Let us turn over a new leaf – Nana Addo

”We all avoid very carefully any mention of the workplace attitudes that retard our progress. I have said it at another forum, but I think it bears repeating: we arrive at work late and then spend the first hour in prayer; we are clock watchers and leave in the middle of critical work, because it is the official closing time. Everything comes to a stop when it rains and we seem to expect the rest of the world also to stop.”

President Nana Addo said this on Monday, May 1, 2017, when he presented his May Day Address at the Black Star Square in Accra.

He observed that, ”we have no respect for the hours set aside for work… we pray, we eat, we visit during working hours. We spend hours chatting on the telephone when customers are waiting to be served, thereby increasing our labour costs.We take a week off for every funeral. And then we wonder why we are not competitive.”

The president entreated citizens to believe in the country’s capacity to build a modern, developed, progressive nation, and free ourselves from the mindset of dependence, aid, charity and handouts.

”We can, together, build a new Ghanaian civilization, where there is fair opportunity for all in education and health, where hard work, enterprise and creativity are rewarded, where there is an abundance of decent jobs with good pay, where there is a dignified retirement for the elderly, and where there is a social safety net for the vulnerable and disadvantaged.”

According to him, the founders of the nation chose the Black Star as part of our national colours because they envisaged Ghana as a shining example to the black peoples of the world of what a free, dedicated, enterprising, Ghanaian people can do to build a society the equal of any, anywhere on the face of the planet.

Source: otecfmghana.com