The Youth of Kenya: A Shining Example to Africa’s Oppressed Young People

The youth of Kenya are true heroes and heroines of our continent. They fought tirelessly against oppressive financial bills passed by the Parliament of the country to increase taxes and worsen the already exorbitant cost of living, and their president was forced to withdraw them immediately.

In contrast, back in Ghana:

• We sat and watched as Nana Addo introduced the e-levy.
• We sat and watched as he introduced the borla tax, yet our country remains filthy.
• We sat and watched as he introduced betting tax.
• We sat and watched as he increased taxes on data bundles.
• We sat and watched as he introduced emission tax.
• We sat and watched as he increased taxes on sanitary pads, making them unaffordable for our young sisters.
• We sat and watched as he demanded we pay COVID levy even after COVID-19 was no longer a threat.
• We sat and watched as he increased fees and charges for passport applications.
• We sat and watched as he spent a whopping 58 million Ghana cedis on a useless national cathedral project.
• We are sitting and watching as Nana Addo and Bawumia cause the cedi to depreciate daily.
• We are sitting and watching as they sell our national assets and state lands to their family and friends like gari and shuga.

Fellow Ghanaian youth, can’t we learn from our Kenyan counterparts? Or are we stuck in the usual ‘we are tired of our leaders’ cliché?”

Kenya is doing far better than Ghana in all measurable economic indicators and are not as taxed as we are. The levels of corruption in Kenya are not as brazen and gargantuan as we are witnesses to in Ghana. Why do we choose to be docile while our leaders destroy our future?

JohnBosco Akortia
Social media activist