Independence Day Celebrations are Significantly Insignificant

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• KKO 11 years ago

  Well said, Emmanuel,
  I have always believed that the millions that are wasted on the annual "Farmers Day Celebration" since 1987, could have built ultra-modern hospitals (complete with doctors' and nurses' accommodation in a ...
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  Well said, Emmanuel,
  I have always believed that the millions that are wasted on the annual "Farmers Day Celebration" since 1987, could have built ultra-modern hospitals (complete with doctors' and nurses' accommodation in all the 10 regions), to provide FREE healthcasre for all Ghanaian farmers and fishermen.
  
  Instead, those millions have been a fertile ground for thieving politicians and their cronies, to enrich themselves. Independence day celebration (I have not thought about that till now) has become one of tjose avenues for stealing Mother Ghana senseless.
  
  Although I am one of "the child of those children of independence", I only ever attended one of those "wait in the sun and collapse" celebrations! Visionless politicians without any sense of shame for their lack of achievement keep poor school kids waiting in the scorching sun for hours, as they stuff themselves with goodies.
  
  With our docility as a people, we are reaping what we sowed, by voting for clueless idiots!

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• KKO 11 years ago

  Correction, "of those children of independence"....,

  Correction, "of those children of independence"....,

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• mensah abrampa 11 years ago

  Well said, bro. We can make it better. We can't afford to forget all about 3/6/57. That'd be the day we died as a nation.

  Well said, bro. We can make it better. We can't afford to forget all about 3/6/57. That'd be the day we died as a nation.

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• mensah abrampa 11 years ago

  No matter how one looks at it, March 6, 1957 will forever remain the most important date in the history of this nation. I however disagree with the manner of its celebration which is socialist/communist oriented . It has oft ...
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  No matter how one looks at it, March 6, 1957 will forever remain the most important date in the history of this nation. I however disagree with the manner of its celebration which is socialist/communist oriented . It has often been used to remind us not of our unity and shared destiny but how divided and splintered we are as a nation. I simply can't wrap my mind around the reason, if any, why it has remained unchanged for six decades. It brings untold hardships to school children, their parents, their teachers and the nation at large. Why in God's name can't we leave these poor school children alone? I think it's time to review the independence celebration in its entirety and make the necessary changes.
  Having said this I believe this day is significant and historic enough to merit a worthy celebration.
  The modern nation of Israel still remembers the exodus of their fore parents from slavery in Egypt and celebrates it today in grandeur. Call it their independence day or whatever you may but its significance and importance will remain forever unchanged. The holocaust however was a horrific spectre but the modern nation of Israel has vowed that never again should this happen to their people and their generations to come.
  In a similar way ghanaians must forever remember where we're coming from not just on 3/6/57 but day to day this historical fact must be ingrained in our psyche. Terrible mistakes have been made along the way not because we forgot all about 3/6/57 and stopped celebrating it altogether but because the day has lost some of its original relevance and sparkle and we need to juice it up. We cannot afford to scrap it altogether because that would mean nailing our own coffin. What needs to be done is allowing ghanaians from all shades of life and opinion to chip in with ideas as to how to celebrate the day in such a way as will serve as a constant reminder to us and future generations about where we're coming from, where we are and our purposed destination. The nation deserves to have a national development plan and that day should be used by the sitting president among other things to render stewardship to the nation on where we are in our development plan. The day should be marked as a national day not a day for partisan political activity. Long live Ghana.

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