for once!

yeah pal,

for once in a light year...Kufuor has spoken to my heart...

i haven't fallen in love just so you know!
but i've surely been born again perhaps!....(surely---perhaps!)
but for once this man KUFUOR who i consider a very BIG MISTAKE FOR GHANA even though change was needed ABSOLUTELY in the year 2000 from the then ills of ndc has spoken to my heart (i repeat)!

He says from his CANDID opinion...we shoudn't rush to elect DCEs just yet! and i must say i've read the reports...didn't hear him on tape...but the language sounds ok! it reaches my heart (another repeat!)

and i TOTALLY DO NOT agree with him because i believe (IN MY OWN CANDID OPINION TOO) that democracy must emanate from the people and electing DCEs to make them accountable directly to the people instead of having them appointed to be yes-men to the president by an all powerful Ghanaian president as defined by our CRIPPLED CONSTITUTION! is just one of such 'complex' ways! period! i'm too much of an idiot to think it's too easy a thing to do though!

The man Kufuor makes his point in a rater direct U-turn move after promissing us all that he was a championg for electing DCEs. that i would always hold against him. and i remember his U-turn on the promise of cutting ministirial appointments and hangers ons! and his noise about how come we were importing too much rice when we could grow rice in Ghana............i would always hold those against him as just a fraction of his failures! and it wasn't that i even expected him do wonders! no!

i was just thinking aloud, what if this man had kept such tone on issues so dear to the hearts and minds of all Ghanaians! wouldn't we have been better off than all the nonsensical insinuations and insults he hips on percieved in imaginary political oponents and enemies! wouldn't we!

i'm just one of those who more than believe that the bus stops with leadership...there's not much you can do about that. so first thing is to acknowledge this bare fact! second is to make sure that you thread such that you RESPECT US who voted or did not vote you into power!

we must all have space to breathe...space to air whatever we feel...so if you tok som i for tok som too...even if i have nothing to say...and i don't have to agree with you!

cheers and nice w'kend pal!

fooling in the name of the LORD

Lorrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrd! have mercy!

pal, I go to attend to official duties. now this chap feeling perhaps too happy that his problem is solved would not let me move on and wants to take advantage to talk me out of what i once told him that i was a traditionalist!

CHRISTO!
the chap man recalls me telling him some time back i was a traditionalist with full blast to the hearing of a female colleague who also jumps in. she's interested...in helping convert me! holy! so to avert any time wasting i try to tell that i also go to church and that i was only joking with chap man the other time...holiness...wrong number!

so a full attack is launched on the devil in me preceded by words in the bible to convince moi! okay! i declare that i accept YESU...just so that i get my freedom from these ones who think the best thing to do during office hours is to preach to a soul like me! why fool around in the name of the LORD!

and i declare to myself...next time this chap man and woman need assistance i'd definitely tell them that i'm having prayers with another preacher man in another office!

i'm no traditionalist and i just don't do religion!

in the name of CHRISTO!

soul brother

I approach the Tetteh-Quashie Interchange and here, hitting my face wide-flat is a huge billboard of burst portrait of a self...almost dressed like a pretty young Sir!

yes...and me thinking that he is an addition to the too small (yes small!) a number of contestants for president of fatherland Ghana!

I was wrong!

He was gone to soon, so loudly the caption declares on a closer look: 'gone to soon'!

and i wonder; what the heck is this? and yet I know it's not a new thing to hit man (i've seen loads in K'si) but sure this is something that must just stop! why WASTE, and yes, why waste so much money on a thing like that...a thing that only hits a face like mine only to announce to me and all who see the demise of a soul brother: RiP.

yeah we know you got enough cash but why don't you rather use it to setup an educational fund for the poor kids in 'soul brother's' village for sure there are loads there who need that kind of assistance!

IntoSoulTime...
I'd see you when i get there!

the war of peace

pal,
someone said that if you want peace prepare for war!

VIOLENCE:
i don't know how you'd take that but i and i for the love of me believe beyond all fantasy clad in any PEACE banner however fake or true that violence is not always a bad thing! it can't always be! can it?

let a bullhead pull a triger to your head in the dead of night in an attempt to rob your underwear!

even those who read the bible know very well of the numerous violent takes that ensured that God's children (Israelites?) were preserved!

and not too long ago, it took violence to stop the madness of Adolf Hitler! and folks down town like legendary Yaa Asantewa were on hand to make sure the rule of the Queen of England and her fellow uninvited colonialist were violently checkmated!

and of course one cannot mention all the examples like the many more like the French revolution...and the ousting of mobuto sese seko!

PEACE:
pal, this is not a vegetable you could just buy from the market. ONE MUST WORK FOR PEACE...

that is why i find that it was very stupid (oh...i just broke my promise to me, myself and i <but not to you, sorry> to keep this really diplomatic) of the presidential debate panel to even think of 'catooning' the candidates into pretending that peace lies in holding hands as a show of it! well, i mean why cheapen the quest for peace??? a symbol of peace is definitely not a bad idea but pal, what happened at the last presidential debate in Tamale can only pass as concert as how they were asked (almost fooled) to follow intructions like kids who need a drill to learn!

for me it appears that we are just pretending too much that we want peace! do we really? if we do why ain't nobody talking about justice? why ain't nobody acting fair? if we recognise that this country does not belong to any one political party then certainly we must not allow bias and cheating where the tax payers money is concerned!

when I switch on my tv and it accidentally lands on GTV, i see nothing but cheating! why ain't nobody talking about the clear disadvantage being meted out to the opposition parties in terms of taxpayer's airtime? last sunday I watched GTV (a very rare occurence for me these days) and I actually watched with wide open eyes just so i see some more of the open and shameful cheating on the part of the ruling npp. and here, there's a news item on the political prostitute Frances Asiam who is organising a show for defectors to npp and or so...the next moment it was about Asamoah Boateng (minister of info) who goes to donate some money to his people to vote him back into paliament. Finish! those were the only political news! (really?)

and right after the news came a whole time consuming documentary on the campaign launch of Alhaji Boniface (that in 'currupted' twi would definitely mean 'bad face') in Salaga constituency which i'm sure even Obama would not have had cheap! but this guy i'm sure got it free but if not for peanuts becuase he's part of the ruling npp! but well i watched it and i watched it carefully. I'm not one of those who don't listen to opposing views...i listen and i listen very carefully if i have the time...and i take the good and throw the bad back at whoever is spewing shit! well...

so let them who think peace would come once we sing songs and and have presidential candidates hold hands in a catoon fashion think again pal. we have a shameless lot abound who do not see any good in ensuring that the taxpayer's field is even for all! To think that these npp folks led by Akufo Addo are ones who not too long ago went to court to seek redress when they were in opposition for fair broadcasts and that they came to power riding on the slogan of 'positive change' is sickening enough! do they understand what positive means? it appears some just want to use catch phrases...

and i keep mentioning taxpayer...yes that is the crust of it all. That the resources of concern here are not for any private person or political party! they are for the country Ghana for intercource sake!

TRUE CHANGE MUST COME TO GHANA AND IT MUST COME QUICKLY!!!

cheers pal!

The second Debate

credit: picture STOLEN by me FROM myjoyonline!

So the second presidential Debate just finished in Tamale and I was here in Accra listening in on the radio thanks to the orgasmic deal of technology!

and I wonder again why they are calling it debate! and why is it so bias a platform by excluding the other candidates?

well my pretty quick views:

STAR Q:
The text book questions did not tickle me one bit! and most of those came from Prof. Adae-Mensah...and and and all the candidates did ok on those. just a few for seperation for those.

For me the other moderator Isreal Laryea was the one who DID the show with crafty questions! and my whole assesment are on the answers by the candidates to those questions:

a simple but powerful (my star question) one was: how much is an affordable house?
and note that the question is for candidates who each wants to become the next president of Ghana. and what do they say?
a. Dr. Mahama (my natural choice for president...natural because i seek ultimately decency in leadership at this time of Ghana's life) makes the point that twenty thousand Ghana Cedis (this Kufuor's innovation is crazy enough...why not just cedis or Ghanaian cedis...but Kufuor and his cronies say we should call it 'Ghana cedi') is what is affordable for a house in Ghana. WHAT? that is pure nonsense my dear choice for president. IT IS...NONSENSE AGAIN!!!

b. Akuffo-Addo agrees with Dr. Mahama. I have a feeling he was taken off guard by both the question and Dr. Mahama's response. pity! but....WHAT? THAT IS NONSENSE Mr. Akuffo-Addo my ABSOLUTE NO! choice for president. NONSENSE AGAIN!

c. Dr. Nduom says you have to take income into consideration. beautiful answer by all standards anyday. That answer would stand firmly rooted into the reaches of time and space against all odds. beautiful!

d. Prof. Atta Mills also says income is crucial and adds that an amount that can be paid over a period of 4 yrs or so is ok. Definitely also beautiful answer just like Dr. Nduom. very much rooted in the full expanse of time. beautiful.

e. My Answer? definitely what i describe as beautiful. I think both Mahama and Akuffo Addo were off the beat. and more seriously I think the figure of 20,000 Ghana cedis (thus little less than $20,000) by Mahama and Akuffo Addo is not realistic enough! what are these men talking about? how many Ghanaians (out of the total 20 million or so) make 20,000 Ghana cedis in even a whole year?

I thought that affordable must certainly have somewhere in it's armpit, yes that very armpit at least; the number of people WHO CAN! number of human beings (not kangaroos!)....number of Ghanaians...wrong? and sure that word which carries the meaning 'affordable' must also have somewhere in it's belly the prevailing economic situation! TALK about the many workers who don't get their pay like the railway workers and so on! enough said pal.

HERE AND THERE:
(In answer to another brilliant question by Isreal laryea (that what really does each candidate consider as the difference he's bringing to the table or chair) here's my pick: All the candidates try some but Akuffo Addo adds something very crazy!

Akuffo-Addo once again convinces me that he does not deserve my vote. This man tells me he comes from a tradition and holds hardcore to the belief that every man and woman in this country must own a house...and that, that is what they call 'property owning democracy!'.

Pal, that certainly can't be a statement of being true to even one's own self. definitely not. It's too much of cheap shit talk. you ask me why? well just take a more careful look at it. assuming it was possible as per his 20,000 Ghana cedis affordability measure for everyone including a fool like my idiotic self to own a house to him/herself under the sun! haaaaba! so what would we have? 20 million houses all over the place? each man and each woman with his/her own house owned by him and believed under property owning democracy by Akuffo Addo??? (and population has never been stagnant so far). Do we consider the effect on the earth on this one? how much space would we have for farming? football? Schools? and air to breathe!

so even if we all had all the wealth and the ability to do what Akuffo Addo says he believes in, we dare not try it cos it would certainly amount to playing foolhardy of the extreme order higher than the order of the 'self-awarded' medal of his former master (and mentor by HARD force, me think) Kufuor! is this man for real? the last time he told us that food prices are on the decrease...is this man for real??? well, i wrote him off my thumb a long long time ago and yet he keeps doing little and little to almost nothing to convince my idiotic head.



DIFFERENCE:
I continue to make my point pal. simple: anyone who continues to tell me that the current administration is a standard to follow does not deserve my vote! It simply means that person does not realise the ills of leadership that has plagued Ghana! the main problem with have is not money is not food is not gari and shito.

THE PROBLEM WE FACE IS LEADERSHIP! as for the rest, we have what it takes to feed us and put shelter over our heads. WHAT WE NEED IS THAT LEADERSHIP THAT WOULD POOL OUR ENERGIES to exploit our resources for our development (and i don't mean industrialization, just!). some think development means industrialization...and that makes me wonder how many industries are there in Britain. well, another topic.

The leadership we've hard under Kufuor has been too close to shit! me think. a load of mess!

Nduom was okay today too. and beautifully for me Mahama woke up too today. and Atta mills too was sharp enough. Clearly Akuffo Addo, had some pep talk to do better oratory today! but those are not the substance for me and so I won't dare attempt a ranking like i veered off the last time.

I'm staying focused on the harder issues! sure!
Thank goodness and badness though that all the other contestants admit that there must be a change. Only Akuffo Addo says we must keep faith with the current mess. He is not serious me think. So there lies for me the one and simple difference again.

CHANGE MUST COME and it must come pretty fast pal.


cheers pal!

sober Bush???

This man has earned my DIS-respect pal. He is Bush the bush!

but I love him. I love Bush as a human being just as i love Hitler any day as a human being just as I love love Mandela just as I love Mobuto just as I love Obama anyday. They are or were all human like me, with good, bad, mad, WONDERFUL, beautiful, foolish and idiotic attributes! some more than others definitely...Maaaaad-NESS!!

so Bush says he regrets? (some)

well, thanks to 'Mawu Sokpolisa' (God the Sokpolisa) that he does if really he does! at least it shows that he perhaps now more than ever realises that the world is more complex than telling us that you're either with him or against him. Such a myopic two-dimensional way of looking at life. shit! (ah this word! ... lovely word).

so well, Bush, I'm listening. but to say you regret is not enough...apologize and repent!

and then I might just listen again...maybe, just maybe...you might earn some of the respect back...that certainly is a tough challenge for you Mr. Bush...cos i wonder if by any measure you can earn it back...you'll have to work extra hard...and you might just get it back...cos it can only be earned.

but I assure you Mr. Bush, I love you!

Golden Jubilee House ???

Pal dear,

talk about doing good things wrongly!

Ghana today witnessed a 'funny rush' by Kufuor to commission a so called Golden Jubilee House for a presidential palace.

and Kufuor the president says (among loads of trash as justification) that the money for it from India was God sent for Ghana! That's what he said...and what do I have to say? simple, yooooooooooooooooooo!

For the records, and perhaps for a note of history (everything is history these days), I must say that I'm not against our leader (I always prefer 'leader' to the label 'president') having a fitting place for an abode 'complexed' with offices for government biz like No. 10 downing street in London or the Aso Rock in Nigeria. I have no problem with that principle, No!

But clearly, most of the arguments (and i say most) being advanced by the leader of Ghana and his cronnies simply do not fly no matter what perfect wings one may find for them. They constantly make it look like anyone having a problem with the ediffice is against the idea. I dare say either they 'just don't get it' or that they are out there to throw mud and more mud into our clear eyes!

one of such arguments is that the current seat of government (the Osu Castle) does not fit because it once served the colonial master's slave trade. And I just don't understand this spill of shit...for want of a better expression??? (maybe). but seriously I don't think this is a good point to make cos then at this juncture, one may dare to ask: why are we still residing in this country? why don't we relocate somewhere yet to be discovered on earth (if there's any such place) BECAUSE SLAVERY OR SLAVE TRADE WAS CARRIED OUT IN THE WHOLE LAND and the Osu Castle only served as on of those many points?

why do we continue to glorify our chiefs and kings when a load of them are descendants of slave masters or human trafickers (i'm one who is totally against any rule by a so called chief or king by the way anyway all the way)! why don't we even escape the whole earth because we are too holly to submit to the lessons of slavery! what a shameful argument to make the construction of a so called Golden Jubilee House!

so the building is not fully completed and yet Kufuor my beloved Kuffused wants to rush in there and start doing whatever there...after making so much noise earlier that he wasn't even interested in moving into the building before the end of his term.

By the way and for the records, one of my main concerns with this whole building is the siting. I THINK THE SITING IS JUST TOO WRONG. bcos it does not take into consideration the fact me think that Accra has more than become motor-traffic choked! For this simple exercise of commissioning to be done today, traffic flow had to be blocked first...and the police announced it...sad, me say! so Ghanaians must be ready for more of such inconvenient blockades to allow for the all too vissionless endeavour of Kufuor my beloved Kuffused!

I wonder how many years this building would serve a meaningful purpose if nothing is done about the traffic-flow! I've been too Nigeria to see the Aso Rock and for me that is what I would call vission. In as much as I would love (not like) government to be close and closer to the people but ours actually makes a lot of nonsense of good judgement! bcos right infront of the premises is one of the major roads in Accra that also leads to the 37 military hospital-an easy reason for allowing free uninhibitted flow of traffic...but hey, someone thinks not obviously!

I would not have a problem if some place like Cantoments or Roman Ridge is where this building was rather located away from heavy traffic.

and what is Kufuor saying we should call it? GOLDEN JUBILEE HOUSE? well for a Kuffused who labels a ministry as 'Ministry of Tourism and Mordenisation of The Capital City' (yes...The Capital City...yes, mannnnnnn!) I don't find this out of place at all. It sounds sweetly in line with a certain philosophy (mindset?) which i find hard to fanthom!

I think seriously Ghanains deserve better than this building which i don't know how long it would serve us! I have a feeling it won't be long before we realise how useless a thing we've done to ourselves (did i just include me? I don't want to- I'm a free man no matter how i'm tied in man).

meanwhile, the French Embassy is still within the premisses as Kufuor goes ahead to commission. I, (comma) am not going to belabour the security concerns of the French Embassy...but i just think that their presence in the premisses is just outa place enough! somebody get them outa there b4 it's too late!

talk about doing good things wrongly!

man, the whole move is just too wrong mennnnnnnnnnnnnnn.....................................................

NO, @bama!

Pal,
I won't wait for Obama to take the oath of office no! no, Obama no...I won't wait!

sure I gave my support to Obama from the very onset in the race for the presidency...and I would do it all over again should same contest be staged out in a 'nostalgic' replay (you know i really wish the contest wasn't over so soon!).

I just finished listening in to BBC radio and David Amanor is in Ghana pitching his own cross-breed self (we call them half-cast in Ghana) under the focus on Obama's race- is he black or white? he want's to know what Ghanaians think or how they relate.

me say pal again and again, let Obama be yellow or purple or green or collourless...for here we go again on this interesting but non-essential!

but hey, the deal is done and now we face the real issues: Iran is one of them. And one of the reasons I love the guy Obama was when he made it clear and i quote:
"Meeting with somebody is not tantamount to agreeing with them," READ MORE

so what has happened:
1. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Iranian president, has congratulated Barack Obama on his US presidential election and called for "fundamental and fair" changes to US foreign policy. click here

that is a fair deal me think; considering how divided the world has become due to the 'all knowing' Bush who does not realise that the world is more a complex place than his 'only-two-dimensional' view that you are either for them or against them! what foolish way of reducing the world's potentials. **bite** wo...wo...wo...wolf...dog?!

so what? so Barack should simply reply to Ahmadinejad's congratulatory message. NO? it's only a message of congratulations...be disisive Barack...respond and tell him his concerns would be looked into...(and that wouldn't be tantamount to agreeing with him according to one of your own reasoning...why i am a supporter) that is more of a better tactical play than delaying the response.

Pal, I DETEST THE FACT THAT IRAN IS CALLED an islamic state...human beings live there for fuck sake...not merely a bunch of 'religious-no-matter-whats'. So I would not want to see any country labeled by any religious fanatic after his/her belief...LET THERE BE NO CHRISTIAN OR ISLAMIC OR ANTOA-NYAMAIC STATE(after Antoa Nyama - one of the many gods in Ghana)...we are a free people for orgasm sake!

2. And then Obama says that Iran developing nuclear weapon is unacceptable? YES IRAN CAN...yes they can! and why can't they when America has it's own stock of nuclear weapons? Pal, me think America is a funny establishment! America is the only country in all of man and woman's history to have launched an attack of weapons of mass destruction on fellow human beings-HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKI OF 1945 (more here). Yet Obama want's to dance to the tune of the establishment? how dare him? And so why won't Iran blast Obama...yes they must..and i agree with them...well somehow!

Of course i fully appreciate that this sh*t (the 'i' is not visible to sting??? hehehehe) is a dangerous minefield that needs a careful and balanced head...Obama! I'd would always be hopeful...yes I would!!

So what is my take? Obama should not push Iran away further into their dark corner! Obama must measure the weight of his words carefully...afterall i don't see why he made the 'unacceptable' comment anyway because it wasn't asked for explicitly...what was asked about was the Ahmadinejad's congratulatory message...as to whether he replied or not! transcrip here

Me think simply (and simply yes...amidst the complexity) that no one should have weapons of mass destruction in this world...not America, not Russia, not Iran and not even my own crazy self (else i would beat the whole world into submitting to my foolishness)!!!

so what? so if America want's Iran to recede from it's development of nuclear weapons then they must do better than playing God and rather bring them to the negotiation table!

cheers pal!

YES WE CAN

Pal,
I present to you my experience of Obama's home run:


It hit me right from the audacity of hope announcement on the stairs in front of the dome in Springfield Illinois 2/10/07 and i got tickled...

and it became almost an addiction...right after the first bang step in IOWA...


to the speech on racial challenges, (March 18, 2008) a more than necessity after the 'unnecessary' noise about the free comments (yes free; no crime me think however distateful) of Rev. Jeremiah Wright...


to the nomination night victory rally and i remember before then, when lay on my hotel bed in Rabat and watched live on tv as Hillary just had to admit that it was about time she made way...and she did so so reluctantly...it surely wasn't an easy one for her when not too long before then she was the only one in the race really...



To the speech in the green victory column in Berlin -A World that Stands as One"July 24th, 2008, Germany...and where he presented himself as a true citizen of the world.



To the real hardcore, 'down in the trenches' battles amidst debates of the presidential campaigns, the nonsense of lipstics and pigs, the labels of terrorist and the Joe who never was a plumber..., the many stops of change and finally, a long, long way to the victory speech on the morning of November 5, 2008...drawing tears from the eyes of the likes of Jesse Jackson...

I believed...I just did...with all the readings in-between the lines...I just believed that this time, this day and this moment would come...and it did come...so profoundly couched in the dreams of those who came before us...

and the FINAL HOME RUN speech was well up on the right tone amidst all the jubilation and tears of joy...

"This victory alone is not the change we seek. It is only the chance for us to make that change. And that cannot happen if we go back to the way things were" ...said Obama to my rapid nod...

but hold on...medvedev of the Putin's Russia must surely know how to deal everyone a more reality check???

viva Obama!

I'm no Racist

I know this road
i know it so well
i could close my eyes
and still picture and map out
and paint for you all the pot-holes, sharp-turns, speed rumps and bumps

i've even probably been down it before, once or twice in my unconscious state

but please me
please let these words not only remain poetry on this page
but let it go down your CONSCIOUSNESS and right into your heart
and out to your fellow man and woman

and so today as i sit back in this but only one such space for a man
in this part of the world way away from the 50 states of America
monitoring online, listening to radio ad watching tv while praying
soul searching too
that the messages of Barack Obama may reign supreme on this day

that all men and women would reach fellow men and women deeper than skin-deep
that we all have a common destiny
that this world remains a safe and livable place for all mankind

that a black man like me does not only vote for Obama
because of the collour of his skin
because the very struggles of the civil rights era
championed by men like Martin Luther King Jr.
and groundbreaking women like Rosa Parks
must surely transcend the train of racial hatred
that all men are presented with equal opportunities
to realise their dreams, visions and aspirations!

I'm no racist!


NOTE:
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On this day the America goes to the polls to choose between Obama (African American) and McCain (White man)....and after having too many times said that I was in support of Obama not at all because of his collour, i just felt that I must restate this position because some of my friends just think it's not possible to do that for a black man like me....i find that sad indeed!!! I'M NO RACIST mennnnnnnnnnn!!! i'm not cosmetic!

I would have supported anyone who presented Obama's kind of message and even more! (I have my differences with Obama for sure---over US bias for Isreal for eg). Becuase for sure I wouldn't support Kufuor of Ghana or Idi Amin of Uganda or Kwame Kilpatrick of Detroit (USA). Character and message really counts...the balance must be good to get my support truely and truely!

I mean pal, this is the information age (global village...be it real or not) and let no one bog me down with self-ills like supporting Obama just because he's black! I would have naturally said that is stupid...like i like to say in the street...you know! but i wouldn't say that on this ocassion (as if i haven't already...hehehehe)!

and the funny thing is that, the majority of the voters (those whose CHOICES REALLY MATTER) in this election are not blacks...they are caucasians...and so why all the fuse if this whole struggle could just come crumbling in should the CHOICES come down to only familairity of skin collour!

It's history yes...and so what?...it would still be history even if he doesn't win...so history and so what? it would still be history if he wins and ends up screwing-up big time like my bizness...we need better galvanizing of our energies than just talking trash...and that's why I support Obama...also because i sense he sees beyond a note of history!

I'm supposed to be happy today pal...but this balooney just got me off course a bit...i'm done...

I'm off to the vigil for Obama...(and it's for a greater course than the skin collour)...that one...you betcha!!!