IDDI MUHAYU-DEEN’S FOLDER
(Part 3 of the Muntie brouhaha)
As an ardent
follower of Ghana’s politics and governance regime for well over a decade and
counting, I have not heard nor seen these growing levels of pettiness and fatuousness
we are experiencing today. Governance in this country has been reduced to absurdity
and what I call, vicious cycle of comical ineptitude. Our politicians and in
particular, the governing elites, have taken the suffering masses for granted. We
vote for them, give them so much power, pay taxes to them, accommodate them, remunerate
them and provide them several other fringe benefits. We do all these, with the
expectation that they would better our living conditions in fulfillment of
their electoral promises and social contract with us. Regrettably, once they
use us and get the power they so much desire, they tend to forget of us
completely and treat us with disdain.
All they care
about, is how to enrich themselves and their families even at our expense. In fact,
they care very little about our plight as if they have no conscience. Our predicaments
continue to get worse and worse each passing moment with no end in sight. We can’t
pay our children’s school fees, we can’t pay light/water bills, we can’t afford
3-square meal a day, we can’t find jobs even with our degrees and other relevant
certificates. Yet, these politicians we have voted for DO NOT CARE. They only
care about how to win elections and perpetuate themselves in power. How
pathetic! To further buttress my position, permit me to chronicle some of the
latest mishaps in the country involving the government of the day and Ministers
of State and situate same within the context of my flow.
1)
As we speak, there are over 3,890
teachers who were duly employed by government and have taught for more than two
years without receiving salary. They write several petitions and complaints but
no one minds them. Interestingly, we have a Minister of Education, Professor
Naana Opoku Agyemang, who happens to be a teacher by profession and a disciplinarian,
having been the Vice Chancellor of UCC where she controlled over 35,000 students.
Professor Naana Opoku Agyemang would hurriedly go and SIGN a PETITION for the President
to pardon convicted criminals (Muntie 3) who were jailed upon THEIR OWN PLEAS by
the Supreme Court but she won’t sign a petition to compel her government to pay
these innocent teachers.
2)
Available statistics show that we
have several thousands of remand prisoners languishing in our prisons because of
some inexplicable reasons; the State has simply failed to prosecute their
respective cases in court. They are also poor and can’t afford legal service to
protect their right. They are therefore locked in prisons for years against
their fundamental human rights. Meanwhile, we have a Minister of Gender and
Social Protection, Nana Oye Lithur, who claims to be a human right activist of
great repute. Oye Lithur would hurriedly sign a PETITION for the president to
pardon convicted criminals who threatened to kill judges and rape her fellow
woman (the Chief Justice) but she won’t sign a petition to compel the State to
dispense justice to these remind prisoners and supreme court judges including
the CJ.
3)
We have Ministers of State who would
hurriedly sign a PETITION for the President to pardon criminals who were jailed
based on THEIR OWN ADMISSION of GUILT but they won’t sign a petition to compel their
government to pay subventions to our schools, settle the salary arrears of our
gallant teachers/nurses/doctors, restore the scrapped teacher/nursing trainee
allowance and the likes …
4)
We have a governing party (the NDC) that
would organize night vigils and press conferences to mount pressure on
President Mahama to free criminals BUT they won’t do same for the President to
use his powers to reduce killer utility tariffs, solve the legendary youth unemployment
as well as dumsor crisis, which has claimed several lives and collapsed many businesses.
They are more concerned about “their criminals” than our hardworking teachers,
nurses, doctors, students and the youth of this country.
CONCLUSIONS
The only
inevitable conclusion that can be drawn from the above narrative is that, these
ministers of state, government officials and politicians DO NOT CARE about the
suffering masses. They don’t care about you, the ordinary Ghanaian. They only
care about their own people and how to win elections. You should be wise enough
to know that they are not worth dying for. You would be the most foolish person
on earth to go and fight or die for a politician. With the increasing levels of
desperation and anger of the Ghanaian youth, I am afraid that if this worrying
trend is not REMEDIATED immediately, then youth uprising is imminent. Enough is
enough. Our politicians must know that they can’t fool all the people all the
time.
A word to the
wise!
Assalamu
alaikum
This piece was
compiled by a concerned Ghanaian in the business of OCCUPYING HEARTS and MINDS
for the love of God and country.
IDDI
MUHAYU-DEEN
Youth
Activist/Social Commentator
Former NUGS
Secretary
(0245335197)
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