We have noted with regret the loud silence of #OCCUPYGHANA following the decision of transport owners not to reduce transport fares to reflect the 10% reduction in fuel prices by government. For the records, this was the group that called on the NPA and government (and legitimately so) to reduce fuel prices in conformity with falling world prices of crude.

In their public engagements and statements, OCCUPYGHANA created the impression that they were acting and speaking on behalf of ordinary Ghanaians. Ordinary Ghanaians as we know are members of the public who on a daily basis rely on private transports for their movements. Ordinary Ghanaians are members of the public whose daily bread depends on the actions and inactions of these private transport owners. They rely on trotos and taxis for movement.

Ordinary Ghanaians are therefore, and rightly so, disappointed that OCCUPY GHANA has deliberately failed to put the same pressure which they unleashed on the NPA and government, on private transport owners to reduce transport fares. This is insensitive and further betrays the little trust of ordinary Ghanaians in OCCUPY GHANA.

Indeed this and many actions of OCCUPY GHANA confirm the skepticism people have about their intentions and further expose the agenda of members of this group. The agenda, as we have always maintained, is political and does not in any way include fighting for ordinary Ghanaians. It is obvious that a reduction in transport fares will not inure to the benefit of their political pay masters, hence their loud silence. It is also true that members of OCCUPY GHANA are the ones enjoying the 10% reduction in fuel prices.

For the sanity and health of this Nation, Ghanaians have continuously stressed on the need to work together to replace outmoded ideologies and stiff principles with a new vision anchored on basic, enduring values: opportunity for all, responsibility from all, and a community of a renewed? Ghanaian's? One was expecting OCCUPY GHANA to exhibit these values. However, what we find is everything opposite.

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We said it and we are saying it again, OCCUPY GHANA is a baby of the opposition NPP and they speak and act only to please their leaders and to enhance their quest for power. It is therefore not surprising that they have failed to speak about the decision of private transport owners not to reduce transport fares.

We call on Ghanaians, in and abroad, not to be deceived by members of OCCUPY GHANA, for they care not about ordinary Ghanaians, but themselves and their political pay masters.

Anthony Selorm K Morrison
National Coordinator