The Ghanaian Times wishes its cherished readers in particular and the public, in general, the best of life in 2022.
As usual, the paper knows individuals, families and organisations have made resolutions and expressed wishes for the New Year, hoping that life would be better than it had been previously.
This is unexpected but the paper humbly appeals to them to evaluate such resolutions and see if they are achievable.
The year is still a baby, just in its fifth day and first month, which is a good time to make such review.
The other issue is that such resolutions and wishes must not be self-centered but fit into the public good.
Even though the best everyone should expect is good life, the reality is that some of the challenges of yester-years have found their way into the New Year and obviously there are going to be fresh ones in all spheres of individual, family, organisational and national life.
There is the need for readiness to face the challenges and this calls for a change of attitude to crush bad tendencies and emphasise positive ones for progress.
For instance, the people cannot continue to wish away COVID-19 and lead life as usual; this attitude hurts the national interest or the national good.
The truth is that the pandemic is real and recent rising cases point to the fact that if the needful is not done, this enemy of progress would visit worse devastation on the country.
This is why it is important to adhere to all the COVID-19 measures, including the vaccination.
It is sad that the country now has the vaccines but the citizenry have refused to go for the jab, giving all manner of excuses, including the fact that some people have been infected even after receiving the jab.
However, recent studies have shown that while this is true, it has emerged that comparatively, the unvaccinated suffer more than the vaccinated when both are infected.
One other serious area we should consider is hard work. The poor work ethics like absenteeism, lateness, lackadaisical attitude, mediocrity and corruption should cease.
Accountability should be the watch word in both the public and private sectors.
Also, in this year, the law must work; there must be equality before the law.
If a police directive could even tame the country’s prophets from doing what is supposed to be spiritual, it means enforcing the law with regard to the temporal would be much easier.
This year, people who think they are super-humans and have constituted themselves into law must not be allowed to have their way.
Everyone has to feel secured and this would naturally make the populace to want to support the law-enforcement agencies, particularly the police, in their work.
The peace and tranquility in the country must surely be upheld for the people to go about their social and economic activities without let or hindrance.
Surely, every New Year should be better than the previous one and so does everyone expect 2022 to be.
However, this would depend on certain factors chief among them being political leadership.
The expectation is that the government would continue to have listening ears, even if it is the opposition speaking.
The Ghanaian Times wishes its staff, its cherished readers, other individuals, families, organisations and diplomatic missions in the country well.
Happy and Prosperous New Yearto you all!!!
