Don’t leave fate to miracles alone – Youth advised

The youth have been asked not to leave their fate to prayers and expect miracles but to deal with their grievances and fears legally and professionally.
In line with this, they have also been tasked not to allow themselves to be manipulated by political parties for anything untoward that would disturb the peace in the country.
Speaking at a forum by the Ashanti Youth Association and Zongo youth in Kumasi, an independent presidential candidate in the 2012 elections, Mr Jacob Osei Yeboah (JOY), said Ghana would not burn in 2016 for the sake of political reason.
He said the initiative by the chiefs and the youth by organising the forum was a positive sign that indeed Ghana would not burn in 2016.
Mr Yeboah stated that the forum, planned in the last quarter of 2015 for Kumasi and subsequently other regional capitals in Ghana, from hindsight of recent misplaced and unprovoked upheavals in Tafo, could be deemed as a visionary and pragmatic process for a peaceful election this year and beyond.
The 2012 independent presidential candidate bemoaned the phenomenon of skewing non-provoking issues to Christians-Muslims misunderstandings, saying that could not be overlooked.
He explained that nation-building required governments with policies designed to alleviate poverty, a greater respect for the law and a judiciary that truly dispenses justice and truth and protects the highly vulnerable in society.
Furthermore, he said nation-building required a government that could implement socio-economic policies to close the poverty gap and to insure the well-being of future generations and honestly take steps to reform the ethnic and religious polarisation of its citizenry.
The significance of political parties as agents for nation-building ought to be transformed through political mutation to sacredness or well-being.
Mr Yeboah stated that Ghanaians ought to ensure that genuine pragmatic and prudent measures were set up to correct past political blunders.
‘’The rift that divided the founding fathers of Ghana into enemies, causing socio-political disorganisation over the past 59 years needs divine wisdom for pragmatic reconciliation,’’ he said.
He said it was of great concern if intolerance and disrespect, coupled with disturbances, took place within either the religious or governance pillar, or in both pillars of nation-building. That, he said, could result in the tendency of bringing down the whole nation with consequences for human lives and property.
Mr Yeboah, therefore, advised Ghanaians, political parties, faith groups and civil society groups to endeavour not to crush the religious pillar in 2016 for political expediencies.
This was because nation-building required faithful traditions that could translate the love and justice of God/Allah/Onyankronpong into the existential human situation.
Mr Yeboah, therefore, urged stakeholders of the unfortunate upheaval at Tafo not to deny the country the application of justice.
“Though justice can be tempered with mercy, the clarity of pursuing justice and the lessons ought not be denied the country, especially the youth,” he said.
Credit: Ghana Web