Why has Ghana become a beggar despite its immense human and natural resources?

Ghana is one of the most favored countries in the world, in terms of climatic conditions, human and natural resources.

Even our position or our position on the world map is so important that it can generate huge income for our country, Ghana.

When it comes to our human and natural resources, I see Ghana as a country that can easily provide its children with an authentic, better and free education, from kindergarten to university.

I see Ghana as a country that can give allowances to people who find it very difficult to get meaningful and sustainable work to do.

Ghana’s population, human and natural resources are such that unemployment can be easily eliminated.

Sadly, despite the great blessings that Ghana is endowed with, Ghana has become a beggar. In Ghana today, if our political leaders do not move bow in hand, begging for money, we will not even be able to pay our external debts.

Today we are told that there is a deep black hole in our economy, but our political leaders tell us that they are the best managers of the economy.

The question is, if Ghana is so blessed with enormous human and natural resources, why has Ghana become a beggar?

After 64 years of independence, why are so many people in Ghana wallowing in abject poverty, slavery and misery? Why are so many Ghanaians experiencing so much economic hardship today?

What I find very difficult to understand is that the voices of the voiceless in Ghana, in particular, the media houses are not interested in probing and discussing the above issues.

I neither hear nor see the above questions taking center stage in the media space. The above questions are not highlighted in our public and national discourse, why? It seems that Parliament did not even think about the above questions.

Yet a simple dreadlocked issue from a few students, one that can easily be resolved in private, without any fuss, is taking on such prominence in our media space, our public and national discourse. The issue of dreadlocks is now in Parliament. Sometimes it seems, as a nation, that we don’t know how to prioritize our needs.

As I reflect with the nation on our plight, I would like to highlight, for our consideration and action, some of the main reasons why, despite our immense human and natural resources, Ghana has become a beggar.

1. Since the overthrow of Dr Kwame Nkrumah, all of our political leaders have refused to take meaningful and meaningful steps to ensure that Ghana has all of its natural resources.

Since the overthrow of Dr Kwame Nkrumah, our political leaders have refused to take meaningful and meaningful steps to ensure that great value is placed on our natural resources.

Dr Kwame Nkrumah started to build a gold refinery. Today, the refinery project is a rotten project in the bush. Too bad!

In fact, said refusal of our political leaders is not based on the fact that Ghana is incapable of owing its natural resources or adding great value to them, no. This is simply because it seems they like to see the majority of their citizens poor.

When the majority of citizens are poor, political leaders take advantage of this for their personal gain.

When the majority of citizens are poor, it allows political leaders to give citizens what said leaders want and not what citizens need or want; because they say that the poor have no choice.

Probably, the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has become aware of this unfortunate situation of the poor masses, hence it is now trying to present in Ghana the People’s Manifesto.

When the majority of citizens are poor, it allows political leaders to buy their conscience and their votes. It also helps some political leaders use them to intimidate and kill their opponents for their personal gain.

3. Another major reason Ghana has become a beggar is that those of us who are ruled lack the bravery of our ancestors, which paved the way for Dr Kwame Nkrumah to lead us to the independence.

As a result, citizens are unable to take meaningful and meaningful action to hold the ruling government accountable for its actions and inactions.

For example, all kinds of unfinished and abandoned infrastructure projects are scattered all over the country and the chiefs and people in the places where we have said projects are just watching helplessly.

Another prime example is that over the past 4 years the loans and internal revenues that the ruling government has received on behalf of Ghana are unprecedented.

Sadly, the majority of Ghanaians are making too much noise about the unprecedented loans the ruling government has received.

No one, no civil organization, no recognized body, no voice of the sans-violes in Ghana, is taking meaningful and meaningful action to exert positive pressure on the government in power, to be accountable for all the loans and grants it has. received in the past four years. years.

Our Parliament is supposed to be the official voice of the citizens, in terms of ensuring that the government of the day is accountable for its stewardship, but due to the kind of partisan politics that takes place in the Senate, citizens are always taken for a ride.

Let the citizens of Ghana know and believe that when the ruling government feels that the citizens can only back down and cannot bite, it is looting the national stock exchange mindlessly and mercilessly.

In summary, it can be said without fear or favor that Ghana has become a beggar and the majority of its children are wallowing in unacceptable economic hardship, simply because the citizens are not in a position to take positive steps to exercise. positive pressure on the government in power. to report on its management.

Ghana has public accounts committees, but with all due respect, they’re like toothless dogs, they can back down but can’t bite. When huge funds are stolen from the public purse by government officials, said committees only make it known to the public for our talks and gossip and nothing else.

When the Auditor General publishes his reports, no one takes him seriously and therefore in most, if not all cases, violators escape the scotch. What kind of nation are we building for ourselves today and for the next generation?

Dear fellow Ghanaians, for the well-being of all Ghanaians and our future generation, let us stand up, remove the compromises which are very detrimental to the well-being of all Ghanaians.

With utmost determination, let us learn to hold our ruling government accountable for its actions and inactions / stewardship, without fear or favor.

I believe that with this determination we will be able to liberate Ghana from its beggar status and make it an advanced country of which we will all be very proud, because we have what it takes to do so.

By Reverend Bro Ignatius James Yaw Amponsah

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