A Quick Note To Comrade Kojo Chinebua

Bless you, Kojo, you hit the nail right on the head, paaaa, oooo: most of Opana's people were corrupt. Speaking personally, I respect everyone I come into contact with - from bolamen, to society's high-and-mighty; but I am also very 'unGhanaian' in my relationships. I have no real friends, as such, oooo, alas. Deliberately - for strategic reasons.

When active as a media professional, in Ghana, I never took a bribe, to either kill a story, or promote an agenda, for greed-filled-bankrolling-lobbyists, as is apparently the norm in today's Ghanaian media world.

I deliberately have no friends - because I happen to be pretty ruthless in not favouring people who break the law: even when they are known to me personally. Cool.

So, there will be no inner-circle, to ruin my tenure as President. Ever. And, 2020, is simply the election year, in which one wants to have an influence on the national conversation about our post-COVID-19 future - and, above all, about the future of our new green national economy, which must be underpinned by AI and digitisation. Simple.

Finally, in the post-COVID-19 era, we must drop GDP as an economic metric - and, instead, measure good economic management by governments, only by the impacts of economic policies on the overall happiness of our people, and the quality of their lives, seen by all, in the high living standards they enjoy. Full stop.

That simply means, for example, that instead of counting, as part of our GDP figures, chainsaw lumber produced by illegal loggers in forests, and the dirty-gold produced by galamsayers (who invariably end up destroying valuable eco-systems in forests that are the watershed for river systems sourced for treatment to distribute as potable water nationwide), we rather focus on the protection of our forests, which are priceless national assets, because they provide us with life-enhancing, and life-giving, fresh oxygen-laden air, which ensures a good quality of life for all our people, Massa. Simple. Cool.