Letters
Big title, little substance
Thank you for publishing the circular letter signed by Lt-Col Asasie titled 'Anti-Revolutionary Publications'.Col Asasie should point out to us the readers of Talking Drums what these "blatant misrepresentations" in the paper are that he talks about.
While he is about it, he should also please explain what his big title means. What is meant by the Political Counsellor for the Economic Development of the Committees for the Defence of the Revolution? I want to suggest that the Colonel himself does not know what he is supposed to do and what the job entails nor for that matter, those who appointed him - they too do not know.
By the way, I thought all political activity had been banned in Ghana. What political counselling is Col Asasie doing? There is an old saying that I will recommend to the Colonel and I suggest he should repeat it 10 times every day and teach his cadres also to repeat 10 times every day... "You can fool some of the people some of the time, all the people some of the time, even some of the people all the time, but you can never fool all the people all the time."
J. K. Amoah, Washington DC USA
Help these students
Brain drain has always been identified as one of the major drawbacks in our endeavour to rebuild Ghana.That is why I believe every encouragement should be given to Ghanaian students abroad to return home at the end of their courses. Unfortunately, the attitude adopted by the new Head of Education at the Ghana High Commission in London, Mr A.K. Antwi, towards freight charges of personal effects of students at the end of their course, is discouraging most students from returning home.
Mr Antwi has refused to authorise payment to a number of shipping and forwarding firms, who had carted goods of returning students in spite of the fact that such students meet the requirements that consist of the original bill of lading, a copy of the invoice covering the goods and that freight charges should not exceed £700.
My investigation has revealed that payment due to such companies as Lockford Shipping Company, Personal Effects Shipping Company, Air and Sea Freight Shipping, Atwima Shipping Company, Adams Shipping Company etc, have been outstanding for a long time due to the Education Department's attitude.
The result is that such companies are no more interested in dealing with returning students.
As a student in my final year in London, I am worried and will like the Government of Ghana to clarify the situation. If the PNDC does not want students to return home any more, we should be told so in plain language.
Kwame Nyamekye, London.
