It still starts out
the same, pursuing the numerous tasks we have scheduled for the day and for our mornings to take off after having a quiet time with Abba Father. The
morning just couldn’t get any better with the “dumsor” craze being one of the
moments one has to wake up to. The criticisms and endless complaints pertinent
to the country’s power crisis never gets old each time the glowing bulb snaps
out or perhaps the interruption of a television show or telenovela which has
kept us glued to our seats hence forgetting that most of the activities on our
to-do list depends very much on electricity. From the charging of our Smartphones
to the powering of the very corporate firms we work,all of which thrive on this basic
commodity
Reminiscing back to
the early years of liberation, when Dr, Kwame Nkrumah of blessed memory put
onto the railway of reality, the establishment of a hydroelectric power project
to muscle the then rising industries which could have helped the nation to literally attain
self sufficiency now. Hmm.. I don’t know what happened but I believe the contemporary
look of things can attest to the fact that we went wrong somewhere. If the
project was to render power to the then industries and its affiliates, what
then would have been his proposition to serve the human populace? A visionary
leader as he was, I am pretty sure a much sustainable form of electrical power generating
mechanism was on his wishlist. Perhaps the engineers of that epoch were limited
by the caliber of technology they had likewise expertise as Science and
Technology was still evolving. This could have probably been the reason as to
which “The Second Phase” of the Power Generation Project in the country was not
able to take flight.
In this present day,
where enlightenment has fairly risen to encapsulate the world we live in moderately
gives us leverage in technological advancement
over the folks of the mid nineties. The case however does not look so in
the Sub Saharan region, particularly Ghana. Unpretentious powercuts at the
moment when one least expects it is still a perforation to the upward mobility
of the county’s economy. I believe the days of complaining should be drawing
close to an end with citizens not always expecting what the government can do
for them but rather what one can individually do to rally round our country. The
premier step should be a change in attitude and habits. A country which happens
to have majority of her citizens possessing a bad attitude is like a car with a
flat tyre, it will not move forward until it is changed. Psychologists may also
say that an activity continuously indulged in for averagely a forthnight could
synthesize with the individual to become a habit.(a habit is something that you often do regularly without thinking about
it because you have done it soo many times before) These two are hard to
change especially when one is accustomed to them but are also not impossible
to.
Lets take note of some of these bad habits today, create a target
which will guide us to unfasten ourselves from them and commit to always
fulfilling this target daily. With the little effort we put in, I believe we
will be on the path to reviving the
economy of our beloved country. Long Live Ghana.
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