My Scripts
HOW THE NPP HELPED IN ELECTING AN ‘NDC SPEAKER’
I spent a greater portion of the night of 6th January 2021 observing the nine-hour proceedings as the nation’s House of Parliament got itself ready to elect a Speaker and Deputies as well as have the 8th Parliament inaugurated. Having come from the background of a...
ABUSE AND IMPUNITY IN THE USE OF STATE POWER
I vividly remember how the Ghana government led by President John Agyekum Kufuor behaved in the run-up to the 2008 General Elections. The government had done so much with respect to the economy, putting in place social interventionist policies, etc and thus believed...
HOW DID THE GOVERNMENT TACKLE CORRUPTION (WHETHER REAL OR PERCEIVED)
In his inauguration address delivered on January 7, 2017, President Akufo-Addo pledged to protect the public purse. He declared, “We must restore integrity in public life. State coffers are not spoils for the party that wins an election, but resources for the...
THE ELECTION WHO’S LOSS BY NPP WAS SALVAGED BY NDC (PART 2) (THE ASSURANCES WE WERE GIVEN)
The period immediately preceding the assumption of Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo as President was one of excitement. It was very reminiscent to that of the election of President John Kufuor when Ghanaians could not believe that after a nineteen year-reign of the PNDC...
THE ELECTION WHO’S LOSS BY NPP WAS SALVAGED BY NDC (PART 1)
The 2020 General Elections was one that was heavily contested partly as a result of the outcome of the 2012 Presidential Election Petition which had led the Law Lords to declare that elections are won or lost at the polling station. With that firmly at the back of the...
BACK TO BASICS
I took this picture (of a portion of the La township) after voting as I drove through the La-Dade-Kotopon constituency last Monday. Just like hundreds of other constituencies, the voters here queued to cast ballots so they can enjoy the very basic essentials of life....
GETTING READY FOR ANOTHER START
So eventually the process ended and the Electoral Commission declared for us a President-Elect, one who will be sworn in on 7th of January 2021. H.E. Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo is the man! Having observed the entire process and gone through the results, I am of the...
WHILE WE WAIT
As the dust begins to settle on the 2020 General Elections, I have made some observations that I wish to share as follows: 1. Quite a significant percentage of Ghanaians were not enthused about some of the policies or behaviour of the NPP in government. 2. But this...
DEIFICATION AND PERSONALIZATION OF NATIONAL GOVERNANCE
For the last few years, our media landscape has been inundated by a cacophony of noises with regards to various infrastructural projects and who is supposed to be the rightful claimant for such projects. I have attempted to toss the matter up in my mind on a number of...
WHAT A MAN OF GOD! -APS. MICHAEL COLLINS ASIEDU
In 2008, the Chairman of the Estate Committee (Surv. Emmanuel Martey) drafted me to assist in the supervision of maintenance works in the church’s Mission House in Mamprobi Banana. As a result of the decisions of the General Council Meeting in May 2004, our Resident...
CELEBRATING A PAST RESIDENT PASTOR – APOSTLE JULIUS FRANKLIN ASANTE-AYEH
I joined PIWC-Accra in 1997 at a time when Pastor Anthony Miah (later Apostle) had been transferred from PIWC-Accra to Gabon as the first Missionary of that country. Within months, we received our new Resident Pastor, Julius Franklin Asante-Ayeh from Navrongo. From...
CELEBRATING YET ANOTHER PAST RESIDENT PASTOR – REV. STEVE MILLAR
“Now praise we great and famous men, The fathers named in story; And praise the Lord who now as then Reveals in man His glory.” - W.G. Tarrant I first heard of him in 1997 when he was scheduled to inaugurate our campus student ministry - PENSA. He was the Greater...
This is simply not good enough, Ghana!
This reflection is premised on the funeral of Nenyi Nkensen II (my former Senior House Master), I attended exactly a week ago. He was enstooled the Tufuhene of the Senya Beraku Traditional Area following the abdication of his predecessor Nenyi Kow Nkensen Arkaah, who...
J.B. DANQUAH IN A POEM
In 1945, Dr Joseph Boakye Danquah wrote a poem to celebrate his Golden Jubilee on earth.The poem summarised his life, profession and politics up to that time. Like or hate him, this I edited news and sold it; I dyed my hair and stopped it; I espied a truth and...
BIRTH OF GHANA’S SECOND REPUBLIC – WAS IT UNREASONABLY IDEALISTIC OR SIMPLY ILL-CONCEIVED?
By Eric Atta-Sonno Introduction Most Ghanaians associate the 1st October date as the Independence Day for the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Very few however know or remember that this was the day that the Second Republic of Ghana was inaugurated. That Republican...