Issa Ouedraogo can help all our governments-of-the-day to transform rural Ghana into a green economy powerhouse

Dear critical-reader, it is such a tragedy that a brilliant and generous-hearted Ghanaian social impact agripreneur, who founded B-BOVID (acronym for business built on values,  integrity and dignity), Issa Ouedraogo, has had to fight single handedly to stop Moringa, from hijacking B-BOVID for the past three or so years.

Yet, elsewhere,  he would be a highly sought after consultant offering advice to governments-of-the-day - instead of engaging in a lengthy legal battle  to stop B-BOVID from being taken away from him, unjustly. Hmmm, 3y3asem oooo, Ghanafuor.

Issa Ouedraogo, the brilliant orphan-made-good founder of B-BOVID, the climate smart  social impact profit-sharing organic agribusiness, bedrocked on agroforestry and permaculture principles, which  empowers its  value chain's smallholder farmer stakeholders to bootstrap their own way to financial independence, through the creation of new green economy  income streams, has the experience and expertise, to help all governments-of-the-day in our country, to transform rural Ghana into a happy and prosperous part of our Republic, in which wealth is generated (and remains locally!),  and green economy jobs galore created, for our teeming  younger generations, oooo, Ghanafuor. 3yensem piiii, oooo...

It is for that reason that one hopes that the powers that be will step in and help Issa  Ouedraogo to stop the washed up old French rogue, Herve Bourguinon's Moringa, from successfully exploiting our justice delivery system, to legitimise the illegality of conspiring to steal B-BOVID from Issa, in broad daylight, using conflicted lawyers and an unconscionable partnership agreement (that loaded all the risks on Issa, to whom Moringa owed a fiduciary duty-of-care from day one, when they first contacted him by email, incidentally).

There is no question that if Issa Ouedraogo  attempted to do same in France, deploying serial falsehoods in his communications with French officialdom, using the name of the Rothschilds to dazzle French officials, he would be in prison by now for fraud. For sure.

If Issa Ouedraogo won't be allowed to get away with  such egregious C-suit criminality in France, then in the same vein,  the duplicitous Herve Bourguinon, must also not be allowed to do so here too, using special purpose offshore vehicles domiciled in Mauritius and Luxembourg, to enable him dodge taxes in France, and engage in money laundering here, by hoovering up zillions of climate funds earmarked for Africa, through illicit financial flows, to achieve the nation-wrecking dark  ends that brought him to our shores.  Issa Ouedraogo can help all our  governments-of-the-day to transform rural Ghana into a green economy powerhouse. Let us do everything possible to help Issa to stop Moringa from stealing B-BOVID from him. Full stop Case closed!

Should all Ghana's opposition parties kick against any EC ban on deploying drones to monitor polling stations?

Dear critical-reader, should all the opposition parties in Ghana kick against any ban by the Electoral Commission of Ghana (EC), on the deployment of drones to monitor polling station activities, on voting day, during this December's presidential and parliamentary elections?

It is odd in the extreme that the  EC, according to its Director of Electoral Services, Dr. Serebour Quaicoe (who apparently says that polling stations are
"security zones", lol), will ban the deployment of drones in polling stations across Ghana, planned by the largest opposition party, the National Democratic Congress (NDC), dear critical-reader. Amazing.

Perhaps the question that a wise and aspirational African people, who want peaceful, free and fair presidential and parliamentary elections, this  December,  such as Ghanaian voters,  ought to ponder over is:
Won't drones make for polling station transparency, right across the entirerity of the territorial landmass of our beleaguered and bankrupted Republic, anaaa, lol?

In that light, the purported technologically-atavistic  response of Dr. Serebour Quaicoe on plans for the deployment of drones, by the NDC, is ominous in the extreme, oooo, Ghanafuor.

That is why there are independent-minded souls, in the Ghana of today, whose sense of patriotism will force them to interpret Dr. Serebour Quaicoe 's nonsensical response, as indicative of the existence of secret poll rigging plans by the  EC, which the deployment of drones monitoring polling station activities during the pivotal December presidential and parliamentary elections, will somehow thwart, wai, Ghanafuor.

For such independent-minded patriotic Ghanaians, banning the deployment of drones in polling stations nationwide, would  really be intolerable - and in their view, must not be acquiesced to, by any of the opposition parties,  under any circumstances, oooo, Ghanafour. As far as they are concerned, all the opposition parties must kick against any such ban, by the EC. Full stop. Case closed.  Yooooooo. A word to the wise...

Should we not criminalise male patronage of female sex workers - to ensure proper Ghanaian family values?

Dear critical-reader, should we not  criminalise male patronage of female sex workers - to ensure proper Ghanaian family values? In that light, perhaps the question that a wise and aspirational African people like Ghanaians ought to ponder over is: Why does Hon. Sam George Nartey, not vociferously advocate for the  criminalisation of the act of males in Ghana  paying for sex with female sex workers? Odd, that.

What could be more debasing of proper Ghanaian family values, than men paying for sex with vulnerable female sex workers, I ask?

Will criminalising it, to halt it,  not contribute to ensuring proper Ghanaian human sexual relationships and proper Ghanaian  family values,  anaaa, Ghanafuor - and finally free vulnerable women  enslaved by criminal syndicates (made up mostly of  brutish and ruthless violence-prone pimps),  across the entirerity of the sovereign landmass of our Republic, from the metaphorical-plague that prostitution (which is the apparently the world's oldest profession), represents? Haaba.

Above all, why does Hon. Sam George Nartey not pitch that idea, too, to his super wealthy far-right  Global North funders, and obtain generous funding for it too - since he cares so much about proper Ghanaian human sexual relationships and proper Ghanaian family values, I ask, dear critical-reader? Sarjewah. Let us criminalise male patronage of female sex workers - to ensure proper Ghanaian family values. Full stop.  Case closed.  A word to the wise.  Yoooooooo...

On Elon Musk's Makenzie Scot quip

With the greatest respect, Musk & Co need to stop being obtuse, lol: Western civilisation, in the AI-bedrocked era, will not die because of the generosity of wealthy individuals like Makenzie Scot - whose compassion, on the contrary, enable America to benefit from the gifts and talents of all its demographics: a prerequisite for the continuation of American greatness and exceptionalism in the 4th, 5th, and 6th industrial revolutions.

That's commonsensical  -  virtuous-leveraged-grounding that is sadly fast becoming extinct in a world dominated by ruthless short-sighted masters of the Universe types, blind to the bald fact that the interdependency of all the members of the one human race, is pivotal to the survival of homo sapiens, in the era of extreme weather events, which invariably impact all humans, rich and poor alike, lol.

Broad-mindedness  matters - and Musk (my favourite 'fascist' and 'racist', lol), more than most, above all, needs to have a  latitudinarian attitude in all this, and  ignore the hardnosed billionaires who dream of a new age of American imperialism: preferably outsourced to U. S. private sector military contrators. Yet, a peaceful world, we all know, is a sine qua non for the prosperity of all nations in our beleaguered biosphere, lol. Talk about being obtuse!

A quick note to Pastor Philip - on why Facebook's content moderation tyranny sucks

Dear critical-reader, today, I am sharing my response to a revealatory tagged Facebook post sent to my Facebook page earlier today, about the dreadful hidden-pornographic-plague on Facebook that Meta has failed miserably to prevent.

To say that that horrific Meta negligence is shameful and outrageous in the extreme, dear critical-reader, is an understatement. Please read on:

"Thank you so much for sharing this post, Pastor. You are absolutely right, I experience it on this page of mine too, but ignore them and make sure I never click on them. It's so disheartening when you don't like stuff like that.

My other Facebook Lite pages, Akyem Juaso Nature Resource Reserve page, and The Big Issue Ghana Facebook page have been hijacked for that purpose by persons unknown. I no longer even look at them for that reason. Such is life, lol.

The question to ponder over is: When will Meta, Facebook's parent company, understand that that should never happen - and also make its review process (for the non-offensive posts that it rather delights in frequently arbitrarily removing for the most inane reasons, instead of focusing on the dreadful hidden-pornographic-plague), much, much more user friendly, and, above all, make it possible for one to speak to a sensible AI-chatbot? Haaba.

Speaking of which, that's why I personally prefer Elon Musk's free speech absolutist approach to content moderation - at least you know that your posts won't be censored and content moderation tyranny won't annoy you on X/Twitter, lol.

Facebook sucks in that sense. I am on it basically to just spread my writing, and help spread the work of deserving vulnerable base-of-the-pyramid-demographics, and deserving individuals who appreciate that gesture.

I really loathe Facebook's tyrannical content moderation ways, no end, lol.

Thanks once again for sharing this post, Pastor Philip. I trust that all is well with you? Peace and blessings to you and to your better half. Message me on WhatsApp whenever convenient. A beautiful Essipong property is up for sale. Cool."

For compassionate reasons I will continue to fight to protect the basic human rights of all in Ghana - including our gay demographics

Dear critical-reader, regardless of what our laws say, l will continue to fight for the basic human rights of all who live in our homeland  Ghana,  including persecuted individuals amongst Ghana's gay demographics.  Full stop.

Luckily, like me, there are many compassionate individuals across our country, who don't personally  approve of, or engage in same sex marriage and same sex relationships, but who nonetheless care about Ghana remaining a free and liberal society, in which the state  doesn't poke its busy-body-nose in personal relationships. Hallelujah.

We all need to make the point boldly, that the vociferous and generously foreign funded anti LGBTQI+ lobbyists in Ghana, should simply let God Almighty, who is pure, blameless and without sin, deal directly with gay people, full stop.

The question wise and aspirational individuals in Ghana ought to ponder over is: Why should anti-LGBTQI+ lobbyists in Ghana,  mere mortals full of sin like all of us, and who, like many of us, might even have many skeletons hidden in their their metaphorical personal  wardrobes, too, lol, pass judgment on others and crucify them,  in the name of God Almighty? Haaba.

How many of those sodden hypocrites are pure and without sin - for them to have the audacity to arrogate to themselves, the right and power, to judge and persecute others? Kwaseasem, araaaa, kwa, lol. Their dangerous  self-righteousness, is laughable as far as someone like me is concerned. Are they not profiting mightily from using God's name in their slick better Ghanaian family values branding to attract super-wealthy far-right foreign  backers, I ask? Shameful. Abominable. Unpardonable.

Being someone who fears no human being, and refuses to allow anyone to bully him, despite Ghana's new anti-LGBTQI+ laws, I intend to continue fighting  to protect the basic  human rights of all the people who approach me for such support, including gay people  -  and dare anyone in this country that describes itself as deeply-religious, but is full of philandering-hypocrites and misogynistic males,  to have me arrested for showing compassion to a stigmatised and vulnerable demographic, most of whom are decent human beings, when one actually gets to know them quite well, after all. Sarjewah.

For all the aforementioned reasons, therefore,  regardless of what our laws say, dear critical-reader, I, Kofi Thompson, will continue to fight for the basic human rights of all who live  in Ghana,  including persecuted individuals amongst Ghana's gay demographics.  Full stop. Case closed. No fears. Anansekrom pure nonsense on bamboo stilts, lol. Tweaaaaaa...

How can Gomoa Buduburam's traditional authorities possibly salvage their ruined image?

Dear critical- reader, in light of the disastrous emergency humanitarian situation, in which thousands have been made homeless by the demolition of structures in what hitherto used to be known as the Gomoa Buduburam Camp Liberia refugee settlement area, how possibly can Gomoa Buduburam's traditional authorities salvage their ruined image, resulting from the demolition of structures to enable them build a long-planned modern community market and stores complex, on their ancestral allodial lands?

To salvage their dented image resulting from this egregious insensitivity, Nana Kwame Bediako, and his Council of Elders, must revise their plans to build the new market complex, by adding a new green climate resilient community to rehouse all the displaced micro-businesses, families and individuals, who have been made homeless, and also create an adventure park to surround the St. Gregory Catholic Hospital, by partnering Ghana's foremost green entrepreneur, Kofi Boakye-Yiadom, the CEO of Legon Botanical Gardens. Simple.

If they start off by asking all those affected by the demolition exercise, to form associations that will compile lists of those affected by the demolition, who will be given homes and shops, as part of the redevelopment of the erstwhile Gomoa Buduburam Camp Liberia refugee settlement area, into a modern planned climate resilient green community, the affected persons will all back the project, for self-preservation and out of good old self-interest. Simple.

That selfsame compiled list, could also be given to the National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO), to enable it provide emergency humanitarian assistance to all the affected families and individuals. Simple.

Surely, that's far, far better than allowing the Gomoa East District Assembly's NADMO's stocks of food, clothing, bedding, etc., etc., to be hoarded and distributed at political campaign rallies, by the ruling party, and for its sodden party foot-soldiers, is it not, Ghanafuor? Haaba.

And, best of all, some of us are willing, and able, to help Nana Kwame Bediako and his Council of Elders, to invite helicopter money organisations to use the erstwhile Gomoa Buduburam Camp Liberia refugee settlement area, to pilot a 2-year monthly stipend of USD 250 dollars per family, with no strings attached.

Will that metaphorical icing on the cake, not enable Gomoa Buduburam's traditional authorities to salvage their ruined image from the current all-time low it has plunged (because of the insensitivity they showed in embarking on their oft-postponed demolition exercise that they are now lucky to be carrying out at long last, to secure the future of Gomoa Buduburam as a prosperous melting pot community), I ask, dear critical-reader? A word to the wise. Yoooooooo...

If Central Regional law enforcement heads fear a landguard because he has powerful backers are we not a failed state?

Dear critical-reader, yesterday,  I witnessed human misery (of the man's inhumanity to fellow humans category, of crimes against humanity), on a scale comparable only to the suffering of innocents caused by wars, which I never thought I'd see in a civilised African country, such as my native Ghana, in parts of what used to be the Gomoa Buduburam refugee settlement area, in our beautiful and bountiful Central Region.

The harrowing scenes I saw, as  a long-boomed excavator went about relentlessly  demolishing structures inhabited by poor people who can't afford to live anywhere else, because they are dirt-poor, will live with me till the day I finally pass away. Tragic. Perfidious. Unacceptable. Unpardonable.

The demolishing is enveloped in a miasma of carcinogenic dust-laden air, which is probably full of a combination of toxic particles, including asbestos. Nothing can justify what has occurred - and no one should do so.  Yes,  there are criminals there. And, yes, they have been given several notices to leave, but have failed to do so.

However,  what matters now, is that a humanitarian disaster has occurred - and the Central Regional National Disaster Management Organisation  (NADMO), ought to step in and assist those whose homes have been demolished, and need their help, on a purely humanitarian basis. Nothing more, nothing less. That is the issue of most concern, in all this unfolding almighty  kerfuffle, dear critical-reader. Full stop.

That said, according to bush telegraph sources,  the individual allegedly behind what (judged by the havoc it has wrought on the lives of those whose homes have been demolished and now live and sleep in the open), is a heinous  crime against humanity inflicted so mercilessly, on a marginalised  and vulnerable demographic, in what is a high-energy melting pot community that includes both foreign nationals and Ghanaians, is allegedly a notorious landguard,  who, according to the ruling  New Patriotic Party (NPP) parliamentarian, who stood in the primaries to select that party's presidential candidate for this year's presidential  election and came second to the winner Vice President Bawumia,  Hon. Kennedy Adjapong, no less,  is apparently feared by even the heads of the Central Region's law enforcement agencies. Amazing.

If that is true, then by inference, is that vile character not a  politically well-connected super-ruthless violent criminal-type (who allegedly masquerades as a landguard), feared concomitantly by both the Gomoa East District Security Council, and the apex Central Regional  Security Council, and thus is an untouchable person who can get away with all manner of crimes, in what is supposed to be a democracy bedrocked on the rule of law, I ask,  dear critical-reader?

If that is case, then whenever he is alleged to have committed crimes, shouldn't the military be ordered to arrest him, investigate him, hold him in their custody until judgement is delivered in the matter - regardless of how long that takes? Haaba. Simple.

And,  in light of all the above,  does it not also follow, a priori, therefore, that Ghana is a failed state akin to a banana Republic,  in which the law of- the jungle rules OK, and is thus a nation in which no one is really safe?

We did not elect  the NPP to power to create such a situation in which criminal-types are untouchable jackbooted-menaces, who can kill in order to  dispossess law abiding folk of their lands,  and, can also get away scot free, with the ongoing Camp Liberia demolition's heinous crime against humanity, ooooo, Ghanafuor. Yooooooooo...

Furthermore, dear critical-reader, as the December presidential and parliamentary elections approach, the question that a wise and aspirational African people  ought to ask themselves is: If Central Regional law enforcement heads fear a landguard because he has powerful backers are we not a failed state, anaaaa?

Finally, dear critical-reader, if our Republic is a failed state, in all but name, then is the ruling party's candidate, Vice President Bawumia, who allegedly protects such a potential future warlord (busy committing crimes against humanity),  not really unfit to lead our beloved homeland Ghana - especially when he is part of that selfsame self-seeking leadership of ours that has bankrupted our benighted country, Nkrumah's Ghana, because they recklessly  piled up a high interest foreign currency based debt mountain, to enrich themselves (and their nepotistic state-capture rent seeking family and friends allies), with arms-length earned commissions and  professional fees, at the expense of hapless taxpayers, to send their individual net worth to stratospheric heights, at society's expense?

Clearly, if even the Central Regional law enforcement heads fear an alleged super-ruthless  landguard, because he has powerful backers in the ruling party, then we are definitely failed African state in all but name: and, for that reason,  must vote the ruling party that got us into this mess in the first place, out of power in December. Simple. Full stop.  Case closed. A word to the wise. Yoooooooo...

High interest foreign loans and corruption bankrupted Ghana - perforce the next administration must avoid both

Dear critical-reader, the transformation of our bankrupted homeland Ghana into a prosperous and equitable society, will be well nigh impossible, if the new administration that takes control of our system after January 2025, does nothing to avoid contracting new high interest foreign loans, and fails to ruthlessly suppress high level corruption by state-capture rent-seeking big-thieves-in-high-places. Full stop. Yoooooooo...

The question a wise and aspirational African people ought therefore to ponder over is: How can the next elected government-of-the-day, fulfill its nation-building pledges, without burdening hapless taxpayers, with yet more contracted high interest foreign loans, for the modernisation and expansion of bedrocking-infrastructure to help boost economic activities nationwide, grow our GDP, create wealth that remains locally and generate jobs galore for our teeming unemployed younger generations?

In light of that, whoever emerges as winner of this year's pivotal presidential election, must act as a wartime leader, and quickly form a government of national unity, which will bring the best minds together, regardless of party affiliation, and implement bleeding-edge policy initiatives, designed to get us out of the unholy mess, which the greedy people around President Akufo-Addo, have gotten our country into.

Above all, dear critical-reader, there is no question that things will deteriorate yet further, after the new administration begins its tenure, before the situation starts to get better for ordinary people, across the entirety of the landmass of
our benighted Republic. We must be prepared to face that and survive it.

As responsible and patriotic citizens, we must all be prepared, therefore, to make the needed societal sacrifices, even as we struggle to survive, during what will doubtless be an incredibly stressful period of unprecedented extreme difficulty.

Finally, dear critical-reader, since we are in the unholy mess that bankruptcy has created for us, mainly because of ruinous and excessively high interest nation-building contracted foreign loans, and egregious high-level corruption, the next administration must avoid both those nation-wrecking sins, if it is to successfully transform our homeland Ghana into a prosperous and equitable society, oooo, Ghanafuor. Yooooooo. A word to the wise...

Why must the Ghana we need to build work well for all its societal demographics?

Dear critical-reader, precisely because we sit on a ticking social time bomb that extreme poverty and lack of opportunity for bottom-of-the-pyramid demographics represent, the new Ghana we need to build, must perforce be underpinned by an inheritantly  fair system, if it is ever to become  a happy nation with a system that works for all its societal demographics, in equitable fashion. Full stop.

That is why it is so crucial that if after the new administration takes over running our country after January 2025, and it becomes patently clear to all Ghanaians, shortly afterwards,   that it is business as usual - in which a new set of self-seeking state capture rent seeking big-thieves-in-high-places, show, by their actions and inactions, that they too have come to line up to metaphorically take turns to brutally gang-rape  Mother Ghana, yet again, then a June 4th, 1979-type revolution must sweep the entire edifice of the corruption-riddled  4th Republic away, by overthrowing the newly-elected government-of-the-day. Simple. Full stop.

First on the list of a raft of needed radical bleeding-edge policy initiatives to transform Ghana into a fair and prosperous society that works for all its societal demographics, in the view of some radical thinkers, is that today's progeny of the precolonial tribal ruling elites, must be forced to pay reparations to ordinary Ghanaians - for their predecessors perfidy in allowing themselves to be conned by the various European powers that successfully occupied  our homeland, and  had the arrogant-impudence to impose their religion, their mores and ways, on us. Hmmm, 3y3nsem piiii, oooo, Ghanafuor.

Towards that end, such radical thinkers suggest that the new revolutionary regime must swiftly implement a new land redistribution policy initiative, which will enable all landless families, and individuals, needing land across the entire landmass of our Republic, to gain ready access to land in planned new private sector delivered green climate resilient communities nationwide, for constructing family homes, embarking on organic farming ventures bedrocked on agroforestry and  permaculture principles, as well as for industrial purposes, with Bank of Ghana (BoG) 100-year generational levelling-up bailout loans.

In furtherance of that generational levelling-up societal goal, which said radicals say will boost sustainable green growth, as sure as day follows night, they demand that all Stool lands in Ghana must be nationalised.

It needs to be pointed out, dear critical-reader, that it is the case that India clipped the wings of its powerful Maharajahs, and, freed of their baleful influence, a meritocratic India  has  eventually gone on to become a global economic and nuclear armed  military power - so perhaps clipping the wings of Ghana's traditional rulers might make a real difference, for us too: as inherited privilege is meritocracy's greatest enemy, lol. 

That said, naturally, to ensure natural justice, said radicals also recommend that affected  traditional authorities should  be compensated with the issuance of 100-year reparation bonds, for which secondary trading ought to be allowed, so that all affected traditional rulers can raise cash for their immediate needs, by discounting theirs. Simple. Straightforward. Fair. Case closed.

Finally,  there is no question, dear critical-reader, that without the implementation of such a generational levelling-up land redistribution policy initiative, we can never build a Ghana that works well for all its societal demographics, in equitable fashion, oooo, Ghanafuor.  Full stop. Yoooooooo.  A word to the wise...

To save our biosphere's remaining biodiversity hotspots should we not monitor them from space?

Dear critical-reader, for humanity to save the remaining biodiversity hotspots across our biosphere (the human race's common home that a powerful and greedy few are destroying for personal financial gain), surely, monitoring them from space would make a huge difference, in the ongoing  fight to  preserve them for our younger generations and their unborn progeny?

Some of us have always believed that saving our biosphere's remaining biodiversity  hotspots, by monitoring them from space, is the most effective way to preserve biodiversity hotspots worldwide.

Speaking from personal experience, for example,  over the years,  I have  watched my own family's Akyem Juaso  freehold14-square mile upland evergreen rainforest property, being gradually degraded by increasingly emboldened,  ruthless and murderous illegal gold miners, working in tandem with  illegal bushcut chainsaw lumber producers.

As the decades have gone by,  greedy and criminally-minded younger generation cousins from my own family (led by my shortsighted, amoral and thoroughly corrupt second cousins, Kwame Thompson and Kofi Bampoe, aided and abetted by our evil-minded overseer, Awuku Red and his family), have  colluded with illegal gold miners, and illegal loggers, to destroy a large area of what is part of a designated Globally Significant Biodiversity Area (GSBA).

Our family's freehold 14-square mile Akyem Abuakwa upland evergreen rainforest property, lies in the Akyem Juaso section of the Atewa Mountain Range - with 99.6 acres of our land inside the Atewa Forest Reserve: which is known in Forestry Commission jargon as an "admitted farm", to which we have legal access but don't venture into, and intend to use as a community carbon sequestration project, eventually.

Alcoa, the American aluminium giant,  actually sponsored Conservation International, to carry out a rapid assessment survey there, in 2006. The results and recommendations are available online at: RAP  Bulletin No. 47. There is a pillar with the letters HSBC etched on the top in our property,  as it happens. Cool.

Finally, dear critical-reader, perhaps to neutralise their respective corporate carbon footprints, Elon Musk's X/Twitter social media  platform, could collaborate with What3Words and Bellingcat, to leverage their gained tech sector expertise/competencies,  to  create a livestreaming section on X/Twitter, where the world could, without paying for same, monitor all our biosphere's remaining biodiversity hotspots, on a 24/7 year-round basis, made possible by XCorp's Starlink satellite broadband Internet service? No? Yes?

Quick notes to the folk who run the UK's The Guardian newspaper and those that control X/Twitter

Dear critical-reader, today one has penned missives to the folk who run the UK's Guardian newspaper; and those that control X/Twitter:
1) Missive to the UK newspaper, The Guardian's, Editorial Team:

With the greatest respect, fellow media professionals, why don't we strike a win-win deal - whereby one continues to introduce new readers to sample your marvellous quality journalism: and, in turn, you cease asking me to donate money to you, in lieu of access via a paywall. You are, after all, getting free influencer-superpower from me, for zilch, are you not, lol?

As it happens, one happens to be in the global cash-poor, asset-rich, demographic, lol - speaking humbly, in matter of fact fashion, only, mind, not to boast.

In any case, the world famous and widely respected BBC, has no paywall either - so one could always transfer one's allegiance and global audiences to them, if need be, lol. Doable? Yes? No?

2) Missive to those that control free-speech-absolutist X/Twitter:

Dear Team X/Twitter,

Alas, one's allergy to paywalls applies to one's presence on X/Twitter, too, lol. Deal doable with you, lol? Yes? No? Ask Grok - nothing is impossible, to the agile-minded: which is what the brilliant Musk is, by leaps and bounds, so to speak, lol. Cool.

By the way, Global Adjumawurafuorhene1, Nana Elon Musk (my knickname for the mercurial and indefatigable Musk, lol!), happens to be one's favourite 'fascist' and 'racist', as his envious detractors describe him. Nothing could be further from the truth, though, lol.

Hopefully, we will eventually be able to convince him to holiday, at a point in time, suitable for him and his family,  in one's native Ghana's Mole National Park, the world's best national park for viewing families of African elephants, and, after that, travel to national parks in East Africa's Rwanda and DR Congo's Rwenzori and Virunga Mountain ranges, with his little man (strapped to his Papa, riding piggyback as usual), to watch families of silverbacked mountain gorillas there. Wish them both well, as always! Case closed? (Akyem Juaso@RainforestGhana)

An open letter to Afia Pokua (aka Vim Lady) - on how Ghana can end borrowing to modermise and expand infrastructure

Afia Pokuaa, bless you for speaking truth to power so boldly, in a nation full of cowardly-cowed-males, dominated by greed-filled state-capture, dissembling rent-seeking big-thieves-in-high-places.

Recently, Afia, you stated in an Instagram post, that we are getting bullet trains from Poland. Actually, we aren't, truth be told. Fact-checked: We aren't getting, and weren't promised, bullet trains, from Poland. We are getting standard guage trains with faster speed metrics, than our old narrow gauge rolling stock designed for narrow gauge rail lines, which are slower. 

That said, generally, is it not the case that, today, the vast majority of Ghanaians agree, that as wise and aspirational Africans, desirous of living in a nation that is peaceful, united and prosperous, blessed with being a society that is equitable in nature, and in which there is shared prosperity beneficial for all demograhics (because millions have been successfuly lifted from poverty from prosperity fueled by thriving private sector growth), then, perforce, we must demand a paradigm shift, which gives us honest and wise one-nation non-tribalistic leaders, able to deliver shared prosperity by implementing bleeding-edge innovative policy ideas, after this year's pivotal December presidential and parliamentary elections, Afia? No?

In light of that, Afia, should we not  also demand that all our political parties publicly pledge to pass legislation within the first 100 days of assuming power, in January 2025, new legislation making it mandatory for all political parties to publicly publish all their sources of funding, and that they must also  commit to passing legislation to make it mandatory for all high-level public officials to publicly publish their assets (as well as that of their spouses), before assuming office,  and immediately after their tenures end? Will that not drastically reduce high-level corruption, I ask? Haaba.

Furthermore, Afia,  should we also not demand, as media professionals who love Mother Ghana passionately, that our political parties should focus on creating an environment in which private sector businesses, not governments-of-the-day, build and modernise our critical infrastructure?

If that were the case, would we not be able to avoid borrowing money that taxpayers will be saddled with having to repay - but nonetheless still be lucky to be blessed to live in a modern nation with key infrastructure, such as tolled4-6-laned concrete motorways from Accra to all the regional capitals - ditto hyperloop underground tunnels connecting Accra to all the regional capitals (for super-fast transportation of passengers and goods), all delivered by private sector entites, in exchange for 35 years to own and operate same, paying miniscule taxes (set at 2.5 percent for the entire period), before transferring ownership to the Ghanaian nation-state?

Finally, the question to ponder over, Afia, is: Will all the above, if implemented after January 2025 by the newly elected government-of-the-day,  not end having to burden Mother Ghana with crippling borrowing, leading to unsustainable debt that impoverishes present and future generations of Ghanaians going forward into the future, till the very end of time  - and prevent massive piled-up-debt, such at the quantum of signed loan agreements that have enabled a powerful and well-connected few to prosper mightily (mostly from professional fees and commissions), under the Akufo-Addo presidency, an egregious and unwise shortsightedness that has now finally ended up bankrupting our beautiful and bountiful Republic, anaaaa, I ask, Afia?

May the soul of brave-hearted Alexei Navalny rest in peace

Dear critical-reader let us join in prayer to ask his Maker, that the soul of brave-hearted Alexei Navalny rests peacefully in his bosom. It is not for nothing that the thoughts and prayers of millions worldwide (who desire to see Russia becoming a democracy that is a force for good globally), are with his family and the ordinary people of Russia, who have lost the foremost defender of their liberties. Navalny's painful death will not be in vain.

The Russian Federation, a great and proud nation, now held hostage by a cruel dictator, has lost a heroic defender, whose unwavering vision was for a democratic future for his beloved Russia, as a free, open and equitable  society - a longheld dream Navalny fought for, and championed, to secure a Russian future in which the basic human rights of Russia's masses, could be assured and guaranteed.

Navalny was a fearless activist, who was prepared to die in his quest for a democratic future for Russia, rather than yield to the ruthless Kremlin oppressors, who feared him more than any other figure in Russia.

Navalny's unexplained sudden death in prison, has definitely sealed the fate of the murderous tyranny now embroiled in a needless war against a neighbour - a tyrannical and inept kleptocracy that has murdered so many dissenters across Russia, since the death of Boris Yeltsin, whose chosen successor, Putin, has gotten away with the elimination of key foes, time and time again.

The cruel irony in this tragic and momentous event, which Navalny's death represents, historically, is that it as sure as day follows night, marks the beginning of the end of Putin's hold on power. It is the one murder of a key political opponent that will haunt Putin till he too dies. Putin has now sealed his own fate too. For sure. In that sense, brave-hearted Navalny, in dying so cruelly while in prison, will, ironically, achieve what, despite his undoubted bravery, he could not achieve, while alive. May his soul rest in peace.

Ghanaians are tired of empty election campaign promises - and won't tolerate them any longer

Dear critical-reader, to say that Ghanaians are tired of empty election campaign promises, is an understatement. As we speak, it is obvious to the casual observer that the vast majority of educated Ghanaians (who are independent thinkers and patriots), understand clearly that their homeland Ghana faces a situation akin to that of a nation at war.

That is why they have no intention of giving their newly-elected leaders any honeymoon periods when they assume office, after January 7th, 2025. No. No. No. The new government of the day then, must be prepared to hit the ground running. Literally. Yooooooooo...

In that light, such independent-minded patriotic individuals who love Mother Ghana passionately, want all those who aspire to lead their nation to be bold, honest and decent enough, to stop making empty campaign promises, designed to lure voters into voting them into power. They consider that unprincipled and dishonest in the extreme. Yoooooooo...

They also understand that making empty promise upon empty promise while campaigning for the pivotal 2024 presidential and parliamentary elections, will inevitably lead to subsequent mass disillusionment, and anger-inducing disappointment, in any new administration in power after January 2025 - ditto that that will eventually trigger a violent revolt by the masses, as sure as day follows night.


In their considered view, that is why all the leaderships of Ghana's political parties need to focus, instead, on clearly outlining the policy proposals they intend to implement, as well as tell voters the short, medium and longterm plans that they intend to execute, when in office - top of the list being passage of anti-corruption legislation with teeth.


The key anti corruption legislation (amongst a raft of laws designed to end high-level corruption that will prevent state-capture rent-seekers, and our system's powerful big-thieves-in-high-places who bankroll political parties, to rob Mother Ghana blind), must be legislation that will require all public officials - high and low, elected and unelected - to publicly publish their assets and that of their spouses, before assuming office, and immediately their tenures come to an end. Full stop. Yooooooo...


That must then be followed by outlining the rest of their policy proposals, and the bleeding-edge plans that they intend to implement, and execute, to enable them successfully rescue our Republic from the doldrums of bankruptcy - and transform our homeland Ghana into a happy African nation that is a prosperous and equitable society, which benefits all its societal demographics. Ghanaians are fed up to their backteeth with empty election campaign promises by political parties and politicians - and they will no longer tolerate them. A word to the wise. Yoooooooo...

Can the next NDC administration transform rural Ghana into a happy and prosperous part of our Republic?

Dear critical-reader, the question for a wise and aspirational African people to ponder over, as the 2024 presidential and parliamentary elections loom large, is: How can the next NDC administration transform rural Ghana into a happy and prosperous part of our Republic, after it assumes power in January 2025?

For such a positive development to occur during the tenure of the  next NDC administration, dear critical-reader, it must, perforce, focus on implementing bleeding edge policies designed to transform our national economy's pivotal agricultural sector, by making all farming,  not just cocoa farming, tax free.

That is a must, if any government-of-the-day, in power after January 2025 is to  successfully rescue Mother Ghana from the doldrums, of preventable bankruptcy that occurred, simply because of the unfathomable greed of the big-thieves-in-high places who now  dominate our byzantine system  currently overseen by today's government-of-the day.

To help prevent that from occuring too, in the next NDC administration, no investors who set up tax haven domiciled entities in nations such as Mauritius and Luxembourg (which are set up for one purpose only: to enable their promoters to evade taxes in their own home countries, and also  engage in money laundering via illicit financial flows out of our country,  at Mother Ghana's expense), to do business in any sector of our national economy, especially the pivotal agricultural sector. Full stop. Yooooooo...

In that regard, it would  be wise for the next NDC administration to seek the advice of  Issa Ouedraogo, the brilliant orphan-made-good founder, of  B-BOVID, the unique  organic profit-sharing social impact  agribusiness located in our nation's beautiful and bountiful Western Region.

If Issa Ouedraogo's climate smart social impact profit-sharing agribusiness model, were to be replicated nationwide, by the next NDC administration, it would spurt unprecedented green growth that is sustainable, to boost  our national economy's entire agricultural sector contribution to our GDP, oooo, Ghanafuor.

It is in light of that desired end, that it is so outrageous that, incredibly,  even as we speak, instead of being feted and asked to advice our current  leaders, our justice delivery system has been allowed to be weaponised  by racist foreigners from perfidious France, in cahoots with local enablers from the legal profession, to steal B-BOVID from Issa Ouedraogo. Incredible.  

Nowhere else, dear critical-reader, on the continent of Africa, would such a tragedy be allowed to befall a visionary local green entrepreneur, whose business model  could guarantee food security for all the nations of Africa, and help transform the continent's  rural areas into happy and prosperous parts of Africa.  We are our own worst enemies, alas.

(Speaking of which, the NDC's leadership, must quickly send Stan Dogbe, overseas, as our ambassador to Togo, when they are voted into office in the upcoming presidential and parliamentary elections. He and those of his ilk, contributed, in no small measure, in destroying public confidence in the last NDC administration of President Mahama, if truth be told. It will be recalled,  dear critical-reader, that Stan Dogbe was a  key member of the hard-of-hearing smug swamp-deplorables, who  surrounded  President Mahama during his tenure. But I digress, lol).

Finally,  in answer to the question: How can the next NDC administration transform rural Ghana into a happy and prosperous part of our Republic, after it assumes power in January 2025, the simple answer is that the NDC must consult Issa Ouedraogo, and persuade him to help them replicate his climate smart organic profit-sharing social impact agribusiness model, which is bedrocked on agroforestry and permaculture principles,  across the entire landmass of our beleaguered and bankrupted Republic. Full stop.  Case closed. A word to the wise. Hmmm, 3y3nsem piiii, oooo, Ghanafuor. Yooooooooo...

NDC leadership: Torgbe Afede as John Mahama's running mate - Over to you, Joe Lartey!

Dear critical-reader, news that former President John Dramani Mahama will select Torgbe Afede (who apparently is willing to abdicate from his position as the Ruler of the Asogli State to be his running mate), for this year's presidential election,  is definitely gamechanging, if true.

Naturally there are those who would posit that better still would be for Mahama to step aside for Torgbe Afede to become the National Democratic Congress's (NDC) presidential candidate, lol  -  but then we can't always get what we want in life, alas, can we? Such is life, lol.

 

On a more serious note, if Mahama were to choose Torgbe Afede as his running mate, it  would  force someone like me, who loves Mother Ghana passionately, and  is skeptical about John Mahama's leadership qualities for heading a beleaguered and bankrupted African nation-state  that ought to be put on a war footing, immediately after the next President is sworn into office, in January 2025, will definitely have to  revise one's notes,  and elect to vote for John Mahama in this year's presidential election.

However,  that will only  be on condition that former President Mahama signs a public declaration that he will leave the management of our national economy, entirely in the hands of an economic management team,  headed by Torgbe Afede. Full stop.

Ditto  appoint Torgbe Afede's nominee  for the crucial position of minister for finance and economic planning, as well as Torgbe Afede's  nominees  for the positions of  minister for trade and industry, and minister for agriculture.

Furthermore, former President Mahama must also agree that he will make Professor Nana Opoku Agyeman, his Chief of Staff, and appoint Hon. Zenator Agyeman Rawlings as his Defence Minister, with Joyce Mongtari Bawa assigned to the ministry for women,  gender and children's affairs. Simple.

Without such written  cast-iron public guarantees,  I won't vote for John Mahama,  under any circumstances. Full stop. So, to the National Democratic Congress' leadership, one says: Over to you,  Joe Lartey!

Do the extremist far-right loony-toffs ruining Britain care about human rights and the rule of law?

Do the extremist far-right loony-toffs ruining Britain care about human rights and the rule of law?

By Kofi Thompson

Dear critical-reader, the question to ponder over is: Do the extremist far-right loony-toffs ruining Britain care about human rights and the rule of law? With the greatest respect,   it is an offensive question to pose, in as far as the Rwandan Asylum Bill before Parliament,  is concerned. The callous, hard-of-hearing extremist far-right loony-toffs ruining Britain, like extremist far-right politicians elsewhere, have never cared about human rights and the rule of law, in the first place, lol. How blind and naive can one get, I ask, lol?

For the extremist far-right loony-toffs, now governing Britain, it is all about appropriating power through mendacity-laden-propaganda, to fool voters and endlessly repress dissenters. Full stop.

Ditto wielding power to amass untold wealth for state-capture rent-seeking family and friends through public-procurement-opacity, via offshore tax havens for arms-length failsafe-safekeeping, from HMRC, lol.

Furthemore, it is super-wealth, made possible for them, it ought to be pointed out, by the ruthless exploitation of workforces compelled to labour for long hours, as slaving-gig-contractors, to be shorn off without compensatory payments, to increase profits and dividends, whenever that is deemed necessary, lol.

As for beautiful and scenic Rwanda, truth be told, it is just a suitable faraway cherry-picked naive-convenience, to be taken advantage of, to enable extremist far-right loony-toffs to continue holding on to power in a Blighty gone to the dogs, lol. Extremist far-right loony-toffs rule OK - okay yah, lol? Whatever be the case extremist far-right toffs-rule sucks - and it has diminished and ruined Great Britain. Full stop. Case closed.

Is blaming Israel for Palestinian blood on hands of Hamas leaders not anti-Semitic?

Why does no one ever condemn Hamas, which basically is a huge business opportunity, whose unique selling point  - targeting Israel and its citizens - has turned its founders and leaders into billionaires, bankrolled with Middle Eastern oil money? Haaba.

Furthermore, instead of always constantly  condemning Israel, and railing against the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF), in street demonstration after street demonstration, in cities across the globe (for justifiably targeting the elaborate Hamas terrorist  military infrastructure  - deliberately buried under Gazan civilian residential  areas, and within its teeming communities, it ought to be pointed out), why don't they rather  condemn the evil and vile leaders of Hamas?

Do those street demonstrators  not understand that in order to finally eliminate a super  ruthless terrorist organisation seeking to wipe Israel off the face of the globe, perforce, to safeguard Israelis and their nation, the IDF must not allow Hamas' callous and hypocritical leaders to get away scot  free, just when the IDF finally have them cornered, and in the crosshairs of their gunsights? Haaba.

Is it not a fact that the leaders of Hamas, dream and think only of the money that relentlessly terrorising and fighting Israel, provides them -  never the safety and well-being of the innocent Palestinian  civilians used as human shields, a core Hamas strategy, to prevent Israel from ever attempting a full scale invasion of the Gaza strip, in order to finish them off permanently, and, in so doing, deny them the mouthwatering  zillions of petro dollars flowing from sodden warped Arab fossil fuel tycoons). How irritating.

Is the bald truth, dear critical-reader (unpalatable though it might be to many across the globe), simply not that every single Palestinian death, resulting from Israel's post October 7th, 2023, precision-strikes against Hamas, across the Gaza  Strip,  is blood on the hands of the evil Hamas' billionaire leaders  -  who profit  mightily and handsomely, from terrorising Israel and its citizens: by using Palestinian civilians as expendable human shields, to escape retribution when launching rocket  attacks on Israel, from civilian areas in the Gaza Strip?

Finally, dear critical-reader,
Israel cannot, and must not be blamed,  for attempting to eliminate its sworn-enemies, regardless of the collateral damage it causes -  not when it finally has Hamas, which is an existential threat, to it, cornered. That is unfair, inhumane and unquestionably anti-Semitic. Full stop. Case closed.  Haaba.

Happy New Year of the Dragon gift to China and all its people at home and abroad

Dear critical-reader, as someone who sincerely believes that China could be persuaded to become a force for good, and help ensure peace and stability globally, that way, here is one's Happy New Year of the Dragon, idea, gifted to China and all her hardworking peoples, around the world:

If China and its people were to gift a free-to-access Chinese Skylink rival, to the world, via a UN Trusteeship vehicle (to guarantee it remains independent from China afterwards in perpetuity), could that not fund most of the United Nations Organisation's (UN) operations, including both  humanitarian and developmental work, worldwide, going forward into the future, one wonders?

Ditto fund micro-enterprises worldwide to empower marginalised demographics to thrive - and stabilise troubled societies globally, and stop them from sliding into chaos and violence, in social explosions? No? Yes? Doable?

In return, would China not reap priceless soft-power rewards, for gifting a free-to-access rival to Skylink, to humanity (and in the process,  pull the proverbial rug from under the sodden tax-evading, offshore domiciled ecocide-causing corporates, owned by arrogant Western state-capture rent-seeking billionaire fascists and racists, enslaving whole nations, lol), till the very end of time?

Furthermore, does it not follow, a prioi, dear critical-reader, that a free-to-access Chinese rival to X Corp's Starlink gifted to humanity for free Internet access for all the world's peoples, will give her tremendous clout with the world's emerging nation ruling-elites, throughout the years of the 4th, 5th and 6th industrial revolutions, in a way that her now mostly-discredited and hugely crippling  emerging nation debt-creating belt-and-road initiative, can ever hope to achieve?

Finally, that said, dear critical-reader, all the above constitute one's gifted humble Chinese Happy New Year of the Dragon, idea, for China, and all its hardworking peoples, both at home and abroad.