Bernard Avle holds his first public lecture on "Rethinking the National Conversation"

General News on Wednesday, November 28, 2018

Source: www.ghanaweb.com

2018-11-28

Bernard Koku Avle, a journalist of the year at GJA 2017, called on Ghanaians to rethink their attitude and reorient it towards a national dialogue aimed at fostering development.

According to Mr. Avle, this will require and accelerate the country's economic growth, while putting pressure on people in positions of authority.

Speak at a public lecture on the topic; "Rethinking the national conversation," Citi FM's programming director also urged journalists to be professional in the performance of their duties.

Addressing an alleged paradox in the country, Avle said the country's main problems were "activity without productivity", "religion without morality" and "freedom of media without speech".

"Currently, our economy suffers from growth without factual transformation. Although we continue to make economic gains, this does not affect the group. The unemployment rate and unrest remain high among young people. In religion too, money has been lifted over the course of life no matter how it is earned. We are now in an era of infantry with people acting like hypocrites. Although we meet to pray and claim to be Christians, we do not expose the things of God that speak of love, kindness and respect. The church today seems to be imprisoned. The message of prosperity has resumed and eclipsed the message of sufficiency and simplicity. We are attached to a national cathedral when Christ made it clear that God does not reside in temples made with hands. "

On the subject of corruption and politics in the country, Mr Avle said it was important for a paradigm shift from electoral politics to development.

"The excessive powers of the president have created a situation where even within the same political party; people are scrambling to get closer to the center of power because that is where the action is. The popular expression of what this led is 'edidigya'.

Edidigya is now the biggest chancre of the city, which pushes our political elites to create a situation of making or dying for us every 4 years, because the biggest fear among the political elite is that it's not the same. once you lose the power or the connection with it, the people & # 39; didi & # 39; and & # 39; you're gya. "Explained there.

He further added that it was important that politicians "move from victory to next elections to securing the next generation, move from comparison of recordings to improving ideas, pbad from victory to fight to win the fight against ignorance, poverty and disease and to pbad self-defense groups to citizens; We must also learn to move invisible forces and Azorka boys to the occupation of Ghanaians. "

Bernard Avle, who also hosts the award-winning Citi Breakfast on Citi FM, urged media staff to be meticulous in his reporting and to be diligent in his work. He emphasized the importance of investing in content production for news and the importance of research and data badysis.

The public lecture held at the Alisa Hotel in Accra brought together prominent people from Ghanaian society, including lawyers, journalists, entrepreneurs and politicians.