“The things we do for votes before an election must become our habits after the election” – Ratina (2017). The ability of a political party to maintain power for a second term in office depends on the party’s ability to recall all the hard moments it faced while in opposition, recognize those who devoted themselves … Read more
Some roads leading to the Independence Square to be temporarily blocked on January 7 Ahead of Saturday January 7 inauguration ceremony at the Independence Square in Accra of President-elect Akufo-Addo, the Ghana Police has announced the blockade of some principal streets leading to the venue. Motorists are to take note and and use alternative routes … Read more
It has been widely speculated since 2010 that JJ has been trying to take back his party from people he called “greedy bastards”. For a while the great Papa J came to a certain reality that it required a different strategy to undo a sitting Democratic president. He who wields the gun has the power. … Read more
I am writing you this letter to congratulate you on your historic and epic victory and to thank you for the monumental effort you have put in in order to wrestle the country out of the grips of John Dramani “Dumsor” Mahama. I was a staunch supporter of Mahama when he first assumed the presidency, … Read more
I was listening to an interview of Madereka Nyerere, son of late President Julius Nyerere of Tanzania, on Voice of America TV programme, hosted by Salim Amin in Dar es Salaam on Sunday, 25th December 2016, Christmas day in Amin’s usual programme, The Scoop. Madereka’s father, Julius Nyerere, had had a leadership style of selflessness, … Read more
Traveling with top American documentary filmmakers and local journalists, we uncover massive abuse of power by a member of the Ghana Police highway patrol team. Fresh investigations by the New Crusading Guide has revealed that some police officers have resorted to using highway patrol duties for their personal benefit, intimidating civilians at will, flexing their … Read more
A number of police recruits have been dismissed by the Ghana Police Service after they were found culpable of falsifying the documents they used in their applications. This was confirmed by the Director of Public Affairs of the Ghana Police, Superintendent Cephas Arthur, on Accra FM’s Ghana Yensom on Thursday December 23, 2016. Superintendent Arthur … Read more
It is only in Ghana where post-election violence is perpetrated and decorated in partisan colors. Frustrated opportunists of winning parties and intoxicated mercenaries of losing parties often engage in battles over the “ownership” of public toilets, tollbooths, and selected state organizations. These hoodlums also visit mayhem on political opponents with impunity. It is disheartening that … Read more
By Kobena A Eyiah Your Excellency, You may remember a letter I wrote to you in September 2013. In that letter, I praised your courage in going to court over the EC’s fraudulent electoral practices and advised that you hung your gloves, so you could dedicate the rest of your life to charitable courses, especially … Read more
Your Excellency, You may remember a letter I wrote to you in September 2013. In that letter, I praised your courage in going to court over the EC’s fraudulent electoral practices and advised that you hung your gloves, so you could dedicate the rest of your life to charitable courses, especially building schools in the … Read more
The Ghana police spokesperson Supt. Cephas Arthur has said the lack of swiftness in dealing with reports of attacks on sympathizers of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) by supporters of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) was due to the fact that the incidents happen on its blindsides. Also, he said the police did not expect … Read more
The leadership of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has condemned attacks claimed to have been visited on the supporters of the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) by NPP supporters. The party urges the “Ghana Police to enforce the laws of the land and bring to book any person, irrespective of their political affiliations, found to … Read more
“To the Police, be the police; non partisan, be as neutral as transparent as you can, be accessible to all and deliver those services that the Ghanaian people so deserve from a police service,” he advised Tuesday. Mr Colman gave the advise when he appeared on Media General’s Election Command Centre platforms to share the … Read more
On Wednesday December 7, 2016, eligible voters in the Republic of Ghana are expected to exercise their franchise. The battle for presidency is between the president of the republic, Mr. John Dramani Mahama of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and Nana Addo-Danquah Akufo Addo of the New Patriotic Party (NPP). Voting to choose a leader … Read more
My first experience of presidential election debates was the Jimmy Carter-Gerald Ford debates of that Summer of 1976. Mr Carter, a Nuclear Physicist turned Naval Commander and later, peanut farmer, reeled off statistical figures without notes, for five or more minutes at a time, making the incumbent president sound so pedestrian. Since then, I have … Read more
INTRODUCTION On December 7, 2016, Ghanaians will again cast their ballots to elect a new president and members Parliament. While the fault lines of the election has already been drawn, I predict that the New Patriotic Party (NPP) will emerge victorious in the epic contest and, guess what, “Ghana will not burn.” Since 1992, Ghana … Read more
The reputation of the Ghana Police in combating crime is admiring, however, their inability to preempt and quell politically colored disturbances and prosecute such offenders leaves much to be desired. Although Political Scientists suggest that “struggle” is characteristic of political power pursuit, violence of any sort is intolerable. A weak law enforcement agency is largelyto … Read more
The reputation of the Ghana Police in combating crime is admiring, however, their inability to preempt and quell politically colored disturbances and prosecute such offenders leaves much to be desired. Although Political Scientists suggest that “struggle” is characteristic of political power pursuit, violence of any sort is intolerable. A weak law enforcement agency is largelyto … Read more
There are strong indications of deepened crisis emerging from the involvement of the Nigeria High Commission in All Nigeria Community activities. This crisis is believed to have generated as a result of special alliance with an individual who is the arc enemy of the community, Mr. Emmanuel Okeson. This plaguing tale of All Nigerian Community … Read more
Media Practitioner, Kwame Sefa Kayi has descended heavily on state institutions at the helm of affairs during elections. Speaking at a stakeholder meeting organised by the Media Foundation for West Africa on Monday November 21, 2016, the Chairman General as he is popularly known expressed his disappointment on why the Electoral Commission has charged Journalists … Read more