Iddi
Muhayu-Deen writes…
My fellow
countrymen and women, I humbly beseech you this day to rise up and defend your
country. This is NOT the time to sit aloof knowing very well that things are
falling apart in your country. We should all remember that society suffers not
because of the evil deeds of the bad ones but because of the loud silence of
the good ones when wrong is being perpetuated. Also remember that, silence is NOT
an option when things are ill-done.
It is
increasingly becoming very clear that, after suffering an unprecedented MISERABLE
DEFEAT in the last elections, President Mahama and his NDC want to make this
country UNGOVERNABLE for the incoming NPP government. This, they have amply
demonstrated through their infamous anti-Ghana last minute decisions and
actions deemed very detrimental, problematic and counterproductive to our
national interest. Let’s interrogate a few specifics:
THE NATIONAL SERVICE ALLOWANCE AND MORE
It is most
reprehensible and despicable for the Mahama government, which is LEAVING OFFICE
in the next two weeks, to be announcing an ASTRONOMICAL INCREMENT in national
service allowance by a wanton 60%. For who to pay and with which money? I guess
their ‘dead goat spirit’ is going to pay this money and with the woyome ‘munchendi
cash’. Do not forget that as we speak, they have already presented almost all
their handing over notes to the incoming administration. So what at all is
their problem?
After collapsing
the Ghanaian economy to the extent that they were unable to pay contractors;
unable to pay salary arrears to workers; unable to pay teacher and nursing
trainee allowance; unable to pay the allowance due our national female teams; unable
to honor several statutory financial obligations, these people still have the
effrontery to go announcing some outrageous increases in salaries and
allowances to be borne by the incoming NPP government.
I am NOT by
this, saying Nana Addo will not increase the NSS allowance because there is enough
justification for that. However, we would only get to know the margin of the
increment after he assumes the reins of government and appreciates how much the
national kitty can afford. It is also instructive to make the point that, the
major concern of NSS personnel today, is not really about allowance but JOB
INSECURITY and that is why the NPP government is committed to building an
efficacious GRADUATE DESTINATION MARKET through an UNRIVALED INDUSTRIAL
REVOLUTION.
Let me give
you a background to this allowance issue. Sometime last year, we the national
service personnel started making a case for the Mahama government to increase
our service allowance (which stood at GHc350) by 20% in view of the rising cost
of living in the country. Government told us that they had NO MONEY to pay and
indeed, all our efforts to compel them to consider our plight proved futile
till we ended our service.
The current
NSS personnel (2016/17 service year) also continued from where we left off to
engage government to reconsider its decision but still, ‘Mr. Deadgoat and his
yentie obiaa government’ remained intransigent. Now that they have lost the
elections and leaving office, they have, all of a sudden, seen wisdom in
increasing the service allowance even FAR BEYOND the 20% that the personnel
were requesting for. How incredulous! Surely, this can make a nice Kumawood
movie.
They are now talking
about some 60% increment for their ghosts to pay, I suppose. Or maybe, they are
telling us that Ghana is now the richest country in the World. These guys must surely be some ‘award winning
jokers’ who have no modicum of shame. Meanwhile, this akan drama and woyomenonic
60% rise in NSS allowance is NOT even captured in the 2017 budget that they
[the NDC] took to Parliament. Neither has there been any stakeholder
consultations nor consensus on same. So who are they trying to deceive? Our University
graduates?
The NDC
government is so incompetent to the extent that, they CAN’T even COMPETENTLY
show their legendary INCOMPETENCE in the scheme of things. They are just not
smart at all. Even if they wanted to deceive anybody, must it be tertiary
students, forgetting that most of these students/graduates are probably more
discerning and reasonable than some of the government officials? It is
therefore not surprising to note that, in the just ended 2016 elections, the
NDC lost miserably in all University campuses in the country as well as other
tertiary institutions.
The NDC can
only sweep all the votes in our prisons and indeed, they won in all the prisons
in the country. This of course, is to be expected because these prisoners
thought that if they didn’t vote for the NDC to win the elections, a lot of
people especially government appointees would be joining them in prison
considering how corrupt the government has been. It is pretty obvious that the
prisoners didn’t want more inmates because they are already overcrowded in the
prisons.
I however wish
to assure these prisoners that the Nana Addo government WOULD NOT persecute
anybody but allow the RULE OF LAW to work under all circumstances. The law is
no respecter of persons and all the people that have legitimate questions to
answer would surely have their day in court. In the meantime, the students of
Ghana and NSS personnel remain unmoved by President Mahama and the NDC’s
insulting gimmickry in respect of the national service allowance.
To be continued….
Assalamu
alaikum
Iddi
Muhayu-Deen
An Immediate
Past Service Personnel
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