Dear Reader,
This is a message that I just sent to a dear friend. For common-good nation-building reasons, one feels that one ought to share it with Ghana's younger generations, too. I have edited out names to spare the blushes of those who should have known better, but failed to act wisely, in this instance:
" **** the Great, I am just amazed that none of the many people I connected you to, failed to see the potential of your invention, and thus were unable to support you.
Take *****, for example. Why should a clever and wealthy businessman, building a whole new city, *****, fail to see the competitive edge backing you would give him, in terms of high occupancy rates for the city's properties, simply because of the availability of affordable off-grid emission-free clean-power, that never goes off, regardless of prevailing weather conditions? It's crazy, ooooo, Massa.
The worst of them in my view, is *****. How can a highly-intelligent man, who talks endlessly about the need for innovation, and who also happens to own a large rice mill worth millions of dollars, the major cost of which is electricity, not take the risk, and back you - when the amount involved is a few thousand dollars that he wouldn't bat an eyelid gifting to a slay-queen, to be his mistress, for a night? Amazing.
No wonder Ghana is failing to achieve her potential. We are a mostly clueless and talkative people, Massa. That is the painful truth. Your invention could dramatically transform the fortunes of Ghana, overnight. Literally.
Take our collapsing power sector, for example: It is at the same point - in terms of the innovative-curve - that stage-coach and carriage builders were, in 1860, when the inventor of the internal combustion engine, the Belgian Étienne Lenoir, was granted a patent for his invention.
The fact of the matter, is that our country's power sector is now more or less obsolete - and full of super-wealthy crooks, busy milking an industry with a smoke-and-mirrors ethos, which is moribund, as a result of the industry's leaderships' lack of foresight and imagination, over the decades, since it was unbundled. And we dream of a Ghana beyond aid? Tweaaaaaa..."
End of my quoted Facebook page post.
End of my quoted Facebook page post.
Sent from Samsung tablet.
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