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WHY I RATHER CHOOSE TO COMMEMORATE DECEMBER 9 AND TO PROUDLY CELEBRATE MRS. CHARLOTTE OSEI

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Quite a number of people especially our friends in the NPP chose to commemorate December 7, since that was the day we voted in last year's national election. A commemoration which is a novelty under the 25 year old fourth republic - Ghana's longest democratic dispensation. In what is likely to be discussed for many years, the NPP Government believed it was prudent to use scarce tax payer's money to organize an elaborate partisan 'Thanksgiving Service' to thank God for an NPP victory; abandoning Parliamentary duties, ignoring the frustration of over 30,000 stranded ECG consumers and snubbing a public health disaster at the Kumasi Academy. Well, the unique  EC Chairperson, Mrs Charlotte Osei 'Thanksgiving Service' turned out to be the Government's priority even in the face of an obvious national calamity that was claiming young lives in Kumasi in the NPP stronghold that delivered more than a 73% emphatic victory for them.  Even more striki

FROM MAHAMA PADS TO A VINDICATED BIRTHDAY PRESENT - A CRY FOR PRINCIPLED POLITICS

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Sundays are always glorious opportunities to reflect on the graciousness of our Maker and on developments in our dear country. The just ended month of November witnessed an outpouring of affection and overwhelming generous birthday wishes to my two beloved bosses. My immediate boss - former Minister for Education, Prof. Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang and former President of our Republic H.E. John Dramani Mahama. Their birthdays are celebrated on the 22nd and 29th of November respectively. One of the magnificent John Mahama Community Day School facilities However, as the Lord works, despite the good wishes from many far and near, I believe their best birthday present came from the Parliament of Ghana on Thursday November 30, 2017. Many will recall how the two were demonized and ridiculed in July, 2014 by the then NPP Minority in Parliament for what they christened a "Sanitary Pad loan". Artistic designs were later to emerge of so-called ‘Mahama Pads’ all over s