Politician and Ghanaian lawmaker, Kennedy Agyapong, has criticized Ghanaians for their lack of discipline, honesty, and corruption.
He believes that indiscipline and dishonesty are ingrained traits in Ghanaians from birth. Agyapong asserts that this is why foreigners conducting business in the country exploit their employees.
Despite the harsh treatment they endure from these foreign employers, Ghanaians continue to work under these conditions without resistance.
Agyapong further argued that the situation is entirely different when a fellow Ghanaian provides employment. In such cases, employees tend to handle their jobs carelessly and may even exhibit a sense of entitlement.
“What has been inculcated in us from when we were born, makes us very bad people, very dishonest people until somebody uses a cane or harsh words on us, we don’t even realize that that is not the way to live as a human being.
“An example is these foreigners, the way they treat Ghanaian workers and they succumb to it and work but when you give them jobs, the way they treat their own, my sister, it is horrible. That is why the foreigners are succeeding. Imagine you are working with me, you’ve done something wrong and I fire you, you get the pastor coming to beg, the minister coming to beg, my mother coming to beg but when a Chinese fires you, nobody goes to him, when Indian fires you, nobody goes to him, Lebanese nobody goes to him,” he told Dentaa in 2021 on Odana Network on YouTube.
The politician, who is presently running for president, noted that Ghanaians generally lack discipline because of their too sympathetic outlook.
He asserts that, despite its difficulty, changing the narrative is not impossible.