We’ve been down for too long as a people! We can’t continue to stay mute and pretend that all is well! Its high time Ghanaians face the reality and stop blaming politicians for the retardation of our national progress. Despite the fact that we’ve entrusted our resources in the hands of politicians, it doesn’t mean we can put all our hopes in them to better our lives in our various walks of life.
The citizens in this country are more corrupt in the “mind” than the extent to which the politicians could go in mismanaging the affairs of the country.
YES! There’s the devil in Ghanaians that makes most people serve as stumbling blocks to the successes some few people are determined to achieve for the glory of the nation and to themselves. The devil I am talking about is “hypocrisy and the attention given to irrelevant issues in the country at the expense of important issues that will bring development”!
The people of Ghana tend to give attention to irrelevant issues to the neglect of important ones they’re supposed to pay attention to.
During the inauguration of the incumbent government, a speech delivered by the newly-elected president, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, was believed to have been plagiarised. The president captured a line of which he failed to cite the source.
Meanwhile, a thorough research into the mayhem going on in the country proved to be fallacious!
Aside, there’s nothing new under the sun! George W. Bush quoted the same phrase Ghanaians are mad but never cited the source. Meanwhile, Americans were silent about it, but why Ghanaians?
A country which will soon retire from active service per its age if it were to be a human is still sick in social, economic, political, religious and mental development! Why should this be so?
Instead of putting into use the important issues raised by the president for the betterment of our lives, we are here throwing jabs at him. I can’t understand why our media houses are used to promoting mediocrity in the past years. I always say, most of our problems are a result of the mediocrity our media houses have decided to appraise.
One of the most powerful verses in the inaugural speech of the president reads; “Fellow citizens, you must be at the centre of the change. The change we have voted for will have to start with each of us as individuals. We can start with little changes in our own individual attitudes and practices. The change can and should start now and with us as individuals.”
Sadly, our media houses seem not to have seen that. These are the issues the media men and women must start to propagate so that the change majority of Ghanaians voted for will be realised, and not issues bordering on plagiarism.
After spending radio and television airtime to address plagiarism, the same people will come to ask why fuel, tax, and prices have been increased.
Instead of thinking about how Ghanaians can collaborate with the newly-installed president to move and change the destiny of Ghana, look at the unnecessary issues our media houses have started to address! Does plagiarism or copyright of a speech put food on our (Ghanaians) table?
Our attitude as a people needs to be changed else we will continue to be slaves and beg for aid and grants from European countries.
It’s only in Ghana that every opposition party and its faithfuls vow to make things difficult for the incumbent government to succeed. In countries like Britain, China, America and other European countries, right after a new government is ushered into power, all forms of partisan interests cease to operate.
Love for the nation, progressive thoughts and positivity take its rightful place in the minds and hearts of the citizens. Why can’t we learn from them and develop to our fullest? What better progress can copyright and plagiarism of presidential inauguration speeches bring to us?
Once again, Ghanaians and more importantly the media houses must address relevant issues and ideas this time around for we’ve been down for too long as a country! Plagiarism will never put food on our tables! Let’s put the incumbent government on its toes to deliver the juicy promises made during the electioneering campaign period that convinced Ghanaians to vote the president and his party into power. That’s what all loyal Ghanaians need; for plagiarism of a speech doesn’t pay utility bills in the country!!!