The last time I checked, the United Kingdom was contemplating on cutting down its few bank holidays in a year—because they calculated that, each holiday cost the UK economy £2.3bn and scrapping them would boost annual output by £19bn.
But not far from the United Kingdom lies Africa, a continent engulfed in absolute poverty and diseases—lack of infrastructure and more recently, lack of focus to the extent that some countries are given a public holiday for winning a football competition.
It’s 2015 and it seems we are not still getting our act together—at the end of the year, we will go and beg those with fewer holidays for money to be able to eat.
Ivory Coast announced a public holiday on Monday to celebrate its dramatic win over Ghana in the Africa Cup of Nations final. Yeah, today is a damn holiday in Ivory Coast…
Last night’s victory gave the Ivorians their second title, in a repeat of the 1992 final. Reportedly, the celebrations in Abidjan went on late into the night on Sunday—and the State is well happy about their achievements on the pitch to the extent that they’ve been given a public holiday to the detriment of their economy, whatever the lost may be..
Remember this is a country where around a quarter of the country’s people live on less than 1.25 dollars a day.
Of course, they have to celebrate but must there be a public holiday for this? And perhaps, Ghana would have done the same—we are all in the same boat.
But why a holiday? Africa paaa. Did Germany give a holiday when they won the world cup? is that not bigger than Africa cup?
Everyone has the right to decide his own destiny. Just because Germany
didnt give a public holiday for their world cup success doesnt mean its
not appropriate to do so. Hey 23 years of failures is a pretty long so
let them be.
I think you should know the context in which this holiday was given.
first of all let me say thanks to Scorpion who said in the discussion ,
that it was our right to declare that very monday a holiday.
In this
country divided py politics, where everything is about whether you are
from the north or south, or whether you are a gbagbo or an alhassane
supporter, here comes an opportunity to celebrate as ONE PEOPLE, it was
just to beautiful to see people, joining hand for our national team, it
was more beautiful, when they went out shouting for joy after the
victory, there were no dioula, or bété or baoulé and no pro-gbagbo and
pro-alhassane, there were just people proud of their nation, and on the
holiday we welcomed and celebrated our heroe, t’was just beautiful !!
PS: What would you say about the 60 millions cfa given to each of them
(about 300000 cedis each ) from the government as their reward (this for me is the real issue you shoul talk about Ghanacelebrities)
Bad belle pikin, you are upset with somebody’s success………………. is 33 years and still counting. Ghana is forcing themselves to be like the west by all means, they should think Asian.
Congrats to them
I think you should know the context in which this holiday was given.
first of all let me say thanks to Scorpion who said in the discussion ,
that it was our right to declare that very monday a holiday.
In this
country divided py politics, where everything is about whether you are
from the north or south, or whether you are a gbagbo or an alhassane
supporter, here comes an opportunity to celebrate as ONE PEOPLE, it was
just to beautiful to see people, joining hand for our national team, it
was more beautiful, when they went out shouting for joy after the
victory, there were no dioula, or bété or baoulé and no pro-gbagbo and
pro-alhassane, there were just people proud of their nation, and on the
holiday we welcomed and celebrated our heroe, t’was just beautiful !!
PS: What would you say about the 60 millions cfa given to each of them
(about
300000 cedis each ) from the government as their reward (this for me is
the real issue you shoul talk about Ghanacelebrities)
waiting