THE ENEMY WITHIN
The Ghana Institute of Journalism launched its sixtieth anniversary today. Sadly, it rained in my area this morning so I could not make it to the launch on time. Well, I got to the campus around 3:30 pm. It was also the same time that the canopies erected for the occasion were being packed.
It was like being given the black (kanzo) part of the rice you helped cook because you were not around when it was ready to be consumed. Just serve it to the goats and curse the people in your head. Satan also hears silent prayers.
I stood under one of the ‘permanent’ canopies on the campus as God continued to wet the earth while He stayed in a dry heaven.
While I stood and gazed and imagining whether the school is actually sixty years, something happened that I cannot resist writing about.
Ghana would be far advanced in terms of civilization and development if we, the citizens were law-abiding and not as obstinate and insistent on the wrong things like the devil himself yet we pretend to worship God.
I looked on as a security officer begged this well dressed and facially made up lady to do the right thing but she refused same insisting she was not at fault.
The lady had parked her vehicle at the wrong place. Even before she parked, the security officer ran after the car to tell the woman to park well. The man was literally begging the woman to do the right thing but she declined.
She literally walked past the man without even having to address him well.
What killed me was when a ‘gentleman’ she was with decided to defend the actions of the lady, really? He said the lady was a big woman and does not like to be confronted. Wow! That was a game killer.
Apart from the fact that she vehemently justified her wrong actions which deserve some punishment, I wonder if she would address the rector the same way if it was him who wanted her to do the right thing.
We should not downgrade people because of their job descriptions. Job titles are nothing if you do not do the right things.
In any case, if it was not for the security man, who would open the main gate for her when she was entering? Everybody deserves some form of respect.
We blame our leaders for all manner of things. And we insist that it is their actions that are causing our country’s stagnated growth. But we forget that the little things we do are a big and major contributing factor to all the problems we face as a nation.
These kinds of attitudes pervade our country. Some people in the face of blatant error will never accept their mistakes and try to fix them. They would rather try to argue their way out justifying their actions.
I like my sociology lecturer when he asks, why would you write gibberish in exams and pray to God to take control of the marker? Why would you pray like that? That in itself is an attempt to corrupt God.
God does not support any nonsense. Even if the biggest cathedral on earth is built in Ghana and Ghana is declared as the best religious country on earth, God will not bless the nonsense we do. Prayer without good works is futility.
Our lot does not lie in the hands of our leaders alone. All of us, every single one of us contributes something to either the detriment or the betterment of this country.
Until we begin to accept responsibility for our actions, we cannot make any meaningful contribution to the development of this country.
Let us kill the enemy within.
YUSSIF AHMED
ahmed.yussiph@gmail.com
It was like being given the black (kanzo) part of the rice you helped cook because you were not around when it was ready to be consumed. Just serve it to the goats and curse the people in your head. Satan also hears silent prayers.
I stood under one of the ‘permanent’ canopies on the campus as God continued to wet the earth while He stayed in a dry heaven.
While I stood and gazed and imagining whether the school is actually sixty years, something happened that I cannot resist writing about.
Ghana would be far advanced in terms of civilization and development if we, the citizens were law-abiding and not as obstinate and insistent on the wrong things like the devil himself yet we pretend to worship God.
I looked on as a security officer begged this well dressed and facially made up lady to do the right thing but she refused same insisting she was not at fault.
The lady had parked her vehicle at the wrong place. Even before she parked, the security officer ran after the car to tell the woman to park well. The man was literally begging the woman to do the right thing but she declined.
She literally walked past the man without even having to address him well.
What killed me was when a ‘gentleman’ she was with decided to defend the actions of the lady, really? He said the lady was a big woman and does not like to be confronted. Wow! That was a game killer.
Apart from the fact that she vehemently justified her wrong actions which deserve some punishment, I wonder if she would address the rector the same way if it was him who wanted her to do the right thing.
We should not downgrade people because of their job descriptions. Job titles are nothing if you do not do the right things.
In any case, if it was not for the security man, who would open the main gate for her when she was entering? Everybody deserves some form of respect.
We blame our leaders for all manner of things. And we insist that it is their actions that are causing our country’s stagnated growth. But we forget that the little things we do are a big and major contributing factor to all the problems we face as a nation.
These kinds of attitudes pervade our country. Some people in the face of blatant error will never accept their mistakes and try to fix them. They would rather try to argue their way out justifying their actions.
I like my sociology lecturer when he asks, why would you write gibberish in exams and pray to God to take control of the marker? Why would you pray like that? That in itself is an attempt to corrupt God.
God does not support any nonsense. Even if the biggest cathedral on earth is built in Ghana and Ghana is declared as the best religious country on earth, God will not bless the nonsense we do. Prayer without good works is futility.
Our lot does not lie in the hands of our leaders alone. All of us, every single one of us contributes something to either the detriment or the betterment of this country.
Until we begin to accept responsibility for our actions, we cannot make any meaningful contribution to the development of this country.
Let us kill the enemy within.
YUSSIF AHMED
ahmed.yussiph@gmail.com
Good point well made. Many people are of this attitude that's why we are way behind in development. And those who even support such rubbish are far worse than the action doers . It's high time we search deep within us and correct all the wrong steps we took .it is Never too late to make a change.
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