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• August 06, 2009
• GOVERNMENT BLOWS GH¢1m on Obama’s 24 -hour trip: Does kenkey cost “opipipiiipi”?

  Posted: August 6th, 2009, 5:13am EDT

  div align="justify"/divdiv align="justify"/divdiv align="justify"a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aDmB_Q6LHKk/SnqggHIxinI/AAAAAAAAAHM/rezzzrrZAiQ/s1600-h/omama.jpg"img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 200px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 199px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5366778379497474674" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aDmB_Q6LHKk/SnqggHIxinI/AAAAAAAAAHM/rezzzrrZAiQ/s200/omama.jpg" //a span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"I had eloquently and articulately written a piece about the lack of maintenance in Ghana when I came across this headline on www.myjoyonline.com dated July 30 2009; GOVERNMENT BLOWS GH¢1m on Obama – AFAG. My scream of confusion at this headline nearly caused my poor father to tumble off the couch as he tried to catch his usual morning beauty sleep. /span/divspan style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"div align="justify"br /In an effort to understand why such a tabooed amount of tax-payers' money could be spent in 24 hours given the current state of the Ghanaian “ecomini”, I looked for answers in the article. But as usual, there were none. All that was contained under said headline was a reiteration on the amount of money that the current government had spent on the Obama trip. Poor journalism does not permit much ease in finding relevant information in Ghana; yet despite this lack of credible sources and data to support this accusation against the government, I was left wondering… “How much was spent on the 24-hour visit by President Obama?”br //divdiv align="justify"br /If this claim is true and the government indeed spent that humongous “ega” (Ewe for money) for this historical trip, then I am hugely disappointed. With a two-year hiring freeze on public sector jobs and other heart wrenching situations with our ecoa href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aDmB_Q6LHKk/SnqiCUZW3-I/AAAAAAAAAHk/WaQed3ETzLw/s1600-h/kenkey_fish.jpg"img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 183px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5366780066683871202" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aDmB_Q6LHKk/SnqiCUZW3-I/AAAAAAAAAHk/WaQed3ETzLw/s320/kenkey_fish.jpg" //anomy, I am very surprised that we are willing to smile and tolerate the fire burning our bottoms because of one human being. Much worse, we are even more elated to dish out huge sums of money as though we walk on golden streets in Ghana. Apparently (and this is hear say), President Obama and his entourage ate kenkey at the castle. Ei! Ho! I didn’t know kenkey costs “opipipiiipi”. /spanbr /a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aDmB_Q6LHKk/SnqhpMkaw_I/AAAAAAAAAHc/fXv0mB-fFec/s1600-h/kenkey_fish.jpg"/a/divdiv align="justify"span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aDmB_Q6LHKk/SnqhpMkaw_I/AAAAAAAAAHc/fXv0mB-fFec/s1600-h/kenkey_fish.jpg"/abr /The NDC government vehemently attacked the NPP government for spending ¢50m on the Ghana@50 celebrations. I believe the good book says, “Remove the LOG from your eye before you remove the SPLINTER from another person’s eye.” I do not condone nor support any of the unwise decisions being made at the expense of Ghanaian citizens. In fact I am tired of the two key political parties who spend time bickering as though they were children instead of focusing on the pressing issues “lay” Ghanaians are facing. Ghana does not belong to those political parties for them to dish out expensive “birthday gifts” to people who are not even celebrating their birthdays. /spanbr //divdiv align="justify"span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"br /I’m going to drink my morning tea and say a word of prayer for the Almighty to change the hearts of our leaders lest my fury boil and burn down my computer as I type. /spanbr //divspan style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"span style="font-size:85%;"div align="justify"br /Link for Obama picture : /spana href="http://news.myjoyonline.com/news/200907/33364.asp"span style="font-size:85%;"http://news.myjoyonline.com/news/200907/33364.asp/span/aspan style="font-size:85%;" /spanspan style="font-size:85%;"br /Link for kenkey picture: /spana href="http://www.adonaba.com/bilder/kenkey_fish.JPG"span style="font-size:85%;"http://www.adonaba.com/bilder/kenkey_fish.JPG/span/a/span/divspan style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"br /ememspan style="font-size:85%;"Disclaimer: This post was written last week but not posted./span/em/em/spandiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2514653573750022136-9015365962458470118?l=ignoramus101.blogspot.com'//div