Member of Parliament for Assin
Central, Kennedy Agyapong has blamed former President, Jerry John Rawlings for
creating a mentality of entitlement among Ghanaians leading to total laziness.
According to him, Rawlings’ strategies used when he
came to power as a Military Officer was not the best and didn’t encourage hard
work but rather made ‘lazy’ Ghanaian employees feel entitled to what they do
not deserve.
Kennedy Agyapong made this known when he was speaking
on Accra-based YFM. He recalled that Jerry John Rawlings while in power killed
and collapsed all private businesses by killing the leaders or make them run
away from the country so that the employees of the various establishments were
made to run the affairs of the companies in the name of the state.
He said Rawlings indoctrinated
the people of Ghana to think that owners of these organizations were cheating
them and that there was the need to rebel. In his estimation, Rawlings made
Ghanaians lazy because he made them over-dependent on government rather than
thinking and creating something for themselves.
“This perception that there are money rituals when we
were growing up it was there but the person who worsened the situation, I will
be blunt with you was ex-president Rawlings. He made people lazy and
over-dependent on government. Because when he came, he killed and collapsed
successful Ghanaian businesses and allowed the ordinary workers to run the
business.
You don’t know the thinking that went through for him
to establish this radio station so when it is given to you overnight you won’t
be able to run it. So, they had CDRs, PDCs and they will be singing songs on
why they won’t sit down to be cheated by owners of establishments they worked
in.
“Rawlings created the impression that the owners of
the businesses were cheating them. He indoctrinated Ghanaians to the extent
that everything was the government. So, you see that today, most of our people
have become beggars and they always depend on the government for everything.
“That is the remote cause of what we are experiencing today.
Everybody thinks the government is supposed to provide everything but that is
not true in any part of the world. Anybody who depends solely on government
will not succeed in life,” he told YFM.
No comments