My Journey to Ghana Through the West African Corridor

My journey to Ghana through the West African Corridor is a true-life story of Mr Joseph Akinola, a recollection of his hellish and draining travel experience to Ghana.

In 2008, Allan Morris wrote an article titled,” Our fellow Africans make our lives hell…” In his article, Allan Morris dissects Africa and takes its inhabitants to the perfect lab of evaluation. 

He, with great cautiousness, blatantly shrugged at the way Africans see fellow Africans, especially when one happens to be on the high nexus of society over the many others.

Allan travels through the advent of apartheid, the aversion of indigenous South Africans against their so-called Congolese and Nigerian brothers, and vice versa. 

Nevertheless, this revulsion, which many believe to be a border-to-border squabble, is more of an internal battle than an external squabble. 

It could be noted that as history continues its repetition beyond the external diversity, Africa is a continent under the wafting smoke of internal differences.

 Many social analysts and historians have tried to bring solutions to this subject that have fashioned a wide bridge between the black brotherhood. 

This, however, serves as a great denouement to the belief that the whites are the last standing enemy of the blacks. 

Some parents have sowed seeds of hatred in the heart of their offspring making them believe that the whites are the evil who took away love from them among others.

 But, the question is, African have traced their flaws in their relationships with the whites and have seen how swelling the wound this relationship has brought on them, what then have they (African) done to rescue their lost identity?

 Have they come together yet?

 Do they love their brothers genuinely?

 The answer is an emphatic “No”. 

This is because Africans continue feasting on brotherhood, unity, and heritage as crows feast monstrously on dead bodies. 

Average Africans, in the exile of their mind, regarded social, political, or religious honorary posts as a set vacuum to throw their horrible tantrum.

 They see it as an opportunity for them to torment, to impose their beliefs on others, irrespective of the evil that might surface thereafter.

 Some see power be it little or high, as a covert room where they can create a diverse version of grief and dispense it to masses of citizens. 

Just recently,  Mr Joseph Akinola via his passage to Ghana witnessed the loads of harm that Africans are pressing on fellow African travellers. 

This concentrated disappointment left a big splotch of grief on his heart. 

In his words, he couldn’t believe that African Security personnel could be so myopic and be so bedevilled with elevating their purses and lining their pockets.

 He further, discussed that the evil caused by this personnel is way hefty, and if they don’t stop soon, Africans might become a terrorist-filled, virus–reeking and tourism-backward continent. ” Maybe more baddies are coming,” he said.

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Here, Mr Joseph Akinola narrated his unpleasant Ghanaian experience:

“My experience along the West Africa coast shows the levels of evils being perpetually committed using covid 19 as a cover-up. 

Likewise, why will the citizens suffer untold hardship because of the incompetence of some officers who are only after the money and not doing the assigned work?

Lagos to Accra and vice versa by roads is hell out of hell. 

Do you know Ghanaian public security officers, be it immigration, police, soldiers or customs, like their Nigerian counterparts, are so corrupt? 

These lots sometimes connived with some drivers to reap off travellers’ going. 

One of the shocking parts is always that the Nigeria government claimed they closed borders for commercial activities and not for the passage which is a lie, lie lie lie.

Coming from Ghana, I decided to pass through Aiye Teju before Idi Iroko. 

Then I learned about the Ipokia Local Government where I paid N800 for crossing with the help of an Okada man because the borders are closed. 

Similarly, in all our borders at Aflao, I paid 50 Ghana cedi to cross to Lomé, and the officers of the two countries are involved; the military, customs, and police all know that thousands of people cross every day, but because the money being realized, they kept mute.

Needless to say that they are fattening at the expense of the revenue needed to be generated if borders are open. 

On our way to Ghana from Lagos, within Badagry alone there are more than 40 security checks with police having up to 80%  of the checkpoint.

They only tax the driver #500 to #2000 or else, the driver would be required to park and be delayed for hours, which could be upsetting. 

The painful part, however, that I discovered was that On covid 19, Africa can’t pay relief nor do we have technology capable of wiping terrorists in a spurt of time.

So, these people must work but unfortunately, the officers of all the 4 countries along the coast are only after the monies, which might be a great impact on increasing the intensity of covid19 and terrorism.”

Following the rhythm of Mr Akinola’s account, it’s crystal clear that far from external problems, Africans invent, nurse and grow internal problems for themselves majorly because of their greed, lack of integrity, lack of African patriotism and low self–esteem.

 To this end, one has no choice but to accept the white speculation that says, “Africa is a hell for Africans”, “Give a black man a gun, and he’ll shoot his fellow black brother”. ” Africans are the property of whites.” 

 But wait, why are we so daft travellers within our continental borders?

This is the question that remains unanswered.