Here's more on the newest aspirant! Dr Baffour Agyei-Bawuah
He came across as a thoughtful man with lots of good ideas for Ghana, but aren't they all?
Are they all telling us they need to be president to implement the "noble" ideas that they have?
For me the good thing about having 20 or so people falling over each other to lead the NPP to the 2008 elections is the fact that many more Ghanaians are patronizing domestic tourism.
Good Example.
Thursday, October 11, 2007
So the Shiek lives?
The Citi Breakfast Show was quite interesting today.
I.C. Quaye Lives
The 1st interview was a verification of a front page story in the Daily Guide newspaper, to the effect that Greater Accra Regional Minister Shiek I.C.Quaye was well and strong and very alive, contrary to recent media reports that he was very very sick.
The Regional Minister stated emphatically that he had not been sick in the past few months and attributed the "wicked & mischievous lies" about his health to his political detractors.
I then had a quick promotional interview with a young man, Mahmoud Jajah, the CEO & Publisher of a Student Newspaper, called the student observer.
More on this remarkable young man later.
The major issue for the day was a continuation of the crusade on the poor quality of urban roads in the country.
The Department of Urban Roads was represented in the studio of 97.3 Citi FM by its Deputy Director in charge of maintenance, I.K. Mensah, who gave quite revealing answers about why many roads in the capiatal Accra, were in such a bad state.
I'll comment more on his specific responses later , but suffice it to say for now that the gentleman appears to be on top of his job.
My final interview was with the latest entrant into the NPP Presidential aspiration race, Dr Baffour Agyei-Bawuah, Ghana's Ambassador to Japan. He is a quietly articulate gentleman with lots of good ideas, but...
I guess, i'd have to create a podcast of my show on this blog so watch out for this soon.
I'll certainly do this within the month.
I.C. Quaye Lives
The 1st interview was a verification of a front page story in the Daily Guide newspaper, to the effect that Greater Accra Regional Minister Shiek I.C.Quaye was well and strong and very alive, contrary to recent media reports that he was very very sick.
The Regional Minister stated emphatically that he had not been sick in the past few months and attributed the "wicked & mischievous lies" about his health to his political detractors.
I then had a quick promotional interview with a young man, Mahmoud Jajah, the CEO & Publisher of a Student Newspaper, called the student observer.
More on this remarkable young man later.
The major issue for the day was a continuation of the crusade on the poor quality of urban roads in the country.
The Department of Urban Roads was represented in the studio of 97.3 Citi FM by its Deputy Director in charge of maintenance, I.K. Mensah, who gave quite revealing answers about why many roads in the capiatal Accra, were in such a bad state.
I'll comment more on his specific responses later , but suffice it to say for now that the gentleman appears to be on top of his job.
My final interview was with the latest entrant into the NPP Presidential aspiration race, Dr Baffour Agyei-Bawuah, Ghana's Ambassador to Japan. He is a quietly articulate gentleman with lots of good ideas, but...
I guess, i'd have to create a podcast of my show on this blog so watch out for this soon.
I'll certainly do this within the month.
Ghana's mobile headache
The major question one might want to ask is " to what extent is the NCA committed to enforcing its regulations in terms of service quality."
There is a fear that that this warning by the authority is a knee-jerk reaction to the rising levels of complaints being voiced out against the two networks, especially MTN, in the media.
Having said that, we wait to see what happens after 30 days in the event that the network quality of the two networks does not improve. That is if we know what the said improvement entails in the 1st place.
Most Terrible Networks?
Today i'll comment briefly on my show and mention a few points i think are noteworthy.
NCA BEGINS TO BARK!!!
The National Communications Authority at a press conference yesterday gave a 30 day ultimatum to the two leading mobile telephony service providers, MTN and Onetouch, to either get their act together or face severe sanctions.
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
Is Dr Paa Kwasi Nduom justified?
Dr Nduom was not happy with my interview style and actually complained on air that i had chosen to focus on negative things about him, i tried to explain myself but there's no telling how that went down with listeners.
All i can say in response is that i thought initially that he was evading the question of whom he supported in the 2004 presidential election, whether his party's Aggudey or the NPP J.A. Kufour.
In the end i made a promise to get him back into the studio to do another interview, at which he'd have a chance to share with listeners his plans for the CPP and for Ghana.
The last piece of the show was dedicated to discussing the thorny issue of land ownership in Ghana.
All i can say in response is that i thought initially that he was evading the question of whom he supported in the 2004 presidential election, whether his party's Aggudey or the NPP J.A. Kufour.
In the end i made a promise to get him back into the studio to do another interview, at which he'd have a chance to share with listeners his plans for the CPP and for Ghana.
The last piece of the show was dedicated to discussing the thorny issue of land ownership in Ghana.
On the Ghana Presidential Pageant and Terrible Accra Roads
So Dan Botwe though that publicizing such a meeting in the press was counterproductive to the cause of the NPP since it created the (false) impression that there was some crisis in the NPP, plus the advertised issues have on a number of occasions been discussed by the leadership of the party.
Even before the Dan Botwe interview, i had urged listners to send me sms messages reporting bad roads, or roads in ruins as i called them, so we could ask the "appropriate authorities" what they were doing about them.
The response was overwhelming, roads all the way from Nsawam to Spintex Road had pot holes, pot wells etc, the rains had exposed the shabby nature of the constructions.
My efforts at getting an official comment on why so many roads had been exposed got me the Deputy Minister for Road Transport, the honorabe Magnus Opare Asamoah, MP for Akuapem South.
His comments were to the effect that the responsibility of monitoring and maintenance of urban roads lay with the Depatrment of Urban Roads, noting that although they propbably had taken notice of the state of many of our urban roads in Ghana, it was not advisable to attempt to repair them in the rainy season, since in his view that would amount to " putting plaster on a wet skin."
He however gave the assurance that the governement was aware of the poor state of some urban roads and was putting plans in place to addres the situation.
Then came the interview for the day with CPP MP, Dr. Papa Kwasi Nduom.
Even before the Dan Botwe interview, i had urged listners to send me sms messages reporting bad roads, or roads in ruins as i called them, so we could ask the "appropriate authorities" what they were doing about them.
The response was overwhelming, roads all the way from Nsawam to Spintex Road had pot holes, pot wells etc, the rains had exposed the shabby nature of the constructions.
My efforts at getting an official comment on why so many roads had been exposed got me the Deputy Minister for Road Transport, the honorabe Magnus Opare Asamoah, MP for Akuapem South.
His comments were to the effect that the responsibility of monitoring and maintenance of urban roads lay with the Depatrment of Urban Roads, noting that although they propbably had taken notice of the state of many of our urban roads in Ghana, it was not advisable to attempt to repair them in the rainy season, since in his view that would amount to " putting plaster on a wet skin."
He however gave the assurance that the governement was aware of the poor state of some urban roads and was putting plans in place to addres the situation.
Then came the interview for the day with CPP MP, Dr. Papa Kwasi Nduom.
Ghana's President to meet Presidential Aspirants??
It was quite exciting today on the Citi Breakfast Show.
There was a healthy mix of politics, social/community issues and current affairs.
After the usual newspaper review with news editor Fred Chidi, and the Biz News with Ebenzer Amankwah as well as Sport with Sammy Bartels; i had a current affairs interview with one of the 20 NPP Presidential hopefuls, former General Secretary Dan Botwe.
The interview was for him to react to a story in the Statesman Newspaper to the effect that the President of Ghana had summoned all the NPP presidential hopefuls to a meeting at the castle to among other things discuss, " how to keep the campaign clean," and whether or not the President was suporting any particular candidate.
Dan Botwe told listners that he was not aware of anty such meeting scheduled for midday, wednesday. He also did not see the essence of capturing such a story....
There was a healthy mix of politics, social/community issues and current affairs.
After the usual newspaper review with news editor Fred Chidi, and the Biz News with Ebenzer Amankwah as well as Sport with Sammy Bartels; i had a current affairs interview with one of the 20 NPP Presidential hopefuls, former General Secretary Dan Botwe.
The interview was for him to react to a story in the Statesman Newspaper to the effect that the President of Ghana had summoned all the NPP presidential hopefuls to a meeting at the castle to among other things discuss, " how to keep the campaign clean," and whether or not the President was suporting any particular candidate.
Dan Botwe told listners that he was not aware of anty such meeting scheduled for midday, wednesday. He also did not see the essence of capturing such a story....
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