Kalabule - The rebirth of the black market

Part I

Three decades on after the sham coup d’états that bedevilled Ghana when blood became more common than today’s running water under the pretence of another shamefully scandalous “house cleaning exercise” where one could get shot for hoarding food for the family or more money than deemed necessary (a wretched army cadet at the time could be your judge), KALABULE has been given another chance at the suffering Ghanaian to, as it were, wreak more havoc in our lives.
Any crisis is the direct responsibility of the leader in charge and in this case, once we agree that the president of Ghana is John Dramani Mahama, it means that he is directly responsible for our woes. Well, there is no reason why Ghana should suffer such economic crisis when the international business climate is quite congenial for speedy growth.
In comparison to years gone by when other governments limped along for the want of solutions to crisis inherited by dictators and unbenevolent tyrants, gold is at $1,315 (one thousand three hundred and fifteen US Dollars) per ounce as compared to the $250 USD (two hundred and fifty US Dollars) pre Atta-Mills era; crude oil is trading at $106 USD per barrel (one hundred and six US Dollars) a big appreciation from the meagre price that it was plugged at pre NDC days. Cocoa also saw an appreciation in price, albeit not in production, when ex-President Kuffour clocked the one million ton productivity target though today’s is abysmally less than half of that.
Our currency is going through non-gravitational space flight soaring higher without restraint. The electricity curse remains a burden on Ghanaians amidst showers of inconsistent lies and vile propaganda that makes mockery of government in a state of buffoonery. The Black Stars seem to have been licked by the bane of events in Ghana that their presence became a mockery in Brazil. Money feuds and unbelievable greed characterised our World Cup. Expenses that were paid by Fifa were not transferred to the squad, hence their obduracy in Brazil; hence the stupidity of flying brand new Dollars in sealed bundles under the watchful of eyes of the international media who descended on us with ridicule, scornful cartoons and other forms of desultory news items. The climax of Brazil 2014 for Ghana could not have been better with some darling boys teaching some pimps a few lessons in decorum.
My friend, Agnes, stated her distress by crying out a statement to Mr President. She said, “John Mahama, our problems were bedevilling us consecutively but now they are concurrently”. A better submission could not have been put so ingeniously at this opportune time.