MP Laments:There is no sense of patriotism in Ghana

Many concerned Clergy in Ghana and in other neighboring countries have called on all Ghanaians to pray ceaselessly for divine intervention for the cedi to halt its free fall.

The Bank of Ghana has issued new measures governing Foreign Exchange and Foreign Currency Accounts, and revised rules to temporary stop the cedi from further depreciating.

But Member of Parliament for Techiman South, Hon. Adjei Mensah, has rather blamed the country’s economic woes on its liberal democratic dispensation, saying the system makes it impossible to enforce certain policies. Regardless of the revised rules by the Bank of Ghana, the NDC MP insists the inability of Ghanaians to appreciate their culture by adopting foreign lifestyles and governance is what has spelt doom for the nation.

“There is no sense of patriotism in Ghana; we are not behaving the way God created us, but rather we have copied a lifestyle which is killing the country and yet we cannot realize the doom we have caused ourselves…Now Ghanaians don’t think of the interest of the nation but themselves. We need a strong leader to enforce a sense of patriotism in Ghanaians….but under this current liberal democratic dispensation, I am afraid it is impossible,” he said on Okay Fm.

To him, Ghanaians are “behaving like a black beautiful lady who has bleached her skin and now she is looking ugly and unattractive in her old age; this is what is happening to Ghana”.

He urged Ghanaians to pick lessons from the Chinese and called on the President and the leadership of the country to take radical steps to do away with practices which have caused leakage in the country’s economy.

“….I am sorry, but the way the country is being managed, if we don’t sit up to take control of the situation, we will be heading into the ditch,” he warned.