WHEN CHANGE BECOMES CERTAIN

If you have been following recent happenings in our polity objectively as it concerns the general elections in the past three months, you will understand it is now clear to the discerning, obvious to the dissenting and acceptable to the pragmatic that change has become certain in our polity. 

This article was inspired by one of my favorite songs of Lucky Dube- of blessed memory, "It is not easy".  

In the song, he called on his mother, "mama I'm getting married". She replied, "Son did you take out time to know her"? 

The artist: "Mama she's the best, but today it hurts me so to go back to mama and say mama am getting divorced, this choice I made, didn't work the way I thought it would, it hurts me so mama...".     

The lyrics of the song are exactly what are playing out in our polity today. 

Rewind back to 2012 presidential election, we were so carried away by the circumstances surrounding president Mahama's emergence that we ignored many things and forgot to ask necessary questions. He gathered all the sympathy, popularity and attention through his "Ede bee K3K3” cliché. Thinking he's the Moses of our time, people defied ethnic, political and religious affiliations to vote and ensure he emerged president.  

Fast forward to 2015, just a year to the next election and everything has changed. The ones trusted and popular John Mahama had become the rejected stone. It is an irony that same process that ensured the emergence of a younger president in 2012 is same process that has kept him on the verge of losing the 2016 presidential election. 

The National Democratic Congress in its quest for jaded attention allowed itself to be sub-tenanted in the last 7 years by every paid and unpaid apologist of the government. The president's incorrigible media team didn't help either, they were beyond reproach, with their misleading and contradicting information they made it difficult for citizens to get accurate information on the happenings of the government, they hurled bitter diatribes and tirades to every critic of the government, in doing so their language deteriorated and included every profanity and obscenity on their lips and ended up accumulating more enemies for the president within and outside the shores of the country thereby making change certain.  

In the area of corruption, President Mahama has shown little willingness to tackle corruption. He identifies with the corrupt and presides over a government that embezzles public funds with reckless abandon.

Right now our nation is hemorrhaging from all sides, the bleeding is imminent and inevitable, with the daily decline in our economy, there hardly seem to be anyone who is not feeling the economic hardship this government has reduced us to.  

Many unfulfilled campaign promises of the ruling government have contributed to this certain change. The fact that Ghana is yet to generate more megawatts of electricity after expending millions of dollars in fifty-eight years in the power sector is beyond comprehension. 

Until recently, security is near zero with insecurity and insurgency taking a lead in wanton killings and destruction of lives and properties in almost all parts of the country.  

With its little and infinitesimal performance, the attack dogs of the ruling government have been obfuscating in defense that Mahama and the National Democratic Congress in the last seven years has performed more than all our past rulers.  

They pretend not to know records have shown under President Mahama Ghana has generated more funds per annum from loans, and the sale of crude oil. It is saddening that nations of equal promise like Ghana have left Ghanaians in its elementary level while at different levels of advanced development, hence the need for a change of government.  

The opposition New Patriotic Party may have its flaws but sometimes where there are no good options, a former dictator is a better choice than a failed president. 

 Back to the song, "It Wasn't Easy", same way the above named reggae artist went back to his mother, "mama am getting divorced", Ghanaians want a divorce from the ruling government, because the choice we made in 2012 didn't work out the way we thought it would and it hurts us so much. 

I take consolation from the words of his mother in the song, "it's not easy to understand it son, but I know you'll make it, you'll be happy again". 

Ghanaians will make change possible come December 7 2016 and we will be happy again.