HON. NANA ADDO DANKWA AKUFFU-ADDO,YOU ARE WARMLY WECOME. AT LONG LAST, WE ARE GRATEFUL TO THE ALMIGHTY ALLAH THAT YOU HAVE ARRIVED SAVELY SINCE YOU LEFT GHANA FOR ALMOST SIX MONTHS AGO. YOU WENT ON A WELL-DESERVING BREAK FROM ACTIVE PUBLIC AND POLITICAL ACTIVITIES. WE HAVE ALL ALONG BEEN PRAYING THAT MAY ALLAH REPLENISH YOUR LOST ENERGY AND GUIDE YOU BACK SAFELY. NOW THAT IT IS CLEAR THAT OUR PRAYERS HAVE BEEN ANSWERED, THE LEAST WE CAN DO IS TO THANK ALLAH. IN THIS DIGITAL WORLD THAT WE FIND OURSELVES IN TODAY, NEEDLESS IT IS FOR YOU TO BE INFORMED OF WHAT HAPPENED IN GHANA AFTER YOU TOOK OFF FOR I KNOW YOU WOULD HAVE HEARD AND READ ABOUT IT ALL, CURTESY, THE INTERNATIONAL MEDIA. THIS FACT NOT WITHSTANDING, I DEEM IT DUTY-BOUND TO TO INFORM YOU OF SOME OF THE TOPICAL INCIDENTS THAT OCCURED IN GHANA, ESPECIALLY THOSE THAT HAVE TO DO WITH THE WELFARE OF GHANAIANS.AFTERALL, OUR ELDERS HAVE IT THAT, PLENTY MEAT DOES NOT SPOIL THE SOUP. HON. PERMIT ME TO START WITH THE ECONOMY.YOUR ABLE TWICE RUNNING MATE, DR MAHAMUD BAWUMIA,CATEGORICALLY STATED THAT THE NDC GOVERNMENT CAN PLAY PROPAGANDER WITH MANY OF THE MACRO-ECONOMIC VARIABLES, BUT WARNED THAT THEY WOULD BE EXPOSED BY EXCHANGE RATE.HE SAID THIS DURING THE FIRST MEMORIAL LECTURES IN HONOUR OF H.E. ALHAJI ALIU MAHAMA.AS IF DR BAWUMIA WAS BEING PROPHETIC, JUST AS LEFT, THE GHANA CEDI WENT ON A NOSE-DIVE, DEPRECIATION IN VALUE AT AN UNPRECIDENTED RATE. BY DECEMBER OF 2013, THE EXCHANGE RATE HAD STRIPED THE H.E.JDM AND THE NDC GOVERNMENT NAKED IN TERMS OF THEIR PROPAGANDER TACTICS ON THE MANAGEMENT OF THE ECONOMY. HON. YET A VERY TOPICAL ISSUE THAT OCCURED DURING YOUR ABSENCE WAS THE WICKED RUMMOUR THT OTUMFOUR HAD PASSED ON.SOME WHERE AROUND JANUARY OF 2014, THE GREAT KING OF ASHANTI LEFT FOR SOUTH AFRICA ON A PRIVATE TRIP. BEFOR THE KING COULD COME BACK HOME, HIS DEATH WAS WICKEDLY SAID OF. NOT EVEN THE VISIT OTUMFOUR MADE TO THE LOCAL BLACK STARS IN SOUTH AFRICA COULD KILL THIS WICKED RUMMOUR WHICH WAS SPREADING AS FAST AS DOES HARMATTAN FIRE. LO AND BEHOLD, THE SUPOSED DEAD CHIEF ARRIVED IN KUMASI IN THE PRESIDENTIAL JET. HE WAS HAPPILLY WELCOME HOME BY NOT ONLY HIS KINGDOM, BUT BY GHANAIANS AS A WHOLE. A LITTLE CONTRVERSY AROSE FROM HIS USE OF THE PRESIDENTIAL JET. MANY WERE THOSE WHO SAW EVERYTHING WRONG WITH THE KING USING THE PRESIDENTIAL JET. THOSE PERSONS CITED MISUSE OF PUBLIC FUNDS AS THEIR MAIN REASON.THEY ALSO SAID THE INCIDENT CONFIRMEN THE RUMMOUR THAT THE KING WAS A FREIND TO THE PRESIDENT AND THAT HE REALLY DID INTERFEAR WITH THE COURT PROCEEDINGS AND THAT IS WHY HE IS BEING TREATED AS SUCH. YET OTHERS SAID THE KING IS A SYMBOL OF UNITY AND PEACE IN GHANA AND THAT HE DESERVES SUCH CURTESIES. HON. YOU VERY WELL KNOW WHICH OF THESE TWO GROUPS I BELONG, NO NEED EXPOUSING MY PERSONAL VIEW. HON.THE MOST TOPICAL OF YOUR POST DEPARTURE POLITICAL INCIDENTS WAS THE POLITICAL DRAMA ENACTED AND PRESENTED TO GHANAIANS BY H.E. JDM AND THE NDC.I KNOW YOU LAUGHED OFF YOUR HEAD WHEN YOU HEARD THE ANNOUNCEMENT OF FREE DAY S.H.S BY THE PRESIDENT IN PALIAMENT DURING HIS ADRESS OF THE STATE OF THE NATION. A PLOITICAL PUNDIT AS YOU ARE, VERY WELL DO I KNOW THAT YOU ARE NOT IN THE LEAST SURPRISED ABOUT THIS LATEST MOVE BY A PARTY IN GOVERNMENT WHICH IS YET TO HAVE EVEN A SINGLE POLICY RIGHT. HON. NEEDLESS TO REMIND YOU OF THEIR RESPONSE TO YOUR MESSAGE OF FRE S.H.S. THAT WILL AMOUNT TO THROWING COW DUNG AT THE COW (SO THE BUILSAS PUT IT), YOU HEARD MUCH OF THEIR THEORY OF IMPOSSIBILITY OF THE POLICY THAN I DID. THE PRESIDENT AND THE NDC, IN LESS THAN TWO YEARS AND IN A RETROGRESSIVE STATE OF THE ECONOMY, LOOKED GHANAIANS IN THE FACE AND SAID THEY ARE INTRODUCING FREE S.H.S IN THE NEXT ACADEMIC YEAR. NANA, I HOPE YOU REMEMBER THEIR PROMISE TO BUILD 200 DAY S.H.S,NOT EVEN A SINGLE ONE HAS BEEN STARTED (AM NOT TALKING OF COMPLETION), THE PRESIDENT HAS CUT SOD FOR THE SECOND TIME ALL IN THE CENTRAL REGION (but i heard hon. mutala, dep minister of infor say the first occasion was just to inspect the allocated land for the project) JUST AS HE COMMISSIONE THE BUI AND THE TAMALE TEACHING HOSPITALS EACH TWICE. HON. AS YOU READ THIS WELCOME MESSAGE, BE INFORMED THAT : =UNIVERSITIES DO NOT HAVE THE MONEY TO PAY SALARIES BECAUSE THE LAST TIME THEY RECEIVED SUBVENSIONS FROM GOVERNMENT WAS IN DECEMBER,2013 =THE EC HAS HINTED THAT IT WILL NOT BE ABLE TO ORGANISE LOCAL ELECTIONS BECAUSE THE GOVERNMENT HAS NOT RELEASED FUNDING TO IT. =ALL STATUTORY PAYMENTS ARE IN ARREARS OF ALMOST A YEAR =THE NHIS IS IN COMMA =THE GHANA CEDI IS STILL AT THE INTENSIVE CARE UNIT OF THE BANK OF GHANA =THE SADA GUINEA FOULS ON WHICH WE SPENT GHS16M ARE STILL ON THEIR HOLIDAYS IN NEIBOURING BURKINA FASO =WITH THE GYEDA ROT, ONLY THE SMALL FISHES (who talk so, abuga pele talk so)ARE BEING HELD WHILE THE BIG ONES SUCH AS RLGS AGAMBIRE WHO DONATED GHS 500,000.00 TO THE FUNERAL OF H.E. J.E.A.MILLS AND THE OTHERS HAVE BEEN ASKED TO SEE THE A.G AND DISCUSS ON HOW THEY COULD REFUN D THE STATE MONEY WHICH THEY ACQUIRED WRONGLY. HON. THE LIST IS ENDLESS. NANA, YOU ARE WELCOME.
Posted on: Fri, 07 Mar 2014 21:04:11 +0000
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