THE President, Professor John Evans Fiifi Atta Mills, has arrived from his vacation in the United States of America and I am sure his aides and advisors have given him a briefing on all that happened in his absence.
I am not too sure how much of the briefing was based on partisan political issues and how much was on development matters. I have taken it upon myself to tell the President about what I believe his ‘people’ have not told him yet.
Yes Sir, Mr President, please while you were away, I noticed that there were still no street lights on the ceremonial road that stretches from the Osu cemetery, past the fronts of the Parliament House and the International Conference Centre, to the Liberation Circle. After 6.00p.m., the place is as dark as the Dodowa forest.
Sir, please don’t ask me why I did not tell the Managing Director of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG), the Minister of Energy or the Accra Mayor because I am convinced that these men know that the street lighting situation in the city is generally very poor but have not done enough to solve the problem since you gave them the opportunity to serve the people. You are slow but sure, that I know; but I also believe that you care for us so you will tell your officers to do something about the poor lighting on the city’s streets. Thank you, Sir!
Your Excellency, fire has gutted the Ghana National Drug Programme offices in Accra and destroyed 13 years of pharmaceutical policy development and technical work. Materials destroyed included master plans for the GNDP policy document, master copy of the new Standard Treatment Guidelines, programme files, furniture, computers, printers and CD back-ups of several other documents.
Sir, I have visited the place personally and spoken to an officer who told me that lack of maintenance could have contributed to the fire outbreak. My source told me that the building that is currently housing the GNDP used to serve as a prison facility during the colonial era and it appeared some of the ancient wires were still in use.
Ghana has lost too many national assets to fire. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the residence of your friend and former President, J J Rawlings, and many others have been razed down. Sir, as for this fire issue you cannot be slow but sure about it, please! Equip the Ghana National Fire Service to educate the people on fire prevention and also give them the necessary tools to fight fires.
Ei, Mr President; I nearly forgot! The Chairman of your party, the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Dr Kwabena Adjei, threatened to cleanse the judiciary if the Chief Justice, Her Ladyship Georgina Wood, failed to purge it of the bad lots. Sir, your Chairman said many things but the one that caused a lot of fear, panic and alarm was his suggestion that there were many ways of killing a cat! Since then many ‘cats’ have been running helter-skelter looking for cover. Please advise the learned doctor to be slow to anger because cat killing could be against the laws of the land. And, Sir, your Attorney-General too appears to be speaking a lot of fine English these days but has very little to show for it. Sir, will you fire her or not….?
Finally, Mr President, all is not well with the Education system. The Minister of Education has threatened to keep students in tents if by the time school re-opens, the new structures being constructed by the government in the various senior high schools are not completed.
Again, the Minister ordered that O’Reilly Senior High School in Accra should be closed down and the students ‘shared’ like toffees among the other schools in the city. This was because the alleged owners of the property housing the school had decided to take over the buildings. Well, I hear the problem has been resolved but Sir, please look again at the education system because obviously all is not well.
And Sir, have you heard that the Captain of the Senior National Team, the Black Stars, Stephen Tornado Appiah had voluntarily retired from the team? Well, people were saying he was very old and that he was playing with ‘football age’ and that club assignments plus national duty was too tough for his naturally ‘matured bones’. Please wish him well for us! And Michael Essien too says he is on leave from the national team but as for him I don’t understand his reasons so please ask him again.
Sir, as you begin to work after your vacation in ‘Obamaland,’ please don’t mind anybody, especially those who say you are slow. Ok…you are slow and so what? After all, the tortoise can also get to the point to which the horse has run…Or…?
The Proprietor of the Great Lamptey Mills Institute, Mr Enoch Nii Lamptey-Mills, is arguably the ‘sexiest’ school proprietor in Ghana but his thing is always landing him in trouble. For the past one year, the once popular award-winning school owner’s name has been thrown in the mud and dragged into what seems to be a bottomless legal pit.
In September last year he was arrested for impregnating and forcibly marrying a former student of his school; he performed the marriage rites making the victim his wife.
In October of the same year he was discharged by an Accra circuit court after he had been charged with compulsory marriage. But the Attorney General last week ordered his arrest saying that the consent that the then 16-year-old Priscilla Agyei gave for her marriage was given under duress.
The Attorney is now saying that the matter will be pursued but due to some latest developments, which needed to be re-evaluated and investigated before going to court, it was thought unnecessary to continue keeping Lamptey-Mills in custody.
Agh! Since Mr Lamptey-Mills chewed that s-m-m-a-a-l-l meat , he has not known peace, ei! Indeed, this is an advice to all men; you can look as closely as you wish but be careful the meat you touch. These days, the small girls look very chewable but if you try; you will smell pepper! Mr Lamptey-Mills, it appears you are too sexy for your school; don’t you think so? Over to you!
CEPS officers face probe
Nineteen officials of CEPS are being investigated for alleged extortion, fraud, smuggling and abuse of office. The alleged cases of fraud and corruption at the Customs, Excise and Preventive Service are so pervasive that I don’t even want to talk about them. Because of the alleged fraudulent activities of SOME CEPS officials, some Ghanaians abroad do not want to send anything home. Me, I won’t say anything….or…do you have something to say? Tell the CEPS boss! Call him on 233-(0)302668319 and tell him everything.
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