How can Mahama prosecute anyone when his nose is not clean on this whole judgment debt saga? It will take a new administration to get to the bottom of this fraud.
How can Mahama prosecute anyone when his nose is not clean on this whole judgment debt saga? It will take a new administration to get to the bottom of this fraud.
Kweku 9 years ago
"In an article on July 19, 2014, I reminded President Mahama why donor partners have let Ghana down."
Why do you write such things? Don't you think it draws too much attention to yourself? Who are you to remind President M ... read full comment
"In an article on July 19, 2014, I reminded President Mahama why donor partners have let Ghana down."
Why do you write such things? Don't you think it draws too much attention to yourself? Who are you to remind President Mahama of anything? Are you one of his advisers or personal friends or what? And how sure are you that Mahama would read your reminder on ghanaweb? How many readers do you think read your earlier article or will even be willing to go back and read it?
Yes, you wanted to say something. But there is a far better way of telling the reader that thing than making yourself the centre of the debate!
C.Y. ANDY-K 9 years ago
I can also ask you why you wrote what you wrote (very much inane), as you appear to be very ignorant of how governance systems and govts work. Let me explain.
Members of the public have every right to express their opinio ... read full comment
I can also ask you why you wrote what you wrote (very much inane), as you appear to be very ignorant of how governance systems and govts work. Let me explain.
Members of the public have every right to express their opinions about govt actions or intended actions; not only advisors and friends of the people in govt. In civilised countries, forums are held to solicit their opinions. Even if a neighbour wants to do an alteration to his house since govt is responsible for local planning and building permits!
Then, even in our backward system, govts have people who are supposed to listen to and watch the public and bring to govt's attention what they are saying, or doing. In the civilised countries, they have even extended that to tapping telephone and email conversations, to the extent of the German Chancellor being a target of Uncle Sam. I sincerely hope you have heard of the Snowden revelations, so I won't waste more time on this.
President Mahama doesn't need to read Ghanaweb to know what's being written here: others MUST BE DOING THAT FOR HIM. If they don't have such a set-up, then they have far less sense than I credit them with.
How can referring to a previous source one wrote be regarded as drawing too much attention to oneself? And what is wrong with drawing attention to oneself if that's worth doing? If you think you are the Real McCoy, instead of the fakes and charlatans around? If there was someone else more worthy who had said the things that Kofi wrote, perhaps, he'd refer to the person. Get it???
You're the one trying to make KOFI THE CENTRE OF DEBATE, not the things he wrote, Mr Clever Man!
I expect an apology from you for wasting my time writing this. Now, let me go address what Kofi wrote.
Andy-K
Kweku 9 years ago
Your first four paragraphs to not refer at all to my point of protest. If you read my last paragraph, you would see that my protest is about a certain style of writing and not at all about the writer's right to question or ad ... read full comment
Your first four paragraphs to not refer at all to my point of protest. If you read my last paragraph, you would see that my protest is about a certain style of writing and not at all about the writer's right to question or advise Mahama or protest against him. You missed that point especially the sarcasm that those direct questions are supposed to bring forth.
The rest of your argument also misses the point which is purely about how personal you can make an argument and the best way of doing that. By making the self-referent, rather than stating the actual point (of advice he may, or may not, have earlier given the president) Kofi missed a moment in the writing process which may be jarring to the reader in his process of understanding. It's a delicate (subtle) point, Andy, which I am afraid, you have failed to understand. Like my last paragraph stated, there are better ways of conveying the same info (in a much more impersonal way).
But I am not surprised at your retort, Andy. I have read (almost all of) your own pieces too and you are also a bit fond of self-references. You do it even more than Kofi Ata. You even move it forward by making references to articles you intend writing in the future. And you also make references to articles you have in progress that your work has prevented you from completing, and others that you intended writing but has discarded, etc. It never occurs to you that these self-references clutter your work and are not in any way at all useful to the reader, especially on ghanaweb, who may have been more satisfied with an article that stands completely on its own - irrespective of what you have written in the past or intend to write in the future.
This is ghanaweb, a fact which you should not forget, Andy.
C.Y. ANDY-K 9 years ago
Kofi,
I totally associate myself with the views expressed here about President Mahama not dilly dallying with Betty and other actions he must take to prosecute the conspirators. What I am baffled about is the call for pros ... read full comment
Kofi,
I totally associate myself with the views expressed here about President Mahama not dilly dallying with Betty and other actions he must take to prosecute the conspirators. What I am baffled about is the call for prosecution of the conspirators is only now coming out, several years from the event when it was very clear that it was a conspiracy to begin with.
The sole focusing on Woyome by all and sundry, including Martin Amidu, as if he acted on his own behalf continues to confuse and baffle me. I wrote the article, The Woyome Case, I am Confused, in order to draw attention to the ramifications of the case. We read of how Waterville sacked their lawyer (one Mr Tettey) and recruited Woyome to collect the money for them. Woyome himself had issued a statement in which he stated how he shared the money, and how Waterville even took him to court for taking too much for his expenses. So Woyome didn't chop that money alone, that much is already in the public domain. He therefore does not have that money to refund.
What baffles me is how practically all of you continue to write as if you are unaware of these facts.
Even Martin Amidu should have joined Waterville to the case against Woyome, making them the main respondents, in my opinion.
And to draw attention to myself as someone who has better insight than most, including Kweku, I shall re-post my article on the case here.:-)
Ha! ha! ha! I've just lectured off a man from the Caribbean who walked into my shop to collect money to feed the starving in Africa. He left very much impressed even though he didn't get a penny! Told him if I were Presidente of any country in Africa, no one would be starving in that country!
Andy-K
Bonsu 9 years ago
Kofi has unfortunately jumped on the populist bandwagon without a dispassionate assessment of the facts on the ground.In the first place it is a bit rich coming from Amidu that he represent the conscience and the moral compas ... read full comment
Kofi has unfortunately jumped on the populist bandwagon without a dispassionate assessment of the facts on the ground.In the first place it is a bit rich coming from Amidu that he represent the conscience and the moral compass of the nation when he was the chief culprit in the payment of the Woyome judgement debt.
If his argument was that he paid most of the money because the process was already in motion then that argument to me is unconvincing.I would only agree with him that it is the duty of the AG office to enforce all judicial decisions to comply with institutional responsibilities and to give credence to the concept of rule of law.
Also Kofi should not jump to criminalize anybody yet since that is not what the sc has ruled and the question of criminality is still under determination at the high court.One would think that you as a scholar would recognize this and respect it but instead you seem to be the chief culprit in this illegality.
In our rule of law concept one is not a criminal until pronounced by a competent court of jurisdiction to be so.However you seem to have come to your own conclusion and on the basis of that you have recklessly being pronouncing judgement.What a pity.
How can Mahama prosecute anyone when his nose is not clean on this whole judgment debt saga? It will take a new administration to get to the bottom of this fraud.
"In an article on July 19, 2014, I reminded President Mahama why donor partners have let Ghana down."
Why do you write such things? Don't you think it draws too much attention to yourself? Who are you to remind President M ...
read full comment
I can also ask you why you wrote what you wrote (very much inane), as you appear to be very ignorant of how governance systems and govts work. Let me explain.
Members of the public have every right to express their opinio ...
read full comment
Your first four paragraphs to not refer at all to my point of protest. If you read my last paragraph, you would see that my protest is about a certain style of writing and not at all about the writer's right to question or ad ...
read full comment
Kofi,
I totally associate myself with the views expressed here about President Mahama not dilly dallying with Betty and other actions he must take to prosecute the conspirators. What I am baffled about is the call for pros ...
read full comment
Kofi has unfortunately jumped on the populist bandwagon without a dispassionate assessment of the facts on the ground.In the first place it is a bit rich coming from Amidu that he represent the conscience and the moral compas ...
read full comment