WHAT PEOPLE DO FOR VOTES

WHAT PEOPLE DO FOR VOTES

Ama: Hello Kofi, how’re you and Zimbabwe?

Kofi: Hey! Ama, good to hear from you. You always make me feel for Ghana.

All’s not well here. Zimbabwe is still wrestling with hyperinflation, mass unemployment, and collapsing economy. I hear Grandpa Mugabe wants to introduce bond notes which some experts are predicting will worsen the current wounded economy. How’s Ghana?

Ama: Ghana is getting sweeter and sweeter.

Kofi: That’s good news, I better start packing then and head to Ghana.

Ama: Hmm! Kofi, it’s a good idea but no rush. Come home and contribute your quota to the ailing economy. All Ghanaians need to take special interest in how our nation is being run.

Kofi: I understand dumsor (power crisis) is gone and massive development is taking place.

Ama: Kofi don’t forget we are in an election year and all things are possible; people can even grow yams on trees and harvest them overnight. We’re good at fixing our developmental challenges when elections are approaching. But experts say dumsor is just hiding.

Kofi: How sweet is Ghana getting then? Is the situation better than the cries in Zimbabwe?

Ama: Many interesting fila Kofi. The election referee is being suffocated with legal suits due to how it is blowing its whistle; the major political clubs are promising to bring down the new earth and new heaven if they win the elections; the current head coach is promising to score better goals if he’s re-elected; and some chiefs have become political pulpits for unhealthy propaganda because of their stomach. Many of the electorates are being swindled with gifts like coffin, gas cylinders, coins, microwave roads, electoral prophecies and political humility.

You know something, Kofi, these political clubs are currently behaving as if they care so much about Ghana and the electorates. On the contrary, they just want their votes. Their real interest is in their political clubs and the true members of those clubs.

Kofi: Ama you know in the US, issues about sexual misconduct, sexting and email scandals are being exploited to court the electorates by the leaders of the two big clubs. These issues point to character and integrity of the big shots; their colourful manifestoes are not enough.  

Ama: We also need to pay attention to the issues of corruption, incompetence, mismanagement, desperate desire for power or retention of it, and abuse of power and incumbency. The ongoing Gospel messages from the political pulpits are not enough! Oh! sorry Kofi, you know, I am almost out on phone credit. I should end here.

Kofi: Sorry Ama, I understand. I have not been able to send you some money all this while, due to situations here, but I hope to remit money when possible.

 Richard Obeng Mensah, author of Wisdom Thoughts

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