Koku Mawuli Nanegbe

I switched on my data Saturday night to check what was trending on social media and the first news that hit me on Facebook was from a friend. “I have just been robbed at Awudome cemetery, opposite State Housing Company,” Ruth Abla Adjorlolo bluntly posted. The road in-front of the cemetery leading to Awudome roundabout first meets an intercession which almost always creates a go-slow and so as her cab driver tries to overcome the go-slow, a criminal, pretending to be a genuine pedestrian in a split second dashed, lifted from the back seat her hand bag containing valuables and vanished into the darkness towards the cemetery, she recounted. Baboon attempting a break in to a moving car  Amidst the sympathies pouring out on her page, others shared similar experiences at the same area. “Yes oo. I was also robbed at that same spot 6 months ago. It was a sad experience. It Wasnt the first time. The first time was unsuccessful but they succeeded the second...

“You don’t value your buttocks until it develops a boil,” this is one of the numerous humor-filled wise sayings of the indefatigable Member of Parliament [MP] for Sagnarigu constituency, Hon ABA Fuseini. Some years back; for those who will recall, these wise sayings used to be a regular feature on Radio Gold, 90.5MHz as Hon ABA Fuseini was more than a regular panel member on “Alhaji and Alhaji.” Someway somehow, some of his own colleagues, others higher up at Graphic Communication Group limited (GCGL) and beyond sought every means possible to have him barred from the program. It later emerged that the JA Kufour regime could not bear Alhaji’s critiques, therefore masterminded the action. Truth be told, Alhaji’s professional work as an Editor of Foreign News at GCGL at no point conflicted with his persuasion but was not allowed to have his voice to speak.  About the same time or much earlier, Kofi Amponsah Bediako of Ghana Standard Authority (GSA) became Government...

“The NPP government will secure peace and security for all Ghanaians. Under the NPP government, Ghanaians will feel safe on the streets and in their homes. Ghanaians will go about their daily business in the secure knowledge that their persons, properties and lives are safe under an NPP government,” this is contained under the chapter on Security in the 2016 NPP manifesto.  President Akufo Addo Eight months into the administration of the Akufo Addo’s government, I have been wondering if the government has forgotten or do recall at all making such a promise? This is because on daily basis people are having to endure the very opposite of what was promised to the extent that fundamental human rights and freedoms, guaranteed by the 1992 constitution of Ghana are being trampled upon.   Dr Amos Anyimadu, a lecturer at the political science department of University of Ghana [UG] is the latest victim of unabated, flagrant physical abuses by state security officials of Gh...

In our time, basic school primary six reader had a story titled “Elephant and the Tsetsefly” where a Tsetsefly had lodged itself in the trunk of a sleeping elephant, out of anger and in an attempt to deal with the troublesome tsetsefly, the elephant ended up pulling down trees, degrading the nearby environment. As vaguely as I try to recall this story in the reader, there is a related aspect that can hardly escape me as a pupil. Had to do with our teacher, Madam Ayi who would insist in class during reading of the story that one goes silent on the first “s” in pronouncing “tsetsefly,” on top of which is a retort that she doesn’t understand why everyone pronounces it as it is till today. She was such a merciless teacher who draws her cane at the least mistake or provocation and so was just in our interest to take it as she will order. Madam Ayi had a transfer to another school just before the end of first term. My mind drifted back to this development when I monitore...