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By Isaac Ato Mensah Accra – Wednesday 15 July, 2020 During this ongoing voter registration exercise, the tendency to ask people to prove they are Ghanaian has become a contentious matter.  How do you get a Ghanaian or anybody for that matter “rusticated” from a society in which they legitimately belong? Dr. Kwadjo Afari-Djan, the former chairperson of Ghana’s Electoral Commission, always had a simple approach: “Fill a challenge form but the person in question must have the right to register and go away”.  The challenge form will end up in court where it is expected that they who allege “must prove”. The convention forRead More →

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By Isaac Ato MensahAccra – 9 July, 2020 Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh aka Napo, Ghana’s Minister for Education (MOE) is a Medical Doctor. Now, the last place you would expect to hear dodgy logic is from the MOE and certainly not from the presiding Minister. But all is lost since that is precisely what happened during Napo’s interview on Peace FM today 9 July thus giving any discerning listener a violent headache. Kwami Sefa Kayi, the host concluded from Napo’s own argument during the Twi interview: “So then some have said, we should close down the schools, what do you think about it?” Napo replied:Read More →

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By Isaac Ato MensahAccra – 9 July, 2020 The President of the Republic of Ghana – POTROG – is missing; he has been missing for at least 72 hours. We the people must hear and see our president; we cannot trust the photograph issued by Eugene Arhin, Director of Communications at the Jubilee House, Accra; that photo could have been taken any day within the past 10 weeks. Besides we refuse to accept that our President will be seated at a table with used face masks lying on it. Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, the Minister for Information recently issued a “STATEMENT” that said President Akufo-Addo wasRead More →

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By Isaac Ato Mensah in Accra, Ghana & F.KN. Olympio, Dr. phil. in Trier, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany 26 April, 2020 Gabby Asare Otchere-Darko’s write-up “IS LOCKDOWN THE ONLY SCIENCE-DRIVEN OPTION FOR GHANA?” is typical influencer stuff. It was all anecdotal stuff, wild speculations and dodgy logic from a campaign strategist who was trying to justify POTROG’s 7th Coronavirus address during which the lockdown of Accra, Kumasi and Kasoa was relaxed. Gabby introduced social science into the debate, suggesting that the scientists have no knowledge of social science, or rather that their worldview is so limited that it does not include bread and butter issues. Hear Gabby:Read More →

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By F.K.N. Olympio Trier, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany – 15 April 2020. The consequences of loss of control – blame game here, conspiracy theories there. The novel corona virus originated from Wuhan in the Chinese province of Hubei – that is fact. The Chinese government downplayed early reports of infections including an unusual pneumonia accompanied by fever, headache, and dry, strenuous, repeated coughs without mucus. That is also a fact. The first reported death due to covid 19 also called Sars-Cov-2 by its scientific name occurred on the 11 of Jan. 2020. That is also widely known. That the Chinese first notified the World Health Organisation byRead More →

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By Isaac Ato Mensah Accra – 4 April, 2020 COVID-19 has seared itself into our consciousness; sadly people are dying and more people are going to die – we should all know that by now. But the moral imperative to THINK and ACT soundly still appears totally lost on our leaders and public officials. Listen to the airwaves: 1) a USD10.1mn tax break for Zipline drones; 2) opening the Bank Hospital for VIPs and retracting after a public outcry; 3) not providing PPE for Korlebu staff; 4) the new ambulances have mobile ventilators; 5) use of chloroquine/hydroxychloroquine without any reference to the science or data;Read More →

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By Isaac Ato Mensah Accra – 1 April, 2020 From Homer’s Iliad through the Christian Bible, other sacred writings, and in many other faiths and cultures, we are assured that there is always divine intervention. Otherwise why bother to pray? The moral order always enjoined man to do the right thing. His actions must meet the salvific plan of the gods. Today, governments around the world are spending trillions they once made us believe they never had. As my mentor has observed: “Our governments simply did not have the right priorities and they must not be allowed to get away with that again”. Let usRead More →

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By Isaac Ato Mensah Accra – 26 March, 2020 History tells us that during the 1948 riots, colonial subjects directed protesters away from disrupting a polo match between Europeans and Africans. A group of our forebears were retreating from the Christiansborg Cross Roads demonstration where three ex servicemen had been shot, and this group angry at the colonialists got to the Old Polo Grounds opposite the Supreme Court building. There, Africans prevented their fellow subjects from disrupting the polo match. Were our educated forebears selfish, weak or brainwashed? No, they were educated, enlightened and principled. As a matter of fact, the Gold Coast intelligentsia, politicalRead More →

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By Isaac Ato Mensah Accra – 20 March, 2020 We met at Kibroth Hattaavah In a symbiotic palaver We are thriving as joint decision makers From a climate change crisis And we were hard As hard as air And we were so bold to lay down our lives We came in as a disease Like slay yeasts We infected thousands Like personae non gratae And we learned fast to be streetwise Our infamy was heavy But our aim was heaven We dug in steep And rallied deep And prayed to God with all of our might We had no science To cure our signs AndRead More →