In 2019 when I started out my service year after graduation, my lorry fare costed ghc2.50 for a single journey and ghc5 for both journeys. However significant this was considering the distance, I counted myself among the lucky few because I had a good bargain compared to some other colleagues who of mine who were totaling about ghc20. I’m sure you can understand that for service personnels who took ghc559 per month,every cedi counted.

Fast forward to 2022, I use the same route but I’ll have to pay double the price only for an in journey and more than 150% increase for the entire journey. Makes me wonder, how are service personnels coping these days. Absurdity 101. 

Everything keeps changing in Ghana. From our leaders to the moneys we keep in our pockets and yet, we cannot properly make a simple 6 months budget. Because how dare we? We dare not own the cedi. We are told it has a mind of it’s own. Absurdity 102.  To be continued.