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By Isaac Ato MENSAH Accra – 12 July, 2019 The National Science and Math Quiz (NSMQ) has barely had any positive effect on national attitudes and development. On Thursday, before the quiz, we visited PRESEC, five time winner of the quiz and now eight times finalists to see the sanitation situation there. Fasten your seat belts for the facts are not pleasant. Right behind the administration block and close to the Science labs and the classroom blocks is a huge refuse dump, adjoining a toilet. By toilet we mean a urinal, without water closets. There was open defecation on the urinal floor. “The teachers alwaysRead More →

By Isaac Ato MENSAHAccra – 10 July, 2019 Can someone please tell Trump he and his administration have just proven that they are “inept” and “uniquely dysfunctional”, and that the White House is divided? Ambassador Sir Kim Darroch, sent by the UK to Washington has done a professional job and sent a PRIVATE report home! I hear myself shouting, “It is a private report. It is not addressed to you…..Am I not entitled to write my observations?…….. This is a matter of convention…… I will not withdraw………It is not addressed to you……..I will not apologize,” in response to a similar battle. Diplomats are not onlyRead More →

By Isaac Ato MENSAHAccra – 8 July, 2019 This past week has been extremely rough for ghana’s political class. The whole Parliament and several ministers have been caught with their trousers around their ankles on account of wanton arrogance and dishonesty. A.S.K. Bagbin, Second Deputy Speaker, stated on 3 July, 2019 when presiding over the controversial chamber pot debate in Parliament: “What is happening now is eroding the pillar of democracy in the country which is Parliament – that is the pillar of democracy in this country – in fact all over the world and so we should be courteous, careful and cautious about howRead More →

By Isaac Ato MENSAH Winneba – 1 July, 2019 The Communication Educators Association of Ghana (CEAG) met in Winneba on 27 and 28 June, 2019, for the first time. It was to rope in full members, associate members, student members, institutional members and corporate members, and to adopt its draft constitution. Importantly, the draft constitution which was discussed at the business meeting on 27 June had an extensive procedure on DISMISSAL of members. When I told a key convener during the break that the University of Education Winneba (UEW), which was hosting the event, did not have such detailed procedures in its statutes available online,Read More →

By Isaac Ato MENSAH Accra – 28 June, 2019 The most complete health facility within the Ministries in Accra has no water! The CLOGSAG Polyclinic, dedicated to Civil and Local Government Staff Association of Ghana, is open to all and sundry; it has a dispensary, pharmacy, lab and consulting rooms. “Good morning. Why is the water not flowing?” I asked a male records staff. “And there’s no water?” came the reply. It was a shock. But it turned out that after interviewing five nurses at a table and two others in a lengthier conversation, the refrain was the same. “Are you saying there is noRead More →

By Isaac Ato MENSAH Accra – 26 June, 2019 Gabby Asare Otchere-Darko, in a Facebook post published on 23 June, 2019, slammed critics of the government for their commentary. “These influencers I refer to are usually highly educated, intelligent, eloquent and highly opinionated with a strong following to feed their egos. I’ve observed them keenly for a while. You go back and follow their posts. You know them too,” he posted. “In sum, they choose to mainly highlight things that make you feel sorry for yourself for being Ghanaian. They will share reports that are negative on Ghana, comment on how bad things are orRead More →

By Isaac Ato MENSAH Accra – 24 June, 2019 The letter Prof Afful-Broni, the Vice Chancellor of the University of Education (UEW) wrote to “dismiss” Prof Augustine Nwagbara – referred to by many on social media as that “Nigerian professor inciting Nigerians against Ghanaians”- is exactly why Prof Nwagbara said that ghana university education is poor. Reverend Father Prof. Anthony Afful-Broni’s letter ruined my weekend. But he is not alone; all the administrative staff who typed that letter, edited it and approved it, including that so-called “Special Committee set up to investigate uncomplimentary remarks made by” Prof Nwagbara need to undergo mandatory hours of trainingRead More →

We publish this rejoinder without comment and we promise not to comment for another THREE YEARS. April 23 2019 Mr Isaac Ato Mensah writersghana.com Accra Dear Mr Isaac Ato Mensah Re: OLD STUDENTS AHOY; PART 1 (PRESEC NEEDS AN E-LIBRARY, OLA-HO NEEDS WATER). We wish to react to a section of your article on writersghana.com with the above subject and published on April 22 2019. In the said article, Mr Richard Agyepong is quoted as saying “the 91 Group for example started a gym and when their job for hosting the speech day was over, they abandoned the project” The above quote is wholly untrue.Read More →

By Isaac Ato MENSAH Accra- 20 June, 2019 Recent research conducted by the Political Science Department (PSD) of the University of Ghana (UG) has cast a pall over the university, and shown us again why Ghana is on the wrong path. “The studies in Political Science adopts Mixed Method Methodology that is the use of qualitative and quantitative through concurrent and transformative approaches,” the PSD researchers stated in a 51-page PowerPoint presentation available online. And perhaps this approach satisfies the funding budget of Konrad Adenauer Stiftung (KAS), the NGO that collaborated with the PSD and most probably financed the research. The medium of announcing theRead More →

By Isaac Ato MENSAH Accra – 17 June, 2019 Ken Ofori-Atta, Ghana’s finance minister travelled to Israel to misinform the whole world, dent Ghana’s foreign policy and make provocative religious declarations while addressing the Israeli parliament. We hope he did not do all of this on tax payers’ money. To set the record straight, Ghana’s constitution makes it clear in the preamble that in the name of the Almighty God we adopt this constitution unto ourselves to build a secular state in pursuit of probity, accountability, freedom and justice. Has he not read it or he has read it and does not understand it? GhanaRead More →