As the excruciating economic hardship hangs the neck of the hustlers in the cities of Ghana and the, especially unemployed, it provides opportune time for looking back to home.
That was exactly what the ‘unemployed’ Alex K. Mould, an energy and financial analyst, did last week. He took the opportunity to visit his mother’s hometown.
A journey that has increased the ‘touch on his humility nerves’ and awaken his advocacy voice for demanding accountability and social development for the less developed communities from government officials. His term as Ghana National Petroleum Corporation’s (GNPC) Chief Executive ensured fair distribution of social development through the GNPC Foundation across the country.
As much as he enjoyed his ‘reveler journey’, the rate of underdevelopment faced most of the Ghanaian rural areas, most of them which are not far from the peri-urban centers, was just unbearable to his sight.
He shares his experience with www.newsguideafrica.com.
Read below his experience as he narrated:
“In my mother’s village Ejuratia, Afigya Kwabre South, it is sooo peaceful here I keep wondering why I do not spend more time here.
“Only the 5:30 community radio that has a loudspeaker beside my window that blasts most times propaganda that annoys me.
“The food is sooo fresh. The people have a lot of ‘tolee’ (folktales).
“It’s so sad to see many communities located very distant from the peri-urban areas that have so little – terrible roads in tough terrain; schools located many kilometers away, and if there are schools they would be under trees or broken mud houses with no roofs: no clinics or Community Health Planning & Services (aka CHPS) compounds, or the nearest would be 10 to 20 km away.
“There is so much we have to do for our communities; but these would not cost the nation a lot if we stop these bad practices s.a state capture, bad procurement practices and overbloating of contracts to provide services
“Just raising the bar so that each community has the bare minimum should be the objective of all of us – not only the governments, but all of us.
“We the people need to advocate for our communities.
“That’s what politics is about – advocating for those that do not have a voice so that the resources of this country are shared on an equitable basis so that we raise the bar of the standard of living or each citizen.”
