News about the reversal of the termination of the appointments of over a hundred citizens of this country from the Bank of Ghana (BoG) last week was soothing.
Those who took the decision to reverse the obnoxious action deserve plaudits because, after all, they put on their thinking caps after listening to their compatriots.
When the story made it to social and traditional media spaces, public angst which followed was understandable. People wondered why the decision was taken in furtherance of what appeared to be a policy of this government to segregate the population into National Democratic Congress (NDC) and New Patriotic Party (NPP) when it comes to the sharing of the national cake.
Considering the fact that all political parties in their manifestos present their unwavering promises to offer employment to the youth of the country, such anomalies smack of hypocrisy.
Whatever it is which informed the decision to reverse the smelly action, it is nonetheless good tidings.
This is another opportunity to counsel government about delicate subjects such as terminating appointments based on partisanship considerations.
The employees who were sacked and now re-absorbed are Ghanaians, their political affiliations and time of engagement notwithstanding. This should have been the guiding principle and not the rushed decision about which a retreat has been rightly beaten.
Let us build a nation anchored on acceptable principles so that the country would grow from strength to strength and not retrogression.
We have come a long way from the time of the lowering of the Union Jack to date and should not be committing such faux pas which prompted this commentary in the first place.
Ghana would be better off when such partisan shenanigans are eliminated in our democracy.
Thousands of other Ghanaians who lost their jobs simply because a new government was birthed are oblivious of their fate. It is not likely that their compatriots who have had their fates changed by the Bank of Ghana’s termination reversal would share in the rare luck they have enjoyed.
Even as they stay home not knowing what would happen tomorrow, one thing which would occupy their minds is whether or not they too are Ghanaians. Of course they are, but they belong to a country where unfortunately politics of vindictiveness, insincerity and hypocrisy stand tall.
At the time of the mass termination of appointments of people because of their suspected non-allegiance to the ruling party after January 7, 2025, the country’s clergy, Imams, traditional authorities and civil society organisations could have called for order.
The wise simply folded their arms because many of them, apprehensive of attacks by political mercenaries, think the loud silence or indifference are the best options.
Haven’t the wise shirked their responsibilities to society by being silent when the wrong actions are taken by those who were voted into power to steer the affairs of state to the Promised Land of national development?
Their apathy does not earn them good name in society, and the earlier they learn from their forebears who joined in the fight against colonialism, posterity would judge them harshly.