Boy, I've missed you. Two whole weeks away. It's not been easy. But it was necessary. It's important that we all take time off to recharge the batteries so we can go into this election with all the energy and vigour such a marathon event requires.

But I'll tell you one thing I got to enjoy while I was sitting at home missing you: I got to be just like you! I got to be a listener to the greatest breakfast show in the history of Ghana, the Super Morning Show on Joy, 99.7FM.

And I'm not exaggerating either. If you consider the fact that radio remains the biggest media platform in the country, this show that you're listening to right now, is in effect, the biggest media platform in the history of Ghana. And I cannot even begin to tell you what an honour it is to be the one who brings this colossal broadcasting institution to your home, your car, your office, into your life.

It's an immense privilege. Others worked to create this opportunity that I now have and must run with. Dusty Wayne, Tommy Annan-Forson, Komla Dumor, Kojo Oppong-Nkrumah… by doing their very best EVERY DAY, they have created an institution. A national treasure. A facility of the highest value in our national media and communications landscape. And this jewel - this heirloom - is now in my hands. My job - no, my DUTY - is to ensure that when the time comes one day, to pass this inheritance on to the next custodian, I must ensure that I have added value to it - that I pass on something better than what I found.

This is non-negotiable for me, and if I don't do a good job, I would have done something worse than failure - I would have let down those who created this opportunity, and I would be letting YOU down too, by diminishing the value of this great gift.

So that's me. That's my mission. Let's talk about you for a minute. What treasures have you inherited? What heirlooms have you been given? What opportunities are you benefitting from that others suffered and toiled to provide?

Let's start with your family. Do you have children? A gift from God, aren't they? How are you handling that gift? How much time are you spending with them? What example are you setting for them with the things you do, the words you say, the decisions you make? Will your children be good human beings by the time they pass through your hands? Will you have added value to them?

How about your job - your career? How are you handling that? Who did that job before you? How are you handling the privilege that has now been left to you? Do you even realise that it's a privilege? When customers harass you all day, and your boss gives you increasingly challenging tasks, do you even recognise that it is an immense honour to be the solution to customers' problems? Do you even understand that your boss wouldn't give you so much responsibility if they didn't have so much faith in you? So ask yourself: if you had to move on, would you be leaving your post, your office, your company, in a better shape than you found it?

How about other things? Your community: is it a better place with you in it? Your Country (and I'm particularly interested in this): would Ghana be any better or any worse if you were to move away to another country? In fact, let me ask you: do you even consider your citizenship of Ghana to be a privilege? Hmm?

In fact, let's stay with this Ghana issue for a moment. It's 2016 - election year - and I can't believe in this age of enlightenment, that there are still some qualified Ghanaian voters who are planning not to vote! Are you one of them? Really? Do you have any idea how many people have died to give you that right, that privilege, that franchise you're planning to discard? Kwame Nkrumah, Yaa Asantewa, Sergeant Adjetey, Corporal Attipoe, Private Odartey the martyred judges… do you even know who these people are? Well, these people died so that you could have the right to choose your own leaders. You know that part in the National Pledge that goes:

"I promise to hold in high esteem,

Our heritage, won for us

Through the blood and toil of our fathers…"

That part was about them. So when you say - for whatever reason - that you will not vote this year, are you holding our heritage in high esteem? Or are you totally disrespecting the blood and toil that won you the right to vote?

My dear friend: listen to me. This is important. This year, respect the sacrifice of our forbears. Respect your hard-won right as a Ghanaian. It's privileged citizenship. Earn it. Prove you are worthy of the amazing honour you have inherited. And like every other privilege you have been given, use this as an opportunity to add value to your life. Vote. Vote for what you care about. Vote for what you want. Vote for YOU.

My name is Kojo Yankson, and my life is a treasure chest of opportunities. My mission is to leave an even bigger treasure chest by the time I'm done. Let's do it together. One day at a time.

GOOD MORNING, GHANAFO!