Who Born Dog: We Still Remember The Exposure Of Corrupt Judges - By The Brilliant Anas Amereyaw Anas

One finds it hard to believe that the unfortunate statements, said to have come from  the Judicial Service - and apparently said to have been aimed at the Ghanaian media, are genuine.  Massa, no one in Ghanaian officialdom, is beyond criticism, by the public, ooooo. Yooooooo...

With the greatest respect,  under our system, respect is earned - and never an automatic-right, for any public sector employee:  paid with hapless taxpayers' hard-earned cash, koraaaa, ooooo. We are not serfs. We are citizens  -  active ones.

Yooooooo...

It is crucial, therefore - for the peace and stability of our homeland Ghana - that the three arms of government,  the executive, the legislature and the judiciary, understand clearly, at all material times, that  the constitutionally guaranteed right of the media  (metaphorically our fourth arm of government),  meant to enable them play a watchdog role, for society,  by speaking truth to power  and holding our leaders to account, on behalf of the masses, is non-negotiable in our system. Full stop.  Case closed. As it happens, we all remember the shabby case of a number of corrupt judges, exposed by the brilliant investigative journalist,  Anas Amereyaw Anas, ooooo. Who born dog,  Massa? Yooooooo...

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How Can We Finally Rid Mother Ghana Of The Vested Interests Corrupting Ghanaian Officialdom?

How can our country rid itself of the baleful influence of the vested interests responsible for corrupting Ghanaian officialdom? To be successful in so doing, we will need to put on our creative-thinking caps. Fast. For sure. And time is of the essence, in this matter.

To begin with, it needs to be pointed out, that there is no question that President Akufo-Addo is the best leader for Ghana's COVID-era. That is why as a wise and aspirational African people, we ought to take advantage, of that refreshing  on-the-ground-reality.

We can do so by  rallying behind  President Akufo-Addo,  and encourage him to unify our nation, for effective nation-building, by forcing him to appoint Mrs. Jean Mensah, the current chairperson of the Electoral Commission  (EC), as an ambassador. Now. Not tomorrow.  It will remove her from the political landscape - and help bring a morally untenable tension-creating-situation, to an end. 

(For ordinary folk, the fact that legal-technicalities, can allow the chairperson of the EC, to get away with avoiding cross examination, by appearing in the witness box, in an open court, hearing an election petition,  is an outrage and morally indefensible.  Full stop. But I digress)

For the same reason, President Akufo-Addo, should also do same,  in the case of: Mr. Gabby Asare Otchere-Darko; Hon. Ken Ofori-Atta and Hon.Yaw Osafo Marfo. Case closed. Such a move will finally wahala-free our country's hardworking leader, and enable him to focus on his very important job, with a free mind. Cool.

For our own good, and that of Mother Ghana, we must also force President Akufo-Addo - a  wise and visionary leader, who is easily the next best elected leader, since the overthrow of the great President Nkrumah (whose equal is yet to be born, incidentally), in February 1966 -  to, as a matter of urgency, set up a national security task force, led by the Engineers Regiment, of the Ghana Armed Forces (GAF). 

Their mission, will be to prevent a new trailblazing technology, which will soon power the entire human race,  to unprecedented levels of prosperity, from leaving tbe shores of Ghana. Simple. Their immediate task, will be to convince  the genius Ghanaian inventor, Raphael Afordoanyi, to allow the Stateto fund the patenting, globally, of his serendipitous, emission-free off-grid stand-alone clean power  invention.

Once that is done,  a joint-venture special purpose private public partnership (PPP) vehicle, must be quickly established, to market Raphael Afordoanyi's game-changing, cutting-edge technology that will enable all the nations on the planet Earth, to be powered 100 percent, by emis

A Plea To Foreign Diplomats Advocating LBGTQI Rights In Ghana

Since the subject has now become such a controversial issue, what are some of the possible ways, which the representatives of foreign powers in Ghana, who are now focused on the issue of LBGTQI rights, in our country,  might show their concern, and love, for Ghana's LBGTQI demographic?

Perhaps they would be wise, to consider recommending to their governments,  the signing of a human rights treaty, with Ghana, granting our country's LBGTQIs, an automatic right, to be granted permanent residence visas, in their home countries. Simple.

A key clause in the proposed treaty, must be an irrevocable commitment, on their part,    to pay for the full relocation costs, of Ghana's LBGTQIs, to nations in the EU, Australia,  ditto the UK, the U.S., etc., etc. Cool.

Finally, the question that concerned foreign diplomats, accredited to Ghana, who are so in love with, and concerned, for, Ghana's LBGTQIs, ought to ponder over is: Will such a treaty  not be a wise move, to enable them neatly sidestep, the thorny issue of 21st century cultural imperialism  - in a nation in which marriage, and extended-family-clan traditional values, still apparently, matter? That is my humble plea to them as a humane Ghanaian  human rights advocate. Simple. It is wise to be wise in this particular matter, oooo.  Yoooooooo...

A Quick Note To Daryl Bosu - Who Calls Out Community Mining For What It Actually Is: 'Legalised Galamsay'

Thanks for sharing, Daryl. The irony, is that  in the process of creating wealth for a powerful, and well-connected few, under the guise of community mining, Akyem Abuakwa is actually being  impoverished, by the destruction of its priceless natural heritage  - the value of which would paradoxically skyrocket if the accursed gold and bauxite were left in the ground. 

Massa, you have called out community mining, for what it actually is: a clever stealth-ruse to  legalise the operations of wealthy and super-ruthless galamsay-syndicates, using rural youth, as convenient-social-pawns.  

We are victims at Akyem Juaso, too - where our family's freehold 14-square mile upland evergreen rainforest property has been under relentless-seige for decades, by galamsayers, chainsaw bushcut lumber producers and illegal hunters. The lawlessness and impunity we contend with, on the ground, so to speak, is hard to reconcile with the PR-hype, of a nation in which the rule of law is said to prevail, sold to the world. 

Yet, we still persist in trying to implement longstanding plans for a conservation-through-ecotourism initiative, to create a sustainable green future for the area, in the face of all the egregious environmental degradation. Luckily, the younger generations of our family, who have now taken over running our landholding, in the Eastern Region, are determined to ensure a sustainsble green future, for all the rural communities that we are an integral part of, across the region.  Bless them.

Luckily, posterity can neither be intimidated nor bribed - and will judge the complict Chiefs, amongst our present-day traditional leaders, harshly:  condemning them as the worst in Akyem Abuakwa's entire history. No question. Their hypocrisy, greed,  shortsightednes and arrogance has been nothing  short of disastrous. Their lack of foresight, in failing to protect and  preserve our priceless natural heritage, from apocalyptic-galamsay, cloaked as community mining, is beyond belief. Pity.

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A Quick Note To Father Joop Visser - Who Speaks His Mind And Loves Being Straightforward

Thanks for sharing, Father Joop Visser. Understand you perfectly. My humble advice: Throw caution to the wind - and be done with it. In other words, the operating-principle is: Be yourself. Simple. Hmmm, eyeasem, ooooo...

Above all,  remember that this is a forked-tongue-society, anchored firmly on a solid-bedrock-of-hypocrisy, and enveloped by the miasma of banana-leaf-spiritually-wrapped-tradition. No question. Cool.

Never forget that, whenever you are being dragged across the coals, for speaking your mind, where injustice affecting our base-of-the-pyramid demographic, is concerned. Many will agree with you behind closed doors - but gingerly fence-sit and remain loudly-silent publicly. Beautiful country. Beautiful people. Nice. No libilaba. Cool, la...

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A Quick Note To Gjenke Makers - Kenyan Circular Economy Unicorn With Continental Ambitions

Hello,

Congratulations for your marvelous and innovative award-winning circular economy venture. Brilliant. 

You really ought to become an African multinational, within the next five years - and beautiful, dynamic Ghana, which is the headquarters of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA),  ought to be your West African bridgehead.

To make you even more competitive, you will need an emission-free off-grid stand-alone clean power system, to  power all your factories across the continent.

In that regard, one humbly suggests that you contact the brilliant Ghanaian inventor, who is also a  marine chief engineer, Raphael Afordoanyi. This is his WhatsApp number: +233 26 974 6270. Mention me to him.

And this is my own WhatsApp number: +233576564600. I am a retired Ghanaian journalist: https://www.modernghana.com/news/962292/why-eric-ingersoll-must-now-tell-the-world-the.html.

Peace and blessings to all of you. And may we all continue staying safe - by observing all the COVID-19 protocols.

Thanks. 

Kind regards,

Kofi.

Tel: +233277453109 & +233558852619.

WhatsApp: +233575654600.

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New-Normal Global Pandemic Era: We Must Find Creative Ways Of Surviving And Thriving

As a wise and aspirational African people, we must find creative ways of surviving, and thriving, even in the midst of global pandemics. Let us take inspiration from our past in how we treat our priceless natural capital. In the past we lived in harmony with nature - and had  mostly healthy and happy communities.

It is a real pity that in pursuit of unthinking-and-unselective-GDP-growth (at all costs), we have ended up becoming a society, which  permits a powerful few, with greedy ambitions - to paraphrase the farsighted  President Nkrumah - to destroy forests,  poison soils,  streams,  major river systems  and groundwater, across vast swathes of the GhanaIan  countryside, with total impunity. 

The destruction of forests,  on the scale we are now witnessing, will, by definition, mean that we will always be a society constantly grappling with pandemics - as the destruction of habitats and biodiversity loss, bring along with them,  zoonotic diseases,  as viruses from wild animals, species-cross, to infect humans.

It is important, therefore, that rather than be lulled into a false sense of security, by the availability, and procurement, of vaccines,  we rather focus on building consensus, and  unite, to transform our country into a heavily-aboreal one, which is always battle-ready, to fight and survive global pandemics. The protocols designed to enable us stay safe, during such global pandemics,  ought to become our new-normal way of life. 

That will mean, for example, that when we design and construct new military camps, as well as barracks for the other security agencies, schools,  hospitals, markets,  shopping malls, private and public residential accommodation in new green communities;  ditto our mobility sector, we must  take into account and design  survival-and-resilience-protocols for global pandemics, into all such projects.

Above all, clearly, super-spreader-events, such as:  massive political party campaign rallies; large funerals; weddings; packed religious services; parties; mammoth traditional festivals, and the like, can no longer continue to be part of our lives, anymore. 

Vaccines, can only be an addition to our pandemic-survival-arsenal, like nose masks, hand-washing,  razing down slums that are potential infection-hotspots, for viruses, nationwide, and relocating their  residents to new pandemic-ready and climate-change-resilient green communities. In the new-normal global pandemic era, as an aspirational African people, we must find creative  and  innovative ways of surviving, and thriving.

 

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A Quick Note To The Founders Of The Little Market - America's Most Ethical Social-Impact Entrepreneurs

 Greetings,

Thank you so much, for the wonderful business model used by your team, to empower so many artisans, in all the continents of our biosphere. 

Yours, is a perfect example, of how caring and empathic entrepreneurs, can  create mutually beneficial opportunities, which enable marginalised base-of-the-pyramid demographics in the world's emerging nations, to bootstrap their way out of the poverty-trap, successfully. Bravo.

Would you be willing to consider diversifying into the clean power sector - by collaborating with the brilliant Ghanaian marine engineer, merchant marine chief engineer, Raphael Afordoanyi, to globally patent his game-changing, emission-free off-grid clean power invention, which, believe it or not, is going to save humankind from passing the climate-change-tipping-point-of-no-return?

Helping Raphael (whom I have copied into the conversation so you can communicate  directly with), will enable you to get in, on the ground floor,  of an idea, which will enable the world to be powered 100 percent, with electricity that never goes off, regardless of prevailing weather conditions, and is cheaper than that generated by even nuclear power plants (imagine that), and, make all its promoters the wealthiest individuals, ever, on the planet Earth. 

This is the background to why Raphael is now so wary about who he works with, to patent his invention globally, and, why, in my humble view, the Little Market's founders, are the most suitable, ethical  Western social-entrepreneurs, he ought to collaborate with: 

https://www.modernghana.com/news/962292/why-eric-ingersoll-must-now-tell-the-world-the.html

Thanks.

Kind regards,

Kofi Thompson

Blog: wwwghanapolitics.blogspot.com

WhatsApp: +233576564600.

Mobile: +233558852619 & +233277453109.

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We Are Not Fools In Ghana At All - So Our Ruling-élites Must Beware

We are not fools in  Ghana, ooooo  -  we the masses. No. No. No. Enough is enough. With the greatest respect, Ghana's ruling-élites, really must sit-up, start to wise-up, and stop taking ordinary  Ghanaians for granted, ooooo. Hmmmm.  Let them beware: Ghana sits atop a volatile-gunpowder-keg, ooooo, Massa. Yooooooo...

 

How can anyone, with a modicum of commonsense, and who can feel the tension created by the pentup-anger of a totally fed-up population, now tired of being ruled by cynical thieves-in-high-places, seek to prevent the giving of evidence, by a controversial  chairperson, of the Electoral Commission, by going into the witness box, to be cross-examined - with sodden technicalities of the law? 

Massa, we the masses,  are not nearly as stupid as these arrogant and simultaneously-power-drunk-and-power-hungry geniuses think, ooooo. Is this not an election in which innocent voters were gunned down by myrmidon-thugs in the uniforms of our military and police? And the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission that supervised such an election can't be asked questions in an open court of law? Yoooooo...

Massa, we can now clearly read between the lines, and, thereafter,  put two-and-two together,  to enable us figure out, more or less, what went on, on voting day, on 7th December, 2020, which nearly lost our very good, honest and hardworking elected leader, President Akufo-Addo, the presidency,  and drastically reduced  his throughly-corrupted ruling party's large number of MPs, paaaaaaa, oooooo. Let our ruling elites, beware,  oooooo. We are not fools in Ghana. Far from it. Yooooooooo...

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In An Era Of Global Pandemics Leadership-Arrogance Has Dire Consequences

Our ruling-élites need to realise that they are drinking in the Last-Chance-Blue-Kiosk. When one listens to them these days, it is almost as if most of the New Patriotic Party's (NPP) young-turks, have forgotten, so soon, that their ruling party actually received a real drubbing, from a very clued-on-electorate, in the skirt-and-blouse presidential and parliamentary elections, of December 2020. Hmmm, eyeasem, ooooo...

The infernal-arrogance, of the smug Kojo Oppong-Nkrumahs, and Nana Boakyes, in those bizzare Supreme Court election petition post-hearing equalisation-press-conferences, illustrate perfectly, just  how tone-deaf our ruling-élites have  become. Hmmm, Oman Ghana - enti yewieye paaa enei? Yooooooo...

The question we need to ponder over  is: Why do a wise and aspirational people, appear to be failing to see  the manifest-dangers, inherent in our  complacency about the safety of our Republic, our  inexplicable-noncholance, about the health of Ghanaian democracy, and, worst of all, the total disinterest, of most of soceity's  well-off, in  the plight of the masses?   

The paradox, in all this, is that while we constantly boast about being a stellar African constitutional democracy, injustice, arrogance and impunity,  have quietly conspired, to  create perfect conditions, for a  military putsch, by angry and oft-humiliated digital-native military officers. Yooooooo...

So, dear  reader, do not be surprised, when the next Jerry Rawlings, finally strikes - to carry out a year's housecleaning exercise to demand a rendering-of-accounts, by the thieves-in-high-places,  brutally gang-raping Mother Ghana - and is welcomed joyously with rapturous hosannas and hallelujahs, by today's totally fed-up, hapless-masses, oooo, Massa. Arrogance, in an era of global coronavirus pandemics, definitely has consequences. Seriously. Yooooooo...

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Should Chiefs Colluding With Criminal-Types To Win Sand Illegally Be Prosecuted And Jailed?

Incredibly, included in the list of individuals, and groups, busy stabbing our hardworking, and very focused, elected leader,  President Akufo-Addo, in the back,  the most, are (according to bush-telegraph sources), some of  Akyem Abuakwa's Chiefs, who are alleged to be involved in what is one of modern sub-Saharan Africa's worst land-grab, attempts, ever. Amazing.

It is vital, and, in the overall national interest, that their vile, nation-wrecking on-the-ground-tactics, in pursuance of their abominable land-grabbing-strategy, are halted, by decisive action, from the law enforcement agencies. Immediately. Now. Not tomorrow. 

What is happening across the Ayensuano  parliamentary constituency, where illegal sandwinners operate with total impunity, for example, is intolerable. It is one of the factors, which made the ruling New Patriotic Party's  (NPP) candidate, lose there, in the closely-fought December 2020 elections.

If the authorities fail to stop them, their heinous crimes will eventually affect the Eastern Region's ability to attract serious and reputable impact-investors - which is bound to affect the region's longterm prospects, negatively. 

As most discerning Ghanaians are aware, since he assumed office, in January 2017, President Akufo-Addo has  outlined, and, is implementing, a number of  brilliant policies, which will transform Ghana's agricultural sector, into a private-sector-led wealth-generating, and job-creating, green economic pillar, by the end  of  his second term in office, in January 2025.

Our nation needs peace, and unity, to develop and prosper. That is why any  Chief, who colludes with criminal-types (who employ armed landguards), to unlawfully occupy,  and thereby forcibly take over, countless smallholder-farmlands, in parts of the Eastern Region,  to win sand illegally, should be prosecuted. Enough is enough. Haaba.

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A Quick Note To Honourable Abaas Fusheini Sbaabe - Who Bemoans Institutional-Bias Against The NDC

Honourable Abaas,

What you say, about institutional-bias against the National Democratic Congress  (NDC ), is sadly true, in many ways.  Unfortunately, your party did not help itself, while in power, either. Broadminded young people, like you, should have been allowed to rise higher.  And,  sincere, patriotic and fairminded-critics, in the media,  like some us, ought to have been listened to, much more, too.

As you know, because  both your party, and the New Patriotic Party (NPP), helped in the disembowelment of the Convention People's Party  (CPP), I loathe them equally, but try to support the good young people in them, for the sake of Mother Ghana, and the well-being of the masses.

(ncidentally,  I also support President Akufo-Addo, 100 percent, because despite the many negatives associated with his regime, he is the best leader for Ghana, at this juncture of its history. That is why I voted skirt-and-blouse in tbe December 2020 presidential and parliamentary elections. But I digress)

Time and time again, I have said that in terms of  winning the battle for hearts-and-minds,  the NDC ought to model itself, on Hezbolla, in Lebanon - and offer direct help to poor families, and struggling individuals, across Ghana. That will  make it a formidable political party.

How will they fund such an initiative, you might wonder? Read this article:  (https://www.modernghana.com/news/962292/why-eric-ingersoll-must-now-tell-the-world-the.html), and understand how by helping the brilliant Ghanaian inventor, Raphael Afordoanyi, to file global patents, for his emission-free. clean power invention, the NDC could become the weathiest political party, ever, in the history of the world.

Their share of global royalties, from even a small stake, in Raphael's amazing game-changing, emission-free off-grid  clean power system (that never goes off and produces electricity that is even cheaper than that from nuclear power plants), would provide your party, with trillions of dollars, annually,  to even fund the transformation of Ghana, into the most prosperous nation in the world, from its own resources. 

And, your party will be able to say proudly, till the very end of time, that it helped all the world's nations to switch to being powered 100 pecent, by affordable emission-free  clean power. Think about that, wai, Massa. 

Finally, my humble advice to you is:  With the greatest respect, whatever your do, get Alhaji Ibrahim Mahama, to fund the global patenting, of Raphael Afordoanyi's game-changing emission-free clean-power invention, on the NDC's behalf. That is what our friend, the Alhaji Bature Iddrisu ( may his soul continue to rest in the bosom of Allah Almighty), would have done, if he were alive today. For sure. Pronto. Swiftly.  Yoooooooo...

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Does The Spike In Active COVID-19 Cases Result Directly From The December 2020 Election Campaign Rallies?

Ghana is now increasingly gaining notoriety, as a nation of unparalled-impunity, in which a wealthy and politically well-connected few, get away with destroying forests, in fulfillment of their greedy ambitons. Yet, we are also aware that forest-loss, invariably results, in an increase in zoomatic diseases. Amazing.

The question is: As an aspirational people, what should we do, to enable us plan effectively and and efficiently, strategically, so that we can, more or less, permanently, live with COVID-19, instead of allowing it to destroy our national economy, through repeated lockdowns?

For example,  instead of Veronica buckets, and tissue paper, we can incentivise  local manufacturers, to produce barrel-type wash-stations, with sensor-activated automatically-dispensed running water, for hand-washing, and hot air, for hand-drying, nationwide, through the use of tax incentives. 

And, for institutions such as banks, schools, supermarkets, etc.,  etc., which are regularly visited by large numbers of people, locally manufactured  airport-style walk-through-arches, which spray  disinfectants,  would help check the spread of COVID-19, in Ghana.

Above all, we must ban spitting in  public places, and, as an alternative to galamsay, provide Ghana's base-of-the-pyramid demographic's youth, with green economy opportunities, such as growing industrial hemp, to produce flax cloth, hemp blocks for building and to manufacture vehicle dashboards. 

Finally, we must be brutally frank: The spike in Ghana's active COVID-19 case count, results, directly, mostly from the massive December 2020 election campaign rallies, which were all  super-spreader-events. We must call spades, spades, for once - and not resort to euphemisms. Haaba.