UNKNOWN HAPPENINGS UP NORTH: WAR WAGING UTTERANCES

UNKNOWN HAPPENINGS UP NORTH: WAR WAGING UTTERANCES: I find it sometimes difficult to accept, when I read through articles, features, reports and other sources of information from different me...

WAR WAGING UTTERANCES

I find it sometimes difficult to accept, when I read through articles, features, reports and other sources of information from different media houses and the tone and manner in which it is presented, you see nothing but HATE SPEECH, Intemperate language, incitement, and all the negativeness one can coin to suit this seemingly growing lifestyle of ours in Ghana. Ghana is a blessed land flowing with all the natural resources which even though others do not have, have been able to tap from ours and have marvelously developed, whilst those of us living in this country wallop in abject poverty. Just a handful of people are able to afford three square meals a day; yet everyday on the airwaves, you hear of nothing but unnecessary issues that CANNOT bring food to our tables. People who should talk of development based issues, they rather prefer to talk on issues that will allow people to call in and insult other people for free.
One thing I have always said  and will continue to say is that, Ghana is not a safe haven for peace. Ghana is like any other country that have enjoyed peace and stability before. Ivory Coast was more stable than Ghana. Liberia, Nigeria, Congo, Sierra Leone and all the other war torn countries, they did enjoy stable environments before being plunged into  a state of confusion. Ghana is not far from reaching that level, if our current political leaders are not checked, condemned and made to understand that we the masses are not ready for such uncalled for, uncivilised statements from them. 
Politicians should rather be convincing and begging us, not that they should rather cause our deaths and incite hate speech in our various communities. We have come to a stage where we must stand up to tell people who are representing us that enough is enough! Left to me alone, any political party that does not preach peace, unity and stability do not deserve our support and must therefore NEVER be given our nod. When they lose and realise that they lost due to their choice(s) of word(s), it could serve as deterrent to others. We should call upon our institutions to rise up to the occasion and work. The National Commission on Civic Education is to blame for these kinds of intemperate behaviours. They are not working as their mandate requires them to. They should not wait to be told to do what they have been receiving payment for. If the citizens are educated very well, they can contribute to maintaining peace and development and make demands from their MPs and all those who represent them in higher authorities. Unfortunately in Ghana, the masses are not given the opportunity to ask questions when our leaders address us and are in need of our mandates. The conversation is always one-way, top-down approach; they tell us what they want to do for us when given the power, but never seek our opinion on what they are expected to  do or how we expect to perform.
That is why I have always said that we have a very long way to go as far as our democratic development is concerned. We cannot claim any positive achievement when there is so much insecurity all over in our major towns and cities. Accra is filthy, blood stained, crying for development, yet government upon government come to tell us that they are the best. They will always be the best, why not? If within three-four years you are able to change your status as an ordinary Ghanaian citizen to a millionaire, illegally acquiring wealth and protecting your family's future needs, what would prevent you from saying that you have achieved a lot? Come to think of it, majority of those in Government are made to declare their assets when being appointed, but before they leave office, they do not declare their assets for us to know what and what they acquired whilst in office. If they steal state money, they are fired and never prosecuted. They are even awarded ex-gratia which run into several millions or billions of Ghana cedis. That's Ghana  for you. All that I would like to say is that:

When we pray for peace, we MUST live peace. God is NOT a HYPOCRITE like us. He Knows what's good for us IF WE DO THE RIGHT THING. Ghana is NOT a land of ANGELS, right? Ghana is gradually being infiltrated with filthy things here and there. Check out our NEWS stands and you get nothing but pornographic materials which people gaze at for hours. Which of those guys do not attend church services? Hypocrites!! The Lord is watching each and everyone of us. Accra is spilled with the blood of innocent ones who are being murdered everyday for rituals. Our Beaches are filled with sexual immorality. Our big shots are beating war drums. Wake up for Ghana is not sitting on a silver plate, but destined to destruction if our current political leaders are not condemned and made to understand that they CANNOT take us for GRANTED!! Other nations are praying for us to BREAK our record of being a peaceful nation, yet people somewhere sit down to talk as if Ghana is the only beloved country of God. Watch out before we are consumed.

Yes, I have voiced out my concerns, you need to think critically about them and do your best to live PEACE, Eat PEACE, Drink PEACE, Think PEACE, Act PEACE, Dream PEACE and Walk PEACE and try  to condemn violence. Don't entertain violent people, they are nation wreckers. Our destiny is in our hands. Watchout before we are blacklisted! Pray for Ghana. A word to the wise is...............

    

People who annoy me the most everyday are apart from the politicians, the so-called 'men-of-God' who put baskets by the roadside and make so much noise, urging people to drop in some money for prayers to be said to them. They are to me criminals in the sense that they are using Christ's name to Rob and Cheat. They must watch out!
It is annoying to see them do this without anyone in authority talking. What is the Christian council of Ghana waiting for?http://www.myjoyonline.com

                     WOMEN IN POLITICS

Petition from Inter Party Women Alliance to the District Chief Executives, (Nadowli, Jirapa, Lawra and Lambussie District Assemblies)

Objective: Greater women participation in politics and violence free elections, 2012

The above women leaders advocate for violence free elections come the 2012 general election.

    Ø  Women and children are the most vulnerable when there is violence

    Ø  Campaign language should be civil and not insulting and intimidating

    Ø  The media should be circumspect in their reportage

    Ø  2012 elections should be seen as a means to acquiring leadership mandate and not a fight

    Ø  Security, forces should be state focus and not party focus where the rights of minority are trampled upon.

    Ø  The electioneering process should be just, transparent and credible so as to ensure national acceptance of end results of elections out come.

Unity among various political parties

    Ø  Minority must always exist to  critique on issues regarding government policy

The need for women greater participation in politics

    Ø  Women have the constitutional right to be part of decision making at all levels

    Ø  Women should not be intimidated by their male counterparts and traditional authorities

    Ø  Kitchen days of the woman is over and therefore they should be  offered a fair political platform to contest for  and be appointed in to leadership positions

We also want to advocate that the 30% of government appointees to the Assembly, out of which 50% will be women be implemented to the latter

Also we are advocating for effective use of the local language in the general assembly to enable all, especially women participate fully in deliberations. Obvious is the fact that the illiteracy rate of women is high in the region and the nation at large.

We hope the concerns raised will be given the due attention.

Women In Politics

WOMEN IN POLITICS-Petition from Inter Party Women Alliance to the District Chief Executives, 

(Nadowli, Jirapa, Lawra and Lambussie District Assembly)

Objective: Greater women participation in politics and violence free elections, 2012

The above women leaders advocate for violence free elections come the 2012 general election.

Ø  Women and children are the most vulnerable when there is violence

Ø  Campaign language should be civil and not insulting and intimidating

Ø  The media should be circumspect in their reportage

Ø  2012 elections should be seen as a means to acquiring leadership mandate and not a fight

Ø  Security, forces should be state focus and not party focus where the rights of minority are trampled upon.

Ø  The electioneering process should be just, transparent and credible so as to ensure national acceptance of end results of elections out come.

Unity among various political parties

Ø  Minority must always exist to  critique on issues regarding government policy

The need for women greater participation in politics

Ø  Women have the constitutional right to be part of decision making at all levels

Ø  Women should not be intimidated by their male counterparts and traditional authorities

Ø  Kitchen days of the woman is over and therefore they should be  offered a fair political platform to contest for  and be appointed in to leadership positions

We also want to advocate that the 30% of government appointees to the Assembly, out of which 50% will be women be implemented to the latter

Also we are advocating for effective use of the local language in the general assembly to enable all, especially women participate fully in deliberations. Obvious is the fact that the illiteracy rate of women is high in the region and the nation at large.

We hope the concerns raised will be given the due attention.

Madam Eva

, “MRS Jimmy”
   

 

A  LITTLE ABOUT MADAM EVA BEYUO

Known popularly as MONE MA, EVA NOMAI, by her peers and fondly called by her children sometimes as “MADAM EVA”, “MRS JIMMY”,” MMAA”, she was the BELOVED WIFE of the late Mr. James Dondomekpirnuru Beyuo (popularly called ‘Teacher Jimmy), she was one of the daughters of Mr. Prosper Bediser and Mrs. Angelina Zimazie Bediser.

She was an active and a vibrant young girl at that time that she wanted to be a Nun and had therefore been in the convent in preparation for that purpose.

Unfortunately, whatever plans she had, God did not mean it that way, and so her plans and ambitions were foiled and she met a man who had also come out of the Seminary at that time and had to stay at home for four years before he could go out to date a woman.

They finally met through the intervention of friends and family members and whatever happened then, your guess could be as good as mine.   

‘MONE MA’,’ EVA NOMAI’, ‘MADAM EVA’, ‘MRS JIMMY’, ‘MMAA’ as she was fondly called from time to time was hardworking, energetic, smart, proactive and however very quick tempered. She could do almost everything that a mortal man is capable of doing. She could farm even more than some men, danced like a man, wrestled men to the ground, and I tell you, she could speak some ‘half-brewed Ga, English  and Hausa’

Anytime she was happy and in good mood, she led us in dance, dancing as a woman and at times like a man.

She was a very strong and vibrant woman until September of 1989 when her husband was to leave for Accra in order to follow up for his end of service benefits. For the power of the man, the toll it was going to have on this woman in the absence of the husband, she developed “High Fever” just within three days after the departure of the husband. Most women will not stand it seeing their husbands leave them behind with five children for not less than three months without enough money at home.

Two of her children were in St Francis of Assisi in Jirapa, two in Basic school and the rest out of the region.

We the five children were very small by then and hardly did we know it was ‘high fever’ and for that matter used to buy her “sleeping tablets” which we found very difficult to convince her to take. We had to be body guards through out the whole night in 1989 because we did not want her to scale the wall of NVS which she could easily do by then.

My dear brothers and sisters in Christ gathered here, we managed to send her to the hospital when things were getting worse and she was admitted. When she was discharged, how to get three thousand cedis as at then (now thirty pesewas) was a problem. We went round town announcing our problems to people who failed to help at the end of the day. We could not get the money to borrow, so our dog (called “Nopuonon”) that was the guard of the house had to be sacrificed to enable us get money to pay for the medical bills. Fortunately the man who killed the dog got three thousand, five hundred cedis (thirty five pesewas) out of it and presented it to us, but out of sympathy and compassion, he only took the five hundred cedis (five pesewas) and gave us the rest to be sent to the hospital.

Since then, about twenty-two years a go, we have had our challenges here and there in trying to take care of our mother until the 2^nd of August 2011 when our Almighty Father and Creator put a stop to her suffering and pain.

‘MONE MA’,’ EVA NOMAI’,’ MADAM EVA’,’ MRS JIMMY’,’ MMAA’ gave birth to thirteen solid children, eight men and five women. She never slept in the hospital after delivery, according to records. Anytime she went to deliver, she came back home that same day until the stopper came, who was “John Paul Ngmenbarka Beyuo”.

If this woman lying here has ever hurt and stepped on any person(s) feelings or toes, in the past and is here with us, we the children, grandchildren, great grandchildren and relations urge you all to forgive her and pardon her of her shortcomings before she is lowered into the grave today.

She has been a great inspiration to us; not withstanding the fact that she lost her status as the gigantic and powerful woman she used to be in the 60’s. She did her best for several people who came her way, those who drank her pito and failed to pay, those who bought her rice, those who ate her dough nuts (bofrot), ‘kpilikpili’ and the rest.

We get moved when elderly people in their sixties tell us they ate our mother’s food when they were kids. This makes us feel that life truly is just a stage, whereby one moves from level to the other.

Most of you gathered here and having known this woman lying here this day will agree with us that she has been blessed with so many children, grandchildren and great grandchildren.   

We thank God for her life and pray that may her mortal sins be forgiven her and that may the Good Lord grant her ETERNAL REST. Amen.

Thank you and May the Lord Bless all of Us.