The Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu 11, is a committed Christian, who like other such Christians, attends Church services, whenever he is able to do so. On such occasions, prayers are offered on his behalf, to ask for God Almighty's blessing, to ensure his well-being, and to promote his welfare - to enable him tackle the onerous responsibilities placed on his shoulders, as one of our homeland Ghana's preeminent traditional rulers.
Wednesday, 30 June 2021
The Asantehene Neither Needs The Validation Of Bishop Dag Heward-Mills - Nor That Of The Asante Youth Association
Tuesday, 29 June 2021
What Kind Of New Leadership Does The GJA Need Today?
Never in the annals of the history of Ghanaian journalism, have the elections to select the leadership of the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA), been so crucial, than is the case today. Freedom of expression, in our homeland Ghana, is under siege - as media houses, and media professionals, are regularly assaulted (both physically and metaphorically), by their many illiberal-enemies in our corruption-riddled society.
Thursday, 24 June 2021
U.S. $170 Million Ghana Power Generation Company Judgement-Debt Saga - Both NPP And NDC Failed Mother Ghana Terribly
There is no question that bribery must have secured that contested power purchase agreement. How else could that obviously inimical-to-the-common-good power purchase agreement, have been procured, by the Ghana Power Generation Company GPGC), other than by egregious-inducement - of public officials whose fiduciary duty, it was, to protect the national interest, at all material times, in the first place? Those who signed that bloodsucking-abomination of an agreement, during the Mahama-era, may have to go to jail, one fine day, oooo. Yooooooo...
Furtheremore, how possibly can those whose job it was, in the Akufo-Addo administration, to protect Mother Ghana, justify not acting with patriotic-dispatch, in ensuring that a matter in which Mother Ghana could be forced to pay as much as some U.S.$170 million, in judgement debt, if it didn't secure well-intentioned legal representation (and thus lose a winnable clearcut-case, of an egregiously-induced power purchase agreement), was ably defended - regardless of their personal challenges to do with the December 2020 election campaigning and dealing with the dangers of the coronavirus, I ask?
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Wednesday, 23 June 2021
The Government Must Listen To Abdul Malik Kweku Baako - And Cancel The AMERI Sputnik5 COVID-19 Procurement Deal
Saturday, 19 June 2021
How The IGP Can Turn Ghana Into A Heaven-On-Earth For The Law-Abiding Nationwide
Ghana's Inspector General of Police (IGP), can turn Ghana into a heaven-on-earth, for the law-abiding, simply by turning our beautiful country, into a hell-on-earth, for all criminally-minded individuals. Full stop. No libilaba.
Tuesday, 15 June 2021
We Must Stop Thieves-In-High-Places From Targeting Ghana's COVID-19 Vaccine Procurement Programme
At all costs, we must stop our nation's thieves-in-high-places, from targetting Ghana's COVID-19 vaccine procurement programme. What is wrong is wrong: Our leaders must not compound the abomination that big-thieves-in-high-places seeking to profit from the shortage of COVID-19 vaccines, represents, by making excuses for the price-gouging that took place, in the shabby story of the purchase from dubious characters in Dubai, of the Russian manufactured Sputnik5 vaccines, at U.S.$19 instead of U.S.$10 per vaccine.
Monday, 14 June 2021
Let Thy Will Be Done Lord God Almighty - Make Ghana's President Akufo-Addo Declare The Atewa Forest Reserve A National Park
Dear God Almighty,
As an act of atonement, Ghanaians planted countless trees, on 11th June, 2021 - and will now make it an annual event, to be known as Greening Ghana Day.
Lord God Almighty, please let President Akufo-Addo take to the skies, with the Okyenhene, Osagyefo Amoatia 11, and fly over the whole of Akyem Abuakwa, in one of the Ghana Air Force's helicopters, to survey the damage done to our natural heritage, Kwaebibirim, by greedy gold miners.
As soon as they touch down again, please touch their hearts - and let President Akufo-Addo ignore the advice of all his technocrats, and declare the Atewa Forest Reserve, a national park, from which all mining will be banned.
It will save what is a declared Globally Significant Biodiversity Area (GSBA), which is also the watershed for three major river systems, the Densu, Ayensu and Birim rivers, from which treated water is sourced, treated and dustributed, to over 5 million people across southern Ghana, from destruction. Awurade Nyankupon Tw3diepong, Okyenman, di3, y3n enma, enseii, da. Let thy will be done, O Lord God Almighty. Amen!
Thursday, 10 June 2021
We Must Unite And Work For The Common Good Of the Generality Of Ghanaian Society
Monday, 7 June 2021
Western Democracies Must Not Aid And Abet Crimes Of Africa's Ruling-Elites' Ruthless And Murderous Big-Thieves-In-High-Places
Terrorist groups, people-smuggling syndicates, human traffickers, ransomware criminals, cyber-fraudsters and armed robbers are amongst the biggest global security threats, worldwide. That is where bilateral security collaboration between Western democracies and emerging nations ought to be focused on.
In the COVID-19 era, activists speaking truth to power, to protect their countries from the big-thieves-in-high-places amongst ruling-élites across Africa, are heroes deserving of praise. They are not definitely not criminals.
That is why Britain's (and the EU's) secret services, should not aid corrupt African politicians, to harass the continent's activists - using phising-strategies to disrupt and fake their online posting on big-tech's social media platforms.
That is a crime against humanity deserving of prosecution by the International Criminal Court (ICC). Western democracies should never aid and abet the crimes of emerging nations' ruling-élites - who properly defined, are ruthless and murderous criminals, robbing their countries blind in broad daylight.
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Friday, 4 June 2021
Is Ghanaian Democracy Now Being Undermined By Judicial-High-Handedness?
courts often enjoy legitimacy advantages that make their antidemocratic
moves harder to detect and respond to both domestically and
internationally."
Is Hon. Dominic Ayine Being Persecuted?
"At the heart of the First Amendment is the freedom to engage in vigorous public debate, and the Constitution guarantees that citizens, including lawyers, have the right to criticize public officials, including judges."
- Nokofiooo, from the U.S., Ghanafuo.
Has the time now come for judges in Ghana to be made to understand clearly that they are definitely not above criticism, anaaa? And does the latest move against Hon. Ayine by the Chief Justice amounts to witch-hunting, anaaaa? Pure and simple? Some people don't know when to let sleeping dogs lie, koraaaa. Hmmm, eyeasem, ooooo...
The judiciary in this country still doesn't get it: Ghana is neither a dictatorship, nor the personal fiefdom, of a privileged few - whose wish is that we are cowed: to allow their dream-kleptocracy to evolve into a banana republic sans dissenting voices: so that judgement-debts will become the new way to create, loot and share.
This is a liberal democracy, ooooo, surprising though it might be to some - and Ghanaians are free citizens with constitutionally guaranteed rights: not the serfs of our ruling elites. Sod off, wai, Massa. Who born dog? My name is Kofi Thompson - and I fear nobody in Ghana. Let them come and pick me up. Yabr3 wu! Haaba.
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Speaking Truth To Power Is Neither A Crime In Ghana - Nor Is It In The UK Either
One hopes that the UK's visiting Home Secretary, Priti Patel, will use her favourite Parliamentary cop-out-phrase, "I can't comment on individual cases", to deter the nosey-parkers here, who think they can use Britain's Home Secretary, to collar some of us. It won't work, wai. No way. Full stop.
She knows perfectly well that there will be hell-to-pay big-trouble for her, if the UK media gets wind of such an egregious data-privacy-invasion-fishing-expedition, wai. Clueless sods.
Wherever in the world we go to, we will continue to criticise Ghana's big-thieves-in-high-places, and their gormless regime-lackeys, saaaaa, till Truth-Kingdom cometh, ooooo. We are fearless, wai. Full stop.
Ghana aban, Kofi Thompson is not a criminal, wai - and speaking truth to power is not a crime, koraaaa, oooo. Yooooooo...
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Thursday, 3 June 2021
To Whom The Cap Fits...
Must Ghana Toll Its Entire Road Network - And Look To The Private-Sector Globally To Self-Finance The Construction And Rehabilitation Of Roads?
One of the issues that cause the most disaffection, amongst rural demographics nationwide, is the dreadful condition of Ghana's rural road network. That disaffection has the potential to undermine our democratic system. We must therefore look to the private sector for funding the construction of new roads and to rehabilitate all existing roads - as bad roads actually hinder economic activity, cause accidents, damage vehicles and give rise to citizenry-disaffection nationwide.
Wednesday, 2 June 2021
A Quick Note To Terrafusion International - Developers Of The Innovative Ecoroad Road Construction Technology
Hello,
Ghana desperately needs your innovative Ecoroad road construction technology, to enable it modernise the entirety of its national road network, especially those across rural Ghana.
If your company can self-finance the construction of new tolled roads nationwide, with the 48 Engineers Regiment of the Ghana Armed Forces, and local communities, as joint-venture public private partnership projects (PPP), on a build, operate and transfer basis, Ghanaians will willingly pay tolls on all those roads - even for periods as lengthy as 35 years, to enable your company recoup its investment here.
If this is feasible and doable, why don't you talk to officials at the Ghana Embassy, in Washington DC, as well to the relevant country desk officers, responsible for Ghana, at the U.S. State Department in Washington DC, about the idea?
Thanks.
Kind regards,
Kofi.
WhatsApp: +233576564600.
Tel: +233558852619 & +233277453109.
Tuesday, 1 June 2021
Ms. Aku Akufo's Unfortunate And Ill-Judged Marie-Antoinette-Type Provocation
If you are cursed to possess one, one of the most irritating things about what some refer to as a "posh English accent", is that it invariably gets in the way, most of the time, when dealing with people in Ghana. It is vastly overated, in one's humble opinion - and one hates it with a passion for that reason.
Most irritating of all, is the implied-aspersions she cast, on Ho Technical University-type of tertiary institutions across Ghana. Yes, by all means let's celebrate all those Ghanaians who excel in some of the world's best universities abroad - but let us also aim to turn the Ho Technical University-type of tertiary institution, in our nation, into world-class centres of learning. Haaba.
For a retired old fool like me, who has no formal education, whatesoever, to speak of, it is monstrous for any privileged Ghanaian, to imply that some of our universities produce only mediocre students. Unconscionable. Disgraceful. Abominable. Unpardonable. And, finally, for Ms. Aku Akufo to cap all that egregious-arrogance, with careless-talk, about some Ghanaians being envious of privileged people of her ilk, on top, too, and in the same breath, is pure and unadulterated Marie-Antoinette-type provocation, and an incitement to boys-abr3 violent-street-demos, ooooo. Yooooooo...
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