HOW DID WE GET HERE AS A COUNTRY?
The truth is, we are all going to die some day but must any one be killed gruesomely this way? Background. Captain Mahama, who was heading a military detachment near Denkyira Obuasi in the Central Region, Ghana, met his untimely death last Monday when he was jogging when some residents of the area accused him of being an armed robber and lynched him.I am still in utter shock how we got to this stage as a country. A country like Ghana where we tout ourselves as peace loving, one people with a common destiny?No human feeling or the need to even cross check/verify a situation better before rushing to pass judgement?The fallen soldier according to his comrades was too gentle a person that he would even not hurt a fly left alone human beings. No wonder, although he had a pistol on him during the time of the incident, he failed to defend himself. Thomas Hobbes in the Leviathan said human beings are " nasty, brutish and short". And that's what truly we are.It is even...