CLUELESS & CO. IN TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO!

Typical! Hmm, Ghana - ayeasam oo! Look where we have now ended up: at a time when we ought to be following Venezuela's example, Mr. Clueless talks about learning lessons from Trinidad and Tobago!

And whiles Ghana's coffers get even emptier, it appears that our hypocrite-in-chief is still smitten by the wanderlust bug - and is continuing his globetrotting-mania: jetting to obscure places around the globe on useless missions, at the hapless Ghanaian taxpayers' expense (as usual!).

Is this not the same politician who said at the beginning of his tenure, that Ghanaians had to cut their coat according to the size of their cloth? Incredible!

Well, let the "My-party-my-tribe-right-or-wrong" myrmidons be objective for once: since we apparently now face a national emergency, is it not time that we stopped this sly gentleman from travelling overseas at the least excuse - at the hardpressed Ghanaian taxpayers' expense?

Or is it the case, dear reader, that the "bush telegraph" is accurate, after all, perhaps?

Well, apparently, dear reader, rumour in certain circles has it that some of the greediest of the rogues amongst our rulers today, have only gone to the Caribbean to "withdraw" the over-invoicing money from the infamous national awards jewellery contract deal.

Hmmm, isn't it just amazing how the rumour mill spins so many hard-to-believe fantasies, in these days of extreme-hardship: when our homeland Ghana has been brought to its knees by the masters of the universe now running it, dear reader?

Well, according to the rumor-mongers amongst the more uncharitable of our national cynics (and it does sound like a rather tallish tale, one must admit!), apparently the UK sister-jewellers, Parnell's Ltd. and Thomas Cleaver Ltd., were asked to "send" the finished bling-bling chi chi medals to the Channel Island of Jersey, to hide its origins (in a "paperwork" sense, i.e.!).

And I can confirm that I did actually check with Parnell's Ltd.(whose Rugby subsidiary is Thomas Cleaver Ltd.) - but was told by a very nice gentleman that they had not sent any of their products "outside the UK."

Being a rather slow sort of chap, I am still trying to work out if it was an innocent answer - or one pregnant with meaning!

For, it neatly sidesteps answering the question whether or not Ghana did purchase medals from them. Next stop HM Customs and New Scotland Yard, perhaps?

Quite frankly, I don't think I'll bother anymore: as I no longer care what this regime of many liars does anymore. They have become so drunk with power that it appears they pay no heed to the Ghanaian saying: "No condition is permanent."

Having become so impervious to reason, perhaps they need to learn a thing or two from the Tsatsu Tsikatas; Dan Abodapis; Kwame Prepahs and the Victor Selormeys - all of whom were tried, convicted and jailed under this regime - for allegedly wilfully causing financial loss to the Ghanaian nation-state!

But I digress, dear reader. Well, mulling over the answer of the Parnell's chap, it finally dawned on me that as a matter of fact the UK Channel Island of Jersey, is certainly not outside the UK - so his answer was pregnant with meaning, after all!

Only time will tell us the truth in this shabby affair - as in this day and age, trying to fool all the citizens of a poor developing nation of 25 million hard-up souls all the time, is an absurd and futile undertaking. Hmmm, Ghana - asem ebaba debi!

Anyway, it appears that some members of our small army of too-clever-by-half "Mr-Anonymous-VIP-Persons" wanted the origins of the bling-bling chi chi medals kept secret, dear reader!

And, apparently, the kickback "lolly" from the over-invoicing proceeds in that deal, is banked somewhere in the dodgier parts of the Caribbean: after winging its way merrily (turbulence-free!) through the ether from Jersey, in the UK Channel Islands - according to the more clued-on of Ghana's cynics (if the latest "bush telegraph" offering is to be believed, i.e.!).


Hmm, Ghana - asemebaba debi! May God bless and protect our homeland Ghana, always. Long live freedom! Long live Ghana!