SURELY GOD FROWNS ON INCOMPETENCE & THE PIE-IN-THE-SKY MENTALITY?

Once again the flooding in Accra has shown just how inefficient much of our system really is - and demonstrated the many dangers inherent in our continued tolerance of incompetence.

If there is a God, surely, he or she must have given humankind brains for a reason - perhaps so that they will use it to better their lot: both on the individual and societal levels?

One finds it incredibly hard to understand how so many Ghanaians continue to lament - instead of seething with rage that our system and those in charge of it are failing us - when there are flash floods, which devastate many lives, destroys property worth billions and even leads to loss of lives too, at times.

(What else can one expect in a country where so many think that seeking solace in that pie-in-the-sky "Fa ma nyame" mentality, which makes a whole nation accept the abandoning of proper planning, for example, and the enforcement of the rules and regulations that make planning benefit society - for the endless drivel that the "Fa ma nyame" philosophy of life that encourages the tolerance of incompetents whose actions (or refusal to act) result in loss of life and property, represents?)

We must understand that we can only cope with extreme weather events, and deal effectively with flooding, at a time of global climate change (when extremes of weather are now so frequent), and cope with extreme weather events, by adopting a scientific and technological approach to problem-solving - meaning that instead of depending on the money-crazed religious fruit-and-nut-cases and their "I-break-the-curses-of-floods-in-the-name-of-the-power-and-blood-of-Jesus" claptrap, we rather involve dedicated world-class Ghanaian professionals, such as seasoned engineers and planners, for the most effective flood-control solutions possible.

This is the 21st century IT age, for goodness sake - not the sodding Middle Ages. We cannot continue remaining a nation in which the superstition of the Dark Ages still has a hold on the minds of millions - and which is enthralled to psychopaths and sundry hustlers, who use the bible and pulpit to kill individual initiative, and destroy the sense of independent-mindedness of scores of people, whom extreme poverty has literally made brain-dead, and whose minds they then take control of, by sheer force of personality, and with such complete impunity too - and expect to be successful in limiting the destructive power of Mother Nature, such as that which our nation's capital experienced, when the sort of flooding we saw after last night's torrential downpour in Accra (and elsewhere) occur.

Surely, God frowns on incompetence and the pie-in-the-sky mentality fostered by sundry power-mad and greed-for-money-adulterers, those self-styled bishops and assorted men of God charlatans, whose crime against humanity is the mental enslavement of so many in our homeland Ghana?

Is it not time, dear reader, that we freed our nation of the miasma, which their blasphemy - and the abomination - that their hold on the minds of so many vulnerable people in our homeland Ghana, represents: and relied instead on science and technology, as well as discipline, hard work and creative-thinking, to resolve our nation's myriad of problems?

Prayer is definitely not a fit-for-purpose solution to the hydro-engineering and planning nightmare that is urban Ghana - and it is time the confounded "Fa-ma-nyame-brigade" in out midst understood that, clearly. Period. This is the 21st century IT age, not the sodding Dark Ages - so let's get the engineers and the planners to do whatever needs to be done to mitigate this annual scourge (including pulling down buildings built on watercourses, if need be). A word to the wise...

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