Demanding an end to high-level corruption is the best way Ghana's creditors can help save her from ruination

Ghana has the potential to become one of the wealthiest societies on the surface of the planet Earth. Yet, she  is currently  debt-distressed - and unable to meet interest payments on her massive debt mountain.

As we speak, Ghana has reached a staff-level agreement with the International Monetary Fund  (IMF), for a bailout amounting to US$3 billion - contingent upon debt forgivance arranged for it by the Paris Club group of nations.

If the dominant-elements amongst Ghana's ruling-elites were honest, principled and dedicated to providing generational-levelling-up opportunities to empower base-of-the-pyramid demographics, as well as abhorrent of high-level corruption,  Ghana wouldn't have come to the sorry pass she is now in.

In light of the above defect in the characters of the dominate-elements amongst Ghana's  ruling elites,  before extending any help to Ghana, the IMF, China and all her creditors, must demand the following reforms designed to end egregious high-level grand-larceny:

1) Passage of legislation by Parliament giving the Auditor General prosecutorial powers.

2) Passage of new legislation making it mandatory for all high-level  public sector appointees (and their spouses) to publicly publish their assets before assumption  of office, and immediately after their tenures end.

3) Passage of new legislation banning mining in all Ghana's forest reserves and cancelling all issued exploratory gold mining licenses in forest reserves.

4) Passage of new legislation to end statutory-requirement of payments by media houses of monetary fees to sector regulatory bodies, because it impedes freedom of expression  in Ghana, and is often used to muzzle anti-regime media entities and media professionals, by corrupt elements in Ghana.

5) Passing new legislation to end sole-sourcing in public procurement to  make it a clear-cut-illegality in public administration and nation-building.

6) Passage of new legislation indemnifying whistleblowers, whose revelations, and exposure, of nation-wrecking-corruption, results in prosecutions and recovery of stolen public funds, from prosecution.

Ghana is being destroyed by its greed-filled and hard-of-hearing ruling elites, whose impunity needs to end, if the nation is to prosper. In short, without the above-mentioned  reforms being carried out urgently, Ghana's creditors must let her stew in her own juice.

There is no question that high-level is impoverishing Ghana. Demanding an end to high-level corruption is the best way Ghana's creditors can help save her from ruination. Enough is enough. Full stop. Case closed.

Might isn't always right - and is doctrine that cannot and must not be tolerated in the case Ukraine

Might isn't always right - and is doctrine that cannot and must not be tolerated in the case Ukraine.

In that light, it is vital that the West understands clearly that defeating Putin, and trying him before the International Criminal Court (ICC), for his unjustifiable invasion of Ukraine, where crimes against humanity have been committed by Russia's military, is vital for deterring other tyrants from invading other sovereign states, and for preserving the international order that has kept the peace in Europe for so long, after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Hmmm, ey3bsem piiiii, ooooo.

Ukraine must be strengthened sufficiently enough to help it free the ordinary people of Russia from the grip of a ruthless and murdererous kleptocratic-tyranny, totally dominated by Putin.

Providing Ukraine with fighter jets is crucial towards that end.

Far from escalating the fighting in Ukraine, it will rather eventually lead to a revolt by Russia's military - as sure as day follows night. No question.

The Russian military, facing a Ukraine able to protect its airspace effectively, with advanced fighter jets, will move rapidly to remove Putin - to enable it bring an end to the humiliations it has suffered in Ukraine: where those who prostituted the honour of the Russian military, by ordering them to target civilians, and critical infrastructure, must be made to pay for taking decisions that have dented the image of Russian soldiers, globally, so needlessly.

Right, is right - but might isn't always right, and is doctrine that shouldn't be tolerated in Ukraine, in any case. Simple. Case closed. Cool

Apologies to all the individuals and organisations I introduced to Nigel Guy Stonham

I wish to render a heartfelt apology, to all the individuals and organisations,  who feel terribly let down,  because they have not  been hearing from Nigel Guy Stonham  -  whom I introduced to them as someone who could make a difference for them.

The fault does not lie with Nigel Guy Stonham - it is mine entirely: because I completely misunderstood Nigel's plan to spread happiness in the Global South.

To make up for the disappointment felt by: the Gomoa Budumburam Camp Liberia Artists Kollective; Madam Cynthia Kampoe; Pastor Elijah; Reverend Deborah Deku; Madam Victoria  Bampoe-Addo; Sam Goba; young Miracle and his parents; Esther Osei Poku and Wilmot Dweh, I humbly suggest that they write to the French  Embassy in Ghana, to see if they qualify for funding, from their Small Grants Initiative.

They should also consider joining the Facebook Group administered by the ever-helpful Ms. Mary Smith: https://www.facebook.com/groups/LetsLearnGroup/permalink/743092029717765/?app=fbl

There must be a day of reckoning for those who brought Ghana to such a story pass

Prior to regaining control of our nation from the grasping-grib of the British occupiers of our country, in 1957,  then Prime  Minister, Kwame Nkrumah, envisioned an industrialised modern African nation, which would be a meritocracy.

 

Nkrumah's dream, was that Ghana would become a modern African nation, in which, through hard work, regardless of how humble an individual's background was, he or she could realise their full potential in life  through education  -  and contribute their quota to the nation- building process leading to the transformation of our homeland into a prosperous and equitable society: in which no tribe would be regarded as superior or inferior to another.

Today, Ghana, a nation that could be one of the most prosperous society's on the surface of the planet Earth, faces ruination, as a result of its inability to pay interest on its massive public debt.

That debt was incurred ostensibly to fast-track the expansion  and modernisation of Ghana's infracture.

However, vast sums out of Ghana's mammoth-sized public debt, eventually ended up (over the decades since independence), in the pockets and offshore  bank accounts, of sundry ruthless and thoroughly dishonest state-capture rent-seekers, in legitimised-grand-larceny cloaked as public procurement sanctioned by Parliament.

Surely, there must be a day of reckoning for all those whose greed and dishonesty has brought Nkrumah's envisioned  Ghana to such a sorry pass, Ghanafuo? Hmmm, Oman Ghana -  enti y3wiaye paaa, enie? Asem kesie bi, ebeba debi ankaasa, oooo. Yoooooooo...

Why the future of Ghana's cocoa sector is organic - bedrocked by agroforestry principles

As we celebrate our local equivalent of Valantine's Day, Chocolate Day, the point needs to be made, forcefully, that in an era of extreme weather, caused by global climate change, the future of Ghana's cocoa industry must be 100 percent organic  -  bedrocked on agroforestry principles.

 In that light, it matters not a whit,  what the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) does to boost the industry: artisinal chocolate manufacturing; mass hand-pollinating initiatives; high tech spraying  -  truth be told, they are all band-aid-solutions.

Alas, none of  those band-aid-solutions will secure the longterm survival of Ghana's cocoa industry.

The cocoa sector of Ghana is a vital economic-pillar, which will survive, grow and thrive, only if the COCOBOD converts it into a 100 percent organic sector, and makes Ghana the world's biggest organic cocoa producing nation. No question.

As the leading producer of organic cocoa, bedrocked on agroforestry principles, Ghana  can plan and execute a national green economy  initiative, enabling her to become the go-to supply-source, for supplying the world with the best organic  chocolates and other cocoa products. Simple.

Failure to comprehend this simple-truth, dear critical-reader,  disqualifies all those currently  leading the COCOBOD,  from continuing to lead it, because they are failing to see a plain-sight existential-threat.

Their  current old-model business-as-usual operational-mode, will be the death-knell of Ghana's cocoa industry, in an era of extreme weather caused by climate change, as sure as day follows night. The future of Ghana's cocoa sector is organic - bedrocked on agroforestry principles. Full stop. Case closed. Yoooooooo...

The Gabby Asare Otchere-Darkos must stop provoking Ghanaians with their arrogant-cakeisms

Those who came to power in 2017, promising to end borrowing for nation-building purposes, but failed to keep that promise, and have ended up growing super-rich from the orgy-of-fees from euro bond issuances, since they came to power, must not annoy Ghanaians by mocking the principled and honest former Chief Justice, Justice Sophia Akufo - who sympathises with hapless picketing retirees who are protesting against the so-called domestic debt exchange programme at the ministry of finance.  

Unlike the greed-filled, hard-of-hearing and selfish individuals amongst those now governing our nation, Justice Sophia Akufo, understands perfectly, the implications of the government in a democracy ignoring the sanctity of contracts - in its unlawful take-or-leave-it rescheduling of its obligations to holders of government paper: resulting from their reckless borrowing, which has now bankrupted Ghana, oooo, Ghanafuo.  

The question those mocking Justice Sophia Akufo must address, as far as self-acknowledged ignoramuses such as myself are concerned is: Will pensioners, who rely on interest payments from the government paper they invested in (because they believed that it was risk-free investment), be receiving those payments on scheduled-due-dates, as previously was the case, under the so-called domestic debt exchange programme of today, anaaa? Yes, or no. No winding answers. Full stop. Ghanaians may be a long-suffering people, but fools they are not.   

The gas-lighting Gabby Asare Otchere-Darkos, obviously think that they have been extremely clever, and succeeded in creating a system helmed by people whose golden-sinicured-silence makes them complicit in the egregious state-capture rent-seeking, enriching a few powerful politicians and the big-thieves-in-high-places, who dominate our system, and that regardless of which political party of the duopoly that has monopolised power since the 4th Republic came into being in 1992, is in power, for the next thirty years they will continue to remote-control our byzantine system - but, for their information, their hold on power, even today, is tenous at best, ooooo. They must stop provoking Ghanaians, with their arrogant-cakeisms, ooooo. Yooooooooo...

To males globally: there is nothing manly about violently violating females - it is cowardly and dispicable

The appalling atavistic caveman-notion that battering women, and using violence to dominate them through fear, is manly, needs to be vigorously countered - especially on social media platforms: using the legal equivalent of asymmetric warfare.

One recommends that line of approach to the Romanian authorities, currently  investigating the notorious purveyors of online pornography now in their grip - whose evil influence over millions of young males globally (all primed to humiliate and violate women), is a crime against humanity, no less.

Real men, never violate females. It is cowardly for men to violate women in any shape or form - and men who do so (because they see the women they have relationships with as their properties), ought to be prosecuted and given long prison sentences, wherever in the world they live.

After all, was the infamous American gangster Al Capone not jailed in 1931, for tax evasion, when it wasn't possible to pin any of the many murders he ordered on him, directly?

Martial arts training must be made widely available for females, especially young girls, to enable them to defend themselves when attacked by violent men. Enough is enough. There is nothing manly about physically violating females. It is cowardly and despicable. Full stop. Case closed.

If Ghana were Anansekrom would the government have been overthrown by now?

It is a moot point to say that were Ghana to be like Anansekrom, regime change would have occurred in our still-beautiful homeland, by now, oooo, Ghanafuo.

Luckily, Ghana is not Anansekrom, thank goodness  - whose leaders are so corrupt they apparently attempted to sell their entire nation, at a point in time, one gathers.

That said, what worries one the most, about Ghana's current challenges, is this: It would be cruel, in the extreme, if we were to wake up tomorrow, to learn that powerful and well-connected regime-crony Ghanaians, had secretly piled into Eurobonds, by the hundreds of millions of dollars - which in time, are then somehow eventually engineered into a debt forgivance initiative, by the Paris Club: begging the question, what would be its repercussions, when no such leeway was given to pensioners holding government paper, in the domestic debt exchange programme?

It is a foregone conclusion, that were that to ever occur, in Anansekrom, we will doubtless witness bloodless regime change, sharpish - as no such chicanery discovered there, would be tolerated by long-suffering Anansekromians, oooo, Ghanafuo.

Be that as it may, as for Ghana's pork-barrel domestic politricks, diy3, Massa, no comment, oooo, wai - but suffice it to say that fa ma Nyame, is rumoured to have been murdered in Ghana, by a gang of shocking-revealations-and-brutal-facts, according to bush-telegraph sources.

Hmmm, Oman Ghana - Massa, ey3nsem piiii, oooo. Enti yewiay3 paaa eniy3? Asem kesiy3 bi, ebeba debi ankasa, oooo, Ghanafuo. Yooooooo...

Holders of government paper in Ghana refuse to be cheated by those who want something for nothing

Now the gloves are off: Retirees who bought and hold government paper in Ghana, refuse to be cheated by those who want something for nothing from them - the greed-filled rent-seeking state-capture big-thieves-in-high-places, whose reckless borrowing has now bankrupted their nation, and now want to impoverish them so capriciouslly and callously.


They too must make sacrifices for their nation's sake. Full stop.


Towards that end, the time has now come for Ghana's Parliament to pass under a certificate of urgency, new laws requiring the ministry of finance to produce a list containing:


1) The names of all Ghanaian eurobond holders, both individuals and corporate entities - including those hiding their holdings in offshore tax havens, as well as the total value of their holdings: all of whom must also make personal sacrifices too, and give up their looted monies to save Mother Ghana.


The new law must spell out clearly, and unambiguously, the penalties for non compliance - including being barred for life from company directorships for individuals, and being permanently barred from operating businesses in the financial services sector, for errant corporates.


2) A list of the Ghanaian transactional advisors and the total amounts earned from eurobond issuances, by them, in fees, since the Akufo-Addo regime came to power in January 2017. Mandatory jail terms of not less than 15 years must be prescribed for failure to comply truthfully with this provision.


Now the gloves are off - so, to use an apt Ghanaian pidgin English phrase: "We no go sit down make them cheat us!"


Ghanaian retirees who bought and hold government paper in Ghana, refuse to be cheated by those who want something for nothing from them - whose reckless borrowing has bankrupted their nation, and now want to impoverish them so capriciouslly and callously, to boot, too, on top of that, oooo, Ghanafuor. They must be forced to pay back what they earned from the reckless borrowing  that profited them so handsomely. Full stop. Case closed. Yooooooo...

The global rescue effort underway in Turkey's earthquake devastated areas must concern Ghanaians

One's thoughts and prayers are with Turkey and the victims of the terrible natural disaster, which has befallen this very good friend of our nation's Muslim demographic.

One hopes that those who currently lead our nation (which is a global power in begging-bowl-diplomacy), will, for once, help a friendly nation in its hour of extreme-need: and send planeloads of Ghana's dark chocolate to Turkey -  as our widow's mite contribution to the international rescue effort now underway in Turkey, and a symbolic shared-humanity gesture-of-solidarity.

What has occurred in Turkey ought to be of concern to us in Ghana, too, oooo, Ghanafuo - for, when, not if, Ghana's next severe earthquake strikes (the last major one was in 1939), we will witness a tragedy of biblical proportions, never experienced before, since we rid our nation of foreign occupation in 1957: as we witness thousands of shoddily constructed beautiful high-rise buildings collapsing.

Those responsible for the egregious corruption, in the oversight bodies overseeing Ghana's construction industry, will have the blood of all those who will lose their lives (or be maimed permanently), in the rubble of collapsed buildings, when the next big earthquake strikes, here, on their grasping hands, oooo, Ghanafuo.

The tragic events being witnessed in parts of Turkey struck by the massive earthquake (7.9 in magnitude on the Richter scale), ought to be of concern to us in Ghana, too, oooo, Ghanafuo - and as wise and aspirational Africans, we must learn useful lessons from that terrible tragedy. Yoooooooo...


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Afihyia pa oooo Ohemaa Paapabi Margie Doolin - wu tiri nkwa wherever in the universe you now are

Today would have been your special day, if you hadn't left this plane, when you did, Margie dearest. On this day, we thank the compassionate staff of the hospice that looked after you, as life in you ebbed away, and grateful for the dignified send-off, ensured by the funeral home that took care of you mortal remains, for your journey to the next plane.

We are so glad that you escaped the cabin fever that so many suffered from, as a result of the COVID-19 lockdowns, by leaving when you did. Good timing, Margie dearest, lol. Brilliant. Cool.

Happy that you are now an adventurous free-spirit, happily roaming the universe, a curious-child of which, you were, while on this plane, and astronomy a key joyous-passion of yours enjoyed with humorous-abandon.

You are missed by your friends in Ghana - who have fond memories of the time you spent with them here, Ohemaa Paapabi Margie Doolin. Afihyia pa, oooo, wai - wherever in the universe you are now, having all-embracing-fun. Wu tiri nkwa, wai - and peace and blessings to you. Gone, but not forgotten!

Watch out mainstream Ghanaian media

"Generative artificial intelligence (AI) describes algorithms (such as ChatGPT) that can be used to create new content, including audio, code, images, text, simulations, and videos. Recent new breakthroughs in the field have the potential to drastically change the way we approach content creation."


                   - McKinsey & Company


For a contrarian, for whom ethical behaviour and having a moral compass, are important attributes that all good journalists ought to have, the dream of being able to deliver world-class content, in one's own 100 percent owned media outlets, is finally here, thank goodness.

Today, providing world -class content, in media outlets 100 percent  owned by one, can, incredibly,  now be accomplished with AI chatbots, such as ChatGPT, without a single human media professional employee, who may or may not have the desired attributes one seeks in those whom one would have had to hitherto recruit, in the past , before AI chatbots like ChatGPT, came along. Wow. Lol. Cool.

The experiment of curating and posting interesting content on one's Facebook Lite page, which has a worldwide readership spanning all our biosphere's seven continents, to establish a global reputation, will now be put to good use. Finally. Wow.

In light of all the above, dear critical-reader, with the greatest respect, and in all humility, the message to Ghana's media world, from this uneducated old fool, Kofi Thompson is: Watch this space, oooo, mainstream Ghanaian media - to use an apt Ghanaian pidgin English phrase: We dey come takeover, soon, oooo, wai.  Yoooooooo...

ECG: Wake up, oooo. Yoooooo...

Yesterday evening, at around 18:40pm GMT, I saw a young man clambering up the electricity pole in front of where I live at the Gomoa Buduburam State Housing estate, with feet-clamps.

I immediately became suspicious, and ventured out to speak to the young chap who seemed to be the leader of the two-man gang.

I then asked him what it was that they were doing - whereupon he proceeded to implicate himself in an illegality that causes massive revenue-leakage to the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG), nationwide, and which severely affects its finances, a well as impairs its ability to provide a world-class service for consumers across Ghana.

The young men were apparently from Camp Liberia - part of which I happen to share a fence-wall with.

Like all slums in our country, the demand and supply of a modern-day essential, like electricity, in Camp Liberia, is enveloped in the foggy-miasma, of a thriving black market, which rips off the very poor, ruthlessly. That one can understand.

However, the ECG must ensure that formal settlements like the State Housing estate where one lives in, are monitored strictly, and on a regular basis.

The ECG can begin that new chapter by sending their Central Regional branch's loss control unit to check the lines from the ECG pole outside where one resides, as soon as is practicable. If fire occurs there (God forbid!) because of the activities of bold and hungry young criminals, such as the two aforementioned young men, we will sue the ECG for zillions, oooo. The ECG needs to wake up, oooo, Ghanafuo. Haaba. Yoooooooo...

MTN Ghana: Stop the cyber fraudsters stealing zillions from your customers through enforced-subscriptions

At 09:08am GMT, today, 27th January, 2023, I received a text message from MTN Ghana, wishing me a: "Happy Data Privacy Week!!".

It felt like a dreadful sick-joke  -  adding to the woes of the daily struggle to survive in a period in which stagflation has caused an unprecedented cost-of-living-crisis in Ghana  making it incredibly difficult for honest and law-abiding citizens to survive.

Surely, the time has now come to demand that the Ghanaian telco industry's well-funded lobbying-entity, the Telecoms Chamber, and the sector government ministry overseeing it, put their feet down, and demand that all the telcos take immediate steps to stop the lucrative enforced-subsription scams, in which relatively small sums (which add up to zillions, every month, it ought to be pointed out, dear critical-reader), are deducted by all manner of sly-chancers (such as those providing caller-tunes for example), from their customers' digital mobile money wallets, without their permission: because those schemes aren't lawfully-binding third-party opt-in schemes in data-privacy-terms?

Enough, really is enough in this matter, oooo, Ghanafuo. The time has now come for MTN Ghana, which has strangely turned a blind eye to this abomination for far too long, to stop the cyber fraudsters stealing zillions from its customers, through illegal third-party enforced-subscriptions, which in reality are grand online larceny schemes,  unlawfully enriching criminal 'service providers' engaged in racketeering and wire-fraud, oooo. Yooooooo...

The West must be resolute in confronting Putin

The West must be resolute in confronting Putin. Fear of escalation in the fight to defeat Putin, is tantamount to engaging in cowardly-appeasement of a murderous kleptocratic-dictator, committing genocide in the digital age, in a world that needs peace and stability, to enable it move forward, after a devastatng pandemic.

It is vital that  leaders of the West understand clearly, why  they must be resolute in confronting Putin: Victory for Ukraine will restore a great nation with a long and proud history, Russia's, place, in the comity of nations, as a global force for good.

Once defeated, the Russian military can then finally move to depose the man who prostituted its honour so egregiously, by ordering an invasion in which innocent civilians are targets, and routinely slaughtered, on a daily basis, and critical infrastructure deliberately destroyed in the most barbaric of fashions. That is totally unacceptable in this day and age - which is why the West must be resolute in confronting Putin: by providing  Ukraine with all the arms it needs (including its heaviest and best tanks), to enable it defeat Putin and end his reign of terror. Full stop. Case closed.

COCOBOD: Convert Ghana's cocoa sector to 100 percent organic production - and bedrock it with ESG, agroforestry and climate-smart farming

The time has now come for the leadership of the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD), to be held to account for their egregious short-sightedness, unwarranted  complacency and failure to move to convert to 100 percent  cocoa production, and  bedrock the  cocoa sector with ESG, agroforestry and climate-smart farming.
 
As many of the predictions we have made over the decades (about what will happen to our beloved nation, if our hard-of-hearing ruling-elites refuse to change course),  come to pass, we are confounded that greed still continues to drive those whom we elect to govern our nation. Hmmm, ey3nsem piiiii, oooo, Ghanafuo...

It is in that light that we now make bold to predict that, if we are unable to switch all food production to organic (by policy makers planning and executing such a health-boosting idea), and ensuring that the conversion to 100 percent organic production happens within the next five years, then the cocoa industry  will also experience the same shockwaves now  devastating the lives of the many investors, who bought government paper, because they believed it was risk-free investment, but now suddenly realise that that is no longer true.

Sadly, those investors now see clearly that  they have been made to bear the brunt of the wealth-destroying effects, of the reckless borrowing spree indulged in by feckless politicians - who when campaigning for power, promised to end borrowing: and usher the nation into a new nation-building age, beyond aid from foreign powers: but have failed miserably to fulfil that promise.

If the COCOBOD's leadership still don't see, and understand, that if they don't convert the industry to 100 percent organic production, a time will come when virtually all of Ghana's pesticide-residue-ridden cocoa, will be rejected by the foreign markets that used to pay a premium for what (before the vast majority of consumers worldwide adopted healthy lifestyles), used to be considered the world's finest cocoa, then they don't deserve to remain in their positions.

One says what follows humbly and only as  matter of fact, in order to stress a point: As someone whose family has farmed cocoa in Ghana's Eastern Region, since the 1920s (from the British colonial era to date), and who is also an Akyem  Osiem royal, who is co-steward of Akyem Abuakwa's biggest privately-owned freehold landholding portfolio, who  also happens to be a generational-thinker and environmental activist, one intends to do everything possible to force change on the COCOBOD's complacent and shortsighted leadership.

Ghanafuo, that campaign for change to 100 percent organic cocoa production,  will begin by one suing the COCOBOD's current leadership,  for not implementing fully,  all the terms and conditions they signed on to, which led to the African Development Bank (AfDB), giving them US$600 million. We shall demand full accountability from them of what has been  disbursed, thus far, from the US $600 million.

Ghana's  cocoa industry needs new leadership that is farsighted and committed fully  to 100 percent conversion to organic production,  and understand the need to bedrock the  cocoa sector with ESG, agroforestry and climate-smart farming.  Full stop.  Case closed. Yooooooo...

Ghanaians: act boldly to end high-level corruption - or high-level corruption will destroy Ghana and ruin the quality of life of all who live and work hard within its territorial borders

Current events have shown clearly that as wise and aspirational Africans, Ghanaians must act boldly to end high-level corruption - or high-level corruption will most definitely destroy their nation and ruin the quality of life of all who live and work hard within its territorial borders.

For most part of the period since the overthrow of President Nkrumah in 1966, regardless of the nation-building difficulties their country has been faced with, and has had to grapple with, middle-class Ghanaians have grown increasingly prosperous - and mostly tended to mind their own business: by fence-sitting and not involving themselves in what many have labelled the "dirty business of politics".

Unfortunately, that mind-your-own-business mindset, and unhelpful-attitude, has prevailed amongst middle-class Ghanaians, most especially during the 4th Republic  (a period which has been completely dominated by a hard-of-hearing duopoly made up of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), and today's largest opposition party, the National Democratic Congress (NDC), both beholden to faceless rent-seeking state-capture big-thieves-in-high-places), particularly because most of them have felt that somehow  they could insulate themselves from the negative effects of the high-level corruption slowly destroying Ghana: regardless of the ruling party elected to govern their country, at any given point in time.  

Now, as it becomes more and more obvious to the world at large, that their nation is bankrupt and debt-distressed, and is now unable to pay interest on its massive debt mountain, most middle-class Ghanaians have suddenly come to realise the danger and folly of not giving a toss about ruinous high-level corruption, and woken up to the fact that their personal well-being and accumulated wealth, can actually be destroyed by the egregious-actions, and abominable-inactions, of those elected to govern their homeland Ghana.

It is in that light that Ghanaians now need to understand clearly that as wise and aspirational Africans, they must act boldly to end high-level corruption - or high-level corruption will destroy their nation and ruin the quality of life of all who live and work hard within its territorial borders. Eiiiii, Oman Ghana - enti y3wiy3 paaa enie? Asem kesiy3 bi, ebeba debi ankasa, oooo. Yoooooooo...

End the dumping of counterfeit and unwholesome products at the Gomoa Budumburam Camp Liberia refugee settlement area now

The Gomoa Budumburam Camp Liberia refugee settlement area, has become the Central Region's dumping ground for counterfeit and unwholesome products, for sale to unsuspecting consumers.

It is not for nothing that the Gomoa Budumbuam Camp Liberia  refugee settlement area is also Ghana's price-gouging capital - where super-ruthless profiteering-traders routinely increase prices regularly to fleece the public, in the midst of an unprecedented cost-of-living crisis. Abominable. Unpardonable. Monstrous. Shameful.

It is an untenable situation in an era of galloping-inflation that has affected the living standards of all honest and law-abiding individuals and families amongst Ghana's societal-demographics nationwide.

It is in that light that one appeals to all the regulatory bodies in Ghana, which are mandated by law to protect consumers nationwide, from selfish purveyors of unwholesome products, such as expensive packs of bottled mineral water, to make a beeline for the Gomoa Buduburam Camp Liberia refugee settlement area, as soon as operationally practicable.


There, in that unique melting-pot-community, full of amazing energy and creativity, and unlike any other peri-urban community anywhere else on the surface of the sovereign territory of the Republic of Ghana, they will come across shops, container retail outlets and arrogant mostly foreign table-top hustler-types, who have appropriated pavements to sell all manner of counterfeit products. 

Ghanaian officialdom must wake up from its inertia in this matter which has persisted for far too long - and they must do so immediately. Now. Not tomorrow, oooo, Ghanafuo.

The continued dumping of counterfeit and unwholesome products at the Gomoa Budumburam Camp Liberia refugee settlement area must be brought to a swift end, now, oooo, Ghanafuo. Not tomorrow. Yooooooo...

Has America's great GOP gone mad?

For a pro-American African who grew up in the 1960s, during the period when President Kennedy became the youthful new face of America  -  whose idealism produced the Peace Corps. -  it's hard to fathom how thoroughly selfish and dishonest politicians now dominate the greatest nation, ever, in human history.

It is a sign of the times that a rogue like Representative George Santos is a member of the U.S. Congress, when even the citizens of the world's worst banana republic, would have rejected him, because of his egregious  endless-phantasmagorical-fibbing.

Ditto that a cruel and vindictive wannabe-fascist-dictator, who is a ridiculous Russian puppet, pathological-liar-bar-none and con-man-supremo, who strikes what he thinks is a Churchillian-pose for cameras, complete with a scowl, and who wears a toupee, dominates the GOP, so completely. Yet Churchill would never have countenanced  hiding his baldness with a toupee, being a serious person and real. With respect, has America's great GOP gone quite mad? Haaba.

Food for thought for Ghanaians - whose country is now teetering on the edge of bankruptcy

 It is astonishing that amidst the gloom being spread by the visceral-reaction to the end-game national-ruination, caused primarily by the borrowing-spree that has led Mother Ghana into the deep-hellish-hole she now finds herself trapped in, there is still such a dearth of offered-solutions, to help get us out of the disaster some of us predicted, yonks ago, our country would end up in, if President Akufo-Addo did not have the courage to rid himself of Hon. Ken Ofori-Atta & his greed-filled big-theives-in-high-places, who have dominated his regime, and milked Mother Ghana dry, from the very beginning of his presidency.


Ghanafuo, truth be told, only innovative-thinking will save our nation, oooo. The endless complaining must cease, wai. They won't  help us now. Solutions. Solutions. Solutions. That's what we need now.


The question to ponder over is: Could one big new idea not suddenly open up the possibility of  injecting trillions of dollars into our national economy, if executed well, anaaa -  which is why we must back all our world-class inventors and their game-changing ideas: as a national priority? We are now teetering on the edge of bankruptcy wai, Ghanafuo - so instead of the endless complaints let us innovate our way out of this crushing-wahala,  oooo, wai. Yooooooo...

A quick note to Ronnie El Chieck - An Australian who is keen on finding green economy investment opportunities in Ghana

Try this for size,Yewura Ronnie:  Some bright spark in New York  City is suing Hershey  (hopes to make it a class action suit one gathers),  the eponymous chocolitier, because the company's Cadbury brand dark chocolate he bought and ingested, apparently contained cadmium and heavy metals.

A little lateral-thinking:  Might it not be the perfect moment to ask Hershey to set up and fund a Ghana branch of America's wealthiest endowed educational institution, the Hershey School, to teach organic climate smart cocoa farming, using  agroforestry principles, to rural youth across Ghana's forest belt - and source own-brand locally manufactured organic cocoa products from Ghana, for the North American market dominated by Hershey?

I am pretty sure that I could persuade  my family to make available 2.5 square miles,  out of our 14-square mile freehold upland evergreen rainforest property in the Akyem Juaso section of the Atewa Range that is part of a designated Globally Significant Biodiversity Area (GSBA), in what used to be the once heavily-wooded arboreal slopes off the Atewa Forest Reserve, for the proposed college's campus, as well as a research centre and demonstration climate-smart organic cocoa farm using agroforestry principles.

As it happens, 99.6 acres of our freehold rainfores land, in Akyem Juaso, actually lies inside the Atewa Forest Reserve that we have legal access to, and is referred to in Forestry Commission jargon, as an "admitted farm" -  which could be leveraged as a community carbon sequestration initiative, to sustainably fund any mooted Hershey School's Ghana branch. Doubt if you could find a more interesting place for such an agroforestry  project anywhere else in the areas of Ghana where fringe-forest cocoa-farming communities exist. Cool.

A quick note to Father Joop Visser - the Wandering-Priest, who loves his adopted country, Ghana, so passionately

Sage1, may 2023 be a good year for all who live across the entire landmass of Ghana. You really  are insightful, paaaa, oooo. Truth be told, it is hard  to avoid wondering whether  wanting to be the government-of-the-day (benefiting from  pork-barrel  politics delivering state-capture benefits to the established powerful rent-seekers who dominate our system and fund both the constituent parties that make up the New Patriotic Party (NPP)  National Democratic Congress (NDC) duopoly that dominate the 4th Republic so), isn't what actually drives the most vocal critics, of the current ruling party.

If that weren't so, for the NDC crowd, why do they not tell us precisely  how they will govern our debt-distressed country that risks ending up like Sri Lanka, and is likely to default on due interest payments for our massive foreign debt - without ruining living standards and stoking up inflation too, for example: so that voters can be confident that voting them into power again won't result in business as usual, for a greed-filled hard-of-hearing ruling-elite, which loves to party and drown in booze, even  in the face of a horrendous cost-of-living crisis, ruining millions of families simultaneously?

Have you seen or heard about any planned policy to use the Bank of Ghana's (BoG) Central Bank Digital Currency  (CBDC), for growth- boosting, levelling-up generational-empowerment-initiatives, such as giving all families and individuals that  request it, CBDC 1 million credited to them in BoG bank accounts opened for them to use to build new homes, in planned new climate-resilient green communities (to replace existing urban and peri-urban slums), and start new green economy businesses - all to be paid  back in 99 years:  with ultra-low installment payments that will provide assured-revenue for governments-of-the-day, from any government critic, yet, for example?

Furthermore, have you heard about any government critics talking about holding discussions with local private sector businesses to back them to find and partner global private sector  infrastructure providers, to self-finance the construction of 6-lane dualised tolled concrete motorways from Accra to all the regional capitals, own and maintain same, for 35 years, with the foreign partners guaranteed 100 percent profit repatriation, before the next presidential and parliamentary  elections, in 2024? Ditto a private sector funded and owned network of high-speed railway lines from Accra to all the regional capitals, on the same terms?

I don't know about you, Sage1, but I haven't heard any government critics in the NDC, promising, thus far,  to initiate new legislation that will give the Auditor General prosecutorial powers, when they come to  power in January 2025,  yet, oooo. Have you, by any chance?

Ditto get Parliament to pass new asset declaration laws making it mandatory for all political appointees (and top career  public servants), and their spouses,  to publicly publish their assets before assuming office,  and immediately after leaving office, should they win the presidential and parliamentary elections, and form the next administration in January 2025?

And, who takes seriously, amongst today's regime-critics, the idea of the passage of new legislation indemnifying all whistleblowers from prosecution, and guaranteeing them 35 percent of recovered stolen public funds, resulting from evidence they provide prosecutors, in  high-level-corruption recovery-trials, when the NDC returns to power again, Sage1?

Above all, should 16-year old Ghanaian citizens not be allowed to register to vote too  - as it is their future that they are watching being stolen from them in plain sight, in broad daylight, as things currently stand,  I ask,  in all humility? I stand to be corrected, on all the above,  naturally, Sage1, Father Joop Visser - you, the Wandering-Priest, who loves your adopted country, Ghana, so passionately. May 2023 be a good year for all who live in Ghana.

How should the Global North's younger generation Blacks deal with the harmful-stupidities of never-ending-racism?

Perhaps the key lesson that younger generation British Blacks ought to learn from the unfortunate lunacy of the racist broadcastor, Jeremy Clarkson's, widely-dessiminated latest uncouth-insults rained on the person of the Duchess of Sussex (whose only crime really for such idiots is that she is mixed-race and married into the British Royal Family), is that they must no longer tolerate being treated as if they are second class citizens who are half human - by making sure that at all material times, they excel in all their undertakings: in similar vein to the resolve of resolute Black boxers who let technical-knock-downs (of all their white opponents), do their refereeing and rounds-score-card-judging for them, in tournaments in boxing rings on British soil.

Same advice goes to younger generation Blacks across Europe, and to young African Americans, who must also abandon individual-snowflakery, and leadership-gaslighting that endless complaints against racism represent, and focus instead on excelling in all their lawful undertakings, ensuring, above all, that racist police officers looking to arrest them unjustly, can't successfuly harass them: because they are aware of, and conversant with, their  constitutional rights in what is supposed to be a democracy built on the bedrock of freedom. In one's humble view, that is how the Global North's  younger generation Blacks ought to deal with the harmful-stupidities of never-ending-racism. Enough, really is enough, now. Haaba. Case closed. Full stop.  Yooooooo...

We must not sit unconcerned while our rapacious rent-seeking state-capture big-thieves-in-high-places get away with murder

Ghana's 1992 Constitution enjoins leaders of sundry governments-of-the-day to refrain from sanctioning  secret clauses in all the agreements they sign on behalf of the good people of Ghana,  and the Ghanaian nation-state. Fellow Ghanaians, is the best way to ensure that,  not simply to have Parliament pass new asset declaration laws, that require all public office holders to publicly publish their assets -  and those of their spouses, anaaa? Yoooooooo...

The question that follows a priori, therefore,  is: When are we going to tear up all the oil and gas sector agreements signed since that with Kosmos Energy, during the Kufuor-era  - and institute production sharing agreements, to replace all such tainted oil and gas sector so-called hybrid oil agreements: that are one-sided and have resulted in Ghana being denied the US $120 billion,  minimum that would have been her due, had we had production sharing agreements, in place, from day one?

Furthermore, should we also not tear up the obnoxious SynoHydro agreement, apparently signed with secret clauses in them that are allegedly  detrimental to the overall interests of ordinary people and that of Mother Ghana, too, anaaaa? And, in light of all the above, when are we going to tear up all the agreements with the biggest private sector state-capture rent-seekers-extraordinaire,  the Jospong Group, Ghanafuo? Corruption has resulted in many Ghanaians losing their lives. It kills mercilessly. No question. That is why as a wise and aspirational African people, we must not sit unconcerned while our sodden big-thieves-in-high-places get away with murder.  Literally. Enough, really is enough, ooooo. Yoooooooo...

Ghanaians: Let us force our hard-of-hearing ruling-elites to step out of the shadow of conventional economic thinking

Now, more than ever, Ghana's ruling-elites must step out of the shadow of conventional economic thinking, if we are to rid ourselves of the massive debt mountain blocking the transformation of our homeland Ghana into a prosperous and equitable society.

Failure to do so, will lead inexorably to the chaos and destruction that Sri Lanka experienced when it defaulted on paying interest on its gargantuan external debt, here too, as sure as day follows night. No question. Yooooooo...  

Surely, as a wise and aspirational African people, we have the nous and gumption to think up creative and innovative ways, to help us reduce our external debt, without impoverishing ordinary people, in the process, do we not,  Ghanafuo? Haaba.

Why, for example, do we not leverage the value in our forests reserves (definitely more valuable than all the minerals underneath them,  combined), by leasing them to ESG-bedrocked carbon trading companies,  for 99 years, for US$60 billion, I ask, Ghanafuo? Was Twitter not purchased for US$44 billion, recently, anaaa, I ask?   Haaba.

And, were we to leverage the value in all the research institutes under the aegis of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), by repurposing them into cutting-edge commercial research entities, and invite genuine and reputable social impact investors to buy 70 percent for US$60 billion, would that not also reduce the huge debt mountain currently impeding our progress, one wonders?

Furthermore, to end corrosive high-level corruption, why do we also not get Parliament to pass new laws to incentivise whistleblowing - by indemnifying all whistleblowers from prosecution, and rewarding them with 30 percent of recovered purloined public funds, resulting from their exposure of high level corruption, by Ghana's rapacious greed-filled big-thieves-in-high-places? 

 

Finally,  why do we not get Parliament to pass new laws giving the Auditor General prosecutorial powers? Our ruling-elites  cannot go on as they have been carrying on,  any longer, ooooo, Ghanafuo. Enough is enough. The time for them to step out of the shadow of conventional economic thinking is now upon us - and we must force them to do so now as a wise and aspirational African people: not tomorrow. Yoooooooo...

A quick note to Vagdam's heroic Nitin Patel - On International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women and the beginning of 16 days of Activism against Gender-Based violence campaign

My dear Nitin,

This new opportunity for  Vagdam, through Nigel Guy Stonham's LearningStreet empowerment platform, has nothing to do with luck, at all. It results from your open-mindedness and refusal to allow stereotyping to stop you from interacting with people, regardless of gender,   nationality, skin hue and religious faith, which makes you such a special member of the human race, Nitin.

How else could our friendship, which began evolving as far back as 2008, on the now-defunct online volunteering website, Naabur.com, have been possible, in the first place, I ask?

Cross border wars and violent internal civil strife,  afflicting societies globally, will become tragedies-of-the-past, when people blessed with the virtues that guide you, in your daily interactions with others,  become the preponderant guiding-principles, for effective  servant-leadership, in societies worldwide.

Finally, as today is 25th November, the day set aside as International Day for the Elimination of  Violence against Women, and the beginning of the 16 days of Activism against Gender- Based Violence campaign, let us spare  a thought for women in all the seven continents of our imperilled biosphere - humankind's only home - who are victims of violence: and hope that their individual circumstances will improve dramatically, somehow, as a result of the work of activists worldwide, who daily fight their cause.

Should a wise and aspirational African people like Ghanaians press their leaders to make cybercrime punishable by mandatory death sentences?

So seriously-damaging, is cybercrime, in a world now virtually  dependent on digitisation for value-creation that we must make it a crime punishable by mandatory life sentences, without the possibility of parole for all categories of offenders, regardless of age.

If any one doubts the importance of digitisation in value-creation,  let him or her go the offices of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG),  and see the frustration of customers (who hitherto had been paying their bills from the comfort of their homes, offices and other remote locations, for example, using money stored in digital wallets on their smartphones), who have had to travel to those ECG offices to wait in longish-queues, to pay their bills.

The question to ponder over, dear critical-reader,  is: Would you invest in a company whose leadership had allowed  a situation in which a key revenue-assuarance  digital-payment-platform, had collapsed, to persist for so long, anaaa?  Haaba.

There are certain heinious crimes, such as treason, killing security agency personnel on duty carrying out national assignments and cybercrime,  for example, which our complacent and hard-of-hearing ruling-elites need to overcome their unwillingness to sanction the carrying out of death sentences, for, oooo, Ghanafuo. Yoooooo...

Mandatory death sentences, which is what all cyber criminals  deserve for their egregious nation-wrecking activities (in one's humble view), are a must:  because when they begin being carried out in vigorous-fashion, they  will swiftly end the prevalent view amongst cybercriminals from across West Africa,  that Ghana is soft-touch-haven for them. Simple. Case closed. Cool.

A quick note to Wilmot Dweh - a Gomoa Buduburam Camp Liberia media professional working to create a new green economic-pillar for Liberia

Good morning, Wilmot. It was nice seeing you again yesterday. I am praying that you and your Camp Liberia colleagues, who are attempting to set up a local branch of the  Congress for  Democratic Change (CDC), the ruling party in Liberia, here in Ghana, will be succesful in doing so.

Above all, one hopes that the idea that your branch of the CDC's contribution to the transformation of Liberia into a prosperous and equitable society, will be to help make the commercialisation of ecocoboard production, a new ESG-bedrocked green economic-pillar for Liberia, which will create wealth that remains locally, and generate  jobs galore: with a value-chain whose smallholder farmer-stakeholders are empowered to bootstrap their way to financial independence, through agroforestry.

As I intimated to you, on my part, as my humble contribution to ensuring your success, I am happy to place my personal network of global contacts at the disposal of you and your colleagues. My doors are also open to you whenever you want to meet with me.

Finally, do remember that is vital that your Gomoa Buduburam Camp Liberia refugee settlement area branch of the CDC, when it is established formally, collaborates with the Liberia Netherlands Business and Cultural Council (LNBCC) - as it is through them that the Dutch private sector partners needed to ensure funding for any successful ecocoboard production commercialisation-project-execution, across Liberia's coastline counties, will come on board, to create this much-needed new green economic-pillar for the good people of Liberia. I wish you all well in that noble endeavour. Peace and blessings to all you!

A quick note to Ohemaa Paaapabi Bertha Adu - explaining the import of a viral video recommending local lending markets instead foreign funding sources

Ohemaa Paaapabi Bertha Adu,  in short, what the gentleman in that viral video says,  is that in a COP-underpinned-era, in which lack of commitment to ESG-principles, can affect a nation's credit rating, negatively, it is much better for Ghana to rely on alternative sources of funding for projects, instead of foreign sources of funding projects.

Let moi give you an explanation in simple terms: For example,  if Issa Ouedraogo had taken his unique and highly successful  agrisector social-impact business, B-BOVID, to the Alternative Exchange of the Ghana Stock Exchange (GES), to raise capital for expansion, instead of accepting an approach from so-called foreign investors, Moringa, who turned out to be crooks fraudulently cloaking their unethical enterprise as a social impact agroforestry investor, to enable them use Ghana as a conduit for gargantuan-money-laundering, today, he wouldn't be fighting them to reclaim his life's work,  and legacy.

So, in short, Ohemaa Paaapabi Bertha, he is recommending that Ghana  looks to internal sources of funding  (such as our capital markets, including the Ghana Stock Exchange,  and the insurance sector, for example),  to the Ghana  government, if it needs  to borrow longterm funding for development projects, instead of using its awoof-route-of-choice: money from canny Chinese banks,  Eurobonds and the like -from which powerful and well-connected state-capture rent-seekers, make a killing, in small-percentage-commissions.

Unfortunately for  Ghanaians, issues, such as the opacity of public procurement contracts, big-fat-brown-envelope-lobbying that gives stakes in businesses set up by foreign crooks out to rip-off Mother Ghana, to the big-thieves-in-high-places who dominate our system, and are destroying our natural heritage to mine gold with total impunity,  contravene  the now fashionable required-commitment to  ESG principles  (profit, people and planet, basically), which, in today's COP-underpinned era for humankind's progress,  affect out national economy's  outlook, in the arcane-calculations of the all-powerful rating agencies, such as Moodys. Hope that all the above helps, somewhat, in giving you a much clearer big-picture of the import of that viral video  - although it comes from an ignoramus and uneducated old fool: moi, Kofi Thompson. Cool.

A quick note to Issa Ouedraogo - on exposing Moringa's egregious corporate-criminality

Good morning, kindred-spirit. Another day,  and yet another opportunity to make a difference.  It shall be well, in the fullness of time. Onyame entis3,  Alata ni,oooo, wai, Massa.

Today, let's focus on getting both your delivered-speeches ready, by mid-day, wai, Massa.

The idea is to use both events, as  opportunities empowering you to advocate for  Ghanaian farming to transition to ESG-bedrocked 100% organic farming  -  for you, a demonstrably easily achievable on-the-ground  practical-goal: if your unique, profitable and highly succesful  social-impact B-BOVID Farms Ltd's profit-sharing agrisector business model is replicated nationwide.

The radical thing to do, in terms of using both events to  expose Moringa and their super-expensive-to-acquire  Danduruwaka-lawyers, is simply to incorporate  your email response to Nanai Ace Ankomah's email to the chairperson of the Ghana Arbitration Centre panel constituted to hear the matter,  as the evidential-summation of the systemic-challenges you are currently grappling with fighting the racist greenwashing-carpetbaggers from France - who are here to engage in money-laundering, using earmarked agroforestry funds for Africa, to cloak their  mammoth-sized money-laundering scheme.

Make the point, forcefully, that it is an allegation you intend to prove in the law courts, backed by gathered-incontrovertible-evidence of Moringa's egregious corporate-criminalty -  and that you will do the exposure of Moringa's corporate-skullduggery, not before an arbitration panel that does not consider such corporate-criminalty, but in the appropriate fora for adjudicating issues of corporate criminality, in our system: the law courts.

Ditto that you are doing so because they are important food security issues which the authorities in Ghana  must ensure never occur again  -   if your proven and highly successful climate-smart agrisector social-impact business model, is to flourish: as a private sector  well-funded,  truly-transformational and fit-for-purpose 100% ESG-underpinned climate-resilient green economic-pillar, creating wealth that remains locally, and generating fulfilling-jobs galore, across a renewed and prosperous  rural Ghana, full of happy active-citizens, contributing their quota to the all-important  nation-building task we all face in a turbulent world in transition. Cool.

Please don't tag me into your Facebook page posts

One regrets to announce that henceforth, one will no longer share tagged Facebook  posts, on one's widely-read Facebook page, till further notice. Full stop. Hmmm, ey3nsem piiiiii, oooo, Ghanafuo...

Please note that as matters now stand,  for online-existential-reasons, and longterm-brand-resiliency pėurposes,  it matters not a whit to moi, who you are, or what your tagged  post  is about  -  just don't tag me,  wai. Full stop. Di wu lane  mu, wai, Massa. Period.

Since the geniuses into whose grubby hands our Motherland, Ghana,  has fallen, suddenly woke up to the threat to their egregious-dissimulation, posed online, by idiots like Kofi Thompson, on social media platforms, I have suddenly experienced a spike in  complaints to Facebook (as many as five now)  that "according to independent fact-checkers", I have shared false news  -  all of them genuine and innocent tagged-posts I shared, only because I wanted to publicise good causes. I have had enough.  I am human after all.  Haaba.

The question that a wise and aspirational African people like Ghanaians ought to ponder over is: Who are these faceles Kafkaesque "independent fact-checkers", who are now creating the online building-blocks for tomorrow's  tyranny,  in Ghana, koraaaa? Hmmm, eyeasem, ooooo...

That said, let the word go out loud and clear: Kofi Thompson will not be cowed. No. No. No. Case closed. One simply refuses to allow the hirelings of Ghana's  greed-filled  big-thieves-in-high-places,  to get yet more  opportunities, to negatively impact the global-reach, and influence-footprint, of one's widely-read social media platform pages, including one's Facebook pages.  Full stop.

So, dear critical-readers,   neither send any friend requests to moi, nor tag moi into your Facebook page posts, for now, ooooo, wai -  at least not until the metaphorical muddied-waters are clearer,  to moi.  Obiara endi ni lane mu, wai,  Massa. Kofi Thompson too knows how to read tea leaves, paaaa, oooo, wai, Massa. Sarjewah.   Cool.

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.