”RE-MERBAN TRANSFORMED”
– My Response to Mr. Sydney Casely Hayford
By Abdul Manaf Sulemana
Good Morning Mr. Sydney Casely Hayford. I hope you had a wonderful weekend after your Bizarre experience at ”The Skuup” last Friday. I know you don’t know me so I’ll introduce myself.
My name is Abdul Manaf Sulemana but you can call me Sule or maybe myknife as my class mates back in Accra Academy used to call me. I am fine with either of them. The latter actually brings fond memories of my days in Accra Academy and brings smiles onto my face.
This is your second article I have read. I read the first on myjoyonline.com and I found it quite interesting. This however I read from citifmonline.com through a link a friend shared on facebook. I watched you on Tv3’s National Agenda with Hon. Akoto Osei and Deputy Finance Minister Mr. Rickett Hagan about two months ago and I must say you really dribbled the Deputy Finance Minister that night. He had a very tough time and I wondered why government didn’t present someone more eloquent and fierce to match you.
Please did you say sibling authority with regards to the President’s brother?s loan from Merchant Bank? I thought that loan was contracted in 2007? Wasn’t President Kuffour in office then? Wasn’t the NDC in opposition then? or is Mr. Ibrahim Mahama related to ex-President John Kuffour? That must be some blood-line ruling over us, not so? Where is Alex Jones when you need him? Mr Alex Jones, we need you to take a break from Queen Elizabeth and the Rothschild family and do something on the Kuffour and Mahama family because Mr.Sydney has just given us a clue about them being siblings.
Mr Sydney, please do you know Mr. Appiah-Menka? The name rings a bell right? Yes I am talking about the New Patriotic Party’s Appiah-Menka. Are you aware he is among the 81% debtors of Merchant Bank? I am wondering why you left him out? Oh let me guess, he is not NDC and he is not related to the President. Did I get it right?
I want to ask you Sir, were you in Ghana in 2008? What did you think of Ghana Telecom’s sale to Vodafone? Did you know Telkom SA offered $947m for 66.7% of Ghana Telecom but instead 70% was sold for $900M to Vodafone? Did you hear Hon. PC Appiah Ofori’s allegation of MP’s being bribed $5000 to push that sale through? What did you say on that Sir? Or you weren’t this concerned about Ghana to speak on national issues then? Do you know Vodafone’s bid was actually one of the 11 rejected bids as at September 14, 2007 by the government appointed transaction advisors, Ecobank Development Corporations? Do you know Former President Kuffour attended a secret meeting in Accra on November 9, 2007 where he faced Vodafone’s CEO Arun Sarin, The British Deputy High Commissioner, Menna Rawlings and James Cribb, head of UL Trade and Investment? Do you know on January 24th 2008, government contract with EDC was abrogated? Do you know all that was against our divestiture laws?
Don’t get me wrong in asking about the Ghana Telecom Sale Sir, I am not trying to equalize, just trying to get to know you. Comparing the sale of Ghana Telecom to Vodafone and Merchant Bank to Fortiz, I really don’t smell anything pungent as you indicated in your article. There isn’t any report of President Mahama meeting the Fortiz owners, is there? Neither was Fortiz rejected only to be the sole buyer.
Did you say you petitioned CHRAJ on GYEEDA? Thats a good move Sir. Let?s hope it produces something because it looks like some petitions receive recognition whiles others do not. Do you remember Mr. Sam Pee Yalley’s petition to the Chief Justice about a tape on which Lawyer Atta kyea claimed the Chief Justice who tops as his sister-in-law was giving him guidelines as to how to go with his party’s intended injunction on the 2008 election result declaration? That didn’t make any waves did it? I am sure you’ve heard about the NPP’s petition to the Chief Justice over the Vicky Hammah tape of which an eight member panel has been set up to investigate ? Do you see why I said some petitions receive recognition whiles others are not? Hmmm. Let?s hope your petition to CHRAJ is recognized. Let?s pray.
Yes we qualified for Brazil 2014. That was quite a match wasn’t it? As for the ”idiot” who called for the president’s picture tattooed as you wrote in your article, that was Member of Parliament for Juaboso Constituency, Hon. Kwabena Mintah Akandoh and I don’t think he meant it the way the media reported and how you made it seem. It was a response to one of the ranking members of the committee who had a problem with the President’s picture being embossed on t-shirts of some supporters. Personally I have no problem with that. I don’t see anything wrong with the President’s picture being embossed on a shirt won by a supporter. Whoops. I guess that makes me an idiot too. Ghana, Aha ye de ampa. Debia as3m fofrowo h).
I sent you a friend request on facebook. I can’t remember if I was told you had reached your limit of friends or the request went through. I’ll check. Please confirm my request if it comes through.
Source: The Al-Hajj newspaper
