What do we do when things aren’t going the right way? Do we sit down and fold our arms and watch on as our future is destroyed when we are wide awake knowing the repercussions that follow? Obviously No!
Unfortunately that is how the story of our future seems to be. A lot of things are going on around us which will surely lead to a future that will be very hard but what do you and I do? Nothing. If this continues then the question I ask is “where are we heading to?”. I will add this; “What do you think about the future?” Well if you don’t dear citizen, then I entreat you to do so from now on because there are a lot of things that are going on that you and I need to stand up and fight for to be put in the right process and place.
The correct measures must be taken, the right steps must be followed. The right decisions must be made and the truth must be told.
Where are we heading to when chemically generated seeds are seeking to take a total overhaul of the market? It’s as if we have forgotten our good records in agriculture that all of a sudden we want to totally discard it. The question even is; “should we welcome such developments?” Absolutely no! Ghana boasts of vast lands that are very versatile in fertility for diverse crops; cereals,tubers,vegetables,fruits and what have you? So in what sense at all should we accept such a development? What worries a lot is how the health situation of the country will be like years after. This is surely a harm that you and I must prevent rather than cure,there is no need entering such a venture.
What even becomes of the government’s flagship project of “planting for food and jobs” whose sequel will be the famous “one district,one factory?”.
And what also is the point in having an economic plan whose rudiments are not well in place? I mean, if we are talking about encouraging the youths to get seriously involved in agriculture whiles we build factories that will definitely process what they produce but the roads that leads to them in the first place are in a deplorable state; what’s the point here? So you realize that a lot of things are in place but we must help put them in the right order? We must give the right oversight they have always taught us to be able to give.There are many more in diverse sectors that time will not allow us to touch on.
The point here is that “we must begin to look at things in a futuristic perspective”. Where are we heading to then if we aren’t doing that? Why do we have to sit down with folded arms when all of these interventions are definitely a benefit to you and I in future should they survive? But will they even survive when the basics of everything that will let them really survive are not in place? Maybe it is an oversight but that is why you and I must actively peruse and point them out. We must have in mind that the things that are being done now will have an effect on you and I in future when those who set the ball rolling are no more with us. Let’s ask ourselves if these effects will be good or bad and fight strongly and very well for what is good not only for us but those whose future we will be building as well. Let’s secure our future by making sure things are right now.
Let’s secure our future by making sure things are right now.
Things might fail now, we will talk about them and loose valuable things but the future surely belongs to us and we must fight a good fight to secure a good one.
Letters from a Citizen 