She Who Must Be Obeyed…

Aisha Huang, until the war against galamsey began, was obeyed by Ghana's men of timber, the power brokers of our country. She could open all doors effortlessly.

She became so powerful in the country that the law enforcement agency and the Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) were somewhat at her beck and call.

Today, the political pendulum has swung to the other side and hell has broken loose for Aisha Huang and her gang of untouchables.

They service the insatiable libido of the political powerful and some custodians of our heritage. She used her beauty and the male weakness of our top men to the advantage of the galamsey business driven by her compatriots.

All too soon she can no longer wield that power which enabled her to push our influential men around in a manner their legally married wives at home would not dare.

It is clear to her now that the political order which gave her the obscene leverage to do as she pleased has been swept away by the thumb of Ghanaians.

A country which opens her doors for expatriate sex workers to come ply their occupation within it must undergo a major soul searching ritual.

We have fallen short of the attributes of morality as a nation; our institutions so politicized that their mandate are largely abused because politicians enjoy destructive leverages thereof.

There comes a time in the history of a people when important lessons must be learnt, lest things fall apart the centre no longer able to hold.

We cannot believe it that Aisha and other mongoloid sex workers could secure residence permits in Ghana and wield the kind of power we have learnt she did until her cup and the sophisticated galamsayers' she served- local and expatriate- were full.

Now we understand why the Chinese envoy in the country could muster the courage to engage with the former President and his government over the need to turn blind eyes on the galamseyers.

We are compelled to agree with the BNI report about the realities of the complex world of the galamsey business.

We are aware about how the adrenalin level of Aisha's long list of patrons has risen as they wonder whether this would be released for public consumption – their wives ready to pounce on them at home.

We have learnt about the intention of the GIS to investigate Aisha's status in the country but wish to remind them that an institutional failure occasioned by the undue political interference was by and large responsible for the infiltration into the country of the ilk of Aisha.

It is necessary however to identify officers who obviously succumbed to the pressure to allow such elements into the country just so future recurrence would not be tolerated.

It would indeed be interesting to find out how the Chinese used their local connections to bulldoze their way through GIS barricades.

The fallout from the failure of state institutions to carry out their mandate can shake the foundation of the country which is what we are witnessing in the story of Aisha and galamsey.

She and her galamsey gangs definitely see Ghana as a loose country where powerbrokers, be they in business or politics, can be reduced to nothingness by the might of sex.

The equation has however altered overnight as Ghana undergoes a silent revolution with President Akufo-Addo at the throttles.