Many have complained over the years our system of Governance as the consequence of the poverty and the suffering. We started very well as a country but what do we see? I am very sorry to tell Ghanaians that we are the cause of the woes that have befallen us. It may sound funny but share with me some instances I have gathered.

First, in almost all the disciplines, private schools in Ghana do well more than the public schools .Why? But the public schools have all the qualify personnel’s being it teaching, garden, sports, supervision and others. Move to the various public schools and have a look. When and how teachers attend to classes? The flimsy excuses they give to absent themselves from classes. Envisage a lady teacher who after introducing a topic had a telephone call. She talked and talked until it was break time. She intended excused the person on the line, told the pupils to go out for break and continued the call. This lady continued with the call until the children resumed from break. Where is the fate of our education when our teachers are becoming absentees and communication experts?

Akin to the above, a manager of a firm, haven realized a letter on his desk, left it and picked his Graphic. The next day, he forgot of that particular letter and left for a departmental meeting which will attract sitting allowance. A day after, the secretary came to the desk and picked the very letter among the treated letters to files. Two months later, the sender haven waited enough made a follow up only to be told that the letter is missing so he should go and bring another letter for immediate processing. It is only in Ghana that managers misplace letters on their desks.

 Also, a student ignored the dust bin and threw the peel of a banana on the floor. When questioned; he could only say that, he wanted to create employment.

In a similar fashion, visit the public offices on Fridays to see for yourself. Ask for an officer only to hear that he has left for weekends. Even some of these officers live on Thursdays and to your dismay would be absent for work on Monday with the reason that he could not come early on Sunday. So, my question is has Fridays been taken away from the working days? How would you feel if you were the man who waited six hours for a bus only to see an officer who has left office twenty-four hours for weekends?  

In summary, I want to speak out that we are not due for democracy or better, we need a little of autocracy attached to our democracy. Effective monitoring or supervision should have been the solution, but believe you me this strategy is not enough for Ghanaians. We need a principle leadership comes in here if and only if the Government can take a stand and operate on pay as you work, thus, a worker would be paid on the number of days she/he worked in a month.

And with this, I promise that spring would be reborn under our bright steps.

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