The battle is joined to end foreign-funded anti-LGBTQ+ advocates terrorising a besieged-marginalised-demographic across Ghana

The battle is joined to end foreign-funded anti-LGBTQ+ advocates terrorising a besieged-marginalised-demographic across Ghana

By Kofi Thompson

Ghana's boarding schools are the breeding grounds for LGBTQ+ demographics in Ghana, and have been for over 6 decades now. So the LGBTQ+ boarding shool  subculture has been an open secret here in Anansesemkrom, for yonks, dear critical-reader, lol. I kid you not, wai. Cool.

The question is: Why have the hypocrites across Ghana,  who are  funded by super-wealthy right-wing foreign anti-LGBTQ+ organisations (unbeknownst to most Ghanaians),  not asked their  super-wealthy foreign backers, for money to fund the transformation of all Ghana's state-owned  boarding schools, into world-class day boarding schools?

Ditto fund the construction of  new world-class high schools nationwide, with facilities for at least  10,000 students, too, so that senior (and junior) high school students will attend the ones near them, and thus stay at home, all year-round?

Won't that ensure that family values predominate societal life in the superpower of elite-greed (a veritable Anansesemkrom), which they have turned our homeland Ghana into: a nation dominated by shameless state-capture, rent-seeking  big-thieves-in-high-places?

Won't that stop children from being led into the subculture of the LGBTQ+ lifestyle that dominates boarding school life, across Ghana,  from top to bottom, in a manner of speaking, dear critical-reader, I ask ?

We will not let them abuse the human rights of anyone in Ghana, if the well--funded (by super-wealthy right-wing foreigners) anti-LGBTQ+ bullies in Ghana, don't ask their wealthy foreign  backers to fund the transformation of boarding high schools into world-class day schools, and fund the construction of new world-class day schools with facilities for 10,000 students, so that they underpin their family values advocacy to ensure that a strong moral fabric binds Ghanaian society, oooo, Ghanafuor.   No. No. No.

Until that happens, they must shut up, and f-ck-off. For their information,  the battle to fight their well-funded  anti-LGBT advocates  terrorising a besieged-marginalised-demographic, across Ghana, is now joined - and we, always fight, to win, not  lose, oooo, Ghanafuor.  Yooooooo...

Can Ghana's incapacitated female soccer stars be empowered to become financially secure?

Can Ghana's incapacitated female soccer stars be empowered to become financially secure, when they are forced by circumstances, to leave the game they so passionately love? Perhaps - if a male-dominated society decides to be fairer to women, that is.

The story of how the sad plight of one of the best goalkeepers ever to play for our senior female national soccer team, the  Black Queens, Memunatu Sulemana, caught the attention of former President John Dramani Mahama, who then immediately arranged for suitable alternative accommodation for her, with a promise to empower her to bootstrap her way to financial independence, was widely reported recently, by local media, and went viral on social media platforms.

That sad story, highlights the importance of exploring creative ways of empowering Ghana's female soccer players, who make up our various national soccer teams, who become incapacitated, to bootstrap their way to financial indepedence, through social impact cooperative businesses, established for that purpose.

As we are all aware,  compared to our national  male national soccer teams' players, the  female players at that level, are neglected, in terms of the provision of financial-inducement-compensation packages, even though their track record of winning trophies on the global tournament
stage,  is just as impressive, if not much better, than that of our  male national soccer  teams.

In light of that, perhaps the question a wise and aspirational people ought to ponder over is: How best can Ghana's incapacitated female soccer stars be empowered to become financially secure?

As one's widow's mite contribution to that desired-endgame-outcome, so to speak, here is a simple  idea that might be leveraged to help incapacitated female soccer players to become financially independent after leaving the game, and keep their dignity intact, in retirement:

A logistics sector entity, with an all-female workforce, with at least four flatbed trucks, and four forklifts capable of lifting loaded 40ft shipping containers, which will be a social impact cooperative, set up for, and owned and run, by both active and retired female soccer players, could compete favourably for business across Ghana, could it not, dear critical-reader, and thrive commercially, in a nation unfair to its female soccer players, but ready and happy to assuage its feelings of guilt for being so discriminatory, that way? Yes, Ghana's incapacitated female soccer stars, can, and ought to be suitably empowered, to become financially secure.

A few crazy money-making ideas for Elon Musk's EverythingXApp

When I saw a post on X (formerly Twitter) by Elon Musk, himself, drumming up support for Global South online content creators, I immediately understood why he is the world's richest entrepreneur. How many billionaires running global tech behemoths interact regularly with the ordinary people who use their products, I ask? Get it, dear critical-reader, lol?

For his genuine concern about the financial well-being of innovative Global South thinkers, and inventive-types, here are a few free money-making from an ignoramus and uneducated old fool, living in a Global South  backwater in Ghana's beautiful and idyllic Central Region, lol:

1) Today, as we are all aware, even little school children, the world over, now know that a world-changing idea, shared with Elon Musk, through X (formerly Twitter), will be taken to market via an EverythingXApp start-up-lab, and the profits shared equally. between XCorp, and the originator of the idea - so: Over to you, Joe Lartey, oooo, wai", Nana Elon Adjumawurahene1, lol. Cool.
 
2 Should the EverythingX app not also have a fleet of self-driving ride hailing Tesla's, for the use of its membership, any of whom can sit behind the steering wheel, if that makes them more comfortable about their personal safety, in self-driving vehicles?

Naturally, car thieves will avoid targeting them, as they are aware that they simply won't be able to get away with stealing XRideHailing vehicles, because Starlink will be tracking all their journeys, lol. And, let's not also forget that no one can use the service if their biodata isn't available on the XRide-hailing system, lol. Cool.

3) Finally, wouldn't it be wise for XCorp to purchase Telcos worldwide, to levarage their mobile money services potential, to underpin an XBank global online banking behemoth, anaaa, lol?

In that light, perhaps Nana Elon Adjumawurahene1, could   begin XCorp's foray into the license-to-print-fiat-money world,  of telcos, by purchasing bankrupted Ghana's orphaned government-owned Telco, AirtelTigo, for say US$ 5 billion - to take advantage of its hidden-value, in the EverythingXApp's scheme-of-things, lol? No? Roll on the EverythingXApp juggernaut, lol!

NB: There is more where those crazy ideas sprung from, oooo, Nana Elon Ajumahwura1, wai, lol. Get in touch if they blow your super-creative contrarian-mind, lol. Cool.

Bravo to the NDC's Dr. Kwabena Dufuor - and bully for the NDC

Bravo to the National Democratic Congress' former finance minister, for making it clear that wealth generation and job generation (by ensuring that  the private sector's entrepreneurs have a business-friendly environment), ought to be, and will be, the focus, of the 2024 presidential and parliamentary elections, and thereafter.

Having successfully steered our national economy, on a path-of-growth (while the then NDC government was running a tailor-made International Monetary Fund (IMF) bailout programme), as Ghana's finance minister, during the John Atta Mills presidency, it is a blessing, and reassuring, for our bankrupted nation that it has a former finance minster with a stellar track record of that nature, in the leadearship ranks of the NDC - which is our largest opposition party, and most capable of providing an alternative, to the current ruling party, the New Patriotic Party (NPP).

Dr. Dufour is absolutely right in pointing out the need for fostering a businss-friendly economic environment, as a top priority, for the next NDC administration, in 2025 (God willing).

In that regard, because they have the best scaleable wealth-creation, and job-generating, business models, which are easily replicated nationwide, profitably, as wise and aspirational Africans, it is best for Ghanaian society to focus on creating wealth and jobs through the most bleeding-edge and
innovative private sector entities, owned by astute, ethical green entrepreneurs, running successful green economy social impact, profit-sharing companies, bedrocked on ESG principles, which protect the natural environment, pay their workers well and make the welfare of stakeholder-communities top priorities. That's how best any hoped-for post-pandemic prosperity can be achieved. No question.

In that light, in our beautiful and bountiful Ghana, the best go-to green ethical social impact entrepreneurs, for our wisest, most selfless and sincerest politicians to consult, on green economy public private partnership (PPP) policy issues, are the brilliant master-planner, Kofi Boakye-Yiadom, the CEO of Legon Botanical Gardens, and Western Region born and bred, son-of-the-soil orphan-made-good, Issa Ouedraogo, the founder of B-BOVID.

Bully for the NDC, that it has an economist of the calibre of Dr. Dufuor in its leadership ranks - and bravo to the affable and selfless Dr. Kwabena Dufuor!

Why the Trumpist-MAGA-GOP's pure nonsense-on-stilts is doomed

Is the Trumpist-MAGA-GOP's humbug, and pure nonsense-on-stilts, doomed, dear critical-reader? To help us read the tea leaves, one humbly suggests that we begin, by first referring to the Google definition of the noun McCarthyism:

"McCarthyism

/məˈkɑːθɪɪz(ə)m/

noun

a vociferous campaign against alleged communists in the US government and other institutions carried out under Senator Joseph McCarthy in the period 1950–4. Many of the accused were blacklisted or lost their jobs, though most did not in fact belong to the Communist Party."

Notice how remarkably alike McCarthyism, is, to the monstrosity, of
today's nationwide bad-faith-maneuvering, of the extreme-right of today's Trumpist-MAGA-GOP, dear critical-reader?

One  makes bold to predict that just like the monstrosity that was McCarthyism (which, at its height, felt unstoppable - but was eventually stopped in its tracks: by the common decency that underpins America society), so will the absurdity, of today's so-called Conservative -Libertarians, sponsoring bad-faith legislation across America, banning books and  fervently promoting the rewriting of American history in schools, for example,  be halted in its tracks, by the ethos that underpins American society, and end the Trumpist-MAGA-GOP's pure nonsense-on-stilts, in the process, too, lol. Cool.

Have Gabby Asare Otchere-Darko and Ken Ofori-Atta finally been hoisted on their own petards?

Having bankrupted Mother Ghana, to enable them send their personal net worth to stratospheric heights,  in the process, the too clever by half Gabby Asare Otchere-Darko, and the super-sly Bible-quoting  Ken Ofori-Atta, two greed-filled progeny of our pre-colonial tribal-supremacist tribal ruling-elites,  have finally gotten their comeuppance,  and  been hoisted on their petards,  lol.

The progeny of our pre-colonial ruling elites, are clearly
a clear and present danger to Mother Ghana. No question.  

That is why one felt a sense of unease, when one saw a   photograph of the present Asantehene (who, incidentally is a perfect gentleman, obviously commited to the enterprise Ghana), posted on Facebook.

As the Asantehene happened to be sitting majestically atop human skulls,  in the photograph, it was not lost on one, that conveyed atavistic symbolism for anyone, who deeply cares about Mother Africa's well-being, and the welfare of its mostly-brilliant well-educated younger generations.

With the greatest respect, sitting atop human skulls, might be regarded by some as gruesome and barbaric, ooooo. Hmmm, 3y3nsem piiiii, ooooo.

In any case, it perfectly sums up, metaphorically,  why today's progeny of pre-colonial African monarchs, will soon face demands for payment of reparations for facilitating the slave trade.

Thus far, they have escaped being blamed for engaging in brutal-pillaging-wars, to capture slaves, and profit mightily, from so doing - and pay reparations for committing what were egregious crimes against humanity, of the worst kind,  alas.

Truth be told, if we really want Africa to realise her full potential, and become a world power, like India, as wise and aspirational Africans, we must take a leaf from India's strategic-playbook  -  and do what India did to get where she is today: ridding itself of its all-powerful Maharajahs, because its farsighted nationalist leaders understood clearly that for India to become a global power,  it had to be a meritocracy,  and that because inherited privilege is the meritocracy's greatest enemy,  they had to rid post-independent  India of its Maharajas. Simple. Case closed.

It's no accident that while India is acknowledged as a global power and world economic giant,  sadly, our homeland  Ghana is now a global-laughing-stock, fast retrogressing - and has now ended up being  bankrupted.

It is significant that having finally been entrusted with the power that  they have long sought (from the days of the brilliant scholar,  Dr. J. B. Danquah), today's greed-filled state-capture big-thieves-in-high-places, who also happen to be the super-ruthless hypocritical progeny,  of our pre-colonial   ruling eites from Akyem Abuakwa, have finally shown us their true colours, and bankrupted our country, in order to send their personal net worth to stratospheric heights, under the able leadership of the  too clever by half Gabby Asare Otchere-Darko, and the financial engineering genius, sly Ken Ofori-Atta.

Not satisfied with that, they now propose to crown their perfidy, by renaming our premiere university,  the University of Ghana, after Dr. J. B. Danquah. Any wonder that they have finally been hoisted on their own collective-petard, lol? 3y3nsem piiiii, ooooo, Ghanafuor...

Why I will now advocate for the protection of the human rights of Ghana's LGBTQIA+ demographics

Dear critical-reader, on the highly emotive, controversial and divisive issue, of LGBTQIA+, in Ghanaian society, some of us occupy the middle ground. I understand and respect the views of the sincere, on both sides, in this matter.

But first things first, lol.To start with, let's state the Gay Centre.org's definition of LGBTQIA+:

LGBTQIA+ is an abbreviation for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer or questioning, intersex, asexual, and more. These terms are used to describe a person's sexual orientation or gender identity.

Speaking personally, let me state, that I find the idea of intercourse with a fellow man, abhorrent and repulsive.

However, not being a saint, but a mere mortal full of faults and sins, I don't think it is my place to judge homosexual men who have intercourse in gay relationships. Ditto condemn lesbian women, involved in same-sex relationships.

In my humble view, it is a matter strictly between LGBTQIA+ demographics, and God Almighty, their Maker.

By nature, it so happens that I am someone who is predisposed to leaving God Almighty to fight his own battles.

The question to ponder over is: What can puny humans do, when God Almighty can, and does take care of his own issues, such as the issue of human homosexuality, ask? Zilch.

A harrowing story recounted to me recently, about the forcible abducting by a young father, of his own son, from the boy's mother, and the distress it caused the boy's mother, who is apparently estranged from the father of her son because he accuses her of being a Lesbian and therfore a spiritual-source of bad luck, has made me decide to fight to ensure that gay people aren't persecuted, in a nation with a Constitution that protects the rights of the law-abiding, and prohibits discrimination on grounds of religious faith, race, ethnicity, gender, amongst the other human rights, which it also guarantees.

In my humble view, there is far too much hypocrisy, on the LGBTQIA+ issue in Ghana. What moral right, do serial-philanderers, for example, have, to condemn homosexuals?

Why aren't they demanding the closure of publicly owned boarding schools, which we all know, are the breeding grounds of homosexuality in Ghana, I ask? The human rights of gay people also matter. 

On that basis, I shall therefore devote a considerable amount of the alloted-time, now left for me, in the remainder of my God-given lifespan on earth, to being helpful to young gay people worldwide, by being an advocate for the protection of the human rights of LGBTQIA+ demographics, henceforth.

Towards that end, one intends to seek funding to get the Supreme Court of Ghana, to declare the anti-gay law that criminalises certain aspects of gay relationships in Ghana, as unconstitutional. Fair-minded Ghanaians must advocate for the protection of the human rights of Ghana's LGBTQIA+ demographics.

Why Elon Musk is my favourite 'racist' and 'fascist'

Many would think that I, a Black African ignoramus, who also endures the tragic-affliction, of being an uneducated old fool too, who lives in a backwater in my native Ghana, must be mad, to regard Elon Musk as my hero, lol.

The reason why the brilliant Musk is my hero, is simply that, although some accuse him of being a 'racist' and 'fascist', Elon, who says he is a free speech absolutist, can be relied on to ensure that Africans across the continent, can use his Starlink satellite broadband service, unhindered. Fantastic. Smashing. Amazing. Marvellous.

Ditto empower Africans to speak their minds freely, on his X (formerly Twitter) platform, when they can't do so publicly in their own countries. That, dear critical-reader, makes Musk my favourite 'racist' and 'fascist', lol.

The beauty of it all, is that when it is eventually rolled out, Musk's EverythingX app, will revolutionalise global online commerce, and boost the economies of many African nations - creating wealth for innovative entrepreneurs
that remains locally, and jobs galore, to boot, on top, too, lol. No question. Bravo braveheart Musk - my favourite 'racist' and 'fascist', lol. Cool.

A new era of national renewal and equity has arrived in Niger, Guinea, Mali and Burkina Faso

 Niger's new military rulers (and those ruling Guinea, Mali and Burkina Faso, the later two of which have offered support for Niger's new military rulers in the event they are invaded), could checkmate the democratically elected leaders of West Africa, who are threatening to invade Niger to restore the ousted president, by two simple but effective anti-corruption measures.

By simply:

1) Publicly publishing their personal assets, as well as that of their spouses, and demanding same of high-level civilian officials, and giving written undertakings, to the world, that they do so again, just before handing over power to newly elected civilian leaders.

2) Furthermore, they must decree that all public procurement will henceforth be carried out, based only on bids in open and competitive tendering, and that sole-sourced public procurement will be banned.

Finally, by taking those anti corruption measures, the above mentioned military rulers, will occupy the high moral ground, and literally force the whole world to see clearly that the era of egregious French kleptocratic-neocolonisation, dominated by powerful big-thieves-in-high-places, who were the local allies of perfidious France, which so impoverished ordinary people, in their repective nations, have truly ended, and that the dawn of a new era of national renewal and equity, has finally arrived, in Niger, Guinea, Mali and Burkina Faso. Case closed. Haaba.

Africa must no longer tolerate unconscionable foreign investment agreements

The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), consists of a group of U.S. federal agencies that investigates foreign investment in business deals that could threaten American national interests. Brilliant.

As we speak, it is being deployed, to counter the perceived threat posed to the U.S. by Chinese-owned Tik Tok.

The question to ponder over as wise and aspirational Africans is: Sould it not be the case that every African nation ought to have such a body in place, too, to protect its national interests, and ensure that no secret clauses are inserted into foreign investment agreements for example (such as the iniquitous agreements that France forced its former colonies in Africa to sign after granting them independence, which enables it to suck out as much as over US $400 billion annually from those ex-African colonies, such as that with Niger, for the exploitation of its uranium deposists), which are detrimental to their country and the welfare of its citizenry?

Ditto the foolish so-called hybrid oil agreements Ghana has in place, which enable oil companies to rip-off the Ghanaian nation-state, in such egregious fashion, and profits only the nation's state-capture rent-seeking, self-seeking big-thieves-in-high-places, amongst its greed-filled hard-of-hearing ruling-elites?

No unconscionable foreign investment agreements should be allowed, or tolerated, once they come to light, anywhere in Africa, any longer, oooo, Ghanafuor. Full stop. Case closed. Haaba. Yoooooooo.

Kudos to Kwahu Akwasihuo's innovetive entrepreneur native son Opanin Yaw Sarpong!

I was blown away watching a YouTube story about the extraordinary and inspirational entrepreneurial-journey, of Kwahu Akwasihuo's enterprising and innovative native son, Opanin Yaw Sarpong, posted by the hardworking video vlogger, Kwahu Ambassador. Brilliant stuff.

There is no question that Opanin Yaw Sarpong deserves the full support of our nation - for it is his can-do-spirit and the incredible positivity of his outlook on life and personal philosophy on wealth creation, which make it possible for even bankrupt nations ilke ours, to rise again, and become prosperous and equitable societies.
 
We need more private-sector nation-builder-types like him, if Mother Ghana is to fulfill its destiny as Africa's north-star nation, trial-blazing the African Renaissance that the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), now makes a certainty.

To help him complete the 5-kilometer Akwasihuo to Twenedurase Kwahu mountain road, one humbly suggests to Opanin Yaw Sarpong, that he collaborates with TerraFusion International, to self-finance the development of a tolled road network, across rural Ghana, using that American company's green road technology, EcoRoads, which they partner and complete as a tolled rural road, on a build operate and transfer (BOT) basis, as an infrastructure public private partnership project.

Because it will be virtually maintenance free, for the entirety of its projected lifespan of over five decades, leveraging TeraFusion International's EcoRoad technology will make a tolled Kwahu Akwasihuo to Twenedurase road, very, very profitable for those who execute it as a private sector self-financed infrastructure PPP project.

One thanks the young and dynamic video vlogger, Kwahu Ambassador, for posting such an inspirational video. Speaking for myself, I thoroughly enjoyed watching it. What an extraordinary innovative entrepreneur. Wow. Kudos to Kwahu Akwasihuo's enterprising and innovative native son Opanin Yaw Sarpong!

Food for thought on the Agyapa Royalties deal's shenanigans

Hmmm, 3y3nsem piiii, oooo, Ghanafuor. One admits that one is an uneducated old fool, but even an idiot like me, can see through this latest hare-brained scheme by the notorious Gabby Asare Otchere-Darko, lol.

The question to ponder over, dear critical-reader is: Is it not a moot point, as to whether or not in the first place, a matter properly dealt with in a UK court, because it involves a UK domiciled commercial entity, ought to be a concern, to an ECOWAS Court of Justice (established under Article 15 of the Revised Treaty of ECOWAS, as the sole judicial organ of the community with the role of ensuring the observance of law and justice in the interpretation and application of the Treaty and protocols of ECOWAS), was a proper forum, to adjudicate on such a matter concerning matters arising from what is a case of the sovereign nation-state of Ghana's government-of-day, establishing a company, in the UK?

Is it not so absurd that that  ECOWAS Court judgement is now being crowed over, by Ananases3mkrom's  Spin-Doctor-in-Chief, anaaa, Ghanafuor? Haaba.

This resort to pendantic-trickery, is so typical of the daft-scheming by the too clever by half Gabby Asare Otchere-Darko.

Sadly, his sodden greed-driven scheming, have ended up destroying the credibility of President Akufo-Addo, as a personally incorruptible politician, because of the pervading and never-ending state-capture rent-seeking of a few greedy and insincere family members, of the President's, such as that selfsame Gabby Asare Otchere-Darko and Ghana's financial engineering genius, the sly and hypocritical finance minister, Ken Ofori-Atta.

Alas, in the not too distant future, poor narcissistic and  smug Gabby, who has a penchant for laughing at his own sick-jokes,  will wind up having a miserable end, when they are finally and deservedly hoisted on their own sodden petards, after they are turfed out of power, in the 2024 presidential and parliamentary elections,  lol. Cool.

Kudos to Ghana's former President John Mahama

The most important lesson from the bankrupting of Mother Ghana, is that we must have leaders who not only are honest and selfless, but who also know how to forster productive private sector growth, because they have hands-on experience, of running successful businesses ethically, without burdening them with the endless piling on of taxes.

That is why news that former President Mahama is embarking on what will be one of largest farms in Ghana, is welcome news - if it is organic and has a profit-sharing smallholder stakeholder-farmers scheme incorporated in it, that is, and bedrocked on  agro-processing and leverages agroforestry principles.

Some might opine that that is a tall order, but at a time when climate change is negatively impacting rural Ghana, the emphasis in the agricultural sector ought to be on promoting climate smart farming, which actually benefits people in local communities, through shared profits that empower the marginalised to bootstrap their own way out of poverty to financial independence, and also benefits the natural environment for humanity's shared biosphere, the planet Earth.

Towards that end, dear critical-reader, one humbly recommends that the former President and his project team, visit the showcase Garden of Eden, an organic agroforestry initiative, established at Angu, in the bountiful and beautiful Western Region, by the best available Ghanaian organic social impact agripreneur, and have discussions on agroforestry as climate smart organic farming, with the brilliant Issa Ouedraogo, the founder of B-BOVID (Building business on values, integrity and dignity). Kudos to former President Mahama!

Food for thought for Africa's leaders

As we enter the age of the African Rennaiscence, Your Excellencies, with the greatest respect, it is incumbent upon you, to ensure that the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) completely bans the use of special purpose offshore vehicles established by investors, to do business, with, across the continent, without exception.

Tax havens, such as those registered and domiciled in places such as Mauritius and Luxembourg, serve one purpose only: To enable sundry rogues and ruthless-grifters, to come and rip-off Mother Africa and her most successful innovative entrepreneurs.

We don't need investors who are amoral, callous, exploitative of workers, and whose company cultures are underpinned by criminality, and guided by a strategy of unparalleled-egregious-corruption.

After all, is the AfCFTA not the world's largest free trade area, in terms of number of member countries (55), territory, and population? And, does it not connect 1.3 billion people, across 55 countries with a combined gross domestic product (GDP) valued at US$3.4 trillion? Enough, really is enough, Excellencies. Take swift action to completely ban tax haven domiciled special purpose vehicles from Africa. Now. Not tomorrow. Haaba.

Whv the minister for agriculture in charge of food crops ought to meet with Issa Ouedraogo

At a time when climate change is impacting rural Ghana so negatively,   it is most unfortunate that the minister of agriculture, in charge of food crops,  has been led to believe that it is large-scale commercial farming, which will ensure food security for Mother  Ghana. Pity.

Obviously,  the minister listens to the advice of the senior public officials who run his turf for him, in effect - and, they, as even little school children know, are beholden to the powerful synthetic agrochemical importers, who spend zillions lobbying in the corridors of power, to ensure that immune-system-wrecking agrochemicals, go on underpinning Ghanaian farming, instead of our country converting to 100 percent farming as a post pandemic  public health initiative.
 
For the sake of Mother Ghana, and to ensure food security, at a time when regenerative climate-smart organic farming, leveraging agroforestry principles, is the only viable path to ensuring food security  for our homeland Ghana,  one  humbly recommends  that the minister for agric in charge of food crops, consults one of the world's best social impact organic agripreneurs, who is a son-of-the-soil, from our bountiful and beautiful Western Region:  the indomitable and brilliant Issa Ouedraogo.

Issa Oeudraogo's climate-smart social impact  profit-sharing organic farming business model, ensures that all the value-chain's smallholder stakeholder-farmers, benefit from the premium prices the fruits of their labour make possible. It has benefited many   smallholder farmers (about 4,000 including around 1000  females), whom Issa intends to formally make his business partners, when he regains control of the company he founded, B-BOVID, from Moringa, who signed an unconscionable partnership agreement with him, and now seek to exploit our justice delivery system, to legalise an illegitimacy, and hijack his beloved  company from him.  

Issa founded B-BOVID, with US$ 800, 000 of his savings from the six-figure salary he earned at Saudi Telecom, plus a loan of US$1 million, from the Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa (BADEA),  to enable him give back to society, for his good fortune  in life, as an orphan-made-good, who made it, despite the deprivation he experienced growing up - none of which ever stopped him from fighting to achieve his goals in life.

The minister for food and agriculture in charge of food crops, would be wise to go to the Western Region, to  meet with Issa Ouedraogo, to witness at first hand, from inspecting his Garden of Eden agroforestry  project, to enable him envisage at first hand, what the future of farming in Ghana, ought to be like, providing jobs for young people,  and creating wealth that remains locally empowering smallholder farmers to bootstrap their own way to financial independence, at a time when climate change is impacting rural Ghana  so negatively. A word to the wise...

Should Niger cut off all links with France?

Should Niger cut off all links with France, dear critical-reader? The decision by Algeria to supply free electricity to Niger, is a godsend that changes the picture completely for Niger's future prospects.

That bold decision by Algeria, itself yet another hapless-victim of French perfidious-cruelty and ruthless-exploitation, ought to make it possible, now, for the people of Niger to use the enforced-regime-change emergency situation to tear up all the unconscionable post-independence agreements France imposed on them.

As wise and aspirational Africans, Nigeriens must now seek consensus, to chart a new course as a people who love and cherish freedom - and establish a new Republic of free people: by permanently cutting off all links to the cruel and ruthless nation that enslaved them so callously, for so long, greed-filled France.

If France wants to continue buying uranium from West Africa, going forward into the future, let them buy it from Algeria - to whom Niger must now sign a new win-win agreement, to sell all its uranium to, asap: for its good-neighbourly friend-in-need gesture, of providing Niger with free electricity, when it needed just such an existential-lifeline, thrown to it, when it was greatly imperilled. The time has now come for Niger to cut off all its links with France. Simple. Case closed.

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To label even patriotic Americans, as communist agents. Ridiculous. One references his recent confrontation, with the Homeland Department's Secretary, Alejandro Mayorkas. They are a study in egregious-hypocrisy, lol.



Akyem Juaso@RainforestGhana

@RainforestGhana·

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And vividly show the infernal-arrogance and shortsighted narrow-mindedness of most of today's far-right politicians. Daft. Absurd. Foolish. Unspeakable. It is the anti-American moronic-miasma of fascism that has enveloped America in present-day McCarthyism, lol. Cool.

ECOWAS leaders: do not shed even a drop of African blood to restore democracy in Niger

With the greatest respect, one thing ought to be made clear to the leaders of the nations that make up the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS): not a drop of African blood, must be shed, in order to resolve the enforced regime-change-challenge, in Niger. Full stop.


Truth be told, democracy and extreme poverty, cannot co-exist for long. France's unconscionable agreements that it made its former African colonies sign, after they regained their independence, have ended up impoverishing ten of millions in those nations.


Those obnoxious agreements ought to be cancelled. Now. Not tomorrow - and the call for that must come from the leaders of the member states of the ECOWAS bloc.


When supposedly democratic nations morphe into plutocracies masquerading as democracies, which are effectively kleptocracies in all but name, ruthlessly exploited by state-capture rent-seeking big-thieves-in-high-places, to send their net worth to stratospheric heights, at society's expense, they cease to have any legitimacy. 


In light of that, the ECOWAS leaders must not shed a drop of African blood to restore Nigerien democracy, under any circumstances, and by so doing, do France's dirty work for it, on top, too.


Wars are destructive, expensive to fund and ruinous for all involved in them. They do not make any sense. Africa must rid itself of the curse of wars that set nations back decades - and focus instead on creating prosperity for all its societal demographics.


That is why it is vital that  ECOWAS sticks to the use of diplomatic means to resolve the impasse in Niger - and stay the course doing so: till a resolution accepted by all the parties is finally arrived at. Not even a drop of African blood must be shed by ECOWAS leaders to restore democracy in Niger. Case closed.

Hail the new king of global commerce - the AfCFTA!

This is going to be the age of the African Renaissance. No question. In light of that, wouldn't it be marvellous, if Nigeria (and the rest of the continent's nations), acted swiftly to ban foreign investors using special purpose vehicle subsidiaries, registered in offshore tax havens (such as Luxembourg and Mauritius, for example), from investing in Nigeria's national economy?

Such offshore tax havens serve one purpose only: they enable dishonest entrepreneurs from outside Africa, to get away with the ruthless-grifting of Mother Africa.

They are here to recolonise the continent cloaked as foreign direct investors. Nothing more, nothing less, dear critical-reader. Full stop.

Above all, foreign direct investors must be required by law, to sign only win-win partnership agreements, anchored on strict adherence to ESG principles in Nigeria, and elsewhere in the continent - if Nigeria and the rest of Africa are to ever benefit from direct foreign investment. Full stop.

After all, is the AfCFTA not the world's largest free trade area in terms of number of member countries, territory, and population, I ask?

And, does it not connect 1.3 billion people across 55 countries with a combined gross domestic product (GDP) valued at US$3.4 trillion? Can't African entrepreneurs prosper mightly engaging in intra-African trade? Haaba. Case closed.

The Africa of old is dead and buried - and we most certainly don't need ruthless and dishonest foreign direct investors trashing the natural environment, enslaving workers, and dodging taxes, in the age of the African Renaissance. Long live the new king of global commerce, Africa!

Africans: Demand cancellation of post-independence agreements between France and its former African colonies

The obnoxious-agreements that France is using to exploit the citizens of its former African colonies, and their nations, in such egregious fashion, are an affront to human dignity,  and crimes against humanity, no less.

Luckily, as it happens, a Rubicorn-moment has now arrived for France's former colonies in Africa - for, as we speak, the world is now very receptive to such unconscionable agreements, between nation-states, being torn up.

The international community must condemn those post-independence agreements, in no uncertain terms - and demand that their continued enforcement by France, ends. Now. Not tomorrow. Africa must seize this momentous-moment, to free the tens of millions of  Africans in France's former colonies across the continent,  who are burdened by the yoke of French ruthless-exploitation. Shame on France!

Let us give peace a chance in Niger

A peaceful resolution of the emergency situation in Niger, acceptable to all the parties, will definitely need more time than a week, to be achieved.

To spare the ordinary citizens of Niger, from the destructive effects of wars, on civilians, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), the regional bloc, must extend the deadline of its one week ultimatum to the coup's military leaders, which ends today, Sunday.

Furthermore, the ECOWAS regional bloc's leaders must ask all outside powers (especially France, the U. S. and NATO), not to intervene, in what is an African problem, requiring an African solution, under any circumstances.

Above all, France needs to understand clearly that it can no longer continue its brutal gang-rape of Niger (and other African nations), whose natural resources it has ruthlessly exploited for decades, at the expense of the actual resource-owners, the sovereign  people of Niger, for whom it hasn't yielded any benefits, worth speaking of, to date.

The days when valuable gold could be exchanged for worthless bric-a-brac in Africa, are over. France needs to get that.  Full stop.

If Putin's intervention in Ukraine, which is causing untold collateral-damage-suffering there, for civilians, is wrong and totally unacceptable, so is any planned intervention in Niger, by France.

 As wise and aspirational Africans, let us apply the lessons learnt from the overthrow of the former Libyan leader, the late President Gaddafi, by outside powers, in resolving this emergency. For the sake of ordinary Nigeriens, let us give peace a chance in Niger.

Did media corruption contribute to the bankrupting of Ghana?

There is no question that media corruption contributed to the bankrupting of our homeland Ghana. Take the very interesting Atuomu-3y3-suum, matter, of how Ghanaian media houses, manage to survive, financially, on their own, without ongoing support from deep-pocketed benefactors-with-ill-intent, lol.

The question, dear critical-reader, then is: How many of Ghana's media professional,  are not in the metaphorical deep-pockets, of the vested-interests, who are engaged in exploitative, state-capture rent-seeking rip-off deal-making, to the detriment of the masses, Ghanafuor?

Furthermore, just how many media professionals, depend on their own Ghanaian equivalents, of US Supreme Court Judge, Justice Clarence Thomas' Halan Crow, to survive, Ghanafour - and can they thus ever be loyal to Mother Ghana, when she is at risk from the unfathomable greed of super-wealthy grifters, anaaa?
 
Corruption within the media removed the societal guardrails needed to protect the Republic of Ghana, from the big-thieves-in-high-places, who roam freely throughout the corridors of power, in Ghana, with total impunity.

That is why media professionals, seldom call for our country to tear up the unconscionable oil sector agreements, which will result, for example, in Ghana obtaining a paltry US$20billion, from the Jubilee oilfields, by the end of its productive lifetime - instead of getting US$120 billion, by the end of the lifetime of that particular oilfield: if we had signed production sharing agreements.

We must also ponder why, for example, many media professionals seldom call for the tearing up of all international and domestic, public private partnership (PPP) agreements, with secret clauses in them, which not even Parliament is privy to?

Little wonder then, that it is only Ghana, amongst the African continent's oil producing nations, which has signed the locally-created, Kweku-Ananse daft-and-fraudulent so-called hybrid oil sector agreements, lol.

Even Chad, taflatst3, had leaders with the good sense to sign global oil sector industry standard production sharing agreements - in which oil companies fund the entire process of extracting oil, and are paid with allocated specified-barrel-numbers that are far less than the shared-proportion that goes to the sovereign owners of the oil deposits.

Hmmm, Ghanafuor, if truth be told, the egregious-compromising of a large swathe of the entities and professionals in our media landscape, has contributed to the bankrupting of Ghana. No question. Ahhh, Oman Ghana, paaa, diy3  - tweaaaaa...

Humble advice to genius deejaying at Gomoa Buduburam's Camp Liberia refugee settlement area

 
The genius who deejays late night to earlymorning, at a spot/pub in what, until recently,  used to  be known as the Gomoa Buduburam Camp Liberia refugee settlement area, whose stock----intrade, is repeating fallacious allegations against innocent people,  he hasn't got the nous and gumption,  to fact-check, by contacting those whose reputations, he so egregiously  destroys, can learn a thing or two about serious-moneymaking, simply by being positive.

The marketingstrategy of deploying negativity, will not change the fact that he plays to an empty house, when he deejays, lol.For his information, what will bring in the revenue-providing massive crowds, which  he so obviously desires,  and seeks, will be to rather use his  deejaying-timeframe, to advertise the products and services of local businesses.

Will that not be more profitable for him, than playing to the often mostly empty spot/pub he slanders and defames innocent people, without fact-checking salacious-rumourered--allegations, anaaaa? Tweaaaaa...

Talk about being daft-and arrogant, lol. Alas, simple commonsese, isn't so common these days, oooo, Ghanafuor, lol. Hmmmm,  Oman Ghana - tweaaaaa... Cool.

Food for thought: Airing secretly-recorded fare

On the subject of airing secret voice recordings, of the kind spread by evil-minded rumour-mongerers for their own dark-ends:

It is always vital that one always (when one lives in any neighbourhood),  endeavours  to understand the context within which conversations, such as quarrelsome-loud-arguments  (which are secretly recorded with glee, by nosey-parker-neighbours), take place.

A pathological-liar, for example, will loudly bandy about, falsehoods, which are defamatory and unjustifiable   accusatory-words - such as, "You are a Chief-liar!", for example: to publicly humiliate and disgrace  someone innocent,  who is honest and doesn't lie, just to spread mud, publicly, on a person of good character.  

The moral:  Neighbours who hear loud arguments of that nature, must always remember that pathological-liars have a tendency to use loudly-shouted falsehoods, as a weaponised-tool,  to destroy the reputations of  good people whom they fall out with.

It is the hallmark of the egregiously-ungrateful, alas. Such is life in Anansesemkrom. The airing of secretly-recorded fare is veritable food-for-thought: 3y3nsem piiiii, oooo, Ghanafuor.    Yoooooooo...
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