TAKING CARE OF STATE PROPERTY   

There is something about some people which I find hard to understand. It is the careless manner in which they handle the state property; the misuse of what belongs to government. People take care of what belong to them and try all that they can to protect it. However when it comes to handling facilities which belongs to the state majority of the people usually becomes careless. It has been mentioned repeatedly that belongs to the state belongs to it citizen but that is not the case in Ghana. 

Whatever a government provides is for all the citizens of the country who in reality are all part of the government. The taxes paid by the citizen helps the government to provide whatever they needed to make life meaningful. Yet people treat such things carelessly simply because they are government property.

             Right from public schools to public place of convenient thing are mishandle there all because they belong to the government. In some schools that I witness some louvers, doors, desks and other furniture have breakdown and most of the text books provided by government worn out  nothing have been done about it so I questioned the school authority about it the response I had was that , the it belongs to the government and it their responsibilities to repair the damage.     

So the question to ask now is; why should we think that state property is not our responsibility while we are the every one using them? It about time that we changed our attitude toward thing that we use now. Think of the text books that Junior High School (JHS) are using now and other people from class six coming after the JHS who will use it. So if the JHS do not use the books wisely and they are destroyed; what do we expect those people from primary to use when they get to JHS? If students in Senior High School, technical and vocational school do not take care of the desks, textbooks and other furniture what will the JHS use when they get there?

             This is not applying to the education aspect only but all of the belongs to the “so call state properties” been hospitals, public toilet, workplaces etc.we should bear in mind that these property are provided from the taxes that we have been paying or from contributions made from member of our community. May be you have not thought of the results of ours misuses of what belongs to the nation. It is important to do so now because the development of this country rest on our wiliness to change from our old ways treating state property and to treat them as our own if not we are will be paying too much on taxes in future which is going to cause a lot financial problems .

Our nation would be meaningless. If we do not use the little that we have now to make our country a better place to live in. One way of doing this is to take positive step toward protected what belong to the state. It is when we take proper care of the state assets that we can live behind something good for the generation. Do we want our country to progress or to retrogress? Let us start now.