LET’S PRETEND
Let’s pretend
Ghana is really a developing country.
Ok?
Let’s pretend
Kotoka ‘International’ Airport is an international airport.
Let’s pretend
our police officers highly dislike ‘tips’.
Let’s pretend
Kumasi is a ‘Garden City’.
Let’s pretend
the ‘lawns’ at the Seat of Government are lawns.
Let’s pretend
our professional footballers
Are not
warming benches in Vietnam, Uzbekistan & Kazakhstan.
Let’s pretend
Vodafone, MTN, Airtel, Tigo, Glo & Expresso
Are
telecommunication networks who really provide services.
Let’s pretend
NADMO really prevents & manages disasters
And don’t
only distribute blankets & plastic buckets when disasters strike.
Let’s pretend
our country has a Vice President.
Let’s pretend
2% of our ‘men of God’ really preach about salvation
Instead of selling anointing oil from Israel
& Jerusalem on God’s behalf.
Let’s pretend
most government workers report to work before 10am.
Let’s pretend
Ghanaians respect their fellow Ghanaians
Just as they
do to nationals of other countries.
Let’s pretend
it doesn’t take a fortune to get married.
Let’s pretend
state institutions function properly in the country.
Let’s pretend
inflation has been a single digit for more than 3 months.
Let’s pretend
at most 2% of our musicians really sing.
Let’s pretend
Ghallywood & Kumawood are movie industries.
Let’s pretend
our ‘celebrities’ detest skin bleaching.
Let’s pretend
we have uninterrupted power supply for 3 straight days.
Let’s pretend
more than 3% of our media transmit an iota of ‘sense’.
Let’s pretend
public officials & politicians respect the laws of the land.
Let’s pretend
Ghana Commercial Bank & ADB serve us better.
Let’s pretend
the party in power is serious
And the
opposition is extra serious.
Finally,Finally,Finally,
Let’s pretend
Ghana is a country worth taking a bullet in the head for.
We have to
pretend in order to survive
Coz that’s
the only option available on our plates.
Else if we opt
to take things as they openly are,
We’ll have no
further option left
Than to heed
to the advice of our public official who humbly proposed that,
‘If the kitchen
is too hot for you, get out!’
