Yussif Ahmed Ibn Yussif

Ouch!! Farewell to the former Energy Minister, Mr. Boakye Agyarko. Well, His Excellency Nana Addo Danquah Akuffo Addo has booted him out of his government over reasons media rumors say includes the renegotiated AMERI deal. A communiqué from the presidency on August 6, 2018, indicated the President has relieved the former minister of his duties. But what I find interesting is that the communiqué doesn’t detail why he has been sacked. But for some time now, this renegotiated AMERI deal which parliament has put on ice has been one of the main issues in the media especially when it was said that the President was misled into signing the deal. Really? Misled? Did the President not have enough time to read through the deal or he didn’t even read it all? Let’s take it that he was misled into signing the deal, by whom? Could that be part of why the energy minister has been sacked? Former Energy Minister, Mr. Boakye Agyarko. We live in a country where high ranking members of governmen

Little did I know that the saying that if you want to hide something from a black man, put it in a book wasn’t just a cliché but a reality. How is it that anybody would append his signature to anything without first reading its content? Some things are just mind boggling. For some days now, a document has been going round in parliament asking minority members of parliament to append their signatures to garner support for Former President John Mahama to run for the NDC flagbearership again in the upcoming 2020 presidential elections. This document is said to have seen as many as 94 signatures out of the 106 minority MPs in support of John Mahama. This tells how much support the former president still has in the NDC party. But can we say the same among the larger Ghanaian population? Well, a question only time and research can answer.                       Parliament House of Ghana. Among the numerous MPs who signed this document is the member of parliament for Yunyoo constituenc