There is also a popular saying that what goes up must surely come down. Wickedness is not only about killing someone with a knife or Cutlass but trying to earn profit through dubious means amount to wickedness.

If your entire life you didn’t get rich and you want to use the outbreak of coronavirus to enrich yourself, then I want to tell you authoritatively that even the church mouse will be richer than you.

There is a great wickedness ongoing in the country at the moment and nobody seems to be concerned. Instead of us uniting to find means of controlling the outbreak of the coronavirus, some individuals through their own selfish interest wanted to make money out of the unfortunate.

Unlike some other countries where everyone is making an effort to support in any way possible, here in our country it has become an opportunity make money. Goods are being increased across the country.
Our people are busy increasing prices of commodities day by day. This is selfish and wickedness in the highest form.

“What shall it profiteth a man if he gains the whole world for himself and his soul perished?”

Government is always at the receiving end for not putting up measures where necessary. After putting restrictions on movement of persons within Accra and other Cities which are affected most, government has not raise budget on commodities.

Why then the sudden increment of commodities across the country?

Are we helping ourselves with the situation at hand ?

Are these steps in the right direction?

“Ambassadors of poverty are
Those whose actions and inactions
Reduce their people’s expectation to nothingness….”

“Ambassadors of poverty are
All of us whose in-actions
Steal our collective joy
Because of what we should do
Which we never do
As we bargain away
Our conscience in the market place
Under the weight of poverty…”
By
Philip O.C. Umeh.

Philip Umeh, a Nigerian, an English scholar and a poem writer.
According to him, ambassadors of poverty are not the poor people on the street but all those whose actions and in-actions leads to abject poverty because of what they should have done but have refused to do so.

Instead of us cooperating to combat spreading of the virus, we use it as an opportunity to enrich ourselves. In my honest opinion, this is not a contributing factor to stop the menace. These people all constitute ambassadors of poverty and surely posterity will judge them.

#long live Ghana

#help fight corona

#rhabbi writes.