How did Sikaman get itself into this Pickle?

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• princewilly@ymail.com 12 years ago

  There was a man who had worked his whole life in a pickle factory. One day he came home and told his wife that he had been fired from his job.
  
  She began to scream and yell, "You have given them twenty years of devoted serv ...
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  There was a man who had worked his whole life in a pickle factory. One day he came home and told his wife that he had been fired from his job.
  
  She began to scream and yell, "You have given them twenty years of devoted service. Why did they fire you?"
  
  "For twenty years I’ve wanted to stick my pecker in the pickle slicer," he explained, "and today I finally did it!"
  
  The wife ran over and pulled his pants down to see what damage had been done.
  
  "You look okay," she said with a sigh of relief. "So what happened to the pickle slicer?"
  
  "Well," he said with hesitation, "they fired her, too."

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• Paul Afotey 12 years ago

  I enjoyed reading this

  I enjoyed reading this

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• Nana Yaw III 12 years ago

  Nice narration, especially if this was a tale, but it is about what happened (and is happening) in Ghana today. My comments are:
  
  1. It is advisable to weigh the choice of words in describing the protests made by the Patri ...
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  Nice narration, especially if this was a tale, but it is about what happened (and is happening) in Ghana today. My comments are:
  
  1. It is advisable to weigh the choice of words in describing the protests made by the Patriots. The so-called protest, to me, was a well orchestrated plot executed by a player who knew before hand that he was about to lose a fairly contested game. If it were not so, I will be glad if you will explain to readers how the Patriots determined, when the game was half-way, that they had won.
  
  2. You should know that most of the “faulted” goals of the Cadres are goals the Patriots are challenging because their quest is to secure a “post-handicapped” privilege from a game that had already ended, and had no rules of handicap for any of the players.
  
  
  3. Yes, the cadres are still running the nation, because they are legally recognised by all the laws of the land to rule the nation. But to say that they are ruining the nation is, to say the least, to be irresponsible and unfair. The nation is supposed to be run by all parties – majority and minority – with set rules. It is the minority that have decided not to be part of the game, basing their arguments on principles that can only be described as stupid, irresponsible, selfish, myopic, and unpatriotic. In fact, the only principle they are following is the “mate meho” principle.
  
  4. The Cadres, in principle, have not asked the Patriots to join in the vetting. It is their duty (the Patriots) to be there because the laws of the land recognise the government until the Commissioners say otherwise. Nobody ought to invite them (the Patriots) before they join the vetting.
  
  5. You must know that it is not the commissioners that appear to be in no hurry to review the tapes. For your information, it is rather the cadres that are objecting to everything – from the name of a commissioner, through the presence of a team, to the request for tapes of the match. The commissioners have made no new rules – they simply analysed the arguments put forward by the Cadres to join their captain, and played by the rules by allowing them to join and defend their captain at the Commission’s hearings.
  
  
  6. If the world is amazed, let them be amazed. We in Ghana voted for some rules of engagement that for now are the only ones we have. If you find the rules unacceptable, there are channels available for you to call for amendments; no one is impeding you from doing that.
  
  7. Will playing the game in October make any difference? Or is it because if it had been so, the unfortunate circumstances that saw the captain of the Cadres being proclaimed captain would have given the Cadres a very late start, and as such given the Patriots a great edge in the championship?
  
  Let us learn to be fair and just in our contributions on issues on our beloved Ghana.

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• Kofi Ata, Cambridge, UK 12 years ago

  Nana, you have put your observations so succinctly that I have very little, if any, to add. My good friend's analogy of the political situation in Ghana with a football match is a bit problematic because I am yet to see any f ...
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  Nana, you have put your observations so succinctly that I have very little, if any, to add. My good friend's analogy of the political situation in Ghana with a football match is a bit problematic because I am yet to see any football game that the officials or Match Commissioners have reversed the decision of the referee on the final scores or the results after the game, unless unqualified players were fielded, (though I stand corrected).
  
  Since he used Patriots for NPP, he should equally have referred to the NDC as Democrats and not Cadres but that is a minor issue. I see nothing wrong with Cadres since he was probably reminding readers of NDC's 'revolutionary' origin.
  
  Nana, I absolutely agree with you on the suggestion that the Cadres are ruining the country. That was uncalled for and it is too early for anyone to come to that conclusion since the President is still in the processes of forming his Executive Team. There are caretaker ministers and Ghana is not in crisis or chaos. Rather, it is the actions and omissions of the Patriots that could make the country ungovernable. In other words the Patriots are most likely to cause damage to the country than the the Democrats (Cadres).
  
  Again, the rules being used by the Match Commissioners were made before the game started. The Commissioners were asked to interpret and apply the rules since there were differences of opinion between the Patriots and Democrats (Cadres)on who could and could not be part of the review processes.
  
  Last but not the least, the way the Patriots and Democrats are conducting themselves before the Match Commissioners, when it comes to the Commissioners reviewing the video evidence of the match, it appears to me that, perhaps, even if the match had been played in October instead of December, three months would not have been sufficient for the reviewed to have been completed by the Match Commissioners. That would have plunged the country into serious confusion and chaos than the current situation. For that reason, perhaps, maintaining the status quo may be better because Ghana cannot afford a vacuum of leadership even for a week if the Match Commissioners are unable to complete the review within three months. The objections especially by the Patriots on any request from the referee and the Democrats (Cadres) will unnecessarily delay the review.

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• Sylvia Mensah 12 years ago

  The point is the Court should understand that this dispute must be resolved in days not months. The notion that the Court should and would allow the parties to delay the proceedings is what the clever author was satirizing

  The point is the Court should understand that this dispute must be resolved in days not months. The notion that the Court should and would allow the parties to delay the proceedings is what the clever author was satirizing

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• Nana Yaw III 12 years ago

  The "delays" are embedded in the rules of the game. In fact they form an intrinsic part of the game.

  The "delays" are embedded in the rules of the game. In fact they form an intrinsic part of the game.

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• Sylvia Mensah 12 years ago

  He is making a mockery of our system that allows the Chief Justice to swear in a President who may not have been validly elected.
  
  And I think he is calling for the Court to decide this case quickly so that life can come ba ...
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  He is making a mockery of our system that allows the Chief Justice to swear in a President who may not have been validly elected.
  
  And I think he is calling for the Court to decide this case quickly so that life can come back to normal

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• Nana Yaw III 12 years ago

  Don't you think we pretend to know so much that we pass most of the time mocking anything we did not take part in putting into place? That was what I sought to address.
  
  Just because we have a particular interest in an iss ...
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  Don't you think we pretend to know so much that we pass most of the time mocking anything we did not take part in putting into place? That was what I sought to address.
  
  Just because we have a particular interest in an issue does not imply that we should hurry the court through established legal processes without giving our opponent a fair opportunity. We all are equal before the law.

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• DusTY-FooT-pHiloSophER 12 years ago

  No comment.

  No comment.

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• Paul Amuna 12 years ago

  So, what do you think about why "Sikaman" has got itself in this pickle and who are to blame?

  So, what do you think about why "Sikaman" has got itself in this pickle and who are to blame?

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• Iddi 12 years ago

  Absolute nonsense! Its appropriate you familiarise yourself with with current affairs before you still writing spittle.

  Absolute nonsense! Its appropriate you familiarise yourself with with current affairs before you still writing spittle.

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