Are people taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke?
If an author decides to write a book on Ghana, the author would discover that more than half of the book would dwell on issues that border on corruption, insincerity, treachery, avarice, gangsterism and you name it. No doubt, the entire content of the book would dwell on the bad and ugly aspects of our on-going democracy rather than the good side.
The reason for this cannot be far-fetched as our on-going democracy is literally churning out more of bizarre political events than virtuous political events. I must confess that I was compelled to write this piece after reading the saying of Will Rogers, “Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.”
Why would many Ghanaians not take the politicians as a joke when some politicians:
*would continue to promise the youths jobs to no avail?
*easily engage in a fight at the slightest provocation?
*allow the management of our monopolistic VRA and ECG to sell darkness to Ghanians at an exorbitant tariff?
*are been fed with the tax payers money, whereas the people are struggling to put the cheapest staple food on their tables? Have you not heard that even their kitchenettes are maintained at the expense of the tax payers?
*literarily promised heaven on earth to people, but what they are experiencing what today could be seemingly likened to hell on earth?
The comedy to a pick when the founder of the ruling party was cleverly confined to the political cage because his party sees him as a ‘barking dog’. This founder single-handedly plucked the President from obscurity to partner him in a general election. He supported him to become president and that is the way the sitting president has shown his appreciation.
Funniest part of all these, is when a new ministry known as the ‘Ministry of Judgment Debt’ was created. As a result GHC600m has been paid as judgment debt to unknown faces, which many believe are sympathisers of the ruling government. E94million, $25million and GHC51m of these have been paid to CP, waterville and one A. A. Woyome respectively, for no work done, and government seems to drag its feet in retrieving the money into the national coffers.
The political terrain became more hillarious when politicians called each other names. One Koku said “it is not true, you see, these infants, these diapers-wearing, bed-wetting political infants who have grouped themselves into some something, and think that they are going to be able to sink the president in their bed-wetting agenda, it won’t work...".
No doubt, things are getting bad by each passing day. Prices of consumable are already out of the reach of the average Ghanaians. Not quite long ago, the pump price of fuel was hiked beyond the reach of many of us.
No doubt the acts of the politicians are increasing disgraceful. For instance, there is an axiom that says “When a politician greets anyone ‘Good morning’ he should first of all check his wrist- watch whether it is truly morning before concluding that it is good or bad.”
No doubt also, people seem to take politicians and their promises with a pinch of salt not because they love doing it to ridicule the politicians, but because the fact remains that politicians are not always sincere.
I overheard someone the other day saying that “these politicians are more hilarious than all our stand up comedians put together. They have forgotten their antecedents and the ideologies they variously stood for.
Today, we have journalists turned politicians that easily get incensed when they read any criticism against their paymasters whereas they wrote more acerbic articles than those they are seeing as their enemies when they were practicing journalists.
Also, we have those that paraded themselves as civil rights fighters but today while in government they have automatically made a volte face to the consternation of many of us. What about those that claimed to be labour leaders? Like chameleons, they have all changed to become the typical Ghanaian politician.
These are the people we once held in high esteem. Ghanaians have at different times been disappointed by some self-serving individuals who pretended to be standing on the side of the people. But alas! These same people have totally changed by aligning with those they once criticised vehemently. What an irony!
The essence of this piece is to express my personal opinion on the extent democracy has evolved in our nation. It is not an exaggeration to say that it is disappointing seeing our democracy of 20 years at its present tottering stage. In my own opinion, I can see many avaricious clowns coming across as politicians. This is not the democracy we dreamt of more than 20 years ago. In fact, this is democracy standing on its head.
Our politicians should begin to brainstorm on how our nation should be built. They should begin to search for how the point of true leadership can be reached. We have so many fake people parading themselves as leaders serving the people in public office. Our politicians should begin to think of how to become selfless leaders and nation builders.
Finally, the essence of this article is to let them know that there would definitely be a book that would document all their hilarious and atrocious acts while in politics.
The reason for this cannot be far-fetched as our on-going democracy is literally churning out more of bizarre political events than virtuous political events. I must confess that I was compelled to write this piece after reading the saying of Will Rogers, “Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.”
Why would many Ghanaians not take the politicians as a joke when some politicians:
*would continue to promise the youths jobs to no avail?
*easily engage in a fight at the slightest provocation?
*allow the management of our monopolistic VRA and ECG to sell darkness to Ghanians at an exorbitant tariff?
*are been fed with the tax payers money, whereas the people are struggling to put the cheapest staple food on their tables? Have you not heard that even their kitchenettes are maintained at the expense of the tax payers?
*literarily promised heaven on earth to people, but what they are experiencing what today could be seemingly likened to hell on earth?
The comedy to a pick when the founder of the ruling party was cleverly confined to the political cage because his party sees him as a ‘barking dog’. This founder single-handedly plucked the President from obscurity to partner him in a general election. He supported him to become president and that is the way the sitting president has shown his appreciation.
Funniest part of all these, is when a new ministry known as the ‘Ministry of Judgment Debt’ was created. As a result GHC600m has been paid as judgment debt to unknown faces, which many believe are sympathisers of the ruling government. E94million, $25million and GHC51m of these have been paid to CP, waterville and one A. A. Woyome respectively, for no work done, and government seems to drag its feet in retrieving the money into the national coffers.
The political terrain became more hillarious when politicians called each other names. One Koku said “it is not true, you see, these infants, these diapers-wearing, bed-wetting political infants who have grouped themselves into some something, and think that they are going to be able to sink the president in their bed-wetting agenda, it won’t work...".
No doubt, things are getting bad by each passing day. Prices of consumable are already out of the reach of the average Ghanaians. Not quite long ago, the pump price of fuel was hiked beyond the reach of many of us.
No doubt the acts of the politicians are increasing disgraceful. For instance, there is an axiom that says “When a politician greets anyone ‘Good morning’ he should first of all check his wrist- watch whether it is truly morning before concluding that it is good or bad.”
No doubt also, people seem to take politicians and their promises with a pinch of salt not because they love doing it to ridicule the politicians, but because the fact remains that politicians are not always sincere.
I overheard someone the other day saying that “these politicians are more hilarious than all our stand up comedians put together. They have forgotten their antecedents and the ideologies they variously stood for.
Today, we have journalists turned politicians that easily get incensed when they read any criticism against their paymasters whereas they wrote more acerbic articles than those they are seeing as their enemies when they were practicing journalists.
Also, we have those that paraded themselves as civil rights fighters but today while in government they have automatically made a volte face to the consternation of many of us. What about those that claimed to be labour leaders? Like chameleons, they have all changed to become the typical Ghanaian politician.
These are the people we once held in high esteem. Ghanaians have at different times been disappointed by some self-serving individuals who pretended to be standing on the side of the people. But alas! These same people have totally changed by aligning with those they once criticised vehemently. What an irony!
The essence of this piece is to express my personal opinion on the extent democracy has evolved in our nation. It is not an exaggeration to say that it is disappointing seeing our democracy of 20 years at its present tottering stage. In my own opinion, I can see many avaricious clowns coming across as politicians. This is not the democracy we dreamt of more than 20 years ago. In fact, this is democracy standing on its head.
Our politicians should begin to brainstorm on how our nation should be built. They should begin to search for how the point of true leadership can be reached. We have so many fake people parading themselves as leaders serving the people in public office. Our politicians should begin to think of how to become selfless leaders and nation builders.
Finally, the essence of this article is to let them know that there would definitely be a book that would document all their hilarious and atrocious acts while in politics.
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