If you are the president, a minister, an MP , a DCE or an MCE and everyday, you watch your own citizens (without guilt) struggle for means of transportation to their various workplaces, you are insensitive and inhumane.
Ghanaians are watching and they'll strike when necessary.
Mrs Dorcas Affo-Toffey, you went to Egypt and personally inspected these buses. You told Ghanaians they were coming to ease the long queues, overcrowding and daily transport struggles.
Today, I want to ask you personally: where are the buses, and where is the full update?
When you move around as a Deputy Minister with the comfort and security of official vehicles and escorts, do you still see what the ordinary commuter experiences every morning and evening?
Do you see the queues? The traffic? The overcrowded trotros? Nursing mothers struggling for space? Persons with disabilities having to compete for seats and access? Workers and students standing for hours simply trying to get home?
And as a public official and a mother, when you see these realities, does it sit comfortably with you that Ghanaians are still waiting for promised improvements? Should we beg you? Should we raise you in a palanquin with pomp and pageantry?
You were able to take bloggers and the media along to show us the buses in Egypt. That publicity created expectations. We deserve the same transparency on delivery.
How many of the 300 buses have actually arrived? How many are operational? Where have they been deployed? What happened to the promised delivery schedule for the remaining buses?
Please give Ghanaians a clear update.
We are not asking for another photoshoot. We are asking for accountability.
Where are our buses?
The Government has lost control over the Transport Sector.
These drivers are charging nothing less than 20% after Government announced an 8% increment in fares.
No Government communicator should go sit at n TV and run this 8% gimmick.
The transportation ministers must go. Done zero about the long queues for intra-city buses. And then they’ve doing absolutely nothing about commercial drivers sticking to the agreed 8% fare increase. Some are charging in excess of 30%
Although the transport ministry and GPRTU announced a 8% increase in fares, drivers have increased fares by between 15-20%.
That's exactly what happens when a state fails to play an important role in PUBLIC transport.
Imagine the psychological damage of growing up in a country where your biggest ambition becomes getting a visa. Not building a company. Not starting a farm. Not becoming a scientist here. Getting a visa.
We are too comfortable with suffering in Ghana. Bad road? “God will help us.” Hospital bed shortage? “God will help us.” Youth unemployment? “God will help us.”
At what point do we ask the people running the country what the hell they're doing?
Accra is dark. You know it.
“The government fixed it but people stole the cables.” Okay, and?
Who is supposed to replace the stolen cables and protect the rest? Me?
When NPP was in power, this was government failure. Now NDC is in power, suddenly we have excuses.
Some of you are fooling too much.
Think about how Ghana makes you pay twice for the same life.
You pay taxes from your salary. You pay taxes when you buy things. The country sells gold, oil and cocoa.
Then when the tap stops flowing, you buy water. When the lights go off, you buy fuel for a generator. When public healthcare fails you, you pay privately.
So you pay government first, then use what is left to buy the services government was supposed to help provide and somehow, the person asking “where is all the money going?” is the one people want to fight? Are we okay?
Why would you see your fellow Ghanaian asking for accountability or demanding better from leaders and your brightest idea would be to attack them?
Don’t you think you also deserve better?
That minister or MP, you think he knows you exist?
Won’t you also benefit if Ghana works?
Somewhere in Ghana, two people with no running water are insulting each other over NPP and NDC while the person responsible for providing the water is sleeping peacefully. I don’t even know what to say anymore