Acknowledgment Of Your Expressions Of Emotional Support To The Suicidal Ghanaian Woman In London

With deep appreciation, do I publish this article to acknowledge the varied expressions of readiness by various Ghanaians to support the reported distressed and suicidal Ghanaian woman in London.

Honestly, I am overwhelmed by the contents of the emails sent to me by all those willing to offer our dear Ghanaian woman emotional support in the hope of speeding up her recovery from her illness which she disputes, although the medical doctors know best.

As recognition is vital to the success of every establishment of teamwork, I shall not hesitate a second to come out publicly to declare my profound appreciation of the initiatives so far taken by certain Ghanaians to mitigate the depression, heartbreak and the concomitant clinically-diagnosed mental illness of our fellow Ghanaian compatriot.

My foremost thank you goes to God Almighty for endowing me with that kind heart to be of service to humanity. Without his grace and abundant mercies upon me, I could not do the things that I do which sometimes wrongly incur the wrath of some people upon my family and me to culminate in insults on, and physical threats to, my life and/or law suits. However, if I know to be doing the right thing, I fear no foe.

The second in line to be extended my thank you to are the Managements of Ghanaweb led by Mr Francis Akoto, the founder of the website, and Modernghana.com. Without them, I could not reach out to the worldwide reading public with my views, messages and appeals for help for the poor and needy persons in their time of great need.

As Peace FM online following a law suit against them by Lawyer David Annan acting at the request of Mr Alfred Agbesi Woyome, abandoned me, Ghanaweb and Modernghana have continued to offer me publication access to their websites. Woyome sued them on the understanding that they, Peace FM, had allowed me to use their website to publish incendiary views with the potential to incite the Ghanaian public against him when the news of his defrauding Ghana of GHS51.2 million first broke out. I was sued in an Accra High Court by Woyome but only for the case against me to be thrown out by a judge months later.

Nothing can deter me from executing my rightful duties to mother Ghana and/or pursuing the collective interests of Ghanaians. Law suits, empty or potential threats, insults and blackmailing are nothing to me as long as I know to be doing the right thing even though, I can be emotional at times.

Ghana High Commission in the UK could not wait for me to contact them; they rather took the lead to contact me just after reading the publication on Ghanaweb. I am very appreciative of their efforts. I have liaised them as well as all those I am about to mention, with the woman. I know they will be of great help to her.

On receiving an email from the High Commission with instructions to contact them following the publication, I did, and then passed the information available to me, or as I could volunteer at that moment, to them. From the woman, the High Commission made contact with her as soon as I furnished them with those further details they needed. The urgency to contact the woman as could be detected or confirmed from the voice of that member (name withheld) of the High Commission enormously boosted my confidence in God using human beings to procure her the needed assistance.

Kumawuhene Barima Tweneboa Kodua V has also made contact and the woman’s details have been made available to him. I am sure he has by now made contact with her to express his support and to find out how best he could be of help to her.

All the following persons who are at the moment unknown to me have enquired from me about how they could contact the woman to see how best they can assist in her speedy recovery and/or to secure her her children.

They are Mr Joseph Essiful, Mr Emmanuel Okang (probably a pastor in Ghana), and Mr Kofi Ata resident in Cambridge in the UK. Mr Ata is a legal brain and a fellow internet columnist. He could have come down from Cambridge to London to visit her but an urgent travel ahead of him in the next few days has obstructed him from showing up to see her personally. However, he has arranged some lawyer to contact her. May I seize this opportunity to convey my deepest condolences to Mr Kofi Ata on the death of his maternal uncle in the USA hence the traditional obligation for him to travel across the Atlantic Ocean to the US to attend his funeral. On his return, he will certainly contact our dear distressed Ghanaian woman in question.

The rest are Mr Joseph Baidoo, a member of the Seven Days Adventist (SDA) Church in London. As soon as he became aware of the sad news, he promised to organise some SDA members to visit, and pray or offer her emotional support; Mr Roger Balchin, Mr Gortle Mensah a family member of the woman residing in the USA, Mr Robert Frans in Canada, Pastor Lawrence of ROK Chapel in Ghana, Mr Ben Kumi, Mr David Boamah, Ms Elizabeth Asiedu, Ms Fiona Adomako and Noble from QN Group.

A programme presenter (Mr Kwaku Osei) at PCG Radio Germany, doubling as a host of Abrokyire Abrabo programme on Sundays evening has also made contact with me. However, in showing sensitivity in handling this delicate case, I may not be of much use should I go on air on his programme as wished by him since I cannot reveal any further details to aggravate her already precarious situation.

I had it my mind to make an official appeal for presidential phone call from His Excellency President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to the woman if that could ameliorate her situation. Despite the President having far more important issues to deal with, I am certain he would have gladly found time to give the woman at least a minute phone call if I had made the move. What can be more important than saving a person’s life? How God in whom he believes and entrusts his entire life and all that he does would be happier with angels making jubilations in Heaven if he did that.

The President who I fervently address as Joseph, Moses or David of our time; a liberator appointed by God to set Ghanaians free from their many years of economic captivity, from the ravages of official corruption and all other denigrating problems would gladly oblige if I had made the request. How proud he would have felt receiving such a request from me? However, I will leave the Ghana High Commission in the UK, the representative of Ghana, Ghanaians and the Ghana President in the UK, to continue with the noble job they have started.

Finally, may I inform the pastors, elders, deacons and deaconesses and the members of the Church the woman used to frequent to fellowship with until her illness that it is never too late to start performing their Christian requirements towards her, a woman in great need. Remember, the bible says in Matthew 25:40-45;

40 “The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’

41 “Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. 42 For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, 43 I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me.’

44 “They also will answer, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?’

45 “He will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these; you did not do for me.’

I rest my case. Once more, to all those who have contributed, and are still contributing, towards the speedy recovery of our dear lady in distress, I sincerely extend my thank you to you.

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