Former President Jerry John Rawlings has observed that historical truth and facts are struggling to be recognized in Ghana.
According to him, Ghanaians have so mastered the art of untruth in books, on radios, on televisions, and now through the Internet.
Speaking at 41st anniversary of the June 4 uprising in Accra, Mr.Rawlings said “People are paid a lot of corrupt money to distort and lie about historical truths. Is it any wonder that the precious lessons we should be learning are invariably lost on us? And we end up committing the same blunders over and over.”
He added,” The inability of our people to communicate with us in the administrative English language puts them at a disadvantage and makes them unable to demand accountability and transparency from us.”
“The spirituality and respect in the language of our culture evokes and demands integrity, accountability, and transparency from us. This, however, does not and cannot happen because the foreign and colonial language has been used opportunistically to intimidate and promote falsehood and degrade the essence and substance of our being.”
“Had we as a people carried our integrity and spirituality in our culture and language into the use of the administrative English language, a higher level of integrity would have been prevailing in Ghana and this continent and the quality of liberation would have enhanced our developmental efforts. The material and immaterial corruption in this country would not have undermined our ability and capabilities to the extent where the authority of truth would have been so badly undermined by the corrupted truth of authority.”
“In other words, the authority of truthfulness should not be undermined by the words or supposed truths of those in positions of power or authority.
The morality and authority of truth are godly and divine and it should always supersede and override the truth of the authority of mortals.”
Source: Mybrytfmonline/Kofi Atakora
