by Eric Atta-Sonno | Aug 19, 2022 | Scripts
“How a society treats its most vulnerable is always the measure of its humanity” – Ambassador Matthew Rycroft (United Kingdom Mission to the UN) A few weeks ago, my dear friend, I encountered a spectacle that shocked me to my bones. A man very well advanced in age had...
by Eric Atta-Sonno | Aug 14, 2022 | Scripts
Last Friday, I worked from my firm’s facility along the Oxford Street in Osu. In the course of the morning, I needed to pick up an item from the Total Shop close to the Koala Shopping Centre. As I stepped out of the Oxford Street Mall, my attention was drawn to...
by Eric Atta-Sonno | Mar 30, 2022 | Scripts
I did this piece as a follow-up to a write-up by the Rev. Emmanuel Ofei Ankra-Badu, an Apostle of The Church of Pentecost about the role played by the workers of Messrs Dormang Long and Salini Impregilo in introducing the Catholic faith to Atimpoku and Akosombo...
by Eric Atta-Sonno | Dec 10, 2021 | Scripts
Many years ago while undertaking my National Service in the VRA, I was reminded of a very basic lesson which I had actually been taught during Civics in Primary School. The lesson was that the premises of all power transmission services at all levels are out of bounds...
by Eric Atta-Sonno | Jul 30, 2021 | Scripts
In the last couple of months, a number of agitations have bedevilled this country with regards a number of issues. They have included among others appointment of ministers from Parliament, nomination and approval of ministers of state, equitable allocation of State...
by Eric Atta-Sonno | Feb 16, 2021 | Scripts
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 most likely...
