WHAT WILL THEY TELL US ON THE NEXT CAMPAIGN TRAIN? (Epistles Code V1)

We have less than one year to the campaign trail as the 2016 general election draws close. What will they tell us this time around? There is chronic unemployment; acute inflation and economic meltdown; poor public electricity supply; crumbling road infrastructure and insecurity.

The problems of the country are multiplying every day, growing, spread in leaps and bounds! What will they tell us again? Take for example the fact that the Government of Ghana has not constructed a single road in the Volta Region since 2008, what will our political leaders from the region tell us concerning the deplorable, dilapidated and utterly bad Accra-Ho-Hohoe Highway?

Will our political leaders have the courage, the mind to implore or urge us to vote for President John Mahama or whoever emerges the presidential candidate of the NDC in the face of the failure of successive NDC controlled Governments since to construct this very vital highway that links the South-North with the Volta?

Recall that the Government has made more money since from the services of our human resources and sale of timber, yet such an important Highway that is so strategic to the socio economic growth of the Volta Region is left in such benign neglect for the past 22 years! I combed the appropriation Act of 2014/15 thoroughly to find out if the construction of this Highway has been budgeted but it turned out to be an exercise in vain.

This is the last national budget President Mahama will be implementing before 2016 election, yet this Highway is left out. So what will they tell us? Will they tell us to simply vote for President John because he is from the North and NDC?

One can imagine the economic losses we suffered each time this Highway is blocked as a result of its deplorable nature! Take again, another l Highway in the Region that has remained deplorable for the past 15 years! It is the Sogakorpe –Hohoe Highway. This Highway has completely collapsed and it is overdue for a new one, yet nothing has been done on it for 15 years. The Highway has shrunken so much in size over the years so much so that it simply cannot cope any longer with the heavy traffic that it is currently saddled with .

The result is that the road has become one of the most dangerous roads in the world. It is a death trap. Each day deadly and ghastly accidents take place on this road. It takes divine intervention for one to travel through this road and arrive safely in his or her destination! Yet our political leaders from this clime do not bother to draw the attention of the powers that be!

They will simply tell us to vote for so and so come 2016. They will buy bags of rice, Maggi seasonings etc and distribute to our hapless people to continue to vote for those who do not care about our well –being.

Our young people forgot to ask our political big wig why the Government has woefully and spectacularly failed to create employment for them so they can live more meaningfully! So the question remains this: What will they tell us next time?