Lawyer and Covener of the Fix The Country Movement, Oliver Barker-Vormawor, says that there is a lack of belief and faith among the general populace that the county can rise to its potential.

Speaking on The Probe on JoyNews, he explained that after witnessing many issues arise in the country without any real accountability, people feel tired out and do not believe the systems can change.

“Generally there's a lack of belief and faith that anything good can come out of the country and when people have that faith, that sense, they stop trying...people just resign themselves to a particular fate. But in fact, systems can change if we have faith that they can change because then that leaves us to move more,” he told the host Emefa Apawu.

Explaining what could have contributed to the loss of faith in the system, Mr Barker-Vormawor noted the promise of putting behind the politics of old and assurances made to Ghanaians about a renewed vision in 1992.

“There were so many promises that were made that whether they were not believed by the elite class that made those promises, or in fact there was no commitment to actualising and realising them. As a result, so many people have seen groups broken, so many people have lost people within the dysfunctional healthcare system and so many people have lost job opportunities, and opportunities to grow for themselves.”

“A lot of us are working into retirement where our pensions are not secured. So, we have seen a whole generation lost. All of this is happening in our lifetime and we haven't seen punishments being given to anybody, (or) we haven't seen any sense of real accountability for some of the things happening in the country,” Mr Barker-Vormawor noted.

The Fix The Country convenor explained that in such situations people give up after years of witnessing system failures and injustice.

“If I was slapped and they took my phone, I just want the phone back and I don't want to deal with it, because I don't truly believe that justice can occur. So just the little I can get out of this system, that is not invested in restoring the faith of its citizens. Gradually, we feel the effect.”

Additionally, Mr Barker-Vormawor said that corruption has seeped into the public systems because of the corruption witnessed at the top.

However, the Fix The Country Convenor believes that if there is real transparency and accountability where people pay for the wrongs they do, it will transcend across the public space.

He stated that the populace must regain the faith that the country can change adding that without that sense of faith and belief, nobody will be interested in the process of building the republic.

“That for me is the essence of our advocacy in general, that a lot more young people have to believe that this country can in fact be able to achieve justice for them, that they might be able to see their dreams actualised in this republic. We've allowed disrespect to go on and we have allowed the kind of substandard leadership that continues to occur.”

“So I do think that that process of rebuilding the faith that in fact, you matter, your voice matters and everything you have to do can create change has to be discovered for this country to be able to move forward. If not, it has always been the nature of power for people to take advantage of those who are meek and those who are voiceless. That is how power has traditionally operated and then give it the space to continue to do so.”