One More Thing

This is a follow-up to the call by the management of Ghana Police Hospital, that the hospital is tempted to embark on mass burial for 140 unclaimed dead bodies without any answers since June 2023.

There is one more thing to add. This matter only points to the growing public insensitivity and the lack of fellow feeling among society’s people. The so-called modernity that has punctured national culture, and replaced the phenomena of each being his brother’s keeper with individualistic tendencies if not an absolute indifference.

A concerned citizen or neighbor who shows a ‘serious’ interest in the other person or family in the norm of checking up on them is described as too nosy or a gossip. Admittedly, some have also abused the openness of others by running parrot voices once they obtain information on them.

Some local television stations are dedicated to announcements on missing persons. Why are people not curious about others if reckoned to have lost their bearings within the space they are loitering?

Again, some of those who need such help have abused the latitude by driving into people’s privacies with all kinds of demand. This often leads to defensive posturing on the part of the ones whose privacies are entered at will by the needy. The wall against intrusions has also given us an opaque view of the circumstances around us.

The police hospital is asking the public, can’t you figure out an incidence of missing persons in your communities? Or is supposed to confirm a Ghanaian society to be unfriendly, aloof, passive, indifferent, nonchalant, and uninvolved as far as societal issues are concerned?

One more thing. It does appear Ghana’s acclaimed tag ”hospitality” only relates to the tourism sector.