Venire…Videre…Vincere

ECG did its ‘thing’. The radio went off. Power was restored but not through the radio and no one seemed to realize. I feigned inattentiveness when a colleague asked me to put on the radio as the office was all quiet and uninteresting. I reluctantly stretched my hand to hit the switch button when he made the call again after about a minute later, and heard Dr Mensa Otabil at his usual best, teaching the Word of God. If I had heeded my colleague’s earlier call, I’m sure I would have caught the title of his teaching. Blame inertia.

It's Not As Great As You Think!

The line was terrible. I could hardly hear what he was saying but I could sense excitement in our network-induced breaking chat. So I called back and he delivered the good news, this time, hitch-free. His employer had agreed to sponsor his postgraduate education at Birmingham City University (BCU) in the UK – what he’d being praying about for quite some time. I was so happy for my childhood bosom friend. This was his third time of being admitted to the same institution to pursue a master’s programme in finance albeit his inability in securing funding in his first two attempts.  So for his employer to come to his aid meant the world to him – even more important than his salvation at that point in time [exaggeration mine]. This was in mid-July and the academic year was to start in September.

A Hypocritical Citizenry

I had to squint just to be sure I was reading right. I put the other pillow behind me so I don’t hurt my back as I sat up from my bed. ‘Twas ace investigative journalist, Anas Aremeyaw Anas’s latest exposé on the extent of rot in the third arm of government – the judiciary. Come on, we all knew that some judges were corrupt but what we lacked was what Anas has provided – evidence, and it was mind-blowing. Four senior legal practitioners a couple of years back alluded to the existence of the canker permeating the corridors of those who play God here on earth. No evidence was provided, well so we thought until Abraham Amaliba averred that two of the judges were axed from their posts after their allegation. Why that wasn’t topical, I can’t hazard a guess. Again, if indeed those allegations turned out to be true, why weren’t the culprits prosecuted and made to sleep in the same cells as those they sentenced there? But hey, this is Ghana where money talks and crap walks.