Truth is Treason in the Empire of Lies : Government of Failed Memories

When is come to flagrant display of legendary incompetence and deceit you can always trust the NPP government under the leadership of the excellent one Nana Addo Dankwah Akuffo Addo to excel. In December 2018 Presidential meeting with the press, Atinka FM journalist asked President Akufo-Addo whether he was aware that the Michigan Aerospace Manufacturers Association (MAMA) had offered to build 10 regional emergency centers with ambulances, and to provide the country with two helicopters for medical supplies together with drones for the supply of vaccines for the Health Ministry. President Akufo-Addo denied knowledge and called the Health Minister, "Hon." Kwaku Agyeman Manu to respond. According to the Minister, “When they (MAMA Delegation) came, they were about seven Ghanaians and one American who was neither the MD for Michigan Aerospace Manufacturers Association (MAMA) Gavin Brown nor Bill Gates” and that "MAMA opted out after he asked them to demonstrate its source of funding for the project". Last Thursday the same health minister was asked again that based on the group photograph of the meeting with the president the American he indicated was not the MD of MAMA Gavin Brown was in fact Gavin Brown, he retorted that he is and old man and does not remember whether it was Gavin Brown or not. Meanwhile the facts of the whole affair is that Dr. Afisah Zachariah, who was Director of Planning, Monitoring, and Evaluation at the Ministry of Health at the time, led a team to Michigan to solicit assistance from MAMA (https://www.crainsdetroit.com/article/20150320/NEWS/150329983/michigan-aerospace-firms-to-manage-medical-supply-delivery-effort-in). Dr. Afisah subsequently did a report on the visit and the "agreement" with MAMA. When the MAMA delegation which included the Executive Director of MAMA Gavin Brown visited Ghana in 2017, they held meetings with the Minister of health (the very same old man who doesn't remember) and latter with the President (who had no knowledge about the deal) and group photographs of the event was taken with the MAMA delegation which was widely published. The drone delivery part of the deal was to be handled by zipline, the very same zipline the Government led by Vice President contracted to carry out a much reduced drone services at US$ 12million per anum. The questions that are begging answers are 1. why would a government that promised to protect the public purse refuse a free offer and turn around and pay US$ 12m for a much reduced version of the same service by the sane contractor? 2. Did the Health Minister really forget about the whole encounter with MAMA? 3 How did the Health Minister introduce Gavin Brown to the President during their meeting? 4. Did the president really forgot about his meeting with MAMA and Gavin Brown? 5. How was the health Minister able to remember the exact number of the delegation and their race? 6. how was the health minister able to remember that the delegation did not include Gavin Brown or Bill Gate after one year, but six months down the line he cannot remember whether Gavin Brown was part of the delegation or not? 7. Based on the fact that Kwaku Agyemang Manu is now old and cant remember much should he continue to be in Office? 8. Is there something they are not telling us? because just like Hon Osafo Marfo said we ( Ghanaians) would not understand? The NPP is demonstrating their lightly veiled contempt for the electorate they depend on. This whole affair is quintessence of how this government is running the affairs of Ghana.

Ofosu Ampofo and the Cleaners – Training with Live Bullets

It was German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche who in his “twilight of the idols” said that there is no greater error than mistaking the consequences for the cause. It is from this premise that I proceed from the invitation of the chairman of the Opposition NDC by the CID for questioning over a leaked tape in which he allegedly made very disgusting pronouncement. (Small digression, what has the CID done about the leaked tape of their own boss Mrs Addo Dankwah? Did the bible talk about the log in somebody’s eyes?). Back to what I was saying, the content of the tape cannot be divorced from the events of the Ayawaso West Wogon (AWW). The ruling NPP predictably have jumped on the leaked tapes to justify the AWW events and put the blame on the NDC. The content of the leaked tapes if true are very disgusting and very alarming to say the least. But the NDC has quickly issued a press conference casting doubts on the authenticity of the leaked tapes, claiming they were doctored and criminally obtained. Now let us following the NPP side of events following the AWW election, the original story was that national security got intelligence about a cache of arms at the residence of the NDC parliamentary candidate for AWW, so forces were deployed to seize and retrieves same. I have never believed that line because I cannot believe our national security could get such intelligence and fail to retrieve them. Now with the leaked tape the NPP has shifted to the fact that they knew it was Azorka boys in the house of the NDC candidate. For me I don’t believe that story too because if they knew the forces were sent to contain Azorka boys why didn’t they say so and why hasn’t it come up at the hearing of the Emil Short Commission of enquiry? Those calling on Mr Ofosu Ampofo and the NDC to produce the undoctored tape if they claim the tapes have been doctored, I want them to cast their mind back, some few years ago the Senior Minister was heard on tape allegedly making some disgraceful pronouncements, he said the tapes were doctored, when he was asked to produce the undoctored tape, he said “we don’t go round recording our conversations with other people”. I want to know whether we now go round recording everyday conversation with others. Here again the NPP as usual is holding everyone else to the moral standards while they hold themselves to the legal standards. Did Mr Ofosu Ampofo make those statements on the tape? We would never know, but if he did we must all in a chorus condemn him for venturing on the path of such war games. Is it possible Mr Ofosu Ampofo did not make such pronouncements and that the ruling government made the tape up to explain away the events of AWW? That is also very possible judging from the shifting story being told by the NPP about AWW. The truth lies somewhere you and I would never find.