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...
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....
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...
