Gone were the days when you dared not speak just anything that you wished on radio, television or anywhere else as the ears and eyes of “Da Boss” were everywhere.
Those were the days in which “walls really had ears and windows had eyes” in Ghana. It looks like in those days, not only did walls had ears and windows had eyes but that walls were actually ears and windows actually eyes.
Those who witnessed those days relate it to younger ones and according to their stories those days were quite terrible. But as terrible as those days were those were the very days in which Ghana probably imbibed some serious discipline, discipline osmotically imbibed by the introduction of the military version of table salt like never before.
In my opinion which may differ from yours, the military-driven discipline went a fine way in working as the horn from which Ghana’s anointing of peace came; and this peace we are still enjoying today and we need to maintain it. Today, by the virtue [or rather the vice] of Democracy’s modus operandi tongues are wagging as everyone is permitted to speak his/her mind. As good as it is to permit everyone to speak his/her mind we, unfortunately, also run the risk of putting “Our Motherland” in danger of the much unwanted situation. We need to check what we speak, as idle words can be more destructive than what we see as destructive.
I wish to enlighten the nation on the operations of the words we speak concerning “Our Motherland”, in case we have been ignorant of the reality. Too many people speak just anything at all without carefully considering the consequences of the content of their words.
Every word spoken has power and works its work, functioning according to its content, not according to the intention of the speaker! If you speak the curse, I tell you the curse will work as a curse even if you did not mean it so; the same goes with blessings: you can bless the wrong person and it will still work.
For this reason must words not be spoken idly; what you want to say must be well considered and to be safe, speak the truth only! These days many people speak insults, curses, ugly things, lies and deceptions all because of partisan politics which is considered to a large extent a mere game. However, the curse and insults still do their work of cursing and insulting without considering if they were spoken for joke or for play. The more we speak evil for Ghana the more evil abound.
The more we speak curses for Ghana the more curses abound with their works. We should be speaking hope for our nation; and peace and tranquility and blessing and prosperity and all good things. Whosoever that troubles his/her own house inherits the wind. And the big drum is beaten towards the drummer if it must sound its sound! Speak positivity only! And criticize positively only, if you must.
Someone may want to say “but we have not cursed the land of Ghana by our democratic talks”; but many of such persons have cursed the president in power at the time of their free speech by the grace of democracy well-misunderstood and spontaneously mispracticed.
Every curse against the head of state is directly curse of the land under the governorship of the same head of state! So also is it when the president is insulted; if you insult the president you insult the nation directly, only that you insult the nation by focusing your gaze on the president and this makes you think that you are simply insulting the president.
For example, there was the time when a youngster said one of Ghana’s presidents looked like a monkey; this insult of the president at the time was actually the insult of the nation at the same time to the effect that Ghana as a nationand all her people were called monkeys! If you insult your head, who are you actually insulting? The head of state at any one time is the very incarnation of the nation as a whole at the particular time; and this is why the president must be protected, because the protection of the president is the protection of the nation. We do not insult or curse our heads as long as they retain the position of headship!
If therefore you wish to insult or curse the president that is in power, then the wise thing to do is to wait until he is out of power; otherwise, the insults and curses you rain on him comes down back to the nation as a whole, working against the progress of the nation, including your dearly beloved self. [To be continued]
Source: Amelikeh C.E.N.
Center for Tropical Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, School of Medicine and Dentistry, College of Health Sciences, University of Ghana, Korle-Bu Campus. P.O. Box 4236, Accra. E-mail: [email protected], mobile: 027 9947372
