Friday, 5 April 2019

Is Cisco In Ghana To Fight Huawei For The Contract To Provide 5G Network Equipment?


In the fullness of time, when the history of the Akufo-Addo era is compiled, one wonders what  the verdict will  be, on the performance of Vice-President Mahammudu Bawumia,  in office. Perchance, will those who say he is insufferable,  and full of hubris, be proved right?  Hmmmm, eyeasem sebe.

So yes, as the vice-president boasted recently, Google is in Ghana - where it is able to carry out AI  research work, which it did not dare to continue carrying out any further,  in its home country,  the U.S., -  because its morally  upright  employees there, thought it an unethical and amoral enterprise: for a technology company that says it's motto is: 'Don't be evil,' to be engaged in.

At the risk of sounding presumptuous,  one's humble advice to the vice-president (whiles the going is good  - as regards Google's AI research presence here), is that the real value to unlock in our relationship with Google Ghana, is to get Alphabet to agree to digitise all Ghana's public records free of charge,  as an ongoing exercise, in perpetuity,  in exchange for Google adding the non-confidential digitised records to its search content. It is called  a win-win undertaking,  I believe.

Our all-knowing and erudite vice-president, will discover that that will be a far wiser course of action to take, in the long-run. Hmmm, Oman Ghana,  eyeasem o. As far as Cisco's entry into Ghana is concerned, there is apparently more to it than meets the eye, bush-telegraph sources allege.  One gathers that it is to enable a powerful pro-U.S.cabal in the administration, to come out on top, in the fight to win the contract  for the network equipment to underpin Ghana's  telecoms sector's migration to 5G.  Sajewa. Case closed, Huawei? Who born dog?

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