Picture this:
You have a low paid job; it pays the bills, but life is tough. A drink or two keeps you going and before you know it you realise you are drinking too much. Life is suddenly even harder: so much effort for such insignificant returns. Or so you think. So you decide that you have had enough of the slings and arrows, but providence is on your side and your suicide attempt fails. You receive help and are restored to life.
Incredible, but that is exactly what happened to Osei Kwabena, a 30-year-old driver's mate in Ghana. Distraught by his inability to cope with his drinking problem, he tried to end it all on July 14 this year by drinking insecticide and has now been handed out this cruel and ridiculous sentence. What sort of madness is this in an enlightened country like Ghana? How could the judge disgrace his nation, humanity even, to such an extent? You do not kick someone when they are down, you help them.
This cannot be allowed to rest. Ghana's new President, John Dramani Mahama, should show his metal and put a stop to such folly at once, or every decent Ghanean should not rest until he does.
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