How Accra's Radio Gold FM's Employees Can Turn A Corporate Disaster Into A Golden Business Opportunity For Themselves

Creative types never despair when disaster strikes  - for unlike most people they see the opportunities that every disaster offers those blessed with imaginative minds.

There is no question that many discerning and patriotic Ghanaians fear the possibility that a ruthless, intolerant  and powerful cabal made up of a few greedy individuals with secret wealth-creation-agendas of their own, is  currently busy at work manipulating the system to ensure that the New Patriotic Party (NPP) remains in power for a very long time to come. What perfidy.

Before one proceeds any  further, it is important to make the point that  a majority of the members of the NPP - led by President Akufo-Addo - are true believers in democracy who will find the idea of the emergence of a virtual one-party state in our democracy as abhorrent as the emergence of an unconstitutional military dictatorship: and will not countenance such an abominable and unspeakable outcome for Mother Ghana. Ever.

President Akufo-Addo is one of the NPP's true democrats, and is committed to ensuring that ours continues to remain a liberal society,  and will not therefore  tolerate any attempt to turn Ghana into a one-party state. Never.

Speaking as a journalist - and a fearless old man who is starting a newspaper because he is alarmed by the systematic way in which those who have axes to grind and have sworn to jail yesteryear's regime-princelings  or kill themsleves - it is my humble view that the time has now come for the executives of the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) to be creative leaders for a change. Ebeeii.

The question is: When will the GJA use the networks of its counterpart associations in the world's leading democracies to source for funding to set up a media fund - that is managed on its behalf by all the top mutual fund managers in Ghana - earned interest from which it will use to pursue all those who abuse journaslists in the law courts?

Will public knowledge that the GJA has sufficient funds to protect the independence of the Ghanaian media - by always going to court to enforce and protect the rights of all journalists in this country - not prevent outrages such as that arrogant Paramount Chief, Nana Akuamoah Sekyim, in the Western Region,  who is alleged to have forced a broadcast journalist employed by Rivers FM (apparently known as Larry Saint), to kneel in the hot sun for about three hours and then had the gall to cause Saint's arrest and  detention after that humiliating ordeal?

Exactly what does the GJA intend to do about that high-handed and abominable  monstrosity perpetrated by Nana Akuamoah Sekyim, I ask? At the very least the medîa must shine its collective spotlight on Nana Nana Tetre Akuamoah Sekyim's businesses: and find out whether or not they  are compliant with all the regulatory requirements that businesses are supposed to meet.

Furthermore, the media must also find out who Nana Tetre Akuamoah Sekyim has sold the lands he holds in  trust for his people to since he became their Paramount Chief - and demand that he renders an  account  of all such monies  to his people publicly. Period.

That will be a good lesson to  impart to other Chiefs tempted to abuse the human rights of journalists in Ghana - and make them think twice before  embarking on such a foolish course of action: in what after all is a constitutional democracy in which sovereignty resides in the citizenry. Haaba.

Finally, if the employees of Accra's Radio Gold FM do a little creative thinking, they will find that by getting the company  that owns the radio station that employs them to sell the station to them for a token GHc100, if they then subsequently approach the National Communications Authority (NCA) with a plan to pay the debt Radio Gold FM owes it in instalments (say GHc 600,000 annually) it will put the NCA in an impossible situation and force it to allow them to operate and save their jobs that way.

They must then embark on a global  fundraising campaign by offering free adverts in return for cash donations from the general public here and in other nations around the world to enable them retire that crippling GHc61 million (and still counting, incredibly) NCA debt - and shame those criticism-averse politicans behind the NCA's egregious unreasonableness:  who secretly seek to create a tyranny-of-the-majority situation in our democracy by manipulating the system from the shadows, and who above all, want to silence dissenting viewpoints in Ghana. Sod them.

That is how if they think creatively Accra's Radio Gold FM's employees can turn an apparent corporate disaster into a golden business opportunity for themselves. Hmm, Oman  Ghana - eyeasem o: asem kesie ebeba debi ankasa.