Tag: Politics

PARTISAN POLITICS, COVER-UPS, CORRUPTION, TRIBALISM, INDISCIPLINE, AND CO ARE GHANA’S REAL ENEMIES OF PROGRESS.

PARTISAN POLITICS, COVER UPS, CORRUPTION, TRIBALISM, INDISCIPLINE, AND CO ARE GHANA’S REAL ENEMIES OF PROGRESS.

The truth must be told. The LORD GOD has really blessed us with every natural resources we need as a country. It seems we have taken all these privileges for granted. Religiously there is peace, harmony, and understanding among the religious beliefs in the country.

The question is that why can’t Ghana turn to become a first-class Nation?

I have a problem about how we elect our president and vice mostly on religious background.

I am of the view that if we can have a patriotic and competent president and vice from one religion, there is no need to mixed the president and vice based on religious background.

It looks like we have abused the time needed to achieve’s certain developments on record time with bad attitudes.

We don’t take our works seriously especially some of the workers in the public sector, some of the them don’t thinks about how to progress the work , but what some of them are interested in is how to satisfy’s their stomach and pocket.

Cover-up is another Epidemic of the enemies of progress in Ghana. Most of the leaders needs those who can dance to their music to work with so that I snatch your back and you snatch my back game will be outplayed to the gallery. When sometimes you overheard a certain leader glamouring against someone, not interested to work with someone,is simply because he can’t create, loot, and share with the person.

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When a certain leaders see those working with him to be a threat for him, he will do anything humanly possible, to sabotage them.

No leader want to be exposed. They always want those who can do cover-ups for them to work with. So that their cobwebs and skeletons will be hidden, from the public.

Partisan politics always hijacked the truth to be seen and known. The political parties communicators will always defend the indefensible. Even when their parties are wrong, they will still defend the party. Because of political appointment, none of the parties members wants to criticize’s and condemn’s his or her own party for wrongful doing, bad actions, and unneedful policies.

Apart from Honourable Kennedy Ohene Agyapong the legislature a member of parliament for Assin central who sometimes fires his own party, when he disagrees with them. Some also says when he needs certain contracts from his party, then he will deliberately criticize them, for he is very loud and has the media power and influence.

Corruption is bleeding and sinking the country into an abyss. Looking at the over-pricing of certain government contracts will make you cry for mother Ghana. The mindset of some people is if you don’t become corrupt you can’t make it or be successful in life. This is why corruption galon is everywhere. Monies that can be used for state development goes to a corrupt people’s pocket. Corruption is milking the country and it is very sad and pathetic.It clearly shows that we don’t have any love for the country and also don’t think about the future of the country which belongs to the next generation.

The way some are chopping corruption monies today as if the is no tomorrow for the country. Until we have an independent anti-corruption body to fight vigorously against corrupt practices in the country, it will always stampies the social-economic, and developmental growth in the country. Another failing gears and break fails that disappoint the fight against corruption is the anti-corruption crusaders, most of them are corrupt than the corruption machinery. They themselves are real definition of corruption.

Tribal bigotry is very sensitive and fragile when talking about it without been circumspect. We should see ourselves as one people, without tribal differences.. There should not be any tribal war and selectiveness among ourselves as a country. We shouldn’t classify’s some tribes to be more superior than others.

There are certain positions and job employment’s if you don’t belong to a certain tribe you will be disqualified, base on your tribal background. This is a real picture of tribalism.Is true that we have different tribe’s among ourselves but the truth is that we are all one people. We are in a 21century the world has changed from the past. Stopping ourselves to intermarry each other because of tribal difference’s must be stopped.

Indiscipline is another canker. Some of us don’t want to be law-abiding citizens. The reason for that is how some of us are indisciplined. Looking at some behaviors of our’s, in the way some of us talk, dress, our actions and inactions shows clearly that some of us are not disciplined.If we don’t change from our indiscipline nature and character,Ghana our beloved country will never progress, economically, socially physically, and financially.
Most developed countries were able to develop because they were discipline. We don’t want to do the right thing but we always needs the rightful results.
The discipline organisations and authorities must enforce their veto powers without fear or favor. The laws that must ensures discipline needs to work effectively.The systems and structures to hit on the nails of discipline must not be hijacked. Building a Nation without discipline is like sitting in a glass room, you must not throws stones. Let us avoid and devoid indiscipline, from our personal lives, our homes, and offices. When we crucified indiscipline and resurrects discipline and our Homeland Ghana, will becomes one of the best country in the world.

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August 11, 2021
Political parties not committed to disbanding vigilante groups – Adib Saani laments
Foreign Policy and Security Analyst, Mr Adib Saani has expressed concern over what he described as the lack of commitment on the part of political parties to disband political vigilante groups more than a year after the passage of the Vigilantism and Related Offences Act, 2019.

According to him, an investigation he has conducted had revealed that none of the political vigilante groups that existed prior to the promulgation of the law had been demobilised.
In interview on TV3’s Newday, he said the investigation unravelled that political parties continued to access the services of such outlawed groups in defiance of the law.

“I will say this for the records without mincing words that none of the political parties has disbanded a single vigilante group. I am saying this confidently. These are their [political parties] boys who sleep in their verandas, who they task to go on certain rounds for them and they provide security for them during political events,” he said.
Mr Saani said some members of vigilante groups are mostly recruited into the various security agencies by politicians, a situation he noted, encouraged the formation of such groups.
His comments however follow an alleged attack on the Northern Regional office of the Drivers and Vehicles Licensing Authority (DVLA) in Tamale last week – an operation believed to have been carried out by some suspected members of pro-NPP vigilante group, Kandahar boys.
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo in September 2019 gave his assent to the Vigilantism and Related Offences Act, 2019, which bans acts of vigilantism in Ghana, disbands vigilante groups, including political party vigilante groups and land guards.

Under the law, persons found guilty of vigilantism could spend not less than 15 years in prison.
Subsequently, the two major political parties – New Patriotic Party and the National Democratic Congress – signed an agreement facilitated by the National Peace Council to disband all political vigilante groups associated with the parties.
Although both parties claim no association with vigilante groups thereafter, there have been widespread concerns about the existence of such “organised groups” across the country, serving the interest of their parties in diverse ways.
Mr Saani insisted that contrary to the claims of the political parties, a number of political vigilante groups, who are strongly attached to either the NPP or the NDC continue to operate for their parties on the ground.

He warned of dangerous consequences if concrete steps were not taken to compel political parties to faithfully and sincerely disband such groups in the interest of the country.
“I knew from day one that this [the law] is just for the gallery and there is absolutely no way the political parties will disband these groups and I think they are being disingenuous with the people of Ghana,” he said.
February 10, 2021
Political Rallies Do Not Cause COVID Spikes – Says Ghana Health Service (GHS)
The Ghana Health Service has said scientific data do not support assertions that political rallies can cause a spike in COVID-19 cases in the country.

With less than two weeks to the 7 December 2020 general elections, many political parties have been crisscrossing the country with mass rallies, which has raised concerns of public safety in this time of the pandemic.

But addressing the press on Ghana’s fight against the pandemic on Wednesday, 25 November 2020, the Director-General of the Health Service, Dr Patrick Kuma-Aboagye, advised Ghanaians to be more careful in enclosed places with no ventilation rather than open spaces.

He noted that although large rallies do not lead to a spike in the disease, political parties should not let their guard down on the COVID-19 protocols.

Dr Kuma-Aboagye said: “For the rallies, it’s about science and data and there’s no evidence that any rally has led to an outbreak but even in all that, if the rallies were causing the outbreaks, the rallies don’t only occur in Accra because the larger rallies occur outside Accra and we’re not seeing any outbreaks there but that is not to say that we’re not being cautious”.

“We’re still talking to people about the use of masks and we’ve explained to the parties that they should encourage the use of masks. Because it’s an open space, ventilation is ok and the virus doesn’t do well under such environment.

“Of course after the event, people will move into small spaces and that changes the dynamics and, so, people must still wear the mask for protection at all places. There are riskier areas…so it’s the enclosed areas that we must be more careful about”.

Meanwhile, it was disclosed that the Kotoka International Airport (KIA) has recorded a total of 120 new cases of COVID-19 infections in the month of November, bringing the total number of imported cases to 264 since the reopening of the airport, as directed by President Nana Akufo-Addo.

Dr Kuma-Aboagye explained that the latest surge in COVID cases is as a result of the second wave being experienced in the Americas and Europe.

He, however, noted that efforts are still underway to limit a further spread of the virus.

He added that plans are also in place to deploy potential vaccines developed by global corporations once they have been validated by the World Health Organization (WHO).
Peacefmonline
November 25, 2020