WOYRAM

 I can't stop obsessing over American series. Especially those ones that have to do with crime or mythology. And yes it has everything to do with their special effects. Sometimes I literally pinch myself as a reminder that it is just make believe blood or just some scary costume put together by a bunch of nerds, yep nothing to be scared or disgusted about (nevers works out, still scare myself silly). But I totally raise my hands in awe at the quality of acting, plots, srt designs and costumes (primarily because of Fashion Police> Joan Rivers and co). Joan Rivers is a mad lady. Totally hilarious.
That said, I always seem to find a new series to go insane over and it gets a bit annoying because I am never completely done with a one. Always jumping from one to the other. A bit whorish really. I absolutely blame the creators of "Game of Thrones"making me search all over for series to fill my gaping hole.Ought to sue them really, they should hurry and release the new season.... it is March already. Urgh and that reminds me the director of the movie "The Hobbit" says via his facebook page that the next and final installment in that series will be released next year December. 2014. Hmmm. Face in palm....I can never win the battle. Help!!! Sigh
.Welcome my new love Elementary. 

Let me give you a brief analysis >> Elementary stars Jonny Lee Miller as detective Sherlock Holmes and Lucy Liu as Dr. Joan Watson in a modern-day drama about a crime-solving duo that cracks the NYPD's most impossible cases. Following his fall from grace in London and a stint in rehab, eccentric Sherlock escapes to Manhattan where his wealthy father forces him to live with his worst nightmare - a sober companion, Dr. Watson. A successful surgeon until she lost a patient and her license three years ago, Watson views her current job as another opportunity to help people, as well as paying a penance. However, the restless Sherlock is nothing like her previous clients. He informs her that none of her expertise as an addiction specialist applies to him and he's devised his own post-rehab regimen - resuming his work as a police consultant in New York City. Watson has no choice but to accompany her irascible new charge on his jobs. But Sherlock finds her medical background helpful, and Watson realizes she has a knack for playing investigator. Sherlock's police contact, Capt. Tobias "Toby" Gregson (Aidan Quinn), knows from previous experience working with Scotland Yard that Sherlock is brilliant at closing cases, and welcomes him as part of the team. With the mischievous Sherlock Holmes now running free in New York solving crimes, it's simple deduction that he's going to need someone to keep him grounded, and it's elementary that it's a job for Watson.....whew!!
Umm hope I made the synopsis delicious enough to get you interested. (whispering) if it keeps you up at night and late for work every morning, I am innocent of all charges. You are on your own

Anyways, how are you this Sunday? The weather is okay for starters and ohhh surprise surprise I have both light and water at home today. Maybe I shouldn't be talking about that too much I should be grateful, you never know the powers that be might just read this post and decide to withdraw their services. Cough. Lets talk about something else. Umm what is interesting? Ok. Snap. Yes let's talk about Mother's day. It is Mother's day in the UK not in Ghana. Though I must admit I was a bit puzzled when I saw all the Happy Mothers' day messages flowing on Twitter and Facebook. Willing to bet that more than half of the people (cough cough) didn't know that the Mother's day was in abrokyire and not in Ghana, but in an attempt to look current decided to post away. Hahaa. Dont mind me all Mother's day is Mother's day. We cannot celebrate them enough. And the title of the post is my mother's name. Her name is Woyram. It means in I have been blesssed in Ewe. We are twins my mother and I. We look alike save the hair styles, talk alike, very conservative, big fans of Nana Akufo Addo (yes she is full blooded Ewe hahaha) with fiery legendary tempers. Well I decided to write this post about her because of an article I read by China Okasi. She is the founder of Daily Mocha and executive director of Women of Media. The title of the article is African Moms: Be patient with your married daughters. No I am not going to give you a synopsis on this one, I will encourage you to read it by posting the link to the article. Kindly find it posted below.

http://www.cp-africa.com/2013/02/16/african-moms-be-patient-with-your-unmarried-daughters-3/

I read the article and knew that China must have had my mother and I in mind though in the reverse. How?
I remember when I was with child in final year of school (Uni), my mother looked at me squarely in the eye and told me "You are not going to get married because of a child, over my dead body". Ohmyheavens I thought, what she talking about..marriage was my salvation, my last resort to whatever "shame" I thought I was going through. My only way to redemption. But as I roll the years back and forth in my mind, and I realise that was the best gift she ever gave to me. Over her dead body. Because I grew, my mind, my attitude, my convictions just grew. Everything. I became aware of my environment, when I was unsure of my thought processes I just read, everything and anything....now that I think of it I am sure that is where my love for politics and current affairs grew. I simply woke up from the bubble I was in and faced the world head on and this is where I am. I am sure that answers many a question especially my tough as nails attitude. This is who I am. I have been through my personal breaking point, what else can one do to me.
 I love the man I am with, I love the fact that I have his son but I am a better woman now and that will reflect in my choices as his wife and mother to his child. I am in no way saying those who get married because of similar circumstances are doomed, all I am saying is my mother saved me. Marriage is two people for the rest of their lifes, marriage is beyond the counselling, the wedding, the parties, the decor, it is when you close the door and you are left with you and your partner. So yes marriage would have been my escape route to whatever ridicule I thought I was facing, but it would have been my doom route at that time. My mom blessed me with a second chance to rediscover myself. I am sure if any of you knew her and directed her to read this post, she will just roll her eyes and look over her glasses and gently say "Don't mind NaaBia, she wants money for something...tell her she should forget it".  Hahaha....

Interesting world we live in. The journeys we go through. That is another reason I really detest people who act holier than thou. They have no idea that journey God has put us on. Hmmpph.
It is five already. Monday. Ironing for work. I protest absolutely protest that we still have not got any nerd in this century who will make clothes that wash and iron themselves. Who even invented the iron. I ought to go back in time and pinch him. Why didnt he create an iron that we could command to work on its on. Better still iron and give us chocolates at the end of it. Ah. Maybe when rLGs Hope City comes on board.....hahahahahahaaa.(this my mouth)

Time to go.

Bye.

Not amused that I am going to iron.

Hellllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllppppppppppppp.

The curious case of the E-Cigarette

 Good evening my lovely people. Once again let me apologise for all the mistakes in my previous posts. I am soo impatient sometimes in my bid to get my thoughts out, I forgot to proof read. Forget all the trauma I put you people through. Yes you deserve better. For nothing at all, you deserve to read a proper post without mistakes.
Nuerki Ata-Bedu thank you once again, for taking the time to point it out to me. As I said, you will proof read everything from now on. Might as well make you my manager. So umm please direct all queries to my new manager Nuerki. Please I want only dollars o, the rate at which people are spending dollars, it must not pass me by....(singing the hymn...do not pass me by)

How was your day, mine has been very fabulous. I just got in from Tema. Hectic day with a prospective client. It went well. But in the midst of the heat and traffic I happened to see a name that was trending on my news feed both on Twitter and on Facebook. Christopher Maurice aka Chris Brown. Hmm. I laughed, I laughed so hard because these LA, Hollywood, New Yorker "celebrities" will kill us. Haha. We are now even with Nigeria though you and I might have to analyse which "dupe" was more. Kim Kardashian went to Nigeria appeared on the stage for 5 minutes and was paid $500k, Chris Brown came sang three songs and then was paid $1mil. When you decide who tops the list let me know. But I think the Nigerians have beat us to this one. hahahaaha. Africans over learn everything. Eating, Dressing, Bleaching, Speaking, Showing off and now paying non-fa artistes to come and entertain us. That is why I laughed soo hard. We deserve every rip off, we are refusing to grow.

I even wonder what country we live in now. When absurdity stares us in the face, we brush it aside then when it becomes beyond us we resort to blind fury....then the fury becomes silent then we are back to business as usual. I took interest in Chris Brown coming to Ghana because of one major thing. His price tag. $1 million. I was besides myself in mirth that as a broke country (yes we are broke) a company can bring in an artiste and pay him that much. Yes you can say it is the right of the management of that company to decide what they want to do with their money. Cough...I doubt very much all that is their money. Cough! Cough! This my mouth! Ok lets interrogate that theory as it run through my mind. If it makes sense let me know, if it does not buy me cake...Umm wait before I even start with that. My little words of advice, Public Relations/Corporate Relations is an art. Some people are born with it whilst others learn it through school and become pros. You are managing the flow of information between an individual or an organisation and the public. Any lousy statement can make or break the company. When hiring PR executives, it is not all about dressing and it is not because the person is a lawyer. There should be lots of finesse because you are dealing with humans not idiots. If you have nothing to say, just keep quiet. Silence doesn't always mean consent, you know.

Well...over past week, rLG and its affiliates launched a project named Hope City. OK. I thought and still think it is a fabulous idea because it has audacity. It is the kind of project you hear Donald Trump raging about. A state of the art facility which will be a hub for technology. BUT the price tag. $10 billion dollars. Divided by 5 because it will be up within 5 years so we are looking at give or take $2 million a year. Yes it can be done BUT when something is too good to be true sometimes, that is exactly what it is. Anyways I am still wondering why this hub was not designed for somewhere in the North. What is the fear that people will not patronise the facility? Who said? Will that not be more reason for government to build at least an additional airport, recreational sites, more tourist sites there?*Face in palm* These things, these developmental things should be rolling off our finger tips by now. Or this one too, a commission or committee must sit on this. Ebei!!!!
I looked around me and wondered how much people use  rLG equipment. I only see rLG on my TV and even that the television presenters do not use it. It is like a white elephant infront of them. Then I thought hard and I realised that rLG is virtually in charge of the free laptops that were disbursed during the recent elections. The ones that had the picture of my President then candidate embossed on it. Hmmm. I thought hard again then I remembered that rLG was in charge of training the youth women and men who fall under the NYEP module for ICT (now GYEP or something like that). That is where my questions started, at least to myself.

1. What was the cost of each laptop?
2. How many have been disbursed?
3. At whose cost, the state or the campaign machinery of the then candidate, or the famous known phenomenon "friends of the candidate"?
4. The NYEP ICT Module what was the cost involved if any?
5. How much has been paid, if any?
6. When will we hear of it, at the Public Account Committee?

Yes 6 questions doing the electric slide in my head....so yes the $10 mil project how did he say he was going to raise funds for it again? Think I have to look for the articles that highlighted the launch again though I really do not remember seeing anything of that sort at least that could answer raising $2mil a year.So with all this mess in my head, hearing that Mr. Brown was coming into town, the official jam for the launch of the project, official jam for the 56th Independence day celebration, all I could do was sleep in my bed and ask when? When will we wake up from all this. We are even looking for what just $3 mil from the Chinese when we can easily ask that from...........(fill in the dots) So when will we wake up? Not now apparently.

Now rLG and CharterHouse just deal with it, the dude smoked weed! He did  and there is nothing that can be done about it. This is someone who beat up his girlfriend went to trial and got sentenced for that (though she has forgiven him), nothing can be more simpler than rolling a blunt. Spare us the e-cigarette excuse, spare us the slim cigar excuse, spare us the drama. Whilst you are at it, we have the right to be mad because we do not have light and water, our taxes will be increased (urgh) and we do not need these insult to injury kind of things. And to those radio entertainment journalists who are acting and fake accenting like we should stop complaining and get a life ummm (how do I put this nicely)....Ey3 krom ha p3 na sebe o, wobe nya saa tumi no akasa by heart, nas3 motra borders no na moko serious democracies eho na wobe hu aduma pa a entertainment journalists ey3. Enye di33 ehia ni, monko so endi agor) wai.

Forgive me if you do not understand the TWI language but there is no way I will write that in english. The dialect makes the point perfectly. Do find a translator and you will understand why?Ah the Fanti dialect would have been more apt.

Time check....6.16.

Lets call it a day!

Smiles.....

Rat Poison.

I have this saying, no i did not coin it is a saying I learnt from my colleague in my office. The first time i heard it I laughed so hard. It really wanted the words, it was how she used it, her face and all. She always used it when the drivers came back with long tales of how traffic, something or someone was the reason for delaying on an errand. You how some drivers can be always ready and eager to spin a fast one on you. She will patiently wait for them to finish the long story, sometimes even edge them on with compliments and at the end of it all, roll her eyes, pout her lips and say "nkura aduro" with the irritating smirk ever. Just try it out with someone who you are sure is fibbing, trust me they would not know what hit them. By the way, nkura aduro to wit means rat poison. Grin...Lets start shall we.

Good afternoon everybody, ete sen? Tomorrow is a holiday. whoooo hoooo!!! You must be happy but I think the holiday falling on a wednesday is a total bore. So ummm how did the budget go?Yes the one read by Hon. Seth Tekper (Minister for Finance in the 4th Republic of Ghana) how did it go? I did not watch but I am sure I did not miss much. Or maybe I did...what did the opposition write on their placards this time. hahaaha. Well aside the plenty finance jargon what else would he say? We will construct roads from Bole to Bamboi, we will construct 200 schools, Government had to increase tax, Government will do this and do that and Government is still Government. Nkura aduro. What else. Budget reading (not peculiar to this administration) is now a formality. Do not even debate that with me. It is part of the article something something in the constitution. Simply put "wham bam done". Formality it is. 
The action is what we see on the ground. Agor) ne fom. What did you do with the money you received the name of donor agencies and taxes? Where are the schools, roads, infrastructure, job creation avenues, food supply, investment in energy, education, human resource. The proof is always in the pudding. So if you come and read and conjure grammar, the state of the nation will definately expose you. And boy hasnt it done some exposing this year. hahaha.

What else can I say because really if you say it, you will be politically labeled or insulted. If you are lucky you will get neither but rather be fed with the spicy story of how Kufuor left the mismanaged the economy. Nkura Aduro. Just go ahead and I am biased, say I cannot see beyond my nose but I always ask how come the government of the then Mills- Mahama administration wrote glowing reports to the World Bank when applying for more loans and grants. 
Glowing reports about the economy they had inherited and how that economy was poised to meet its target especially those set in achieving the Millieneum Development Goals. Only for them to turn round ,look at Ghanaians in the face and vehemently swear that Ex. Prez Kufuor was the worst thing that ever happened to Ghana. Vomit but truth stands the government of the NPP was better business minded and better at fiscal mamagement though it was not all roses and chocolates. Just do your layman analysis and throw your mind back to when the recession hit the world. We could have been Greece though now I shudder when I think of the frail rope we are holding onto.  

Our national debt has moved from 9.5 billion cedis to 33.5 billion cedis. Yes that much in less than 5 years. Do you hear them disputing the figures? No? Do you hear their reasons? Yes? What are they? umm NPP caused all this, we inherited a bad economy, shortfalls in grants from international donors, the implementation of the Single Spine Salary Structure, higher spending on goods and service, adding corrective measures including hikes in petroleum prices have been adopted to bridge the gap between revenue and expenditure have I left anything else?. Infact what do I even have to say. Nothing. I chanced upon an article yesterday written on Bloomberg.com. It tells it all. I am waiting for their thoughts on the budget that was read. I have stopped listening to local media when it comes to issues like this. It will be filled with everybody's truth. I will rather listen, watch or read from the financial experts like Bloomberg who tell it as it is. Besides who else can determine the real budget than you and I, who take a paycheck at the end of the month and do proper budgeting. Yes you see agor) ne fom. The link is below. Let me know what you think as well.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-03-04/ghana-s-terkper-faces-budget-gap-as-mahama-plans-spending.html

Well, I said holiday right! As some of you might already know tomorrow is the 6th of March. Ghana is 56 years old. Ghana is celebrating its independence day. Independence from what again. Maybe you know so you can tell me. Yes yes I agree there are many developed countries who owe so much but celebrate their independence days with relish. Ok. Kindly note that you said developed. Are we developed. Or the faux middle income status is what is the developed. What are celebrating is it our peace? Then we should rather rename it peace day so that we know that all we need to do is to converge at the indepence square and worship God whilst the muslims do Allah and the traditionalists do shrines( though I wonder how the atheists would celebrate it) Is this the independence that Nkrumah was rushing for. Urgh! here we go again, we are going to hear a tirade of speeches about Nkrumah. Nkrumah RIP should be waking up and slapping some people by now. First in line should be the ECG, VRA and GRIDCO bosses. Hot blows to the jaw. Terrorise them every second till they tell us what is really happening and not the concert party things they have been releasing in the media. As if we are daft.

But it is a holiday. So I will sleep, eat, sleep and watch cartoons. There is nothing to celebrate because tomorrow probably I will have to no electricity to watch people march their hearts and souls in the name of their country. I wonder what the theme would be. And yes, who has been giving them those themes. Urgh once again. I hope they do not give a theme like "Private Sector the engine of growth the case of rLG". hehehehe. Nkura aduro. 
I hear Chris Brown is in the building, I hope the organizers have put in place safety mechanisms so we do not have any casaulties. Lord knows that is the last thing we need. 

But do have fun, people.....it is a HOLIDAYYYYYYYYYY!!!!

Have a good evening.

A tale of two P's...

my thoughts served HOT!

When you are confronted with the tale of two P's, you immediately tend to look at your relationship ie if you have one. You begin to ask yourself "what on earth can make a relationship turn so sour?", "What on earth can make a relationship end up in death or a beating with severe injuries.?" Makes you grateful for what you have, grateful for the man or woman in your life because really it can easily turn into that. Snap just like that. And do not go all christian on me and say "God is on your side". The kind of things that are happening these days especially in christian homes. Ummm don't go all Satan on me...sometimes it has everything to do with lack of common sense not everybody's favorite "blame it guy". No human is born evil or born with the intention to kill or maim (unless of course you believe in those movies and stuff some pastors say). A day of fun, a day of pain. Why can't the good days remain, why must relationships hurt?. Sigh!

Doesn't it make you wonder, how we humans think we have evolved. We think we are the finest species  leading the species on planet earth. Yes the good ol' human being, evolving through the times or is it rather years but always seem to snap back to absurd and very evil heights. Maybe another Charles Darwin should spring up soon and explain why we are increasing becoming brutish. One would think with all the education and advancement in technology would make us better....but we are evolving into 21st evil freaks. Maybe it is time, I get back to following happenings in Syria. Wonder how that is coming along. War, poverty, strife all part of the evolution of man. Makes you wonder doesn't especially those of you who believe we evolved that Charles Darwin might have missed something, some trait that reveals itself at some stage?. And those of us who believe in creation....dont you humbly want to kneel before God and ask why somethings happen? Who are the two P's by the way?. John "P"ainstil and Oscar "P"istorious. Two sportsmen, A Ghanaian and a South African, distinguished sportsmen in their own right, millionaires for what they are worth, celebrities and role models in their own right....their bane? violence against their women. Come to think of it, is it a mere coincidence that their names start with the letter P. hmm P must be in vogue...(haha...gotta laugh a little).

Moving along....I have heard all the excuses from  my friends, I call them defenders of the P....yes, weighed all their scenarios and options in my head, some absurd, some believable but my common sense tells me they did it. This is not the complicated case of OJ Simpson, this is clear and straightforward. Before I start with reasons why I believe we are being feed a whole lot of poop, I want to make it clear that I do not seek to judge them. What I seek to do is take you through my mind once again, what  I think about this. (hope you do not get bored). I for one think they are guilty but I do not think it was planned. There is something very clumsy about both scenarios.  Different scenarios all because of a extreme fit of rage.
Oscar P claims he heard a burglar in his bathroom, so he simply shot the burglar four times. From the autopsy, we find that she didn't die after being shot four times, hell i simply ask didn't she bloody scream. A bullet is known to tear into your flesh...just forget about the speed with which it enters the body focus on "tearing into your flesh"! Mercy! I bet she screamed and howled in pain. Is he saying he did not hear, is he saying that she was so silent through it all. It is simply not possible. Not as long as we have blood and veins in our body, it is not humanly possible. She screamed and he heard. Simple truth..he fired away.
Besides that just look at the plan of his house and its siting in such a gated community. High end no less and wait a minute...is he saying that the alarm didnt go off. Wow then South Africa certainly has high end burglars. "Mission Impossible" kind of burglars no doubt.

And what about John P....a beating which has turned into a field of who can deny best. Another situation in a high end gated community. These P's certainly have alot in common. I haven't heard him talking that is not to say his silence means his consent. Maybe he will do a press conference ala Tiger Woods but his wife is denying, now GFA is also denying (why are they now a PR team, if they know how annoying they have become since the AFCON, they will be hiding and whispering behind some curtain). Well GFA do you know what this denial makes you, a bunch of cowards because if nothing at all you, some of you have daughters. Just imagine if your daughter comes home beaten up and the person responsible says "oohhh it is nothing, it is just a small domestic problem, dont say it too much". How would you feel. I for one dont expect you you to get angry and react. *rolls eyes* Well if it was in their bedroom and nobody heard then that will be it, nobody will hear. But this is not what happened is it? His wife run, some say jumped over a wall but all the same she run to the neighbours for help (nobody seems to be denying that bit, why? yes your guess is good as mine) It was the neighbour who saved her, the neighbour who got bitch slapped, the neighbour who was mad enough to do the right thing ie calling the police, the neighbour who is so upset by the twist and turn and wants to sue John P. Yes the neighbour exhibiting good old neighbourly love.
Lesson learnt...when you see a neighbour running and jumping towards your house, shut all doors and hide under the table. Or?

What is the end result of all this...for my South African P...he might get off. His legal team looks and bites very well. LAWYERS!!!!hmmm. For my Ghanaian P, it is already dead on arrival. Because it is the wife who is at the center of it all. She says no it is nothing, what else can be done. She will be told be hush it by some friends and family and of course the GFA (pr management team), she will be told not to disgrace her family,her man and their societal status...blah blah blah but all of this without a regard for her. Without a regard for each night when she closes her eyes and relives the ordeal. All those people are not thinking about her possible reason for enduring this"her children" but it is all good. You can only wish her well and hope there is light beyond all of this. Lets pray she recovers from all of this.
Urgh. I just want to vomit after writing that, it is not all good, it really is not but what can be done. She says it is nothing!!!!! We should leave her alone. oh!!!

(deep breathe)

I have to end this post...before I write something that can make me get sued. As if I havent already.

Enjoy the rest of the day. Good afternoon.

PS: For whatever reason if you decide to stay in a relationship that has the tendency to get abusive, grow up a pair and feed the bully(man or woman) laxatives once a while. The heavens will definately sing the hallelujah chorus with you.

Deal with it...

Now I am getting annoyed. Yes NaaBia the lone ranger is annoyed. We are doing it all over again. Yes we have gone and made another man popular than he already is. I remember how upset I was when Prof Mills (RIP) passed away only for a tide articles to emerge. Articles penned by people showing off their ability to walk through corridors of power. It was very disrespectful at least to me. I did not blame them tho because hey they felt important and justified, we made them important. How? Every single day a story in our media about them, stories about their prophesies, stories about their escapades, intertwining them with our national fabric when they had no right to be there. So yes I was happy, not with Prof gone the way he exited but happy that all these hangers on will have no place in the new government be it the party I believe in or not. The emperor whoever that might be would definitely have to have new clothes. Covers face....boy some new clothes this new emperor of my country has!!!!

Knock! knock! Whose there?...enter Andrew Solomon.

Who is Andrew Solomon? Andrew Solomon is the President of Ghana's friend (deal with it). Andrew Solomon is gay and married (deal with it). Andrew Solomon is an advocate for rights for same sex couples (deal with it). And why are we talking about him? I do not know! Why are we making him so relevant that he feels he has to write an article in the New York Times justify himself and throw the presidency into a state of he said, she said,they said, I said....why?. So now he will be down as Andrew Solomon who is besties with the President of Ghana. His claim to the little fame he has. Come on people. Why? Yes I am asking you, maybe you can explain to me. Why the urge to discuss him. Of all the things we have to deal with. Anyways this will be the first and last time I discuss him. I do not support same sex marriages, I love my man too much. I love my ability to make babies for him too much to be thinking about that and so yes, I will also not waste my time over what someone does in his or her room or publicly( umm I think as for publicly the same sex people and the normal sex people are in the same boat). I simply will not. I believed then and still believe now that everyone one will answer for their sin. Every one will atone. So it is a simple matter of leaving them be. Deal with it.

The last time I wrote this on my wall on Facebook I was called a disappointment (my second battle wound... hahaa) by my friend Kwame Boafo Akufo and ummm some term like a posh elite. Posh elite according to Kwame is a person who accepts wrongs such as this. Really? OK.
Who said if you come out beating war drums then it makes it go away, it does not. You are dealing with humans though some of you call them dogs. The harsh reality is you rather create sympathy, you rather make them popular, you rather make them ride on the waves of your fury. Such a situation must fiercely. It is not screaming values and bible quotations that makes it better. It is by teaching good values as you and I were taught and as we know them especially to the young ones around us. Our brothers, sisters, uncles, nephews everybody who is growing and coming unto his or her own. It is only by educating people, by embracing people enough to pray for them and intercede on their behalf that you can begin to make a difference. But you still have to leave the rest to God.
Because honestly there is sin. Unimaginable sin (plus that) going on in this country and world large and yes you can only do so much. Who are you to judge? who are you to weigh one over the other...kindly put all on the same pedestal and attack with the same fury. Try and believe in the Ghanaian conservativeness. It will not be legalised. A friend said online that I should be there, it might happen...this situation has been with us from old our parents had it happening in their time, we also have it happening in our time what shows it is not time to legalise. I simply told him with the greatest conviction I could muster....well we have had prostitutes from old you don't see anyone in parliament drafting a bill in support of that. Or prostitution is a lesser sin?

And as for the President...all you can do is  to leave it to his conscience. Whether he met Andrew Solomon and his "wife" at a wedding or not, whether he call him to apologise after Hon. Ayariga misspoke or not..it is up to him and his conscience. If all the time H.E. Prof Mills (RIP) was vehemently opposing it (yes I recall the disgust on his face when he answered a question on this during meet the press at the castle) he had Andrew as helping him with his book. Don't you wonder if the good old Prof ever met him and shook his hands without knowing who he was talking to. Or what he does or in this case didn't know would not hurt him eh? ( hahahahaha...one has simply got to laugh over these things sometimes). Leave new Oga alone, his conscience will do its work.

By the way new Oga ummm when are you going to sort out the doctors. Yes! Yes! the doctors are on strike and we need them back. Deal with it. I can afford a private hospital but I absolutely support them. You know why? It is not fair that you increase your salaries (executive and legislature) and throw the humanity card in their faces. It is not happening this time. Then reduce your salary so that everybody will be humanised (haha). They need the money.
Please tell your people not to start politics with this because elections is over (right?! hahahaa) so no propaganda that NPP is influencing them. Fix the broken single spine. Just pay up. Please tell your people that this is not a case of people dying because honestly you can die anytime... nothing to do with doctors. I am not heartless. I am tired of my country and our "blind" leaders. I hope the teachers strike next, I hope the nurses join, I hope labour as a whole joins because Lord knows there is money in the Republic of Ghana. If there is money to pay judgement debts, money send our national team to and fro, money to spend on committees of all sorts and pay allowances, money to pay salaries of workers of GRIDco, ECG, GWL, money to spend party supporters to South Africa to watch football....ah then there is plenty money. Doctors do not go to work. Your claim is not in heaven, your claim is here on earth. Gye sika no, pesewas koraa gyi (collect the money, no matter how little)
If anybody says it is in heaven ask them how they know if you will go to heaven...don't laugh. I am serious.

Winding down....I want the new Pope to be black, tell the Papacy or Popedom for me. His name is Peter Turkson. No I am not catholic but I still want. Deal with it.

Have a good evening people.

Traffic beckons.

Forget the Gold.

Woyo-azonto. Gold- azonto. Much ado about nothing. That is exactly what it is. I remember how nauseated I was that we or is it rather that the state could not rise up in all its glory and collect money that was wrongfully taken from it coffers in the name of financial engineering. I was sick to my stomach infact still am that the state is dancing to some aloof tune...umm the state cannot find witnesses to prosecute this case. I mean how. It does not make sense or I am the one exaggerating?!
If I could not find any joy within my own country how much more when the issue is beyond the shores of Ghana. come on.

What else can I expect when some 1.5 ton of gold happens to get seized by Turkish authorities then it happens to get released and finds it way into Iran.
Mind you, an article currently on the VOA news website with focus on the Middle East tells a nice story of how banks in Turkey continue to send gold to Iran despite U.S. pressure to curb a booming gold-for-gas trade, which helps Iran skirt international sanctions(story by Dorian Jones-dated 24th January 2013).

So let me tell you what I expect..... nothing less of a denial by the state, by its officials especially at the ministry of finance, by everybody at the airport. Yes and that is what I got. Finite. Case close. An aircraft left the shores of this land with 1.5 tons of Gold and nobody knows anything. Soo cool. But not soo cool because I will not hear my favourite ex propaganda sec/deputy minister of finance and economic planning/ minister of state at the presidency in charge of finance and its allied institutions and an honourable member of parliament Hon. Fiavi Kwettey talk about how all the gold reserves are finished. (laughter) Oh yes...I remember hon. Fiavi telling the whole Ghana that Ex. President Kufuor had sold all the gold reserves. I guess we borrowed this gold (engulfing laughter). My advice to you who might be sad about this is to simply it. We are even lucky to be hearing about this. What about the ones you have not heard...all the things that have passed through our borders. Adopt the see no evil, hear no evil, watch no evil mentality. Unless of course, the 1.5 tons of gold is your missing gold....
Just forget the gold. it will not come back today or tomorrow. They have done Ghana antenna.

Anyways I did not come to write plenty about some 1.5 ton of Gold.... I am writing this post to tell you about a programme my friend and I are producing on VIASAT 1. It is titled MONEY MATTERS
before I talk about the programme, join me in applauding the brain behind the concept. Mr. Elorm Mensa. He is simply fantastic. To have the dream is one thing, to put it together (and try to tolerate me )is no small feat. Clap clap applause. Elorm kindly take a bow....(whispering* he is very shy).
But seriously, you and I agree that money tends to rule the world we live in. It is a major if not the major determinant in providing security be it food, clothing, shelter, services etc. In as much as we are told there are opportunities around to make us financially stable, the environment we operate in is not condusive enough.

Yes we are told that we are the next generation of Bill Gates, but Bill Gates himself will have suffocated in Ghana, if he had dropped out of school here. We are told that if you have a solid business plan and you will definately have a financial backing but seriously does that work in this country...we simply want to let that side of the golden age of entrepreneurship be heard. But there will be other topics...all topics that are relevant to every day living. The pilot for season is this friday. No I will not be on televison...Elorm Mensa will be your host. It will this Friday at 12 noon. Please be our critics. We want to know it all the good bad and ugly. umm more good tho...haha just kidding. But seriously do watch. I expect each one of you to note down all the every day hussles with finances that you want discussed.
We need to know that we are giving out the right information and most importantly we are discussing relevant topics.

It is almost time for Ghana to play Niger. Ooo I am panicking. I have placed a bet on my national team and knowing how they can break you ^&*()$#%^@@ER$%^^. (slaps faces) No I will not give up osseyy Black Stars, Ossey my Ghc 300 bet with Anny Osabutey aka the thorn in my flesh. But i am loving Asamoah Gyan. He refuses to play penalties. Man does not like any wahala.

Have a good evening and remember this friday. 12 noon.

PS. I cannot decide which makes me more nervous.....the Black Star match or you watching the show this Friday. Nerves, nerves!!!

Lots On My Mind...

a. DR. WEREKO BROBBEY

b. KOFI ADAMS

I have been looking for a heading for this post and I cannot seem to find any. What I know is as soon as I woke up this fine Thursday morning, I had these two topics above dancing in my head in no particular order. Dear post title, I hope you come out from where you are hiding soon. Well good afternoon to you too...Let’s start shall we. Politics in Ghana is very interesting, sometimes so interesting to the point of disbelief. We do and say soo many things with lots of short memory. I was not old enough to understand what was happening with his radio station been closed down or when he filed the suit against the NPP because he had lost the position of national chairman but because of his recent outbursts ala Martin Amidu style I decided to bother myself and go back into history. But before that let me tackle the issue that brought his outburst...the available parliamentary seats for Buem and Akatsi.

They became available because of the death of RIP Hon. Henry F. Kamel and the ascension to Speaker of Parliament by Hon. Doe Adjaho. Ok. These two seats can be found in the Volta Region of Ghana. Strictly nyebro.
Pause and think about this... (Forget about alleged rigging and Supreme Court matters arising or not) who in their right minds apart from the ruling National Democratic Congress will want contest these seats. This is not the national election where you sort of obliged to field a candidate come rain or water...these are by-elections under extraordinary circumstances.
RIP Hon. Kamel was really liked by his constituents, he is dead....what do you think they will do in his memory? Mind you, he was the substantive regional minister. Hon. Doe Adjaho is now the Speaker of the Parliament of Ghana. Such an honor. You think his constituents are in any rush to vote against the party that put him there....or I am the one who is seeing it differently. He has won that seat hands down I believe since 1996 and we are now in 2013. Do the math, are you kidding me.
Please if NPP did not even boycott those seats I will consider them extremely stupid. There is no way they will win.

Hold on! I know you are about to unleash "if it was Bantama will they boycott?” My answer is a simple no. Why? Because If you stand in Bantama whether NPP, NDC, CPP you are likely to win. If I am lying...look at the margins between candidates there and the margins between candidates in my mother's place of birth...Volta Region aka Chinese Bank. Big difference. Overwhelming difference infact.Sometimes politics in Ghana is not rocket science. That is why I believe in my heart that Dr. Brobbey wanted to say his thing a long time ago and didn't know how to say it till he got this chance. You have felt cheated sometime and went to court, a few years down the line, what is wrong if your "friend" decides to do same. What is wrong? Mind you.... your friend says he has evidence that he can use to prove the case, what is wrong?
What is wrong if the party that you once wanted to be national chairman seeks redress in court? What makes that wrong? Or the principle has changed. Or the party has informed a select few that once they are in court they will not contest any election in this lifetime? Why is he/people trying to make it look as if Nana Addo is desperately seeking to remain candidate? Am I the only one who has heard Nana saying that "I will accept what the court rules on finally"? Maybe I am and I should not be too surprised because that is what most people seem to take joy in. Cutting and pasting his words or worst case scenario totally becoming deaf to anything he says. Maybe I should be asking why does Nana Addo intrigue people soo much. It is very sad.

Yes the next point will be, he is saying this because of the interest of the party. No it is because of the interest of the nation especially the next elections and over that we understand how the biometric laws work so that everybody is clear in their minds what they are up against. Another point is he is Victor Owusu nephew. I am also Joseph Boachie- Danquah great grand niece, I am the cousin to Oseedeayo Ageman Badu the current Dormaa Omanhene, I am also the godchild of Prof. Emeritus Mrs. Miranda Naabia Greenstreet and... So what?
Mr. Victor Owusu is famous for criticizing Dr. Busia at a rally. My history (correct me if I am wrong) tells me of how Mr. Owusu openly criticized Dr Busia at a rally chief among reasons..."why are opposition elements finding jobs everyday and their people not getting jobs....ummm and why should we have relations with then apartheid South Africa". And ummm that makes the mentioning or it is public declaration of blood ties fascinating?!! Really?! I will leave that one to you to toss about in your head.

That is why sometimes I like General Mosquito. Once you leave the team and piss out plenty...no matter what you do to come back, he looks at you and laugh in his head. Guess it is time to roll Mr. Kofi Adams...But hahahahahahahaaa what was he expecting or he had forgotten himself. I am soo surprised he actually thought he was going to be accepted. He had a perfect living example. Dr. Spio Gabrah. Whatever he did after the Team A and Team B love letter was off no consequence. He has broken the bonds of trust. Reminds me of the mafia...your word is your bond. You are either completely in or completely out. Or he thought because the others were accepted, accepted without trust? You might as well stay an orphan!! Hahahhha. Please Mr. Adams very consistent next time around because you know what the General in all his glory has made you look very small. Infact very very small. Nothing much to say about this. When you make your bed of roses, don’t forget the thorns as you lie down. But we can make him honory Member of Parliament of Buem...or? Hahhhahha.

This is was not dancing in my mind but let me add it. I do not know the different stages of parliamentary work the minority in parliament intend to boycott but the vetting committee should not have been one of them. Oga in his wisdom with advisers in tow have selected people with some given them serious titles. Some of them overlap but hmmm because of post and pilolo skills...people especially the nominees are not ready to accept that. Thats ok. Really. As for the overlapping truth and territorial war fare....it will happen soon.
But who misses a chance to show someone that some of his choices suck. I sure know not me...Sigh. Peharps the answer I might get is who wants to sit with someone who has been fingered as being the mastermind behind the famous Woyome case. Where is the moral right/ ethic of that person in vetting potential public officers. That is Ghana for you. Once you think, you have nibbed the bud some where then another gaping hole appears. Will they vet Mawuena Trebah?! I would not want to miss that...working hour blues.

Have a good day though and please tell the Black Stars to score...or else we will send them to face the Malian insurgents. I still have not found a name...is lots on my mind ok? That should do.

Peace.