Ghanaians are currently living in “hard times” and there are also “difficult” times ahead, as Nana Akufo-Addo takes over from the Mahama administration, the Okyenhene Osagyefo Amoatia Oforia Panin has said.
Speaking at a Thanksgiving Service at Kyebi on Sunday, after Mr Akufo-Addo’s investiture, the paramount chief of the Akyem Abuakwa kingdom said“after the pomp and pageantry and the glamour and all the songs, there’s work to be done.”
“These are hard times and there are difficult days ahead,” he added, stressing, “The task of managing any African country is not for the faint hearted neither is it for those who are unwilling to make hard choices or those who will compromise on issues or those whole will defend the status quo. It is for those who have the audacity of courage to change and the change we are talking about is not the changing of just personalities, or Party A to Party B … a change of our attitude as citizens, a change that will make it possible for a young man in this part of the world to rise up and become somebody.”
For his part, Akufo-Addo reiterated his promise to serve Ghanaians with humility to better their lot rather than lord it over them.
“We have come to serve and depict humility in our speech and deeds for Ghanaians to know that we have something good in us for which purpose we persisted until Ghanaians gave us the mandate to govern”.
