I love how easy it is to just slip my newborn into the front pocket so I can
get a few
things done around the
house or even for a quick trip into the store
without all the wrapping and buckles of my carriers.
It also doesn't say squat about the literally hundreds of other
things you could worry about (like kids with allergies and asthma
getting their hands on certain foods, the host taking the kids in a car
without a car seat, a backyard trampoline, alcohol / drugs left
around the
house, playing in the front yard abutting a very busy street, etc. etc. etc.) It's just meant to talk about your child's preparedness for being away from mom and dad.
We need to make sure that we are in control over the
things that affects us.Anytime there is flood and people loose their life, most of the blame goes to sitting presidents.I am not saying that the central government
does not have responsibility to ensure that enabling environment is created.They have a great work to
do but as citizens what is our quota?When you move
around Accra, sometimes i becomes angry within myself because i am in doubt as to whether our sanitation laws exit.People because of the tax they claim they pay waits for zoom lion workers to come and clean the choked gutters before our
houses and shops either than that, it will remain like that.Is it modernity or civilization that has turned us to forget our traditional values or duties of ensuring that our environments is clean?Everybody in our Ghanaian setting knows the responsibility of men and women in making sure that our environments are clean not waiting for flood to occur and we start blaming sitting presidents.To the media, though your responsibility is to keep governments on it toes, you equally have a mandate in educating the public of what we are expected to
do as citizens in other to ensure that our dear nation is a better ecosystem for all of us to live.The attention of the media should be shifted from making politicians popular to making us aware as citizens of our responsibilities.I sometimes
get confused to hear journalists calling opponents to comment on issues concerning the sitting governments and the only
thing that comes to my mind is what
do the journalist want to hear from the political opponents?Nothing.They will end up criticizing
without giving an alternative.The media should rather resort in questioning people directly to where the problems are coming from.Let us build our institutions.When it comes to energy issues.Citifm will call Hon.KT Hammond who was a deputy minister living who he worked under (His boss at that time) and I always become confused because what can we expect from him?nothing.