My expectations from the “Ghana at a Crossroads” lecture by President John Mahama.

President John Dramani Mahama is expected to deliver a lecture on May 2nd to the republic, its been 30 years since we established the 4th Republican constitution in 1992.

My expectations from that lecture will be these:

1. Our country’s economy is at it worse performance low in many decades, every institution of financial remarks have given a dimmed review of same.

2. The cost of living today has not only skyrocketed, it has gone to hell, prices of goods and services are at unbearable levels, it only takes the devils mercies to get by a day without not buying something twice the price you did the day before.

3. Fuel prices at the pumps are flying in red traffic lights at fuel stations across the country and it has affected everything including the minds of even those who defend government these days.

4. Insecurity is now the security we get on daily basis, our military has been reduced to protest shooting unit and parliamentary protection exercise for those in power. There’s something called National security, that has depraved the institution of security to a point of now staging robberies in protection of the sexual-libido of the commander-in-chief.

5. Journalist are been killed, intimidated, touched and abused by those who claimed to be vanguard of democracy. Civil society activist and pressure groups leaders are arrested at the slightest provocation, locked up, in some instances for over a month without justice.

6. The country is in a complete disarray, yet there’s a deafening silence from those who used to talk and attack, and insult the NDC and John Mahama in just the pass years.

7. Our education system is nothing but a mockery of experimental politics.

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It’s my expectation that, President Mahama will sufficiently address these issues, because truth be told, what Ghanaians bought in 2016, has proven to not only be fake. It’s a rusted, overused rhetorics with no substance. The one who called others incompetent, are a failure.

By Benjamin Madugu Avornyotse