Let's wipe our tears and ask some tough questions. It's a good time to ask when the pain is fresh and we can easily relate. We have a very short memory and we know it.
1. Why is the Police report circulating on social media like it is some normal, viral joke?
Should that be a public document just yet or one for police work?
2. Why will we not take action against the road contractor who left a heap of sand in the middle of the road without adequate signage or warning?
3. Why are we not angry at the fact that large portions of our roads are not lighted although each time we pay our electricity bill a part goes to ostensibly cover for street lighting?
4. Why are we not angry at the Ghana Highway people for the murderous nature of our roads? We think it's ok that virtually every road either has man holes, non existing markings, no street lights or a mixture of all of that?
5. Why do we never ask what the toll booths monies are used for? It's not strange to find dilapidating stretches just before or after toll booths and no one tells us why. See the Tema Motorway. They make 1000s of cedis daily but see the state of that road. It's taking us 60 years to expand it and when a truck breaks down on the road, we literally shut it down for us long as the truck lays on its side....in 2018!
6. Why do we allow people into mortuaries and do not stop them from talking photos? As Kwaku Sakyi-Addo mentioned earlier, do we see the dead bodies of people killed in terrorist attacks? So why do we think it's cool?
Yes accidents happen but in our case, the basic, unavoidable things is what causes these. But typical of us, we will mourn today, tomorrow and jump into another matter and show up to mourn again at their funeral and that is it. We will then wait for the next accident.
About Kwame Gyan...
Kwame Gyan is both a trained journalist and a public relations practitioner. He has taken a break from journalism to practice corporate communications but still has an eye on the profession he loves most. He started writing in junior secondary school whiles his broadcasting career started at Radio Univers whiles a student at the University of Ghana in 2001 and has gone on to have stints with Joy FM and CITI FM. He is currently a columnist in The Globe, an Accra-based weekly. His articles cutting across entertainment, politics, sports and pure fiction are featured in some other newspapers and blogs. He may be reached via [email protected].
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Wipe our tears? Who is even crying...(rolling eyes)
Yes, i hate to say this, but Africa and for that matter Ghana will never change so long as we have greedy irresponsible politician and citizens.Stealing public funds to support their opulent and ostentatious life styles at the expense of national development. I addition, these so called prophets should please stop lying and fellow citizens should think and stop following superstition.I am very angry with the way we black people think, especially in Africa.For this course i will become the president of Ghana. something need to change, particularly ,our attitude.
Kwame, look there are hundreds of young promising people who die on our roads every year but because they are not EBONIES nobody talks about them. Isn't it sad that after 60 plus year of independence we do not have a dual carriageway from Accra which is our national capital to Kumasi our second largest city? The US has a 4 lane interstate system that runs across the whole US, Canada has the QEII highway. Yet our politicians are spending millions of dollars on bulletproof cars (to drive on bad roads)? Second, we are in a country with no emergency response system... ZERO when disaster happens we die like chickens because there are no first responders and it takes hours for them to show if they do. Do you remember the building that collapse in Achimota a few years ago? Those Isreali dogs & emergency team did more in 24 hours than our own people did in 3 days. So long as we do NDC-NPP-Prophecy politics in this country and we do not look out for the interest of Ghana, nothing will change! Only God is keeping us alive in this country, only God. RIP Ebony