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 →

By Isaac Ato Mensah Accra – 3 March, 2020 There have been many times in ghana when other professionals have rightly accused journalists of a lack of simple comprehension of the facts. This therefore calls for a constant watch on our public discourse by all and sundry. It is a tough assignment since every single day all kinds of factual errors and unenlightened thoughts and ideas are bandied about in our ghanaian public space. Worst of all, these are often written up and lodged on the Internet proving disgraceful and dishonorable to the country as a whole. Policing and exposing these terrible ideas is almostRead More →