It’s completely unthinkable what this government has done. Never in the
history of our modern Ghana has any government so openly insulted the
intelligence of the people who entrusted themselves to her care and
protection, based on her own words, assurances and promises. It is
disgusting, unpardonable and not allowable. The people of Ghana cannot
afford and must not afford this harsh response to the kind considerations
we have given the NDC. The government must be told in the harshest manner
permissible that ‘enough is enough- y’abr3’! The government proves each day
that it is out of touch with the reality. Isolated from the ordinary
Ghanaian and insulated by the flowery lies and empty praises of their
Jezebelic press, as well as sycophants, and those other politically correct
groups, the government gets sicker and sicker each passing day with her
delirious beliefs that she is doing well in serving the people when she is
not! It is no accident that under the last five years the number of
suicides have risen to unprecedented levels with many people taking their
lives due to the frustrations of these immoral bunch of self-seeking
gluttonous unqualified ‘social democrats’, and the signs promise no
reduction in the near future. On the eve of Sunday, a day many people
consider as holy and so respect, at dawn, when many Ghanaians were about to
go to their beds, the only place they find some peace and comfort, this
government acting through the NPA announced hikes in the price of fuel. The
hikes were to range from 15% to 20%.The most annoying part to that ungodly
nightmare the government sent the people of Ghana was contained in the
press release which in part read ‘It can be seen that the government has
maintained some subsidies’.
As he drafted that statement, I believe, Alex Mould, brother to Betty
Mould-Idrissu, the woman whose reign as Attorney-General saw the State loss
almost every single one of the high profile cases she pursued and somewhat
implicated in the Woyome and CP scandals, thought to himself amid a wide
grin, what fools Ghanaians are to believe his gross slur and cheap
propaganda that the government is doing Ghanaians a favour with the hikes
and actually bearing some cost. What is the worse that could have happened?
The government made shy by its own guilt has set her propaganda dogs
free.Of course government propaganda has been set into full gear on this
issue! They have already taken to the air in flight like eagles. Social
media is populated and polluted with their ugly noises and nonsense. They
have gone to absurd lengths to justify the increase but even they admit
that the increases are harsh. Even they admit that the government should
have exercised some sensitivity. Even they know that what any other
government with a minimal degree of sensitivity could have done, if the
conditions really necessitated it, would have been a gradual increment
instead of one large jump up of prices. Even they admit that the worse
affected would be the 30% of Ghana’s population that earn less than $1.25 a
day as well as the 20% that barely make it. They are careful not to admit
though that the hikes wouldn't affect the Ministers and their deputies, as
well as the large number of ineffective like-minded appointees of the
administration because they have privileges that entitles them to free fuel
in particular and free utilities, whenever and at whatever time they so
wish. The vulgarians seem, with their sudden wealth to have forgotten their
past and the people of Ghana who wallow in growing poverty, unemployment
and bear the consequences of a collapsing health care system, an expensive
education system, a highly stratified civil service system (where
ascription not achievement pushes people up) and a police system which
deserves no adjective-whether good or bad. I have heard some argument that
wants to suggest that Ghanaians aren't paying realistic prices for fuel and
for this reason; they have to take some responsibility, hence the increase.
I reject such logic. Such reasoning is low on logic, lesser on intelligence
and absent of any knowledge about government duty. It appears those who
make such arguments, don’t know or rather pretend not to know that this
government in particular is one of the most wasteful governments of all
time. It seems such persons don’t know that had the appointees and staff of
the government done as little as adhere to the financial administration
act, inter alia, the money that could have been saved alone would have been
enough not just to finance the subsidies but make fuel free if we so chose.
Besides Woyome, how many ‘mistake’ payments has the government made and how
far could that amount have taken us in subsidizing the cost of fuel? What
about the $1.2 Million we lose each day due to flaring of gas at the
Jubilee Fields. A situation caused by the petty squabbles in the Ndc as to
who ought to have been given the contract to construct the gas storage
facility. I hear some pathetic beneficiaries of the government suggesting
that it’s about time we de-politicize the discussion on fuel and fuel price
increments. I fail to say the politics in holding a government to task,
when that same government while in opposition promised a plan, a magic plan
that was going to reduce the cost of fuel drastically but failed to do so.
That is no politics. If it were, the daily basis we hold God to His
promises would have made us very political indeed. When a government gets
elected on promises, it is not politics to require of the government that
they live up to their promises. It is unheard of in any jurisdiction that
the government be made to escape its responsibilities because by pushing
that they do perform their responsibilities the opposition would benefit
politically. It is complete nonsense considering the backdrop to say we
shouldn't politicize it .It is politics, both the issue itself and the
solutions. I offer no solutions to the situation other than what I captured
above. The gross wastage in government and the absence of government
priority is what is causing these rather unfortunate and unforgivable hikes
in the price of fuel. We cannot and must not allow the governments own
blunders, greed and folly push us into a pit of high cost and poverty.
