Yet, Sir Gordon Guggiberg's Korle-Bu has been the first point of call for national emergencies for over 5 decades. Over the last 2 decades, infrastructural developments have been a matter of "who built what" ahead of national development. City & community planning? Non-existent.
‘You can’t blame the leaders; people have built in waterways.’ Actually, you can. Buildings don’t magically appear overnight. If those responsible for planning and enforcement had done their jobs, many of these illegal developments would never have reached this point. Bffr
We know NPP was an absolute disaster that’s why you’ve been put in charge. The comparative tactics is working till it stops. Floods too you pull Addo D ein videos to justify, if it was good for Us Bawumia Would’ve continued. Wey fooling this? Sober up and fix GHANA.
Mahama's reparation agenda at the UN yields results as the German ambassador in a conversation with Stonebwoy confirms Germany is ready to return 4 stolen artefacts to kpando. stonebwoy also expressed admiration for the language used by the ambassador in addressing the situation.
The Quaque family should rather be paying reparations to the state.
1. Philip Quaque’s father, Obirempong Cudjoe, was a caboceer.
2. If you didn't know, a caboceer was a big, strong & powerful African man whose job was to raid communities in the hinterlands, and capture free men, women & children for sale to Europeans as slaves.
3. This job became lucrative following the arrival of the Portuguese on the Gold Coast, continued under the Danes and the Dutch, and ended with the British.
4. Obirempong Cudjoe built a strong business relationship with the biggest slave trader of the 1750s in Anomabo, an Irishman named Richard Brew, who was governor of the Royal Africa Company (RAC) at the slave fort in Anomabo.
5. But for the enterprise in Gold Coast’s slave forts, which were the manger that served greener pastures to most British employees, Richard Brew, an unemployed drunkard back in Ireland, would have perished in poverty. Ironically, now we rather troop to their ends in search of greener pastures.
6. Together, Brew & Cudjoe profited from slavery. Part of those profits financed the education of Cudjoe's son, Philip Quaque, at Oxford. Quaque later became Africa's foremost Anglican priest and preacher at the slave forts. After returning from Oxford, however, he was alienated from his Fanti people, could no longer speak his mother tongue fluently, and began trading in slaves himself.
7. Richard Brew, on the other hand, undermined the RAC, made even greater profits, and built himself a fort named Castle Brew, which still stands in ruins at Anomabo.
8. To strengthen their relationship, Richard Brew's mulatto son from a caboceer's daughter, Henry Brew, married Quaque's sister, Abba Kayba. The Brew family in Ghana emerged from this union and developed into a large privileged lineage that persists to this day.
9. Kwesi Brew (poet, diplomat, & member of the first batch of students to attend Legon), his daughter Rama Brew (veteran actress), Marietta Brew (second female attorney-general & current chair of Legon Council), Amandzeba Nat Brew (celebrated musician), & hyphenated-and-allied Brews all descend from this lineage.
10. These descendants & their allied Quaque family should be among those held accountable for the ancestral debt.
11. They can begin by renaming the Quaque House at Adisadel College in memory of their enslaved victims, whose family names I would rather not mention to avoid stigmatization.
Akufo-Addo went to Canada and told Ghanaians he was tired of spending over $250 million every year fighting floods, only for people to dump refuse into drains.
Mahama went to London and said Ghana’s flooding problem is largely an attitudinal one.
Were they wrong? No.
But that excuse collapses the moment leadership enters the conversation. Engineering solutions exist. Cities all over the world are built to account for human stupidity, foolishness and negligence.
If Ghanaians are supposedly dirty and stupid, why are you still constructing open drains in 2026 knowing very well they will be turned into garbage dumps within weeks?
Leadership is about designing systems that work despite people’s flaws, not whining about those flaws every rainy season.
Human beings respond to only two things: reason or fear. If reason has failed for decades, try FEAR!
Over a decade ago, Ghana spent signed a contract worth $200 million to construct 5,000 housing units. Only 1,500 was constructed and 10 years later, it’s still inhabitable
5 years ago, Minister for Sanitation told the vetting committee that she used 45 million to dredge gutter
2 years ago, the Sports Ministry spent over $200 million on All African Games of which the Audit Report says about $50 million was misappropriated
Just 2 days ago, the largest referral hospital in the country issued a statement that they can no longer admit new patients at the emergency ward
Leadership continues to fail the ordinary Ghanaian
The western world we admire today had indiscipline issues back in the day.
You can’t use that as an excuse to allow dysfunction to eat into the fabric of society.
Indiscipline is a solvable problem.
Most of the leaders we have here are just afraid of losing voters.