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Reginald Nii Odoi: All concerned in setting up the Motherland – Now, far more than at any time!

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“Arise Ghana…for your place, the country requires your devotion. Let us all unite to uphold her, and make her excellent and solid. We are all associated in developing our motherland.”

Introduction

The “well-currently being, individuality and happiness” of every single citizen is paramount to the all-round prosperity of any country. It is for this cause that in periods the place the overall earth has been significantly impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic, nearly every single nation led by its governing administration has taken steps to safeguard the lives of its personal citizens as a subject of priority.

These steps, contain sealing of nationwide borders, imposing significantly essential lockdowns and quarantines, evacuations amongst many others. All these are supposed to control the unfold of the Covid-19 virus and far more importantly to highlight the state’s duty and issue for its citizens living in and outside the house the spatial boundaries of the state.

Worldwide Citizenship: A decline amidst Covid-19?

Globalization has introduced about the notion of a new course of citizenship normally referred to as “Global Citizenship”. This is accompanied by the freedom of motion perform, vacation and the like. With this, nations ordinarily are inspired to build an natural environment that is characterized by a “shared commitment” to act by all irrespective of one’s citizenship.

The Covid-19 pandemic however represents an unparalleled challenge to the thought of a “Global Citizen”. There is a large amount of uncertainty and a single issue that is unclear is irrespective of whether “global citizens” would be equipped to continue on enjoying the independence of motion need to the crisis be more than. The response most probable would seem to be in the negative.

With citizens of states significantly locked in and stuck inside closed nation-states as nicely as with the rise of border-partitions, it is apparent that factors are not heading to continue to be the identical. Like a previous United kingdom Primary Minister after claimed, anyone who believes he/she is “a citizen of the world” is a “citizen of nowhere”.

With quite a few states owning to pursue a lot more protectionist and nationalistic policies with most individuals hoping all in their power to get to their own respective nations around the world of their citizenship and the in general decline in multi-lateralism, it is very clear that the idea of a world citizen is in drop.

The urgent need to have to construct the motherland!

Ghana in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic has taken measures that include things like border closure and its accompanying journey bans, among other folks.  These are not intended to down-play the relevance of globalism and globalization, relatively they show that Ghana like a lot of other nations of the earth is prioritizing the perfectly-currently being and defense of its have citizens higher than all else.

Far more so, the fact that most Ghanaians in any section of the entire world are extremely keen to obtain their way back household and at all price tag is extra motive why the concept of a “global citizen” is no longer the circumstance. The truth is that in moments as this – there is basically no place like dwelling!

This is the time to fully grasp and know that as a citizen, we only have one dwelling. The pandemic is a foreshadow of what is to come. It has supplied us a foretaste of what the entire world would be like. A time is coming where by individuals would not be accepted anywhere else but in their individual international locations. A time is coming when persons would have no escape haven but in their have respective countries. The Covid-19 pandemic has made available an option to make in preparation for what is to arrive.

There is no improved time to price remaining a Ghanaian! There is no much better time to prioritize building our country! Certainly, we have nowhere to go but our country. For this purpose, Ghanaians need to all increase and develop alongside one another. The nation demands the devotion of all citizens now extra than at any time in advance of! We will have to all be concerned in setting up our motherland.

God bless!

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About writer: Reginald Nii Odoi is a practicing Barrister and Solicitor (Ghana) who is extremely passionate about societal change, growth and advocacy. He is a happy alumnus of Harvard Law School and Kwame Nkrumah College (KNUST) wherever he graduated with Initial Class Honors.



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