Former worker of Joy FM and a freelance Journalist, Manasseh Azuri Awuni has in a subtle manner jabs the Nana Addo led government for calling critics of his government naysayers.
According to Manasseh Azuri Awuni, “The Ghana that was “extremely miserable” yesterday cannot become paradise overnight because the one who said it was miserable yesterday is in power today”.
His jabs comes after the president’s address to the nation called critics of his government naysayers and doing that soul purposely for political expediency.
Below is his full post;
Dear critic and cynic with conviction, consider it praiseworthy when the cathedral builder who appointed more ministers than twice the number of ventilators in all the hospitals of our country calls you a naysayer. Count yourself on the right side of history when the so-called anti-corruption crusader who chased Daniel Domelevo out of office calls you a professional Jeremiah.
Nobody is born a naysayer. Of course, there are those who become naysayers by choice and for political capital. Those of us who were in this country in 2016 still remember the leader of the professional naysayers at the time, the commander-in-chief of Samballat and Tobiah’s army of self-seeking cynics.
We still remember those who told us that Ghanaians were sitting on wealth but were very hungry. The Ghana that was “extremely miserable” yesterday cannot become paradise overnight because the one who said it was miserable yesterday is in power today.
Yesterday’s political cynics and today’s political cynics have only traded places, and the former are dutifully observing table manners. Nothing has changed.
But we cannot hold it against those who are tarrying everybody complaining with the same brush of cynicism. Such people are beneficiaries of the virtuous circle of privilege. Those whining about the vicious cycle of poverty sound funny.
The privileged may have seen poverty, but they are yet to feel it. Now that the royal banquet is set before them, and they are surrounded by courtiers of praise-singers whose mastery of superlatives is unmatched, they cannot understand why you claim you’re hungry. So we should not hold anything against them. It’s not their fault.
We can only appeal to them to consider the fact that not all cynics are complaining out of political expediency.
There are others who are compelled to be naysayers. Being a naysayer, and not a praise-singer, in a retrogressive and badly run country is an act of patriotism.
And those whose leadership has forced the most ardent of optimists to part ways with hope should be measured in their accusations and name calling.
This is a plea from someone who has been tasked to be a citizen, and not a spectator.
Source: GhanaFeed.com
