[ 2013-06-09 ]

Rights, Freedom and Justice reserved to the elite, rich and priveleged
Rights ; An abstract idea of that which is due to
a person or governmental body by law or tradition
or nature to be enjoyed by all persons without
regard to race, color, tribe, ethnicity and many
more yet reserved to certain groups of persons.

Freedom ;a condition of being free; the power to
act, speak or think without externally imposed
restraints' and must be enjoyed by all citizens of
a country including Ghana.

Justice; The quality of being just or fair
Many are the people who in this 21th century has
been stripped of their right, freedom and justice
directly or indirectly by persons, leaders etc who
are supposed to know better and yet feel no
remorse about it, and since these leaders control
the systems the victims have no platform or
opportunity to be heard and lucky ones get the
chance to escape the system but many are left
degenerated and helpless.

Abuse of Rights, Freedom and Justice of person
crops from class/elite system reserved to few
persons which needs to be bridged by all concerned
to in order for persons to enjoy equal rights,
freedom and justice

'FEW CLASS/ELITE SYSTEM'
CLASS/ELITE; A group or class of persons enjoying
superior intellectual or social or economic
status

directly or indirectly created by the system or
managers of the system, why do I say so a country
where most of the people are left uneducated
because they lack resources such as easy access to
education by building proper school structures,
providing books, fully equipped libraries and
enough learning materials or free compulsory
education to be enjoyed by all.

People in rural areas are mostly the ones who
suffer all these dangers because they lack
standard schools like the ones in the city and it
makes their 'class' less than that in the city,
but as a leverage, I think all schools no matter
where it is located in the country must have all
the standard equipments needed to offer training.

You walk in town and see children with most of
them below 18yrs hawking on the dangerous streets
and yet government is not doing anything to get
these kids out of the streets to enter classrooms
but rather drive pass them in their luxurious 4x4
wheels a case of denying people of their Right,
Freedom and justice. Please Mr. Government enough
of the 'material gains' and selflessly take care
of us because that is the main reason we voted you
to power.

The lucky ones who are able to struggle through
the education system with barely empty stomach
also come out successfully and face unemployment
problems, moving from one office to the other in
search for job to also offer their quota to the
country as citizens, but the popular term 'whom
you know' or 'who knows you' always relegate them
back to the wall because employers will employ
their children or friends or relatives another
clear case of denying ones Right, Freedom &
Justice , Government please create industries to
absorb us, as we come out of schools, or atleast
give us inputs such as lands, seeds, fertilizer
and start up soft loans so we can grow food to
feed the country to reduce moneys spent in
importing even food to feed ourselves as a country
with trained Agriculturists.

One pathetic situation is one becomes hopeless if
he/she never stepped into the classroom or after
completing Senior High School , please 'Mr.
Government' through your MP's ,MCE's and DCE's
please create nationwide community based youth
training centers to train them to be handicraft
equipped in Carpentry, Welding, fitting,
tailoring, hairdressing, barbering, photographers,
computer technicians etc and this will help reduce
the increase in 'kayaye's (head porters) on our
streets and also, because with such training
centers and sponsorships they can be dependent on
themselves after completion and pay tax as well
during practice of their trade and government will
have free mind to focus on other nation building
projects other than that the class system will
deny these people their rights, freedom and
justice, since the 'class and privileged elite'
will engage them as porters, maids and maltreat
them .

Fair distribution of amenities also can put one in
a 'class' over the other, most rural communities
till now lack basic amenities such as proper
electricity, good roads, clean water, health
facilities etc Teachers, Health workers etc fail
to go to remote areas all because such places lack
certain basic amenities that makes their stay
unpleasant and people in such communities are
always denied good education, better health care
and can't even bring their produce to the market
to sell and make money to promote their economic
growth because they don't have good accessible
roads to cart them and their goods, yet government
go there to campaign for votes to come to power
and isn't it an insult to them to vote and yet get
no proper care from government and until
government put measures in place to bridge these
gaps these people will continue to struggle to
catch up with the 'class or elite' in the cities,
and they will always fall victim to these 'class
or elite' system, before these people can fully
enjoy their rights, freedom and justice government
must raise their standard of living through proper
provision of amenities.

Another 'class' struggle people relegated to the
wall face currently is illegal mining by
foreigners especially Chinese all because one way
or the other opinion leaders, security and
government representatives who are suppose to
protect them are forming alliance with these
foreigners to dupe the people, a lot of issues has
crop up currently about these Chinese illegal
mining activities and government has been too slow
in eradicating these problems, many reports have
been carried out over pits left by these 'killers'
killing people.

Government representatives, opinion leaders and
security must be blamed because they have connived
to extort money from these foreigners and have
allowed them to carry out their barbaric acts,
without regard to environmental effects such acts
leave on people, with my little knowledge I know
cyanide is one compound that destroys water bodies
, these opinion leaders enjoy clean pipe borne
waters in their homes far situated from these
communities and what about us the indigenes who
fetch water from rivers to drink? if the
'class/elite' care about our future they wouldn't
have putting us in this ransom and they must be
'chased' away including the foreigners as early as
possible, government must sack all its
representatives in such communities because it is
a clear case of denying the indigenes their right,
freedom and justice.

SOCIAL FRONT
Other ways that has been observed to also promote
right, freedom and justice denials include
maltreatment of less privileged persons engaged by
the 'class/elite' as porters and house helps.
Porters are engaged in petty quarrel with the
'class/elite' who engage them and pay less what is
suppose to be due them, more so many homes must be
visited to see how house helps are treated on
daily bases, some are made to do all chores in the
house and the only benefit they get is 'food' to
eat they are denied education by their 'masters'
or even financial remittances. They can work all
day without getting pace to rest and yet nobody
care about that, is about time government pass
laws to barn all these 'modern forms of slavery'
in our homes and put measures in place to put them
through education or trade to make them self
sustainable other than these treatments meted out
to them by these so called religious
'class/elites' who don't even know their religion
preaches about equal rights, freedom and justice.

Most people are denied their right through
activities of 'scorn men' who poses as 'men of
God' placing them in the 'class/elite' zone and
subject a lot of people to traumas that deny them
of their rights, freedom and justices, Government
must put his foot down to halt the activities of
all these 'scorn men' as quickly as possible if
they have all the power they claim, they should
selflessly go to the hospitals, mental homes etc
to freely save those suffering from sicknesses
other than fooling the masses, extorting monies
from them ignorantly and creating broken homes day
in day out by setting confusions in families all
in the name of 'miracle', is that what their
'Master Jesus Christ' supposedly taught them?
Government must step in because it is the duty of
every government to protect and guard the rights,
freedom and justice of its people.

YOU AND I
As citizens and patriots of this country we
shouldn't put ourselves in the 'class/elite'
system due to a privilege we might have on our
disposal but rather step in the shoes of all
persons without regard to race, color, ethnic,
tribe etc because we will be remiss if we fail to
guard the country from all forms of menace that
goes a long way to destroy the country, such as
mismanaging or abusing public offices, finance and
properties.

In as much as we are bent on protecting the
country, activities of persons and government must
be criticized and talked about because government
is there for our good and they make opinions that
affect us so if we shut up on issues detriment to
the nation we all go down together, lets form and
join active groups that will have a strong mouth
piece to put government on track, because our
mouth is what we got for now, we don't want war or
agitation to solve our problems.

Ghana belongs to you and I and our activities can
directly or indirectly deny one his/her rights,
freedom and justice.

'Until the philosophy which holds one race
superior and another inferior is finally and
permanently discredited and abandoned, everywhere
is war and until there are no longer first-class
and second-class citizens of any nation, until the
color of a man's skin is of no more significance
than the color of his eyes. And until the basic
human rights are equally guaranteed to all without
regard to race, there is war. And until that day,
the dream of lasting peace, world citizenship,
rule of international morality, will remain but a
fleeting illusion to be pursued, but never
attained... now everywhere is war.'

Popularized by Bob Marley in the song War'
Haile Selassie I

One Love Africa!!! One Love Africa!!!
Kwaku Ayensu Darpah (aka Jah son)
African conscious writer
Kapturedlive09@yahoo.com

Source - Kwaku A. Darpah

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