by Eric Atta-Sonno | Jan 30, 2019 | Scripts
Just chanced on circulation of these two cheques as purported payment of Ibrahim Mahama’s indebtedness to the Ghana Revenue Authority. Much as it’s refreshing that that money has finally been paid, I don’t think that it is proper to have cheques of...
by Eric Atta-Sonno | Jan 24, 2019 | Scripts
In the run-up to the 1996 Presidential Elections, the NPP had elected John Kufuor while NCP (renamed PCP later to be renamed CPP) had elected the sitting Vice President, Neenyi Kow Nkensen Arkaah. To offer a very credible opposition, these two parties went into an...
by Eric Atta-Sonno | Jan 24, 2019 | Scripts
As a growing child, I witnessed my father being an avid supporter of Kumasi Asante Kotoko Sporting Club. Anytime Kotoko came down to Cape Coast to play Mysterious Dwarfs or Venomous Vipers, he’d put his folding chair in his boot as he went to the Siwdu Stadium (just...
by Eric Atta-Sonno | Dec 7, 2018 | Scripts
As I lay in bed this morning pondering about the significance of today as National Farmers Day, my mind went back to the mid 2000s. As a technology transfer trainer who trekked to some of the remotest parts of our country at the time, I was a regular witness to...
by Eric Atta-Sonno | Jul 15, 2018 | Scripts
Due to the boycott by all opposition parties in 1992, the 1st Parliament of Ghana’s 4th Republic had only NDC members (189) and a handful of NCP (8) and EGLE party members (who were already in alliance with the NDC) with two Independent Members (Madam Hawa...
by Eric Atta-Sonno | Dec 8, 2014 | Scripts
‘A nation that does not honour its heroes is not worth dying for’ I grew up as a teenager living in one of public universities. As I trekked to school and back those days as a day student, my residential address was one which was virtually cast in stone for me – No....