Sonnie Badu
Internationally acclaimed Ghanaian-UK based gospel artiste, Sonnie Badu says instead of focusing on what they can do for the country and how best to do it, a group of the current crop of Ghanaian youth are only focused on being quick to jump on social media to dish out insults to their elders.
According to the gospel singer and preacher, some of these youth who sometimes face challenges such as the lack of electricity, tend to be emboldened by the little credit (data) they have, to go on social media to disrespect their elders.
He made this statement in a Facebook live video monitored by GhanaWeb.com, in which he was reacting to the backlash that followed an earlier comment he made calling for the name of the Kotoka International Airport to be changed.
“What are we doing as the youth of Ghana?. I am working hard to put Ghana on the map, to put Africa on the map, you get a youth who has a little credit left on their phone and they quickly text insults quick insults. Yet they probably don’t have lights at home, instead of them to ask how are you doing up there, how can we get there?, they are quick to do it and insult.
Right now I travel a lot, Ghanaians who break through they don’t want to be called Ghanaians. Ghanaians who have broken through they will tell you if you want to prosper don’t make Ghanaians your friends. Churches that have broken through and the pastor is Ghanaian, 85% of the members are not Ghanaian members. Because Ghanaians will go to the church and they will pull it down, things they haven’t seen they will tell you they have seen, things they haven’t heard they will tell you they have heard.”
He said whilst citizens of other countries focus on collectively supporting each other to grow their countries, Ghanaian citizens tend to be focused on betraying one another and seeking each other’s downfall.
He traced this trait to the history of General I.K Kotoka, a senior military officer and a trusted ally of Ghana’s first president Kwame Nkrumah, who later betrayed Kwame Nkrumah by staging a coup when the president was on a foreign trip.
According to Sonnie Badu, that act of betrayal perpetrated by General Kotoka is the reason why Ghanaians are known to be quick to betray their own and do not support each other.
“Everyone that comes to Ghana goes through that airport, you don’t put the name of the one that took off the one who gained independence on it, think about it……. We don’t know history, the youth don’t want to find history, nobody wants to know what history is…. But if this is true then we must do something about it.
That’s why everywhere we go in the world quote me anywhere, Ghanaians are the quick to betray people, Ghanaians are quick to pull people down, Ghanaians are quick to run people down. Anywhere in the world...you would realize that even when it comes to even immigrational issues Ghanaians are the ones to pull their own people down. It started from when the nation was birthed.”
He reiterated his call for the change in the name of the airport, saying his assertion of Ghana having to suffer from the consequence of the name on the airport is from a “spiritual standpoint.”
He cited some failures of Ghana including the inability of the senior national team to win a major trophy in over 30 years as some of the consequences.
Watch the Facebook live video below
