MERCY LORD!!

Hey!
It's been a while I know. What should I blame it on?? Hmmmm.... OK maybe laziness anaa? we'll I'm baaaaaaaaaaaack. wink wink.

As usual something's got my back up and it ain't a massage (if you get my drift). This time am really mad! I mean what's this i hear about foreign businesses set up in GHANA denying workers basic amenities!!  Get this I know a Lebanese owned company that will not hire females. Guess WHY?! Maternity leave! A little birdie also told me that another Lebanese owned company has banned local staff from decreasing office air conditioners  below 22 degrees Celsius; whereas the pink folk are at liberty to reduce the air conditioners to north pole temperatures whenever they please. It gets worse, when the pink folk go on lunch breaks they put the air conditioners off!! Now I'm seething with rage. What the hell are our labour laws for?! Reminds me of the report some time ago about a chinese employer who slapped and spat in the eyes of a ghanaian employee on GHANA soil. aaaaaaarrrrrrrrgh! Oh right, i keep forgetting, no proper enforcement laws in this country. Afterall, they are contributing to the macro and micro ecomini ooops economy of POOR HIPIC Ghana. Anaaaa? hmmmm...

If proper institutions are not set up and proper everythings are not put in place very soon, not only will foreigners (who, mind you dislike and disrespect us anyway) come into the country and abuse us to the point where it'll become a status quo to be abused by an obroni but they'll also start representing us internationally. Come to think of it, if it takes speaking at least 1 local language and living in Ghana for a decade to become a citizen, marrying a Ghanaian and so on and so forth included, does that mean that those Nigerien and Chadian beggars can now vote?! Because I understand a lot have been here longer that a decade and even have 2nd to third generation descendants right here!!  Yooooo... Very soon their young girls will participate in and win our beauty pageants and then we'll start complaining. Its happened to even the most developed countries, so ahiaaaaaa give we! Not to sound racist or anything but, is any melanine-lacking person an OBRONI? Let me know.

By the way, what is it about Ghanaians that we just cannot stand up for our rights when a foreigner is involved? Stomach led huh? Or is it something more innate and sinister such as (dare I say it) LOW SELF ESTEEM! Have the international media succeeded in brainwashing us into buying into the stereotype that the dark skinned princes and princesses are inferior to the melanine-lacking folk? Or are we simply OBRONI-STRUCK!  Ah well... It's a bloody shame. A foreigner friend once asked me why we did not demolish all monuments and traces of our colonial masters post independence. You know what i told him? I was very intellectual and said to preserve history and gave him a run around speech about us choosing to build on the good things they left and blah blah blah. His response was, "if it were my country, we would have torn down every castle and every single evidence of their presence and burned them from our history and then built our own history from scratch".  Got me thinking, believe me.

The Question then is if indeed we are INDEPENDENT, capable of managing our own affairs, and more-than-adept at catering to our own needs, WHY THEN DO WE ALLOW sons and daughters of another soil to mistreat us, abuse us, disrespect us! and simply look on and fold our arms in our 'demerefa mu' and shrug and say, "edwuma eni Ghana enonti ye be fa no  sa ara" (there are no jobs in Ghana so we'll take what we can get however it is given)? Hmmmm.... eye aaaaasem oooo.... PIGAROOOO
Siiiigh, got this one off my chest.
Catch you later darling.
Afi

MORE TALKING, LITTLE ACTION....

Government has sent a such and such (i.e. 10 or 15) member delegation to Dubai to strike a partnership with contractors to secure assistance in the building sector. The delegation traveled on you and I's tax money to go and learn how to build AFFORDABLE houses in our tropical country from a non-tropical country. blah blah blah.... more talking, little action (and sometimes i think little sense).

hi,
I know I know, I'm impatient but can you blame me. I mean let's look at this from a 'me and you' point of view;
1) The capital's population increases  by the second daily right? What has been done about already existing buildings? Some do NOT even have basic amenities!! In this day and age toilets and bathrooms are 10 to 15 metres away from main residences!! Cooooooooome on!!! Siiiiiiiiiiigh. I heard very recently that there actually is some sort of a law (by-law) against building residential and commercial edifices without toilets but as usual the problem (which rears its ugly head in 99.9999% of laws) of enforcement is as unmanageable as the unlawful act itself!! Amazingly there are new residential areas springing up(Such as Kasoa, Ashongman, etc) that in my opinion could easily be used as an opportunity to BEGIN rectifying this societal insanity! but ... hmmm...
2) Young adults can NOT move out of home as late as 30 years old because of a very silly '2 years advance rent' requirement. Ok maybe we're not an individualistic society and we do not mind spending our adult lives in veeeeeery little privacy and all that, but you have to agree that we gradually are becoming one. It is about time our society (albeit conservative) realizes that a person ceases being a child at 18 and thus requires to begin to practice taking responsibility for themselves, you know... paying house bills, managing finances and so on and so forth. By the way, y in heaven's name is a person obligated to  to pay a landlord rent in excess of 23 months??!! WHAT is the logic?! No wonder Ghanaians resist change, most things in our lives stay same anyway until some one or thing comes in to shake us out of our comfort zone. Now that's a topic for discussion in an entirely different conversation (trust me). ;-)
3) land!!
4) Leaders do not actually care that a person has to walk, virtually trek just to attend to nature's call. what is wrong with us??! Is it that we have some ingrained sickness against progress and ... I don't know... growth?!! It's like building a car without an exhaust pipe!! TAKE A MOMENT AND IMAGINE... a car, no exhaust... Anaaaa?

WHAT SHALL WE DO? But charley, how man fit build house without toilet? why, e no dey chop? dis tins dey bore paa ooo. Siiiiiiigh but e go bi, e no bi so?

AKWAABA!!

After years of being pushed and prodded into setting up my own blog, i've finally done it!! yeeeeeaaa.... I must say I'm excited and sceptical at the same time. I mean in this ocean of bloggers who's going to read a blog from an unknown me?!! (nervous laughter).

Siiiiiiiiigh.... oh well all i can say is expect the unexpected!!

mwaaaaaahhhh