I have been appalled to read some very disturbing posts and blogs from young persons who claim that we must be loyal to our nation and support our president. I have a simple question for these boys: if I was their boss and I intended to shoot them, will they support me? Their answers will be very revealing.
I pity such persons who in their obvious confusion are attempting to show off their youth bravado in swimming against the tide. But rather than wait for them to be swept away, in the spirit of youthful redemption, I speak these few words to them. They must know if they don't , the following few facts.
1. A president has the responsibility to ensure the well being of a country. The decisions he makes or refuses to make affects the people in so many ways. To mess up an economy and then come back to admit there is difficulty is not enough. To put an economy in crisis and admit there are 'challenges' does not make the cut. People are not looking for admissions; they want solutions. People are loosing their lives, businesses and families while the government waltzes in its admission of 'challenges'. Supporting a president who believes that admissions are enough is destroying the nation.
2. This president through his actions and policies put us all where we are in the first place. When he authorized the excess expenditures that amounted to $4 billion in 2012 to enable him win an election, did he stop to think of how he was going to pay for those monies? When so much money was being spent on freebies like laptops and cloth while priority projects like the Gas Plant and the gang of six roads were being left to rot, was he dreaming? Or wait, it was not his fault, the global economy made those decisions for him? When as Vice President, he was seeking to force the nation into contracts like Stx and the embraer jet, didn't he appreciate the implications of his thoughts? When he gave away those monies to Gyeeda and others was he on Mars? Surely, he knows his actions have caused this so why are you asking us to be loyal to him? For what? we all know that supporting such a president is destroying the nation.
3. I do not know what made these young persons write this: "We must support the President in his work and let institutions like the National Petroleum Authority (NPA), the Bulk Oil Storage and Transportation Company (BOST) and the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) do what they have been set-up to do."
So I am forced to ask: are you guys in this country? When we left the NPA alone, they took our money, rented a $63,000 a month office and sought to justify it. And yes, the president through his chief of staff has moved to quash an attempted investigation into how this happened. GNPC is busy using state funds to sponsor the black stars to disgrace Ghana, when other private entities could have handled that role so we use our monies to help improve the NHIS or some other institution of Public benefit. BOST has decided to let itself be rented by a Nigerian firm with no experience in managing activities like what it does and yes, by all means we should let them be while we rot right? If these agencies had acted and acted right, should we be having the fuel shortage we have? So what are you seeking to do?
The people of this country are not asking for spaceships or free airplanes. We are asking for Fuel, Electricity and Water. Is that took much to ask of from John Dramani Mahama? Must we beg him for these things when we pay all the taxes he increases at will?
And while all of this is ongoing, the president, his vice, ministers, deputies and presidential staffers have paid themselves a whooping 3.48 million ghana cedis in salaries alone. Their allowances and benefits are yet to be added to this figure. Anywhere in the world, that's a very expensive price to pay for incompetence.
I know this whole loyalty to the nation concept is nothing but an attempt to make more money from your panicking superiors who are afraid of the angst of the masses. But please, remember you are helping to DESTROY GHANA.
ENJOY
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