God bless our homeland Ghana
And make our nation great and strong
Bold to defend forever
Fill our hearts with truth and humility……….
The national Anthem! Sounds great doesn’t it? The composers
of this anthem un debatably had the interest of the nation at heart. Patriotism
was described perfectly in the song ‘’y3nara y’asaase ni’'. This is what I call
patriotism. People in the past were willing to die for the country but can we
say the same for our current generation?
Fortunately most of our leaders
claim to love our country but their actions don’t prove so. All what he needs
to do is to live behind a mask and do all the bad things and defraud the
country of our money and come to television with his polished face and pretend
that nothing happened. We now live in a country where most of the ‘’mask’’ our
leaders wear are the mask of friendship and leadership.
We are all familiar with the
classic tale of back-stabbing romance that tells how Miles Standish lost the
love of his fair Priscilla. He trusted his best friend John Alden to ‘’fix them
up.’’ Well Alden tried but Priscilla said, ‘’speak for yourself, Johnny’’ and
in the end it was John who got the girl. But as Shakespeare once said, ‘’Most
friendship is feigning; most loving mere folly.’’ Miles should have studied up
on his Shakespeare and done the job himself.
The mask of friendship is all
around us, as some ‘’phantoms’’ want to win our trust and then betray us and
that is how our leaders are. Once they have won our trust they betray us by
stealing from us. Their deceptive mask they wear can victimize the people they
govern and take their money and destroy their trust.
Take for instance the Europeans,
when they came to Gold Coast they came as people who wanted to help the country
but look at what they did to us. They took our money and before long left us
with nothing, left us with a polarized country and left us divided. They really
showed us that all what everyone in that top position wants is money and
nothing else and I think that our leaders of today have demonstrated this far
enough.
Many of our leaders are
comparable to the old time quack doctors who sold phony remedies. Only that
today’s ‘’quack’’ leaders don’t have to travel miles of distance to sell
‘’phony’’ ideas. All what they do is to use today’s technology and voila they
would reach and ‘’touch someone.’’ It is therefore not surprising that most of
the monies stolen are stolen by our leaders of today. Beware of mask of ‘’the
friend of the people’’ and remember that when the offer sounds good to be true,
it probably is.
Benjamin Franklin once wrote ‘’he
that is of the opinion that money will do everything may well be suspected of
doing everything for money.’’ Where is the link here? Most of the people in
Ghana are with the perception that money will do everything so they do all they
can do to make sure that they get into these top positions just to get money.
And this is how the story of most corrupt people begins and unfolds. Can we
therefore pretend that there is nothing wrong and that we have great heroes?
Let’s go back to those days when our leaders were those who slept on empty
stomach, those days when our leaders were the ones who slept on the floors so
that their followers can sleep in the room and sleep with a full belly.
Song lyrics from Phantom of the Opera proclaim, ‘’A
nation waits, and how it hates to be cheated!’’ But it seems that this nation
has adopted cheating as a survival tactics. We’re taught that we have to be
tough to be successful, even if toughness isn’t our personality. Now ‘’who is
who’’ really becomes a complicated game but how can we tell when everyone is
busy trying to be like someone else?
Also take, for example, pastors
who claim they can make barren women give birth by making them shed their
shirts during ‘’examinations.’’ He would simply answer when asked what they
were doing with the naked women ‘’I was asked by God to do that.’’ So what was
God or they checking for? Because the last time I checked God was closer to us
than our clothes?
Joseph Yaw Frimpong
iNews Gh, editor
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