( Part One) Ghana Is A Divided Country
by Ebo Quansah in Accra
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The NPP membership, I understand, will address a press conference on the same day to tell Ghanaians what they consider to be the true state of the Nation. The absence of the Minority is likely to present a divided nation to the international community. It is not the very best for a nation still struggling for a national identity. But the opposition NPP believe it is a legitimate protest against a President they contend, was wrongly declared winner of an election, they consider was won by the NPP flagbearer. Commenting on the decision to boycott the Presidential address, Nana Akomea, Communications Director of the party, told an Accra radio station thus: “It is a very good decision. It is part of our protest against the results. All of us are acting legally. We haven’t stopped him from exercising his functions as President,” the Communications Director explained. “It is also within our right that it is legitimate to use the Parliamentary floor as protest,” Akomea explained. I am told that the NPP in Parliament would hold a press conference after the Presidential presentation tomorrow, to deliver the party’s own state of the nation. I intend to use this column today and tomorrow to tell the President and his image makers the true state of the nation in the hope that it would rub off on the Presidential presentation. |
Ghanaians are suffering and the President should not hide under technicalities and clouded ideological spectacles to try and paper the cracks in his administration. Yesterday, just before I sat down to compose this piece, my attention was drawn to a report by Water Aid Ghana, a non-governmental organisation, which is symptomatic of the problems facing Ghana as a nation. “The Government of Ghana is failing to keep its promises of funding sanitation,” Water Aid has revealed. The report warns that unless investment is increased, the challenges of urbanization, inequality of access, climate change and population growth risk turning back the clock even further,” states the report. The report alleges that while population grew by 9.4 million between 1990 and 2011, only 2.3 million secured access to sanitation over the same period. If this is a source of bother, read a report by Afia Zakiya, Water Aid’s Country Representative in Ghana. “Every year, Ghanaians spend 850 million hours looking for somewhere to go to the toilet and you can add this to the costs of illness and medical bills of those contracting diseases due to the unhygienic conditions. Overall, the loss to Ghana is GH¢45o million per year. “ |
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