Ghana needs fixing; people merely existing... – IMANI Boss

No politician will admit that Ghana is no longer attractive.

However, some also used to chuckle at that very distinctly Ghana’s political rhetoric of exceptionalism, the assertions of our God-granted preeminence and predestination.

But beneath that laughter, the Executive Director of IMANI Ghana, Franklin Cudjoe believes Ghana is in a deep mess and needs a lot of work to fix it.

He explained that, the recent cedi appreciation against some major trading foreign currencies, which some including politicians have attributed it to the workings of God, is really an embarrassment.

According to him, over 1,000 Facebook posts praising God for the Cedi appreciation really shows that “this country needs a lot of work to fix.”

Franklin Cudjoe however used his Facebook wall to educate Ghanaians on the cedi’s appreciation and claimed Ghana’s first president; Kwame Nkrumah was his own nemesis.

Below is what Franklin Cudjoe posted on Facebook. [Unedited]

1. I am ashamed that many believe that the country's currency the cedi's appreciation is actually the work of God through his miracles. Please, please, the cedi is appreciating due to the twin factors of $1.7bn loan Cocobod secured for its plans and certainly the $1bn Eurobond.
   
   The depreciation of the cedi had always been a supply side deficit aggravated by the unthinkable forex rules. We are simply seeing some confidence back to the land.



2. It seems to me the many 'men of God' we have now prefer selling hope to those who leave their troubles at home and fellowship with them. I have seen many Churches grow at the expense of their followers in the last twenty years. Meanwhile, I see degrading poverty, outright theft by politicians and non-politicians, disease and filth.
   
   Can our pastors and men of God help spread the word in the slums and hospitals? Beyond mounting bill boards as if they were contesting for spots on Hollywood, will they join us in the active search for responsible leadership in Ghana? I take note of the Christian Council and Women Aglow's efforts. We need more...



3. Kwame Nkrumah was his own nemesis. Tell the self-acclaimed communists and social democrats in Ghana benefiting from the unsound legacy with noise and fake patriotism that the best way to celebrate Nkrumah's birth day and certainly make a holiday in his honour worth remembering is to renovate his family home and fix the broken sewage system he built for Tema.
   
   Meanwhile, the UK Daily Mail REPORTS THAT "Most Jamaicans believe they would be better off if they were still ruled by Britain, a poll shows. In a harsh indictment of nearly 50 years of independence, 60 per cent of those surveyed hanker for the days when the country was Britain’s biggest Caribbean colony. Only 17 per cent said the crime-ridden, poverty-stricken nation would be worse off under British rule. Sounds like we should have stayed a bit longer.



4. I am still hoping that the President will ask the commission investigating the world cup fiasco to end its work and hand over the suspicious characters to the CID- For God sake, people are merely existing and now the youth sell blood for a living?