LET'S PRETEND

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!’