Editorial
Sacking Otto Addo not a solution for Stars headache
Dear Editor,
The failure of the senior national football team, the Black Stars to beat Sudan to enhance its qualification to the next African Cup of Nations (AFCON) next year has left fans disappointed in the team and technical team.
Following that, there have been several calls on the Ghana Football Association (GFA) to terminate the appointment of Coach Addo for a new coach to take over.
A section of the disgruntled fans have lost faith in the former Black Stars player under whose term the team’s regularity at AFCONs seem broken.
I wish to add my voice to express disappointment in the team for the performance shown so far.
However, I don’t support any call or action to sack the coach who we have a contract with because the ramification of such act is known to all.
This current salt in our injury was robbed in by a coach (Kwesi Appiah) we rejected and called all kinds of names. Ghanaians saw nothing in him and clamoured for his sack.
Few years down the line, he seem to be doing wonders with another country and the same Ghanaians that crucified him want an opportunity to hail him.
By now we should know the problem with the Black Stars is beyond the playing nor coaches appointed to handle the team.
This should be a moment of sober reflection for officialdom to deliberate to identify the problems facing the team and find solutions to them.
Until then, sacking coaches and hiring new ones would always be high on the agenda anytime things don’t go well. Let Otto Addo stay to continue his work.
Jay Jay,
Accra
Editorial
Make Heritage Day celebration compulsory for workers
Dear Editor,
I want to use this platform to suggest that the celebration of Heritage Month is declared compulsory, especially for workers in state agencies.
It is very interesting watching broadcasters adorned in diverse traditional regalia on our screens, telling the stories of the various tribes in the country.
But away from the television sets, there is practically nothing to see in town suggesting the celebration of such an important activity.
Once in the month, we also see our school children celebrating the event by dressing to depict where they come from.
But just as was done with the Chocolate Day celebration, I wish to suggest that workers in state agencies are forced to partake in the event. Within that month, every working staff should be made to dress in African prints or ones that would show where they come from.
That, to a large extent would give people a lot of education about their ancestry and their cultural values.
I have a few friends that are Gas from the Greater Accra region but because their parents stayed in other regions and gave birth to them outside Accra, they have little or no idea about where they actually come from.
Some of these activities would go a long way to educate such people to know their real homes.
I expect the Ministry of Tourism to play an active role in the success of this exercise.
Stella Twum,
Central Region
Editorial
Make Heritage Day celebration compulsory for workers
Dear Editor,
I want to use this platform to suggest that the celebration of Heritage Month is declared compulsory, especially for workers in state agencies.
It is very interesting watching broadcasters adorned in diverse traditional regalia on our screens, telling the stories of the various tribes in the country.
But away from the television sets, there is practically nothing to see in town suggesting the celebration of such an important activity.
Once in the month, we also see our school children celebrating the event by dressing to depict where they come from.
But just as was done with the Chocolate Day celebration, I wish to suggest that workers in state agencies are forced to partake in the event. Within that month, every working staff should be made to dress in African prints or ones that would show where they come from.
That, to a large extent would give people a lot of education about their ancestry and their cultural values.
I have a few friends that are Gas from the Greater Accra region but because their parents stayed in other regions and gave birth to them outside Accra, they have little or no idea about where they actually come from.
Some of these activities would go a long way to educate such people to know their real homes.
I expect the Ministry of Tourism to play an active role in the success of this exercise.
Stella Twum,
Central Region
