Packing Ghana's Secret Services With Ruling Party Goons Will Always Generate Unpleasant Blowbacks - And Is Best Avoided

"A popular Government, without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but the Prologue to a Tragedy or a Farce; or, perhaps both."

                            - James Madison.

What is it about the advice of regime-advisors, who have had considerable influence over successive regimes in Ghana, since the overthrow of President Nkrumah, in 1966, which, in the fullness of time, resulted in supposedly strategic decisions taken by governments of the day that eventually ended up being farcical, as well as embarrassing let-down-failures?

The question we must ponder over is: Why, when we face what is a national emergency, akin to a war situation (in the relentlessly upwardly-moving COVID-19 positive-test-case-count figures), are some of those decent and honest individuals around President Akufo-Addo (who happen to be in his inner-circle, too), not standing up to the destructive-and-bumbling-hawks in the New Patriotic Party (NPP), at a critical juncture in our history, when good sense ought to prevail in all the present regime's decision-making?

Alas, today, the NPP's hawks have become so power-drunk, and dominant, in their party that they now equate the national interest (whatever promotes the welfare of the vast majority of the citizenry, and secures the well-being of Mother Ghana, at any given point in time), with what redounds to the parochial interests of their sodden party, and the self-seeking-net-worth stealth-ends, they seek themselves, as greed-filled-individuals.

That is why when the deployment of AI-camera-carrying drones linked to Command Centres nationwide, could effectively police all our nation's borders, without any unnecessary fear-creating-drama, which gives the government a bad image globally, in the comity of democratic nations, very-hard-to-find cash, is now being needlessly wasted on deployed security personnel, sent to our border with Togo, to aid and abet a secret-voter-suppression-agenda, set by the NPP's hawks.

Ironically, the tragedy for Mother Ghana, is that those hypocritical and power-drunk-individuals, don't actually believe in democracy, but in reality, are contemptuous of it, as a system of government.

The plain truth, is that they are greedy-oligarchs, who think that Ghana is a plutocracy, cloaked as a democracy, operated for the benefit of the powerful in society. If only they had the intellect, to understand the untold harm their egregious high-handedness is causing to our democracy's well-deserved international reputation, as a good-governance-beacon in sub-Sahara Africa. Pity.

According to bush-telegraph sources, an egregious example of the results of the abomination that the packing of our secret services with the myrmidon-thugs of the private militias of some of the NPP's hardliners, represents, which is now being pointed out by the Akufo-Addo regime's critics, who are clearly conspiracy-theorists, is the massive intelligence failure that resulted in the demolition of a property in Osu, belonging to the Nigerian High Commission in Ghana, not too long ago.

The question we must all ponder over is: Why did our secret services not know that that was going to eventually happen, if the corrupt officials in the head office of the Lands Commission, were not stopped in their tracks, when they allowed the registration of part of the 4-acre land on which that Nigerian government property was built?

Futheremore, how do we know that the demolition was not meant to embarrass the government, by raising the ire of the Federal Government of Nigeria, at this stage in the campaign for the December 2020 presidential and parliamentary elections?

The moral of that shameful and unfortunate outcome, is that: As a governing party, if you destroy the ethos of professionalism, which ought to underpin the work of our secret services, by packing it with party goons, there will be embarrassing blowbacks, aplenty, alas. Hmmmm, Oman Ghana, eyeasem ooooo. Enti yewieye paaa enei? Asem kesie ebeba debi ankasa. Hmmmm. Yooooo...

Hon. Kojo Yankah: Those Gang-Raping Mother Nature In Ghana Neither Deserve Our Respect Nor Our Consideration

As cultured Africans, we ought to show our Elders respect, even when we disagree with them. Agreed. Ideally, that ought to be the case, Kojo. But when our Elders are driven by unfathomable greed, and sell the birthright of even our unborn generations,  they forfeit the respect of our younger generations. Full stop.

The ongoing destruction of what is left of our natural capital, for example, is a crime against the whole of humankind, which even God Almighty, who has patience that is never ending,  is also very, very angry about - and will punish many for, eventually.

All those behind it, who are now profiting so mightily from it, at society's expense, neither deserve our respect, nor our consideration, oooo,  Massa. All decent folk who see clearly what is going on,  ought to curse them too,  and pray that they roast in the hottest part of hell, when they die. Haaba.

In the final analysis, one has to agree with those environmental activists, who posit that it is middle-class Ghana's egregious  hypocrisy, and studied-refusal to get off the fence, and face those gang-raping Mother Nature, squarely, which is slowly destroying the very basis of the good-life-for-all that a healthy and thriving natural environment, makes possible.

Nothing in this world, can possibly justify the ongoing brutal gang-rape of Mother Nature, in our homeland Ghana. Period. Hmmmm, Oman Ghana, eyeasem, ooooo - enti yewieye paaa enei? Asem kesie ebeba debi ankasa. Hmmm.Yooooo...

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Time To Call Spades, Spades - Not Gardening and Construction Industry Implements

Recent events have made me more determined than ever, to invest all the money I will be generating from dividends from my small stake (worth billions of dollars) in Raphael Afordoanyi's serendipitous game-changing clean power invention, in running for President, in 2024. Ditto sponsoring brilliant young achievers, as independent parliamentary candidates, in constituencies nationwide.

Some of us are now tired of being diplomatic. Henceforth, we are taking the gloves off - and will start calling spades, spades: not gardening and building site implements. Full stop. The plain truth is that our homeland Ghana is led by greedy and ignorant fools.

The latest wheeze, the so-called community gold mining concessions policy, is just a too-clever-by-half-ruse, designed to allow NPP supporters to replace the moronic NDC supporters, who were profiting mightily, during the Mahama-era, from the crime against humanity that galamsey represents.

As someone from a family that is one of the largest freehold landowners, in Akyem Abuakwa, I curse all our stupid ruling-élites, for not thinking about our younger generations and their children's unborn offspring, and failing to ensure the protection of our nation's natural heritage - and, a priori, consequently taking active steps to protect Mother Ghana's priceless natural capital.

The question is: Why does it never occur to these morons, that Ghana's natural capital, could become the bedrock upon which a new green low-carbon development model (to create wealth that stays in Ghana, and jobs galore for our dynamic younger generations), in the post-COVID-19 era, could be anchored? Fools, and idiot-geniuses. Yabr3 mu. Nkwasiasem, aaaaaa, kwa! Haaba.

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Another Quick Note To Richard Evans - Australia's Mirreco's Brilliant And Dynamic CEO

Hello Richard,

July beckons. Thank goodness international travel will soon  be possible again - and you can make it to London as planned. In the interim, one hopes that all is well with Mirreco - and those who work for it. Not an easy time for productive ventures, the COVID-19 era  - but one still strives to be productive, nonetheless.

Please find below the copied and pasted email, which I sent to one of the founders of the  Dutch Tiny House Movement, Marjolein Jonker. It speaks for itself.

Incidentally, there is huge potential for Mirreco in Guinea Bissau - which now has a reformist-minded leadership that wants to transform their society into an African equivalent of the egalitarian societies of Scandinavia. They are keen to replicate your business model there to create wealth and jobs for their younger generations.

Look forward to hearing from you soon, after you read the copied and pasted email to Marjolein Jonker. Please read on:


Hello Marjolein,

Alas this Ghanaian writer neither  understands nor speaks the Dutch language. Is there an English version of your famed  blog?

We are looking into the feasibility of creating a model tiny house town, using industrial hemp blocks - with land from my family's Eastern Region-based land portfolio. We are hoping to eventually approach the Australian company, Mirreco, to help us do so. I have copied their CEO to alert him.

We are also in touch with the Amilcar Cabral Foundation  (named after the nationalist leader and founding father of Guinea-Bissau, Amilcar Cabral),  in Guinea Bissau, about a similar project there,  with Mirreco - which is why  I have copied the foundation's director, Mr. Abdul Valido Sano, too.

Finally, it would be marvellous if we could stay in touch, and also collaborate with your organisation, going forward into the future.

Thanks.

Kind regards, 

Kofi.

WhatsApp: +233576564600.

Time To Investigate And Expose The Mafia-Types Terrorising The Mostly-Cowed Population Of Liberian Refugees In Gomoa Buduburam's Camp Liberia?

World Refugee Day was celebrated a few days ago, on Saturday, June 20, 2020. On the day in question, reading a story about Uganda's refugee population, from the online version of the publication, Africa Renewal, by Sulaiman Momodu, entitled: "Uganda stands out in refugee hospitality"(https://www.un.org/africarenewal/magazine/december-2018-march-2019/uganda-stands-out-refugees-hospitality), as a passionate and committed Pan-Africanist, I couldn't help but feel ashamed of being a Ghanaian.

Alas, unlike their counterparts in Uganda, the plight of Liberian refugees in Ghana's Central Region's Gomoa  Buduburam Camp Liberia refugee settlement area, amounts to a litany-of-woes-existence - in marked contrast to the happy and fulfilled lives apparently experienced by the well-cared-for refugees in Uganda's 234 square kilometre Bidi Bidi refugee settlement area, in the northwestern part of Uganda. 

Hospitable Uganda,  apparently hosts the biggest population of refugees,  in the whole of Africa. To quote Sulaiman Momodu:"Though poor, Uganda is the largest refugee-hosting country in Africa, with over a million refugees, most of them from South Sudan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Burundi and Somalia. Kenya, Sudan, DRC and Ethiopia are also among the top refugee-hosting countries on the continent.'

Sadly, so egregious are the complaints by  many of the remaining Liberian refugees, about their maltreatment by some of the  officials working in the Ghana Refugee Board's local settlement office, in Camp Liberia, that an independent investigation by forensic auditors, who aren't part of the UN system, must be carried out immediately.  

Such a forensic audit, is the only means of enabling the reputations of the good and fair-minded officials, at the local Camp Liberia Ghana Refugee Board office,  to be protected and saved. 

A forensic audit into exactly how the trillions of Ghana cedis, pumped into Camp Liberia, since its establishment, by the United Nations High Commission for Refugees  (UNHCR), has been spent,  is very, very important, in PR terms, for the image of both the head offices of the UNHCR and Ghana Refugee Board, as well as their hardworking and diligent employees,  whom one assumes, are all decent folk.

That selfsame forensic audit, will doubtless expose the abominable and unspeakable criminal activities, which bush-telegraph sources claim, are being engaged in by  the Mafia-types, terrorising the mostly-cowed remaining population of Liberian refugees, who have opted to be integrated into Ghanaian society (and most of whom are apparently too frightened of the ruthless and murderous rogues to even talk to the media).  

According to bush-telegraph sources, they are the ones profiteering from: the flourishing and lucrative business of renting out  'abondoned'  homes and other structures in Camp Liberia; the trade in substituting Ghanaians,  Nigerians and Togolese nationals, for Liberian refugees approved for resettlement overseas;  prostitution rings; illegal drugs;  etc., etc. If the allegations are true, then the Camp Liberia Mafiosi must be exposed and punished - by being prosecuted and jailed for what amounts to racketeering.  Yoooo. Hmmm, Oman Ghana eyeasem ooooo - enti yewieye paaa enei? Asem kesie ebeba debi ankasa.

Will Registering Ghanians For A New Voters Register Lead To A Spike In Positive COVID-19 Test Cases Nationwide?

As a people, are we playing with fire, and sleepwalking to a catastrophe of apocalyptic proportions, with our insouciance, in the face of a deadly global COVID-19 pandemic?  

According to him, all the absurd and inane claims about the strict enforcement of COVID-19 containment protocols, have been shown to be just that - absurdities and inanities: "Shame on all of them, Kofi!" I concur. Wholeheartedly. Case closed.

He went on to say: "You can bet your last worthless Ghana cedi, that the same foolishness will be exposed, when students in second cycle institutions and at the tertiary level, go back to their schools and universities. Furthermore, Kofi, were bedbug-infestations not a regular feature of life in today's boarding schools, only yesterday, before we carelessly allowed COVID-19 to sneak into our country? In the same vein, they will become hotspots of coronavirus infections, too, as sure as day follows night, oooo, Massa." True, alas, in one's humble view.

He is absolutely right of course - for all the good work of President Akufo-Addo's government will be undone: and COVID-19 positive-cases will spike, as the many careless people who ignored social distancing protocols, and also failed to wear nose masks, when they went to vote in the NPP parliamentary primaries, today, begin to fall ill in droves.

The question is: Were the outrageous disregard for the sodden COVID-19 containment protocols, shown during the NPP primaries to select the party's parliamentary candidates for this year, not proof positive that registering Ghanaians for a new voters register, is sheer madness - and that it will lead to a spike in COVID-19 positive tests, nationwide? Yooooo...

A Brief Note To Senior Kwaku Bio - A Fellow Old Boy Of Prempeh College

Senior Kwaku Bio, you are indeed spot on - in terms of what is, now, today, that is. But we bury our heads in sand, over the matter of switching to a low carbon green economy, to the detriment of your generation, in the longterm, alas.

The fact of the matter, is that if we continue to refuse to accept global realities, Ghana will be left far behind, a decade hence. Mark that on a wall, somewhere,  Senior Kwaku Bio. I will probably not be alive then, but will definitely be a skeleton in the Anatomy Department, of the  University of Ghana Medical School, to which I have donated my body, when I die. Cool.

The question is: Can the march of progress be halted permanently in Africa? One doubts that very much - Africa's  super-wealthy Dangotes' oil refineries, and the continent's  fossil fuel sector's power and baleful influence, not withstanding.

Whatever be the case,  EVs are the future globally, and clean  emission-free off-grid stand-alone power plants,  will enable nations to be powered 100 percent, by cheap emission-free green clean-power (that is even cheaper than nuclear power, and has no super-dangerous radioactive waste to boot, on top too, oooo, Massa!). 

Running away from those facts of life, in tomorrow's world, could impoverish Ghanaians and their nation, in the final analysis, in the 2030s. For sure. Peace and blessings to you, Senior Kwaku Bio. Always enjoyable sparrig with you cognitively. Long live Prempeh College, our alma mater.  Wish you well, as always -  and do stay safe!

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COVID-19 Is An Apocalyptic-Existential-Threat To The Republic Of Ghana - Not A Kickback-Harvesting-Opportunity For Our Ruling-Élites

What are we hearing? That some returnees arriving back to Ghana, will be paying to be quarantined in hotels themselves, upon their return home from trips abroad? Ebeiii. Is this not yet another example of the egregious-idiocy of our ruling élites?
 
It is outrageous to demand that any category of those returning home to Ghana from overseas trips - to a nation in which many self-employed citizens have lost their micro-enterprises, and most people are struggling to survive - should pay to be quarantined in selected hotels. Incredible. Abominable. Unspeakable. Unpardonable.

The question that every discerning Ghanaian citizen ought to ponder over is: Why burden ordinary hardworking people, who clearly are adventurous nation-builder-types, so - merely for being bold and ambitious enough to dare to venture abroad for whatever initiative-taking-reason that led them overseas, in the first place?

Furthermore, why do our sodden ruling-élites not see that COVID-19 can eventually destroy our national economy and, a priori, ought therefore to be seen as an existential threat, by all our leaders - who must not take chances with dealing with its containment: and thus must readily pay for the quarantine of all returnee-Ghanaians, simply to ensure that they can be easily monitored upon their re-entry into Ghana from trips overseas? Haaba.

Let there be no doubt about this: If we are serious about actually containing COVID-19, then, as an emergency measure to stop what is an incurable virus, from eventually overwhelming our healthcare system, and also destroying our national economy on top of that, the Ghanaian nation-state ought to find the money to pay for the cost of every returning individual Ghanaian citizen's quarantine. Full stop.

No Ghanaian politician, or senior public servant, should be allowed to see this as yet another state-capture-opportunity - to enable them select hotels belonging to their cronies, who then get the once-in-a-lifetime awoof-business-opportunity, to engage in egregious-profiteering: at the expense of hapless returnee-Ghanaians, and harvest endless COVID-19 kickback-opportunities in the process. No. No. No. How cynical can our mostly-selfish politicians get, I ask? Haaba.

Our sly and greed-filled political class must be forced to stop seeing COVID-19 as a massive kickback-harvest-time-opportunity - and, for once, start seeing the actual-on-the-ground-reality it represents: an apocalyptic-existential-threat to the very existence of the Republic of Ghana. Haaba. Hmmmm, Oman Ghana, eyeasem, ooooo - enti yewieye paaa enei? Asem kesie ebeba debi ankasa. Hmmmm. Yooooo...

A Ghanaian Inventor To Power The World With 100 Percent Emission-Free Cheap Clean Power That Never Goes Off?

Many mocked us, when some of us predicted that Ghana's oil and gas industries would soon be valueless, as investments - and  that staking our future on it was shortsighted and not so prudent. Yoooo...

Then they called us ignorant fools, when we  asked that Raphael Afordoanyi's serendipitous game-changing clean power invention, be supported, to turn his clean power company into a Ghana-domiciled emission-free green clean-power global behemoth, powering all the world's nations with cheap 100 percent clean power, that never goes off, and, is even cheaper than nuclear power (sans the never-ending danger of radioactive nuclear waste that will remain dangerous for thousands of years!). Yoooo...

Furtheremore,  as an answer to us  ignorant fools, the super-clever-mockers, are now  saying that Ghana, a nation in which high-level corruption has led to a plethora of  shoddily-built  and badly maintained infrastructure, is going to  be powered by nuclear power, and that come hell or high water, a nuclear power plant will be built in Ghana, within a ten-year time-frame.  Yooooo...

Finally, now that we, the ignorant fools,  have secured an offtaker agreement to power a sister African state 100 percent, with Raphael Afordoanyi's serendipitous game-changing clean power invention, we are being asked why we did not focus on Ghana first. 

Amazing.

Well, truth be told, we  are not  nearly as foolish as the super-clever-mockers think we are, ooooo. We shall be domiciled elsewhere, where we are being welcomed with open arms, and eventually end up  powering  the entire  world with 100 percent emission-free green clean-power - and finally save humanity from reaching the climate change tipping-point-of-no-return: and become heroes and citizens of the world, not just mocked and despised Ghanaian citizens. Cool

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Younger Generation Ghanaians Must Reject Cynicism

Senior Kwaku Bio, many thanks indeed for sharing the Facebook post by Mokate Ashu (https://www.facebook.com/1052043184/posts/10220614143797506/?app=fbl.). Very interesting.

As someone from a generation, whose ruling élites have let our nation and its people down, so tragically, with such dreadful consequences, I urge the brightest and best of our younger generations, not to allow the cynicism underpinning the moral, which the recounted anecdotal stories are clearly meant to put across, to infect them. One assumes that  that is also the objective of Mr, Mokate Ashu in sharing that post on his wall? One certainly hopes so.

In any case, Ghana's younger generations must  reject the monstrous notion that one must look on unconcerned, when a society is being ruined, because that society is full of selfishness and self-seeking  -  that mould the character of the average person: who collectively thus invariably end up being ingrates. That is how the miasma of  brutish-cruelty,  and egregious selfless, envelope societies - eroding their moral fabric in the process.

The question we must all ponder over is: Does real and lasting change in most societies, not occur, because a few courageous individuals with consciences, who are always guided by their moral compasses, decide that the common good is worth sacrificing their all, for, and thus get  off the fence, and opt to fight for a better world: even at the peril of their lives, as countless Nelson Mandela-types have done around the world and brought about real and lasting change? Young Ghanaians must reject cynicism. Always. Cool.


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A Quick Note To Akora Kyei - Of The Eco-Conscious Citizens Group

Opanin, with respect, surprising though it might be to some, in as far as the issue of  protecting the remainder of our nation's natural  heritage is concerned, President Akufo-Addo has done exactly what he promised to do, ooooo. Let us be clear about this: if he has failed, in protecting ecosystems and biodiversity, then it is our collective failure, Massa.

When you live in a nation in which calling foolish politicians, and moronic high government officials, stupid, invariably elicits the inane-strictures of clueless and puffed-up media professionals (who think one is being insulting, in calling a spade a spade, incredibly), we must not expect corrupt regulatory officials to fear public opprobrium, and, a priori, implement the president's appointees' directives, on the ground, so to speak, where it actually matters.

In other words, we ought to partly blame the misplaced sensibilities of idiot-gatekeepers, on the airwaves of television and radio stations across our homeland Ghana, who think one is being insulting, in calling a spade a spade, incredibly. That, in a sense, shields  corrupt regulatory officials, round the clock, sometimes, as one can't call them fools, even when their foolishness harms the natural environment.

With respect, one knows what one  is talking about in this matter: for, one's family, actually owns a fair bit of land across Ghana's Eastern Region (alas, one is the type of old-fogey, often referred to, by some, as being very, very cash poor, but super-rich, asset-wise), including a small part of the Atewa Range upland evergreen rainforest, on a freehold basis.

Consequently, one understands perfectly, what is actually happening on the ground, so to speak - as regards the many crimes-against-humanity, which the wanton environmental-vandalism that we are now seeing, across most of the landmass of Ghana, represents, more than most Ghanaians do, in this crazy nation of ours.

That is why, although one loathes the party he leads, with a passion, President Akufo-Addo, on a purely human level, happens to have one's support 100 percent - because one knows how hard he has tried to halt the destructive-abomination we are now lumbered with: with vast swathes of the Ghanaian countryside poisoned with heavy metals and toxic chemicals.

It is the perfidy of greedy and influential political figures, in both constituent parties of the NPP/NDC duopoly, who should be blamed, not President Akufo-Addo - whom one knows for a fact, actually cares about the natural environment: because he happens to be a caring and sensitive human being.

And, from personal experience, one understands perfectly that as long as criminal-types can bankroll political parties in Ghana, without any sanctions against them, whatsoever, and successfully launder their off-ledger-generated cash, and also become influential party executives, on top, too, our nation will eventually lose all its forest cover, within the next 20 years.

So please leave President Akufo-Addo out of this matter, wai, Massa. I speak as a targetted victim, whose family did everything possible to halt the gang-rape of the freehold 14-square mile rainforest  property it owns, at the Akyem Juaso section, of the Atewa Range, but was unsuccessful, because the galamsayers and illegal loggers destroying our land, were backed by some NDC politicians, in the Mahama-era, who hated me so, for criticising them in relentless fashion.

In any case, to prevent such crimes from continuing to occur, when I eventually become President in January, 2025 (with the help of the zillions expected from my small stake in the serendipitous game-changing clean power invention, of the brilliant Ghanaian inventor, Raphael Afordoanyi), I shall make it possible, by executive order, for the security agencies to shoot all illegal loggers, illegal gold miners, and illegal sandwinners, on sight. Full stop.

Massa, that is the only way to save what is left of our natural heritage. No endless pussyfooting around, and daft-mollycoddling, of the heartless criminals, making us all so miserable, with such impunity, with the active connivance of regulatory officials - when I lead Ghana, and make it a paradise for the law-abiding, and a hell-on-earth, for sundry criminal-types. Simple. Case closed. Full stop, Massa. Cool. Hmmm, Oman Ghana, eyeasem ooooo. Enti yewieye paaa enei? Asem kesie ebeba debi ankasa. Yooooo...

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A Quick Note To Akora Kyei - Of The Eco-Conscious Citizens Group

Opanin,  with respect, surprising though it might be to some,  President Akufo-Addo has done exactly what he promised,  ooooo. Let us be clear about this: if he has failed, in protecting our natural heritage, then it is our collective  failure,  Massa.

When you live in a nation in which calling foolish  politicians, and moronic  high government officials,  stupid, invariably  elicits the inane-strictures of clueless and puffed-up media professionals (who think one is being insulting, in calling a spade a spade, incredibly), don't expect corrupt  regulartory officials to fear public opprobium, and, a priori,  implement the president's appointees' directives, on the ground, so to speak,  where it actually matters. 

In other words, we ought to partly blame the misplaced sensibilities of idiot-gatekeepers, on the airwaves of television and radio stations across our homeland Ghana, who shield the corrupt regulartory officials, round the clock, that way, wai.

With respect, as someone whose family owns a fair bit of land across Ghana's Eastern Region (one is the type of old-fogey, often referred to as being very, very  cash poor,  but super-rich asset-wise, alas), including a small part of the Atewa Range upland evergreen rainforest, on a freehold basis, Massa,  one  understands perfectly,  what is actually  happening on the ground,  so to speak - as regards the crimes-against-humanity, which the wanton environmental-vandalism that we are now seeing across mist if the landmass if Ghana,  represents,   more than most Ghanaians do, in this crazy nation of ours, wai, Massa.

That is why, although I loathe the party he leads, with a passion, President Akufo-Addo, on a purely human level, happens to  have my support 100 percent - because I know how hard he has tried to halt the destructive-abomination we are now lumbered with, wai, Massa. 

It is the perfidy of greedy and influential political figures, in both constituent parties of the NPP/NDC duopoly, who should be blamed, not President Akufo-Addo, who one know for a fact,  actually cares about the natural environment - because he happens to be a caring and sensitive human being.

And,  from personal experience  (for instance, one did everything possible to halt the gang-rape of one's family's freehold 14-square mile rainforest property, at the Akyem Juaso section, of the Atewa Range, but was unsuccessful, because the galamsayers and illegal loggers were backed by NDC politicians, in the Mahama-era,  who hated me so, for criticising them in relentless fashion), I understand perfectly that as long as criminal-types can bankroll political parties in Ghana, without any sanctions against them, ever, and successfully launder their off-ledger-generated  cash, and also become influential party executives, on top, too, our nation will eventually lose all its forest cover, within the next 20 years. 

So please leave President Akufo-Addo out of this, wai, Massa.

In any case, to prevent that from happening, when I eventually  become President in January, 2025 (with the help of the zillions expected from my small stake in the serendipitous game-changing clean power invention, of the brilliant Ghanaian inventor, Raphael Afordoanyi, I shall make it possible, by executive order, for the security agencies to shoot all illegal loggers,  illegal gold miners, and illegal sandwinners, on sight. Full stop.  

Massa, that is the only way to save what is left of our natural heritage, wai. No endless pussyfooting  around, and daft-mollycoddling,  of the heartless criminals making us all so miserable,  with such impunity, with the active connivance of regulatory officials - when I lead Ghana,  and make it a paradise for the law-abiding, and a hell-on-earth, for sundry criminal-types.  Simple.  Case closed.  Full stop,  Massa. Cool. Hmmm, Oman Ghana, eyeasem ooooo. Enti yewieye paaa enei? Asem kesie ebeba debi ankasa. Yooooo...

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Ghana's Aspirational And Brilliant Younger Generations Must Speak Out Against Our Forever-Bickering Politicians

We have reached a very, very dangerous moment in our history, when all decent-minded and discerning Ghanaian citizens, ought to condemn,  in no uncertain terms, the unpardonable and abominable  insouciance, of the ruthless hardliners of the forever-bickering NPP/NDC duopoly's constituent entities.

The reality of our current situation, as an aspirational and mostly-tolerant-society, is that we are in the midst of a public health emergency, involving a highly infectious COVID-19 global pandemic (with over 10,000 cases, thus far), which, if not effectively contained,  could infect millions of our people, and kill hundreds of thousands of Ghanaians. Literally.

If COVID-29 has the potential to bring our nation to it knees, while wrecking and more or less permanently crippling our national economy, by setting it back decades, then one's humble advice to our younger generations, is to look at the bigger picture  - and opt for electing to protect Mother Ghana from unreasonable, selfish and greed-filled individuals-with-hidden-agendas.

When menacing COVID-19 is actually threatening their collective future, they must be brave,  and loving of their nation, and all its people,  in this matter, by showing their disapproval of what is the bane of our country's politics: unproductive-parochial-politricks - at what is so obviously a danger-laden juncture, in our beleaguered nation's history.

After all,  it is their future that is is at stake, is it not? Literally. That is why Ghana's  aspirational and brilliant younger henerations must now speak out against our forever-bickering politicians. Simple.  Yooooo... Hmmmm, Oman Ghana, eyeasem ooooo - enti yewieye paaa enei? Asem kesie ebeba debi ankasa.

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Is Compiling A New Voters Register In The Midst Of An Infectious Global Pandemic Not Irresponsible, Amoral And Unpardonable?

If we lived in normal times, compiling a new voters register, would be a no-brainer, and the vast majority of Ghanaians would have been very supportive of the Electoral Commission (EC), in its plans for a new voters register. 

However, these are not normal times, alas. We are faced with the deadly global COVID-19 pandemic, which  has turned our lives upside down, with its: mask-wearing; self-isolations; social distancing, quarantines; travel bans; and lockdowns crippling many small businesses, and throwing millions out of work globally.

Worst of all, it threatens to overwhelm and destroy healthcare systems, and end up infecting millions and killing hundreds of thousands, in nations such as ours. That is is worrying and frightening. 

For example,  when Italy started seeing the first reported cases of the COVID-19 global pandemic, the figures initially started off with low numbers, which rose steadily - and then got to a point where the weekly cases were being reported  in the thousands:  resulting in its healthcare system eventuallly nearly being overwhelmed. 

One is not yet aware of any intervention by God Almighty for Italy - safe for the decision of the Cuban government to send a team of the Black Cuban doctors who were welcomed by Italians as heroes for coming  to the help of their beleaguered  nation,  in her hour of extreme-need. It has had a devastating impact on Italy's economy and lowered industrial output significantly.

Alas, we are now seeing the same COVID-19 victim-case-load-count-trend, here, in our homeland Ghana, too. Hmmmm.  Yooooo...

Worryingly, recent relaxation of  the COVID-19 restrictions (such as the sanctioning of senior high school students returning to school to sit their final exams), illustrates perfectly, the complacency of our perfidious ruling élites - who seem to have forgotten, so soon, that we are all in the same boat: and that they will never be able to go abroad to be treated in  overseas healthcare facilities, were they to contract the COVID-19 virus. Yooooo...

One's fear, as the handling of the COVID-19 pandemic by the authorities,  is turned into a political football,  is that the perfect-storm-combination of the complacency of officialdom and the perfidy of cynical politicians, might result in our healthcare system being overwhelmed, by a sudden surge in the numbers of infected people nationwide.

That is why Ghanaians must stand up to those now in power, over their handling of the effort to contain the COVID-19 global pandemic's tentacles, now encircling Mother Ghana.

This blog boldly predicts that the pandemic will spread uncontrollably, across Ghana, if the concerns of the silent discerning-majority of the citizenry (about the selfish and parochial electoral-concerns of the rulung party's hardliners, being allowed to  dominate the thinking of the regime now in power - as opposed to saving our nation from being crippled economically by an out-of-control COVID-19),  are ignored. Yoooooo...

Finally, the question we must all ponder over is: If a highly infectious global COVID-19 pandemic, with steadily increasing infection rates across our country, has the potential to overwhelm our healthcare system, and collapse Ghana's national economy, is compiling a new voters register not irresponsible, amoral, unpardonable and untenable? Yooooo...

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A Quick Note To The Eco-Conscious Citizens Group's Akyaaba Addai-Sebo

Opanin Akyaaba Addai-Sebo,

Yes, when compassion for others is absent from humans, and hatred  takes over their hearts and minds, Hitler's evil deeds against the Jewish people,  as well as the egregious brutalities and abominations ofJim Crow era lynching, and the burning of Blacks alive, as spectacle, are some of the horrors  that can be wrought by minds consumed by hatred. 

Akyaaba Addai-Sebo, that indeed is why we must always remember that we are all members of the one human race, and children of the Lord God Almighty. And, in Africa, it is the selfsame hatred-of-others, which makes some Africans think that their tribes are superior. Pity.
 

Yet, the fact of the matter, is that no tribe in today's Africa, is inferior, or superior, to another, in this resurgent and increasingly prosperous continent of ours. We are Africans first and foremost. We are also all God Almighty's children -  members of one big  family, which is enriched  by a shared-heritage of diverse-ethnicity that binds us: through bloodlines and  ties of  consanquinity.

Finally, to paraphrase a sage whose name one forgets,  when it comes to humanity,  there are no others,  there is only us humand. Let us thus be guided by that in our our homeland Ghana. Peace and blessings to you Opanin - and may we all endeavour to stay safe in these troubling coronavirus times that we now inhabit.

Thanks.

Kind regards,

Uncle Kofi.

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A Quick Note To Awula Serwah Asante - Who Founded The Eco-Conscious Citizens Group

Dear Awula Serwah Asante, 

Thank you so much for your passion for conservation - and your consistent activism to save the remainder of Ghana's natural heritage: including the Atewa Forest Reserve. 

Awula Serwah, perhaps, if some of the environmental activists in our country, made hiking in great-outdoors-environments, such as our rainforests, vital parts of their exercise-regimes, it would free them from all the individual-freedom-limiting COVID-19 social-distancing-protocols, which those who exercise in gyms across Ghana, now have to observe.

The beauty of trips to hike in privately-owned rainforests is that such visits would quickly result in galamsayers, illegal loggers and illegal hunters vamoosing, pronto.

The reason for that, is because decent money would be paid to locals acting as guides, by visiting healthy-lifestyle-focused groups, such as: East Legon's, and McCarthy Hill's, exclusive executive keep-fit clubs' members; corporate team-bonding groups from corporate Ghana; and, environmental activist groups, such as your very own Eco-Conscious Citizens group, for example.

On the ground, in some fringe-forest forest communities, such regular decent-green-income-receipts, would simply mean that local youth would no longer feel the need to collude with the greedy criminal-types, currently destroying forests across Ghana - because they can earn some decent money regularly, as forest-hiking-guides and community forest guards.

That is one of the most practical ways to help protect the Atewa Forest Reserve. It might also interest you to know that in 2006, the US aluminum giant, Alcoa, paid for a rapid assessment survey, to be carried out in the Atewa Forest Reserve. The results and recommendations of that survey are available online at: RAP Bulletin No. 47.

Speaking personally, it so happens that part of my family's freehold 14-square mile upland evergreen rainforest property, in the Akyem Juaso section of the Atewa Range (a total of 99.6 acres of our land lies inside the Atewa Forest Reserve - and is referred to in the Forestry Commission's Forestry Service jargon, as an admitted farm) was included in that rapid assessment survey, by Conservation International. There is actually a pillar erected by Conservation International's researchers, during that rapid assessment survey in our property.

Our land lies in the heavily-wooded slopes of the Atewa Range. As it happens, there are unique and rare flora and fauna there, which are not found anywhere else in the world. Mr. Eugene Kofi Boakye-Yiadom, the brilliant and hardworking CEO, of the famed Legon Botanical Gardens, will confirm to you that it is indeed one of the most beautiful places he has ever been to, anywhere, on the surface of the planet Earth. So, as we say in Ghanaian pidgin English: "Over to you Joe Lartey!"

Thanks.

Kind regards,

Kofi.

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A Quick Note To Cathy Valley - A U.S. Social Liberal Who Posts On Facebook

Hello Cathy, 

If the brightest and best African-American high school students, spent their gap year before college, in stable and relatively wealthy emerging African nations, which  are also democracies, such as Ghana,  they would grow in self-confidence to the extent that racial  prejudice would be like water off a duck's back, to them, upon their return home to the U.S.  

Furthermore, it would be prudent for wealthy African-Americans to  make generous contributions to scholarship endowment funds, to enable the brightest and best African-American high school students, to attend the best privately-owned universities  (and other tertiary institutions), in stable African nations. 

World-class African tertiary institutions, such as Ghana's Ashesi University, Pentecost  University College,  African University College of Communications, Central University and Regent University College of Science and Technology, come readily to mind, in that regard.

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Surprising though it might be to some, egregious-racism in America, will gradually cease being a societal problem, and eventually  disappear, if the number of well-educated African-Americans, with abundant self-belief, increases across the U.S. 

In one's humble view, experiencing life in today's resurgent, dynamic and re-ernegised Africa, will make a huge difference to the mental outlook and worldview, of educated African-American youth.

That is why it is such a pity that no one thinks about the psycological  value of such cultural-immersion-programmes in Africa, for young African-American youth, in the quest to empower them to be self-confident, responsible and productive citizens of America.

The reputable youth-oriented NGO, SYTO Ghana, could easily  make such a youth placement and internship programme,  for young African-American high-school students, across Ghana, work smoothly, and yield the needed results, because it is the premier  youth exchange organisation in Ghana,  and one of the best-run volunteer placement and internship organisations, in the world.  Cool.

Kind regards,

Kofi.

WhatsApp:+233576564600.

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A Quick Note To Senior Kweku Bio

Years ago, some of us wrote and published  articles, online, encouraging universities to blanket their campuses with WiFi so that students could still take notes from lecturers delivering their lectures online  -  because lecture theatres (in universities strapped for cash to expand their infrastructure and facilities), were too small to take in the large  numbers of enrolled students, for sundry  courses.  We were laughed at as being full of crazy ideas. Yooooo...

And, during the Kufuor-era, we kept on repeating, in countless articles, that a poor developing nation with aspirations, could not afford not giving those with the aptitude to study, free education from kindergarten to tertiary level, if it wanted to become a prosperous and inclusive society.  Again, we were mocked and told it was an unrealistic policy idea. Thank God President Akufo-Addo eventually saw the wisdom in such a transformative policy idea - and adopted it to win the 2016 presidential election,  because it resonated with voters.  Cool.

Then we started saying that the fossil fuel industry  would suddenly lose its value as an investment. Today, that has become reality - as, for the  first time, since the oil industry started, the Rockfeller family has no oil-sector investments. Incredible.

For some  time now, we have also been publishing articles about how the fossil-fuel-powered power-generating sector, will soon tank - as the brilliant Ghanaian inventor, Raphael Afordoanyi's serendipitous emission-free  cutting-edge, off-grid clean power invention, produces electricity  that never goes off, and is priced at half current tariff rates globally, which will enable humankind to avoid reaching the climate-change-tipping-point-of-no-return.

Again, we are being mocked - and told we are crazy and ignorant  of how power  systems actually work.  Yoooooo, we shall see. As for me, my small stake in Raphael Afordoanyi's invention, when it is taken to market, will provide the zillions of Ghana cedis required to enable me fund, solid and creative types, who have world-class track-records, to stand as independent parliamentary candidates - so that when I win the presidential election, in December 2024, they will deliver the legislation needed to underpin the common-good people and environment-centred policies, we will implement,  which are needed to transform Ghana into a happy nation in which all who are citizens, lack nothing.

Finally, there are some, who think we are jokers, who will eat humble pie, when we become President in 2024. Hmmmm, Oman Ghana eyeasem ooooo - enti yewieye paaa enei? Asem kesie ebeba debi ankasa. Yooooooo.  Cool.

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Another Quick Note To Hon. Kojo Yankah

Hon. Kojo Yankah, if Ghana bans the importation and use of all synthetic and chemical agricultural inputs, and legislates for the sole usage of  Apostle  Kojo Safo-Kantanka's natural folair fertilisers, and organic growth mediums, in farming nationwide, will we not be able to eat organic agricultural produce, going forward into the future, and strengthen our immune systems that way? Ebeiiii, Ghana.

Furtheremore, would the establishment of giant factories to produce both of those  locally made organic farming  inputs of Apostle Kojo Safo-Kantanka's,  in a public private partnership  (PPP), with the state, not make money for the government  too?

Incidentally, one gathers that, incredibly,  apparently Parliament is primed to pass the daft and definitely-not-in-the-national-interest  GMO bill into law. Amazing. Are we bonkers, anaaa a,  Massa.  No question?

The question to ponder over is: When they get  power, why do our politicians always work for vested interests, both local and foreign - when they are elected to protect the national interest  (whatever promotes the welfare of Ghanaians at any point in time)?

It is such egregious-malevolence that has made me decide to run for,  and win, the 2024 presidential election. The annoying thing, is that other nations are now fast-tracking  saving their legacy seeds, and opting to increase organic farm produce.  Are we crazy or what?  Haaba. Enough is enough.

When we come to power, we will punish all those who have helped in the #ChopGhanaSmall agenda  that has impoverished our people so - whiles a powerful and greedy few have sent their net worth to stratospheric heights: at Mother Ghana's expense. Yooooo...

Top of the list, will be those greedy and corrupt state officials, who were part of the grand-conspiracy to destroy forests, hasten  biodiversity-loss, by the granting of gold concessions in the Akyem Juaso Juaso section of the Atewa Range upland evergreen rainforest, to criminal-types, such as that sodden Rasta, of Hagnela Mining Company infamy, after taking huge  bribes from such recalcitrant galamsayers. That is a promise, not a threat, oooo,  Massa. Hmmmm. Yooooo.  Eeiiii, Oman Ghana, eyeasem oooo - enti yewieye paaa enei? Asem kesie ebeba debi ankasa!

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Support The Eco-Conscious Citizens Group's #ECCEnvironmentWeekend!

Friday, 5th June, 2020, is World Environment Day. In Ghana, the Eco-Conscious Citizens group has declared Friday, 5th June, to Sunday,  7th June, 2020, as Environment Weekend. Bravo to that committed group of environmental activists. May  God Almighty bless, protect and guide all its members - for it is nature-loving  citizens like them, who in the end, will save our nation's remaining natural heritage: which is the underpinning of the nascent green economy that we must grow in the post-COVID era, to create lasting wealth and jobs galore for our younger generations.

As a people, if we want to live in a prosperous society  that enjoys the health benefits of immune-boosting fresh oxygen-laden air, then, surely, we have to ensure the protection  of Ghana's oxygen producing trees and forests - as that is the most cost-effective way to escape the fate of being condemned to live in a nation enveloped by the miasma  of polluted air, over its built-environment, which the present fossil-fuel-powered national economy has lumbered us with?

Above all, we must all support the businesses  of Ghana's cohort of  enterprising and innovative green businesspeople, such as Eugene Kofi Boakye-Yiadom, Legon Botanical Gardens'  brilliant and hardworking CEO  - an environmental-activist-hero, who has made it possible for Accra's residents to have a lovely haven of nature, where they can go to have fun, and breathe in some fresh and healthy air, in a capital city whose air-quality is steadily deteriorating: and is responsible for the spike in respiratory diseases that we are seeing across most of urban Ghana, too, today, alas. #ProtectOurForestsAndWaters. #EcoConsciousCitizensGH, mu ye bue, ankasa. This coming weekend, one wishes all Ghanaians, a very happy #ECCEnvironmentWeekend!

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A Quick Note To Stephen Agbenyo - Who Founded Savanna Signatures

My dear Stephen,

There is so much work to be done in the Gomoa Buduburam Camp Liberia refugee settlement. It strikes me that by holding the hands, so to speak, of good and hardworking young people,  like Sam, Savanna Signatures could have a positive impact, in Camp Liberia - in many aspects of the lives of the youth there: in that cultural-melting-pot-of-many-nationalities.

An example, is the wonderful work Savanna Signatures does, to ensure good menstrual hygiene for young females,  to encourage them to focus on their education. Yet, another, is the platform offered young people, by your online television station and other multimedia channels.

In my humble view, a partnership between the entities, which the two of you lead, could replicate many of Savanna Signatures' programmes, for the benefit of all the residents of Camp Liberia. That would  free them from the baleful influence of a malevolent  mafia, which it is claimed, is exploiting them ruthlessly, through divide-and-rule tactics  -  according to bush-telegraph sources. 

Apparently, the said mafia operates  behind the veils-of-respectability,  provided by the Gomoa  East District Assembly, and the Ghana Refugee Board - both of which, luckily for us, are well-led, at the highest reaches: and are  both underpinned by the good governance principles, of transparency, and, accountability. We must thank God Almighty for such small mercies - as they will definitely welcome and support any collaboration between your organisation and Sam's ICT social enterprise,  which benefits  Camp Liberia's residents. Cool.

Thanks -  and do stay safe!

Kind regards,

Uncle Kofi. 

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