The Second Deputy Speaker of Parliament and MP for Nadowli-Kaleo Alban Bagbin has expressed concerns about the treatment meted out to ‘honest’ people in the country.
According to him, Ghanaians treat people who speak the truth with disdain. Speaking at a youth mentoring program organized by the National Youth Authority in Wa, the veteran legislator said,” We have established a culture of lies. When you speak the truth people hate you. When you do what is good and honest; you are a fool. But you know, you can never sow beans and reap maize. So when you sow the falsehood, lies is what you will reap. The society is collapsing”.
He said the current development is a sharp departure from the past which he termed as the “good old days”.
“Youth! that is why they keep on referring to the good old days. It was not because those days were developed. No. Those days we had humanity”.
Bagbin also expressed worry over what he said is the ungrateful nature of the youth.
According to him, showing ingratitude is akin to pressing the self-destruction button.
He intimated that anyone who does not show gratitude will end up destroying themselves.
The event which is an initiative of the Upper West regional office of the national youth authority, saw over 40 senior citizens serving as mentors to over 140 youth in the region.
Source: starrfm
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Why are u writing intro for ur project....waiting time on NDC
thank you Mr. ASK Bagbin. But don't you think your party is strongly responsible for this situation? Let me lead through memory lane: JJR instituted the situation where people who genuinely made money were seen to be corrupt and crated animosity between them and the larger society. He claimed those who had made money were tthieves. You party also disregarded basic life ethics: At the time JJR thought it was wrong for the youth to remain silent and urged them on with his positive defiance mantra. In short you thought the youth to disregard authority and do things their way. Of course JJR did things his own way for why would he at a national parade echo to the youth that Wo su no kora na me y3 no more!! Again, he beat up his Vice in the Castle yet you and your party apparatchiks found nothing wrong with that and defended him till the end. What seed do you think you were sowing in the youth when you defended the wrong doing of your founder? Gen Nunoo Mensah shouts on roof tops that indiscipline has cripped into our society and no one seems to care. Sure! No one will care because your party supports the wrong doings of its youth and so that is what is bound to happen. No wonder the originator of indiscipline in Ghana, JJR, when hit by his own dose started calling the youth in your party as Babies with Sharp Teeth. Mr. ASK Bagbin, need I add more to the points I have made? The list is endless. Look nowhere if morality, honesty and truthfulness have been sent to the dogs but in you own party. Charity begins at home so start the house cleaning exercise from you own back yard and others will support you. God Day Ghana