Wednesday,
May 28, 2014
Folks, I am really pissed off by
this headline: “Pray
for rains to end power crisis—Energy Minister rallies Ghanaians”. Worse still is
the news report accompanying it:
The Minister of Energy, Emmanuel
Armah Buah, has urged Ghanaians to pray to God for enough rains into the dams
to deal with the erratic power supply currently plaguing the country.
Pointing out this divine option on Metro
TV's Good Evening Ghana program Tuesday, Mr. Buah rallied Ghanaians saying
"what we have to do is to pray that this year the rains will come enough
for Bui [dam] to give us at least 200 megawatts".
This is not the first time Ghanaians have
been asked to pray for rains. In 2007, a group of Ghanaian pastors impressed by
President Kufuor's hope that "God will not allow the Akosombo dam to
hang" met to pray for rains when Ghana faced a similar crisis.
The energy crisis can be solved
by better means than prayers to God for rains!! Why are our government
functionaries so narrow-minded in their approach to such issues? Rain is caused
by many factors (We have different types of rainfall, based on how they are
caused: convectional rainfall, relief or orographic rainfall, and many others). Whether God is
behind it all is none of my business.
After endowing us with the
faculty to think so we can find solutions to our existential problems, what
business again does God have to descend from the Heavens to solve such problems
for us?
I know that it will take more
than rainfall to solve the “Dum…sor” crisis. For a whole Minister in charge of
energy to settle on prayers to God as the panacea is not only disappointing but
also irritating!!
Lazy thinking that is profusely
supplemented with incompetence at all levels in planning, management, and
upright conduct in governance are responsible for the crisis facing our
country. That crisis has nothing to do with any divine force for which any
government official or Man-of-God should annoy us to pray over.
The fact that
this Minister of Energy has come out to make this plea really persuades me that
the government is full of characters whose idle thinking can’t help us solve
our problems of national development.
I am not surprised that this Armah Buah is surrounded by the controversy
regarding forgery of his signature for illicit deals in the petroleum sector.
If we had a good justice delivery system, the truth would have been established
by now to get him out of government.
I have insisted all along that
the country’s problems aren’t being solved because those in charge of affairs
are not fit to be there. For as long as they wrap their lazy brains/minds
around a divine power and rush to demand that Ghanaians see things through
their eyes, we can’t go anywhere.
Our country will continue to lag behind in
spite of its abundant natural endowments. Lazy thinking can’t take us out of
the woods!!
I shall return…
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