Please do not read the NDC 2016 manifesto. It is a litany of promises never to be delivered. Rather, I urge you to go back and find the 2012 document they issued.
Ghana has experienced six successful elections in the fourth republic and as the country prepares to go to the polls for the seventh time on December 7, 2016, the spotlight is once again on Ghana as it defends its crown of being a beacon of peace in Africa.
This poignant essay ?Ghana Celebrates, African Rejoices? was authored by Baffour Ankomah, the current editor of the prestigious London-based New African Magazine, and gives a general outline of Nkrumah?s outstanding achievements and what he could still have achieved for Ghana by way of industrialization had it been the Western-orchestrated coup that toppled his progressive government.Â
Exactly a Century and seven years [107] elapse, a game changer was born to the hub of Gold in Africa [Gold Coast] to Kofi Ngonloma  and Elizabeth Nyanibah  at Nkroful in the Western Region.
Ever since the coming of the PNDC/NDC some 35 years ago, the political dynamics in Ghana changed from one being dominated by the Danquah /Busia /Dombo /NPP and Kwame Nkrumah/CPP/PNP traditions to one dominated by Jerry John Rawlings /P(NDC) and the Danquah /Busia /Dombo traditions. The Kwame Nkrumah traditions is existing in theory till date. The PNC, CPP and PPP all claim to be holding on to that tradition. Some NDC also claim the NDC is a Nkrumaist party.
In my opinion they are seven types of voters. We all vote based on different kinds of reasons and for diverse leadership qualities. Whatever rationale one has, our democracy grants one the right to vote and to use that right however one wants. However, the secrecy of the ballot entails we can never tell how well people use that right. Hence, it is important to have more civic education and a good constitution to strengthen people's effective participation into the democratic process, not by merely voting but by voting based on credible information. Let’s have a look at what kind of voters we may be and the associated biases we can avoid.
Comrades l just woke up today only to be greeted with a news ace comedian by name Agya Koo in collaboration other Kumawood jokers have launched a agenda 57% for Npp in the coming December elections.Â
Vice-President Amissah-Arthur is right; if short people in Ghana are having a hard time recognizing the purportedly “massive achievements†of the tall robber-barons and baronesses who run the Mahama-led National Democratic Congress’ government, very likely such “massive achievements,†as the Vice-President would falsely have Ghanaian voters pretend to exist, have yet to reach and touch the ground, or the Earth, where real Ghanaians live (See “Short People Need to be Carried to See Mahama’s Achievements – Veep Teases†MyJoyOnline.com / Modernghana.com 9/23/16).
I have been reading stories about how you allegedly gave cash to a poor hawker during one of your campaign tours of Accra. Your critics heavily lay into you over this gesture.
I’m a reggae addict and one of my all-time greats is Andrew Peter Tosh. My favourite among his many great hits is “Glass Houseâ€. The first four lines read, “If you live in a glasshouse, don’t throw stone. And if you can’t take blow brother, don’t throw blows.â€
Massa, the painful truth is, our development has been beclouded by sycophancy, negligence, corruption, cronyism, nepotism and needless dubieties...‘we can’t do attitude’.
Nigeria may be Africa’s big brother but it has not exactly been one to look up to as an example of best practices, whether with respect to managing an economy or governing a people.
This will not be the first. We have won a few important battles in the past but we lost the wars same day. It's almost an accepted pattern in these parts–that the winner of a democratic election must fight another battle to affirm the general will of the people.
We wish to draw the attention of the Police Council of Ghana and the President of the Republic of Ghana to the continuous disregard for the legal instrument of the National Accreditation Board (NAB) by no mean a person of the land than the current Inspector General of Police (IGP) (Dr.) John Kudalor and his associates.
Readers would appreciate our humble efforts to educate the public and to impress on the IGP to discontinue the use of his unrecognizable doctoral title as others such as Ms. Gifty Anti and the NDC Chairman, Mr. Kofi Portuphy, have done. However, it has become very clear that the IGP, aided by the Daily Graphic and his men in uniform, is continuing to flout the laws of the land with impunity simply because there does not seem to be any consequences for such actions.
On September 22, 2016, the IGP (Dr.) John Kudalor paid a working visit to the Ghana Ports and Harbors Authority (GPHA), where he met with the Director-General of the GPHA and the entire management of GPHA. Contrary to the position of the National Accreditation Board (NAB) to the effect that (Dr.) Kudalor’s so-called earned Ph.D. is from an unaccredited institution, thus unrecognizable by the State of Ghana for public service, the Director of Public Affairs of the Ghana Police Service, DSP Cephas Arthur, introduced the IGP as a (Dr.) to the loud murmurs of those present (For the NAB position on the IGP’s doctorate degree issue, please follow the link here:
We wish to remind the Ghana Police Council and (Dr.) Kudalor’s appointing authority that the continuous disregard for the rules of the land by the IGP and his associates has consequences. First of all, it should be noted that in some “civilizations,†this act of the IGP would have called for a thorough investigation and if it can be proven that the IGP used public funds to pursue this degree, he would have been pursued to refund such monies to the State and honorably resign if such an award had any consequences for his promotion to the high office of IGP, the number one (1) police officer of the land.
However, instead of recognizing his recklessness and apologizing to the Ghanaian public, (Dr.) Kudalor, aided by the Daily Graphic and his subordinates from the police service, is continuing to disregard the laws of the land, an act we consider as bringing the high office of the IGP into disrepute.
What at all is it about doctoral degrees, including a Ph.D., that makes (Dr.) Kudalor so desperate to be addressed as such? If (Dr.) Kudalor is so desirous to be addressed as a Dr., no one is stopping him from pursing a well-constituted Ph.D. and earning the accolade via the proper channels. But hiding behind an unrecognized institution to want to be addressed a Dr. is not only reckless, but it is also fraudulent.
The question is: how would the IGP be able to arrest and prosecute quacks who also employ similar means to hoodwink the public into believing that they are medical doctors, lawyers, and even academic professors?
Once again, we wish to remind the IGP that both the Dayspring Theological University and the Transworld Accrediting Commission International (TACI) are not institutions recognized either by the Office of Post-Secondary Education (OPE) of the US Department of Education (US DoE) or the NAB of Ghana.
It is for this reason that the Executive Secretary of NAB, Mr. Kwame Dattey, publicly denounced the IGP’s doctoral degree and castigated him to employ some discretion in this matter.
Our humble advice to the IGP is to shelve that so-called doctoral degree and refrain from parading it as one of the accolades that adorn his official designation. The IGP can choose to create a monument of his so-called doctoral degree in his living room for the admiration of his wife and children, and we would have no qualms with that.
But the attempt to use the Daily Graphic and other media outlets to continue to validate what is considered even by the state accrediting body, NAB, as unwholesome will be tantamount to fraud.
By this letter, we also wish to remind the National Media Commission (NMC) and the Ghana Journalist Association (GJA) that they have a duty to ensure that the Daily Graphic in particular, and the media in general, do not become conduits via which unscrupulous but influential members of the Ghanaian society foist their unscrupulous behaviors on the public as the IGP is continuing to do.
Let’s set the right examples for our countrymen and women and desist from this disgraceful acts of deception. Particularly, in the case of the IGP, this does not augur well for the service he leads. The police service is rather supposed to be the one enforcing the legal instrument of the NAB not its leadership flouting its authority.
What is this that I am hearing? Oga Kwatakwata contravened the gift policy when he took the Ford Exhibition car from a Burkinabe contractor, who himself took a whopping US$650,000 from bungling state officials for constructing this nation’s equivalent of a Jericho Wall around a four-plot state property next door.
It is sometimes baffling why the N.P.P has performed very low in typical Ga-Dangbe communities. The story in the Dangbe areas has been that of a party that has consistently struggled to stay relevant. Since the 1996 elections the N.P.P has never won a single seat in all the Dangbe areas.
The professional qualification of Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, the NPP’s Presidential Candidate, has once again surfaced even after a case challenging his status as a lawyer was dismissed by the court.
The world has been focused on the lunacy that has become the US presidential race circa 2016 that it may have overlooked that Ghana – the land of my birth – is also going through a period of election madness. You may not think so, but the West African nation of 27 million citizens provides vital services that make life so comfy in the west. Every time you bite into a Snickers bar or purchase a new piece of furniture, chances are you’re eating a bit of cocoa from Ghana’s plantations or resting your tush on timber from our forests.
