On Wednesday, 18th October, 2017, the vice-president, Alhaji Mahammudu Bawumia, will inaugurate the new national digital addressing system that is said to divide the world into 5 cm squares. Interesting.
The adoption of that digital national addressing system is a huge leap forward for our nation.
Unfortunately, however, the company that Dr. Bawumia incorrectly says invented the new digital addressing system (probably because he has obviously been misinformed), the Dansoman-based Vokacom, owes Ghanaians an explanation or two.
The questuon is: Are the Vokacom genuises aware or not of the fact that the actual original inventor of the digital addressing system that they are making claims of having invented, Giles Rhys Jones, is actually offering it to the world as an app that can freely be downloaded online for use worldwide at the Google play store - and that as we speak it is already in use in Ghana by a number of international companies, NGOs and private individuals? Ditto in the Ivory Coast, Togo and Nigeria?
Furthermore, the geniuses at Vokacom must tell Ghanaians exactly what connection they have, if any, with the original inventor of the UK-based "what3words" digital addressing system, Giles Rhys Jones. Ditto why hapless Ghanaian taxpayers have to fork out as much as US$2.5 million for the code of a digital "what3words" addressing system that Ghana can pay a relatively small amount to Giles Rhys Jones,in order to use it for a national digital addressing system?
As an old wag I know said to me: "Either the Vokacom people pirated "what3words'" invention or paid to use its code and then modified the original division of the planet Earth into 3 cm squares (by the actual inventor Giles Rhys Jones) to 5 cm squares instead in order to enable them get away with pirating it. Bawumia hasn't a clue. How can he say Vokacom invented the "what3word" digital addressing system? What nonsense. And is he even aware of the fact that Ghana could have paid a relatively small amount to "what3words" to utilise its code for Ghana's national digital addressing system? Why are our politicians so ignorant, Kofi?"
Well, my friend the old wag can rest easy: My new weekend newspaper, The National Review, which comes out at the end of October, 2017, all things being equal, will get to the bottom of this particular matter for sure - as sure as day follows night: and if there has been any profiteering in this public procurement contract too at Mother Ghana's expense, we shall expose it when we finally start publication. Period.
Some us are thoroughly fed up with nation being constantly ripped-off by our vampire-elites. Haaba.
The genuises at Vokacom must also tell Ghanaians how they came to win the new national digital addressing system public procurement contract - and when exactly they obtained the said contract. Hmm, Ghana - eyeasem sebe o. Asem kesie ebebe debi ankasa!
Finally, the National Review (motto: Truth pursued relentlessly - and fearlessly reported!) will fight high-level corruption in Ghana in creative fashion - and expose the powerful and greedy people bleeding Mother Ghana slowly to death. Enough is enough. Haaba.
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