A prosperous and inclusive society, can never evolve overnight, in our homeland Ghana

The bald truth, dear critical-reader, is that a prosperous and inclusive society cannot evolve, overnight, in our homeland  Ghana, ever. Full stop.  What is possible, is gradually increasing national  wealth, made possible by local innovation. Simple. That is not rocket-science-comprehension,  koraaa, oooo, Ghanafuo. Full stop.

That is why some of us despise those who still don't get it that a wise and aspirational African people like us, must  never despair  -  because no matter how difficult things might get, temporarily, tailor-made local creative solutions, will always be  there, to enable our nation move forward again. Onyame entis3 Alata ni ooooo. Yoooooooo....

Why, for example,  do we always  blame governments-of-the-day, when our hatahata-currency loses ground against benchmark-currencies like the US dollar  -  when the bald truth  is that it is our foolish  love of imported products (for  which better made local alternatives are often  available),  which  fuels the trade imbalances mostly responsible for the Ghana cedis hatahataness, Ghanafuo? Haaba.

Furthermore, instead of allowing foreign criminals to come into our country, to destroy our priceless natural natural heritage, to  mine gold, significant proceeds from  which  then end up being funnelled overseas, in sundry canny stealth-money-laundering schemes, why do we not rather  incentivise our younger generations to take a leaf from the green wealth-creation-playbook, of Ghana's foremost green entrepreneur, Kofi Boakye-Yiadom's green business model: the creation of adventure parks that are  on-the-ground-bedrocked world-class for-profit-conservation businesses?

Furthermore, we must not forget that out of the galamsay disaster here, can also be found opportunities galore, to make  honest money  restoring poisoned  mined-out-land,  ditto in the  preservation of  the remainder of our nation's priceless green capital, ooooo, Ghanafuo. Zillions. Literally. Hmmm, ey3nsem piiiiii, ooooo...

Ghanafuo, surely, if we patronise locally made products more than we do imported foreign made products, will that not make a huge difference to our balance of payments  metrics - and consequently end up making the hatahata-cedi, strengthen a tad more, anaaa? Rome was not built in a day, ooooo. Yoooooo...

Finally,  let us now move rapidly to step out of the shadow of conventional economic thinking, and take steps to make Mother Ghana a poster-girl for no-holds-barred private-sector led  economic development, in which private sector entities, not taxpayers,  foot the bills for the modernisation and  expansion of our infrastructure, in return for owning maintaining, collecting and repatriating  accruing profits, 100 percent, for 30-year periods?

Will that not negate the need for governments-of-the-day,  to borrow zillions (from which our rent-seeking state-capture big-thieves-in-high-places, get their massive nokofio big-brown-envelope-kickbacks), anaaa, I ask?

Above all, it is said that poverty and democracy don't make good bedfellows. In that light, if digital bank accounts were opened by the Bank of Ghana, for all families in Ghana that request it, into which as part of a fresh-start generational-empowerment-initiative, levelling-up seed money (of 1 million Central Bank Digital Currency   cedis), is credited, for family homes to be built on compounds that are fruit forest gardens, in planned new green climate resilient communities with Ecoroad-networks, which are lined with fruit trees, would the GHc100 rent paid monthly, as installment payments towards paying off the entire cost of their family homes, within a 100-year time-frame, not be predictable-assured-revenues that governments-of-the-day could rely on, and utilise transparently,  for nation-building purposes, I ask? 

 

Finally, in light of all the above, if we genuinely remain committed to democracy, and private-sector sector led growth, then we must all understand clearly that  Rome was not built in a day  -  ditto that neither will a prosperous and inclusive society, ever evolve, overnight, literally, in our homeland  Ghana,  oooo, Ghanafuo.  Yoooooooo...

A quick note to Etelle Higonnete - on why ultimately, it is us humans, who are at risk, existentially, not the planet Earth

Etelle, pity we still haven't managed to talk yet. Bad weather conditions, in the part of the Central Region of Ghana where I currently live (Gomoa Buduburam), have disrupted Ghana's complacent telcos' broadband Internet services here, alas.

Be that as it may, we aren't sleeping: The battle is joined, and, we have the advantage of lion-heartedness on our side - against those who profit mightily from selling the toxic agrochemicals killing us slowly  here, to the large-scale commercial mono-croppers, whose chosen agribusiness model, has wrought such egregious-destruction, environmentally, across the entire landmass of the sovereign territory of the Republic of Ghana.

As a wise and aspirational African people, we must definitely end mono-cropping, and convert  to organic farming underpinned by agroforestry principles, as soon as practicable.

As it happens, my dear friend and kindred-spirit, Issa Ouedraogo has the perfect agrisector social impact business model,  bedrocked on agroforestry principles, which can be replicated nationwide, to convert all farming in Ghana  to climate-resilient climate-smart organic farming. 

 

Issa's agrisector  social impact business model,  provides a perfect local green-solution,  for a perennial  local food security assurance  challenge, at a time when rural Ghana is being impacted so negatively,  by global climate change.

That is why for common-good  public health reasons, concerned environmental activists  in my native Ghana, are determined to end the baleful influence, on our ruling-elites, of the powerful  big foreign corporations, which have shown so clearly that they love filthy lucre, more than committing to being guided by ethical ESG  common-good-sharing  values.

Fair profits earned through protecting and enhancing all life in our shared-home, our biosphere,  is the only way forward, for a heavily polluted  planet threatened by the unfathomable greed that drives the Moringa's of this world.

Ultimately, environmental activists worldwide will prevail, because it will become clearer and clearer to the world's climate-denying doubting-Thomases (amongst whose ranks, one counts  your own nation, the U.S.A.'s blind and narow-minded fascist Trumpian-MAGA-folk), that humankind will end up becoming extinct, if we don't stop being beholden to the world's 1-percenters.

We must stop acquiesing to their ruthless and relentless drive for endless-profits, at the expense of the welfare and well-being of humanity and Mother Nature.

It is this that informs our own fight here im Ghana, to get Moringa's undeserved role, as stewards of earmarked agroforestry funds for Africa, taken away from the washed-out racist French greenwashing-carpetbaggers, who run it in Ghana. But I digress.

The bald-truth, is that the destruction  wrought by the world's 1-percenters is widespread. They must not be allowed to continue getting away with it -  in their ruthless and relentless  pursuit of profits.

What all humans need to understand, clearly, is that  Mother Nature is incredibly resilient. Ditto that barring it being smashed to smithereens by an object from outer space, there can be no doubt that even if it ends up becoming uninhabitable, today, for humans,  in a few million years, hence, the planet Earth will have recovered from the harm wrought by humankind - and will be thriving, once again, sans unthinking and selfish humanity.

So, my dear lion-hearted Amazon-Queen friend, Etelle, ultimately, it is us humans, who are risk, existentially, not the planet Earth. Simple, really. Cool.

Is inflation in Ghana underpinned by unacceptable-egregious-profiteering?

I have always had a feeling that the rapid rise in the prices of goods, in Gomoa Buduburam's Camp Liberia refugee settlement area, boiled down, essentially, to unacceptable egregious price-gouging, by the many micro-businesses that flourish there.


Run by hustler-types, those micro-enterprises retail products, with the following regulatory-failings: invariably slightly-damaged; often have no sell-by dates; or are in-the-the-face counterfeited.


According to bush-bush-telegraph-sources, the majority of sellers in the market itself, or those selling along that fascinating melting-pot community's dusty road-network, are mostly trafficked nationals from across West Africa. The rest belong to a small multi-ethnic demographic of Ghanaians, attracted there by dirt-cheap rental-rates.


What all sellers in the Camp Liberia refugee settlement area, have in common, is that they are beholden to the super-ruthless criminal-syndicates: which are allegedly dominated by Nigerian Mafiosi  -  who have an iron-grip, on what is said to be the global-hub, for the sale of 'genuine' IDs, which enable worldwide travel, for mostly trafficked Nigerians, as 'refugees'.


On the day I ventured into that metaphorical web-of-deceit, to take its pulse, the sellers' excitement was palpable: I was gleefully informed by every retailer whom I interacted with, that prices were going to be increased yet again, "tomorrow": the day an imminent fuel price increase, would be taking effect.


Their cock-a-hoop egregious-example, of seller-profiteering, is clearcut impirical-evidence of unacceptable inflation-causing price-gouging, nationwide, which underpins Ghana's devastating cost-of-living crisis. Hmmm, ey3nsem piiiii, oooo, Ghanafuo.

COCOBOD and global chocolate industry giants: Collaborate to scure a climate-resilient climate-smart organic agroforestry future, for Ghana's cocoa sector

The ongoing  trial of the former head of the COCOBOD, Dr. Opuni, has  revealed the extent of the  baleful influence of the agrochemical industry, on our ruling-elites.

Yet, because of its importance as an economic pillar,  it is imperative that the COCOBOD and giants of the  global chocolate industry, collaborate to  make organic farming in Ghana - using certified agroforestry principles - as their focus, for ensuring a  climate-resilient  climate-smart organic future, for Ghana's cocoa sector.

As regards the health of our people, all food production in Ghana needs to be converted to organic farming, in which  agroforestry principles empower smallholder farmers nationally, asap. Truth be told,  we are literally paying money to buy foodstuff (including fruits and vegetables) with unacceptable levels of chemical residue, in reality.

The cocoa sector is a classic  example: We need to aim to become the biggest growers of organic cocoa  in the world - and Apostle Kojo Sarfo Kantanka's innovative organic growth-medium and organic pesticides could be used to do so, with giant factories producing those inputs.  

What's going on in the cocoa sector, shows the dearth of transformative-leadership, which is attuned to the fast expanding global export markets' demand for organic agricultural produce.

Luckily, a replicable  organic farming business model, already exists in the Western Region,  executed in world-class fashion, by the brilliant founder of B-BOVID, Issa Ouedraogo - who has chalked   on-the-ground successes using a social impact  agroforestry business model that bedrock's  the welfare and well-being of  host communities from which his company, B-BOVID Farms Limited's  smallholder oil palm farmer-stakeholders, hail and farm  in,  as the company's strategic-underpinning, and main focus.

The cocoa industry could replicate his social impact business  model to secure the future of Ghana's cocoa industry, at a time when climate change is impacting rural Ghana so negatively.

He can share his experience in producing certified organic oil palm fruit, with governments-of-the-day  -  who should  collaborate with successful agrisector agripreneurs like him, perhaps  via his NGO, T.R.A.C.T.O.R. His  commitment  to farming organically,  through agroforestry climate-smart-farming,  is an inspiration.

There is no time to waste,  as the cocoa industry is being decimated by the powerful big-thieves-in-high-places, who are destroying our protected forest reserves to mine their  gold deposits.

Yet, Ghana's priceless natural capital is a zillion times more valuable than all the gold, which is mined in them - because of the existentially-irreplaceable ecosystem services they provide: particularly as global climate  change will inexorably lead to water scarcity, as sure as day follows night,  if we don't make the protection of the remainder of our natural heritage, a top national security concern.

Organic farming in Ghana, using certified agroforestry principles,   must go hand in hand with the  preservation of the remainder of Ghana's natural capital, and bedrock all our greening Ghana initiatives.

In light of all the above, the COCOBOD and the giants of the  global chocolate industry, must make organic farming in Ghana, using certified agroforestry principles,  their focus, for ensuring a  climate-resilient  climate-smart organic future, for Ghana's cocoa sector.

Ghana is not a banana republic - and will not be allowed to end up as one

As a wise and aspirational African African people, we must unite to find creative-solutions, to all the (temporary) nation-building challenges now confronting us.

To be able to successfuly overcome our hydra-headed nation-building challenges, we ought to understand, clearly, that we must continue to remain a free people, living in a democracy, in which the best ideas always come to the fore, in open debate, to move our country forward, and power our prosperity.

 It is in that light that we must ensure that our ruling-elites get it, that  whatever yields common-good benefits, to Ghanaian society, at any given point in time), not party advantage, bedrocks our entire system, and guides policy making - in a Ghana in which the rule of law prevails.

That is why we cannot, and must not, allow those who are contemptous of the rule of law, to continue acting with impunity - as if this marvellous and resource rich, blessed nation of ours, is a banana republic, which exists solely for the benefit of a wealthy and power-mad few: determined to send their personal net worth to stratospheric heights, at the expense of ordinary people.

Elite-greed must end. It must be halted now, because it  will lead to  disastrous-ruination for all of us, as sure as day follows night, if we don't end it  - and must therefore be resisted at all costs. Nkrumah's Ghana is not a banana republic - and will not be allowed to end up as one. Full stop. Case closed. Yoooooooo...

Will Moringa's greenwashing-chicanery be eventually exposed by overseas regulatory bodies' investigations?

It is inevitable that Moringa's exploitation of Ghana's criminal justice system, to enable it hijack B-BOVID, from its brilliant founder, Issa Ouedraogo, will eventually lead to it being investigated by the relevant regulatory bodies in the US, Canada, Europe, Asia and elsewhere.

Those overseas  investigations, will result in personal prosecutions of the washed-out racist French greenwashing-carpetbaggers and incompetents, running Moringa's tainted operations in Ghana - such as those recommended for the Ericsson executives: who are being held personally responsible for the scandalous, reputational-damaging Ericsson corrupt management culture's egregious-actions and ruinious-inactions in Iraq, as sure as day follows night.

Alas, their corrupt  and unethical Ghanaian professional-enablers, including their Danduruwaka-lawyers, won't be able to influence-peddle, in any of those jurisdictions, for those shameless French crooks. Never.

 

Not when  gathered-incontrovertible-evidence in our possession,  includes classic  Machiavelian-tactics, such as  Moringa writing to funders in Europe, praising Issa Ouedraogo to high heavens,  while at the selfsame time slandering him in Ghana, as an incompetent stumbling-block who had to be removed, for, amongst other 'sins', refusing to allow Turpin to become CEO, with a draining and unsustainable combined  monthly compensation of over some €20,000, or thereabouts, for what is a unique agrisector social-impact business, focused on empowering its oil palm smallholder farmer-stakeholders to bootstrap their way to financial independenc,  and enjoy higher living standards. Incredible.  Outrageous. Unconscionable. Abominable. Unspeakable. Unpardonable.


Finally, dear critical-reader, if, as some allege, Moringa is in reality, a vehicle for using its stewardship of earmarked COP-26   Agroforestry initiative funds, for the African continent,  to cloak   mammoth-sized money-laundering, that too, will be exposed by those overseas investigations.  No question. Full stop. Case closed.

Fight on, Issa Ouedraogo - for in the fullness of time, you, it is, who will emerge victorious in your battle against Moringa

Yewura Issa, we set out to create awareness of your plight, by emphasising, in article after article, that Moringa owed you a duty-of-care from the moment you agreed to meet with them, when they first  approached you,   via an email. Simple. No libilaba. Full stop.

Without a shadow of doubt,  it was your unique, and very successful, agrisector   social-impact business, and its value-chain's thriving smallholder oil palm farmer-stakeholders, which drew sodden Moringa to you, as a potential perfectly-aligned-fit, for their foray into Africa, as stewards of all the AfDB's Agroforestry funds earmarked for Africa.

Furthermore, we have outlined, have we not, with clarity, why their subsequent egregious-ruinous-actions, and weaponised-falsehoods, prove  beyond any shadow of doubt, that from the word go, they were cynically law-breaking  greenwashing-carpetbaggers, sans moral compasses,  out to grab opportunities across Africa, using your life's work and passion, B-BOVID (which you established as a common-good vehicle, to enable you, an orphan-made-good, to give back to society, for your good fortune in life), to cloak the evil ends they sought - including possible money-laundering, of mammoth-sized proportions?

 We shall prevail in the fullness of time.  Make no mistake about that, koraaa,  ooooo.

Surely, -we did not deliver all that vital global-awareness-creation, only  for turncoat-lawyers to betray you? Let's get the fearless and determined young Francis-Xavier Kojo Sosu on board, asap.

Rest assured, kindred-spirit, that Sosu will fight a determined fight, to enable you to get your social impact agribusiness company, B-BOVID,  back, come hell or high water - and, just like me,  will never betray you: because both our  consciences are not (and have never,  been), for sale. Full stop.

On my part, the fact of the matter, is that  I decided to support you, mainly because you have done such  a yeoman's job, creating, singlehandedly, a stellar climate-resilient smart-organic -farming model,  which if implemented nationwide, across our homeland Ghana, by governments-of-the-day, will ensure food security, and,  transform rural Ghana, into a prosperous green  economic-pillar adding to sustainable growth.

So do fight on, Yewura Issa - for in the fullness of time, you, it is, who will emerge victorious in your battle against Moringa.

To the Ace Ankomahs and their cohorts: We fear no foe, and, we fight to win. Always. No bloody fears, koraaaa

Lawyer Francis-Xavier Kojo Sosu: Jack where are you, koraaaaa? Hmmm, ey3nsem piiiiii, oooo, Ghanafuo. Hon. Francis-Xavier Kojo Sosu, have 'they' parleyed you, into not taking this crucial case, up, anaaaaa? Hmmm, eyeasem, ooooo...

Massa, we will prevail, regardless, wai  -  no matter the lengths to which the sodden Legal-Danduruwaka Ace  Ankomahs, and their big-thieves-in-high-places  cohorts,  go. Sarjewah.

We will roundly defeat them, where it really matters most: the U.S., the EU and the UK.

Massa, the gathered-incontrovertible-evidence, in our possession, will trigger thorough investigations, by the relevant financial services sector regulatory bodies, in all those jurisdictions  -   once sighted by them, wai. We fear no foe, and, we fight to win. Always. No bloody fears, koraaaa. Cool.

The rich and powerful of today's Anansekrom, had better start humbling themselves

At some point, in the not too distant future, dear critical-reader, we will begin to witness the beginning of Robin-Hood-terrorism, in the Metaverse domain of Anansekrom. Hmmm, ey3nsem piiiiii, oooo, Ghanafuo.

 

Alas, once a selected-target, for remote-conrolled kamikaze-drone strikes, against which not even the murderous kleptocratic-dictatorship of Putin's big-thieves-in-high-places, can protect themselves from, Anansekrom's big-thieves-in-high-places,will all succumb to the coming Robin-Hood-terrorism, designed to precede, and effect,  abrupt regime-change, oooo. Yooooooo...

Coming nearer to home, to Oman Ghana, the question to ponder over is: When will the investigation and  prosecution of all those responsible for penning that abominable and treasonable document, put out by the so-called Danquah Institute, outlining the undermining-frameworks to bedrock their planned 30-year assured-domination of our system, long after entering the political wilderness, after 7th January, 2025?

The horrendous Akan tribal supremacist-rubbish, and pie-in-the-sky ambitions, contained in the said document, are far worse than anything we have seen, thus far, in high-treason prosecutions, since December 1993, oooo, Ghanafuo. Our ruling-elites must start humbling themselves. Now.  Not tomorrow. Enough, really is enough, oooo. Yoooooo.  Hmmm, Oman Ghana - enti y3wieye paaaa enei? Asem, kesie bi ebeba debi ankasa, ooooo. Yoooooooo...

Dr. Ted Trainer: What disaster will befall Ghana if it uses its Central Bank digital currency for levelling-up generational-empowerment-initiatives?

Dear Ted,


I shall go straight to the point: What disaster would befall Mother Ghana, if its Central  Bank Digital Currency was deploy9ed for levelling-up generational-empowerment-initiatives, to bedrock its transformation into a prosperous and equitable  African society?


The idea, for those of us who believe that our nation's ruling-elites,  ought to step out of the shadow of conventional economic thinking   -   is to open digital bank accounts, at the Bank of  Ghana  (BoG), for all families that ask for it:  who will then be credited with GHD1 million,  to start businesses, and construct family homes, in new planned green communities, sited in individual compounds, with fruit forest gardens.


There will also be  community ecoroad-networks (constructed with locally available materials and offered-free-community-labour, by EcoTerra International), with both road sides lined  with fruit trees and medicinal trees. Cool.


Those who elect for what is, in effect, will be levelling-up helicopter-money, with 15-year repayment moratorium-timeframes  -  and subsequent  monthly rent payments (of GHD100), thereafter, counting as installment payments towards paying off the entire  cost of their family homes, within two generations. 

 

Would that not provide governments-of-the-day with stable-assured-revenues, which can make a difference to our nation-building efforts, as a wise and aspirational African people, I ask, Ted?


But then I am only an uneducated old fool, lucky to be blessed with a curious mind, and a facility for playing with words in humorous fashion   -   so do tell moi (and the rest of the world!), exactly what disaster would befall Mother Ghana, if all the above came to pass. 

A quick note to Ghana's foremost green entrepreneur Kofi Boakye-Yiadom - on why regime change is now a desirable-outcome

Favourite nephew, one now finally gets it: The question a wise and aspirational African people ought to ponder over is: What if, in reality, what is said to be a stable and peaceful liberal African democracy, is the manifestation of the pivotal-desired-outcomes, outlined in that damning Danquah Institute document outlining desired 30-year-timespan-outcomes, to protect today's big-thieves-in-high-places from paying for their many egregious crimes against Ghanaians?

You are absolutely right, favourite nephew: How, indeed, can one continue to support protecting the 4th Republic, if such an abominable document can be produced, and circulated, to reassure those responsible for (and who have benefited mightily from the egregious on-the-ground dreadful-consequences, of the rule-by-clever-idiots we are now experiencing)?

Yes, it is foolish, in the extreme, for one to continue supporting a regime so clearly dominated by too-clever-by-half greed-filled sods, who are amoral covert-oligarchs, who think they are superior beings, who are all above the law, and thus can justifiably manipulate our institutions of state, by placing their bed-fellows at helm-positions in those key state institutions, particularly the Judiciary and Electoral Commission, the Forestry Commission, Public Services Commission, etc., etc. That is clearly an oligarchy masquerading as a democracy to achieve its own Machiavelian-ends.

Yes, favourite nephew, it follows, a priori,  then, that those of us who believe that only a society bedrocked on genuine commitment to the rule of law, not rule by tribal-supremacist, arrogant and bigoted-individuals (who think only of nation-wrecking schemes designed to send their personal net worth to stratospheric heights, at the expense of Mother Ghana, and our nation's hapless, hard-done-by masses), should no longer resist, and campaign against, a strictly-controlled, 4th June, 1979-type holding-to-account regime-change, if that is what, at day's end, will prevent the ticking social time bomb we are sitting on from suddenly exploding.

So, yes, such a putsch is in order, and can be morally justified, on common-good grounds - to save our dear nation from certain-implosion and permanent-ruination.

It is in light of all the above, that one thus now concedes, that to continue to support, at any point time in our history, a sitting head, of any government-of-the-day, whose powers have clearly been effectively usurped by the most greedy self-seeking big-thieves-in-high-places, in his or her inner-circle, on high-principle-grounds (because that will ensure peace and stability of Ghanaian society), is naive and dangerous nonsense on bamboo stilts, and untenable.  Massa, I concede: Enough, really, is enough - change must come to save Mother Ghana from permanent-ruination. Today. Not tomorrow. Full stop. Case closed.

A quick note to Valarie Wood-Gaiger OBE - on the perils of brand-imaging in an era of cultural-wars

Ohemaa Paaapabi Valarie,  

To ensure the continued sanctity, of the stellar Valarie Wood-Gaiger brand, please caption that lovely photograph of you resting  in a hammock, along these lines: Taking a well-earned rest while hiking - if that is what you were actually doing. Vital,  in an era of cultural-wars, to protect your brand, wai. Wish you well, as always.  

Incidentally, may I also humbly suggest that you have a conversation with the founder of the Ghanaian environmental activist group,  Eco-Conscious Citizens Group,the shrewd and brilliant lawyer, Awula Serwah Asante, who once worked at the Commonwealth Secretariat,  on Kensington High Street (just round the corner from Pembroke Gardens,  and Edward's Square, home for me, for years,  while in the UK, before finally moving to Perryn Road, Acton, to be with my only son's loving and broadminded Scottish/German Mama.  But I digress).

Perhaps if asked by your charming self, my dear,  she could take up running Grandma Ghana, if you ask her to. Haven't spoken about it, to her, yet, but I am pretty  sure she will - as  the two platforms have synergy.

It might interest you to know that her activist and passionate tree hugging Msma, is a 95-year old Grandma, and that Awula Serwah is the daughter of a giant of civil service history in Ghana, K. B. Asante,  who served the nation in many capacities, and was a brilliant and prolific writer.  She is a chip off the old block, paaaapa. Cool.

Finally, do please ask the Ghanaian NGO, Child Rights International, to look through their emails, and tell you, and the rest of the world, what exactly, they did, about the two children-at-risk, cases, which I brought to their notice, and both of which I also published articles about?  Hmmm, Ghana - ey3nsem piiiiii, oooo...

Why regulatory bodies in Ghana, the UK and the US, must investigate Moringa asap

 Dear critical-reader,

Nothing, but nothing, must either be ruled out, or in, when it comes to Moringa's shabby attempt to stealth-hijack B-BOVID,  from its brilliant and farsighted founder,  Issa Ouedraogo.  Full stop.

The question to ponder over  is: As conscientious   and law-abiding citizens, does it not follow, a priori,   therefore, that one  has a moral obligation to point out to all the relevant financial services sector regulatory bodies, in Ghana, the UK and the US, that they need to discount the possibility of the existence of an audacious plan, for Moringa to engage in mammoth-sized  money laundering (amounting to billions), using agroforestry initiatives to cloak that abomination?

Surely, the available gathered-incontrovertible-evidence (including  Moringa's serial-falsehoods communicated to Ghanaian officialdom), make sense, in that sense, in a manner of speaking, from that viewpoint? 

 

Naturally,  being a fair-minded people,  we hope against hope, that thorough investigations are carried out quickly to end this tragic example of greenwashing-carpetbaggers from overseas, victimising a local partner, with a ruthless strategy of deployed-shareholder-oppresion-maneuvering. The time has now come for all the  regulatory bodies in Ghana, the UK and the US, to  investigate Moringa asap.

Are we becoming a banana republic reeling from rule-by-clever-idiots?

Feeling incredibly weak recently, dear critical-reader,  I decided to go for my annual medical check-up, to find out what possibly could be the root-cause, of that worrying new development, physiological constitution-wise.

I was horrified to discover that I had actually contracted a very, very bad-case of typhoid  - a truly horrific infection: which I wouldn't wish on even my worst enemies. Hmmm, life...

I was incredibly lucky that  the diligent young physician assistant, who treated me, did so with such empathy and patience  -  despite the pressures it was so obvious, to one, that virtually all the staff there face, daily, having to find ingenious ways to serve  so many marginalised financially-challenged individuals, well, as is humanly possible. Kudos to all of them. I salute all of them  -  particularly Physician Assistant, Joseph Ofori, who impressed me so much, and to whom I shall be eternally grateful, for saving the ebbing life of a cantankerous old man, in the twilight-years of his alloted time-span, on this plane.

As someone, who was lucky enough, in better days, to have the private-sector's Finney Hospital, as my go-to healthcare facility,  I was glad that the Catholic Health Department's St. Gregory's Catholic Hospital, at  Gomoa Buduburam's Camp Liberia refugee settlement area, was sufficiently well-resourced, enough, to serve one.

Like many other retired folk, one has had to downsize most aspects of one's daily existence  -  because of the hydra-headed,  inflation-induced acute-cost-of-living crisis, now being  faced by virtually all in our country,  rich and poor alike. My rent, for example,   has gone up from a little under GHc500, to a wealth-wrecking GHc1000 - now the going-rate for houses with that size of floor-space. Hmmm, ey3nsem piiiiii, oooo,  Ghanafuo.

To ensure that the typhoid epidemic raging across Gomoa Buduburam, and its environs ends quickly, when fully recovered,  one will now start focusing on launching a social media campaign, to stop the shameless Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL), from continuing to pump incredibly dirty water,  through its distribution pipeline network (especially in our State Housing Company estate, at Gomoa Buduburam), and has the gall to charge for that health damaging dangerous water, too. Abominable.  Unpardonable. Unspeakable.  

In light of all the above,  the  question that the wise and aspirational Africans living in our homeland Ghana have to ponder over is: Now that we are experiencing rule by clever-idiots, are we  heading towards becoming a banana republic, anaaa?

Most of the members of Ghana's public-sector's professional classes, now  appear to be focusing   their creativity, mainly on generating  nokofio-brown-envelope-cash opportunities  -  not on the work they were employed, in the first place, to do for the common-good of the masses in Nkrumah's Ghana. Pity.

Ghanafuo, clearly, we are heading towards  becoming a banana republic, and reeling from the egregious-consequences, of experiencing rule-by-clever-idiots. Hmmm, Oman Ghana - enti y3wieye paaaa enei? Asem kesie, bi, ebeba debi ankasa, oooo.  Yooooooo...

A quick note to the Modernghana.com editorial team - on the matter of permanent unfettered-access to my column's editing page

Gentleman,

Unfortunately for me, not only am I nearly totally-sight-impaired, but I also happen to be a  passionate writer entering his seventh decade, in this plane, who, alas, suffers from the digital-tragedy of not being tech-savvy - because that side of my brain is retarded. Hmmm, ey3nsem piiiiii, oooo...

In light of both those two delibitating-impairments, may I humbly suggest a fair-compromise, which will enable me to continue publishing my work on your well-respected platform  -  failing which, I will, sadly, be forced to end our mutually-rewarding-relationship, permanently?

I hate the predilection, and, tendency, for so many in our country to settle for  third-rate-fare in many aspects of our national life, and in our daily  societal-interactions - leading to dramatically-lowered-standards, which hitherto had  been high and world-class.

Unfortunately, what is supposed to be the metaphorical fourth arm of government,in our troubled democracy, which is now in a deep-crisis, as a result of rule-by-clever-idiots, even the media, has not been spared from the miasma-of-incompetence that has enveloped Ghana, and stretches right across the entirerity of the  media landscape of our dear nation.

Gentlemen, I, Kofi Thompson, refuse to be infected by that miasma-of-incompetence: and thus demand to be given permanent access to my column's editing page, by Modernghana.com - and in a manner that makes it possible for even an old uneducated-fool like me, to review and edit  all my work.

In return, I give you my word of honour that nothing written by me, will ever be  directly published by me. I will always send written work to you directly,  to publish.  Surely, one isn't asking for too much? Haaba.

A quick note to Cox Tamakloe - thanking him for remembering Komla Dumour

Greetings, Cox. It has been quite a while since we last touched base. I do hope that all is well with you, and that you are thriving and content, in this beautiful and welcoming nation, with a wise and aspirational African people - now sadly experiencing idiot-rule by greed-filled big-thieves-in-high-places. Hmmm, ey3nsem piiiiii, oooo. But I digress.  

Thank you so much for sharing that salad-days photograph of our dear friend and brother,  Komla. Not easy, koraaa. oooo. Hmmm, life...

When Komla passed away so suddenly,  I was really livid, during the period in which some soul-searching went on, and a stream of questions, to do  with  the  demanded-work-rate expected from him, by his employers, became a topic on current affairs programmes amongst  Africa's more responsible media entities.

What saddens me the most, is that our  mostly clueless-and-useless media in Ghana, allowed the BBC to get away with this classic case of the consequences of the impacts of systemic-prejudice, which made poor Komla to work a punishing-schedule, which an Eaton and Oxbridge educated white colleague, would never have been subjected to.

With the greatest respect, and in all humility, Komla's kith and kin, really ought to have found a British QC, to fight for a six-figure  compensation package for his wife and kids -the  minimum bottomline-parameter-metric, in my humble view.  Hmmm, ey3nsem piiiiii, oooo, Ghanafuo. Thanks once again for sharing Komla's salad-days-image, on social media platforms, wai - and may he continue resting in the bosom of the Lord God Almighty.

PS. Our man in Guinea Bissau, says they have container loads of top-grade cashew available for sale. Can do? Cool.

A quick note to Ghana's foremost green entrepreneur, Kofi Boakye-Yiadom, currently in faraway Holland - on why idiot-rule is a curse

Favourite nephew,  ahhhh,  so you of all people, expect 'foreign investors' (please read new-colonisers), such as Kinross,  whose Chirano  mine, that explosives-laden truck was delivering explosives to when it collided with an Aboboyaa at Apiate, destroying over 500 houses there, with tragic fatalities and injuries), to face  prosecution in our byzantine system's criminal justice institutions, for criminal negligence that would have definitely followed had it occurred in its corporate HQ-domicile, Canada? This isn't Holland,  oooo, Massa. Dig?

Our ruling-elites favour foreign crooks running unethical businesses here,  which provide them with regular off-ledger cash payments, wai. That is why the victims of Kinross in Apiate have been sacrificed on the Alter-of-elite-greed. Simple.

 My dear friend and kindred-spirit,  the brilliant founder of B-BOVID, Issa Ouedraogo, faces a similar new-colonizer-victimisation, challenge, even as we speak, with powerful, well-connected and influential local professional-enablers  (read Ace Ankomah and his ilk), assisting Banque Edmond de Rothschild Group-backed, and African Development Bank Group-funded, Moringa, to hijack B-BOVID from Issa. Idiot-rule is a curse, paaaa, oooo, wai,  Massa.

A quick note to the astute and affable founder of Grandma International, Valarie Wood-Gaiger OBE

Ohemaa Paaapabi Valarie, happy that you and your family now have yet another kindred-spirit joining you. That they are a truly happy spiritually-bonded-pair, is obvious and palpable - as is the welcoming and embracing aura that radiates from your whole family. Congratulations all round, wai. Mu y3 bue, ankasa!

Incidentally, it strikes me that Wales and Scotland, could keep their current Monarch as their ceremonial head of state,  when they regain their independence, and then rejoin the European Union,  as fast-tracked 'new' members.

Just think of the jobs galore that would follow in the wake of such a development - as a host of UK companies, stymied by lost markets, after Brexit, move their legal-domicile to Scotland and Wales, to be in positions of regained-possibilities for sustained-growth-and-expansion, again. Mouth watering, ankasa, oooo. Cool.

In that light, would it  not be a happy-ending,  and hopeful-new-begining, for both  those generous-hearted  Celtic nations, and, an unexpected saving-grace-solution, for England, and Northern Ireland, anaaa, I ask, Ohemaa Paaapabi Valarie Wood-Gaiger OBE? No? Cool.

All those participating in the ongoing brutal gang-rape of Mother Ghana must beware

Ghanaians are a wise and aspirational African people. We also believe in the longterm benefits of peaceful coexistence amongst neighbours, in all our communities across our beautiful and welcoming African nation. Those who take us for fools, just  because we are long-suffering, lack wisdom, for we are not fools, at all, koraaa, oooo. Yooooooo...

In that light, we will, in the fullness of time, exact retribution  from all those who have enabled our priceless natural capital to be destroyed, by powerful and influential individuals, in the current government. Full stop. Case closed. Yooooooo...

Every public sector employee, who, in exchange for cash-filled fat brown envelopes, broke laid down regulatory procedures, and  colluded with greed-filled clever-criminals,  who went into politics,  only in order to protect themselves, from being forced to pay for their many crimes agsinst Mother Ghana, such as Bernard Antwi-Boasiako, will not  be spared. Let there be absolutely no doubt, at all,  about that,  koraaa, ooooo,  Ghanafuo. Those participating in the ongoing  brutal gang-rape of a defenceless Mother Ghana, must beware, oooo.  Yoooooooo...

President Akufo-Addo must sit up and actually take charge of the nation whose elected leader he is

Ghanafuo, a military coup can never be the solution to our hydra-headed nation-building challenges, ooooo. Yooooooo. That is why no truly patriotic citizen of Nkrumah's Ghana, must support any intervention by the military and police, in our homeland Ghana. Ever. Full stop.

With the greatest respect, on his part, President Akufo-Addo, too,  must now wake up, and actually take charge of the nation (a majority of whose voters - including moi - trusted him enough to re-elect him to a second term, in the historic skirt-and-blouse election of December 2020), he was selected to lead in that particular eye-opening presidential election, ooooo. Yoooooooo...

The free-ride he has personally gotten from some of us is over. Haaba: Enti, y3wieye paaaa enei? No. No. No. We, the  common-good one-nation Akyem nationslists, for  whom no tribe in Nkrumah's Ghana, is superior or inferior to another,  are totally fed up to the back teeth, with the  idiot-rule we are now experiencing. There can be no excuse for it. Period.  Idiot-rule cannot,  and must not,  go on any longer. Full stop. Enough, really, is enough, ooooo. Yooooooo...