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The memory is still fresh on my mind, her sad face with no sign of hope, wearing an oversized dress, sitting on the floor as she lamented and wept uncontrollably. “Bue! bue! Ade Aye me o, obi nso mi mu o bue! Mensonomuo! she bellowed in lamentations. When I approached and tried to console her she said ‘Maame, how can I stop, my two children are gone, my whole family is gone, how can I stop crying, tell me?’ Maame Mary quizzed and continued wailing. Telling her to stop crying, now became a difficult thing to do as my own eyes were filled with tears. I would turn away and shed some tears and return to consoling her. One of Maame Mary’s children who died at 18, Esther “God knows best, pull yourself together, everything is going to be fine,” were few words I remember saying to her. She is a survivor of the tragic flood and fire disaster which occurred at Kwame Nkrumah Circle on June 3 last year, sweeping away over 150 lives. Fortunately, she escaped...

I think my Mayor and Excellency friends may have good intentions about our dear country but I still don’t know why they cannot deliver. They had all the power to save those poor explosion victims but they did not use it. This country suffers floods every year. People die every year and yet nothing is done about it. 20 year old Freda Serwaa, who was said to be rushing to go write her examination and about four other people lost their lives on Monday, June 2 when parts of the capital were flooded as a result of a heavy downpour which started at about 4.30 am. Various roads have been rendered impassable. Untarred roads are the most affected but some tarred roads were also flooded on the shoulders. Busy roads like the Mallam Junction intersections of the N1 Highway, Darkuman Junction, Kaneshie First Light, Nima Junction, Danquah Circle, Dworwulu Junction and the Paloma corridor of the Ring Road among others became simply immotorable after several hours of rains. The floods carried...

After the killing of Chalie Hebdo journalists in France, I heard many Ghanaian journalists ask: what have we learned from these killings? My answer was simple. Nothing! How secure are our media houses? I could only answer this one with a question: is the country itself secure? I gave these answers because, as a country we have failed countless times to learn from our own mistakes. How are we expected to learn from the mistakes others? Infallibility is part of human nature. We make mistakes sometimes but the good part is that we learn from them and move on. But that is not so in the case with Ghana. Ghana turns 58 this year and she would have been preparing to go on retirement if she was a human being. But what do we see?  She rather keeps retrogressing instead of progressing. How then can she retire? What will her children (Ghanaians) eat if she retires? What advice will she give to her children? Ghana doesn’t seem to learn from her past mistakes and I think th...