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Letter from The President: Famine in the North?

Fri, 16 Sep 2005 Source: J. A. Fukuor/Daily Dispatch

Countrymen and women, loyalists and opponents

I am writing to you from New York ?the Big Apple. Am here to interact with other world leaders and just have a good time. I know am not an important world leader ? I don?t have nuclear weapons and I don?t produce oil. So as far as this gathering is concerned, am quite insignificant. That?s why I have decided to enjoy this city as much as I can and meet many of the world?s most powerful leaders as well.
Since I arrived in New York, I?ve been eating good food and drinking good wine. But whenever I sit down to dine, I feel a sudden surge of guilt in my mind. It?s all because just a few days before I left Accra for New York, I read in the news that there was some sort of food crisis in the northern parts of Sikaman. It?s not fresh news anyway but it was shocking all the same.

Countrymen and women, loyalists and opponents

I am writing to you from New York ?the Big Apple. Am here to interact with other world leaders and just have a good time. I know am not an important world leader ? I don?t have nuclear weapons and I don?t produce oil. So as far as this gathering is concerned, am quite insignificant. That?s why I have decided to enjoy this city as much as I can and meet many of the world?s most powerful leaders as well.
Since I arrived in New York, I?ve been eating good food and drinking good wine. But whenever I sit down to dine, I feel a sudden surge of guilt in my mind. It?s all because just a few days before I left Accra for New York, I read in the news that there was some sort of food crisis in the northern parts of Sikaman. It?s not fresh news anyway but it was shocking all the same.

Columnist: J. A. Fukuor/Daily Dispatch