Back in the harness – oh what news!
It was at the Safecon Filling station along Lightfoot-Boston yesterday morning; I was browsing through the pile of newspapers that I had just purchased when I heard the voice. “So you are back. Thank God I will again be back with that in depth informative and incisive Puawui column. Truly speaking I had missed it.†What more encouraging welcome remark from one who certainly sounded like a regular reader of the Puawui column. Well folks, I am back in harness and as I promised my admirer yesterday, here we are again. It is good to be back. Only my editors had any idea that I was going away; even then I simply said, only for a while. It turned out to be just over three weeks.
It was with much relief that I received the glad news while I was away that my nephew the honourabale Paramount chief Mohamed Sama Kailondo Banya had won the appeal case against the decision of the lower that his election on January 17 2003 be set aside and fresh elections held. I laid hands on a copy of the judgement of the three Appellate Judges. I must say I found them most interesting and intuitive, the interjection of legal expressions notwithstanding. Even though I am a beneficiary of that judgement, I must hail especially Justice Ademusu and Justice Brown-Mark who took a step by step review of the evidence and the decision based on them in the lower court and why they thought that perhaps their colleague there had erred. When I came to the judgement of the honourable Justice Hamilton, I could not help but conclude that the honourable gentleman may have worked from a preconceived position and then made his way through the evidence. Could he have decided that the appeal should be dismissed and then found grounds to justify it? Anyway such things are part of the way of life. Like I keep repeating I have much evidence in the integrity of our court, even if a litigant behaves as if he is in possession of a judgment before it is delivered. I hope the learned Judge’s syncope was only temporary
Most members of my family had wondered all along whether there would be political interference in the proceedings because of my very critical and most times biting comments of the performance of our “chuneh†government. I am glad that their skepticism has been proved baseless. Congrats to Puawui’s distinguished nephew and his ministers, well, some of them anyhow.
I had hoped that with our government’s over publicized emphasis on food production and the self acclaimed success they are achieving, the cost of basic food stuffs would have been reduced. However, on the contrary the prices appear to be attached to a huge balloon full of hydrogen gas which still keeps it afloat on high. Poor Ernest! Even our Bumbuna refuses to give us the clean and interrupted electricity supply that we had been assured was on line. By the way did the system not take an UNDESERVED BREAK after a bare four months of operation – I must check when Akosombo in Ghana with its gigantic 1,300MW ever take a break. Prof, where are you in all this?
To be sure that I was truly back home, some unserious relative had preserved a copy of an edition of the African Champion newspaper which carried a report that at the last SLPP national executive meeting in Bo, there was a melee in which I had gone to separate the combatants, only to be forcefully thrown on the ground and mercifully rescued by the police. My interested relation ought to have realized that the story was only the usual fabrication from the fertile imagination of the paper’s editor and his penchant for mischief. Puawui was not even in the country for the event. Well folks, it certainly feels good to be back.
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