ODE TO A DOYEN OF SOCIAL JUSTICE: ANAS AREMEYAW ANAS

Values for which he stands and has always stood,
Protecting and guarding jealously the public good

Evidence thereof is all too clear an indication,
As he dishes out tip top exposés without equivocation

Across the media landscape he holds the label,
Of going the extra mile to seek and to unravel

Unmatched and apt is his use of sharp and sheer tact,
Almost always putting out what is the plain fact

His contemporaries may have made it a key to stride,
Over and beyond that with pride, he guides

A son of Bimbilla with a shrewd penchant to improvise,
Thereafter telling the full story without compromise

If Ghana and the world be grateful to the Osagyefo,
Ghana journalism is indebted to his mentor, Malik Baako

Clear of the politics, arguments and sentiments,
Wait a minute! Tiger Eye’ got the documents

Aside the bold risk of stepping out to investigate,
Abound afterward is audio/video proof to corroborate

As all other deliver of the story a mere tincture
He’s always on hand to present the full picture

However sophisticated and complicated the rock,
He unraveled the Imam school of shock (Aug 2008)

O’er and above his peers, he was a conscious vandal
Undercover as a labourer in the Eurofood Scandal

An enemy of human trafficking, local and international
Busted Soldier Bar and crushed the Chinese Sex Scandal

Then was ‘Musah Akolgo’ as he set out to douse,
The injustices and excesses in Ghana’s Madhouse

Thought of as being kind to kids as is the Pope in Rome,
He exposed ‘wicked nannies’ of the Osu Orphans Home

What happened to Ghana’s premier sea import station?
From there he brought to light ‘the Enemies of the nation’

Quenching trafficking and advancing Human Rights,
Criminals have and are panicking on hind and foresight

He’ time without number lifted the social justice cork,
And by that, ‘freed’ were Ghanaians in prisons of Bangkok

Why he busted the country’ cocoa smuggling estate?
In his words and heart he said, ‘In the interest of the state’

His gigantic strides at guiding society by ‘crusading,’
Sadly misconstrued in controversy of him ‘invading’

And so do the detractors always howl; ‘Subterfuge,’
But his pride resides in the 1000s that get refuge

To those who are hard hit by his work, he’ an Osama
Who better to disagree; 1st Black US President, Obama

To that end, for all social evils however endemic,
Trust he’s gonna root ‘em all out however systemic

When leopards, chameleons, parrots and scorpion team,
The Spice Girls and spider teams, complete the seam

And so did the national coffers heave a great sigh,
Credits and Plaudits to the efforts of team Tiger Eye

Aint nothing stopping him, as always soldiering ON
From past, today and beyond, unabated the struggle’ ON

Incomplete is Chinese history without Hu Jing Tao
Same as Ghana Journalism without Anas Aremeyaw

Credit: SHABAN BARANI ALPHA

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Defacement of Our Capital City - SIT UP AMA!

Aside the heaps of filth that refuse collection agencies struggle to deal with on a daily basis, the aesthetic quality of the capital is under an increased threat each passing day, reeling under the scourge of indiscriminate pasting of posters.

Electricity poles, street posts, telecom and electricity transformers, walls of residences, bill boards, traffic lights, kiosks, containers, sign posts, bus stops and overhead bridges most especially have all not been spared of this scourge.

These posters come in “assorted” ranges from film posters – of predominantly Ghanaian and Nigerian origins – political party posters, crusade notices by churches, company advertisements; even job seekers and job owners jostle for space, not to talk of the herbal healers and loan companies. The landscape of any surface can best be described as chaotic to say the least.

And the amazing thing is, city authorities day-in and day-out go past this sad state of affairs without any action in this respect. The Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) I am under no doubt, has regulations in their bye-laws to check what is turning out to be a messy and untidy capital.

The most hit areas by this scourge are our overhead bridges.
From the Shangri-La Overpass to the New and Old Achimota overheads, all the way to Nkrumah Circle Overpass, the Kanda Overpass and then to the Ako-Adjei Interchange, the overhead at Mile 7 – right in front of Peace Fm’s former offices has not escaped the actions of the unscrupulous people who surreptitiously paste these posters under the cover of darkness.

Void of any formula and format, anyone with a poster and glue can paste posters all over the place with amazing impunity – pasting on existing posters has brought about an indiscriminate and free-for-all process that in the end worsens the extent of defacement. In the long run, the refuse collection agencies are forced to clean the torn pieces and yet people continue to paste. Question; “For how long shall this pertain?”

Any one hardly moving from one place to another within the capital without setting eyes on one poster or the other, which compromises the aesthetic quality of most flat surfaces around the whole place, the multi million dollar question stands as, “What are the city authorities doing to right this blatant wrong?”

The AMA might have to track and arrest the people who go round defacing our city, take punitive measures against them, maybe to serve as a deterrent to others, considering that the AMA cannot hold owners of the notices liable.

Bottom line is, the city is being defaced and something most definitely must be done, and quick.