According to Bernard Avle, the contents of Sir Jonah’s message to the nation as a whole is one that required introspection for the collective, but more so, for young people who will be inheriting society from the old guard.
GhanaWeb monitored Avle’s views when he delivered an editorial on the April 26th edition of his ‘The Point of View’ program which was dedicated to Jonah’s message titled: ‘Up The Down Escalator,’ and delivered at a Rotary Club event over the weekend.
“We are younger and we have a bigger stake in the future. A lot of us don’t seem to care about the future, a lot of the people in their seventies I don’t think they will be here in 50 years time.
“Those of us below 50, we should be more interested and I want to urge those on social media not to be facetious and flippant. You have kids, what school are they gonna go to, what water will they drink?” he quizzed.
Whiles bemoaning the partisanship that has accompanied the speech from some quarters, he tasked the youth to rise above that in the interest of the present and future that awaits them.
“Don’t hide behind a political party and insult him or people older than you who are speaking out, because, on the law of averages, they will die before you and I, we are younger. They may be dead and gone and you will deal with the social ills, look at what is happening in Kasoa.”
According to him, Jonah had placed a mirror before the entity called Ghana and it was especially critical for young people to engage intellectually on the issues raised or better still keep quiet if they have nothing constructive to contribute.
“And so please let’s not make this one of jokes and let’s stop making memes about this. We have to be serious about Ghana.
“And if you don’t understand the issues, you don’t have to tweet, it is not by force to say something on social media because everybody is talking.
“You owe it to yourself to fight for the future of this country and the best way to do that is to inform yourself especially as a young person, we are talking about the young people, because a lot of them seem to be disinterested in what is happening in the country, that is not the way to go,” he added.
He praised the former president of AngloGold Ashanti and asked that more people of his calibre come out to speak on critical national issues in order to engender nuanced discussions and exchanges on how to move Ghana forward. Read Full Story
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