My Village Thoughts

The Constitution of Ghana imposes a constitutional obligation on eligible Ghanaians to exercise their franchise every four years and as such 7th December, 2012 is a call to our duty to go to the polls and exercise our franchise. It is however important to take cognisance of the fact that our right cannot be decoupled from our responsibility to exercise our franchise in a peaceful and congenial manner. Yes, Ghana has endeared for herself an enviable accolade as a shining star of democratic culture and posterity will not pardon us if do anything untoward to derail the peace & development we currently enjoy. Ghana's democracy although a maturing one, to most countries especially those on the African continent is number one and we must do everything to safeguard it like an egg shell, lest it drops & breaks. Let us not be complacent at all that we have done it before and we will be able to do it again easily. As our beloved late President John Evans Atta Mills and may his ...

So what made ‘Brewster’s Millions’ tick? A young man is tasked to spend, or perhaps misspend $30 million in 30 days, to inherit a $300 million fortune willed to him by his great-uncle he never met. To help him dispense the cash quickly, he forms a political party which campaigns against itself and everybody else, urging the electorate to elect ‘None of the Above’ as Mayor of New York. He fulfils the conditions at the very last second to earn the millions he never worked for. Turns out the electorate did actually vote for the ‘None of the Above’ party, forcing a re-election for a new mayor. This Walter Hill-directed comic masterpiece is good enough for a movie. And perhaps the producers needn’t worry about illegal replication of the movie, either in full or in part, because it is unlikely any electorate in even the funniest democracy on the globe will ever vote for the likes of Brewster for any serious political office. However, many a disillusioned electorate in many of our modern ...