Tro-tro line pickings...
There is no better place to talk frankly with people, ordinary people, than in a queue waiting for buses or lorries in Ghana (tro-tro) to travel. The conversation is humorous, informative and exciting. Of course, some are mere hearsay, some are facts and some are a clever blend of the two. Why not share some of these 'pickings'. Please read on…"Do you know about the one-arm revolutionary cadre in this country?"
"What?"
"Aaa, well, He was a PDC man with two arms like the rest of us in a little village in the Western Region. He made a law unto himself that stray goats, sheep, fowls in the village can be shot on sight. Determined to enforce his veterinary discipline, he caught sight of a goat which fitted his own definition of a stray and pum...pum, the goat was dead. Now the goat happened to belong to the Odikro (chief) of the village. He was so enraged that after soaking himself with akpeteshie, he stormed the PDC chap's house armed with a matchet. The result of the fracas was a severed arm wriggling in a pool of blood!... My, friend, that is the tempo of the grassroot revolution!
Do you know until a few days ago. I never knew that Flt-Lt. Robert Kojo Lee was alive! The man was convicted of murder last year and ordered to face death by firing squad. Apparently, the public was deceived. The man has been confined 'somewhere' for nearly a year. Now that an Appeal Tribunal has been set up, the notorious soldier has surfaced up to be retried. I wonder how many citizens would have been so lucky to stay alive waiting for re-hearing of their convictions..
Have you followed the Nii Amu Addy trial? He was acquitted on a murder charge recently by a Public Tribunal. The PNDC Chairman was reported to be so enraged that he quashed the sentence of the tribunal and now the state is preparing to appeal. Well, so far so good. But this is an orchestrated ploy. The acquittal of the culprit was sanctioned from higher authorities. Nii Amu Addy is a specially trained militiaman specifically armed and a state-paid bodyguard to a PNDC official.
In fact he is so trigger-happy that he has done more than one fatal shooting. The charade that is being played is not to have him convicted but actually free him. Just keep waiting for further developments...
Listen… at the Bibiani Metal Complex, the District Defence Committee of the area, actually gave a bribe of C10,000 to the Company for supply of nails. Furthermore, the District Co- ordinator of Defence Committees the district, a Mr P.T. Bernasko, actually owns the Asko Trading Enterprise and this man, in fact issued a dud cheque of C85,000 to the Rihi Complex. Well... the Okoe Commission probing the BMC has a task on its hands, no doubt.
Now here comes a touch of 'African Electronics." "Professor" De-Ago, well-known black magic practitioner, beheaded a 19-year-old youth … the severed head could actually talk and the 'dead' man was actually brought back to life after three days. It all happened at the Osu Regal Cinema hall ...here in Accra from Wednesday, September 5 to Saturday September 8. Now resurrected, the frail young man, confidently smiled and admitted that throughout his three days of lapse, he suffered no physical injury whatsoever.
At C20 per audience, Prof. De-Aga may have chalked nearly C500,000 over the three days. Good money, bet!
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