Let Us Think Creatively When Faced With Existential Challenges - A Quick Note To Peter Agbeko

Good point, Peter Agbeko. Yes,  we do need to think outside the box,  as a people,  in dealing with this dreadful public health emergency and economic-existential-threat, which  we currently  face. In my humble view, we need to utilise the skills and ingenuity of the disciplined men and women in the  Ghana Armed Forces (GAF), during such national emergencies.

I once suggested, for example, that the military take over the Ghana Water Compny Limited (GWCL),  if we were ever to get it to actually serve the Ghanaian masses - as opposed to benefitting criminal syndicates.

Apparently,  that state-owned entity,  according to bush-telegraph sources, exists solely to enrich a ruthless value-chain-mafia - made up of GWCL insiders, with links to  water tanker owners, sachet-water producers, various chemical sellers and sundry contractors.  Imagine that web of corruption holding us to ransom in a more serious pandemic.  It doesn't bear thinking, Massa.

In typical Ghanaian fashion, the calcified-minds that thought it  was a stupid idea, set about embarking on a social-media-whispering-campaign of innuendos, to make fun  of it - but it was all like water off a duck's back to me: and I ignored it and refused to take the subtle-bait, each time those stealth- insults were posted  on Facebook, by the cowards, who tagged me on my Facebook wall. The sods.

The  GAF ought to be tasked to help in the development of our country whenever a disciplined and corruption-free approach to nation-building is required in an emergency. The question we must ponder over is: Instead of ruining the infrastructure of public second cycle schools, why not rather task tbe GAF to build field hospitals in all the district capitals?

And, to compliment that,  why not empower  private-sector funeral homes to also build crematoriums  in all  the district capitals, in private public partnerships (PPP), with District Assemblies - in order to implement a new policy of mandatory cremations of the dead in Ghana: in a move away from the no-longer-sensible tradition of burying the dead, which  actually represents  storing up future-pandemic-trouble, in a sense? Haaba.

It makes no sense to continue burying dead people, whose mortal remains might, or might not be, full of  dangerous pathogens, in body bags that might in effect be  veritable  potential-pandemic-banks  -  as was done to victims of Ebola  and Lassa fever in Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone.

Surely, body bags  could start  leaking and leach into groundwater,  streams, rivers and soils across Ghana, and then go on to wipe out millions in future? Let us think creatively when  faced with challenges of an existential nature. Ebeiiii. Yooooo.Hmmmm, Oman Ghana eyeasem ooooo - asem kesie ebeba debi ankasa.