Vaccine hesitancy is a major threat to our collective health and safety as Covid-19 doesn’t give any clue of abating to vanish. We must continue to fight Covid to end its devastation. Africa faces double trouble struggling to get the vaccines and burst dangerous myths and fake news, scaring some of its people who can’t afford or don’t want to observe the protocols – the easiest, cheapest, yet best protection.
In 2018, I wrote a 10-page article to educate on the now famous Article 146 impeachment law and process. This was when then EC Boss Charlotte Osei and her deputies were undergoing that sham of a probe engineered by the ugly partisan politics, which if not checked, will divide this country even more to destroy it. A mere procurement rule breach without evidence of loss or corruption, ought to receive ratification by the PPA authority as permitted by the law, and never to warrant removal from office of a holder of the independent constitutional office.
This morning, I gave My Take in summary and here is the full version.
I have four questions.
Why is the Minerals Commission behaving as though it has been instructed to draw blood from its officers for the guys at TheFourthEstate online publication? The reporters, working on a story to assist the galamsey fight, requested information including about licenses issued by the Commission since 2013 and those it had revoked for the breaches of the laws it joins the public to complain about.
Last week I celebrated and commended police Constable Prince Forjour’s act of honesty to a generation that struggles to cultivate such priceless values. He was alone when the Stanbic Bank ATM ‘coughed out’ the ¢2000 cash. This low-rank officer could find a reason to pocket the money, but he refused to keep what wasn’t his. The Bank and the IGP encouraged his example by giving him almost six times the amount, including an investment.
Sunday night, I was privileged to join two accomplished and respected senior lawyers, Dr Benjamin Kunbuor and Marietta Brew Appiah-Oppong to speak to students who have just completed their law degree at GIMPA. The consummate academic who has been back at Legon teaching postgraduate law students chose to speak about nothing but the need to have a value system.