There’re moments in your life where the only option you’ve got, is to turn your back on the things that do not deserve your attention. That’s feeding your focus, starving your distractions
#feedthefocus@benkoku@Citi973
What you people don’t know is that, aside from making noise here, I actually go into the streets and talk to people about why Ghana must work. Trotro drivers, traders, shop owners, workers and random people.
Whenever I’m outside, I try to speak to at least 100 people about what isn’t working, what we deserve and why ordinary people have to start believing that this country can actually work for us too.
The movement cannot live only online. It has to enter the streets. This is Madina market. Ghana must work!
Some of you are more interested in protecting the reputation of leaders than protecting your own future. Read that again. You will defend someone with security, access, influence and a comfortable life against a citizen asking questions, while your own family is still dealing with the consequences of bad governance. That is a special kind of misplaced loyalty.
How much of government spending is actually about fixing Ghana and how much is about keeping the political machine fed until the next election?
Sometimes it feels like roads, hospitals, water and jobs are treated as expenses but campaigning is treated as an investment.
If there is always money to protect power but never enough money to improve the lives of the people who gave you that power, then maybe the real national development plan is simply winning the next election.
I’ve been saying this in every political conversation I’ve had, the NDC was borne out of revolution (bugabuga) so it attracted bugaga people in the past and the NPP was the party that had all the elites; Dr. Profs, businessmen etc and had some branding.. and that….
I have very little patience for majority of Ghana’s partisan zealots. 4 years ago, put this messaging under the other party and people like him will suddenly discover outrage, fairness and common sense.
It’s a canker in our politics to the extent that most have outsourced their conscience to political parties. Wrong becomes defensible when “our people” do it, then becomes an abomination the moment the other side does exactly the same thing.
If your position on an issue depends on who is in power, you do not have principles.!!! All you have is an allegiance to a political party.
Patriotism requires the opposite so your loyalty should be to the country, to fairness and to standards you are prepared to defend regardless of who benefits from them. A party is not the state, and no government owns Ghana.
What makes it worse for me is that some of these people have become completely shameless about the hypocrisy. Being called out no longer bothers them because consistency was never the objective. The objective is to defend the party.
But power is temporary. The standard you excuse today because your side is in government is the same standard you will be crying about when the political tables turn. That is why Ghana needs more conscious and intelligent citizens to defend principles, not parties or regimes .
Imagine your parents gave you a house almost 70 years ago.
The house has land, gold under it, oil nearby, people paying you rent and every year you collect money to maintain it.
After 70 years, the taps still don’t work properly, the road to the house is broken, some rooms have no chairs, and when anyone asks what happened to all the money, your supporters shout “Stop making the family look bad.”
Just imagine this.
Female students of Afia Kobi Apem Senior High School have tested a newly developed firefighting drone designed and built by the school’s STEM department as part of efforts to demonstrate its ability to assist in firefighting operations.
[🎥: Ama Papabi]
If an MP’s basic salary is 60,000 just assume they’re taking Ghc 150,000 every month.
If a Ghanaian is earning 6,000 a month which is even on the high side, he will be taxed from it. He will use the remainder to pay his rent, fuel, fees, groceries, utilities, hospital bills. At the end his “true in hand” salary is Ghc 1,000. That’s the only money he can even struggle to say it’s for his savings or personal benefit.
But for a Parliamentarian, after the Ghc 60k there is
Committee Sitting Allowance (you can see how heavy it is)
Fuel Allowance
Accommodation/Housing Allowance
Communication/Telephone Allowance
Utility Allowance
Entertainment/Representation Allowance
Travel Allowance
Per Diem/Inconvenience Allowance
Constituency Allowance/Constituency Support
Office and Administrative Facilities
Staff Support and Related Benefits
Medical Benefits
Vehicle/Vehicle-Related Benefits
Responsibility Allowance
Special Allowance/Honorarium
Committee Chairmanship/Leadership Allowance
Parliamentary Travel and Overseas
Assignment Allowances
Pension Contributions
End-of-Service Benefits/Ex-Gratia
Lawfully Approved Board Membership Remuneration
Other Approved Article 71 Allowances and Facilities
Are we allowed to go back and watch campaign videos, read manifestos, pull old interviews and compare what politicians promised with what they are actually doing now? Not party propaganda. Not insults. Just receipts.
If you said it in 2024, we bring it back in 2026.
If you promised it, we ask where it is.
If the numbers changed, we ask why.
If the story has changed, we put both versions side by side.
A meeting is set for 9am. People start arriving at 10:30 and laugh “Ghana time.”
You enter a government office and the person being paid to serve you behaves like you interrupted their wedding.
A trotro driver stops in the middle of the road to pick passengers and everybody behind him must understand.
Someone throws pure water rubber into the gutter, then complains when Accra floods.
A politician promises ten things, delivers two, and supporters say “But the previous government delivered one.”
We have created excuses for almost everything. Then we travel somewhere else, see people respecting time, rules and basic standards and say “Ei, these people are serious.” Smh
All the posts I’ve made about data prices and affordability have received over 1K likes within the last 2 days, which shows that the majority of people feel the same way. Since there has been some reshuffling going on, we are giving it 8 days. If MTN’s data bonus is not extended beyond the 60-day period, we will begin advocacy calling for Sam George’s resignation or reassignment and for someone capable of addressing our needs to take over.