THE HIDDEN MESSAGE OF 2016 ELECTION DROLL.

My mother, Mrs. Elizabeth who has stayed in the capital region of Ghana for more than two decades once told me, that the Gas [who reside in Greater Accra region] are very known for their talent in the creative arts industry. "They can really dance, Kwabena. Even the average man who is not good in dancing, can give some daring moves, trust me", she said.

Antie Lizzy, you said it and it is true; come for your stone. Honorable Edwin Nii Lante Vanderpuye is a Ghanaian, a Ga and and a former sports minister nailed it during one of his campaigns in the capital city. He was giving some heavy dancing moves to ShataWale’s recent hit songs before selling his message to the entire populace at the gathering. I had not taken notice of this video until I visited Michael Ohene Aboagye's - a friend on facebook’s timeline to discover a video he shared from Modern Ghana Web's facebook page in January 2017.

I loved it and instantly spotted a proverb crawling through my mind. It goes like this: Even when the animal [housefly] has nothing to offer, it rubs it's palm [aboa no nni hwee koraa no, )posa ne nsa mu]. Mr. Nii Lante Vanderpuye did not just rub his hand, he shaked the stage and hypnotized the audience with his secretly learnt moves from #ShataWale, the dance hall artiste's music compilation.

Before then, he is not the only politician who has indulged in this act of dancing to party dignitaries and sympathizers during last year’s elections. Our president, his excellency Nana Akufu-Addo, and our ex-president John Mahama also did same at different times to different tunes on stage during their campaign thrill. It was awesome to behold the first gentleman of the land and first lady Laudina dancing to one of SM’s song titled “Mahama paper”.

Alhaji Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia was also seen on the airwaves cooking with the lovely people from the Northern part of Ghana whereas honorable Oko Vanderpuye was also seen cooking and plating the hair of some Ghanaian women in their homes.

It was awesome to see these figures do some of these things to grace the occasion and that made us all to understand, that “they are human after all”.

What am I driving at?

The year 2016, was a year we all need to retrospect as citizens of this nation. We need to keep many instances in the archives and fetch them for future reference. Our political figures showed maturity and conscience in the process of campaigning. On a lighter note, it was funny as they did this to attract their people, yet there was something far beyond these endeavors and must be chalked down.

Many are the traces our politicians left on the soils they were treading on in our local environs to persuade and win the heart of the eligible voters for power. They danced to our local tunes and showed their support for our Made in Ghana celebrities in the music industry. They cooked our local dishes and dined with us. Many of them did these for the purpose of indirectly selling their message[s] so well and Ghanaians discerned to keep some people and eliminate others especially, the parliamentarians.

Many of these parliamentarians were so professional, they were so lovely and sober in the process, many of these acts which were done, were done with the right intentions. They bonded with us and we felt this sense of togetherness and the pride of belonging to one ethnic or the other. And this will be repeated because that is the spirit of Africa. That is our root and this is what we are made of!

These lessons are symbolic. These are the lessons we ought to trace back from sunset to sundown and sing of their tunes to the next generation. We need to fetch these traces of footsteps on the grounds they walked on and keep for life. That is their real-self demonstrated in these minor acts. That is the soul of the Ghanaian people and that is the African way. We love being real and using some little mediums to show who we are and what we stand for and through such endeavors we learn.

I recall Hon. Alfred Vanderpuye was found plaiting a lady's hair, went out cooking, and pictures were splattered on social media. The vice president; his excellency Alhaji Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia did same and so on and so forth. We are Ghanaians and this is our land, this is our people. All these were intentionally done by the leaders to show us one thing: love for the nation and love for all is supreme.

Though the amusing part cannot be faded, but the dominant message I keep spotting on is, living together in harmony to shame the greedy man of the West who once visited and saw the beauty of our life and so, planted enmity among us and succeeded [somehow] in manipulating our thought and simultaneously painted a different picture about our culture.

He often thinks the Blackman has a long way to go in terms of democracy. That is a sham.

The time is here and the time is now; that "the black man is capable of managing his own affairs" [Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, 1957].

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HOLD IT, ... fake men of God.

The act of revealing a message of divine truth, is said to be prophecy whereas a prophet is the one who speaks of such divine inspiration.

During the times of old, some nations were ruled by prophets who carried direct messages from God above until there was a change of mind by the governed, to have a king who will lead them to wars, who they can trust and give them their sovereignty. This gave birth to democracy (government of the people, by the people, for the people - Abraham Lincoln).

But prophets’ still lives on because God still lives and that spirit is never dead because, it is a divine prophecy which will abound in our time (Joel 2 vs. 28, Revelations 22 vs. 6). who serve as the mouth-piece of God revealing what has been revealed to them: being in the past, live or future to those who the message goes for. The fact that the spirit of God hovers amongst us does not mean that the enemy is asleep. He has also made special arrangements to meet that. He has prepared his people who will hide under the invisible wings of his, pretend to behave they are for the light but Jesus said it all: “by their fruits, we shall really know who they are”

Recently, there was a prophecy the world is coming to an end yet we see and live on it as it was. We heard from the lips of some of these “so called” men of God that some of our ministers and Members of Parliament will die, yet they still enjoy salt under this sun, only lamenting badly about increment in their pays and passing laws which favors if a specific group, or the mass majority who voted them into power, only God knows.

Another man just pops up and give his prophecy out that the current president will share the same fate as his predecessor: all because we are in a democratic dispensation. Why this time? Why Ghana again? Why no one else but Mahama? Has he forgotten that the prophet who prophecy the doom of the nation, when the nation is doomed he also lives in it? Today, we hear them fighting about prophecies: one claiming the other stole his prophecy. Is this argument sound? Honestly, it is ill in logical reasoning.

Why is that our father muslims do not prophecy so? What of the traditionalists, or have their gods gone mute this time? The Kofi OO Kofi powers, Akonedi, Asuo Tano, I mean where are they? Is it because they do not have money for airtime on the media? I trust Christianity is the best among the lot but some men of God are overdoing it. Forcing God to speak at times He's having his breakfast or in a meeting with the Angels. These men are not really called. Immediately they receive a flash (a s.l.i.g.h.t vision), they come, proclaim aloud they have been called by ELYON: Hell NO! You need to wait upon the Lord and grow in grace and your talent. It is about time the Christian Council and these peoples' parents advice them and individuals sit them down and COUNSEL them and instill some discipline in them. Have they realized they are gradually tearing the nation apart? We are tired of them.Have they forgotten as James said that they will account for all deeds?

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FRAUD DOMINATING THE MINDSET OF LADS IN THE CENTRAL REGION.

Early 2000, it was unclear when I first heard the word, "SAKAWA". As a youngster, I took it upon myself to know what it entails through questionnaire. By then, it was the elderly ones' who were seen and heard of endulging in such transactions with their penpals outside the country.

 Now, it has become so much renowned and fashionable among the younger generation; that even a twelve year old boy can give a vivid description of it and the number of "mugus" (penpals) he has and chat daily with them online.

 I was amazed hearing three junior high pupils from the public schools of about thirteen to sixteen years, gossip about this business (as they call it), on their way to school last month at Nkwanta in the Central Region, near Agona Swedru. It was around 7.00 am and the older one amongst them boasted of knowing the "new clients and fresh sites that mugus (the name given to white friends)" are found and the format to capture the attention of the clients and make drain their pockets afterwards.

 His chat went on for about thirty minutes nonstop. To my dismay, he even boasted of his latest achievements of helping his peers get money from the their white friends many times. "Though some mugus are stubborn, but we eventually grab them and they later send some dollars and electronic machines within a few days", he said. "All you have to do is to look SHARP" and persuade them with more "vibes". Another boy told his story, that he is only sent by his senior brothers to get them credit cards, to chat with their clients on phone or sometimes online. At other times too, he go out to check if the internet links in the cafés are working, then he comes back to pick their laptops and arrange for them to start working in the evenings specifically. 

The towns and cafés they do these deals were not mentioned. This, has become the daily routine for many children within Agona Swedru and its suburbs, Kwanyako, Nyarkrom, Bawjiase, Kasoa and the nearby towns for a couple of years now, leading many of them being school dropouts, failure during examinations for the fact that the child does not pay maximum attention to his books and evetually, graduate into holliganism, streetism, drugtrafficking and the likes. Last two weeks Tuesday, I had a chat with a 19year old boy who has no interest in schooling because "its a waste of time", he said. He told me he completed J.H.S two years ago and he's content with it for the fact that he can read and write.

 "I completed J.H.S last two years and its okay". "Am a businessman". Don Sketches, as he said was his name, had a tattoo of a human skull on the right hand. He had some rubber bands on his right hand, wearing a white T-Shirt, a pair of black jeans and birkenstock. In his white shirt was written, "Y3 P3 SIKA, WOSE SKULL". Seeing these inscriptions, made me draw closer to him in a friendly manner and after his phone call, we started our chat which lasted for eighteen minutes.

 He told me he can earn dollars within a couple of days so, "why waste time in school, afterall, its only a piece of paper you get and even with that, you struggle so much before you get a job for yourself, noo, am my own boss now"! Immediately he gets the client, all he has to do is to see some "mokode"(a slang for spiritual consultants, especially mallams) to "put things together and after some days, money will be flowing in my accounts from the mugu". Speaking to some parents at Bawjiase and Kasoa they all accepted that, its becoming too much and that, today, you see some young guys in porsh cars, motorcycles and spending huge sums of money lavishly. 

They therefore suggested that, our spiritual leaders in Ghana, must intercede on behalf of these young ones. Ghana needs a lot of prayers, he said. An old woman of 58years who refused to disclose her identity said that his 20year old son no longer sleep at home. From morning to evening, he hangs out with his peers and always busy going up and down, from café to café. She said it was her intention to make his son learn a vocation but refused immediately he joined that company after school, though he had a good grade, but there was no money to send him to the university so the government must see to these emerging problems and other children who are always looking for quick money within the region.