Has Alan found his mojo while Akufo-Addo becomes a submarine?

Wednesday, April 16, 2014

My good friends, there is every indication that Alan Kyerematen has bounced into action, ratcheting up his political rhetoric to prove that he is on his feet to claim the slot as the NPP's flagbearer.

And he is doing so more robustly after the NPP's national delegates' conference. Any bolstering of his confidence now that Jake Obetsebi-Lamptey and Kwadwo Owusu-Afriyie (well-grounded Akufo-Addo supporters) have been kicked out?

Has Alan now found his mojo, especially knowing very well that his henchmen are now in charge of the NPP's bureaucracy?

The public to provide input into decision to sign EPA with EU?

Wednesday, April 16, 2014

Folks, I have read on Peacefm a news report under this heading, and really laughed my head (heart?) out loud!!

Don't ask me why. Obviously, the government has been putting the cart before the horse all this while; and it must just have realized its waywardness to know that truth.

How can the government not know that such a damning and suicidal contract with the vampires banded into the European Union needed to be placed on the agenda for public discussion before moving ahead to commit itself to signing it?

Boko Haram is surely not Nigeria’s problem to solve alone!

Monday, April 14, 2014

My good friends, the security situation in Nigeria is seriously being threatened by the heightening of terrorism by the resident Boko Haram.

The latest act of carnage traceable to this terrorist group occurred today in the Nigerian capital city, Abuja, killing more than 70 and injuring about 120 commuters in a car bomb explosion on the outskirts of Abuja.

(Source: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-27018751)

An eyewitness told the BBC: "I have never seen [anything] like that in my life. It was just terrible... We were just running helter-skelter. So somehow I think that they planted something inside one of the buses there.

"So there are many dead shot down at the scene of the accident. And as you can see now some of these casualties... we are hoping, we are praying they will be ok. We saw some ambulances bringing corpses to other hospitals."

Akufo Addo continues to be a major problem for the NPP

Friday, April 11, 2014

My good friends, the NPP is at the crossroads, even as it is all set for its national delegates conference tomorrow.

The party's constitution is being tested by Akufo-Addo whose stature as the flagbearer ended when he lost the elections on December 7 and 8, 2012. His dogged resistance and failure to come to terms with reality didn't change his status, as would be confirmed by the August 29 verdict of the Supreme Court.

But he seems not to know his bounds and is behaving like the potentate that he has constructed himself within the workings of the NPP.

Good suggestions to improve our democracy

Friday, April 11, 2014

The challenges facing our democracy are clear: governance has not improved to add value to the lives of the citizens. The status quo has been defended all these years, making it difficult for us to know whether this kind of democracy is really meant to serve the interests of the vast majority of Ghanaians or to perpetuate the ills that a warped political system entails.

Clearly, our kind of democracy has continued to serve the few privileged politicians walking the corridors of power while pushing the citizens further down the poverty line and provoking them to do acts that might eventually detract from the democracy itself.

As the NPP gathers steam and Tamale beckons...

Thursday, April 10, 2014

My good friends, even as we continue to acknowledge the enormity of the challenges facing the Mahama-led administration and why solving problems is taking too long, we can't lose sight of what is happening at the NPP front.

We will continue to monitor goings-on and comment on them with the view to raising pertinent perspectives to enrich the discourse on governance and Ghana's hope for the future.

I say so because of the impression already created by NPP leaders and followers that their party is the only hope for Ghana. This claim is all too pervasive, which is why we can't overlook happenings in the party, especially as it gathers steam for Saturday's national delegates conference in Tamale to elect national officers to manage the party's affairs for Election 2016 and beyond.

Stealing in the name of our democracy?

Thursday, April 10, 2014

Folks, it is no exaggeration to say that President Mahama and his NDC government are really pushed to the wall as far as solving Ghana's development problems is concerned. There is a lot happening to suggest that the going is really tough—and getting tougher every day as its governance style seems to be lagging behind the problems that either crop up every day or worsen.

So far, the depreciation of the Cedi hasn't been tackled to instill confidence in the business community. Neither have measures taken to tackle other challenges yielded any substantial dividend.