Opinions of Saturday, 25 November 2017

Columnist: Prof Lungu

Right to Information act could have saved KABA (& Robert Mugabe)!

Kwadwo Asare Baffour Acheampong (KABA) Kwadwo Asare Baffour Acheampong (KABA)

In memory of KABA (Mr. Kwadwo Asare Baffour Acheampong).

Reminding Mr. Mahama, Mr. Alban Bagbin, and all their NDC compatriots who merely praised in words and talk the name of Kwame Nkrumah when they had all the power.

When they had all the power to negotiate the fairest oil contracts for Ghana and put every contract and agreement in the public domain, but chose to sit on the Freedom of Information/Right to Information (FOI/RTI) Act, for nearly a decade, and are now asking the good People of Ghana to grant deposed President Mugabe a red carpet ride to Ghana, and freedom to right and freedom to reside in Ghana.

Mr. Robert Mugabe had a Right to Information law for Zimbabwe!

So, cautioning President Akufo Addo. President Akufo Addo who continues to allow the Freedom of Information Bill/Right to Information Act to stall by lack of strong, purposeful leadership, as he now sits in that chair at the Flagstaff House, now Freedom House, so-called, without transparency in Ghana oil contracts and agreements.

Even as they still stall on open, free, and transparent competitive bidding for Ghana's minerals and oil resources:

Song Lyrics..................FOIB - A You Pickable, Mr. Politician?

Too much, too much, too much, too much.
Mr. Politician
Are your Pickable?
Too much, too much too much, too much talk,
Mr. Politician
Are you Serious?
Too much, too much, too much, too much
Mr. Politician
Are your Pickable?
Too much, too much, too much, too much talk
Mr. Politician
Are you Serious?

CHORUS:
Give us FOIB
Pass it FOIB
Bring it FOIB
March it FOIB
Scat….

Too much, too much, too much, too much
Mr. Politician
Are your Pickable?
Too much, too much too much, too much
Mr. Politician
Are you Serious?
Too much, too much too much, too much
Mr. Politician
Are your Pickable?
Too much, too much too much, too much talk
Mr. Politician
Are you Serious?

We don’t want no Kibaki problem
We don’t want Kenya massacre
We don’t want Mugabe nonsense
We don’t want Zimbabwe wahala

So give it to us Fili Fili
Give it to us Right now
Give it to us Fili Fili
Give it to us Right now.
Break….

Too much, too much, too much, too much
Mr. Politician
Are your Pickable?
Too much, too much too much, too much
Mr. Politician
Are your serious
Too much, too much too much, too much
Mr. Politician
Are your Pickable?
Too much, too much too much, too much
Mr. Politician
Are you Serious?

CHORUS:
Freedom of Information
Freedom of Information
Freedom of Information
Freedom of Information
Freedom of Information
Freedom of Information

So it goes, Ghana!