By Isaac Ato Mensah
Accra \u2013 8 January, 2020<\/p>\n
Dominic Cummings, the chief advisor to PM Boris Johnson has published an advertisement for positions available in the Johnson administration following their recent landslide victory.<\/p>\n
He is looking specifically for \u201cdata scientists, project managers, policy experts and assorted weirdos\u201d.<\/p>\n
And this is where I fit in as a well recognized weirdo.<\/p>\n
An interesting criterion is that Cummings\u2019s future personal assistant will work at such odd hours that \u201cfrankly it will [be] hard having a boy\/girlfriend at all\u201d\u2013 no, please do not read any further meaning into it yet.<\/p>\n
On 2 January, Rajeev Syval, writing on theguardian.com, the same day the advertisement was published on dominiccumings.com, described it as \u201crambling\u201d- noise.<\/p>\n
But we at writersghana.com on 3 January called it \u201crumbling\u201d as in thought provoking.<\/p>\n
For, today, Ghana has been debased through sycophancy, chronic underachievement, charlatanism or kuluulu in both high and low places, and a resort to a dodgy theology that justifies mediocrity and at the same time atones for same and outright thuggery.<\/p>\n
Who would you rather prefer to work with:
a) Dominic Cummings who advises \u201ca new government with a significant majority and little need to worry about short-term unpopularity while trying to make rapid progress with long-term problems\u201d or
b) our ghanaian poliTRIKcians messing up our Free Secondary Education programme \u2013 a constitutional\/moral mandate \u2013 with an unwieldy azonto \u201cDouble Track\u201d school \u201csemester\u201d system?<\/p>\n
The fact is seventy five percent of the citizens want to travel and live in another country.<\/p>\n
That includes me; I want to go to \u201cRotterdam or anywhere…..Liverpool or Rome…anywhere alone\u201d \u2013 far, far away from the congenital sycophants, myrmidons, rent seekers, chancers and the cognitively challenged.<\/p>\n
So here goes my Sakabo rap for Dominic Cummings.<\/p>\n
Post Office Box MP3503
Accra
Ghana<\/p>\n
3 January, 2020<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Mr. Dominic Cummings
SW1
London
United Kingdom<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Dear Mr. Cummings,<\/p>\n
APPLICATION AS A MISFIT IN THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT.<\/p>\n
I write formally to respectfully tender my application for the job category of \u201cWeirdos and misfits with odd skills\u201d in PM Boris Johnson\u2019s government as per your advertisement on dominiccummings.com dated January 2, 2020.<\/p>\n
My parents were once British subjects.
I know I can provide a novel and useful perspective on foreign policy.<\/p>\n
You will get to hear true \u201cweirdo\u201d stuff – stuff that needs to be heard and taken on board at SW1.<\/p>\n
When it comes to \u201ctrue cognitive diversity\u201d I am not just \u201cblabbing\u201d about a multiracial \u201cidentity\u201d; I am the real deal, a scion of former British subjects and a denizen of quite a few British quirks such as blue blazers, yellow ties, mash and wry humor.<\/p>\n
At the same time, a true connoisseur of banku, palm oil, tilapia, pito and bush meat.<\/p>\n
To date I love queuing at embassies for visas and answering dumb questions.<\/p>\n
I have been offering a regularly published \u201cmoral and intellectual guide\u201d to the whole world on my home-grown peer-reviewed blog available at writersghana.com.<\/p>\n
There are over 200 posts for your reading pleasure \u2013 and deep contemplation.<\/p>\n
It will certainly help you decipher some of my odd skills.<\/p>\n
My most important antecedent is that I am an alumnus of Sakabo University, Blebo We- Sakumo, Tema, where I was privileged to be tutored in all things disruptive by the Mad Dog – whose late mother assured the whole world that there is truly method to his madness.<\/p>\n
Now let us see how outlandish you really want to be; I await your call.<\/p>\n
Yours faithfully,<\/p>\n
(Signed)
Isaac Ato Mensah
Certified Weirdo<\/p>\n\n\n
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