The women’s wing of the Progressive People’s Party (PPP) has lashed out at government for failing to lift Ghanaians from the doldrums of poverty.
According to the PPP women, leaders of this country have, through mediocre policies, brought untold hardships onto Ghanaians.
This was stated in a statement issued yesterday and jointly signed by Rosemary Asorgoe and Becky Mensah, members of the PPP women’s committee.
Below is the full statement:
As usual today, we had our President, Public Officials, and people we are so familiar with because they are always present at such occasions and we consider them senior members clad in nice apparels to mark our independence day. As usual, the President’s speech was well crafted with interesting rhetorics.
But as senior members sat there, or even watched the event on TV, they should have bowed their heads down in shame.
What are we today? A country that still cannot feed itself, where young people live by the day and with no concrete hope for the future, where basic needs have become wants, where young people are already outweighed by their counterparts abroad before getting to the global table for discussions, is greatly the responsibility of these our senior members. They have managed to turn Dr. Kwame Nkrumah into a laughing stock for saying that the Blackman can manage his own affairs.
What we have inherited and been inculcated in us is a doubt of our true self and our capabilities. We have become beggars and slaves in our own country. We have been taught to accept mediocrity as the norm in a poor imitation of an institutionalized state. We have been taught, quite shamefully to even reward laziness, ignorance, stealing, and every wrong you can think about. They have indeed failed the younger generations. Their basics and luxuries of yesterday are our hardships today when it should have been vice versa.
But until the young people get up and become awake, and start demanding “forcefully” accountability from these older people, the country will not go anywhere appreciable. We must know that the current status quo benefits them and so will not attempt to change it. Our problems are so basic that we do not need any experts to help us through but mere common sense.
For those of the young people who have been co-opted and are thinking and doing things along the lines of these old men, we will help you emancipate yourselves. All the young people must get up and work together for a Ghana which is far different in a very positive and unimaginative way than we have currently. We must make sure that we do not perpetuate the ills of today and yesterday to the detriment of not only ourselves, but generations after us. We must let future generations be grateful that we came before them, and thought about them.
So, perhaps as we celebrated….no observed 6th March, and criticize our senior members and leaders, we should also bow down our heads for not playing our roles properly and subjecting ourselves to the negative influences of these older people.
We must be aggressive in pursuing a common good, and set very high standards which will propel us to give out our best no matter the difficulty of the situation.
Signed:
Rosemary Asorgoe
Becky Mensah
