Hey guys, in my last post here, I talked about how bad the economic state of my country, Ghana is. The value of the Ghana cedi has been decreasing at a faster rate than we can keep up with, and economic suffering and cost of living are suffocating Ghanaians. Not for long, it would turn out, as it seems after a year of being silent on the matter, our president has finally come out to speak up on the matter on the 30th of October.
This will be the speech that either gives my people hope or the one that informs us to brace ourselves for the worst. For both the sake of the president and the Ghanaian citizens, I hope it is the former. If the president has any hope of preventing an imminent demonstration against the government, this must the superhero speech that does it.
According to a report on myjoyonlinefm
Actor, Prince David Osei, says he will mobilise a non-partisan youth protest against President Akufo-Addo if the current economic challenges do not improve by December. According to him, the current state of the economy requires urgent actions to salvage the situation. He said:
“I decided to give you and your government the benefit of the doubt, I reckon was wrong! The Youth of this nation are not smiling, it pours, but we are still sweating. “If things don’t change by December, we will mobilise the youth of this country and hit the street irrespective of party affiliations, whether NPP, NDC, CQQ PNC whatever, doesn’t matter now, we are all in this together”.
This current government has put everyone that publicly vouched for them in shame. A lot of people who were strong advocates for the current government have either spoken up and asked the president to do something about our current predicament, or have run into hiding.
Even Samini, a popular musician here in Ghana took to Facebook and made his concerns public. He was one of the die-hard supporters of the current government, and I’m glad to see that he didn’t hide and cower like most others did. He made the post below on Facebook, calling the president on the need for improvement.
screenshot taken from Facebook
In anticipation, this address to the nation will be the most listened-to speech in Ghanaian history. Even the old and illiterate will be glued to their TVs and have the young and educated translate for them, because who can miss the update we have all been waiting for?
In a conversation with some of my friends last night, someone mentioned how there have been people talking about how if JJ Rawlings, one of the fiercest military governments Ghana has ever seen was alive, the country would be looking at a coup right now. And people say this because they know the love Rawlings had for the country, and that he wouldn’t just sit aside and watch the Ghanaian citizens suffer. Unfortunately, Rawlings died of COVID on 20th November 2020. There have even been conspiracy theories going around where claims have been made that Rawlings was killed and that COVID was just a means to an end (his end, unfortunately). The believers of this theory have the reasoning that the current president knew if things ever got this bad, JJ would press a coup and take the country, and that COVID was the perfect excuse to take him out.
Everyone in the country must be dying in anticipation of the good news the president has to give us on Sunday. If it is anything aside from good news, I fear for the fate of the country. I guess we just have to wait patiently and keep our fingers crossed for whatever is to come.
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