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The announcement by the pro-government media outlet, Asaase Radio, that the tax on electricity will be withdrawn should leave many Ghanaians like me sceptical about the government's sincerity.

It was interesting to hear Bank of Ghana (BOG) officials pat themselves on the back because year-on-year inflation had dropped to 26.4% in November 2023, from 35.2% in October 2023 and 54.1% in December 2022.

These days, swapping a passion role for a less-interesting job with better pay and benefits could well make sense. Is it time to end the stigma of ‘selling your soul’?

Finally, the elusive Chief Executive of the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) has found time in his packed diary to engage the public about the controversy surrounding the biggest single transaction in the GNPC’s history.

The conflict and impasse of the A-G, the Chairman, and Board of Ghana Audit Service.

In the President’s last but one COVID-19 address, he reported the startling finding in a Ghana Health Service (GHS) survey that 82 per cent of people in the sample had the ‘overall intention to use a mask’.

The Agyapa/Asaase agreement – selling Ghana’s Gold Royalties to investors through an SPV – has created a hullabaloo and rightfully so.

Summary

The timeline of 4 months to IPO is problematic unless the Government has surreptitiously filed for listing. To ensure favourable pricing of the offered securities, the timeline for listing any MIIF SPV on any international exchange should be extended to at least April 2021.

We’ve left judges and their judgements too idle and for a long time in Ghana. I remember Prof. Atuguba released a research about how supreme court judges decide political cases in Ghana and the judges were instantly up in arms against him and his research. It’s all because our judges have been left untouched for so long such that criticizing them in a research or publication is seen as a “sin”.

Ghana has a reputation as one of the more established democracies in sub-Saharan Africa.

One of the important principles of constitutional adjudication is judicial restraint. And one of the important lessons in judicial restraint is that, in deciding a case and writing a judgement, a judge or court need say no more than is necessary to decide the matter before it.

If there are any three words that Flt. Lt. Rawlings has made into a flag, with which he has been wrapping himself in the past twenty years or so, they are “probity”, “accountability” and “truth”. He tells everyone that the motivating factors behind the 31 December 1981 coup, (which he also calls, “the spirit of June 4”), was the pursuit of “probity” and “accountability”.

Imagine a football game without rules and regulations: no referee, no assistant referees, and no fourth official to enforce the laws of the game.

By this time in the year 2000, John Kufuor led NPP were campaigning with Positive Change and “hwe wo asetena mu na tu aba pa”. Newly established Peace FM and the media, in general, were also blowing the “wind of change”.

The "No mask, no entry" policy is in full force around Ghana, and I can tell from all the visible shop decals that property owners are enforcing it to the letter. But a mask is a mask and a mask, branded or not.

Covid-19 pandemic is still on the rise since its outbreak in China which has gone a long way to hit countries worldwide.

Paul Adom Otchere is trending again. Some people are upset at his treatment of the MP for Klottey Korle Constituency, Dr. Zanetor Rawlings, on his show yesterday.

On April 11, 2020, I wrote a blogpost warning that if the government of Ghana fails to get its data management under control, it will start to lose public trust, regardless of how well the actual management of the COVID-19 outbreak itself was going.