A Quick Note To Judy Calman - Who Posts On The David Attenborough For The Noble Prize Facebook Group

Bravo, Judy Calman  -  you are spot on. We humans need to stop thinking that somehow we are doing the planet Earth a huge favour, by our campaigns and advocacy, to save the world's natural environment.

In making our biosphere uninhabitable, t is humankind that is actually at risk of becoming extinct, not the earth. Full stop. We all need to understand that perfectly.

On the scale of geological time - barring it being smashed into smithereens by an object from outer space - in a few million years, our biosphere would have recovered from our barbaric-environmental-vandalism, and will be thriving again, sans homo sapiens. Simple. Not rocket science. 

Even,  I,  an old fool from a backwater, in my native  Ghana, with very little formal education, can understand that.  Before our encounter with the first Europeans (the Portuguese), in the 15th century, my ancestors lived in harmony with Mother Nature.

Sir David has devoted his entire life, to making the whole world understand,  why  living in harmony with nature, is an existential-need. In so doing, we are only ensuring that we do not end up making our biosphere uninhabitable for humanity.

Let us hope that the Noble Committee, recognises Sir David's distinguished  service, to humankind, in that regard, and finally  honours him with a Noble Peace Prize. Happy holidays - and may 2021 turn out to be much better year than the annus horribilis that 2020 was!

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Why Public Demonstrations Against the EC Isn't Clever Strategy

A neighbour asked me, a few days ago, why I was so critical of the National Democratic Congress' (NDC) public demonstrations,  against the Electoral Commission (EC). My answer to her, was that when dealing with evil politicos (who have become power-drunk, and seek to hang on to power, at all costs, after recieving a drubbing in an election),  organising public demonstrations is simply not clever.

In such situations, public demonstrations, only present the thieves-in-high-places, seeking a return to power, again,  regardless, with the opportunity to infiltrate those public demonstrations with agent-provocateur-types, who resort to violence in order to discredit what are meant to be peaceful demonstrations. Ghanaians don't like violent public demonstrations. Full stop. Case closed.

If I were an NDC member (God forbid! ),  I would rather be focusing on collaborations with overseas common-good organisations, such as the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists  (ICIJ), for a number of desired-achievable-objectives.

For example, a collaboration  with the ICIJ, can be used successfully, by the NDC, to follow the paper-trail, if any exist, for offshore  cash payments, made to buy the 2020 elections. This is not rocket science,  oooo. Yooooooo...

And, subsequently,  using ICIJ members in the Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) member-states, after unearthing vital evidence, will enable the NDC to petition their governments, to indict any Ghanaians involved in that egregious, and, treasonable act, of colluding-to-sell-a-national-election. Simple. 

The question for the NDC to ponder over is: Do all those  high-ups, in Ghanaian officialdom, who were allegedly bribed (according to bush-telegraph sources),  to sell the 2020  elections, not have ill-treated minions, serving them in their offices, anaaa? Hmmm, eyeasem, ooooo... 

Furthermore, do those ill-treated minions, not know lots of  top-secret-things-paaapa, anaaaa, and will they not willingly let the cat out of the bag, so to speak, if they knew about the existence of a well-endowed reward-fund, set up by the wealthiest NDC supporters, specifically to handsomely reward all those who provide credible information, about the stealing of the 2020 elections? Yoooooo...

There is no question that such a strategy,  by the NDC, will help secure convictions, in OECD member-nations' law courts. That is because those ill-treated minions, will happily sing, paaaa - faced with the prospect of also being in a position to finally get rich too: like their arrogant and disdainful bosses. I believe it is called the Adidigya-betrayal-syndrome, Massa. Simple. Public demos  are old hat in such situations, oooo, wai. Yoooooo...

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Has The Time Now Come To Take Heads of Ghana's Security Agencies To The ICC?

Has the time now come to take the Military High Command, the IGP and the heads of all the other security agencies, to the International Criminal Court (ICC)? The National Democratic Congress (NDC), on behalf of the people of Ghana, ought to collaborate with organisations like the World Federalist Movement,  and the Institute for Global Policy, to hold the Military High Command, the IGP and the heads of all the security agencies, directly responsible, for the killings resulting from the deliberate  use of live ammunition, against those protesting against illegalities in the Techiman South constituency. Enough is enough.

The profession of arms is a noble one. By adopting a three-monkeys-stance, and allowing the recruitment into the National Security apparatus, of vicious myrmidon-thugs, from two privately-owned militias, the notorious Delta Force, and the Invincible Forces, who were allegedly kitted out in military and police uniforms, for the 2020 elections,  according to bush-telegraph sources, the Military High Command, the IGP and the heads of all the other security agencies, allowed the honour of their organisations to be prostituted, in the most egregious of fashions. Pity.

It is obvious that only international opprobium, today, will ensure that in future, those heading the Ghana Armed Forces, the Ghana Police Service, the Ghana Immigration Service, the Ghana Prison Service, the Custom,  Excise and Preventitive Service, of the Ghana Revenue Authority, and the Ghana Fire Service, will act to prevent such atrocities from occurring, during presidential and parliamentary elections, by acting professionally, at all  material times.

Those heading those security agencies today, will be judged to have been on the wrong side of history,  by future generations. They will therefore be condemned, in the strongest possible terms, by Providence, for standing by, and allowing those in power, today, to commit such crimes against humanity,  merely to rig an election to enable them hang on to power.  

Yet, the New  Patriotic Party  (NPP), could have won this election,  easily, and, by a landslde margin, if they had acted resolutely, to root out high-level corruption,  as promised, during the campaign for the December 2020 presidential and parliamentary elections -  a promise which contributed a great deal to winning them power. 

Sadly, in the event, they ended up as the most corrupt regime, ever, thus far, in the history of the 4th Republic, despite the government being led by a personally incorruptible President, whose legacy, easily makes Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, the next best most-effective-elected-leader, since the overthrow of the great President Nkrumah (of blessed memory), in 1966.  Shame on them.

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Did God Almighty Battle To Miraculously Shelve The Agyapaapabi-Assaaseyaa-Jersey-SPAC-Heist Permanently?

If God Almighty hadn't intervened, as  sure as day follows night, Agyapa Royalties would have ended up becoming a legal-conduit, for secretly funding the riskiest projects of the golden-princelings-and-princesses, of our county's greed-filled wealthy ruling-élites, abroad, safely out of the reach of Parliamentary scrutiny-and-oversight, ditto the scrutiny of sundry local regulatory bodies, as well as that of the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO).

Hitherto,  until technology made it a very, very risky undertaking, to do so, the Social Security and National Insurance Trust  (SNNIT), was the go-to bank-of-last resort, for funding unbankable-projects, dreamt up by respectable-looking thieves-in-high-positions in our country. Agyapa Royalties was meant to be the secret funding source, for funding such projects, waaa, waaa, waaa, waaa. Sarjewah. Who born dog? 

Onyame, entise Alata ni,  enti, the impossible happened, and the Lord battled for the NDC, to gain enough seats, in the 8th Parliament,  to permanently shelve the Agyapaapabi-Assaseyaa-Jersey-invincible-men-connection permanently. 

As some now posit, God Almighty intervened  to save hapless Ghanaians, from the clutches, of the thieves-in-high-places, whose unfathomable-greed, nearly lost President Akufo-Addo,  the presidency, and deny him the opportunity for a second term, as Ghana's leader. The question we must all ponder over is: Did God Almighty battle to miraculously shelve the Agyapaapabi-Assaaseyaa-Jersey-SPAC-heist, permanently, anaaaa?  Cool.

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Some Desirable Positive Outcomes One Hopes For In 2021

One  hopes, in 2021, that we will see more and more  gifted young Ghanaian musicians, playing songs of the type played by the ever-brilliant Ofori Amponsahs, Daddy Lumbas, the Obaapa Christys and Diana Antwi Hamiltons. 

 

One also hopes that we will see more younger generation groups, playing the kind of cosmopolitan fusion-music, with distinctly Afrocentric-underpinnings, and  also wear African-inspired  fashion-styles, on stage, when performing at live concerts, and in music videos, for their worldwide streaming audiences, like the once-famed UK-based group, Osibisa, used to wow global concert audiences with, on their world live concert tours. Cool.

Above all, one wants to see more younger  generation Ghanaian women, who are independent-young-achievers, abandoning 'human-hair-wigs', and keeping their hair short and natural. 

Ditto, quit allowing their fingernails to grow in claw-like fashion, because they are such a hideous sight, and most definitely attract all manner of bugs, on top too - and rather elect to keep them short and neatly trimmed.  Always. More ladylike,like that. Simple. 

Incidentally, wearing African print Kaba-and-slit,  makes every woman who wears one, look incredibly dignified. Full stop. Case closed. Yoooooo...

The question for young Ghanaian women-achievers-of-note  to ponder over, is: Why ruin your posture with high stiletto shoes, instead of wearing short-heeled ones, of the kind favoured by Queen Elizabeth 11,  of Great Britain, and which she  wears regularly? They are so dignified, practical and good for a woman's posture, too, on top, ooooo. Yoooooo...

Then one also hopes that the new national carrier,  will  be a public private partnership (PPP), with 70 percent to the foreign partner, which ought to be a highly reputable sheduled airline, sporting a new fleet, and blessed with worldwide point-to-point  routes, so that Accra's international airport, becomes Africa's one-open-sky-hub, with very, very affordable tickets to connect travellers to cities in all the other continents,  in our biosphere. 

  

One hopes that it will be a win-win and  ethically-anchored-PPP, with a dynamic low-cost carrier, such as Norwegian Longhaul, with Ghana using its access to the African continental free-trade area's one-open-sky (for point-to-point connections to the continent's major cities!), as 30 percent  sweat-equity. Simple. Lucrative. And, a global-image-booster-bar-none,  to attract tourists from around the globe,  to visit our beautiful homeland,  Ghana. Cool.

Those are some of my wishes for 2021 - in addition to, hopefully being in a position, by the end of the first quarter, to find sponsorship, to  enable one start a monthly,  'Kofi Thompson  hourly-podcast', from rural Ghana, amidst globally significant  endangered forest zone areas, such as Akyem Juaso.  Cool.

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An Apology To All Whom One's Writing Offended In 2020

Today,  one wishes to render a heartfelt apology, to all whom one  offended, in any of one's 2020 writing.  In similar spirit, one also forgives all who were unfair to one, too, with their responding-comments, during that period. 

One also prays for wisdom, for all our nation's ruling-élites, so that they will enable ours to remain a stable, peaceful and united African mulitiparty democracy - in which all are free to pursue their lawful desires, and can speak truth to power, when necessary, as patriots and active-responsible-citizens.


Above all, let us continue staying safe from COVID-19, by observing all the necessary protocols, whenever appropriate - and that 2021, will be a much better year, for our nation, and all her citizens. And, happy holidays, too, oooo, Ghanafuo - particularly to those whom one offended, and  now begs forgivance from! 

A Quick Note To Eugene Kofi Boakye-Yiadom - Explaining Focus Of His Brilliant Offspring

 Funny question, favourite nephew. Very.  Sorry. For your information, if asked to join the Electoral Commission HQ street-demo, by fanatical-supporters of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), in front of the Electoral Commission's HQ, your children will simply write to all the  NDC's leaders, to ask them if they are prepared to lead the protesters, personally, with their families in the  vanguard - as that is only when they will ever think about such a daft idea. 

Massa, your kids know that  the 1992 Constitution, requires that aggrieved contestants in presidential and parliamentary elections, head straight for the  law courts,  for redress, when they feel that they were robbed of victory.

Street protests inconveniencing the motoring public, and law-abiding  pedestrians going about their productive endeavours, are a waste of valuable time, in their view. Full stop. Case closed. Simple.

Your  kids aren't fools. Since their family's green economy  business is in the tourism sector, the last thing they want, are viral videos of  violent street demonstrations,  across Ghana, flooding online social media platforms, wai. That is bad for business. Who born dog?

Plus, they are neither beholden to, nor need a pesewa, from any Ghanaian politicians, too, oooo - since their family's green business is lucrative paaaaapa!   Ahhhhh, you paaaa,  do you think they are daft anaaaa? Go on demonstrations for sly and selfish self-seekers? How? For what ends? You paaaaaa. Haaba.

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Should The Accra International Press Centre Not Be Named After Tiger Eye's Ahmed Suale?

 "The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance."

                   

            - John Philpot Curran (1750-1817)

That journalists in Ghana now face increasing intimidation, is beyond dispute. To send a clear signal to would-be-tyrrants, in our homeland Ghana, perhaps the International Press Centre in Accra, ought to be named after  Ahmed Suale, the murdered Tiger Eye investigative journalist. 

In so doing, the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA), would be immortalising him, and symbolically  avenging his death, in a real sense. It will be also be a clear message to the hypocritical-cowards,  who had him murdered, that regardless of how long it takes, the media will ensure that the hunt for his murderers, never becomes a  cold-homicide-case, and that fear that they will all be eventually exposed, prosecuted and sentenced to life imprisonment, will haunt them till the end of their natural lives. 

Social standing will not save Ahmed Suale's murderers either A case in point: During the  mid-1960s, a very popular politician at the time, a Dr. Ohene Djan, who had widespread appeal amongst young people, ended up in jail, for the murder of a night-watchman. So nothing is impossible, Ghanafuo.

Finally, the question that all Ghana's patriotic and independent-minded  media professionals ought to ponder over is: Should Tiger Eye's  Ahmed Suale not be honoured, by naming the Ghana International Press Centre, after him? Hmmmm, Oman Ghana - enti, yewieye  paaaa, enei? Asem kesie, bi, ebeba debi ankasa, ooooo.  Yooooo...

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A Quick Note To Dr. Josiah Cobbah

Dear Doc,

One can feel your sense of disconcertion too. For your information, surprising though it might be for many to believe, sections of the Ghanaian media are indeed even more corrupt, than many of our nation's mostly-self-seeking political class, oooo, Massa. That is why the election-vote-auditing-issue you raise, is so important. Very.  

If they had their wits about them, most honest and principled media professionals, in Ghana,  would recall what Hon. Atta Akyea, once said, in December 2008, when they were trying to get hold of Dr. Afari Djan, in the hope of getting him to 'assist' them win the run-off, of that year's presidential election.

It will be recalled that in a secretly-recorded  meeting, at the 'Command Centre' for that unholy enterprise (in a building located along Accra's Kojo Thompson Road), which was broadcast by the brilliant Raymond Archer, in his wlldly-popular 'Election Forensics' programme, on Radio Gold FM, Hon. Atta Akyea was heard calling for intelligence reports, on the whereabouts of the then Chairperson of the Electoral Commission (EC), Dr. Afari Djan. 

Listening to the whole recording, it was obvious that the inference any intelligent person listening to them, would draw, was that Atta Akyea & Co, sought Dr. Afari Djan,  in order to pay him whatever it took, to get him to 'help' them win the run-off of that year's presidential election. Alas, in the end, Afari Djan could not be located. And he did not play Kokofu-football, either. Good man. 

It is said that leopards never change their spots. Atta Akyea also stressed the importance of ensuring cases going to court, went before the 'right judges'. 

As has Hon. Ken Ofori-Atta, who, in a secret letter to his Cabinet colleagues, predicted that Papa Kwesi Nduom would fight the revocation of GN Bank's license, in the law courts, but that because they were in power, they would prevail there too. 

And, quietely, the courts have been packed with Nana Addo's appointees, since January 2017. So, Massa, just put two and two together, wai. Then fast forward to today. Get the picture?  Hmmmm, Oman Ghana, eyeasem, oooo... 

The plain truth, is that in reality, the current EC has been very, very  proficient in disseminating  fantasies-to-hide-procurement-breaches, in press conference after press conference. Why, you might wonder?

Ask the folk at IMANI Africa, wai, Massa. Small boys are  young. Their research on the subject is unrivalled. Full stop. Case closed. Sarjewah. Dan nyiremah. Yes, Mother Ghana most certainly deserves better, Massa. And, yes, it is indeed a national disgrace that the media has failed Ghana by not thinking of getting an accounting firm to count and tally all the votes in the December 2020 presidential and parliamentary elections. One concurs with that view. Hmmm, Oman Ghana - enti, yewieye paaaa, eneiiiiii?  Asem kesie, bi, ebeba  debi, ankasa, oooo.   Yoooooo...

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A Quick Note To Members Of Ghana's Political Class

Amanfuo, what we need, is a government of national unity, made up of the finest minds from across the spectrum, to execute President Akufo-Addo's transformational-agenda. Simple.

Clearly, the vast majority of Ghanaians, like the down-to-earth-simplicity, of the incorruptible President Akufo-Addo - but abhor the insufferable arrogance of some of those around him. Case closed. That is why  it cannot be business as usual, in the President's second term, ooooo. Yoooooo...

President Akufo-Addo must remember  that it is his  legacy that the thieves-in-high-places are ruining with their greed and lack of principle. They must all go. Full stop. Yoooooo...

The President must sack all of them - for they nearly got him defeated:  when the whole world thought he  would win the presidential election by a landslide. It did not happen, did it?

As we all know, he won by a whisker instead - and skirt-and-blouse-vote-casting, reduced his  ruling party's parliamentary majority, and made them the 'minority', morally,  instead. Shame on them. 

To quote an old wag I know: 'Kofi, as committed Pan-Africanists, we are right to loathe their vile-tribal-supremacist party, wai!' Although  I support President Akufo-Addo 100 percent, I agree wholeheartedly with the old wag - which is why I voted skirt-and-blouse. As did countless other voters.

Millions of Ghanaians are fed up with high-level-corruption. Obviously. The day of reckoning will soon come, for  all those participating in the ongoing brutal gang-rape, of Mother Ghana. Hmmm, Oman Ghana - enti yewieye paaaa, enei? Asem kesie, bi, ebeba  debi ankasa, ooooo.  Yooooooo...

Are The Heads Of Ghana's Security Agencies Laying Themselves Open To Possible Prosecution by the International Criminal Court?

Watching what is a very disturbing video, several times over, one refuses to believe that the 'soldiers' and 'police men' who shot live rounds of ammunition, into the crowd, at the Techiman South constituency collation centre, on the evening of 7th December 2020, were genuine soldiers and genuine police men

They prostituted  the honour of the profession-of-arms, and must be condemned in the strongest possible terms. They are cowards and murderers, who must be prosecuted. 

Bush-telegraph sources allege that   they are from the  selfsame units of the national security apparatus deployed to the Presbyterian Primary School  polling station, during the Ayawaso West Wogan by-election, occasioned by the death of the late Kyremateng Agyarko. 


Shooting into a crowd is a crime against humanity. Vile. Abominable. Unspeakable. Atrocious. Monstrous. Unpardonable.

Ghanaian media: Over to you, Joe Lartey! This is a clear-cut case of silence being complicit in crimes-against-humanity, ooooo. Posterity can neither be intimidated, nor bribed.


History will judge  those who recruited Delta Force and Invincible Forces' myrmidon-thugs into the national security apparatus, harshly.  No question.


The question is: By continuing to appear to be adopting a three-monkeys-stance on this matter (see no evil, hear no evil, say nought, on the recruitment of myrmidon-thugs from the Delta Force and Invincible Forces into the national security apparatus  issue, instead of demanding that they are all sacked), are the IGP, and Military High  Command, opening themselves to possible prosecution by the International Criminal Court (ICC), anaaaa? Enough is enough. Hmmm, Oman Ghana - enti yewieye, paaaaa, enei? Asem kesie bi, ebeba debi ankasa, oooo. Yoooooooo...

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A Quick Note To The Patriotic And More Responsible Sections Of The Ghanaian Media

Amazing how the best-laid-plans,  of clever-people-in-power, are laid bare, and ruined, by the all-seeing, all-hearing and all-knowing Lord God Almighty's miraculous-interventions. The Question to ponder over is: Did the heavens open up, and let torrential rains destroy a plan to rig the 7th December, 2020 elections, anaaaa?

Who didn't think that today's masters-of-the-universe, would be romping home to an easy victory, and walk all over the National Democratic Congress (NDC), by now? It did not happen. Instead, the haughty-people now in power, have  rather been hoisted on their own collective-petard. Sarjewah. The sods. Dan nyirema.

The questiom is: Did our loving God Almighty, refuse to be bribed, with a stunning National Cathedral, because he did not like PDS, Agyapa Royalties, the BOST, TOR and other egregious-scandalous-scandals, and the commission-generating piling-up of loan-upon-loan, ruining the futures of unborn generations, anaaaaa? Onyame, entise Alata ni, ooooo. Yoooooo...

Clearly, ordinary Ghanaians are underestimated, at the peril of tribal-supremacist and power-drunk would-be-little-emperors, who brook no opposition, and are super-vindictive, ooooo. Yooooooo...

Be that as it may, the people have now spoken. Clearly. Loudly. Boldly. Case closed. They do not want an imperial-presidency, because they are not conquered-and-stupid-serfs. Full stop. Let wise politicos learn that lesson swiftly, ooooo. Yooooooo...

In light of the strange election outcome, one hopes that the IGP, and the Military High Command, learnt big lessons, from the near-disaster they averted, at that emergency-durbar, in Michel Camp, when a senior military NCO, in uniform, was recently brutalised by the selfsame myrmidon-thugs-in-uniform, who disgraced their predecessors-in-office, during the Ayawaso West Wogan by-election, oooooo. Yoooooo...

To quote an old wag I know: 'Kofi, one refers to the myrmidon-thugs-in-uniform, recruited into the national security apparatus, by you-know-who-and-who, whom bush-telegraph sources allege were kitted out for the 7th December, 2020 elections, as soldiers.

Apparently, they were allegedly deployed to execute the Ayawaso West Wogan plan, nationwide, for the 2020 presidential and parliamentary elections, and were thus rushed to that constituency collating-centre of infamy, which has ended up now throwing a biggish-wrench-in-the-works, ooooo.

In light of all the above, one hopes that the very wise current IGP, and the super-sharp Military High Command, will not end up unwittingly backing what in effect is a failed constitutionally-cloaked-coup, which was nearly secured by multiple-bribery, said to be running into trillions of tired-old-Ghana-cedis, ooooo, Massa. Yooooooo...'  End of story. Case closed. Enough is enough. Ghana is not a conquered vassal state, oooo. And the masses are not stupid-serfs, ooooo. Yooooooo...

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A Quick Note To An Anti-Corruption Campaigner

Massa, should Ghana's anti-corruption campaigners  prepare for a coming nightmare, anaaa? As it happens, not many of us  have taken note of the packing of the law courts, by today's regime. It is part of their grand-strategy-of-perpetual-domination, wai. Hmmmm, Oman Ghana, eyeasem, oooo...

That is what gave the minister of finance, Hon. Ken Ofori-Atta,  the confidence, to predict, to his Cabinet colleagues, in a secret memo, that  although the revocation of the banking licence of their political opponent, Papa Kwesi Nduom, would provoke him to challenge it in the law courts,  because they were now in power, they would prevail there too. Eeiiiii, Ghana, paaaa enei  - are these the same politicos  whom we thought were believers in the rule of law, aanaaaa? Hmmmm...

Now it turns out they are sodden plutocrats. Sarjewah. Go to court, you say?  Massa, the courts don't  dare incur the displeasure, of the hydra-headed familial-appointing-authority, ooooo.  You, paaaa. Go to court. Hmmm. Yoooooo...

If you haven't noticed it, yet,  a well-thought-through tyranny-of-the-majority, has been silently established, by a secretive and super-ruthless-cabal, with deceit and hypocrisy in their political-DNA. We ain't seen nothing yet. Just wait. After 7th January, 2021, you will smell pepper.

Despite the 'gift'  that COVID-19 gave reformers in Ghana, we allowed the respectable-looking thieves-in-high-places (who came to power because Ghanaians believed they would end egregious-high-level-corruption, if elected, but have however subsequently  emerged, incredibly, as the greediest and most corrupt administration, thus far, since the 4th Republic came into being), to keep the fight against the egregious-corruption ruining our nation, and eroding public trust, in the democratic system   of government, clean off the election-campaign-narrative-table. Amazing.

Forget about the NDC's victory-fantasies, ooooo, Massa. Take it from me: The respectable-looking thieves-in-high-places, will romp home, to a stunning victory, tomorrow, wai. They will wipe out the out-foxed NDC, in the process, and go on to grow even yet more super-wealthy, sending their net worth to stratospheric heights. 

And, it will all be done legally, through the clever bending-of-rules, simply by railroading bills through a pliant and cowed Parliament -  as the lords-and-masters of their very successful tyranny-of-the-majority: obtained by pork-barrel-politicking, which delivered their mandate (courtesy of the opposition-flattening nationwide adulatory-gale-force-winds, of free-SHS), ride roughshod over all of us  Cool.

Massa, matter, go come, paaaaapa, ooooo, after 7th January 2020,  wai. PDS. Agyapa Royalties. Elite-state-capture commision-earning loan-upon-loan. Prepare for the coming yenti-gyai-nightmare, ooooo, Yoooooo...



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Why Did The Ghanaian Media Allow The Fight Against Corruption To Be Taken Off The Campaign-Narrative-Table?

The  contesting presidential candidates of the ruling  New Patriotic Party (NPP), President Akufo-Addo, and the biggest opposition party, the National Democratic Congress' (NDC) leader, former President John Drama Mahama, have finally committed to ensuring peaceful  elections, on the 7th of December, 2020. 

It is marvellous that both gentlemen have now signed a peace pact. As a result of that positive-development,  even before votes are cast on 7th December, 2020, Mother Ghana has already won election 2020. Nice. Cool.

Yet, despite the platitudes that will doubtless flow, aplenty, from that event, sadly, there is still the not-inconsequential-matter, of the  unedifying spectacle, of the  NPP/NDC duopoly's many eleventh-hour press conference shouting equalisation-counter-accusation-wars, for our nation to deal with. 

On the positive side, what those astonishing equalisation-press-conferences clearly confirm, is that as a result of lessons from the COVID-19 global pandemic, we have now reached a juncture in our history, when shared-prosperity, underpinned by world-class healthcare-for-all, free world-class education from kindergarten to tertiary-level, as well as truly affordable, well-designed and well-built housing, for all who need it, is now a given, for competing political parties to include in their election manifestos. Ditto world-class infrastructure, such as roads, railways, ports, green clean-power plants etc., etc.

Alas, what is missing from all the hot air, is the very important matter, of how to end the high-level corruption, which enables powerful and respectable-looking thieves-in-high-places, to keep on  purloining the nation-building-resources needed to pay for all the above - that will contribute to the transformation of our country, into a prosperous and equitable society: in which all demographics enjoy some of the highest standards of living, anywhere, on the surfce of planet Earth. 

In light of all the above, the question we must all ponder over is: How did it come about that the Ghanaian media, allowed what should have been the main focus of the election campaign - how to fight and end the high-level corruption slowly destroying Ghanaian democracy - to be successfully taken off the campaign-narrarive-table, by our mostly-devious and oft-self-seeking politicians?  Hmmm, Oman Ghana, eyeasem, oooo. Enti yewieye paaaaa enei? Asem kesie bi, ebeba debi ankasa, ooooo.   Yoooooooo...

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Should President Akufo-Addo Declare The Atewa Forest Reserve A National Park - And Ban All Mining From It?

Hon. Martin Amidu's lazy-lawyers'-jibe, at the Presidency, ought to be taken seriously, oooo, Ghanafuo. Every disastrous flip-flop-decision, taken since January 7th, 2017, can be traced directly to it. As can most exposed regime-insider-scandals. Mother Ghana deserves better.

That jibe sums up perfectly, the Presidency's rampant, and lethal, arrogant-preening-narcissistic-peacock-syndrone (which, as Lady Luck would have it, President Akufo-Addo  is immune to, personally, thank goodness). 

It is causing Ghana's farsighted, and incorruptible leader, President Akufo-Addo's impressive legacy, thus far, endless harm. For the sake of our nation, the Presidency needs to be disinfected, thoroughly, to rid it of the miasma of this insidious nation-wrecking-airborne-poison. Fast. Yoooooo...

Above all, those now-powerful-and-invincible individuals, in the current administration, who seem to think that Ghana is a conquered vassal-state (beholden to those in power today), which is full of subservient-serfs, with the mentality of idiots, must quickly revise their playbook's notes. Yooooooo...

On the contrary, Ghanaians are a very wise, and noble, African people, with the patience needed to outwit those who seek to  harm them. No politician  must take Ghanaians for granted, ooooo.  Yoooooo...

That is why President Akufo-Addo must not allow bauxite mining to be carried out in the Atewa Forest Reserve. It is an abomination that future generations will curse his regime, and condemn it,  roundly,  for. Yooooooo...

Destroying a Globally Significant Biodiversity Area (GSBA), which is also a watershed for three major river systems (the Birim, Ayensu and  Densu rivers), sourced for water to treat, and, distribute, to over 5 million people across southern Ghana, is a crime against humanity. Nothing more, nothing less.  Full stop. 

That is why a farsighted  and courageous leader, like  President Akufo-Addo,  must rather ignore all his advisors in this particular matter - and go ahead to declare the Atewa Forest Reserve,  a national park:  and ban all mining, from  what is pricelees natural capital, which can serve as a solid green economic pillar, to underpin a lucrative ecotourism destination, which will generate wealth that remains locally, and create jobs galore, for  Akyem Abuakwa' younger generations. Okyeman, yen, enma ensei da, oooo. Yoooooo...

The time has now come for President Akufo-Addo  to declare the Atewa Forest Reserve a national park - and ban all mining and logging from It. Full stop. Hmmm, Oman Ghana - enti yeweiye paaa enei? Asem kesie, bim ebeba debi, ankasa, oooo. Yoooooo...

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To Safeguard Ghanaian Democracy Should Ghana's Present-Day Media-Empires Be Broken Up?

 The Ghanaian media failed Mother Ghana, terribly, when they refused to see the importance of swiftly denouncing the appointment of Hon. Yaw Osafo Marfo, as Senior Minister, by President Akufo-Addo. Bush-telegraph sources, apparently have it, that the nest-of-vipers at the presidency, allegedly responsible for the Agyapa Royalties rip-off, can be laid squarely at Yaw Osafo Marfo's sodden doorstep. 

In not denoucing his appointment, it as was if a Klu Klux Klan admirer, and an avowed and proud extreme-Hitlerite, had been appointed as Senior Minister, and Deputy Prime Minister, by the British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson - and the British media had remained loudly-silent about it. Incredible.

Any Ghanaian politician, who is a secret tribal-supremacist (and there are far too many of them, in our system, for comfort, if truth be told), isn't fit to be included in the  leadership of our multi-ethnic country. Ever. Full stop.

In today's Africa, no tribe is superior or inferior, to another. It is time the more responsible sections of the Ghanaian media understood that clearly. Media professionals must stop enabling such divisive-characters, if ours is to remain a stable and peaceful African multi-party democracy.  Yooooooo...

Another lesson we must learn from the ongoing pure-nonsense-on-bamboo-stilts, in  today's Ghana, is that we must unbundle all the  media  empires in our country, without exception. No question. Yoooooooo...

The concentration of media, in the hands of a few wealthy individuals - some with dubious backgrounds  -  has enabled a number of media entities in our country,  to become the enablers of tribal-supremacist politicians. Disgraceful. Abominable. Unspeakable. Unpardonable. 

Finally, the question we must all ponder over is:  To safeguard our democracy, should all our country's present-day media-empires be broken up?  With the greatest respect, in one's humble view, they ought to be broken up, without exception. Quickly. No question. No individual must be allowed to own controlling stakes, in more than one media outlet. Full stop. Hmmmm,  Oman Ghana,  eyeasem, oooo. Enti, yeweiye paaaa, enei? Asem kesie, bi, ebaba debi, ankasa, ooooo. Yooooooo...

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