Leader of the Common Sense Family, Avraham Ben Moshe has noted that political leaders in the country deserve everything being said to them in public by Ghanaians, especially the youth.
According to him, the youth are just voicing out their fears and expressing how they feel since they have been forced to keep quiet for a long time.
In an interview with Rev Nyansa Boakwa on Happy 98.9FM’s NsemPii show, he said, “They keep depriving us of the good healthcare, good roads, causing road accidents. We lack all other social developments we need in our society and do they still expect us to keep mute.”
Citing an example to back his statement he said, “What is more painful than a woman, more especially a Muslim woman giving birth on the floor of a hospital due to lack of beds when we are always being promised beds for our hospitals?”
He went on to state that recently we discovered lithium which could fetch us billions of dollars in our country only for our President to give it out to foreigners for 60 years for 10%, where as we could have used it for our development.
“Ghana is full of oil yet we cannot claim ownership of it. Take Takoradi for example, there is a lot of oil there, yet we are suffering and when I speak and ask our leaders to act right some Muslims claim I am speaking against our leaders,” he said.
Avraham is of the view that, as human, he is subject to human error and does not think he has said anything offensive if he decides to speak the minds of the less privileged, “due to the pain and hard times I see them go through.”
“But if I speak certain unpleasant words to the leaders and later come to apologize, I do not think I have done anything wrong as I am human and subject to human error,” he added.
He believes that if only our leaders will do what is right, admit their mistakes and fix the country, it will reduce the level of disrespect they get from the youth of the country.
By: Gyamfuah Owusu-Ackom
