Corruption is when football supporters go to Brazil for World Cup with two tickets; plane tickets and party cards. Fortunately or unfortunately, only a handful returns. A chunk of them are too busy to return because… they are filing for permission to flee the war of the cedi against the dollar in their ‘party’s country’.
Corruption is when the politician is paid bountifully for just jumping from one radio station studio to another hurling big vocabs at hungry listeners all day when the public sector who works for years is paid only three months’ worth of salary.
The country’s economy is wobbling. Obviously it is. Thanks to our ‘noble’ politicians. They seem to know everything yet have nothing to show for it. Talk of degrees and titles of different shades; they have it all. Little do they know that too much learning often leads to ignorance. Of course, they are learning too much of how to diffuse each other’s policies in the name of propaganda when their innumerable promises remain exactly what they are; promises!
They are ‘driving’ the economy like someone else using a TV license to drive a car! So… the question lingering on my mind now (and I guess yours, too) is that… who does this country indeed belong to; the politician, a political party’s supporters or the entire citizenry?
I guess sometime soon, we all would need to be affiliates (staunch ones for that matter) of one party or the other to enjoy our rights to the fullest as Ghanaians. Little wonder to others, there’re only three precious minerals in GH; gold diamond, and party cards.
I shudder to ask you whether it is worth dying for Ghana because you would openly tell me a lie. I know. Your guess is as good as mine is.
We are almost always dumbfounded at the esteem in which foreign nationals are held, wherever they may find themselves; especially outside their countries. We, on the other hand, are only held in high esteem when we are referred to as corpses. Even in that regard, it pertains to our family because errrm… funerals are profit-making ones lately. Otherwise speaking, the dead is more important than the living!
Just imagine how swiftly America reacted to their two nationals who contracted Ebola. That’s what we call nationalism! Back here in GH, it’s the contrary. There’re a thousand and one of our likes so no one cares. Policies are forced down our throats and when we complain the least, all we hear is a disheartening whisper, “Damn the citizenry!”
Right here in GH, ‘faithful’ citizens work for a year (and even years) without salaries.... only to be paid three (3) months’ worth of salary! Like seriously!? Can you imagine if such citizens are the breadwinners of their families? Can you imagine if such citizens were lent money to fend for themselves all through such times without salary?
Just heard someone heave, “It is normal.” It is not! If you sing such a chorus then you of course are sanctioning crimes like prostitution and armed robbery. Why? One leads to another!
In our motherland, having one’s salary's documents processed in the public sector can ‘intentionally’ take as much time as a baby would take to walk. Trust me. So if after the entire wait, one is paid only three (3) months’ worth of salary, how on Earth do they survive? Errrm… Sorry I asked. It’s needless to ask. After all, no one gives a hoot about how they do.
Thank goodness for measures to fight corruption. But… the same systems that fight corruption are the same ones that make us corrupt! Believe you me, if you want to fight corruption, you don’t give the same people a cause to be corrupt. You don’t deprive the cat of its meal and not expect it to find its way of getting it anyway.
Thank goodness for the ‘righteous’ Ghanaian. Thank God for the ‘unrighteous’ one, too. We successfully create the latter and in turn, judge them. If you do not want the thirsty horse to drink… don’t force it to the river side… Selfie-proverb. Self-made wise saying. Lol.
Obviously, there would no corruption if there’re no corrupt people. And… there would be no corrupt people if no one is breeding them…
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