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19.04.2018 Feature Article

From Ghana With Love: Stop The Talk And Deliver Results!!

From Ghana With Love: Stop The Talk And Deliver Results!!
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There are many global Ghanaian forums of debate that bridge the generation gap!

It seems some of you on the Ghana Leadership Union (GLU) forum must be getting up there in age oo!

But all these people in government have failed to deliver! Please. DO NOT let NPP or NDC blind support blind your senses! We've seen enough! The TALK must end.

On hindsight military ruler in the 1970s, Kutu Acheampong, tried far better than almost all these people save Nkrumah!

That is my opinion!
According to Dr. Bawumia last Thursday at Berkeley California, It was in 1974 that the last attempt was made to plan the lands department and management of lands in Ghana! And that recommendation was sent by yours truly as student Secretary of the Ghana Association of Northern California in 1973/74. And the government replied the letter! Talk of the pen being mighty? These days leaders don't even seem to care to respond or reply letters or proposals made to them by educated and professional organised groups!

GLU consists of hundreds of Ghanaian Engineers, Doctors, Accountants, Professors, and a few students! We have made two solid proposals in the last year or so on REVENUE STRATEGY and a CLEANING GHANA to the Speaker of Parliament and the President; and not even a courtesy response!

Col. Kutu Acheampong's government used to reply to our mail as student leaders even in America and since the 1980s these rulers and elected officials act as if Ghana belongs to them! They cannot even respond to proposals and requests in writing?

And mosquitoes in Ghana? God have mercy ooo! Hope I don't get malaria! Bitten so much in two days I hate to go out in the evening!

CLEANLINESS- they say, is next to Godliness! Are we black people excluded? We like respect but don't want to learn to clean up our nations!

What a shame of a destiny to be ruled by men who don't seem to care and don't get it! Why do we still have these open gutters and sewage when mosquitoes are killing our people! Are we that incapable and that dumb? Why!!?

This is my first mail since arriving in Ghana Monday night; and I am so mad of the Public deception! Electricity was off for 5 hours in one of the most affluent areas of town in East Legon yesterday oo! Why! Why! Why!

Can't the black man plan? Can't we manage our own lives? I have a British /American white lady renting space in one of my buildings and I wonder what she thinks of me despite the smiles and that we all live in California! Are we an inferior breed to select a group of what Prof. Ayittey used to call "Buffoons" to lead us or what?

PLANNING for electricity and water is elementary!
It was in 2004 when I first moved here to my house and Kufuor's government was talking about the Akosombo dam water level not being enough to generate electricity as an excuse! We put blame on nature and never planned enough! Kufuor bought himself 24 karat gold chains congratulating himself!

Some of these people now think Ghanaians overseas should work there and when they send any goods or vehicles the government can generate revenue by increasing taxes and duties and NHIL and Ecowas fees and so forth and the rulers and elected Presidents live like Kings. We

Are asked to pay sometimes 50-150% in duties including VAT plus NHIL plus Ecowas fees plus port fees! Why should a citizen or worker have to pay more than say 10% of the value of his car or equipment and pay VAT on an imported item not made in Ghana! Why? Even God asked

for only ten percent!
But these our Ghanaian leaders in government never think of planning to satisfy the basic needs of the people:

- WATER
- ELECTRICITY
- ROADS & HIGHWAYS designed and built to international standards with appropriate markings and Road Signs and

- STREET NAMES and HOUSE NUMBERING IN AN ORDERLY LOGICAL MANNER are as done in developed modern nations;

- PROTECTION OF THE SOIL AND ENVIRONMENT with grass lawn and shrubbery and trees in our cities and throughout Ghana, as done in developed nations and now done in even Rwanda. And all we hear are boasting about leapfrogging UK and America!

- ELIMINATION OF OPEN GUTTERS and CURBING or CONTROLLING THE MOSQUITO that breeds malaria with a death rate of over 275 per day, 100,000 per year!

This is first mail and it's 3:45 am here in Ghana.

Let me keep it short but warn all that our country has been hijacked by a few and we need to hold these people by shirt collars as we used to do growing up to STOP THE TALK and DELIVER RESULTS!!

Electricity is still not adequately
planned in Ghana! Despite the poor reliability and quality distribution destroying our appliances, the billing system is a fraud! Why should one have to pay 1,500 per month as I paid last year for use of air condition! I have lived in Texas and Florida, in larger homes, and even where average Summer daily temperatures far exceed that of Ghana and my electricity bill never reached that level! Why! Ghana why?

So you all, please, please, let us learn to stand up together and stop partisan bickering and blind support and hold these elected people responsible. To me 4 years of do-nothing arrogant and pompous politicians is too long; and their first 1-2 years they cater to themselves and cant even arrest the croooks and thieves! Enough is enough!

Lets hear from the people!
Dr. K. Danso
East Legon, Apr.18, 2018

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