It looks like it is a new dawn in Ghana’s entertainment industry; gone are the days when celebrities don’t say anything when it comes to governance of the economic, educational, industrial and infrastructural development in the country.
These days, there is a new breed and I must say very good once.
A new breed of celebrities has surfaced bold, confident, educated, youthful and full of life, energetic and seems to portray the true attributes of daughters and sons of Ghana.
A new breed that see the struggles of Ghanaians as their own and have become the voice of the voiceless and the underprivileged in society and use their celeb platforms to champion the well-being of the Ghanaian people.
To these stars we salute!!!
Because you could have chosen to ignore the injustice and corruption, power outage a.k.a #DUMSOR and focus on promoting your business, names and products, but you chose to voice out against these problems to make Ghana a better place.
Yes some may say their actions are a publicity stunt to attract media attention and recognition for themselves, which even if is true, I will still applaud them because they could have chosen to use naked pictures, fake stories or promote their own songs or movies but chose to put their career on hold and at risk, to talk about the important issues affecting the country.
Sarkodie, Black Rasta ,Yvonne Nelson, EL, John Dumelo, A Pluse, Guru, M.anifest, fokin Bois, Fiifi Selah, Yaa Pono, Efya Schwarzenegger, Mensa, Iwan, Lydia Forson, Opanka, Reggie Rockstone,Ameyaw Debrah,Kojo Ghanabia,Nana Kwesi Asare,MzNaa, Ebenezer Anangfio, Nii Atakora Mensah, George Mensah Britton,Deejay Ashmen,Emmanuel Bossu Kule, Ben thehitmaker, DJ Huarache, Cape Threesity and others, who have become the true and new face of patriotic citizens of our motherland, Ghana.
With most of their passports already stamped, they could have left the country and seek greener pastures like their other mates, but they are here voicing out their displeasure, calling for solutions to move the country forward.
And if the recent South Africa xenophobic thought as one thing, I am sure it thought us all that at the end of the day, as Ghanaians, all we have and can come home to is our motherland, Ghana; so we have to make it right.
If over the years the people we voted for and made them Assemblymen and women, Parliamentarians, and District Chief Executives forgot their own selfish interest and spoke about things when they were going bad, the country would have been in a better place now, but no, they rather play games and find their voices when they are in opposition and things don’t favor them.
Is time we all join these devoted celebrities and Ghanaians who have decided to speak against the injustice and the partisan games played on us by the politicians for the good of the whole nation.
Bare in mind they could have chosen to keep quiet because from what I know, these economic problems doesn’t affect them much, compared to the ordinary citizen or they could just wait and join the opposition party during the election time and campaign and get really paid like the other did previously, but they didn’t but are rather voicing out in a matter of urgency to fix the plight of the people who voted these politicians into power to lead to a better future.
I understand as Ghanaians, one may sympathize or affiliate him or herself to a political party based on the tribe he or she comes from, their religion, the religion of the candidate, their educational background even the candidate’s looks.
But this is the time we have to move away from all that and put our future and the future of our kids first by putting Ghana first in our actions, words and votes.
Am sure the millions of Ghanaians would not have voted for the ruling party if they promised nothing but just for the president’s physical appearance. We did because he promised.
We speak out when things go wrong because we voted for them, meaning we gave them the job to make us feel better, to manage our resources not to steal from us, deceive us and fail almost all their promise.
Is very funny how all these politicians have solutions to our problems when they are in opposition, but comes up with all kinds of excuses to solving our problems when they are in power.
Sympathizing with them am sure you will say is not easy and that Rome wasn’t built in a day.
You are right! but at least Rome was finally built but our country seems to be going backward after a few steps forward with the corruption, power outage and huge appetite for loans each step of the way.
And yes! no political party will come and give you food, but if the state of the economy is better and there is infrastructural development, we will benefit and be able to make money and have a share of the nation cake equally.
Countries with less are doing great, so great we queue up at their embassies begging and dying to go there in order to earn a better living. If we don’t fix our country now, no matter where go, we come and see it in the same poor, weak and corrupt state.
We easily complain when we go to restaurants and we order and the meals delay or we don’t get what we want, but some expect us to keep quiet when we pay and give all this politicians all our money and resources and they give us nothing in return.
We also easily stone and kill thieves who steal from us even before a fair trial, but do basically nothing to politicians who steal millions and billions from the nation.
Before you politicize any of this, know that a lot of people are dying on surgical tables, people are getting robbed in the night with some stabbed because there are no street lights or the police will not come to your aid because they don’t have fuel; fatal accidents increasing because our roads are in very bad state.
So don’t wait for your wife, husband, son or daughter to be a victim before you start talking.
Americans, who we perceive are doing well, are complaining because they want better and more for their country, talk less about us here in Ghana.
And to all the politicians, Like these celebrities, we are not asking for anything you didn’t promise or impossible, but for the government to just deliver what they promised us.
#STOPDUMSOR #ENDCORRUPTION #GIVEJOBS #FULFILYOURPROMISE
Our celebrities are doing their part, we all need to add our voices because we are sitting on gold, oil, diamond, timber, bauxite etc. but we are so poor.
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Source: urbanpowerplay.com
