Greetings from the pages of the Silent Observer your reliable
pair of stethoscope to provide updates on the pulse of the Nation-Ghana. Here on
these pages you find variety and out of these options you will find where you
belong. From my occasional updates on entertainment, sports, politics and other
stuff; there is no better to find the right menu to satiate your intellectual
cravings for more! “Let us have no meandering”
Not to meander myself I will delve right away into the purpose
of this post.
The year is still quite new or at least the memories of the
holidays are still hovering around us like “Hausa Perfume”. Productivity at our
work places especially at the Public sectors are still on a snail’s pace.
However, one can imagine a completely different scenario with our Politicians especially
the opposition party. The struck of the new year was like the beginning of a 100-meter
race the Olympics. The winner takes gold and the loser will be marooned in a
stark poverty for the next four years.
Moreover, Political hormones are on the ascendency and the
tension is growing intense as the time for the elections comes neigh. Today, I read
a very unfortunate report where a man who felt belittled by the casuistry and
counter comments of another man on the formers Political Party lost it and
decided to go Kung Fu on the latter. This happened at a popular radio station
on a Live Political Show in Tamale. Well, this no news and I bet this might
have been the situation at most Radio stations dotted around the various cities
this year. Worse still, it will get worse as we get closer to the D-day.
‘Dumsor’, Unemployment, Poverty, High Inflation, Increment
in Petrol Prices and a host of others are some, if not the worse of the
nightmares which has bedeviled our beloved nation in 2015. The incumbent government
pleaded with Ghanaians since they came to office to rather sympathize with them
because they were doing all they could to make Ghana a better place for us. When
we grew tired of their lip service and portrayed our pleas for help by way of
demonstrations they point the blame finger at us. They say we are the cause of
our woes. Do you remember when our father and President blatantly told us that
mobile phones were the cause of ‘Dumsor’? Do you remember the reply our
beautiful second lady gave to those school kids who played Oliver Twist by
asking for Chalk after she donated some items to them? Albeit she apologized for
those comments, Can She purge those words from our memories?
‘Dumsor’ officially came to its climax just before the new
year. This should not come as a surprise to all Ghanaians because we are in an
election year. The better Ghana we fantasized about will become an unbelievable
reality. Schools, hospitals and roads will soon have completed in the shortest
possible time. The value of the cedi will rise and the inflation will record a
historical lowest percentage. Students will be flown out of the country to
study and the embargo on unemployment will be lifted. I am no Prophet neither
am I a magical genie in a bottle that grants wishes and knows the future. I am
simply a Ghanaian who has seen this trend become a norm by incumbent
governments. It is only during the election years that about 70% of government
projects are began and completed at the same time. That is a fact and a shimmy
that they resort to garner our votes. A despicable trump card to throw dust
into the average Ghanaian in our villages who have suffered for the past four
years. A lowly and disdainful trickery that every government does each election
year. The Last Minute Strategy.
I have come to one awkward but simple conclusion by observing
this behavioral trends; None of the political parties do care for the country
or its people. They only care about power and how to wield it by any means necessary.
This gruesome truth stare in our faces every day when read or hear about the
political instabilities that have plagued other African countries. So, if all
these politicians seek similar goals that do no align with the nation, what do
we do then as normal citizens? I have pondered deeply about this question but
cannot seem to grasp any reasonable answer. After all, it is us the same
citizens who become the politicians. It us who make us suffer. I cannot dare
answer the question “Why?”. But I dare each one of you to give it a thought.
Think about it!
Come what may, somewhere in December this year we would be
offered a choice to choose. Be as it may that we are fed up of these
politicians and their games we must still make that choice. We must turn into
professional stalkers literary and observe their utterances. Listen, Observe
and Choose. Do not allow yourself to be stampeded into violence.
And finally do remember to “give your voter’s ID card a big
hug”. It is your power of choice!
May we have a peaceful election year. God Bless our Homeland
Ghana…
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