There is so much wrong with this country of ours called Ghana that sitting down to list them would be an exercise in futility; there’s just too much to write.
The biggest problem is we often like to dump it all at the feet of our leaders, which is accurate but just to a point. As GhanaCelebrities.Com’s editor-Chris-Vincent Agyapong Febiri wrote in an article recently, the problems start with the ordinary Ghanaian. Yes our politicians are corrupt and incompetent and corrupt some more, but they are coming out of the pool of available Ghanaians and are just the extreme form of what the ordinary Ghanaian is.
One of the biggest problems is what I like to call ‘convenient morality’, and it’s something a fair share of Ghanaians fall prey to. We like to trumpet our beliefs, in the law and morality and being a good person; until it becomes inconvenient to do so.
So every Ghanaian abhors corruption; until they have to get their kid who failed his WASSCE into the university, or are pulled over by the Police, or need a passport or a driver’s licence in a short space of time. That’s when they put on their lenses of ‘convenient morality’.
I start with this because it’s the same attitude of convenient morality that we apply to this issue of gay rights in this country. Most Ghanaians hate homosexuals, either because of their religious or cultural beliefs. Even if they don’t, they pity them because they think they’ve been possessed by demons and need deliverance, or some other crap like that.
We all know how gays are treated in this country, it is no secret. Mostly people oppose it on religious grounds, because their archaic Bible and Quran tells them it is bad so it must be.
Yet, these same people queue at embassies, throw their life’s fortunes and generally carry out other desperate measures to be a able to earn a visa abroad, to the United States or the United Kingdom or any other developed Western nation.
Yet these are the very countries that champion gay rights the world over. They even put pressure on other nations, including us, to pass legislations recognising the rights of the LGBT community. These lands are the lands of depravity, when men sleep with men and women sleep with women and men transform themselves into women and vice versa; these lands are the biblical Sodom and Gomorrah.