Permit me to comment on the above mentioned title of the news item which appeared in your esteem paper the “Standard” dated March 11, 1979 by the so called Ghana Student’s Congress in U.K. 

I hereby quote their second paragraph second sentence which reads; “many of the Ghanaians here have finished their studies but are hesitant to return home because of the ramifications of the political and adverse economic climate on their personal welfare”. 

I should like to inform my brothers and sisters in U.K. that if because of “their personal welfare” and not the welfare of their motherland Ghana that they “have had to seek jobs which do not purposefully use their qualifications” in U.K. then they are unpatriotic and selfish. 

What prevents them from coming down to Ghana and see what is happening here instead of inviting the representatives of the political parties with their sugar coated words to meet them in U.K. or elsewhere? 

I should like to inform the members of the so called The Ghana Student’s Congress majority that of the population in Ghana are semi-literates and illiterates (if they don’t know) and by their theoretical display of a sense of utmost concern Ghana’s about socio-economic political and newspapers in Ghanaian Magazine and the West Africa does not serve any useful purpose. 

Their poor fathers, mothers, grandmothers and grandfathers want to meet them face to face to tell them their problems for the members of The Ghana Student’s Congress to solve them… of the  

I humbly appeal to the leaders of the various political parties not to waste their time, energy and money on the self exiled Ghanaians in Western or Eastern European Countries because most of them are opportunists. 

If they want to come home nothing prevents them: if they don’t want to come we should forget about them entirely after all we have been doing our own “thing” without them.  

B.O. Kantankah, 

Jema-Kintampo.

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