.

The World Bank as announced in March this year to withdraw the grants given to Ghana to clean up the country as no seriousness in fighting the problem can be observed. Prez. Nana Akufo-Addo’s 2017 Budget, Ministers or NPP Election Manifesto address the sanitation issue on a serious note but will continue with the open gutters policy to destroy Ghana’s environment and kill their citizens by neglect. The Prez. once having been a Lawyer in the UK, knows that underground pipes as a drainage system is the best solution mankind has come up with so far to solve this vital problem for cities and even rural areas. Being in power in Africa he falls back into the mentality of past generations of African Politicians having learnt nothing from more effective societies serving their citizens very well.

Singapore is an extremely hygienic country. At the Independence Day Celebration Singapore was a dirty place with filth all over. The late President and Founder of the modern Singapore implemented a holistic plan and strategy to solve this issue of the Asian Society. With great will and power, he went about the punishment of offenders having to pay the highest fines for littering the environment even facing imprisonment for serious offences. Unprecedented to some EU countries like Italy, Singapore once a Developing country came out in the shortest possible time to solve their sanitation problems in the country. Kigali, Rwanda’s beautiful capital, is a clean place for locals and foreigners to enjoy especially considering the 1994 Genocide and its aftermath. National Sanitation Day in Ghana is no longer observed but a funny incident in the History of the country.

In the democratic configuration of Ghana to punish people for wrong doings can have a back clash later in the upcoming elections as Party thinks for which reason they do not engage in doing what is right and needed to be done. Sanitation problem in Ghana has reached the level of Emergency for which in this sector Emergency Laws can be enforced and the Army send undercover through the streets of Ghana to arrest Offenders and prepare them for prosecution instead of wasting their time in barracks to wait for wars (which country will ever attack Ghana again?). Young unemployed people can be trained in private, licensed Security companies to fine offenders so that this area can be a vibrant business for many.

The present NPP Government has not addressed the issue of Litter boxes that are missing in Ghana’s cities and villages as one instrument to fight the dirty places of the Nation Ghana, a simple but effective tool in a holistic concept to keep a balance between the modern needs for a comfortable life and protecting the environment and healthy future of the citizens of Ghana. The question arises, why is the current Government like the previous once so ignorant to the safety of their people? The lack of knowledge cannot be the answer as this world is full of various effective ways and solutions to address sanitation problems all an Internet search away.

Karl Schiller, late Superminister in Germany heading the Ministry of Finance and Economy at the same time for several years ensured the economic upward trend of the German economy after late Chancellor Erhardt, the father of the “Wirtschaftswunder” boosted Germany again to greatness, was voted out of office. Angela Merkel only surrounds herself with a handful of people to make her decisions. Small is beautiful and effective when the right people are in place and structures working. The big numbers of the current Akufo-Addo Administration is blocking each other and messing up the welfare of the country while countries in competition with Ghana - outside of the Continent - will take the lead and sustain it.

To change a country for the better is not foremost by MEANS, but by MINDS and their decisiveness to succeed for the benefit of the whole nation instead of finding jobs for Party Members that once no longer in power dive back into financial, mental, spiritual and emotional poverty…so sad to see as Millions have to suffer only with the hope of a better Administration and hope, and hope and hope…when will there be a final ending of hoping and hoping a real improvement?

GOD save Ghana from itself!
Author: Dipl.-Pol. Karl-Heinz Heerde, Sakumono, Tema West, Ghana, phone +233(0)265078287, [email protected] , 22.03.2017

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