Thursday, June 20, 2013 I return to the two main religious camps (Christian and Muslim) that the NPP has concentrated attention on for political capital. That was even why the NPP’s official national campaign for Election 2012 was launched with a non-denominational church service at Essikado, near Takoradi, which immediately drew the parameters for the incorporation of religion into the agenda for...

Thursday, June 20, 2013 Clearly, there is much shouting of “Halleluia” all over the place. Unfortunately, doing so doesn’t necessarily ensure or confirm piety. All over the world, politicians do all they can to draw support from diverse constituencies, especially the religious community. So is it in Ghana too. However, the impact of any support from the religious community is felt on Election...

By Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph.D. This is exactly what happens to an ungrateful and shameless beggar like the Mahama-led National Democratic Congress (NDC), with its desperate craving for and over-reliance on Chinese “development” loans. In the latest of such episode, a deputy Chinese foreign minister on a visit to Ghana is reported to have held a press conference, in the company of China’s...

By Kwesi Atta Sakyi  In Africa, perhaps only a man who is castrated or impotent may want to be gay so as to derive and experience some sexual sensibilities in the posterior regions. Also, because of poverty, some guys can become gay if that kind of social arrangement can put food on the table and meet their financial needs. Even then, many will not stoop so low. From another perspective, we have heard...

“The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have little”. FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Africa is rising, but who actually benefits? Indeed Africa is experiencing a tremendous economic growth and rated as one of the fastest growing continent in the world. This has however, left many with unanswered questions....

By Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph.D. It was almost as if to resoundingly remind Ghana’s embattled president that however far away from the land of great warrior-kings he flees or runs, Mr. John Dramani Mahama cannot hide. Another quite plausible interpretation of the widely reported chance encounter between Messrs. Akufo-Addo and Mahama could be that the former was simply around to remind the...

By Kofi Thompson Today, global public opinion, including that of political leaderships worldwide, want to see an end to banking secrecy, in tax havens. For decades, that banking secrecy in tax havens, has enabled corruptly-obtained money around the world, to be salted away in secret offshore bank accounts in tax havens. The question for patriotic, one-nation Ghanaians is: since the climate is now more...

Monday, June 17, 2013 Yesterday (Sunday, June 16, 2013) recorded the worst and most sporadic instance of fire outbreaks in the country. In all, five different fire outbreaks occurred in many parts of the country, causing death and loss of property as usual, which confirms the speculation that the spate of fire outbreaks won’t abate soon. I consider the fire outbreaks as serious national security...

The anger and indignation being felt across the world at terrible, fraudulent outcome of 2012 elections in Ghana came alive when hundreds of Ghanaians including members of the Coalition of Ghanaians against Electoral Fraud(COGEF), the Movement for Genuine Democracy(MGD), The Progressive Youth for Change and Transparency(PYCT) and The Stop tribalism in Ghana group demonstrated outside the Ghana High...

By Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph.D. I have already discussed this issue, but perhaps I need to reprise the same for the benefit of the apparently tone-deaf supporters of the respondents of the 2012 presidential election petition brought before Ghana’s Supreme Court by the presidential candidate of the main opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), his running-mate and the chairman of the NPP. What...

By Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph.D. If, indeed, Capt (Rtd.) Kojo Tsikata paid a visit to the Supreme Court of Ghana while the Atuguba-presided hearings of the Akufo-Addo/New Patriotic Party petition impugning the validity of the 2012 presidential election was in session, then, indeed, the presence of the former Rawlings’ National Security Adviser was unmistakably aimed at sending shivers down...

Sunday, June 16, 2013 The pro-NPP gang of young and inexperienced political activists (“Let My Vote Count Alliance”) has come out with a press statement that needs thorough scrutiny not because it has raised any issue to improve our democracy but because its intentions are roundly irritating for whatever they portend. A mere balloon of useless hot air!! I really want to take this group to the cleaners...

By Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph.D. Anybody calling Dr. Kwadwo Afari-Gyan “a colossus of a hero,” perhaps, needs to be told frontally of the fact that had the then-Deputy British High Commissioner to Ghana not personally intervened in the Strong Room of the headquarters of the country’s Electoral Commission, the now-ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC)), using Rawlings-styled...

By Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph.D. Equitorial Guinea’s President Obiang Nguema Mbasogo is a man who has been ruling his handful of mainland and island nation for 34 years with iron hand, after having executed his own uncle in a military putsch. And so it is not clear what moral authority he has to “advise” his fellow African leaders – dictators and non-dictators alike –...

By Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph.D. As a quarrelsome member of the so-called National Democratic Congress’ Communication Team (NDC-CT), Mr. Felix Kwakye-Ofosu did not half-distinguish himself as one who could constructively engage his audience in meaningful discussions of national issues. And so I am not one bit surprised that the now-deputy information minister would so vainly hedge his life...

Friday, June 14, 2013 As is to be expected, the NPP’s machinery of calumny and intimidation is running at full throttle, churning out lies, pure hatred, and concentrated chaff against Justice William Atuguba, the president of the 9-member panel of Supreme Court judges hearing the NPP’s petition regarding Election 2012. We are aware of the brains behind this campaign and have read opinion pieces...