Leaked Phone Call With The President—John Evans Atta Mills

This is the transcribed Version of the thirty minutes phone call I had with prof. John Evans Fiifi Atta ‘Meals’ todayThursday 6th September, 2015 after TV3 mid-day news.

The caller although made it known to the law professor he was not being recorded, the constant beep on the recorderkept the law professor uneasy and suspicious all the while the chat was going on.

This is the ensued conversation………..

Wise: Hello…..hello…..hello……he…llo …..ooooooo sir……. Eiii this network!

Prof: yea…… hello. Can you hear now?
Wise: yes sir. It is ok now. Good afternoon sir
Prof: Eiiii! Is it afternoon in Ghana?
Wise: Yes sir.
Prof: okeyyyyy. It’s a long time I left there. Am still imagining how the day is by this time.

Wise: hmmmm. Sir, the sun is very hot [prof chipped in, “the sun is always hot and sunny usually in the day Iguess”] yes sir but things have changed. From the sun to the rain we usually experience in late April, early June andJuly.

Prof: My breda, hmmm . Anyway, how are you doing?
Wise: Am fine sir. We are managing small small.
Prof: Small small you say? Haven’t you left the university? Are you still battling with fees problem?

Wise: Yes I completed and ended my national service in the same year [prof chipped in, “that’s good”].

Prof: My breda, I saw your text message around 8pm last night and I have been thinking what could be urgent.Why did you have to wake me this time? What is happening in Ghana? Is my wife alright?

Wise: hmmmm [prof. what is it?] Sir ……….Ghana is gradually entering a ditch [prof cut in, ditch?...... economicditch or political ditch my breda?] Sir…….. I wish things could be explained to you by our journalists. I can’t chronologically highlight them to you like the journalists. Sometimes I try not to listen to the radio or watch TV. Things are gradually falling apart and we need a bail out.

Prof: but….. But …. My wife told me last time she called that IMF has bailed out Ghana. Why then another bail out. [Wise interrupted, Sir what we need is not monetary bail out only. We need…………] [prof cut in,” you need what? What does Ghana need again?”]

Wise: Sir, please…… I don’t want it to look like it’s a gossip but someone has to call and make it known to you. I heard Mr. Koku Anyidoho called to tell you about what the president said in Botwana? [prof interrupted “hey…..hey….. Nobody called me since I left Ghana. It is only my wife and you who regularly call. I have received a call from no one] Am sorry sir. [”Don’t be, you know Ghanaians are good in fabricating stories that do not exist and I never liked it till now”] hmmmmm!! Sir, I have decided to also add my voice to the debate in the country. I just don’t like it [prof sighed …… “My breda, you have to like it…… that is what is happening and either you get involved or keep mute. I was sent here forcibly because I always see things in the affirmative”] but sir, [yes……] somebody has to do the right thing for once.

Prof. Look, let me not hasten to say that I was pushed here for their selfish gains [whose gains] let me warn you not to pre-empt all that you think is awkward. Don’t be poking your nose into their affairs…….. Okey?....... Okey???……… do you hear me? [Yes sir] Very well…. Look, all those things you call cacophonies are not happening for nothing. There is a strong cartel that embodies all parties in power to behave as such. Do you think everybody would wish to be lying all the time on the waves or on platforms? [No sir…….] That is why I tell you politicians are not just liars. You have to lie to save another. [okeyyyyyy] what is it? Why Okeyyyyyy? [Nothing sir…. I just understand the point] in fact, my wife, Naadu cautioned me severally not to dance to the tunes of the party foot soldiers so that I can do what is right in the eyes of God and I think that is what has brought me to heaven. [I understand sir]

Wise: So sir…….. How come you never told anyone this? [Are you serious? You still don’t understand politics eh? My breda, politics is not for true Christians and muslims. It is dirty.] hmmmmmm. So……………? Sir…..

Prof. Tell me……… what are the doctors demanding that is generating lots of debates and causing many people to perish? Is my vice…… sorry His Excellency In the country? [Yes sir]………and what is his take?

Wise: Sir, ………………….. hmmmm. Dead goat ooooo. [What is that?] Our president made it known to some NDC residents in Botwana that he is not threatened and will not be threatened by labour agitation in election year. [eheh? what has that got to do with a goat?] Since there is going to be labour unrest on remuneration in election year, [yessss…….] government will not overspend in election year. He said…….. Sir….. Hello……….. Hello…….. [Yea…. am listening……. Write his name. He is coming from Ghana. A voice echoed behind…….”do you know him?” the voice demanded……. [Yes he was the former vice president. Alhaji Aliu Mahama} “okey, so where should he go?” [He is a good man, we sometimes disagree but he is good. Take him to my chamber]

That was one of the angels who interrupted the chat-[hello…… are you still there……..?] yes sir………….. Sir who was that? [That was Alhaji Aliu Mahamaaahhhhh ] okey, ….… So the president said like a dead goat he will not fear knife. When the goat is dead, no knife will threaten it anymore. [ hmmmmm.this man]

Prof . herrrhh, are you recording this phone call? [No sir]

yooooo. I don’t want trouble ooooo. Hehehehehehehe. You see, I think the doctors have to be listened to especially, and the teachers. They hold the country but as politicians we had to pretend they don’t matter enough. Anyway, if I were around I would have put things right. Wisdom… Let’s talk some other day eh? I have to accommodate some new visitors. They came from the Volta Region last week.

In fact, people come up here all the time but few come to where I am. The majority go to Gaddafi and Adolf Hitler or Sadam Husseine. [eiiii….. are they there?] Yes…… everyone who leaves the earth is either here or there.[hmmmm. ………0rye asem ooo]

Wise: Sir, I will call you when the need arise. My regards to Dr. Kwame Nkrumah. Please tell him Apart from the University of Ghana and the Kumasi University he built, everything he built is gradually collapsing due to lack of maintenance. The Akosombo dam is no longer able to supply electricity to the many increasing populated Ghanaians anymore. Something needs to be done. Sir, please call the president, John Dramani Mahama and talk to him. Because of the immense frustrations in the country, a young man with a gun attempted to kill him at the Assemblies of God Church he worships [jeees!!!!...... So was the man arrested?] Yes. He has been sentenced to 10years imprisonment. [ aww] but many have said the man is mentally derange [okeyy…… Yet still he shouldn’t have attempted that. A www. “Dema ade nye ooo…… Onye” ] we only thank God the young man did not succeed.

Please my credit is getting finished.
Prof: Greet all your bredas and sisters for me. Tell everyone I miss them and that, God is still in His miracle business. Onyame nka woho. [Amen]

Wise: Bye sir
prof: Bye bye me breda.
[ku…kuuu…kuuuuuuu]
[And the line went faint]