Eric Atta-Sonno
FOR HOW LONG SHALL WE CONTINUE TO BE DEFRAUDED?
Back at school, one of my Quantity Surveying Lecturers remarked that, anytime a government provided infrastructure in Africa, anytime State authorities provided freebies, anytime State entities provided services, the motivation underlying the provision was...
GETTING IT RIGHT ONCE AND FOR ALL
Power, it is said abhors vacuum and in all political power arrangements, it is critical that political vacuum is avoided as much as possible.
If what was exhibited by our Members of Parliament last Thursday...
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...
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...
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...
THE ELECTION WHO’S LOSS BY NPP WAS SALVAGED BY NDC (PART 2) (THE...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...