Railway Maintenance Equipment: Buy Directly From Manufacturers!

Hmmm, Ghana - ayeasem oo! Angelique International is an Indian construction and procurement company, not a manufacturer of "railway maintenance equipment" (whatever that means!).

Why can't we simply get our commercial attache and his staff in the Ghana High Commission in New Delhi, to contact the manufacturers of the said "railway maintenance equipment" directly - and save us the money going to these clever Indian middlemen?

Why, have the staff in our mission in India forgotten that once upon a time, the president did say that "economic diplomacy" would be the ethos underpinning the work of all our diplomatic missions abroad?

So why can't the Ghana High Commission in India work with the Ghana Supply Company Limited to purchase the said equipment directly from the Indian manufacturers, for Ghana?

As for the Germans, Opanin, no doubt the hope of the few powerful (and greedy!) crooks amongst our rulers, is that Ghana will be taking a loan from them to build our railway line.

That, Opanin, will be yet another golden opportunity for the clever and dishonest ones amongst our rulers to get hard currency kickbacks.

The kickbacks will doubtless be deposited in the bank accounts of the opaque offshore companies they have set up with foreign nominees as fronts, for just such purposes.

To that end, they will quickly appoint their favourite cronies who own corporate law firms and entities in the financial services sector of our economy, to act as professional advisers to the government in the "transaction".

Those powerful and well-connected oligarchs, will then team up with their German counterparts to offer their professional services to Ghana: for "arranging" the syndicated loan for the project - for which they will be paid super-generous fees in foreign currency!

It is the kickbacks some of our rulers receive from such fat fees Ghana pays to those Titans in the financial services sector, which is driving the virulent form of that dreaded disease caused by the "foreign-loan-mania" virus, which has sadly infected so many in this regime!

Hmmm Ghana - ayeasem oo: asem ebaba debi ankasa! May God bless and protect our homeland Ghana, always. Long live freedom! Long live Ghana!