Re: "THE OUTSIDER: An idiot's guide to running a country on a shoe-string budget"

Opanin, sell Ghana Telecom to Vodafone - when One Touch alone is worth more than that paltry US$900 millions, as far as ordinary people are concerned: never mind what clueless analysts tell us? And don't forget the value of the US dollar is also at an all time low, my brother.

But let me also give you my own ("thinking-outside-the-box") super-idiot's plan to get us out of the hole the masters of the universe now running Nkrumah's Ghana (those whom this regime's more uncharitable critics - amongst Ghana's cynics - describe as: "Those profligate and highly-educated imbeciles!") have got us all into.

When our hypocrite-in-chief goes to Peking, let him talk to the Chinese leaders and tell them we want them to do a deal with our government to rescue Ghana - which is currently in financial distress.

We must quickly nationalise our oil and natural gas industries; pay fair compensation to the foreign oil companies currently here (by issuing sovereign bonds as payment to those bloodsuckers drilling for oil off our coastline) - and give the best resourced of the state-owned Chinese oil and natural gas companies 30% stakes in joint-ventures with the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) getting 70%.

And in exchange we want them to take Ghanaian government sovereign bonds in return for 10 US$ billions cash immediately. We should also ask them to let the world's biggest mobile company, China Mobile, take a 30% stake in the "enlarged" GT for US$2 billions.

Since we face a national emergency, we must also nationalise all our other strategic industries held by foreigners (again pay those bloodsuckers fair compensation!), such as gold; diamonds; manganese and other minerals - and replace those who currently own them, with new business models of joint-ventures between the Ghanaian nation-state and the best-resourced of the various industry-specific state-owned Chinese companies.

In all those undertakings, Ghana will take 70% stakes with 30% going to the best Chinese state-owned companies in those sectors of our economy - and which are also leading global players in those industries.

We really need not worry about loss of Western investor confidence in us, at all - as in wartime, all those Western nations would do exactly the same. And we, as you know, by now, my brother, currently face a national emergency: akin to a war-time emergency, do we not?

Now, the "My-party-my-tribe-right-or-wrong" myrmidons who blindly support political parties will probably not like this one, one bit, but when he returns, the president (Ghana's hypocrite-in-chief: Mr. Rawlings being the number two!) ought to immediately sack all his ministers.

He must then form a small national unity government consisting of Mr. Kofi Annan and the leaders of all Ghana's political parties, to steer the ship of state in the interest of all the people of Ghana - not just the powerful few Akan tribal supremacists, and the family clans of our leaders: who are now "chopping Ghana small", waa waa.


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