Nationals to find beauty?

NATIONALS TO FIND BEAUTY?(Our Newees,Oil and Gas in Ghana)
We have, oh! Yes we have, but nationals to find beauty?
Numerous lacking advantages from numerous natural resources ranging from Gold to Salt
Primary commodities, with very little or no value
Very low percentages as returns to fill our heavy bellies while the foreigners of the land take the most of
Yet, we boast of oil when we have not been able to seal our leakages

Oh! Nationals to find beauty,
When hundred years of mining in Ghana there has never being any mining policy
(A legal document, a guiding principle/program/dogma) which defines how a country’s mineral resources are used for national development)
Inviting outsiders call, for imperialism which I fear less but for his brother Neo-colonialism woe to me
What has really gone wrong?

National to find beauty in the newly discovered oil,
To be started by whom when the leaders of the land engage mercilessly in corruption, foreigners
May not neo-colonialist stand for us
May not interlopers bump in unto our shores, and into our internal affairs
But should they do, then, blame no one other than the elders of our motherland


More emphasis is given to our dream oil which is yet to be exploited
Not to say a bird in hand is worth hundred in the bush
But I will say it cos’ the elders of our motherland are noted for their indecisiveness
Visionless leaders, yes visionless policy makers and so-called lobbyist

People (leaders) who do not know the difference between needs and wants
And thus cannot separate these two instead co-mingling them haphazardly
Needs are chosen over wants all in the name of government discretion
Poor I, under the influence of unwittingly misleading leaders of my land, doomed me

Have you not heard many a time that no man can dance with a praying mantis?
Have you not heard also that no one can dispute the forest with a rat?
Yet we say we want to get to where they have gotten to and to be like them
When we have not realized even half the benefits from our already owned resources
But, when did oil booming and boning become a thing of present in the mist of former resources

Nationals to find beauty?
Nationals to find beauty in our education?
Beauty in our Basic necessities(Health,Shelter,Security and Food)?
Beauty in our life-style and for the nation’s economy?


When the pipe-lines of the Accra Psychiatric Hospital has never being changed in over 100yrs
When nuclear power which is proved to be environmentally friendly to the efficient usage of energy consumption is unknown on our soil
When politics on my land is all about the winner takes all, and whichever political party that comes to party must find fault with his predecessors
When politics on my land is noted to leaving uncompleted projects by their predecessors to go down unkempt

Nationals to find beauty?
When the share from the oil will be GHP17 as income per capita (the share every individual will achieve)
Less than 21% as our total share from our own resource
Thank God, because the percentage from the mining sector did not even exceed 6.9% in 2008
What can we do, when our leaders, failures cannot form alliances, coalitions to inter-trade within our own continent because of their selfish gain.
Oh! This reminds me of what Aristotle said concerning politicians that “those who lust for personal power as an end is itself inimical to the pursuit of the public interest, and accordingly, to good government.”

I pray against imperialism and neo-colonialism cos’ they do not interest mother Ghana
I pray against nihilism and guerilla wars on my soil
I pray against the strong dictatorship and the influence of our aiders
Cos when they come, needless to say, our elders can do nothing

How dare you refer to the tainted teeth of the fetish priest
Who are you to probe the your aiders as to whether what course they are embarking upon
Remember, no one can look at a newly born baby without a smile
And you cannot be smarter than the smartest

Beauty already exists and can be exploited
Beauty lies in our hawkers who are sacked from the street with very little or no allotment
Leaving them to live in aw, indirectly telling them to pick up arm and any other vice for their survival
Beauty already lies in our Art industry (The National Culture) where almost nothing happens

In our festivals void of any chieftaincy disputes and boycotting, there we can find beauty
Beauty in the form of tourist patronizing our traditional festivals and paying a fee to have a feel of our culture
Beauty already lies in our politics
Where corruption does cost the nation not less than GHC1, 500,000 annually .
If we can be sincere and loyal to Ghana our motherland, and to be patriotic to Kwame Ghana our Father
Then we can soar like the master eagle

Beauty lies in the eyes of the simple and the prudent
The committed and the loyal
God bless us all, and God bless Mother Ghana
Amen.