Tro-tro line pickings
Well, the orders to shoot reportedly came from the Omanhene of the area who was enforcing a District Defence Committee order that cattles found outside pens should be killed...
....Ghana-US relations have been given a major boost recently... Yes go on I'm listening ... Well, a Mr Julius Bedon who carries the enviable title of Director of the US Office of Disaster Assistance is visiting the country. To do what? . . . To monitor how US Food Aid has helped to resuscitate Ghana's economy. So we have internationally been marked as a Food Disaster Area?... You bet we are and that for sure is a diplomatic boost as a high-powered PNDC delegation is meeting Mr Becton at Kia.
....Still talking about the man-animal interaction in revolutionary Ghana, my friend, an estimated 1,650 giant mice looking like adult rats have invaded Korle Bu Hospital, the central coordinating centre of the PNDC Primary Health Care (PHC) programme. The maternity unit has seen the largest swarm of mice since the invasion began. The department of Game and Wildlife is purchasing cats to face the attack from one front while... do you know anything about Roel Pest Eradication Limited? Good... Roel is a private company which has waged a frantic war against the mice at a budgeted cost of 232,000 cedis excluding a readily made available import licence to procure chemicals and equipment to do mice battle in filthy wards...
I'll tell you a different story, my friend... I was in my village a couple of days ago. The usually silent lifeless Yes... cluster of swish houses were agog with activity and high spirits the occasion was the opening of a rural bank... Rural Bank?... They are mushrooming all over the place ... dilapidated storehouses are being renovated and sign boarded and transformed into R.B.s. Great idea that! ... Have you noticed the names of banks? Just to give a few examples... Kwaebihrem R.B., Mponua R.B., Akofrodua R.B., Mobogbi R.B. Norcisi R.B., Agbemabiasie R.B., etc. etc.- just one more example of slotting indigenous names into an English phrase - compromise of linguistic cultures...? What's in a name after all, wouldn't you like to buy a C10,00 share, as a rural peasant dweller in the Agyantrokofi Rural Bank, for instance
