Sometimes, one despairs. It seems that because of personal ambition, there are people on the face of this earth who would do everything possible and conceivable to advance their own interests.

There is an on-going tug of war between the Board of Directors of the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC) and the Director General, Mr. Ampem-Darko. The Board is doing their best to kick out Mr. Ampem-Darko, but he has secured the assistance of the National Media Commission, and is therefore tenuously holding onto his post.

Normally, I would have very little sympathy for an unprincipled character like Ampem-Darko, but principle is principle, and I am not Mr. Ampem-Darko, so I would say here and now that what the Board at GBC is trying to do him is unlawful!

But it seems that when you go to the GBC, we have more than one 'Ampem-Darko' at the place. Since Ampem Darko's troubles began, his immediate deputy has been doing his best, egged on by the Board, to get into Ampem-Darko's seat. What this bird seems to have forgotten is that he is just being used. He will be used to undermine Ampem-Darko, and at the appropriate time, he would also be pushed aside! But why am I wasting ink? In this life, certain people simply never learn!

As I said, the world is made up of all kinds of people. Child molester Nii Lamptey Mills has said that his troubles began when he received an award from President John Agyekum Kufuor for his contributions to education. According to him, he is being targeted for destruction because he is seen as an NPP person. Well, I beg to disagree. Mr. Lamptey Mills may be a member of the NPP (I do not know this for a fact) but it was not the NPP who told him to go and father a child with a teenager who was his student! In any proper country, Lamptey Mills would be in jail, and eh would have been barred from setting foot on any educational facility! Instead of moaning, I think that eh should have the moral courage to apologize to the girl he has abused and to Ghanaians in general for bringing dishonour to our national awards. I can assure him that if the facts were known that he is a child molester at the time he received the award, eh would not have received it.

In any case, I do agree with those who say that he should be stripped off the award!

Hmm! Our country is interesting! Sometimes, no matter how hard I resist, I cannot avoid delving into certain areas. Ghana's answer to political polling, Mr. Ben Ephson, says that he has interviewed ten thousand Fantes in ten constituencies in the Central Region to find out why they voted massively for President Atta Mills in election 2008, and his findings are that they did not vote for him because he is a kinsman, but because he was a capable person among other reasons!

Very interesting 'findings'! I would love to see the details of the actual leg work. My brothers and sisters, do you know how much it costs to interview ten thousand people over a period of six months in six widely spread constituencies? My brother, these so-called experts and the bunkum they serve us sometimes!

Speaking of experts, there is a gentleman in our society who would like the world to know that he is an expert in fighting corruption. Over the past few years, the very honourable Paul Collins Appiah-Ofori has been throwing his weight about all over the place, claiming that he is an apostle of anti-corruption. Sponsored by the National Democratic Congress (NDC) through patronage, Appiah-Ofori was responsible for making himself out into a nuisance on all manner of issues, but the matter for which he is possibly going to go down into the history books, is his allegation that his colleague New Patriotic Party (NPP) members took five thousand dollar bribes to vote for the approval of the sale of seventy percent shares of GT to Vodafone.

Now, the conditions around which he made this claim are very interesting. Apparently, and according to him, he had heard on the grapevine, through Deputy Speaker Edward Doe Adjaho, who was the Deputy Minority Leader, that the NPP members took the bribes. Upon hearing this rumnour peddled by a leader with nothing better to do that spend his time spreading scurrilous allegations, Appiah-Ofori quickly wrote a letter to then Chief of Staff Kwadwo Mpiani demanding his share of the 'loot', and when he was denied because there were never any such payments, Appiah-Ofori went public with the accusations!

When he was confronted, he said that he had never said anything like that, but in another breathe, he has said that he has the proof and that if he is challenged, he would bring out this so-called proof!

My brothers and sisters, would any serious campaigner against corruption wait to be challenged before he brings out proof against corruption?

Now, the members of the NDC are screaming to the high heavens because he has accused them of corruption. As the Asante people would say, otwea! They have created a monster called P.C. Appiah-Ofori, and now, they are going to have to deal with him!

You see, P.C. Appiah-Ofori's perfidy is simply unimaginable! Can you imagine that he is insisting that the entire contract with Vodafone be abrogated?

Ha! But what can you expect of a man who says that his wife infected him with gonorrhea and lives with two married wives in one house? Source: Kenneth Agyei Kuranchie, Managing Editor,The Daily Searchlight