Not A Charitable Description

President John Mahama

 

Those who lead, be it in the traditional or political setting, deserve respect. Such persons because of the privileged positions they hold are spared certain expressions or remarks by the led.

The deference they earn because of the positions they hold by convention should be reciprocal. Leaders should be mindful of the language they engage to address the led or society in general.

In our local languages, some words because of their inclination towards obscenity are clothed in appropriate synonyms.

Last week ended with a foul expression from unfortunately the father of the nation, the President and Commander-in-Chief of the Ghana Armed Forces.

While engaging with the leadership of workforce on their proposed demand for a base pay rise, he sought to present a sorry picture of the economy he inherited from his predecessors. It was a presentation which bore all the traits of propaganda.

In a social media driven age, remarks go far, especially when they are uttered by special personalities such as the President of the nation.

To describe the country as a crime scene as the President did was far-fetched and suggests that he is still in the campaign trail mode.

In such modes as he himself said while campaigning, truths and untruths are blended to the electorate.

The campaign season is over and we do not think that the President is in a hurry to fast-forward us to the next polls in which he cannot be a candidate anyway.

‘The Ghana now a crime scene’ gaffe attracted unsavoury reactions, and we would have rather we did not come to this notch.

The sanctity of the Presidency must be protected by its occupants by avoiding gaffes of expression such as under review.

There is no doubt that the Ghana President John Mahama inherited through the ballot box was a healthy one, in fact on the verge of buoyancy.

A Ghana in which the Free Senior High School (SHS) policy was active, major projects such as the 4-tier Pokuase interchange, Accra-Dodowa and Accra-Winneba road and many Agenda 111 hospitals executed cannot pass for the reference the President ascribed to it.

A criminally handled economy as he said, further could not have witnessed an appreciation of the base pay by 25% in 2024, 30% in 2023, 23% between January and June 2024. Between July and December 2024, the base was raised 25% by the previous government.

As the immediate past Finance Minister Amin Adam put it, in spite of the increments, the government still posted decent deficits. “What has changed between December 2024 and February 2025 putting the economy in crisis, making it unable to afford a basic pay adjustment above 10%?” he rightly posed.

The President’s smart move of preparing the minds of the electorate about the impossibility of making good his campaign trail promises through such remarks is too palpable not to be observed.

Were the country to be criminally-managed by the immediate past government there would not have been anything left in the kitty for our import cover for the interregnum before the first budget of the new administration.

Let us make politics decent by speaking the truth come what may.

 

 

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