Saving Ghanaian democracy from destruction

 A democracy that has morphed into a friends-and-family-kleptocracy, in which the judiciary are seen by the vast majority of ordinary people, as being beholden to the government of the appointing authority, and, to add insult to injury, happens to be dominated by super-ruthless big-thieves-in-high-places, is, by definition, an unjust and inequitable society, which sits on a social time bomb, of epic proportions, oooo, Ghanafuo. Yoooooo...


A society like that, is simply beyond redemption, and must undergo revolutionary change, if a ruinious and destructive civil war isn't to break out, in it. To prevent that, perhaps we must look to aspects of our pre-colonial traditional culture's governance structures, in fashioning a new system bedrocked on good governance and social-equity.


That will enable us to finally replace the 4th Republic, with what will be an elected Monarchy, led by a Ghana Omanpanin, who will be elected by a people, in whom sovereignty is reposed, and are declared-royals, elegible to vote in all national and district elections, and, eligible themselves, to stand as candidates, and be voted for, in elections.


The Ghana Omanpanin will appoint a Prime Minister, to form a government, whose members will not be legislators (from Parliament). And, furthermore, all Chief Executives of Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs), will be elected for five-year terms, with no term-limits.


Finally, in the interim, the current government would be wise to rally Parliament, to pass a new law, which makes it mandatory for all senior public officials, and government appointees, to publicly publish their assets (as well as that of their wives/husbands/longterm partners), immediately before the beginning of their tenures, and immediately after their tenures end. If that were done we just might be able to save Ghanaian democracy from destruction.

Food for thought for common-good app developers who care about empowering the less privileged in Ghanaian society

Ghana's community of common-good. app developers, could make a huge impact, by helping marginalised Ghanaians to bootstrap their way out of the brutish-hellish-trap of extreme poverty. Three examples of needs that if addressed by  common-good app developers, could immediately help alleviate poverty, nationwide, come readily to mind:


1) An app that makes available information about what is available, free of charge, for the financially-challenged, who use public healthcare facilities nationwide, is sorely needed - as at the moment it appears that poor people have to pay for virtually everything, in our NHIS.


2) An app that helps micro-entreprenuers, such as market women, to do ecommerce, to enable them earn more, would be marvellous.

I know a hardworking Liberian lady, for example, who sells fruits and vegetables, in Gomia Buduburam's Camp Liberia refugee settlement area, in Ghana's Central Region, who wants to sell bitter cola online, whose lifelife would be transformed, immediate, if she went online.  If a partnership between Ghana Post and common-good app developers was established for that purpose , that would be excellent.


Finally, Ghanaian agriculture would see a dramatic transformation, if an app that enables the boundaries of smallholder farms to be mapped, digitally, for very little cash, by participating surveyors, globally could be created. It would make a real difference for rural Africa in an era of extreme weather - and  is consequently a must for Ghana, and the rest of Africa.

From my own personal experience, I do know what a difference having mapped farms in rural Ghana, can have for our national economy's smallholder farming sector. In light of all the above, there is no question that common-good app developers, who care passionately, about empowering the less privileged, in Ghanaian society, could make a real difference to wealth creation in Ghana. No question. Cool.

A quick note to Issa Ouedraogo - on Moringa's stewardship of AfDB agroforestry funds

Massa, if you want the global green social impact investment community, to become aware of Moringa's skullduggery, in Ghana, hold a virtual Twitter Space-presser that focuses on presenting to the world, documentary proof (the gathered-incontrovertible-evidence of communicated serial-falsehoods to Ghanaian officialdom), showing that far from being a genuine social impact investor, it is rather a morally bankrupt, greed-filled and corruption-riddled company, with a vile management culture.


The question that needs pondering over is: Why, if Moringa were genuine agroforestry  social impact investors,  with an ethical ethos, would they be focusing on hijacking B-BOVID, willy-nilly, in broad daylight, to grab its oil palm mill - yet, to date, after four  long years in Ghana as agroforestry investors, have, even as we speak, not provided a single tree seedling, to any of B-BOVID's value-chain's smallholder oil palm outgrower farmer-stakeholders, to enable them diversify their income streams, and enjoy higher living standards? Incredible.  

I am outraged by the Emperor-with-no-clothes-syndrome, pure nonsense on stilts  that Moringa's  exploitation of  Ghana's criminal  justice system, represents. In no other jurisdiction would this nonsense be entertained.

Massa, do you think that if you took EU agroforestry funds, in France, and after four years you still had not provided a single tree seedling,  and went to court to try to use falsification of official documents to change the ownership of a mill, ditto provided false information  to obtain a work permit, as well as use deep-fakery  to unlawfully  secure a bank mandate,  and then proceeded to empty the mill's bank account, you would remain a  free man, to litigate the said mill's ownership, using expensive-to-acquire lawyers, paid small  fortunes,  in hourly professional fee charges?


My advice to you is to use Twitter Space-pressers to expose all the above to the world - so that the global social impact investor community are aware of the egregious ruinous-actions and weaponised-falsehoods, which  Moringa is ruthlessly  deploying in Ghana, in its disgraceful attempt to steal B-BOVID, and its mill, from you, the visionary founder, who executed a  project to transform the lives of value-chain  smallholder outgrower farmer-stakeholders in Ghana's Western Region, to perfection. Cool.


Massa, genuine social impact investors have moral compasses, and operate with company cultures bedrocked on ethics. The question to ponder over is: Why have Moringa done the opposite of all that in their shabby attempt to take your life's work away from you?


Massa,  under no circumstances should  greenwashing-carpetbaggers like that, be given stewardship of earmarked African Development Bank (AfDB) agroforestry funds, wai. Full stop. Enough is enough. Case closed.  Haaba.

A Quick Note To Issa Ouedraogo - Copied To Banque Edmond de Rothschild Group, the AfDB President and the Western Regional Police Command

Yewura Issa, genuine social impact investors are law abiding in all jurisdictions, they operate in, today, oooo, Massa.


So the Ghana Police Service, our nation's principal law enforcement agency, have a legal obligation not to allow Moringa's forceful takeover of the factory, under cover of darkness, using thugs, to persist. This is a nation of laws. Full stop. Haaba.


After alI, would most ordinary citizens not be locked up, in a police station cell, awaiting processing for court the next day - if they tried a caper like that: just to enable them cynically tell a judge hearing a matter they had taken to court that they were in possession of the factory whose disputed ownership the honorable court was hearing (and had recommended recievership for, to protect it, before judgement in the case was passed), in a blatant and outrageous attempt to influence the honorable court's decision?


The Western Regional Police Command is duty bound to order personnel of the Ghana Police Service to take over the task of securing the factory - and ensure that no one has access to the factory: until a court appointed reciever takes over and takes inventory of what's there.


The era of when in Rome do as the Romans do, is over in the corporate world, globally, oooo. Ask the Ericsson executives who are being held personally responsible for the reputational-damaging Ericsson corrupt management culture's actions and inactions in Iraq. Genuine social impact investors are law abiding in all jurisdictions they invest in, today, oooo, Massa - regardless of how corrupt some of those jurisdictions are. Moringa's executives in Ghana, obviously aren't aware of that, the greedy sods. Enough is enough. Haaba.

Nothing can justify mobs attacking police stations in our homeland Ghana

One's thoughts and prayers are with those who suffered in the dreadful  tragedy that occurred at Nkoranza, in the Bono East Region on Tuesday 17th May, 2022 - both civilians and police. However, the point needs to be made that  Ghanaians, a wise and aspiratiinal African people, are a civilised people, and that nothing can justify mobs attacking police stations in our country.  Full stop.

The question we must ponder over is: When, koraaa, will our hard-of-hearing ruling-elites, get it, that we need to merge the Ghana Police Service, the Ghana Prison Service,  the Ghana Immigration Service, the Ghana National Fire Service and the CEPS of GRA, into a new Homeland Force, that then becomes the fourth armed service, of the Ghana Armed Forces  (GAF), if we are to ensure that those tasked to ensure internal security in our nation, are properly resourced - particularly at a time when terrorism is on the ascendancy in West Africa, and such horrible examples of mob violence,  in which police stations are attacked,  by lawless elements, is increasing in frequency?  Haaba.

The  time has now come for the deployment of AI citywide surveillance technology  to protect government installations such as police stations, and the barracks of all our security agencies, as well as all public spaces where large numbers congregate. We must not allow a break down in law and order, under any circumstances, anywhere, in the territorial landmass of the Republic of Ghana, oooo, Ghanafuo. Yoooooo. Enough is enough. Nothing can justify mobs attacking police stations in our country. It is simply intolerable.

Ghanafuo, we can dig ourselves out of the deep hole that our hard-of-hearing, debt-accumulating promise-and-fail ruling-elites, have gotten us into, by championing the cause of Ghana's private sector's most innovative entrepreneurs - the businesses of all of whom ought to be given long tax holidays, and extended super-low-interest longterm loans, to expand their companies. Today, not tomorrow, oooo. Yoooooo...

Ghanafuo, our nation's fledgling green economy, ought to be seen for what it actually represents: the transformative-pillar of our country's future - for it is the creativity, nous and gumption, of the brightest and best Ghanaian green entrepreneurs, such as the CEO of the Legon Botanical Gardens, Eugene Kofi Boakye-Yiadom, and the brilliant founder and CEO, of B-BOVID Farms, Issa Ouedraogo, who, in the post-pandemic era, can create wealth that remains locally, and generate the jobs galore, needed for our younger generations.

If we are to make any headway, as wise and aspirational Africans, members of our nation's political class, ought to take the opinions of the private sector's foremost green entrepreneurs, into account, at all material times - because it is their flair for wealth-creation and generating jobs, which can help us dig Mother Ghana, out of the slippery-walled muddy-hole, which our country's too-clever-by-half politicians, have finally landed us, in, oooo, Ghanafuo. Yooooooo...

Ghana's Minister for Lands and Natural Resources Must End The Impunity Of Akyem Juaso 's Criminal Syndicates

It is an open secret in Akyem Juaso, a fringe-forest cocoa farming community, in Ghana's Eastern Region, that some members of the P. E. Thompson family, its biggest landowners, are actively collaborating with the criminal syndicates engaged in the production of bushcut chainsaw lumber, and galamsayers, in parts of our freehold 14-square mile upland evergreen rainforest property, off the arboreal slopes bordering the Atewa Forest Reserve (and in the 99.6 acres land we own inside the Atewa Forest Reserve, known in Forestry Commission jargon, as an admitted farm).



The question is: When will the dynamic Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, Hon. Abu Jinapor, finally act to end the impunity fueling the egregious ecocidal-crimes, of the aforementioned. P. E. Thompson family members, Ghanafuo?  Hmmmm,  ey3nsem, piiiiii, oooo...



At a time when global climate change is impacting rural Ghana so negatively,  is it not vital that the impunity enjoyed by the ruthless and murderous criminal syndicates benefitting from illegal logging and galamsay, even as we speak, at Akyem Juaso, ends, and that those greedy rogues are arrested, prosecuted and jailed - to deter other such criminals across the territorial landmass of Ghana: especially at a time when those responsible for the safety of our Republic, ought to be making food security, a top national security strategic-priority, anaaaa, Ghanafuo? Enough is enough, oooo. The time has now come for the Minister for Lands and Natural Resources to act to end such egregious-impunity. Now. Not tomorrow. Yoooooo...

Ghanaian politicians: Creating wealth and jobs isn't rocket science. It is simple-commonsensical-stuff

Why do Ghanaian politicians persist with the egregious dissembling-nonsense  that somehow, governments-of-the-day, can create jobs that are fulfilling for those lucky enough to find such government created jobs in Ghana? Are Nabco jobs fulfilling, anaaa, I ask? Do the young people who do those protocol-type-jobs get paid regularly, anaaa? Haaba.

With the greatest respect, it is only Ghana's private sector that can create wealth that remains locally, and decent fulfilling jobs, for those willing to work productively - because smart entrepreneurs across the nation incentivise them, oooo, Ghanafuo. Yoooooo...

One's humble advice to members of our nation's hard-of-hearing political class, is to make the whole of Ghana's agricultural sector, not just the cocoa industry,  tax free - and demand that all farming in Ghana converts to organic farming within the next 5 years.

They will be astonished by how such a policy will result in a dramatic improvement in crop yields nationwide; and be amazed by the jobs galore it will generate - and boost the immune systems of Ghanaians, and make us a healthy people once again: like our forebears were before Africans came into contact with Western civilisation.  

Ditto be incredulous that such a policy results in exponential growth in the processing of agricultural produce; and also be pleasantly surprised to  see how adding value to agricultural produce, through processing, contributes positively to Ghana's trade balance - and actually  strengthens the hapless new Ghana cedi (a more or less worthless currency that sundry dog-collar-charlatans have prayed to God Almighty to strengthen, and stabilise, for yonks - but to no avail, alas:  because God hates stupidity in leaders), a feat which over the years, has eluded policymakers of virtually  all regimes, since the founding of the 4th Republic. Creating wealth and jobs, really isn't rocket science, koraaa, oooo, Ghanafuo. It is simple-commonsensical-stuff, wai. Cool.

A Quick Note To Those Advocating For A Miiitary Coup In Ghana

A military coup in Ghana will set our country back decades, and make us the slaves of soldiers accountable to no one. Life in a Ghana ruled by soldiers, would be akin to living in hell-on-earth conditions. No question. With the greatest respect, what dim-wit  wants such a life, I ask, Ghanafuo?


In that light, instead of advocating for a military coup, why not campaign openly, instead, during the 2024 presidential and parliamentary elections,  with a manifesto calling for a new 5th Republic, with a Constitution, which ensures democracy, by mandating the election of heads of Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies,  amongst other common-good provisions?



Ditto campaign for a new 5th Republic with a Constitution that bans all forms of media censorship, makes it mandatory for all elected public officials to publicly publish their assets before assuming office, and immediately after leaving office;  makes tax evasion a crime punishable by  mandatory life sentences with hard labour, and  no possibility whatsoever,   of parole, and gives prosecutorial powers to the Auditor General? That will be a great deal more preferable an existence, than living under the jackboots of ruthless soldiers accountable to no one, ooooo, Ghanafuo. Cool.

A Quick Note To Father Joop Visser - On The Benefits Of The Win-Win Social Impact Business Model In Emerging Nations

Father Joop Visser, even in low-wage emerging nations, in which labour laws are weak, and workers mostly aren't unionised, truly honest and wise social impact investors, specifically choose that particulsr business model, because its value-chain empowers local stakeholders to bootstrap their way to financial independence, while their quality of life is enhanced, by the improvement in the health of the natural environment.


That ensures the long-term sustainably of their projects, gives consumers worldwide the satisfaction of knowing that the company's products are authentically green and good for both people and the planet Earth. It's a proven formula for success. Cool.


Above all, the win--win ethos underpinning their project, keeps the business profitable, in the long run, ensuring an eventual exit for the original investors, whicn takes the business forward into the future, with new social impact investors, who come in with fresh ideas to take the business to the next level, so to speak.


Finally, if you want proof of its desirability, and suitability, for Mother Ghana, just ask the value-chain oil palm smallholder farmer-stakeholders of the pre-Moringa B-BOVID, founded and  built by the brilliant Issa Ouedraogo, as well as the incredibly hardworking indigenous Ga Dangbes, of the Songho Lagoon - who over the centuries have won salt there, as a cultural and spiritual activity - whether or not that is the type of win-win social impact investor they dream of daily. Simple, really, Sage. Cool.