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By Isaac Ato Mensah Accra – Wednesday 23 December, 2020 From the Boston Tea Party to the present, nations have always understood that if citizens lack representation in decision making and passing laws, then no taxation shall be required of them.  Simply put – no representation, no taxation.  Through a series of political own goals, the Akufo-Addo administration has earned itself a hung parliament.  The kingmakers who will determine which political party forms the Majority in Parliament are the electorate of the Santrokofi, Akpafu, Lolobi and Likpe (SALL) area, and voting trends suggest they will vote for the NDC. The EC that will address theRead More →

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  By Isaac Ato Mensah Accra – Friday 23 October, 2020 “The Department of Communication Studies of the University of Ghana invites applications from suitably qualified candidates for appointment as Lecturer in Multimedia Journalism; Quantitative Research Methods in Communication Studies; Public and Policy Communication.” So reads the first line of an advertisement available at timeshighereducation.com.  The vacancy was announced on 1 October; it will expire on 30 November.  Now to perform these routine tasks, the University of Ghana (UG) is asking for a PhD.  “The successful applicant for the quantitative research methods in communication studies position”  should be able to teach “multi-level analysis”, arguably theRead More →

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By Isaac Ato Mensah Accra – Wednesday 21 October, 2020 Lesley Lokko, the renowned Scottish-Ghanaian architecture academic, has announced plans of relocating from New York to Accra “to set up an independent school of architecture”.  She resigned from the Bernard and Anne Spitzer school of architecture at the City College of New York, primarily because she says she “lacked the tools to both process and deflect” how the “‘problem woman of colour’ scenario” manifests in America.  We welcome her back home to Accra, and respectfully ask her to ready herself for the multiple battles she will face. A few are listed below for our collectiveRead More →

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By Isaac Ato Mensah Accra – Saturday 10 October, 2020  High officials of the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) have stated categorically that the audit report on cocoa roads contracts that were awarded under the previous administration is not a public document, hence they will not release it for public scrutiny.    Fiifi Boafo, the Public Affairs Manager of COCOBOD and Joseph  Boahen Aidoo, the CEO have both stated this on radio about a report produced with taxpayers’ monies.  Upon assumption of office in January 2017, the Akufo-Addo administration ordered that the cocoa roads projects meant to construct tarred roads in the forest regions of Ghana, shouldRead More →

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By Isaac Ato MensahAccra – Monday 21 September, 2020 Reading the transcript of the “Fellow Ghanaians” address “No. 17”, delivered Sunday makes one see clearly that our society is run largely on presumption, anecdote and superstition. It is obvious that when you have jettisoned scientific methodology, but active Coronavirus cases have gone down, then only Providence has spared this nation, not withstanding the effusions of POTROG and his advisors. If you drink Mahogany juice regularly in ghana for one year with the aim of preventing malaria, and you do not contract malaria, it does not necessarily mean that Mahogany juice prevents malaria. Period. And anyoneRead More →

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By Isaac Ato MensahAccra – Wednesday 16 September, 2020 Sheikh Dr. Mustapha Abdul-Hamid, the minister for Zongo Affairs and Inner City Development, misled the general public about Dumsor and the ghanaian health system on Monday while addressing an NPP press conference. He stated that Ghanaians will not enjoy constant electricity supply if John Dramani Mahama wins the polls in December. He praised the drone delivery service as the panacea to our moribund health system. Sheikh Abdul-Hamid, a deputy campaign manager for the NPP said: “Here are the statistics for how many hours the lights were off in 2015, 2016 and 2017. In 2015, there wereRead More →

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By Isaac Ato MensahAccra – Saturday 5 September, 2020 On Friday evening, the President granted an interview to Oman FM 107.1MhZ of Accra during which he was given an opportunity to tell us that he has now become “aware” of the things he had on earlier occasions denied awareness of. Towards the end, the host also gave the President a chance to take credit for his COVID-19 efforts. He spoke about a solid team he had put in place: he mentioned “a deputy Director-General of WHO” whom he had enrolled, he mentioned “Dr. Okoe Boye” a deputy minister for health he had enrolled along theRead More →

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By Isaac Ato Mensah Accra – Friday 4 September, 2020 The article “All knowing neutrals” published 2 September 2020 on graphic.com.gh, a media house where Ms. Elizabeth Ohene, the celebrated journalist, recently returned as “guest editor” exposes the typically poor nature of our public discourse in ghana. What we need in any fair minded and useful rebuttal is a point by point analysis of the offending document and a lucid presentation of the contradicting facts, evidence and reason. To not provide such but instead level counter accusations is not helpful; frankly, it mimics a retort from a quarrelsome less than well schooled relative seated in myRead More →

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By Isaac Ato Mensah/Augustine Williams-Mensah Accra- 31 August, 2020 The recurrent trending problems involving our chiefs cannot pass without comment. Only a few weeks ago the Bantamahene of Asante was reported to have built a structure at the Racecourse area of Kumasi on a waterway – the city authorities had been unable to stop him. Last week, the Apedwahene of Akyem Abuakwa was reported to have attempted to takeover lands at Dome Faase in the Greater Accra Region, aided by soldiers. Victor Hugo, the French author tells us: “In the Middle Ages men had no great thought that they did not write down in stone”.Read More →

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By Isaac Ato Mensah Accra – Monday 17 August, 2020 The mudslinging from the ghanaian poliTRIKcians on social media platforms must cease now.  Let us remind ourselves of the golden rule here, to wit, “Do unto others what you will wish them to do unto you”.  Our poliTRIKcians are not fighting over justice, or principles; no, they are shooting down the only thing we have left – our dignity as human beings. Samuel N. Woode, my former lecturer at School of Administration, University of Ghana (now University of Ghana Business School), told an important story when he taught Ethics in Public Administration.  He explained that aRead More →