{"id":110951,"date":"2015-04-24T06:33:55","date_gmt":"2015-04-24T06:33:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=110951"},"modified":"2015-04-24T06:33:21","modified_gmt":"2015-04-24T06:33:21","slug":"rawlings-calls-for-restoration-of-global-ethics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2015\/04\/rawlings-calls-for-restoration-of-global-ethics\/","title":{"rendered":"Rawlings calls for restoration of global ethics"},"content":{"rendered":"
Ghana\u2019s former President, Flt Lt Jerry John Rawlings has in separate meetings with the Algerian and EU Ambassadors called for an urgent need to restore global ethical and principled values, stating that President Nelson Mandela would have described the trend of brutal and unfair practices on the global scene as unconscionable.<\/p>\n
He also went on to add that so long as Africa\u2019s end of the economic stick remains so short, a solution to the migrant crises and its horrible consequences would continue to elude the continent.<\/p>\n
The former President said the level of violence, brutality and injustice that has become pervasive across the globe happen when political authority begins to lose its sacred sense of reverence.<\/p>\n
\u201cHow worse is what Assad doing compared to what the Palestinians recently suffered? How worse is that compared to what the Yemenis are presently suffering?\u201d President Rawlings questioned at the meetings on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
The former President said the savagery inflicted on fellow Africans in South Africa and elsewhere in the world happens when people in looking for a scapegoat for their economic circumstances take out their anger on the vulnerable because they cannot directly take on a failing political authority.<\/p>\n
He said though humanity is making a lot of progress, so long as it is not pinned down by ethical practices, containing radicalism would continue to elude us.<\/p>\n