Youth of Accra task politicians - Obour

Ace hiplife musician and now turned social activist Bice Osei-kuffour known in the music fraternity as Obour has called on politicians to chew the profanity of violence and preach peace at all times and not sometimes. Watch Video: 1 Ghana Peace Song by Obour

Leading a well attended peace walk tagged “1Ghana Peace Begins With You Walk 08”organized by Youth Icons Ghana in collaboration with Family Tree Entertainment to mark the international day for peace which is celebrated every 21september, Obour charged politicians not to extend their personal differences into the national political arena thereby endangering the peace of the country. “There have never been a warlike people but rather warlike leaders. The behavior, body language and utterances of our political leaders are therefore very very paramount as we inch closer to election day”. He said most of the political related violence is as a result of the fact that the perpetrators have some believe that their political opponents are their enemies, simply due to the utterances and body language of their leaders.

He stressed that politics is all about how best we can find solutions to the many challenges that confront the nation and not about vindictiveness and holding vendetta. “Politics of vilification will not take us anywhere, he charged. At best it will destroy the little gains we have made as a country over the years”

He said Ghanaians have had their fair share of civil unrest in the past and believes that the focus of the country should be how to improve the lives of its people especially the youth and not insults and setting one group of people of the same country against another. Addressing the charged crowd after the walk at the holy gardens where the milling crowd converged, the grand medal recipient entertained the crowd with his peaceful manifesto song-President Obour.

Bice Osei-Kuffour in his concluding remarks advised his peers to shun any negative tendency that held the potential to throw Ghana into violence. “Shun any politician who comes to you to engage you for violence or any negative election practice. All you have to do is to report such selfish politicians to the police and expose their ill intents”.

The walk which was attended by other well meaning groups like the Musiga Peace Train, Amnesty International among many others all churned out in their numbers to support the walk.

Addressing the thick crowd, the Executive Director of Youth Icons Ghana, Nana Yaw Osei-Darkwa called on the youth to shy away from violence since any conflict situation would not be in the best interest of the youth as future leaders. He said the future begins today and that it is extremely important that the youth guarded jealously against it today.

“We need to police the peace of our country if we are to have the enabling environment to develop our potentials. I am yet to see a county or a people develop in a conflict situation, what they get is destruction of life and property. As a people we have a greater battle to fight against poverty, disease and ignorance and that is where our focus and energies must be directed and not at ourselves.”