When Pigs Take Over Jubilee House…
By Ebo Quansah
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I AM a very angry Ghanaian of late. I have tried to keep the smile going in order to assure doctors at Cocoa Clinic, who are working tirelessly to postpone the time when the other foot will join the one already in the grave that they are not working in vain.
Try as I do, I keep being frustrated by actions and pronouncements from those who have hoisted the Umbrella at the seat of Government.
I get the impression that some leading members of Prof. John Evans Atta-Mills' front-line team that believe that this nation, formerly called the Gold Coast, is inhabited by men and women who have stopped referring to the grey matter. In plain language, they seem to be telling us that we are all downright dunces.
With the Mabey and Johnson scandal in the background, Mr. Mahama Ayariga put up a statement that tells much about the thinking in Government house these days. To add insult to injury, state-run Daily Graphic deemed it important to devote half a page to it in its Monday, October, 2009 issue.
When I finished reading the article, my immediate reaction was to reach out to my fellow Ekumfi man, who has appointed the one-time Bawku Central Member of Parliament as his official spokesperson.
It is the sign of the times that these days I am unable to reach someone who used to phone me regularly. When time changes, according to the wise old folks, one has got to change too.
This explains why there has been no contact between the President and my humble self, since my fellow Ekumfi man had problems with his Oath on that faithful day on January 7, 2009.
I do not believe though that all changes are good for society. The 'Yeresesamu' slogan for instance has brought quite a bit of problems.
According to the statement, Mr. Ayariga initially applied for two tractors and was in the process of looking for the money to settle his debt, when he 'CHANCED' on the Minister of Agriculture.
The minister is alleged to have advised that five tractors would do a better job than the two. It is a matter of two tractors good, five tractors better!
Who said the man trying hard to paper the cracks in this administration's inability to deliver, does not deserve better. Five tractors Mr. Ayariga ordered. All the tractors have been duly delivered.
There is this story about Kokofu and its football. In their game of eleven-a-side, if your brother is not on the team sheet, you are never likely to receive a pass, which tells much about the happenings at the old Slave Castle these days.
As I settled down composing this piece, my sub-conscious mind kept reminding me of the lyrics popularized by Jerry Hansen and his Ramblers Dance Band. 'Wonnea Sika Ba A Wokye die No, Wonnea A Na Eka Ba A Wokye Tua'! (Those who share the booty are likely to be those who would ultimately be called upon to settle the debt).
Forgive me if I have not done justice to the interpretation in the white man's language. It is one of the problems of society; some of us who should have done justice to the local dialect have still not really mastered the art of situating it in its right context.
That is only by the way.
The statement, according to the version that appeared in the Daily Graphic said, “Apart from the large number of tractors that the National Democratic Congress government was in the process of importing, an additional 2,000 tractors were imported with the expectation that every farmer who needs a tractor service should have access at affordable cost”.
“Unusual deeds”, wrote William Shakespeare in Macbeth breeds unusual trouble.
When the NDC was in the process (My simple understanding is that the importation has not been done yet.), how could what is available become an addition to what is not there in the first place?
The 2,000 tractors were imported during the Kufuor Administration. The Atta-Mills Government knows next to nothing about the arrangement that brought the tractors from India. But ye men of little faith, they cannot even acknowledge that the booty they are sharing is a legacy from the administration they chose to lampoon.
What has the NDC administration succeeded in importing through our harbours since it assumed power?
The last I heard, the Ghana Harbours and Port Authority is finding it difficult to balance its books because business has been unusually slow in the last nine months. “Can anything good come out of Nazareth”? the Holy Book poses. Continued
Source: Ebo Quansah
Try as I do, I keep being frustrated by actions and pronouncements from those who have hoisted the Umbrella at the seat of Government.
I get the impression that some leading members of Prof. John Evans Atta-Mills' front-line team that believe that this nation, formerly called the Gold Coast, is inhabited by men and women who have stopped referring to the grey matter. In plain language, they seem to be telling us that we are all downright dunces.
With the Mabey and Johnson scandal in the background, Mr. Mahama Ayariga put up a statement that tells much about the thinking in Government house these days. To add insult to injury, state-run Daily Graphic deemed it important to devote half a page to it in its Monday, October, 2009 issue.
When I finished reading the article, my immediate reaction was to reach out to my fellow Ekumfi man, who has appointed the one-time Bawku Central Member of Parliament as his official spokesperson.
It is the sign of the times that these days I am unable to reach someone who used to phone me regularly. When time changes, according to the wise old folks, one has got to change too.
This explains why there has been no contact between the President and my humble self, since my fellow Ekumfi man had problems with his Oath on that faithful day on January 7, 2009.
I do not believe though that all changes are good for society. The 'Yeresesamu' slogan for instance has brought quite a bit of problems.
According to the statement, Mr. Ayariga initially applied for two tractors and was in the process of looking for the money to settle his debt, when he 'CHANCED' on the Minister of Agriculture.
The minister is alleged to have advised that five tractors would do a better job than the two. It is a matter of two tractors good, five tractors better!
Who said the man trying hard to paper the cracks in this administration's inability to deliver, does not deserve better. Five tractors Mr. Ayariga ordered. All the tractors have been duly delivered.
There is this story about Kokofu and its football. In their game of eleven-a-side, if your brother is not on the team sheet, you are never likely to receive a pass, which tells much about the happenings at the old Slave Castle these days.
As I settled down composing this piece, my sub-conscious mind kept reminding me of the lyrics popularized by Jerry Hansen and his Ramblers Dance Band. 'Wonnea Sika Ba A Wokye die No, Wonnea A Na Eka Ba A Wokye Tua'! (Those who share the booty are likely to be those who would ultimately be called upon to settle the debt).
Forgive me if I have not done justice to the interpretation in the white man's language. It is one of the problems of society; some of us who should have done justice to the local dialect have still not really mastered the art of situating it in its right context.
That is only by the way.
The statement, according to the version that appeared in the Daily Graphic said, “Apart from the large number of tractors that the National Democratic Congress government was in the process of importing, an additional 2,000 tractors were imported with the expectation that every farmer who needs a tractor service should have access at affordable cost”.
“Unusual deeds”, wrote William Shakespeare in Macbeth breeds unusual trouble.
When the NDC was in the process (My simple understanding is that the importation has not been done yet.), how could what is available become an addition to what is not there in the first place?
The 2,000 tractors were imported during the Kufuor Administration. The Atta-Mills Government knows next to nothing about the arrangement that brought the tractors from India. But ye men of little faith, they cannot even acknowledge that the booty they are sharing is a legacy from the administration they chose to lampoon.
What has the NDC administration succeeded in importing through our harbours since it assumed power?
The last I heard, the Ghana Harbours and Port Authority is finding it difficult to balance its books because business has been unusually slow in the last nine months. “Can anything good come out of Nazareth”? the Holy Book poses. Continued
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Good one
Catoski | Tromsø-Norway (Norway) | 10/14/2009 9:28:00 AM
Good one there uncle Ebo!!! They should be told the truth which is hard to come by anyway. Have a good week.
When Pigs Take Over....
Kofi Asamoah | Saarbruecken-Germany (Germany) | 10/14/2009 5:47:00 PM
Well done, Ebo! I really enjoyed reading your write-up to the last full stop. Yes, I like your style. You see, what I keep asking myself is whether this pack of confusionists were indeed ready to occupy the old slave edifice called castle, and do the people's business - governing. Soon they have come to realise but to the detriment of Ghanaians, that governing is a serious business. It is not about throwing promises here and there, nor is it about wasting a whole nine months on witch-hunting spree by trying to find dirt on the past administration, and worse still throwing insults on former President JAK. You see, JJR alias comrade Napoleon and his immediate cohorts ( I do not count President JAM - our man from Ekumfi as part of this gang) should know that Ghanaians are not harebrained. Soon as Ghanaians came out of the Animal Farm in 2000 after 19 bad years, and started dusting themselves from the red dirt of that farm, and started seeing themselves in a different world, a new machinery came into gear. The new machinery was the politics of lies, personal insults, smear campaigns via SMS, serial callers and writers. It worked! And Ghanaians are back to square one. Another question I keep asking myself is whether our gentleman from Ekumfi can keep himself free from the notorious comrades from the animal farm era including the 'old man' himself - comrade Napoleon. President JAM is not having it easy and I do not envy him at all. The only hope is that perhaps their past deeds: monumental bribery and corruption will soon catch up with all of them - I mean those recycled loudmouths of the animal farm era. Then Ghanaians will perhaps know who is who. Until then we are waiting and watching!
