Opinion
Yes, Ghana needs a younger generation of entrepreneurs and not politicians! For a blessed country in sub-Saharan Africa like Ghana whose estimated population is over 25.1 million people cannot afford to keep trusting our venal politicians so they mess up our already bleak future.
These individuals who parade as possessing messianic zeal have robbed the chunk of our sovereign masses of their inalienable prosperity.
In fact, partisan politics in its raw state often described as "a dirty game" in common parlance has become the bane of the Ghanaian society. Hey, I dare not deny you of your constitutional right in Article 55, Clause 2 of our 1992 Constitution!
It provides that, "Every citizen of Ghana of voting age has the right to join a political party."
But let us kindly ponder over the state of affairs in our dying country today. In a lower middle-income economy with a youthful population of about 61.7% falling between 15 and 65 years, we still wallow in despair because we have stayed aloof while our wayward politicians lead us into an economic morass.
Sometimes I even wonder why the vast majority of our able-bodied youth dissipate their personal resources only to rally support for a few political animals who enjoy economic paradise! Well, until those youth wise up and come to terms with the realities of entrepreneurial life, they are certainly doomed to political slavery.
However, I lament how multiparty democracy (an imposed system of
governance) has been utterly abused by the citizenry to the detriment of our economic freedom.
Oh what kind of economy are we keeping for posterity? Each day goes by with a cacophony of vile speeches in the mass media by the NDC and NPP which has overshadowed the priceless initiatives of young enterprising Ghanaians. Look! It is absolutely absurd for student politics to dominate the student body of a tertiary institution! Rather, the assembly of Ghanaian students need to be empowered by schools to do critical thinking in pursuing entrepreneurial initiatives. And it's about time business leaders acting as a potent force drove the economic progress of mother Ghana!
Also, our political leaders who have ruled our decayed system over the years are leaving poor Ghana with one sickening legacy: In such a rich country like Ghana, there are still widespread hardships. We therefore have to alter the direction of this nation as the younger generation of Ghana before it is too late.
So we the teenagers have to grow into entrepreneurs of change with our potentials whose initiatives could generate far-reaching reforms in the Ghanaian economy.
Personally, the vision I have for my beloved country Ghana cannot be accommodated by the brains of political thinkers. God bless the entrepreneurial hustles of Ghana's younger generation!
Source: sirarticle.blogspot.com