“Not an engineering problem” is not an honest statement based on the amount of open gutters we have. It’s an engineering firm that approved those buildings in waterways too. It’s is indeed indiscipline and also a great lack of enforcement.
“Oh the citizens are part”
When an exam officer leaves the room, how many of you continue quietly without engaging in exam malpractice? Human beings will do what serves their best interest if they can get away with it.
A functioning society isn’t built on the assumption that everyone will be virtuous. It’s built on systems that make doing the right thing easy and doing the wrong thing costly.
Reminds me of Lee Kuan Yew of Singapore and how he dealt with his people who he moved from slums to apartments. From urine detectors to fines and even imprisonment. Today he is celebrated.
“Oh the citizens are part”
When an exam officer leaves the room, how many of you continue quietly without engaging in exam malpractice? Human beings will do what serves their best interest if they can get away with it.
A functioning society isn’t built on the assumption that everyone will be virtuous. It’s built on systems that make doing the right thing easy and doing the wrong thing costly.
The most dangerous thing that can happen to a people is not poverty. It is when poverty becomes normal to them.
When bad roads become normal, we stop demanding better.
When hospitals have no beds, we call it “Ghana.”
When young people graduate and sit home for years, we blame them for not hustling enough.
When floods destroy lives every year, we say “that is how Accra is.”
When leaders fail, we defend them because they belong to our side.
That is how a nation slowly loses its anger.
And when people lose their anger against failure, failure becomes comfortable.
Ghana does not need more excuses. Ghana needs citizens who are tired enough to stop clapping for mediocrity, defending incompetence, and accepting suffering as culture.
A country does not change because people complain. A country changes when people finally refuse to be managed like they are powerless.