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• Yaw 11 years ago

  Dr. Arthur Kennedy has lost his balance if he joins in the chorus that sanitary pads to girls in deprived should not be the business of government. Is it any wonder that the npp are sidelining him in everything they do these ...
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  Dr. Arthur Kennedy has lost his balance if he joins in the chorus that sanitary pads to girls in deprived should not be the business of government. Is it any wonder that the npp are sidelining him in everything they do these days?

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• C.Y. ANDY-K 11 years ago

  Ma fren, the problem that has been identified with girls staying away from school when menstruating can be solved a different way. Anyway, did the research say that the lack of sanitary pads was the reason they were staying a ...
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  Ma fren, the problem that has been identified with girls staying away from school when menstruating can be solved a different way. Anyway, did the research say that the lack of sanitary pads was the reason they were staying away from school?
  
  Can it not be the lack of toilets in schools which makes it difficult for them to take care of themselves properly and privately, even if they could afford pads or toilet rolls which most women use anyway? Provide toilets and toilet rolls in them and leave the rest to the girls! They prefer to build witch camps though. Tweah!
  
  I taught at the new site of the Ebenezer Sec. School at Dansoman in the mid-80s. There was no toilet whatsoever in the school and the school authorities did not even see the need for it when I raised the issue at staff meeting! I was horrified. Even the old site near De Hays at Mamprobi lacked toilet facilities and we have to use one in the adjoining house. Such uncivilised conditions prevailing in Ghana are the symptoms of the fact that Ghanaians, indeed, are not civilised!
  
  The litany of woes listed by Kennedy simply reflect that. As a late colleague used to remind me when we were both studying in Norway, if we didn't have those conditions, then we wouldn't be listed amongst developing peoples! Problem is, we are taking forever to develop! We are retarded, clinically! No, they are retarded, not me and my children!
  
  Until we have a cadre of civilised Ghanaians, reaching a critical to be able to carry some clout, put their feet down, and insist upon things being done differently cos they know better, we aren't going anywhere soon.
  
  Kennedy should have added Polytechnic lecturers on strike and univ dons some of whom added Ivy League insts. in the West threatening to join in quest of the continuation intellectually and academically monstrosities such as book and research allowances.
  
  For those of us whose grandparents assisted the British colonialists to develop the Gold Coast to the model colony that it was on the eve of indep, when we see the rot setting in and the insane decisions, we are reminded of what Torgbui said when Gbedema led Nkrumah to him to solicit support for independence and the CPP: nothing wrong with your mission but leave one white man for me!
  
  Maybe you should watch this space for an article, tentatively titled: TORGBUI SAYS LEAVE ONE WHITE MAN FOR ME.
  
  Andy-K

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• Kojo T 11 years ago

  Social interventions or freebies have become the norm. NPP started it without ensuring that they are sustenable . Econmis is allocation of scarce resources. We want to spend without ensuring we have the income stream to meet ...
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  Social interventions or freebies have become the norm. NPP started it without ensuring that they are sustenable . Econmis is allocation of scarce resources. We want to spend without ensuring we have the income stream to meet it . That is our problem

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• Akyem Mafia 11 years ago

  Kennedy, who will lead that revolution? And where did 1966, 1972, 1979, 1981 lead us? Come to think of it, where had 1992, 2001, 2009 and 2012 led us?
  It is always the same people and the same faces we will always see and th ...
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  Kennedy, who will lead that revolution? And where did 1966, 1972, 1979, 1981 lead us? Come to think of it, where had 1992, 2001, 2009 and 2012 led us?
  It is always the same people and the same faces we will always see and they will come and do the same things they have been doing. Lets sit our somewhere, please.
  Ghana was here before all of us were born and it will be here where we are gone; why should we behave as if Ghana will disappear tomorrow?

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