It is very interesting the way certain personalities, by virtue of the fact that they work at The Graphic Communications Group, use their privileged positions to write all kinds of skewed feature articles in the Daily Graphic. A few days ago, it was Yaw Boadu-Ayeboafo, who used his privileged position (as has been his stock-in-trade for some time), to attempt to inflict his heavily opinionated NPP thinking on the rest of the reading public. I will not respond to Yaw Boadu-Ayeboafo on this occasion because a certain Afrakoma Fofie from Ashtown, Kumasi, has already done a good job of tearing apart the myopic mindset of Yaw Boadu-Ayeboafo. This time around, it is Kofi Akordor, in his “From My Rooftop” column on page 7 of the Tuesday, January 03, 2012, edition of Daily Graphic, who sought to inflict his mindset on the reading public. Under the caption “Vain Promises, Fresh Dreams”, Kofi Akordor only succeeded in panning himself out as either a hater of the Atta Mills Administration or just a plain cynic. Kofi Akordor in his article, would want us to believe that nothing has happened since President Atta Mills took over the reins of Government. Kofi Akordor was unable to point to a single positive thing that the Mills Administration has done and when he even mentioned the provision of free school uniforms and exercise books, he did not consider them as achievements. If President Kufuor did not provide free school uniforms, and President Mills is providing free school uniforms, is it not a step forward in the right direction? Is Kofi Akordor saying that poor kids in his Ho Municipality would not appreciate free school uniforms and free textbooks? As far as Kofi Akordor is concerned, every year promises are made and the promises made at the beginning of last year came to nothing and so Ghanaians should not expect anything different this year. Kofi Akordor mentioned the Eastern Corridor road, the Volta & Brong Ahafo Universities, and the STX housing project, as promises that were made and not fulfilled in 2011. It is sad that Kofi Akordor hails from Ho but has not bothered to stop at the Sokode Lokoe location where the Volta University is being sited to see for himself what is going on there so he does not make a laughing stock of himself. If Kofi Akordor, on his way to Ho, spends a little time to stop at the place where the University is being cited, he will realise that work is going on. Apart from the construction at the main site, if Kofi Akordor cares to know, construction work has taken place somewhere around the Trafalgar Hospital to house students. To the point, the Volta University already has a hostel, administration block, and some bungalows for Vice Chancellor, Pro Vice Chancellor and some other staff. Besides the University, has Kofi Akordor bothered to check on the number schools under trees in the Volta Region, which have been transformed into brick and mortar facilities? Does Kofi Akordor know that apart from the Central Region, the Volta Region is the second when it comes to infrastructure expansion at the secondary school level? Who says that work has not began on the Eastern Corridor road? Why is Kofi Akordor exposing his high level of ignorance? How much will it take to check a few facts so that Kofi Akordor will not walk around with a cardboard bearing the inscription “I am an ignoramus”. Maybe Kofi Akordor has not driven on the Asikuma/Kpeve/Hohoe stretch of the road in a while hence his gross ignorance about what is happening on the Eastern Corridor. Also, if Kofi Akordor moves deeper into the Northern part of the Volta Region (specifically Nkwanta to Kpasa), he will not make a mess of himself with his nauseating ignorance. Is it not a shame that as a “Voltarian”, Kofi Akordor does not know the development that is taking place in the Region but chooses to point his left hand at his home region? Or just as Ayeboafo sought to do, Kofi Akordor is simply playing NPP politics with his column in the national daily. “For a foreign visitor to be confronted with faulty traffic lights or heavy traffic jam just minutes after arriving in the country and few meters from the airport is not only an eyesore but also a national disgrace” is how Kofi Akordor puts out his thought as regards the traffic situation in Ghana. I ask; Mr. Akordor, is it only in Ghana that we are confronted with traffic situations? I am sure Kofi Akordor has visited New York, London, Durban, and some other cities in well-developed countries and knows the traffic situation is worse in those cities than in Accra. Indeed, where in the world do we not have traffic problems? Admittedly, the power stability in other cities is better than that of Accra but for goodness sake, in 3 years, the Atta Mills Administration has put up more traffic lights as well as managed the traffic situation in Accra better than the Kufuor Administration. Of course, once the construction of the major roads are completed in a matter of months, the traffic situation will improve drastically. If I am not lying, Kofi Akordor lives somewhere around Sakumono. Is Kofi Akordor saying he has not seen any improvement on the Spintex Road by way of asphalt and traffic light? Is Kofi Akordor saying that he does not know that the Abattoir road has been redone – with solar powered street lights? Is Kofi Akordor saying that he does not know that the Tema Motorway has been heavily lighted? It is interesting the way Kofi Akordor sought to measure the performance of the Atta Mills Administration with vehicular accidents on our roads. When Kofi Akordor was involved in an accident some years ago (resulting in the death of his very good friend), was President Mills the President of Ghana? Indeed, can Kofi Akordor put his hand in fire and tell the whole world why he crushed his Benz car and killed his friend? People like Kofi Akordor should be the last person to talk about bad driving habits on our roads lest he forces some of us to put out things that should not be in the public domain. Still on the issue of roads; is Kofi Akordor saying that President Atta Mills has done nothing even though he has secured dedicated funds to complete the gang of four roads? President Kufuor started the gang of four roads without knowing where funds were going to come from to complete the projects. President Atta Mills has secured funds to complete the projects and Kofi Akordor thinks that is no achievement? Is Kofi Akordor saying he is not aware that a new asphalted road has been constructed from the side of GIMPA right through to Fiesta Royal Hotel at Dzorwulu? Has Kofi Akordor not heard that President Mills promised to build a strong and resilient economy and that Ghana’s economy is the fastest growing in the world in spite of the international financial meltdown? It is a fact that the STX housing project has not started. Some of us are prepared to call a spade a spade and admit that the Atta Mills has not gotten it all right. Indeed, since the days of Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, no government has gotten everything right. So when the likes of Ayeboafo and Akordor use their privileged positions at Daily Graphic to create the impression that President Atta Mills has done nothing in 3 years, and that the story is a gloomy one, it speaks volumes about the agenda they are pursuing. If Ayeboafo and Akordor care to know, if for nothing at all, cocaine is not flowing everywhere in Ghana and there is a serious investigation going on to unravel how cocaine in the custody of the court turned into sodium bicarbonate. If President Kufuor had acted the way President Mills is acting vis-à-vis the fight against the illicit cocaine trade, maybe, just maybe, there will not be a single kilo of cocaine in Ghana. President John Evans Atta Mills is certainly not an angel but if Kofi Akodor and Yaw Ayeboafo can stop looking down and look up a bit, they will realise that the Better Ghana agenda is sturdily on course and God-willing, between January 2013 and January 2017, when President Atta Mills has another four year mandate, the Better Ghana agenda will reach much higher heights. Yaw Boadu Ayeboafo and Kofi Akordor, you can play your NPP propaganda elsewhere; stop using your privileged positions at the national daily to do the bidding of your paymasters. I wish Kofi Akordor a happy new year and hope that he will spend a little time touring the Volta Region so that next year when he puts his pen to paper, he will not expose his gross ignorance as regards happenings in his home region – especially Ho, where he hails from.