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Sim card re-registration and economic growth (Part 1)
For over one year now, many people have still not been able to re-register their SIM cards, giving reasons that at very unacceptable in some cases.
When the public was first advised to re-register their SIM cards over two years ago, many of them did not take it serious. In fact, each time a deadline is given, you find many people rushing to go and register to meet the deadline and anytime this deadline is relaxed, the numerous queues at the registration centres vanish immediately.
Surprisingly, many groups of people including politicians resort to attacks on the Minister of Communication as well as the entire government. This us surprising seeing that the re-registration exercise is being carried out to protect the interest of all Ghanaians.
One way of ensuring that business organisations are able to expand their activities freely and confidently is to fight hard to eliminate deceit of business men and also see to the elimination of all business fraudsters from society. If the system is not sanitised in this way, it would lead to the collapse of business and economic growth.
It is in the light of this that we need to try as much as much as possible to eliminate businesses fraudsters as well other scammers whose interest is always to destroy what is good and increase fear in security. It is this fear that discourage people from having confidence in the economy and dissuading people from expanding their economic activities at the individual as well as group or corporate levels.
Many people in this country have experienced situations in which strange numbers are used to deceive people into thinking that business transactions can be arranged with unknown people. Some people in this country have fallen victims to these scams.
As a result of all this, confidence in business has been adversely affected. At the International level, purple use fake numbers to influence others to pay money for the supply of certain goods. Many people have lost huge sums of money for which reason certain businesses have collapsed or are not doing well at all.
Some times, such tricks are used also to kidnap people so that the kidnappers can go for huge ransoms. All these have lead to the evaporation of confidence in the economic system.
It is for this reason that many business men and women find it very difficult to carry out large business activities and have to improve the economic situation in the country. When people lose confidence in this way, they find it difficult to expand their business activities and employ more people.
Similarly, when corporate organisations also find it difficult to expand business activities in this way, it slows down business growth and economic expansion. The result is slow rate of economic growth due to fear of business scam.
It is therefore important for managers of the economy and planners to do their best to ensure that the system is sanitised well enough for business growth. If this is done, it would boost confidence in the economy and facilitate business growth and expansion.
What this means is that business growth and expansion cannot come on their own but deliberate effort must be made to ensure the prevention of all economic crimes by scanners.
Seen in this way therefore, special effort must be made to ensure that all scammers and criminals are easily detected and punished. When such criminals are detected in this way, it will serve as a deterrent to other criminals who may want to cash in and make economic life uncomfortable and unbearable for business tycoons in the country.
When business tycoons lose hope in the economic system and are unable to promote business growth, it is the economy as a whole that suffers. As a result, economic expansion becomes limited and economic welfare also falls below standard.
It is in the light of this that efforts to re-register all SIM cards must be encouraged. While a section of the people support the re-registration exercise, others appear not too pleased with it. Thus explains why we all need to understand why the re-registration exercise is very important.
In the next part of this article, we shall try and explain why politics must be put aside for the promotion of common national economic interests to help in promoting the welfare of every person in this country
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By Dr. Kofi Amponsah-Bediako
One of the issues we have been grappling with as a nation is corruption, and it has had such a devastating effect on our national development. I have been convinced that until morality becomes the foundation upon which our governance system is built, we can never go forward as a nation.
Our traditional practices, which have shaped our cultural beliefs, have always espoused values that have kept us along the straight and the narrow and have preserved our societies since ancient times.
These are values that frown on negative habits like stealing, cheating, greediness, selfishness, etc. Our grandparents have told us stories of societies where stealing was regarded as so shameful that offenders, when caught, have on a number of instances committed suicide.
In fact, my mother told me of a story where a man who was living in the same village as her mother (my grandmother), after having been caught stealing a neighbour’s cockerel, out of shame committed suicide on a mango tree. Those were the days that shameful acts were an abomination.
Tegare worship, a traditional spiritual worship during which the spirit possesses the Tegare Priest and begins to reveal secrets, was one of the means by which the society upheld African values in the days of my grandmother and the early childhood days of my mother.
Those were the days when the fear of being killed by Tegare prevented people from engaging in anti-social vices. These days, people sleeping with other people’s wives are not uncommon.
These wrongful behaviour was not countenanced at all by Tegare. One was likely going to lose his life on days that Tegare operates, and so unhealthy habits like coveting your neighbour’s wife was a taboo.
Stealing of other people’s farm produce, for instance, could mean certain death or incapacitation of the whole or part of the body in the full glare of everybody. People realised that there were consequences for wrongdoing, and this went a long way to motivate the society to adhere to right values.
Imagine a President being sworn into office and whoever administers the oath says, “Please say this after me: I, Mr. …., do solemnly swear by God, the spirits of my ancestors and the spirits ruling in Ghana, that should I engage in corrupt acts, may I and my family become crippled, may madness become entrenched in my family, may incurable sicknesses and diseases be my portion and that of my family, both immediate and extended.”
Can you imagine a situation where a few weeks afterwards the President goes to engage in corrupt acts and we hear of his sudden demise or incapacitation and confessing that he engaged in corrupt acts before passing or before the incapacitation—and the effect it will have on his successor? I believe we have to critically examine this option to curb corruption.
My grandmother gave me an eyewitness account of one such encounter where a woman died instantly after the Tegare Priest had revealed a wrong attitude she had displayed during the performance on one of the days scheduled for Tegare spirit manifestation.
According to her story, the Priest, after he had been possessed by the spirit, declared that for what the woman had done, he would not forgive her and that he would kill. Instantly, according to my grandmother, the lady fell down suddenly and she died—just like what happened to Ananias and his wife Sapphira in Acts Chapter 5.
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