By Tobias Dunya:
A hundred times, thousand times and million times, you try to be realest to your own people having sat in the steering seat in the realm of affairs of our country Ghana. But your own people never understood [ads1]and believed you. Ceaselessly, you kept singing your visions having in mind the economic state of your dear country. And due to your love for your people and country, you kept your visionary songs on repeat hundred times, thousand times and million times. But to the unraveling astonishment of the few who understood/believed your lyrics, your own people paid no heed to the lyrics of your song.
Interestingly, on all platforms across the length and breadth of mother Ghana, your people who are on the other bank of the river kept singing very different songs clustered with flashy promises of lyrics. But these are the lyrics your own people who you led for four years best understood and believed.
In Abokobi (a small town in Ga East district), on a campaign platform, they sang the lyrics of free Senior High School (free SHS). However, you turned to your own people and told them; not now, while it’s good to make education free, considering the economic state and available infrastructure, it is best we make it Progressive Free Senior High School.
Again in a similar engagement at Bibiani, capital of Anhwiaso District in the Western Region, they sang the lyrics of restoring “alawa”; this obviously amazed my colleague trainees in the teaching and nursing institutions. But again, you told them soberly that making teachers and nurses trainees more comfortable by restoring “alawa” is good but it’s best we continue to expand infrastructure by building more schools and hospitals in order to provide readily available jobs for them and more imperatively absorb the outrageous unemployed graduate teachers and nurses wallowing in dismal on the streets of the country. This again, your own people listened not!
As if the flashy promises are not enough, they sang another song whose lyrics are “One Village-One Dam; One district- One factory”. Yeah, this one was in Keta and this time around I heard it very loud and clear. And since your own people are fishermen, farmers and business men and women, they swiftly responded to the flashy lyrics of this song. Little did they know that the economic state of this country cannot afford these at a go, meanwhile, you kept singing to their consciences the lyrics of the state of the economy as one who had the realest idea. But instead, they got far away. Hmmmmm, no wonder PLO Lumumba, a Keyan professor said this “the electorates’ affinity to those who lack ideas is amazing; they respond so swiftly to money”.
You told your own people the realities but they vehemently denied. Now it hits back at them and silence befall on the “supposed economic guru”. The Ghana, who they told us is beyond aid is now being sold for a peanut. Ahh! that’s modern slavery!
His Excellency, the souls of your own people are wailing in disguise.
Their tear glands could no longer respond to consolation.
Quashing in dismal, I observe them.
Despite their rejection, you became their inspirer encouraging them that “even amidst the economic hardships, if they seek the favour of God, they will reap hundred folds”- that number of times your denied visionary songs were on repeat.
Consequently, they could not do anything but to sorrowfully sing this song in disappointment;
“…You used to warn us
But we didntwanna know
Mahamahwɛooo, Mahamahwɛ
Mahamahwɛooo, Mahamahwɛ
Hwɛdea Nana Addodze ay3 y3n
He told us he was a banker
Not knowing bank robber
Ɔsɔreanɔpa aa konongo, konongokonongooo
3bedru ewia aa cocaine ne Ganja nkoaoo
Now he dey steal us, every night and day
Mahama hw3
We miss you so much right now…!”
Indeed, posterity is your judge!
Ghana will surely work again!
God bless our homeland Ghana!
Written by:
Tobias Dunya
Level 400 Nursing Student, University of Health Allied Sciences
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