A Quick Note To Daryl Bosu - A Rocha Ghana's Fearless Number Two: And Bold Environmental Activist

My dear Daryl,

You are absolutely right: Agro-forestry plantations can never be compared to old-growth-forests. No. No. No. They are not the same. And, they can never be the same, either. Ever. Case closed. Hmmmm, Oman Ghana - eyeasem, oooo. Yooooooo...

Forests actually evolve over millions of years, wai, Opanin Paaaapabi, Daryl. They contain trillions of dollars worth of yet-to-be-discovered medicinal plants, too, ooooo, wai.

Furthermore, with the benefit of COVID-19-hindsight, is it not obvious, and crucial, that as an aspirational and wise African people, we preserve what is left of our nation's natural heritage? Haaba.

Massa, some think me rude, and crude, when one gets fed up, and calls spades, spades, not big-metal-spoon-like-accoutrements. 

 

What is wrong koraaa, with saving the Atewa Forest Reserve, by obtaining bauxite from our sister nations, Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, for an integrated West African aluminium industry, which creates jobs, and generates wealth that stays locally, and helps keep them stable and peaceful, too,  I ask?

 

Meanwhile, we have all seen viral videos that make it quite plain that behind closed doors, the Chinese imply that Africans are sub-human and incredibly stupid. 

 

And, for such bigoted-racists and ace-hypocrites, our leaders are happy and willing to destroy the Atewa Forest Reserve - a watershed for three major river systems from which  water is sourced for treatment and supplied to over 5 million Ghanaians across southern Ghana? Haaba. Incredible.

 

Ditto destroy an upland evergreen rainforest, which also happens to be a  Globally Significant Biodiversity Area (GSBA), to mine bauxite for the selfsame Chinese who secretly  make out that we are sub-human and stupid? Ebeiiii.

 

Yet, we aren't allowed to  call those selfsame leaders (that the Chinese apparently laugh at behind closed doors for being sub-human and stupid), stupid? How? Haaba. 

 

Massa, the plain truth about the mass-destruction of Ghana's forests, is that that national tragedy, actually represents an existential threat, of apocalyptic proportions. Hmmmm, Oman Ghana - enti, yewieye paaaa, enei? Yooooooo...

The unvarnished truth, is that we are led mostly by greedy, stupid and short-sighted-philistines: serbii, serbii, ooooo, Ghanafuo. Sadly, those too-clever-by-half-geniuses, know the prices of all manner of things, under the hot African sun -  but, alas, haven't the faintest idea, about the incalculable-value, of our priceless natural heritage, wai, Massa. The sods.

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A Quick Note To Issa Ouedraogo - The Harworking CEO And Founder Of The Green Eco-Agri-Business, BOVID

My dear Issa, 

The very lucrative green enterprise, which  you founded,  and continue to run so successfully, is just the  kind of  inclusive-green-agribusiness, which our nation ought to encourage, with long tax holidays - if we want to become an inclusive and prosperous, modern-day-African-society, ooooo. Yoooooo...

Furthermore, surely, as an asiprational people, we must make it clear to  the politicians, and political parties, insisting that even those Ghanaian   businesses, run by incorrigible-wealthy-crooks, which fuel high-level-corruption, responsible for the plain corporate-thievery, eroding the moral fabric of today's Ghana, must, willy-nilly, be supported, that that outrageous public-stance of theirs, is not only amoral, but intellectually-dishonest, in the extreme, too? Yoooooo...

Finally, it never ceases to amaze, moi,  that there are many highly-intelligent Ghanaians, who posit that privately-owned Ghanaian banks (run like the personal-piggy-banks of unethical directors, and shareholders-sans-moral-compasses), ought to have been allowed to continue doing business. How, I ask?

Is one to presume that in their view, such banks should have been permitted to continue using depositors cash, to fund directors', and shareholders', super-expensive lifestyles, and fund their personal projects (designed to send their net worth to stratospheric heights, on top of that unspeakable-and-unforgivable-abomination), on top too, at the expense of hapless depositors - just because they were indigenously-owned businesses? How sad. How amazing. And,  how very troubling.

Finally, with the greatest respect, Issa, don't you agree with those of us, who insist that nothing can justify such corporate-crookedness, koraaaa, anaaaaa - if we want to see the emergence of world-class (and global-class-leading) Ghanaian businesses, such as your BOVID, which are built on the bedrock of corporate good governance principles, evolving, to dominate the African continental free trade area: and creating wealth for brilliant-cohorts-of-young-wealthy-green-entrepreneurs, across our homeland Ghana, and generating  jobs galore, too, nationwide?  Who born dog, I ask, Massa? Yoooooo...

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What Drives Our Homeland Ghana's Ruling-Elites' Endless Borrowing Sprees?

Speaking personally, I am pretty sure that most of our ruling-elites, are all angels, oooo. Does it not fooooo, a priori, then, that it is their sum-sum-doubles (not actually they themselves), who are so busy  gang-raping Mother Ghana and Mother Nature,  in such brutal fashion? Hmmm, eyeasem oooo...

However, be that as it may, alas, there are on-the-ground-realities, about egregious high-level-corruption, in our country, which as decent, principled snd patriotic-concerned-citizens,  we cannot possibly ignore, too, oooo. Yoooooooo...

As aspirational, modern-day-rennaisance Pan-Africanists, perhaps the question we need to ponder over is: Why is it that although Ghana's leaders could fund all our infrastructural expansion, and modernisation projects, entirely, simply by inviting competitive bids, from around the globe, for self-funding-consortia, which are able, and willing,  to self-finance the building of say, railway lines, and tolled concrete motorways,  to connect all our regional capitals, in 35-year public private partnership deals (PPP), in which their profits remain tax-free, and can always be repartriated; do we still insist on endless borrowing, to fund such projects, koraaaaa? Hmmmm, eyeasem, ooooo...

Although I personally think that all the members of our ohhh-ever-so-clever-ruling-elites, are high-minded, noble and incorruptible beings, alas, one cannot rule out  a few in-your-face-possibilities, koraaaa, ooooo, Ghanafuo. Yooooooo...

Amanfuo, much as we wish it weren't so, we cannot rule out the possibility that (and it really  is not beyond the realms of possibilinaf koraaa, oooo), perhaps it is sum-sum-spiritual-greed (swiftly diagnosed by self-seeking crooks-in-white-dog-collars, engaged in profitable fat-brown-envelope PR work), and secret stealth-commissions-cum-kickbacks, earned by large armies of well-connected, and well-heeled-professional-advisors, which drive iur borrowing. 

The question is: Does the need to ensure wealth-creation oppotunities, for  those lucky regime-golden-princelings, whose super-lucrative private consultancies, are said  (by obviously envious bush-telegraph sources), to earn zillions, in hard currency cushy-deals, whenever Ghana goes aborrowing to add to its massive debt mountain!), actually drive our current leaders' passion for rushing to borrow-and-borrow-and-borrow, as if there was no tomorrow? Case closed? Yoooooo...

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From 2021 Should Parliament Aim To Make Ghana Africa's First No-Go-Territory For Ruthless-And-Exploitative-Employers?

Ghanaians are a freedom-loving, civilised and mostly-aspirational people, who work hard - and love to have good-cheer-fun, too. That productivity-and-life-balance, constantly guides the sovereign citizens, of the Republic of Ghana. In one's humble view, thus far, somehow,  perhaps we have survived COVID-19, because of that.


To continue fighting the existential threat COVID-19 poses, the protection of the rights of employees,  ought to be the bedrock upon which, from 2021, the transformation of our homeland Ghana into a law-abiding-commercial territory, in which no employers can cloak the hiring of permanent-workers, as casual-labourers, without any rights whatsoever - and legally continue to remain in business. Full stop. Case closed.


That is why Parliament must pass all the needed legistlation, in 2021, to ensure  that ours becomes an attractive fair-employment corporate-landscape, in continental Africa's  free-trade area.


Simply put, to withstand present, and forecasted coming global pandemics,  Ghana must become a fair and inclusive society,  in which both businesses and their workforces collaborate, in win-win fashion. In other words, from 2021, to make us resilient and better able to withstand global pandemics, Parliament must aim to make Ghana Africa's first no-go-territory, for ruthless-and-exploitative-employers, by passing all the needed underpinning-preventative-legislation. Cool. 

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A Quick Note To Valarie Wood-Gaiger, OBE - Founder Of Grandma International

Dear Valerie Wood-Gaiger,

You are absolutely right:  tidal power is green, emission-free and cheaper than electricity from nuclear power plants. It is pretty cool - and, as an environmental activist, I am all for it. As it happens, the Volta estuary, at Ada Foah, along Ghana's coastline, is perfect for a tidal power plant, similar to the Welsh one you refer to.

Incidentally,  Rosatom, the Russian nuclear power  company (allegedly one of the most corrupt in the world - according to bush-telegraph sources!), is hoping to build a nuclear power plant, in my native Ghana. Imagine that, Ohemaa Paaaapabi Valarie. Hmmmm, life...

Perhaps the question the more responsible sections of the Ghanaian media, ought to pose, to all those promoting that madness (and, it is madness, in a nation dominated by powerful thieves-in-high-places, and which, notoriously, also lacks a maintenance culture, and, on top of all that negativity; project design  specifications are routinely varied,  in order to make available off-ledger-cash, to pay fat-brown-envelope-kickbacks, to sundry corrupt top  public officials), is: 

How, and where,  will the radioactive waste, from the proposed  nuclear power plant in Ghana, be stored - since it will remain dangerous for thousands of years to come?

Naturally, thunderous-silence will follow from the nuclear power press club of Ghana's well-catered-for-brown-envelope-wise, too-clever-by-half's super-efficient-propagandist-members. Such is life in this beautiful and happy aspirational-nation of ours. Cool.

Wish you  well, as always, delectable Ohemaa Paaapabi Valarie  Wood-Gaiger, OBE. Do continue staying safe!

Thanks.

Kofi.

WhatsApp:+233 576564600.

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Happy Birthday To A Fellow Social-Progressive - Honourable Abass Fuseini Sbaabe

Honourable Abass Fuseini Sbaabe,

You are a self-made gentleman, and a brilliant young man, with considerable self-awareness - who undoubtedly has a bright political future, ahead of him. Above all, you epitomise the never-ending-hard work, of the brightest and best, of our lucky nation's young-achievers. Massa, ye ma wu tiri nkwaa, wai. Afihyiapaaa, oooo, Honourable.

 

Honourable, let us always remember that as it happens, on the ground, so to speak, our West African sub-region, has long been targeted, by the many secret-enemies of Africa, for permanent destabalisation. They want to keep us poor, the sods. But we shall prevail, as a united people, with a common destiny.

 

That is why all patriotic Ghanaians, who love our beautiful country, passionately, must unite and focus exclusively, on the crucial task of creating green-growth-wealth (exploiting the value-chain of industrial hemp, for example), which remains in local economies, right across rural Ghana, and generates jobs galore, nationwide, in the process, for our energy-filled younger generations. Happy birthday to you, Hon. Abaas Fuseini Sbaabe!

What Is The Best Way President Akufo-Addo Can Fight And End High-Level Corruption In Ghana?

How can high-level-corruption be ended in Ghana? As a Ghanaian media professional, it  has always been my firm conviction that our homeland Ghana can be safely described as a work-in-progress-nation, which also happens to be one of the most attractive countries, to live in, in all of  sub-Saharan Africa. Ghanaians are smart enough, to end the nation-wrecking phenomenom, of thieves-in-high-places. Definitely. Cool.

Today, despite the existential threat posed by COVID-19, we still remain an aspirational and hardworking African people. Brilliant./

 And, although one loathes his political party, the New Patriotic Party (NPP), one freely acknowledges that we are incredibly lucky, and blessed, to have an elected leader, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Adddo, who is cast in the mold of the great President Nkrumah. 

President Akufo-Addo is a bold, farsighted, courageous and incorruptical leader. No question. Yet, even with him as Ghana's  leader, amazingly, the nation-wrecking-phenomenom, of thieves-in-high-places, still persists. Monstrous. Abominable. Unpardonable. Who born dog, koraaaaaa, I ask? Haaba.

Clearly, in his second term as President, the more responsible sections of the Ghanaian media must demand, and ensure, that within his first one hundred days of being sworn in for his second term, President Akufo-Addo (who is easily the next best elected-leader, after President Nkrumah),  sends a bill to Parliament, to be passed into law, under a certificate of urgency, giving Ghana's Auditor Generals prosecutorial powers. It is the only way President Akufo-Addo can fight and end high-level corruption in our homeland Ghana, ooooo, Ghanafuo. Yooooooo...

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A Quick Note To Samuel Agyin Ansah - The Serial-Entrepreneuer Who Founded SpeedPrints Ghana Limited And Lavita Ghana Limited

My  dear Samuel,

Yes, you are absolutely right,  indeed. The future of the global mobility sector, actually lies in an EV-future. For sure. To power that emission-free automotive-future, the world will need affordable green power. Definitely.

The good news, is that a brilliant Ghanaian inventor, Raphael Afordoanyi, has invented an off-grid, emission-free stand-alone clean power system, which produces electricity that never goes off (regardless of prevailing weather conditions, and, at rates much cheaper than even nuclear power plants  do!). Cool.

As you can imagine, that game-changing green power system, will save humankind, from reaching the climate-change-tipping-point-of-no-return. Wow. Cool.

Within the next decade, the whole world will be powered 100  percent by emission-free, clean power, believe it, or not, Samuel. Mark that somewhere, on the walls in your offices at both those very successful companies, which you and Bushira founded, and own together: SpeedPrints Ghana Limited, and Lavita Ghana Limited, wai, Massa.

Incidentally,  when are you starting your Warwick University MBA course - as I need to let Pauline Potter-Hayes, and her UK business partner, know that you will abe available to help them with practical tips that will be extremely useful, for their online SME course  students from Africa? Wish you godspeed.

Let's touch base before you leave for the UK - so that we can discuss the Bushira Makuyi Foundation, in depth, with my dear Bushira. My place -at the State Housing Company's Gomoa Buduburam estate - will be perfect. Ayesha, my househelp, can meet the two of you, at the car park of the Gomoa Buduburam Police Station, and bring you home. It is only five minutes away as the crow flies. Cool.

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Is Savana Signatures Truly One Of Ghana's Most Impactful NGOs?

Is Savana Signatures  one of Ghana's most effective NGOs? As someone lucky enough to have seen its rise from humble beginnings, from its Tamale HQ, to the world-class charitable organisation it now is, the the answer simply is: Yes, it is, indeed. For sure.

 

As it happens, it is precisely for that reason that some of us pray, daily, that they successfully spread their good-works-footprint, nationwide. 

Their youth empowerment programmes are really incredibly useful, especially for aspirational base-of-the-pyramid-demographic, seeking to bootstrap their  way out of the poverty trap. Cool.

 

Naturally, as a commited Pan-Africanist,  one also prays that Savana Signatures spreads  its good-works-footprint,  further afield, across West Africa - beginning with the Gambia and Guinea Bissau: partnering the newly-established but ambitious Amilcar Cabral Foundation (established by Amilcar Cabral's nephew, Jose Corrante Cabral)  to do so: in both those sister nations, successfuly. Cool.

Above all, one says kudos to Savana Signatures' dynamic and visionary founder, Mr. Steven Agbenyo -  and, to all the members of his dedicated and hardworking team. Cool.

Finally, one hopes that 2021, will be  the year, in which Savana Signatures impacts Gomoa Buduburam successfully - by partnering the Bushira Makiyu Foundaton, and Gomoa Buduburam's Nkrumahist and Pan-Africanist traditional ruler, Nana Kwaw Bediako, and his wise Council of Elders, to do so. The question to ponder  over is: Is Savana Signatures truly one of Ghana's most impactful NGOs? In one's humble view, it most definitely is, aampaaa, oooo, Ghanafuo. Savana Sigatures, y3 ma mu, ayeekoooo!

Eugene Kofi Boakye-Yiadom: What Has Been The Impact Of The Trump Presidency - Domestically And Globally?

Thanks for sharing, favourite nephew. Whatever one thinks of him, President Trump has really shaken the global system, paaaaapa, ooooo, Massa. Who born dog, Abi?

Truth be told, Trump has changed the American presidency, more than was ever thought possible, by conventional political wisdom, in all the seven continents of the planet Earth. Full stop. Case closed.

As the U.S. presidential election's final-vote-casting-day, 4th November, 2020, approaches, perhaps the question we must ponder over is: Will President Trump pull off yet another surprise, by getting re-elected again - securing a majority of votes cast by the Electoral College's  delegates: whiles Joe Biden  wins the popular vote by  a historic landslide?

And, will such an outcome, then lead the new Congress - with Democrats controlling both the Senate and House of Representatives - moving swiftly, to engineer the U.S.  Constitution being amended: to abolish the Electoral College?

Furethermore, when that constitutional amendment succeeds,  will such a figurative-tectonic-plate-shift bring American democracy, finally, into today's fast-paced-changing-digital-era (and, about time too, perhaps? 

Finally, Without President Trump, none of the above, would have been possible, oooo, Massa, favourite nephew, Eugene Kofi Boakye-Yiadom. No. No. No. Case closed. No question. Eeiiiii, eyeaem ooo: Yen tu, onipa entwene, ampaaaa, oooo, Massa. Yooooooo...

Finally, please note, favourite nephew, Kofi Boakye-Yiadom, that I am merely being my realistic self, in penning this, oooo, Massa. Whatever one thinks of him, President Trump can never be ignored. He has been like a figurative-wildfire. Cool.

And, like all wildfires, positive-greenshoot-societal-benefits, will follow after his presidency ends - locally, in domestic American politics, and, also positively impact the global system, too, favourite nephew. Cool.

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A Quick Note To The Chiefs Of Assin Kushea - Who Created And lead Ghana's Cleanest Town

Nananom,

We salute you for your sterling leadership qualities - reflected in the anazing transformation you have wrought, in transforming your gem of a small-town, beautiful Assin Kushea, into what is widely-acknowledged, as Ghana's cleanest town.

The good news, is that you actually have it within your power, Nananom, to turn Assin Kushea, into the world's most prosperous small town, without compare, through a creative-win-win-partnership:

https://www.modernghana.com/news/1033026/another-quick-note-to-ghanas-foremost-green-entre.html.

Thanks.

Kind regards,

Kofi.

WhatsApp: +233576564600.

A Quick Note To Ohemaa Paaaapabi Yaa - Who Admonishes One: For Being Abusive When Speaking Truth To Power

Ohemaa Paaapabi Yaa,

When African politicians who don't understand that policies that amount to crimes against humanity, in that the implementation of those policies deny future generations, from, at the very least, enjoying the same living standards as that enjoyed by present-day generations, their shortsighted-cynicism, must be spelt out boldly to them, wai. Haaba. Who born dcom Haaba.

Ohemaa Papaaabi Yaa, with the greatest respect, the plan to destroy the Atewa Forest Reserve, merely in order to please greed-filled foreigners (whom - according  to bush-telegraph sources - behind closed doors, are forever laughing at the 'stupidity' of African leaders), is indeed sheer madness: and the only word fit to be employed in describing  those who still insist on going ahead with it, just to please those selfsame canny foreigners, is, STUPID. Cool.

It hurts that one is forced to do so, but as someone whose family are one of the largest freehold rainforest  landowners  in all of Akyem Abuakwa, trying hard against great odds to protect our freehold 14-square mile upland evergreen rainforest, from illegal gold miners, illegal loggers and hunters.

 

As it happens,  we actually intend to transform our freehold 14-square mile upland evergreen rainforest property, into an ecotourism destination, and, a living-laboratory-centre-of-excellence, for biodiversity researchers from around the globe, with what will be the world's longest forest canopy walkway (1000 metres long with 19 bridges - prefabricated by Greenheart Conservation), as the centrepiece  attraction.

 

So, Ohemaa Paaapabi Yaa,  you must understand the contextual-background that forces one to describe those amongst our ruling-elites, who are pushing this stupid idea, as STUPID  wai. In any case, peace and blessings to you, ooooo, Obaapanin enioonyamfuo paaapabi - and thanks for sharing your observations. Wu ye bue!

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A Quick Note To Mr. Oduro Kwarteng - Who Posts Comments On Facebook

Gosh, Mr. Oduro Kwarteng, what an amazing comment. With the greatest respect, and in all humility, how can you say such cynical things - at a time when we are all seeing the negative impact, of global climate change,  right across the Ghanaian countryside? Ebeiiii. Hmmmm, eyeasem oooo. Yoooooo...

Massa, no serious nation wouild risk undertaking a bauxite mining venture,  which threatens the sustainability of a vital watershed, for three major river systems, from which the water that is treated and supplied to over 5 million of its citizens, in towns and cities right across its southern half, is sourced. No question.  Yoooooo...

This shortsighted idea, so breathtakingly  blockheaded, and incredibly daft, illustrates perfectly, the inability of so many of the members of our ruling-elites, to think on their feet, and do lateral thinking, when faced with challenges that serious nations would consider to be existential in nature, and consequently rethink, and, restrategise, to ensure their societies' long-term well-being. Hmmmm, eyeasem, ooooo...

Massa, what is wrong with taking the Atewa Forest Reserve, out of the SinoHydro deal, koraaaa, I ask? Will it somehow bring about the end of life as we know it in today's Ghana - or even lead to a shooting-war with the People's Republic of China? Haaba. Who born dog? With respect, you are an intelligent man, the answer to both questions, is: Certainly not, oooo, Massa. Cool.

Which leads one to the follow-up-query:  So why are the blockheaded and colo-minded Hon. Yaw Osafo Marfos so frightened of offending those canny and arrogant foreigners, who treat our compatriots who go to China to either study or to do business, with total disdain and regard them  more or less as rubbish and sub-human? How stupid can some African leaders be, Abi? Haaba.

Instead of our elected leaders  continuing to stonewall and pussyfoot around this existential-challenge, what they should rather do, as thinking beings proud of their Africaness, is to simply call the Chinese ambassador,  accredited to Ghana, to the presidency, and boldly inform him that, reeegretab, in view of mounting public disquiet, over the inclusion of the Atewa Forest Reserve, in the SinoHydro deal, the government will immediately  ban all mining, logging and hunting in the Atewa Forest  Reserve, and declare it a national park. Case closed. Full stop.

What we should rather do, as committed Pan-Africanists, is to think of the opportunities that a West African integrated aluminium industry, offers - one in which sister  nations like Guinea, Libera, Sierra Leone and Guinea Bissau, grow their national economies, and create wealth, as well as jobs galore, for their younger generations', by mining and supplying Ghana with bauxute, for refining, at the Valco aluminium smeltering  plant. Simple. Case closed.

Massa, some of us are sick and tired of being governed by bean-counting philistines, who know the prices of all things under the African sun, but don't have the faintest idea, of the value of  our nation's priceless natural capital. Hmmmm,  Oman  Ghana, enti, yewieye paaaaa, enei? Eyeasem, oooo - asem kesei bi, ebeba debi ankasa, ooooo. Yooooooo...

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A Quick Note To The Global Vehicle Trust - Manufacturers Of The Ox All-Terrain Cross-Country Vehicle

Dear Global Vehicle Trust,

Good news: Funding is available for vehicle manufacturers in Ghana. That why it strikes one that you might finally succeed in getting  funding, and a chance to produce your marvellous all-terrain-wonder, the Ox, in one of the most business-friendly environments, in Africa, Ghana. 

VW Ghana Limited currently assembles  a range of its internal combustion-engined vehicles here. Toyota and Nissan are both gearing up to start assembling vehicles before the end of 2020.

In light of all the above, one humbly suggests that you contact the British High Commission in Ghana, as soon as practicable - and suggest that they approach Hon. Alan Kyremateng, Ghana's highly-intelligent, and results-driven  minister for trade and industry, on your behalf.

There is synergy between your business, and a local passenger bus  manufacturer, Neoplan Ghana Limited, which is currently in distress, but which  has a dedicated and highly skilled workforce, that could quickly be trained to assemble the Ox. Cool.

There is no question that the Ghanaian countryside will be dramatically  transformed, once the Ox becomes available on the domestic market - currently served by accident-prone Okada motorcycles, and, totally unsuitable and inherently-unstable Aboboya motorised tricycles from Asia.

It will interest you to know that lucrative export markets await you,  throughout  Africa - now a common market of some 1.3 billion people across 55 countries: with a combined gross domestic product (GDP) valued at US$3.4 trillion.

This is a most propitious moment, for Africa-domiciled manufacturers of affordble and robust cross country vehicles, such as the Ox. 

That is why one is 100 percent sure that a conversation between your team, and Mr. Lawrence Agyinsam, the dynamic and brilliant CEO, of the Ghana Export Import Bank, will secure you the £3 million you  need: and yet  even more funding, to help the government  revive Neoplan Ghana Limited, in an inspired win-win joint-venture (which ought to include all the transport unions in Ghana, to be successful!).

Thanks - and good luck!

Kind regards,

Kofi.

WhatsApp: +233576564600.

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How Many Black Briefcases Needed For Smuggling-Trips Ferrying €26 million In Cash - From Abroad To Sikakrom?

Sikakromfuo, just how many briefcases will be needed for smuggling-trips ferrying €26 million in cash from abroad, koraaaaa? Amanfuo, we definitely need to calm down on this particular issue, ooooo. Yoooooo...

Perhaps the question we must ponder over  is: If the world is now rapidly digitising many aspects of humanity's personal and societal  interactions, and putting same online, should we not make cybercrime a treasonable offence - since it could easily erode that great intangible, CONFIDENCE, in our homeland Ghana? Yooooooo...

As for the matter at hand, my humble advice on such matters, to our nation's hard-of-hearing ruling-elites (across the spectrum!), is that if they are being truthful, and have nothing to hide, in such matters, why do they not simply  ask Ghana's  concerned CSOs, to invite the local chapters of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), when such issues crop up, for them to ascertain the facts, and put the results  out into the public domain, worldwide? Simple. Case closed. Who born dog? Haaba.

Ghanafuo, at the end of the day, it is always prudent, when such serious allegations are made, to be skeptical about the pronouncements of both government and opposition spokespersons - in this case, the New Patriotic Party's (NPP) Hon. Kwadwo Oppong Nkrumah, and  the National Democratic Congress' (NDC) Hon. Alhaji Fuseini: in the small matter of the alleged €26 million in cash said to have been smuggled from overseas through Sikakrom's Ogyakrom's shinny-new international airport. Simple.

And, just one small point, Ghanafuo: It is a known fact that all manner of stuff goes through diplomatic bags from our overseas diplomatic missions, oooo, Amanfuo. And, there  is no question that that has gone on, under both NPP and NDC regimes. For sure.

The plain truth, is that, sadly, as a result of their need for zillions of off-ledger-cash, to fund their increasingly  costly nationwide operations, both our country's biggest political parties, the NPP, and NDC, have morphed into criminal organsations funded by respectable and not-so-respectable criminals. The strictures of Hon  Kwadwo Oppong Nkrumah not withstanding, the question we must ponder over is: How many briefcases will be needed for smuggling-trips ferrying €26 million in cash, from abroad, koraaaaa? Hmmmm, Oman Ghana - eyeasem, ooooo: enti, yeweiy3 paaaaa, enei? Asem kesie, bi, ebeba debi ankasaa, oooooo. Yoooooo...

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Are We Now Living In Incredibly Dangerous Times?

Are we now living, in incredibly dangerous times, one wonders? Clearly, in light of recent events, we are. That is why, for the common good, and, for the well-being of Mother Ghana, Ghanaian parliamentarians ought to be bold - and  ignore the populist nonsense on social media platforms: and take decisive steps, to ensure the security of their families, and themselves. Now. Not tomorrow. Yooooooo... 

As a wise and aspirational people, we must not forget that despite their many shortcomings, members of our Parliament  actually play a crucial oversight role, in Ghanaian democracy -  keeping the executive and judiciary on their toes: for the overall common good, and for the  nation's well-being. 

No individual or groups of individuals, should be allowed to intimidate members of our nation's Parliament, under any circumstances, by putting fear into them, about their personal security, and that of their families'. Never. Period. 

 

I wept when I heard the NPP MP for my old stumping grounds, Nyhieso, Hon. Kennedy Kwasi Kankam, talking about  how once upon a time, armed robbers held his family hostage for over three hours, and spared him, only because they didn't want his lovely offspring,  to  be without a father. Imagine that. That it should come to that, is intolerable. Full stop. Haaba.

For now, one's humble advice to all our MPs, is simply that under no circumstances, should they trust any state security agency, to protect them, effectively. No. No. No. Yooooooo...

 

For their information, some of the criminal syndicates behind most of Ghana's illegal sandwinning, illegal logging and illegal gold mining, have now morphed into fearless resource-war-lords, oooo. Yoooooo..

 

Where were our security agencies while that  was happening in broad daylight, in galamsey sites across the Ghanaian countryside, I ask? Yoooooo...

 

And, why, in the COVID-19 era, are so many foreign youth roaming rural iddylic-places, such as  Akyem Juaso, with metal detectors, hunting for gold-bearing seams-of-rock, without valid entry permits, and residence permits, and engaging in egregious-galamsay-operations? Hmmmm, eyeasem, ooooo...

 

Massa, try going to Burkina Faso, Niger and Mali, to try the same thing, and you will smell pepper, if you live to do so, in the first place, that is. Having been targeted by terrorists, those nations  don't tolerate loitering-treasure-hunting-foreigners, ooooo, Ghanafuo.  Yoooooo...

And, horror of horrors, there are said to be over some 70, 000 disgruntled ex-Community Police members, of the National Youth Employment (NYE) scheme, trained to handle weapons, and very conversant with the tactics and formations,  of the Ghana Police Service - most with no real prospects of a decent future, to contend with - who are now mostly on their  own. The Devil really does find gruesome-work for idle trigger-happy-hands, ooooo, Ghanafuo. Yooooooo...

That is why, as an emergency measure, MPs must move quickly, to outsource the protection of the Legislature, and all who work in it, to the  best Russian and Israeli private military contractors. Case closed. Yoooooo...

 

Their home nations could be easily persuaded to pay for the entire costs of their deployment to Ghana, and all their operational costs, as 'bilateral technical assistance' to Ghana, oooo. Yoooooo... 

Alas, Ghana's mostly-discredited  Mickey-Mouse-National-Security-Apparatus, cannot be relied on to protect our MPs. Full stop. Nor can a presidency full of arrogant philandering-narcissistic-folk, help them, either, entir, Ghanafuo.  Case closed. Haaba. Who born dog? Yooooooo...

Futhermore, as a matter of some urgency, let us put aside foolish-pride, and ask  those private militaries from Russia and Israel, to provide a fleet of brand new armoured saloon cars, buses, and 4x4s, for the mobility of all  who work for Ghana's  Parliament. Simple. Yoooooooo...

Their equivalent of the world's best Special Forces, must provide all MPs with personal bodyguards, who will accompany them everywhere. Literally. Ghanafuo, we now live in very dangerous times, ooooo. Most, definitely. Hmmmm, Oman Ghana - eyeasem, oooo. Enti, yeweiye paaaaa, enei, aanaaaaa? Asem kesie, bi, ebeba, debi ankasa, ooooo. Yoooooooo... 

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Should Ghanaians Demand The Resignation Of All Those Tasked To Ensure The Safety Of Our Republic - And Ensure The Security Of The Citizenry?

In light of recent tragic events - including the cowardly and abominable gunning down of  Hon. Ekow Kwansah Hayford, Mfantseman Member of Parliament, if President Akufo-Addo does not fire all his security chiefs, plus the ministers of interior and defence, he will be doing a huge disservice to our nation, ooooo. Yooooooo...

In one's humble view, the president must move rapidly, to  merge the Ghana Police Service, the Ghana Immigration Service,  the Ghana National Fire Service and the Ghana Prison Service, to become the fourth armed service, of the Ghana Armed Forces (GAF). In an age  when global terrorism is knocking on our doors, they all deserve the same compensation packages as the GAF, wai. Yooooooo...

When responding to emergencies, they must leverage bleeding-edge District and Regional Command Centres - which ought to be outsourced to, and, built, by Mr. Alfred Aning, the Ghanaian-American business executive,  who built America's most modern private-sector Corporate Command Centre. Yoooooooo...

 

On a 24/7 basis, to quickly locate dangerous  criminals, the Homeland Forces, must also utilise Kalashnikov drones fitted with thermal imaging  cameras, using AI facial recognition technology, which rely on the robust and world-class What3Words digital location and addressing system. Yooooooo...

 

The steadily deteriorating security situation, across our homeland Ghana, must be laid firmly at the doorsteps of those who have  been toying with the safety of our Republic, and the personal security, of the citizenry, by packing our national security apparatus (according to bush telegraph sources), with unprofessional myrmidon-thugs, hithereto employed by the private militias, of New Patriotic Party (NPP) hardliners: the Delta Force and the Invincible Forces.
 

Since we are lumbered with hard-of-hearing ruling-elites, for emphasis, one  repeats: President AkufoAddo, must move swiftly  to fire all his security chiefs, plus the ministers of interior and defence, and merge the Ghana Police Service, the Ghana Immigration Service,  the Ghana National Fire Service and the Ghana Prison Service, to become the fourth armed service, of the Ghana Armed Forces (GAF). Yoooooooo...

They must be trained by the best private military contractors from Russia and Israel, to become a crack world-class, paramilitary no-nonsense shoot-to-kill anti-terrorist force, and ought to be known as the Homeland Forces. Simple.

Above all, let's back them with suitable legislation, to indemnify them for shooting to kill murderous people, such as the dreadful killers of Hon. Ekow Kwansah Hayford. Who born dog? Haaba. Yoooooooo...

For emphasis, dear reader, the Interior and Defence ministries should be merged, and the most effective minister, thus far, since the government of President Akufo-Addo came to power in January 2017, Hon. Kwasi Amoako-Atta, appointed as the first Homeland Security  Minister. Yoooooooo...

Finally, perhaps the question we must all ponder over is: Should Ghanaians demand the resignation of all those tasked to ensure the safety of our Republic - and ensure the security of the citizenry? Hmmmm, Oman Ghana, eyeasem, oooo. Enti yeweiye paaaaa enei? Asem kesie, bi, ebeba debi, ankasa, oooo. Yoooooooo...

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Should Ghanaians Demand Passage Of Laws Giving Prosecutorial Powers To Auditor General?

Most Ghanaians now realise that on his own, Mr. Martin Amidu, the Special Prosecutor, can't stop high-level corruption, in Ghana. An Auditor General, clothed by Parliament, with prosecutorial powers, working in tandem with a Special Prosecutor, is the right combination needed to rid the nerve-centre of our nation, the presidency, of its thieves-in-high-places.

The question is: Why aren't the more responsible sections of the  Ghanaian media making the point that in the national interest, each of the candidates standing in the December presidential election,  must commit to ensuring that Ghana's Auditor General has prosecutorial powers, within the first year of their assumption of office as President of the Republic of Ghana?

A key lesson of COVID-19, is that we need to provide world-class healthcare facilities that are within easy reach of the citizenry, nationwide. Ditto rapidly transform our homeland  Ghana, into one of the most  developed and prosperous nations in the world. To have the wherewithall to make that possible, we must plug all the loopholes enabling the siphoning off, of public funds, by Ghanaian officialdom's thieves-in-high-places, and their nation-wrecking private-sector allies.

Clearly, if only a combination of a Special Prosecutor and Auditor General with prosecutorial powers, can help plug such loopholes, as a wise people, should Ghanaians not demand written guarantees from all the presidential candidates, that within the first year of their tenure, they will ensure that a bill will be sent by his or her government, to Parliament, for passage into law, giving the Auditor General prosecutorial powers?

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A Quick Note To Joy Wahba - Who Loves Africa's Rainforests: And Their Fringe-Forest Farming Communities

My dear Joy,

 
Many thanks indeed for your kind words. Yes, it isn't a bad photograph, at all, I guess - although one regrets the fact that we had had to take off our Wellington boots, just before the photograph was taken: reason being that we were just about to set off from our Akyem Juaso freehold rainforest property, for the journey back home, to Gomoa Buduburam. I would have looked the business, paaaaa, oooo, Ohemaa paaapabi. Cool 

 

As it happens, it suddenly struck me, on the journey back home, that perhaps you and my dear young friend, the ever-brilliant Ian Knisely, could set up a new kind of NGO.

 

The world needs a new kind of Africa-focused conservation NGO, which will not be your average run-of-the-mill charitable organisation doing good, but the administrative costs of which nearly always swallow up huge chunks of donated cash (to serve as personal income-sources for sodden well-off-careerists, sadly).

 

Such an Africa-focused conservation NGO, will enable the harnessing of the many gifts and talents of your dynamic demographic, to source funding, for the empowerment of young people in fringe-forest communities, across the continent of Africa.

 

From my own personal observations, over the years, if, as Ghanaian landowners, we could pay local youth well, to protect valuable biodiversity-rich privately-owned rainforest lands, which, in a sense, we are all mere stewards of, after all, it will definitey help us better conserve and protect Ghana's rainforests.

 

With the availability of funding, to ensure such community-stakeholder-protection, It would mean that large private land owners across my native Ghana, would never have to worry about illegal sandwinners, illegal loggers and illegal gold miners, invading and unlawfully occuppying our lands. Wow.

 

Sadly, our family's Akyem Juaso freehold upland evergreen rainforest, is now teeming with adventerous youth from sister West African nations, who explore for gold with metal detectors, and immediately engage in galamsey, wherever they hear pings from their confounded metal detectors.

 

Regretably, security-wise, my native Ghana is most definitely not a serious nation - when it comes to keeping out young foreign men, who, to all intents and purposes are potential footsoldiers, for local warlord-like-types (forever stealing gold from land they mostly occupy forcefully, or buy from desperately-poor cocoa farmers strapped for cash).

 

The plain truth, is that only drones can enable those cunning and hungry-for-cash young people, from sister West African nations, to be closely monitored. If we are serious about the safety of our Republic, then they all ought to be immediately arrested, prosecuted and jailed. Simple. Ditto deported after serving lengthy prison sentences. Yooooooo...

 

The most worrying thing about the whole ghastly situation, is that not even a single one of those potential fifth-column COVID-19-foot-soldiers, now swarming across gold-bearing-fringe-forest-communities, such as Akyem Juaso, ever wear nose masks. Imagine that. Incredible. Hmmm, Oman Ghana, eyeasem, ooooo.

 

Perhaps the question we ought to ponder over is: Who are those in Ghanaian officialdom allowing this egregious-outrage, to go on, in the P. E. Thompson Estate's 14-square mile freehold upland evergreen rainforest property, in the Akyem Juaso section of the Atewa Range upland evergreen rainforest, koraaaaa? Hmmmm, Oman Ghana, enti, yeweiye, paaaaa, enei? Asem kesie, bi, ebeba debi ankasa, ooooo. Yooooooo...

A Quick Note To Naana Afua Fremaa Busia - Who Is Dedicated To Keeping Dr. K. A. Busia's Memory Alive

Ohemaa aaapabi, one agrees with those patriotic Ghanaians, who posit that whatever his faults, history will judge your late Papa, kindly, as a true democrat - who was a man of  principle, who did not approve of self-seeking-leadership, koraaaa, oooo. He would never have tolerated this outrageous Agyapaaaapabi-blank-cheque-self-seeking,  of the very worst kind, at all. For sure.

The attempt to move assured annual gold royalties, worth at least  some US$200 million, one gathers, offshore (to be domiciled in previously-secretive British Crown Dependency, the Bailiwick of Jersey that is today not nearly so secretive, in the know-thy-customer digital banking--era, thank goodness), out of the reach of Ghanaian Parliamentary scrutiny, and shod of Ghanaian financial sector regulatory oversight, is unprecedented. It has no size, koraaa, and is the Mother of all create-loot-and-share-insider-dealing, by privileged-politically-exposed golden-regime-princelings,  ever. Cool.

Not even the manoeuvring to ensure the deprivation of Ghana's golden share, in the takeover of Ashanti Goldfields, comes close, perfidy-wise, oooo, Ohemaa. It is an egregious example, of why, to fight high-leve-corrption, in Ghana, we need to ensure that our country's Auditor Generals are clothed with prosecutorial powers, by Parliament, asap, ooooo.

The assured annual U.S.$ 200 million gold royalties, are apparently to be invested in sundry entities, listed on a number of overseas stock markets, including London and New York, which may or may not pay us any dividends, ever, by an opaque  entity, which we can never sue, it fails in its fiduciary duty to be transparent, well-run and run for the common-good of Ghanaian rural communuties. Ditto, required to be anchored, corporate-ethos-wise,  on a bedrock of  corporate good governance principles.  

Some say it is one of the most abominable state-capture-gone-mad stealth-asset-stripping-maneuvering, ever, engaged in, by insouciant ruling élites, who are said to seem to think they are God's gift to Ghanaians, who should never dare question them,  because they are far more intelligent than we are, wai. What gall.

As for your family matters, out of respect for your  late Papa, I shall not make any comments, there, oooo, Ohemaa paaapabi. 

However,  again, I shall paraphrase the old wag, who railed against that alleged effort at silencing a fellow family member, as undemocratic. He said it was clearly meant to stop you from figuratively rocking the golden-boat-of-comfort, heavily laden with the low-hanging-friuts of sychophantic-praise-singing, oooo. Hmmmm,  eyeasem, ooooo.

In his ( me thinks quite cynical) view, in light of today's amoral leadership standards, they were very, very wise - and clearly knew where their bread is buttered from, wai.

What do some of  them care, about your Papa's principled political leadership views, and his abhorance of corruption? He had his Oxford-kudi, after all, did he not?  So, obviously, in their view, he could comfortably afford his principles. In any case, just how do you expect those of them who need it, to fund their posh-livestyles, to manage,  he  asked?

Ahhh, you paaaa. Principles. What do those amongst today's fence-sitting middle-classes, enjoying their merrymaking, under the African sun, care? Small girls are young, wai. Do you not see the stealth-asset-stripping of Mother Ghana, which is now going on, and is engaged in,  by certain greed-filled arrogant-sods? BBC-pidgin-English: Abi, make you look your somewhere, oooo - and make you go sleep, wai. Principles. Tut. Tut. Tut. Hmmmm,  Oman Ghana, eyeasem, oooo - asem kesie ebeba debi ankasa. Yoooooo...

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