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We need Free, Fair and Peaceful Elections in our Motherland Ghana By Joe Kingsley Eyiah, Toronto, ON
I am prompted by a new song put together by some of our local Ghanaian Canadian artists for our upcoming election in Ghana to write this important message to our folks in Ghana, our dear motherland. The message in their song is very relevant to our time, especially when the year 2020 is not ‘business as usual’! On December 7, 2020 Ghanaians go to the polls to elect a President and a new Parliament. This is the seventh consecutive democratic process of choosing our President and Parliament under the Fourth Republic since 1992 and Ghanaians are very proud of this humble achievement that seems to be rare on the continent of Africa. We are also grateful to God for His provision of
peace and stability since the last days of military rule in Ghana in 1992. This election following immediately after the ‘controversial’ US Presidential Election just last month, which the incumbent President Donald Trump has refused to concede to the President-Elect Joe Biden and the much needed change in politics to bring ‘America Back’ after a political situation of deeply divided nation (USA) on party lines puts an onus task on Ghanaian voters to rise above ethnicity and party affiliations to select a President and a new Parliament that will serve the interest of Ghana as one nation with one people. This call is relevant! Success is the reward for relevance. Irrelevance, on the other hand, is the “funeral dirge” of any organization or nation.
President Nana Akufo Addo, NPP and John Mahama NDC Flagbearer Political campaigns by parties contesting this year’s election, especially those of the ruling National Patriotic Party (NPP) and the main opposition party, the National Democratic Congress could be described as acrimonious and
unhealthy with each party being at the other’s throat. Such vigorous attacks are not absent in any keenly contested political election anywhere in the world. However, PEACE eventually prevails wherever there is FREE and FAIR
elections. It is in this vein that I add my voice to all good-willing people and many artists calling for free, fair and peaceful elections in Ghana this year. I experienced the acronym and high political tension the two main political parties (the National Patriotic Party and the National Democratic Congress) in Ghana when I visited the motherland in 2012 before the national elections that year. Then came the sudden demise of President Prof Attah Mills in July. This event (his death and the subsequent national mourning) ushered some decorum into the political landscape of the country! Bitter enemies in the political arena joined hands to honour the deceased President who was dishonoured during his serving time. Pastors of the land rightly used his funeral to call cont’d pn pg. 7
New Ghana Consulate-General Building in Toronto Commissioned …Virtually!!
By Prof. Michael Baffoe and Jonathan Baah Annobil
Consul Gen with his staff and Rev. Fr. Korsah
The new Ghana ConsulateGeneral building on 8977 Woodbine Avenue, Markham, Ontario was on Tuesday 24th November, 2020 officially commissioned. The ceremonies were performed virtually by Honorable Shirley Ayorkor Botchway, Ghana’s Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration Minister.
said, “It is a great pleasure to officiate this building today and after hard efforts by the Ghana High Commission and the Consulate in Toronto, and with approval of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs & Regional Integration, and with the acceptance of Foreign Affairs Canada we are in this edifice today.”
The program started with the introduction of Rev. Fr. Korsah of the Ghanaian Anglican Church of Toronto with an opening prayer followed with opening remarks by the outgoing Consul-General, Mr. Thomas Seshie’s. He
Mr. Emmanuel Duodu, President of the GhanaianCanadian Association of Ontario (GCAO) was also invited to speak on behalf of GCAO. He thanked the cont’d on pg. 42