With less than two weeks to go to
the General Polls come December 7th, it’s pathetic to note the
degree of apathy that has engulfed the youth towards Politicians and the 2012
General Elections as a whole. The forthcoming
elections would be the sixth successive and yet another successful General
Elections in the history of the nation, since the introduction of democracy in
1992.
Democracy and its related
activities such as freedom of speech and General Elections have gained
popularity among Ghanaians over the years and has come to stay with us except
the intent and purpose of the whole democratic exercise has lost on us.
The terrain is so rife with Law
makers breaking the same laws we pay them to make with glee and yet going
unpunished, failing to fulfill promises they made during campaigns, failing to
talk to the people but themselves except during elections time, paying hefty
salaries to themselves and misusing state resources for their selfish ends.
Others are getting rich
overnight, showing disbelief in the nation’s institutions and establishments by
sending their kids abroad for further studies while they treat the nation’s
ones with all the contempt they can gather, masterminding and perpetrating
crimes like drug trafficking, money laundering, engagement of state resources
to transact personal businesses and arrogating all the powers to themselves as
they share the national cake.
Speaking to a lot of Ghanaians
across the world, you realize that most of them do not even know what is really
going on; they are not privy to the issues the political parties are talking
about and seem absent-minded about their activities. The only people you see
and hear mostly are the ones who are benefiting directly from these parties or
Politicians because I’m yet to see someone engaged in active politics without
paramounting his or her selfish gains above the overarching aim of pushing
Ghana forward.
It is appropriate to state that,
the electorates are not absent-minded, unintelligent or lacks what it takes to
either be one of them or engage in it, they are just disinterested because they
are tired of being played as fools, they are tired because they can’t be taken
for granted anymore and finally, it is not attractive for the well-meaning
folks who wishes to help. The only good news here is, they are willing to
partake in the activities if the Politicians will take them seriously and
engage them in consensus building and helping to build the nation by playing
their part of the virtual agreement.
How can someone take you serious
if you are going to appeal to people’s conscience and allow old women and men
who can barely walk to queue for almost a whole day to vote for you and then
make a U-turn and never come back as promised? How can someone take you serious
when you can actually walk through every nook and cranny of your catchment area
and cannot even drive by when elections are won? How can the electorates take
you serious when high office will take all your time that you cannot organize a
durbar even twice a year at the market square or the town hall for the people?
They won’t take you serious because when they elect you into office, you would lose
touch with them and send your assistants to represent you when the community
invites you to programmes.
The youth have nothing to lose
because it looks like even before the start of proceedings, they had already lost
and the timely awareness has made them lax, knowing it will be foolhardy to put
in a fight they don’t even have a dog’s chance of winning and to enforce that
stance, they have decided to shun anything that has to do with the Politician.
The foot soldiers and loyal
supporters who have become an extension of the Politician, and amplifying his
lies and vain promises too are not consistent and it appears, they don’t even know
what they are up to, let alone know what they are doing. It is rightly so,
because they are quick to pick up a fight with you before you even start with
them. They are not able to explain the policies and modalities their masters
are spawning. They are quick to label you an opposition, depending on their
divide or what you are talking about or because you have not swallowed their
bait, hook, line and sinker.
A lot of people says, they are
going to stock their fridges with their favorite drinks and relax cozily to
football and movies and some are offloading their relegated schedules to that
day and it is unfortunate to note that an important national exercise of this
magnitude is going on and the politicians do not seem to care because they know
that at the end of the day, a verdict will be declared and they will share
their gains and spoils.
There are usually those who stand
in and coerce the I no go vote squad
by reminding them of their civil rights and how they have to vote to become
patriotic citizens and how sitting aloof will leave the nation’s decision
process in the hands of some charlatans, yet they are not able to extend the
complains and disregard the politicians have for the electorates over the years
and that also smacks of partiality or at most a conspiracy between the elects
and the lobbyists against voters.
It has become evident that we are
condoning unaccountability and encouraging disdain from the Politicians, so we have
decided to leave the country for them to do whatever they want to do with it.
Are we not peace loving enough not to come seeking a part of the national cake
which is not making rounds anyway?
Additionally, these disgruntled
voting public are not ready to be emotionally mauled into thinking that they
are the ones acting politically incorrect towards the democratic or at most the
electioneering exercise because the relationship between us and the Politicians
all these while ought to have been a mutual and a respectable one.
However, we would like to appeal
to the Politicians to tolerate each other and be cognizant of the fine line
where going beyond will foment trouble and its subsequent unrest in the nation.
We want a trouble-free voting and smooth transition into our sixth term of
governance as a democratic nation in the fourth republic. And to serve a
reminder, we will not forgive them if anything should go contrary to how it’s
supposed to be. Shalom!
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Man, this a great post. Good to see someone step away from the smoke and do some good analysis.
I posted this earlier this morning. Please share your view.
http://dhdtimes.wordpress.com/2012/12/03/not-convinced-enough-dont-vote/
I am done standing under the baking sun to vote for Presidential aspirants who have lost touch with the people and only come around after every four years...
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