The Nyantakyi Crucifixion and other disturbing issues

While boarding Brussels Airlines at Kotoka Airport heading for the Belgian capital en route to my base in the United States on Thursday, June 14, 2018, there were a lot of problems or problems. Disturbing experiences that harbaded me. as a concerned Ghanaian in the diaspora. So, sitting quietly aboard the huge Airbus A330-300 departing from Accra, I tried to contextualize and meditate pbadionately on some of the disturbing experiences / events that I was able to observe during my three weeks of stay in Ghana. It was a remarkable experience and a cultural shock, to say the least.

Needless to say, anyone exposed to Western lifestyles for a period of time quickly realizes to the arrival that all day-to-day activities in Ghanaian society, underlying social reinforcements are remarkably unique to the cultural identity of the nation. Culture greatly influences worldviews and the behaviors of people in every society, just as people shape cultural ethics. For example, although there is a periodic announcement on the airport PA system, some employees still ask pbadengers for "goro", because some employees constantly harbad me when I arrived in Kotoka on May 24, 2018, with Brussels Airlines.

Another troubling observation concerns the departure of the Kotoka airport. Again, apart from a few employees who were asking me for my last "20 or 50 Ghana", the plane barely flew over Koforidua's airspace and now the cabin was on the plane. point to be disinfected … of what? Well, your estimate is as good as mine. The fact is that you do not see this disinfection effort en route from the United States to Europe or from Europe to Ghana; it's only from Ghana. I have had this experience with all the foreign airlines that I have traveled with British, Brussels and Lufthansa. Does this speak to the way of life of Ghanaians that makes Westerners treat us with disdain?

Why do people like Anas Aremayaw Anas, a Ghanaian investigative journalist eager for corruption and acclaimed by corruption, are seen almost everywhere in Ghana as untouchable? , former god of Greek Tin, whose investigative approaches are not subject to a laser-based examination in the same way that he and his IP Tiger Eye are scrutinizing others. In other words, Anas' hay fever that seems to have hypnotized Ghanaians, in particular, does it have a cultural component?

Thus, millions of Ghanaians, including the authorities, timidly slumbered by extolling the virtues of Anas. above all reproach. Mr. Kennedy Agyapong, Member of Parliament for Assin Central, is more than right: "Who is watching the guard?" Unfortunately, no one is "watching the guardian" in Ghana. Certainly, this development comes from the fact that the country is desperately corrupt. So, whoever behaves as if he had the best answers to rooted corruption in Ghana is treated as an immortal hero. Moreso, it is fair to say that the Ghanaian culture "celebrates" the ENDS more than the MEANS. Thus, in the culture of this country, the "end justifies the means" in many respects. In general, Ghanaians do not care about how or how an individual earns money, as long as that person is rich, regardless of the means used.

But in more serious and more critical countries, high premium is placed on means rather than ends. This does not mean that means and ends are not equally important; indeed, both are complementary. In the American or British culture, for example, the system requires high ethical standards, so that the means / methods by which one conducts one's business must be ethically equitable or must live up to legality. It also presupposes that investigative journalists or the media have the right to play their monitoring role in a freely democratic environment, but in their effort to expose the ills of societies, they must be cautious enough not to use dubious means to gather. incriminating information about people. Meaning: We can turn it anyway we want; The Anas survey methodology is a clear case of inappropriate incentive that no civilized community will tolerate.

The BBC, CNN or any international body can "sponsor" or support Anas in everything he does in Ghana / Africa, but the real The question is: Do citizens British or American would remain inactive and would encourage Anas while he uses an illegal trap to get British or American officials that they accept bribes, turn around quickly and shame them? Obviously, the answer is a big no! In any case, no one should be surprised by these blatant inequalities as many of these advanced countries consider Ghana / Africa as an unhealthy and lawless environment in which anything can go. It's the sad story out there and somehow a lot of Africans seem to be "cool" with it. Perhaps it is a question of inferiority complex.

Without doubt, until his humiliating resignation, Mr. Nyantakyi had become arrogant and consumed so much power that he behaved almost as though he was bigger than life. It probably deserves its current situation because it serves as a warning to all power-hungry officials that power is transitory. Yet this does not change the fact that Anas' modus operandi not only raises questionable journalistic practices, but also raises ethical and legal issues.