The proverbial Ghanaian hospitality is certainly having a negative impact on us as Ghanaians.
Over the years. Ghanaians have suffered various forms of inhumane treatments from their foreign counterparts who live and work in the country without a whimper.
In stoic silence, Ghanaians in foreign countries have also been abused, manhandled, mistreated and most of the time subjected to all forms of sexual exploitation.
Back home, Foreigners abuse Ghanaians right under our watch as though we are illegal immigrants in our own country.
At least there are laws or better still immigration laws that clearly defines the limits, responsibilities and duties as well as privileges at the disposssure of foreigners living in Ghana.
Years ago, there was news about a certain foreigner spitting on the floor and asking the Ghanaian employee to lick it from the floor.
As nasty and nauseating as it looked, it ended with no concrete action to serve as deterrent to others.
Again in 2017, Jihad Charbaan, a management staff of Mawarko Restaurant alao dipped the face of a Ghanaian employee in grounded pepper, the case was taken to court, tried and the accused jailed at the Abeka District Court.
Prior to these incidents, many of such cases have gone unreported probably because the victims do not have access to or people simply do not urge them to assert their rights.
For us, the latest indecent of a Chinese national reportedly slashing the throat of his employee, a Ghanaian at Kweikuma in the Sekondi-Takoradi Municipality of the Western Region is the height of it.
Isaac Boateng’s throat was slashed following agitation by workers of the Chinese who were demanding for their salaries.
The company was said to be owing salaries of his workers for a couple of days hence the protest by the workers to demand their salaries when tempers flared.
Some military officers intervened to calm tempers before the injured Ghanaian worker was rushed to the hospital for medical treatment.
The situation has brought to the fore the way Ghanaians tend to foreigners instead of the citizens.
This paper is not in any way suggesting that the country must pamper the citizens even when the Ghanaian is wrong in any particular case.
The Ghanaian Publisher is saddened by this incident but not entirely surprised in view of the way the controversial earlier Aisha Huang case was handled.
Won’t this embolden any Chinese national to misbehave and have the guts to the extent of attempting to behead his worker?
We urge duty bearers to endeavor to protect the citizens at all times as other countries do to their citizens living in Ghana.
