Category: Politics

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Loser Gets None

“Kpéndé, bliba, ne me fui asi wo dé ata via.” This is an Ewe expression which loosely translates as, “ will you cry if I snatched the food from your hand?”. As kids, we played some weird kind of games….

COVID-19, a Myth?

We saw the visible anger with which Mad Ursula Owusu ordered the closure of the MTN offices in Dansoman, for ignoring social distancing protocols… We saw the dispatch with which the pastor and his elders of a church were picked…

Of the Incompetent & the Misled

  Hopefully, in this December 2020, we’d queue again to the polls to repeat our mistakes. We’ve been at this for eons. Nothing is going to change. Not soon. We have opted for parliamentary democracy and we’ve been experimenting it…

The state of which Nation, Mr. President?

Good Evening, Your Excellency! How far? Hmmm,Your Excellency, you see, I have been trying to get a few ideas through to you before the ‘State of the Nation’ address today. They were basically signals and snippets of information I picked…

Mr. President, I want to go to town

Good afternoon Mr. President. This is the first time I am writing to you in the afternoon. It tells of the urgency of my perturbation. Mr. President, I want to go to town. What is this we are hearing? When…

Dear Mr. Mo Ibrahim, Take Your Money Go.

For the second year running, Mr. Mo, you have been sitting your somewhere, and after having some pizza and wine, you engage in this game of dangling your money before our eyes, raising our libidos; I mean our appetites, and…

Mr. President, Get One Right

Good evening Mr. President. Let’s do some straight talk. I am not amused at all tonight. Your Excellency, earlier this afternoon, over lunch, I had remarked to my colleague, that ‘like joke like play’, you and your NDC government seem…

Now that we have some cash

Good evening Mr. President and welcome back home. We didn’t miss you much while you were away. In fact, we have been very busy burning down the remaining markets. So far we are on course. There is statistics to prove….

Ghana is Finished

Ghana is Finished… It’s just a matter of time before the political hallelujah boys come jumping from one media outlet to the other, to rationalize an impending absurdity. For a while, I have elected to watch the game from the…