Kwame Nkrumah Tikese Of Okay FM Saves Ahafo Ano South’ DCE With His Explanation Of 'Tweeaaa'

Ghanaians entered the year 2014 with a lot of expectations, from better living conditions, a strong economy, uninterrupted power supply among others and I know my readers at this time will be saying “Tweeaaaaa, Tweeaaaaa' because what would be the values of these wishes and expectations without good health? Yes good health, the number one wish.

Ghana at the moment is at the verge of passing the GMO bill into law; a law which its implementation will have a very bad effect on the nation's health. But God knowing the end from the beginning, has given us the best antidote to the negative effects GMOs will bring on us, (Laughter) which is said to boost the human immune system than a medicine, by the kind courtesy of who has now become widely known as 'Hon. Tweeaa'

The DCE of Ahafo Ano South, Hon. Gabriel Barima, the Mahama of the area, recently forgot that 2016 is not far from here and that, he should have acted like a typical Ghanaian politician who turn blind eye to murder and anything alien to the Ghanaian and African culture, in the name of retaining power.

Per the definition and the interpretation of the Akan word 'Tweeaaa', I will not be afraid to say, Ghanaians are now totally assimilated not knowing the ins and outs of our language which formed part of our culture.

I used to hate Twi morning shows on radio because; they sometimes make you feel like Ghana is going to war the next seconds. But Kwame Nkrumah Tikese of Okay FM is giving me more than a reason to listen to radio in a language in which I will understand with my heart instead of my head “the late Mandela”

My usual way of updating myself with the latest news in town is going to face book to read the various headlines from online news centers like my joy, peace, AdomFm and the rest.

But this one was a different source, this time around; Manase Azure Awuni's facebook wall was so humorous, as the boy from Bongo was asking if what he was seeing was one of the usual movies made in Kumasi. But as the bible will put it, lo and behold, it was the Hon. D.C.E of Ahafo Ano South now a.k.a “who said Tweeaa”

Now why Kwame Nkrumah Tikese saved Hon. 'Tweeaaa'

Anyone watching the video for the first time may blame the president for not checking the man's level of tolerance before appointing him as a reprehensive of government. On the other hand, the Hon. Man wanted to tell that young man who said 'Tweeaa' that, “the food you didn't see at your mother's kitchen, is a forbidden one”

Yes if you've been doing this to your co-equals and they are ok, the Hon D.C.E is not a co-equal

What is the meaning of “Tweeeeeeaaa” then?

According to Kwame Nkrumah Tekesi3, Tweeaa is an Akan word which was derived from the word “Otweeaa” which in turns means Okraman, meaning a dog. These revelations came to bare when the linguistically experienced morning show host took time to explain to his audience the meaning and the origin of the word 'Tweeeeaaa'.

He further explained, whenever someone tells you the word “Tweeaaa”, he or she is trying to say you are behaving like a dog like seriously? The ministry of local government and rural development launched an investigation into the most famous and stress releasing word of the year 2014.

Investigation for what? The meaning of the word?, who said it (Tweeaa) or why did he respond? All the above are worth investigating into but I personally believe government informants who listen to Okay FM advised H.E the president to forgive the man looking at the degree of insult that single word “Tweeaa” contains and this is how the face of okay FM saved the man who could not act like a cat.

To Mr. Nkrumah, I say this segment of your show will go a long way to maintain our rich culture and I think your special segment needs a special sponsorship to enable you, bring it to your listeners unabated.

Now the facts of the matter, the moral and the ethical lessons we can get from 'Tweeaaaaa'

Since this good, unfortunate term for 2014 came out, we, all interested in making ourselves happy with it, most importantly as it helps to forget about the galloping fuel price adjustment and the cidi's escape form spiritual arrest we face these days.

One of the lessons we can get from this controversy, brings the practical meaning of ethics to mind if one analyze the meaning of “Teeaa” .yes the unidentified young man shouldn't have said that to the D.C.E but, ethics tells us to hold our breath in situations like this especially when one is in a respected position of this nature.

Another fact worth noticing in this case is the issue of calling a spade a spade and not a big spoon, in other words, the boy have said it and there is absolutely nothing wrong with what he said. I may be sounding contradictory here but look at this: “Tweeaa” means, behaving like a dog and how do dogs behave? Unlike cats, who will close their eyes to anything they don't like, dogs will respond to thing they see or hear and that is just what the Hon. D.C,E did.

In other words, the quick-temped man can also be considered as a woman with all respect my dear women, the African and the Ghanaian tradition holds that women cannot stand provocation a for a time but men can and always should.

But from the video we all watched, it is clear that, Hon. Barima was actually not reading a speech as he said “take your program, I've finish my speech” he was rather responding to interruptions from all angels which is so unethical of him.

Our fathers say,” when, you advice the cat, you should also advice the stinking fish to stop smelling” though the man acted immaturely, the boy shouldn't have said that even though the D.C.E's action cannot be compared to anything but that of a dog linguistically, my question to the young man is how will he fell if that man happen to be his father.

And to the Ghanaian politicians I'm calling on them to change the perception the citizenry have about them so that whenever they are before their subjects the people will put their parents in the politicians shoes and I believe when that is done, no one will easily insult a politician just like that.

Until you hear from me again, my question is how can the Ghana Cedi be co-equal to the US dollar when Archbishop Duncan Williams refused to arrest dollarization instead? Tweeaaa. Up next from my pen.

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