Let’s All Fix Ghana Together – NCCE
The Chairperson of the National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE), Ms Josephine Nkrumah, has called on Ghanaians to unite and fix the country as one people.
“We as individuals, as communities, as ethnic groupings, as holders of public office, people in the private space, we make up the country together with state institutions.
“I have held the position that when one group says #fixthecountry and other group responds with #fixyourself, I ask myself really and truly who is the country, is the country sitting separate from the individuals, we the citizenry make up the country,” Ms Nkrumah stated.
Stakeholder engagement
She was responding to questions on the recent social media wave of #fixthecountry and #fixyourself mantra on the sidelines of the third “End of Month Stakeholder Engagement and Workers Appreciation Day” seminar organised by the Tema Regional Office of the Ghana News Agency in Tema.
Ms Nkrumah said Ghanaians made up the country, indicating that “we are all part of it, so when you fix the country, it includes individuals, state institutions, leadership at all levels.
“It includes the market woman selling and determining whether she should make the olonka half or full and pass it off as a full one, it includes the teacher who is teaching and spending his time committed to his work or staying out there doing private classes and not paying attention to his class.
“It includes the businessman who is paying his taxes or avoiding taxes, it includes you and I; are we bribing, what are we doing that also makes another public servant complicit in our actions?” she asked.
Isolation
Ms Nkrumah urged Ghanaians not to sit in isolation from the country’s problems, questioning that “when we talk about indiscipline in this country who is creating it on the street, in the workplace, in the church, in the mosque, its all of us so this whole notion of fixing for me is a notion that we must all embrace irrespective of the political affiliation”.
She stressed that “we cannot speak of fixing systems when we are also not part of the fixing process. Let’s speak the truth and face it, speak honestly about the things of this country and find a way to resolve them”. – GNA