We hereby recognise the wonderful roles of our gallant workers in keeping the engine of the country running.
They are varying departments strewn across the country working indefatigably for Mother Ghana regardless of the challenges of decades.
Saluting them at this time of the year is a commitment we join the rest of our compatriots in executing.
Although May Day was yesterday, given the non-production of the Daily Guide yesterday we seize this opportunity today to salute Ghanaian workers as we always do at this time annually.
The past year has been challenging for workers across the globe, Ghana not being an exception, the reason not lost to us anyway.
The consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic on the economies of especially third world countries have been telling. Even the developed countries have had their resilience tested to their seams.
The United Kingdom, France, the US and others have varying stories to tell about how they have had to make necessary adjustments in response to the changed world economic order.
They have all endured different degrees of grumblings and sometimes agitations in response to the overstretched economies.
The Ghanaian worker has had to undergo unusual times in a world whose economies are intertwined through international trade.
We have observed how government has had to respond to the difficult times as workers make unambiguous and justifiable demands of upward review of their emoluments just so they can weather the economic storm.
Traders have not been helpful to the cause of our workers and the country as a whole. Even when light started beaming in the economic horizon as the cost of fuel witnessed a downward trend, prices have remained unresponsive at the hands of Shylocks called traders.
Traders have deliberately refused to bulge to the calls to reduce prices, their reason being that they bought the items at a time of high prices occasioned by the fall in the value of local currencies.
Be it as it may, we recognise the many sacrifices of workers who have not downed their tools and continue to rather work for Mother Ghana.
Let us continue to show commitment to the cause of the national interest because after all we have nowhere else to call besides the landmass called Ghana.
There is hope and light at the end of the tunnel as managers of the economy turned various stones to get us out of the doldrums.
We can only pray that all of us continue to regard our duties to this country as a sacred responsibility about which there should be no compromise.
Let us remember that no matter the travails we endure, our country is one of the most peaceful on the African continent, an attribute we must not take for granted but should rather protect with all our might.
Our situation is poles apart from the picture some would want to paint because of political disparities.
The economy is not in the hands of incompetent persons who are not unwavering about the destination and the time it would take to hit that milestone. It shall be well and soon.
Whenever the economy makes its expected turnaround and soon, the sacrifices being made by Ghanaians workers should be reciprocated.