Advice To The President

In our long standing cultural norms, society completely frowns on certain lifestyle that are perceived not to be synonymous with standard adult behavior. Some of these are, stealing habits, aggression on people, dealing in illicit drugs, smoking, drunkenness etc.

Indeed, in our traditional societies, marriage into homes is not just anyhow. Homes that have people indulge in these habits do not represent an effigy of role model worth its sort let alone an adviser to the youth and or the elderly in society.

The Radio Gold’s early morning programme in which the actor KOO Fori in a mood of a typical drunkard posing as an adviser to the President, is completely out of order and against our societal norm.

Where in Ghana and in which ethnic group can, a drunkard in Koo Fori’s posture in that programme, pass the respect and dignity test? The programme should not be put on air at all talk less it being used as a means to talk to our President. I am sure that our President. I am sure that our President, whom we all know has being brought up in such a disciplined home with so much humility and religious incline, would be one of the first to advise anyone who in real life behaves the way Koo Fori acts, to get out of that lifestyle.

If the programme is intended to create laughter and perhaps fun it should not be connected to the President at all. We also are creating a perception to the outside world that suggest that Ghana promotes drunkenness and that drunkards who are basically “social misfits” everywhere, are given high recognition to the extent that they can advise our President. People wonder what sense could be reasoned out from someone who is engaged in such excessive drunkenness, portrayed by Koo Fori in that programme.

Additionally, we do not wish to expose our children listening to that programme that even drunkards are so useful in our society that one of them can advise our President. A role model some children could emulate. This programme does not project what happens in a true Ghanaian society and must be scrapped.

Source: Opinion: By A Drunkard Koo Fori/Free Press