Wednesday 17 June 2020

COVID-19 Is An Apocalyptic-Existential-Threat To The Republic Of Ghana - Not A Kickback-Harvesting-Opportunity For Our Ruling-Élites

What are we hearing? That some returnees arriving back to Ghana, will be paying to be quarantined in hotels themselves, upon their return home from trips abroad? Ebeiii. Is this not yet another example of the egregious-idiocy of our ruling élites?
 
It is outrageous to demand that any category of those returning home to Ghana from overseas trips - to a nation in which many self-employed citizens have lost their micro-enterprises, and most people are struggling to survive - should pay to be quarantined in selected hotels. Incredible. Abominable. Unspeakable. Unpardonable.

The question that every discerning Ghanaian citizen ought to ponder over is: Why burden ordinary hardworking people, who clearly are adventurous nation-builder-types, so - merely for being bold and ambitious enough to dare to venture abroad for whatever initiative-taking-reason that led them overseas, in the first place?

Furthermore, why do our sodden ruling-élites not see that COVID-19 can eventually destroy our national economy and, a priori, ought therefore to be seen as an existential threat, by all our leaders - who must not take chances with dealing with its containment: and thus must readily pay for the quarantine of all returnee-Ghanaians, simply to ensure that they can be easily monitored upon their re-entry into Ghana from trips overseas? Haaba.

Let there be no doubt about this: If we are serious about actually containing COVID-19, then, as an emergency measure to stop what is an incurable virus, from eventually overwhelming our healthcare system, and also destroying our national economy on top of that, the Ghanaian nation-state ought to find the money to pay for the cost of every returning individual Ghanaian citizen's quarantine. Full stop.

No Ghanaian politician, or senior public servant, should be allowed to see this as yet another state-capture-opportunity - to enable them select hotels belonging to their cronies, who then get the once-in-a-lifetime awoof-business-opportunity, to engage in egregious-profiteering: at the expense of hapless returnee-Ghanaians, and harvest endless COVID-19 kickback-opportunities in the process. No. No. No. How cynical can our mostly-selfish politicians get, I ask? Haaba.

Our sly and greed-filled political class must be forced to stop seeing COVID-19 as a massive kickback-harvest-time-opportunity - and, for once, start seeing the actual-on-the-ground-reality it represents: an apocalyptic-existential-threat to the very existence of the Republic of Ghana. Haaba. Hmmmm, Oman Ghana, eyeasem, ooooo - enti yewieye paaa enei? Asem kesie ebeba debi ankasa. Hmmmm. Yooooo...

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