Chicanery and corruption in Ghana have passed the alarming and entered the fatal stage. Do we at all stand in better positions to keep pointing fingers at people we constantly refer to as “deceitful and corrupt leaders” if we are indifferent ourselves?
In these current times, it’s so easy to find people in their various fields of work, somehow somewhat finding dubious avenues to exploit the weak and all those exposed. It’s thus fascinating to notice that this, in no vocabulary of theirs, amounts to theft or robbery but rather shamelessly attributed to the cliché “obiara didi w) n’adwuma mu” [Everyone fends on his labour].
Just think of the minutest of jobs/services persons do/deliver around us. You outrightly spot some sought of mandatory money-scooping mechanisms planted at peculiar stages during job/service delivery – which really makes no material sense. More striking enough, upon gradually giving way for its breeding, these rip-offs have become instituted and normalized within our societies.
This habit has found so much grounds in our daily lives that the subconscious mindset of people who face these situations day-in-day-out, instead of helping to fight these injustices, rather opt for replicating same jiggery-pokery acts at their workplaces. Why? Because those are the only small corners they can also utilize in scooping unwarranted resources in peace.
With this, we better appreciate the message in the phrase, “what goes around comes around”. We tend to forget that this is a cycle we will as well be caught into. Because of individual pursuits, we are wallowing in collective struggles.
What at all becomes of a society where everyone cares less about the other? What better thing comes out of a society where everyone is trying everything in his prowess to scoop and create an illegitimate way towards personal prosperity? Our forefathers were right when they said,
‘If we fail to live together as brothers, we will perish together as fools”.
Deceit is gradually occupying every space. Cheating one another is now rampant than ever. The abnormal has now become a cherished practice which is gradually tearing apart the moral fabric of our cultures. Not limited to our leaders but you and I may have, in one way or the other, sadly played vital roles in worsening such despised acts.
With the gradual depletion of moral standards in our societies, Ghana will die if we keep pretending that she is only slightly indisposed. To this end, we have a responsibility to collectively transform our mindsets towards creating just societies we continue to crave for.
Peace ️