Editor-in-chief of the Whatsup news portal, David Tamakloe has advised the government of the day against perceiving the Fix the country campaign as an affront on its leadership.
According to him, the social media campaign is happening at a time where Ghanaians are facing untold difficulties and argued the #FixTheCountry campaign is not backed by any political party. “This is the ordinary Ghanaian complaining of the suffering they face. This campaign seeks to hold our leadership accountable right from the time of Kwame Nkrumah to now”.
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He noted that Ghana practices a democracy and just as the citizenry elects who leads them, they also have the right to hold them to account, he backed this with chapter one of the country’s constitution.
Chapter 1 (1-2) of the constitution reads; (1) The Sovereignty of Ghana resides in the people of Ghana in whose name and for whose welfare the powers of government are to be exercised in the manner and within the limits laid down in this Constitution. (2) This Constitution shall be the supreme law of Ghana and any other law found to be inconsistent with any provision of this Constitution shall. to the extent of the inconsistency, be void.
Fix the country is not an attack against anybody. The people have the power to question leadership if they (gov’t) is supressing the people because the constitution gives us the right to do so. #FixTheCountry campaign is not from a couple of people. It is an expression of the suffering Ghanaians are going through.
David insisted it does not have to be New Patriotic Party (NPP) or National Democratic Congress (NDC) in power for such an awakening to happen, “once you’re in gov’t the people can call for development at all times”, he told Samuel Eshun on the Happy Morning Show.
The editor believes the only people who are against #FixTheCountry “are those who are well feed and are in power who are sadly being paid with the taxes of the ordinary Ghanaian.
In the wake of political and economic tension, some unhappy Ghanaians have taken over social media to highlight the failure on the part of successive governments to improve the lives of citizenry.
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Mostly made up of the youth, tens of thousands of posts have been made on social media highlighting some of these inadequacies. Despite efforts by government including the Nation Builders’ Corp (NABCO), National Youth Entrepreneurship and Innovation Plan (NEIP) and other commitments towards investing in the growing human capital, some Ghanaians say the impact is not felt on the ground.
Dominant in the sentiments shared on Twitter are rising youth unemployment, dilapidated health system, skyrocketing home-renting structure, poor road networks, erratic power outages (popularly known as “Dumsor”), water crisis, poor sanitation, poor roads, depreciation of the Cedi’s, and everything that’s not made life dignifying and comfortable for people.
