Former Youth and Sports Minister, Elvis Afriyie Ankrah, has said that, Ghana is sitting on a time bomb.
According to him, the country will soon be hit by a mammoth youth uprising if the political parties do not stop the opulent display of money in their internal elections.
Speaking at a forum organized by the Institute for Democratic Governance (IDEG) on development and political parties in Ghana on Wednesday, Afriyie Ankrah said
“There’s danger ahead. Danger! If you go around towns and you listen to the vibes, it is not very comfortable. If you listen carefully they are not happy with the government but then they say all of you [politicians] are not correct, you’re all the same.”
“There’s danger and if you look at graduate unemployment, you saw what happened at KNUST, you saw what happened at Adentan, the power of social media, easy access to information or misinformation and the ability to mobilise large number of people within a very short time. We need to be very careful,” he warned.
So when people see us in the midst of all that, spending so much money…and if we do not voluntarily but urgently engage in reforms, we may experience a serious backlash from the public in the not too distant future.”
A month ago, Brigadier General Joseph Nunoo-Mensah, a Former National Security Advisor, in an interview on Happy FM’s ‘Epa Hoa Daben‘ show also predicted that, the Ghanaian youth will soon take arms and will go after the leaders of the country.
By: Joseph Nii Ankrah