Can Elon Musk's X online social media platform help create a world without wars and civil strive?

Dear  critical-reader, can Elon Musk's X, formerly Twitter, social media platform,  play a significant role in helping humankind  create a world
without wars and societal civil strive?

Whatever be the case,  because of its global reach (it is more widely viewed globally than Facebook apparently), it is crucial that X, formerly Twitter,  becomes a global online force for good. No question. Full stop.

That is why one hopes, dear critical-reader, that the latest insights gained by the owner of X, formerly Twitter, Elon Musk, after his recent visit to Israel and wartorn Gaza, have reinforced his view that the unhinged hate that fuels societal discords, of the kind that lead to acts of terrorism, and also spark wars  between nations, as well as incite armed rebellions resulting from civil strive inside countries around the globe, will make him speak out, more often now, against online hate-speech, racism and antisemitism.

Luckily, it is also obvious, dear critical-reader, that unlike most American billionaires, Musk understands that creating prosperity around the world, is the surest way to lessen the societal inequalities that drive millions of Global South migrants, for example, to seek greener pastures overseas. Not many Global North billionaires understand that, unfortunately.

Those greener pasture seeking migrants, are often mostly economic refugees, who are driven  into the arms of cruel and callous people smuggling syndicates, operating in nations in Africa, South America and elsewhere, who profit mightily, from the huge sums paid them, to  transport such migrants (who invariably sell all they own to make those payments), to within striking distance, of the borders of Global North nations, where they are unceremoniously dumped.

That endless wave upon wave of economic migrants, who mass up at the borders of Global North nations,  must be brought to a halt, through close collaboration between Global South and Global North intelligence agencies, and other national  specialised law enforcement teams, worldwide.

Above all, one hopes that the sobering news that Musk's XCorp's Starlink's constellation of satellites, the world's biggest thus far, for its global satellite broadband Internet service, could become legitimate  targets, for nations at war, to destroy,  will reinforce Musk's view that peace is essential for the wealth creation that generates jobs, ditto boosts GDP growth from the commercial activities of disruptive and innovative startups, leveraging the cutting-edge ideas of humanity's  brightest and best private sector entrepreneurs, and use his not inconsiderable influence,  to promote peace globally,  both through behind-the-scenes diplomacy with  world leaders, and his regularly widely viewed posts on his X (formerly Twitter) social media platform.

There is no question, dear critical-reader, that  peaceful coexistence between nations, and between societal demographics inside all the world's nations,  is a sine qua non (and  existential-need), for a world without wars and societal civil strive. In light of that, one hopes  that Musk himself, personally through his  online posts, and his X social media platform itself, can play significant roles in creating a world without wars and societal civil strive.

Is customer satisfaction a top priority for the ECG's Kasoa Obom Road district office, or not?

Dear critical-reader, one wonders whether or not,  customer satisfaction is a top priority for the ECG's Kasoa Obom Road district office, or not.

That said, one hopes that this piece will ginger the Public Utilities Regulatory Commission (PURC), to do what it can, to encourage the hardworking CEO, of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG), Mr. Samuel Dubik Masubir Mahama,  and his mostly  world-class C-suit teams, which oversee their regional and district  branches, to ensure that all their field staff members, work hard and efficiently  -  to reflect the new ECG service-ethos  of putting customer satisfaction at the top of all their interactions with electricity consumers nationwide.

The question is: If the other publicly-owned utility companies, such as the Ghana Water Company  Limited  (GWCL), not only read the meters of consumers by capturing the relevant statistical data numbers using cameras on their smartphones, but also deliver bills monthly, on top too, why is the ECG not also providing bills for consumers to enable them verify that bills reflect all payments made within meter reading cycles? Haaba.

As it happens, once upon time, in September, this year (2023), dear critical-reader, one had cause to complain in person, to the ECG's staff, at their District offices at Obom Road, off the Kasoa New Market Road, and wrote a letter to the management, outlining one's issues. The frontline staff members simply refused to let one have access to the district manager, once one's letter of complaint was read by them. Incredible.

Amazingly, dear critical-reader, for some extraordinary reason (which one still cannot fathom, for the life of one), somehow, all the staff members who dealt with me, read, but never accepted the aforementioned  letter of complaint. Amazing. Unconscionable. Abominable. Unpardonable. Unspeakable. Full stop.

What was done, by all who listened to my verbal complaint, along the entire chain of seniority,  was that they asked me to go back home and video the meter reading - never mind the fact that one  looks every bit the frail 70-year old retiree, that one is.

So much for customer care being a top Kasoa Obom Road ECG branch priority. Hmmm, Oman Ghana - 3yensem piiiii, oooo. Asem  k3siyi3, bi, 3b3ba debi aaankasa, oooo. Yooooooo...

Should wars not be permanently banned - in a binding international treaty for that noble end?

Dear critical-reader, should wars not be permanently banned, in a binding international treaty, negotiated and ratified, by all nations  worldwide with sovereign territories across the landmass and surrounding oceans of the seven continents of our biosphere,  for that noble end?

War is a nasty business that over the decades has  killed and maimed uncountable numbers of  innocent civilians, devastated scores of cities, towns and villages worldwide, ditto caused untold misery for those who survive them.

Yet, it it also an incredibly profitable business for some.  A brilliant former five star American military general, who rose to fame for his leadership qualities as Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force, in Europe, during the Second World War, and retired to become the 34th President of the United States of America,  General Dwight David Eisenhower, was the first to use the appropriate phraseology, "the military industrial complex".
President Eisenhower, like all the best military leaders throughout history, who fought and led troops in battle, knew the terrible human cost, and horrors of wars, first hand, and warned Americans against the baleful influence and power, of the super-wealthy business elites that own and run arms manufacturering companies,  in the military industrial complex.

For arms manufacturers the world over, wars guarantee huge profits - as does the perpetual stoking up of fear and societal divisions that make the purchase of guns by civilians to protect themselves, a very profitable business too.!


In light of that, dear critical-reader,  the question to ponder over is: Why do those idealistic young people participating in street demonstrations in cities across the world, against the war in Gaza, who are clearly  horrified by the brutalities, abominations and monstrosities of the Gaza war (sparked it needs to be pointed out, by the callous wounding by gunshots, the brutal murders and unjustifiable abductions  of innocent civilians including children and elderly retirees, by Hamas terrorists in Israeli communities near the border with Gaza), not rather focus their energies and passion, on demanding an outlawing of,  and end to all wars, and call for wars (and the manufacture of the lethal weapons used in wars), to be permanently banned, in a binding international treaty, for that noble end?

Is there a path to peaceful coexistence between Palestinians and Israelis?

Is there a path to peaceful coexistence between Palestinians and Israelis, dear critical-reader? Clearly, if acts of terrorism by  Hamas against Israel do not cease, peaceful coexistence between Palestinians and Israelis would be well nigh impossible to broker.  

Hamas is totally devoid of conscience hiding its military infrastructure in civilian spaces and using civilians as human shields. Never before in human history, has such total disregard for the laws of warfare protecting civilians, civilian spaces and infrastructure, been seen anywhere,  to the extent witnessed by the world, in the Gaza strip.

That said, the question people of good conscience worldwide ought to ponder over is: How can the world help ensure lasting peaceful coexistence between Israelis and Palestinians?

It would certainly do no harm for Israel, and its backers,  to explore a solution based on encouraging Saudi Arabia to  convince Egypt to sell the  Sinai Peninsula to it, so that the Saudis can gift it to  Palestinians to establish a new homeland there, would it?

Once that new homeland is established in the Sinai Peninsula, the Palestinians can, and will, flourish in peace - finally freed from the baggage of past Hamas crimes against humanity.

Surely, dear critical-reader, the region's private sector  entrepreneurs, could be sufficiently incentivised,  to help develop and transform the new Palestinian homeland, into a regional food basket, and high tech hub, to power prosperity  across the entire Middle East region? Is that not a path to peaceful coexistence between Palestinians and Israelis worth exploring?  No?

Is Ghana's proposed anti-LGBTQI+ legislation an unjustifiable snooping-busybodies-charter?

What an interesting country Ghana is, dear critical-reader: A Parliament full of misogynistic serial-philanderers, with a penchant for pursuing youngish Slay Queens with expensive tastes, is proposing to pass into law, a bill to promote proper human sexual rights and Ghanaian family values. Amazing.

I am left-handed, so I am acutely aware of the nonsensical notion across Ghana, that associates disrespect for others, in the usage of the left hand in certain social settings, and in one's daily interactions with others.

Naturally, it is therefore not strange that one constantly worries that it is not beyond the realms of possibility, that, at some point in time, going foward into the future, ambitious busybodies in the world of Ghanaian politics, a significant number of whom could also be sponsored and funded generously, by overseas extremists in wealthy nations in the Global North, which, for argument's sake, are, for example, suddenly infected by a metaphorical
anti-lefthandedness cognitive-virus, and consequently rush to pass laws banning left-hand usage, because they are convinced that it is devilish, and decide to work hard to ban it globally, too, by generously funding the passage of anti-lefthandedness legislation, worldwide, as is the case with anti-LGBTQI+ legislation now being passed by national assemblies across Africa, which are funded behind the scenes funded by lobbyists working on behalf of wealthy Christian conservative anti-diversity-demographic Westerners.

As compassionate beings, who aren't perfect, and are not without sin ourselves either, perhaps the question to ponder over is: What right do imperfect beings, who happen to be powerful and influential individuals, have, in an African democracy that frowns on discrimination of all kinds, in all societal interactions, to impose their personal views, on others, about how intimacy between their fellow humans, who happen to be consenting adults, should or shouldn't take place, in the privacy of wherever it occurs?

Ditto who decides what proper family values are, in a corruption riddled society, like Ghana, which is dominated by corrupt, misogynistic and philandering power-hungry and power-mad hypocritical types, I ask?

Seen in that light,do we also not have every right to question whether or not, the proper human sexual rights and proper Ghanaian family values bill, is, or isn't, an unjust and callous attempt, by power-hungry hypocrites in Ghana, to pass legislation enabling them to control others, using what is in effect, an unjustifiable monstrous snooping-busybodies-charter, in all but name, and cloaking it with references to religious faith and Ghanaian cultural values, to drum up support, for that inequity? With the greatest respect, dear critcal-reader, the proper human sexual rights and proper Ghanaian family values bill is arrant nonsense, pure and simple. Full stop. Case closed

Change must come to Ghana after the 2024 presidential and parliamentary elections

Dear critical-reader,  change  must come to Ghana after the 2024 presidential and parliamentary elections, if we are to avoid catastrophe after January 2025.

A conversation with an old acquaintance, about Nigeria's Starlink broadband satellite Internet service, illustrates perfectly, why we need change after January 2025 in Ghana.

Naturally, one is happy for our Nigerian cousins that they now have Starlink's broadband satellite Internet service.  How marvellous.

 Sadly, for Ghanaians, however, apparently, no such deal is on the cards between the Republic of Ghana, and Starlink, if  bush telegraph sources are to be believed:

According to bush telegraph sources, it is rumoured that  the greedy and unpatriotic folk, who currently dominate our byzantine system (today's avaricious big-thieves-in-high-places), will never make such a beneficial move for our beloved Mother Ghana. Hmmm, 3y3nsem piiii, oooo...

In that light, perhaps the question a wise and aspirational people like Ghanaians ought  to ponder over is: Why so? Massa, the answer is simple: Today's ruling elites won't ever approach Starlink, simply  because the straightforward people in the C-suit teams led by Adjumawurahene1, Nana Elon Musk, don't pay kickbacks to win business anywhere on the surface of the planet Earth, lol. Sarjewah. Hmmm, Oman Ghana - tweaaaaaa.

Ghanafuor, 3y3asem oooo: Asem  k3siyi3, bi, eb3ba debi ankasa,  oooo: if the grifter-mentality of those who now run our beloved homeland, Ghana, and who have ended up bankrupting our nation, while making fat-profits in that ruinous-process (to enable them send their personal net worth to stratospheric heights, at the expense of ordinary folk), don't  stop their never-ending grand-larceny-pillaging and looting, oooo. That is why after January 2025,  change  must definitely  come to Ghana, following the 2024 presidential and parliamentary elections, ooooo, Ghanafuor. A word to the wise. No? Yoooooooo...

Hatred of Jews is amoral and evil - and must never be justified under any circumstances

Dear critical-reader, hatred of Jews is amoral and evil - and must never be justified under any circumstances. That is why now is the perfect time to debunk a dangerous,   outrageous and nonsensical notion, held by so many extremist fascists, and their mostly unhinged white-supremacist fellow-traveller-acolytes, about Jews.

It is beyond belief, that in this day and age,  there are people who actually believe the absurdity that somehow, a nebulous group, apparently made up of unidentifiable super-wealthy Jews, permanently sits somewhere (unknown to the rest of the world), busy coordinating and directing zillions of non-whites, worldwide, and, remotely forcing them, literally, through the ether, to breed like rabbits, so as to become majority populations in the West, and overwhelm their present-day majority white populations, and thereby turn them into national minorities. Amazing.

How can a whole people, Jews, be hated for such outlandish mambo-jambo, dissembling idiotic-nonsense,  I ask, dear critical-reader?

Ditto that  such an abominable sick-notion that that conspiracy theory about Jews, represents, can lead to intense deep-seated hatred of others, to a point that results in the senseless killings of non-whites, by racist fruit-and-nut cases amongst extremist  fascists, in the West, so frequently?

Extremist politicians in Western democracies pushing it, and fanning it, as deployed election campaign power-grab-strategies, must bow their heads in shame. It is pure evil - and vile with it. Nothing more,  nothing less. Enough, really is enough, now. Yooooooo...

Finally, dear critical-reader, it ought to be pointed to the world that in the immediate aftermath of his 'actual truth' debacle, remorseful Elon Musk was right to demand an end to all the online hate, causing devastating-tragedies in families and communities across the globe. Hatred of Jews and other non-white skin-hued-demographics, is amoral and evil. It can never, and must not ever be justified. It is senseless and must cease forthwith. Now. Not tomorrow. Yoooooooo...

Should we not treat Ghana's LGBTQI+ demographics and other much-despised minorities with compassion?

Dear critical-reader, as humane and compassionate beings, should we not treat Ghana's LGBTQI+ demographics, and other much-despised minority demographics with compassion, anaaaa, Ghanafuor?

I was horrified, by what a bush-telegraph source recounted to me a few days ago - a dreadful and shocking story about an incident in which a young gay man, had allegedly been beaten senseless, by thugs,  to teach him a lesson for being gay. Nothing can justify such barbarism. Totally unacceptable. Full stop.

No human being who is compassionate, should back the denial of the basic human rights guaranteed by our constitution, to all Ghanaians regardless of their ethnicity,  gender and  religious faith (or lack thereof), which are meant to protect the liberties of all our societal  demographics without exception.

On that basis, why don't those in Ghana who condemn and target LGBTQI+ individuals, for religious reasons, for example, rather not take the view that it is a matter between LGBTQI+ individuals, and their Maker, and treat them compassionately, whenever they have to interact with them,  on a purely human level, socially, just as they themselves would like to be treated if they were part of a much-despised minority-demographic?

Speaking personally, one prefers to  be married to a woman, rather than a fellow male. Intimacy with a man would thus be  inconceivable for one. Furthermore, one is also aware that procreation is vital if the preservation of the human race is to be assured till the very end of time.

Yet, still, in one's humble view, there is something not quite right with being holier-than-thou, and targeting LGBTQI+ demographics, and harming them physically, for example,  if one is a mere mortal, whom by definition, is not without blemish and without sin, either, and must thus first remove the spec in his or her eye, before venturing to remove the mote in the eyes of  others.  

It is on that basis that one joins those who advocate for ending discrimination against LGBTQI+ demographics in Ghana. After all, are we not all aware that the bald truth is that our boarding schools are the breeding grounds for same sex relationships? So let us focus on ending Ghana's expensive-to-maintain free second-cycle  boarding school system. Case closed. Yoooooooo...

In light of that perhaps the question to ponder over as wise and aspirational Africans is: Could we not stop young people from developing an interest in same sex relationships, if we transformed all our free state boarding junior and senior high schools into world-class day second-cycle educational institutions, and ensured that they are spread evenly nationwide, so that our younger generations can stay at home, wherever they live in our country, and still be educated in world-class day second-cycle educational institutions?

In the meantime, while we work towards that goal, even though we may not personally approve of what is their own personal lifestyle choice, if  they are not coercing others to join them,  rather than hounding them, let us treat Ghana's LGBTQI+ demographics (and other similarly-despised minorities groups) with compassion as a humane and welcoming people.

When will the NPP cease weaponising Ghana's justice delivery system for dark ends?

When, dear critical-reader, will the New Patriotic Party (NPP) cease weaponising our justice delivery system, to target key opposition figures, whenever it is elected to govern our Republic? Hmmm, 3y3asem ooooo...

That said, perhaps we ought to ask, for example, why there is such loud silence by even the more responsible sections of Ghana's mainstream legacy media, who, oddly, are not raising issues over the fact that a ruling-party's appointed membership, of the board of directors, of the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD), have, in effect, superintended over the ruination of the once-robust finances of the cocoa industry's regulator, COCOBOD? Incredible. Shameful. Abominable.

Ditto ask why our mainstream legacy media's more responsible sections, have not carried out investigations to find out, and expose, what exactly has gone wrong there, which has resulted in the total destruction of the finances of the COCOBOD, Ghanafuor? Hmmm, 3y3nsem piiiii, oooo...

As wise and aspirational Africans, perhaps the question we ought to ponder over is: What was the point of weaponising Ghana's justice delivery system, to hound Dr. Opuni and businessman Seidu Agongo, CEO of Agricult Ghana Ltd, one wonders, dear critical-reader, when, as a result of their hard collaborative work, desired goals of record tonnages of harvested beans across the forest belt of the landmass of the sovereign territory of our Republic, were achieved, dear critical-reader (just a tad under one million metric tonnes, at 969K metric tonnes)?

For those unable to see it, there appears to be a pattern of egregious-retribution, against targeted opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) figures, once their ruling party loses power, and goes into the political wilderness, and the New Patriotic Party (NPP), becomes the governing party, in charge of our byzantine system, oooo, Ghanafuor. Yoooooooo...

Was the selfsame strategy, of the weaponisation of our justice delivery system (now being used to hound Opuni and Agongo), not also deployed, to hound the brilliant Tsatsu Tsikata, who also did so much to strengthen the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC), during his tenure as its CEO when the NDC was in power - leading to his being tried and jailed so capriciously, for his troubles, during the era of the ruling NPP regime of the hypocritical President J. A. Kufuo, whose Freudian-slip, once upon a time, revealed the 'fact' that the E. O. Group (which sold their stakes in sundry blocks in the Jubilee olifields for U.S. $350 million - a fact that Ghana's legacy media seldom mention), were more or less legal fronts, for persons unknown, dear critical-reader, lol?

Ditto deployed to destroy Dr. Papa Kwesi Nduom, seen by today's powers that be, as a significant potential political opponent, who could one day wind up as Ghana's elected President - and therfore had to be destroyed: details of which appeared in a secret Cabinet memo by Ken Ofori-Atta (who predicted that Nduom would head for the law courts to challenge the withdrawal of his GN Bank's licence, but would be defeated there, too, because they were in power!), who will go down in history as the finance minister who ended up bankrupting Ghana, in what is a classic Kharmaic hoisting on his own petard, lol? Onyame 3ntis3 Alata ni, oooo. Ghanafuor, asem k3siyi3, bi, 3b3ba debi, ankasa, ooooo. Yoooooooo.

The question is: When will the weaponisation of Ghana's justice delivery system, to target key opposition figures, by the NPP, when it is elected to govern our homeland Ghana, cease, koraaaa? Hmmm, Oman Ghana - tweaaaaaa...

Musk has paid enough for his real-truth moment-of-madness debacle - let's forgive him

Dear critical-reader, there is no question that Elon Musk has paid a great deal for his 'real truth' comment, penned perhaps while exhausted: leading to a hasty moment-of-madness decision that he clearly now regrets.


No one is perfect - and Angels, as even little schoolkids worldwide, know, live only in heaven: not on the planet Earth. Fair comment, anaaaa. No? Hmmm, 3y3nsem piiii, ooooo...


Yes, dear critical-reader, Elon Musk made a dreadful error of judgment in his 'real truth' comment - however, he deleted it, and subsequently tried to make amends, and mitigate his mistake, by sincerely asking for all hate to cease. Manly. Marvellous. Brilliant.


In a globalised world in which no one is perfect, let us forgive Musk and rather focus on ways to bring enlightenment across the world that will permanently lessen hatred and make it an unattractive, vile and much-despised uncouth-pariah-minority viewpoint,  globally.


Musk's free speech absolutism matters a great deal in that sense. Above all, let us always remember, in our daily interactions with others, that all members of the one human race matter, and deserve their dignity - whatever their nationality, religious faith (or lack thereof), ethnicity, skin-hue or social class. Let that ring out clearly worldwide. Full stop. Case closed. Yooooooo...


Finally, dear critical-reader, hatred sucks, to use a hackneyed phrase, lol. However, the bald truth, is that X is truly a great platform for plain-speaking to powerful elites worldwide, and Musk's free speech absolutism makes it available to all shades of opinion on earth. So, let us forgive Musk, a truly unique and very,  very successful innovative-minded serial-entrepreneur, who has clearly paid a great deal for his real-truth moment-of-madness debacle, and will doubtless learn from it, being such a clever-clogs-type

Are preparations being made for the fire-sale of Ghana after January 2025?

Dear critical-reader, has the fire-sale of our benighted and bankrupted homeland Ghana after January, 2025, already started?

That said, is it also true that Hon. Kennedy Adjapong was allegedly offered US$800 million as a President Bawumia era public procurement contracts inducement, to stop him from rocking the boat (to ensure that Vice President Bawumia would eventually emerge victorious, in the race to become the ruling party's 2024 presidential election candidate, as has actually happened)?

If that allegation is true, dear critical-reader, then
what crime, if any, was committed, and by whom exactly, one wonders, Ghana lawyerfuo, lol? Yooooooo...

If that astonishing allegation is true, dear critical-reader, then does it, perchance, portent U.S.$800 million post January 2025 state-capture rent-seeking public procurement contracts galore, for Hon. Kennedy Adjapong, anaaa? Eiiiii, Oman Ghana...

Furthermore, has Hon. Kennedy Adjapong, not already been accused, according to bush telegraph sources, of allegedly having bagged one of the most profitable Akufo-Addo era friends-and-family state-capture public procurement contracts (a US$72 million deal, measured by value-metrics), in a public procurement electricity meters supply contract, for a wife of his, lol? Hmmm, 3y3nsem piiii, oooo, Ghanafuor...

In light of all the above, perhaps the question to ponder over is: Have the most powerful Akufo-Addo era big-thieves-in-high-places, who have dominated our system and profited personally from it, the most, by ruthlessly exploiting it to send their personal net worth to stratospheric heights, since January, 2015, till date, began preparing for the fire-sale of Mother Ghana, if Bawumia succeeds President Akufo-Addo, as Ghana's next elected President in January 2025, anaaa, Ghanafuor? Watch this space!

Let's rid Africa of its greed-filled fuzzy-wuzzy-thinking elites holding her back

Dear critical-reader, Niger has shown, by booting France out of her national life, why all the greed-filled fuzzy-wuzzy thinkers, who dominate the continent, must go, if Africa is to ever prosper. Clearly, the time has now come to rid Africa of their baleful influence and end their hold on power.

It's so refreshing to learn that finally freed from baleful French influence, Niger's economy is apparently now growing faster than any other national-economy in the world, without exception, as we speak. Excellent.

Having shorn their nation of the pro-French elites and their fuzzy-wuzzy though-processes, which allowed France to rip their nation off, so egregiously, the radicals now in charge of Niger, must make lifting all their citizens out of poverty their priority-goal, by using the windfall profits from the sale of uranium, to provide 100-year generational levelling-up interest free loans (with 5-10 year grace periods before miniscule repayments begin), to every family that requests it, to build their own family homes, and start new green economy businesses.

The next providential-step for Niger, and the rest of Africa, to take, should be to ban all investors using offshore entities registered in tax havens (such as Mauritius and Luxembourg), from investing in Africa. Full stop. Case closed.

Offshore tax havens exist for one purpose only: They enable crooked investors engaging in illicit financial flows to cloak complex money-laundering schemes, to successfully pillage the African continent, and legitimise those nation-wrecking-illegalities, with blank-cheque victim-consent. Monstrous.

Africa cannot grow and prosper, if it doesn't foreceably end the elite grand larceny, being engaged in by the state-capture rent-seeking big-thieves-in-high-places that dominate national systems across the continent. Those big-thieves-in-high-places, are today's fuzzy-wuzzy thinkers.

Radical action needs to be taken by Africa's younger generations, to rid the entire continent of the greed-filled fuzzy-wuzzy-thinkers who dominate their societies, and have forgotten that an impoverished populace, is a curse, and source of future devastating-instability that will end up in violence and chaos, which will lead to a metaphorical-conflagration that will consume them and deprive all of them of their ill-gotten riches.

The greed-filled fuzzy-wuzzy thinkers who dominate the continent must go if Africa is to ever prosper. Full stop. The time has now come to rid Africa of their baleful influence and end their hold on power. Now. Not tomorrow. Yooooooo...

Why Ghanaians must vote wisely in the 2024 presidential and parliamentary elections

Dear critical-reader, Ghanaians must vote wisely in the 2024 presidential and parliamentary elections, if Ghanaian democracy is to survive in the longterm. The bald truth is that the  future of Ghanaian democracy  will hinge mainly on the strength of character, of the candidate elected to lead  our nation, in the 2024 presidential  election.

He or she must be able to provide wise leadership that will unite Ghanaians, and offer his team of able ministers, who will form his government of national unity,  focused strong leadership that will help get our nation out of the morass of despondency now stymying its transformation,  which is one of the most destructive effects of  bankruptcy, as it happens, Ghanafuor. Hmmm, 3y3nsem piiii, oooo...

Discipline must be instilled in all Ghanaians, a difficult people to lead, despite their peaceful nature, if their nation is to be successfully transformed into a prosperous and equitable society.

We will need to take cognisance of the fact that in the entirety of human history, no nation has prospered, without its populace being disciplined, and having a sense of unity of purpose, oooo, Ghanafuor. Yoooooooo...

Whatever be the case, dear critical-reader,  if the elected  successor to the current President  consolidates his or her hold on power, after being sworn into office in January, 2025, and it eventually becomes obvious to the vast majority of Ghanaians after that, that the varied-cohorts of ruthless big-thieves-in-high-places, who have engaged in acts of ruinous-egregious-corruption, and have successfully dominated our system, regardless of which ruling party has governed our country,  since the 4th Republic came into being in 1992 (right up to and throughout the Akufo-Addo era inclusive), will be getting away scot fre with looting  Mother Ghana, then a revolution that will ensure retribution against all such persons, and redistributes their stolen wealth after nationalisation of same, will be on the cards, for sure, oooo. Yooooooo...

When the first stirrings of discontent  begin, and gradually  spread across the entire landmass of the sovereign territory of our Republic, no military force in the world, will be able to stop the nationwide street protests that will bring about that June 4th,1979-type people-power-revolution.

That is why as wise and aspirational Africans, we must aim to ensure that our country  becomes a meritocracy that is a nation of laws in which no one is above the law, and all are equal before the law. As sure as day follows night, Ghana will never progress and prosper, if our laws aren't enforced strictly, and rigidlly, without fear or favour, regardless of the societal status of those who break them. Full stop.  Case closed. Yoooooooo...

Consequently, dear critical-reader, the next elected President of Ghana, must therefore ensure that the nation-building guiding-ethos of strict enforcement of our laws, in rigid fashion, is infused into the entire superstructure of our system, after he or she is sworn into office, in January, 2025, oooo, Ghanafuor, if we are to end the public procurement rent-seeking state-capture wheeler-dealing thievery,  which has resulted in elite grand-larceny that has bankrupted our homeland Ghana.

Seldom has the need for wise, truly honest and selfless leadership, been so critical for our nation than now, oooo, Ghanafuor. We must therefore  vote wisely in the 2024 presidential and parliamentary elections for that reason, oooo, Ghanafuor.  Yoooooooo...

How can Ghana creatively lift tens of millions out of poverty successfully?

There are many paths to transforming emerging nations into prosperous and equitable societies. The question to ponder over in our specific case is: How can Ghana creatively lift tens of millions out of poverty successfully - and ensure its longterm stability as a peaceful liberal democracy, and equitable African society that way, dear critical-reader?

Clearly, it is vital, if our homeland Ghana is to remain stable and peaceful, that governments-of-the-day, focus on policies that will engender societal-levelling-up, which will help transform our nation into a prosperous African country, in which there is social mobility, and in which tens of millions have been successfully lifted out of poverty.

After all, dear critical-reader, ordinary people don't want much, do they? Most Ghanaians would be content with and happy to: own a house in urban Ghana; have another one in their hometown if possible; be able able to educate their offspring to tertiary level (if they have aptitude for that); be in a position to help those less fortunate themselves whenever the need arises; attend funerals and make appreciable cash donations to bereaved families mourning their loved one's passage; chill whenever they feel the need to do so, by partying; going to beaches; visit tourist attractions; attend weddings; etc., etc.

In light of that observation, surely, a wise and aspirational African people like Ghanaians, ought to come to a national consensus that rather than allowing a powerful and greedy few to hijack their entire system, and enriching themselves at the expense of the rest of society, to the extent of even bankrupting their nation in the process, in so doing, the resources of their country, should rather be utilised to provide individuals and families that need it, 100-year generational-levelling-up loans, with 5-year moratorium grace periods, before they begin installment payments to pay off those longterm interest-free loans meant to enable needy families and individuals across the entire nation, to bootstrap their own way out of poverty, into the middle classes?

The question to ponder over is: What disaster, if any, would befall Ghana, were digital bank accounts to be opened by the Bank of Ghana (BoG), for families and individuals that opt to participate in such a generational levelling-up initiative, into which the BoG's Central Bank Digital Cedi (CBDC), would be deposited, to finance the building of family homes in planned new green communities across Ghana, which are climate resilient and sited around core parks with adventure park facilities, in concentric circles, with each family home sited in the midst of walled-compounds of fruit forest gardens, ditto served by road networks lined on both sides with fruit trees? Would that not lift tens of millions out of poverty across Ghana, one humbly asks, Ghanafuor?

We must be serious and innovative: If Ghana's private sector is to become the engine of lasting stellar-growth

We must be serious and innovative if Ghana's private sector is to become the engine of lasting stellar-growth, oooo,  Ghanafuor. Governments-of-the-day, ought to  commit to encouraging and incentivising ethical private entrepreneurship, that sees being tax complaint at all material times, as its contribution to nation-building for shared prosperity.

In that light, if we are to be successful in empowering Ghana's private sector,  then the first order of business, is for the powers that be, to act swiftly,  to get Parliament (under a certificate of urgency),  to pass legislation banning the entry into Ghana by foreign entities registered and domiciled in tax havens such as Luxembourg and Mauritius, as they serve only one purpose: to facilitate illicit financial flows and hide complex money laundering schemes,  by foreign rogues, to defraud Mother Ghana, and the honest ethical local entrepreneurs they partner.

We must also stop the barbarism occurring across areas such as Akyem Abuakwa, where the so-called Okyenman Task Force, is using illegal sand winners and ruthless  super-wealthy  crooks posing as estate developers, to dispossess registered land owners of their properties, including farmlands registered at Christiansburg, Accra, during the 1930s colonial era, when our nation was under occupation by British colonialists.

I speak from personal experience, as recently as yesterday, in the case of my own famiy's freehold 150-acre farmland property, Thompsonakura,  which is five minutes or so, as the crow flies from Kyekyewre, which lies just off the Accra-Kumasi highway, midway between Teacher Mante and Asuboi.

Yet, as it happens, we are actually covered by a legally binding commitment, made by the concurrence given by the then Okyenhene, Nana
Ofori-Atta 1, to my late Grandpa, P. E. Thompson Esq., who paid the princely sum of a total of £5,000, in 1921, for a commitment meant  to last till the very end of time, binding Ofori Panin Fie, to always protect our freehold landholding portfolio across Akyem Abuakwa. Forever. Always. Literally. Full stop.  

How can we talk glibly about the private sector being the engine of stellar economic growth, when such barbarism occurs every time my family brings foreign investors to show them our farmlands with a view to partnering them in profitable climate-resilient green projects  -  while law enforcement agencies  look on, appearing to be unable and unwilling to intervene to prevent such abominations from occurring,  I ask,  dear critical-reader?

Ghana is a nation of laws, after all,  and such egregious acts of lawlessness across Kwaebibirim, must never be tolerated by those charged with the noble  task of protecting our  system,  and must consequently  be halted once and for all,  by the current government-of-the-day's sector ministers appointed by President Akufo-Addo, for precisely that purpose. Now. Not tomorrow. Yoooooooo...

As wise and aspirational Africans, if we serious about transforming rural Ghana into a prosperous part of our beautiful and bountiful country, then
we must all understand clearly,  that law courts exist for the purpose of settling disputed land title claims, in civilised societies,  such as ours, oooo, Ghanafuor.

Finally, above all,  let's not forget that we are actually in competition with other Global South nations for investment to spur sustained green growth that will boost our GDP, generate jobs and create wealth that remains locally across the entirety of the territorial landmass of our Republic that is a liberal democracy and multi-ethnic country in which no tribe is superior or inferior to another, Ghanafuor. Let us always keep that in mind, wai, Ghanafour. We must be serious and innovative if Ghana's private sector is to become the engine of lasting stellar-growth. Full stop. Case closed. Yooooooo...
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Which lawyers lost Ghana a case against Trafigura they should never have lost?

Dear critical-reader, who were the genius lawyers, who lost Ghana a straightforward case against Trafigura, which  they should never have lost?
 
How could Trafigura,  a company with a long history of guidance by a C-suit  culture-of-criminality that is contemptuous of Africa and spiteful of Black Africans, be allowed by lawyers representing Ghana, to win a case of compensation for Ghana's abrogation of a power agreement with the perfidious  Trafigura?

In light of the ruinous state-capture rent-seeking that enriches the most ruthless amongst our hard-of-hearing ruling elites, can we not safely  assume, that that sodden power agreement with Trafigura, was, as sure as day follows night, obtained by the agency and under-the-table  facilitation of fat-brown-envelope-kickbacks?

Who were those lawyers who lost a case they should never have lost, I ask? Did they lose it so that  they could be given brown-envelope kickbacks, by Trafigura, anaaaa?

In any case, who in Ghana doesn't know how the greed-filled, hypocritical big-thieves-in-high-places (who have consistently dominated our byzantine system, regardless of  whichever of the two constituent parties of the  NPP/NDC duopoly happens to have  been in power, since the 4th Republic came into being in 1992), operate, in egregious mercenary fashion, from the presidency, when insider-wheeler-dealing in their many state-capture rent-seeking public procurement deals,  I ask, dear critical-reader?

That selfsame Trafigura, once upon a time, dear critical reader, also made zillions selling substandard fuel to Ghanaian bulk oil importers.

Unfortunately, vehicle owners who bought fuel from the forecourts of petrol filling stations across Ghana, had their engines  damaged as a result of its poor quality, but, sadly, could never actually prove that the engines were damaged by fuel bought at petrol filling, which were substandard.

Trafigura's lame excuse, then, was that per Ghanaian fuel standards, the fuel they sold to local bulk fuel importers was perfectly OK.

As wise and aspirational Africans, we must definitely tear down the whole rotten systemic-superstructure that supports the corruption-riddled 4th Republic, after the 2024 presidential and parliamentary elections, if any rigging occurs. No question. Simple.

And, that hoped-for revolution for positive change, must be carried out, even  through enforced-regime-change,  if need be  -  after which,  as an unshackled-freed-people, Ghanaians will go through the crucial processes of birthing a new 5th Republic.

That new 5th Republic must have as its raison d'être,  the promotion and protection of the  well-being of the Ghanaian masses, and safeguarding the sanctity of a new constitution that protects the Ghanaian nation-state from ever falling into to the grasping-hands, of greed-filled selfish criminals,  bent on exploiting their positions to enable them send their personal net worth to stratospheric heights, at the expense of the Ghanaian masses, and their beloved  Motherland, Ghana, oooo, Ghanafuor. The question to ponder over is: Who were the lawyers who lost Ghana a case against Trafigura that they should never have lost? Full stop. Case closed. Yooooooooo...

Lessons of the Sam Bankman-Fried case for Global South nations like Ghana

Dear critical-reader, what lessons,  if any,  can financial sector regulatory bodies in Global South nations learn from the Sam Bankman-Fried case in the U.S., judgement for which has just  been pronounced, with the accused being found guilty?

Hopefully,  lessons will be learnt worldwide  -  so that hardworking innocents-abroad, globally,  aren't fleeced so easily because of regulatory-failure-impacts.

Ghanaians must ensure that their nation's system isn't hijacked by such smooth-talking likeable-rogues, because they spread investor cash liberally, to buy the services of the best lawyers and other sector-leading professionals, as their local  enablers to enable them 'legitimise' their egregious-illegalities  -  because the anguish their fraudulent-scheming cause, actually ruins many families and individual  lives. No question.

Were Ghana to take swift steps to ban all foreign investors using legal vehicles domiciled and registered in offshore tax havens, such as Luxembourg and Mauritius, from operating in its jurisdiction, it would prevent sundry foreign rogues, from attempting to dupe local entrepreneurs  they partner,  through ruinous unconscionable-partnership-agreements, made possible by so-called reputable law firms that ought to have known better but allowed greed for filthy-lucre to cloud their judgement, oooo, Ghanafuor. Yooooooo...

Global South nations that are wise and aspirational,  must definitely learn useful lessons from the Sam Bankman-Fried case, dear critical-reader. That is why it is vital that Ghana's financial sector regulatory bodies take swift steps to ensure that Parliament passes needed legislation to ensure the conducive business-friendly  environment so critical for an emerging nation dependent on ethical private sector entrepreneurship, to power its growth sufficiently, and long enough, to  enable its national economy to underpin societal transformation that lifts tens of  millions out of poverty. A word to the wise...Yoooooooo...

Thinking and achieving a Middle Eastern impossibility

Dear critical-reader, has the time not now come to start thinking about the processes that could lead to achieving a Middle Eastern impossibility - a permanently peaceful region?

Humanity must strive to do so, dear critical-reader,  because  the Palestinians and Israelis are both incredibly-gifted peoples, who can be a real  blessing for all of humankind, if they can be helped and incentivised to coexist peacefully, for generations to come.

In light of the untold suffering we are now witnessing, as Israel fights with firm-resolve to root out Hamas terrorists from the Gaza strip, surely, the time has now come for people of goodwill, and good conscience, worldwide, to think the impossible to bring peace to the Middle East region?

For the sake of a permanently peaceful Middle East, could the Arab world not help the Palestinians and Israelis to collaborate, to turn a new Palestinian state (carved out from ceded Sinai Peninsula desertland gifted by Egypt?), into a prosperous, blooming food-basket and cutting-edge tech-hub, which benefits all its societal demographics equitably?

A far better prospect than the gruesome-impacts of collateral damage from the endless cycles-of-violence, thinking and achieving a Middle Eastern impossibility (Palestinians and Israelis coexisting peacefully and collaborating to help transform the entire region into a proserous part of the world), isn't, and, cannot be, an achievable-humanistic-goal that's beyond the realms of possibility. Full stop. Case closed.