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Sekondi-Takoradi and its environs have become very �hot� and dusty of late. The excessive heat is climatic, that is the season we are in. The dust however is as a result of the non-performance of the government of �Better Ghana Agenda� fame. Most of the roads in the Takoradi township have become rural roads like the one in my village on the Cape Three Point road in the Ahanta West District, so embarrassingly dusty. Ever since the Atta-Mills government descended on the people of this country, roads in Sekondi�Takoradi have continued to deteriorate with the speed of the deterioration of the cedi. Driving on the roads of Takoradi is hellish, one, because of the bad nature of the roads and two, the heavy traffic which has developed in the twin city as a result of the oil discovery in the Cape Three Point Basin. So when yesterday (Tuesday) there was a heavy downpour of about 30 minutes, oooo, the birds sang in praise for the intervention. Aside that, the weather became cooolee in the midst of the unannounced load shedding which the Better Ghana Agenda has imposed on us, a situation which makes it very difficult to sleep and forget about my sorrows. As I write, the weather remains cooolee, which calls for some shots of the mahogany bitters. You see, mahogany bitters, like many other favourites, are taken under certain conditions. Some food items are served hot with salt to taste. If you do not follow these simple rules governing the preparation of such meals, you lose its flavour and taste. Likewise, mahogany bitters are taken under certain conditions if one wants to really enjoy it fully. One of such conditions is the weather. When the weather is hot, you take about two shots, maximum three, but when the weather is coooley, five or more can do and you will feel alright. In other circumstances too, happiness can also desire that five or more shots are welcome. In fact, when you lose your in-law and there is no more money to do �show tanga� and disgrace is staring you in the face, it is also possible and admissible to take more shots to pretend that you feel so sad about the death of your in-law whose �waistimological� performance gave you the beautiful daughter you are married to. Na lie, sika nyi ho, as the Yurobas would say �kosi owo�. This morning however, my five shots intake are premised on the good weather and the NDC propaganda making the rounds that some files at the Chief of Staff�s office during the Kufuor administration got missing, a justification for the Woyomegate, Watervillegate and the CPgate payments which have become an albatross hanging around the necks of impoverished Ghanaians. I am so saddened that the good people of this country would have the misfortune of being treated with such contempt. Dear reader, at this juncture, let me caution that I am going to throw caution to the wind and go to town to descend into the Mamobi gutters with the filthy, foulmouthed infidels this nation has had the misfortune of having as our ministers of state. Yes, men and women whose utterances and thoughts are so fantastically murderous that they shake our collective state of mind such that our functioning is smothered in surmise and nothing is but what it is not. Last Saturday, when I was watching and listening to Joy Fm�s News File programme, I had the biggest shock of my life when a Deputy Minister for Information, indeed the defacto Minister of Information, put in a scare that tons of files were stolen from the office of the ex-Chief of Staff�s office by the Chief of Staff. I clinched and momentarily lost consciousness. I brought myself together to assure myself that I was alive and indeed hearing what was being spewed on air by a Minister of the Republic of Ghana. Yes, I was hearing and watching live, a man besot with so much propaganda that reasoning has become an essential commodity out of his reach. Even when it was very obvious that he was peddling falsehood to the astonishment of his other colleague panellists, he pushed this blatant unfathomable lies of files having been stolen by Mr. Kwadwo Mpiani as a cover up for the criminal disbursement of over US$400,000,000.00 of the tax payers� monies to individuals and corporate bodies without any cause. Surely and verily, I say unto thee, idiots will remain idiots no matter where they were born and the education they might have had. As part of their block headed propaganda blitz, the younger idiots within the NDC began parroting the falsehood that had been put into public domain by their head of Idiocy Incorporated who thinks foolishly that every Ghanaian is as idiotic as he is. To the best of my knowledge, if there was one government project which came directly under the supervision of Mr. Kwadwo Mpiani during the Kufuor administration, it was the Ghana @ 50 project. Strangely enough, Kwadwo Mpiani did not steal the files and obliterate all information regarding the Ghana @ 50. The NDC got enough information to set up the Presidential Commission to attempt to humiliate and criminalize Kwadwo Mpiani and Charles Wereko Brobbey. Where did they get the files to prosecute that failed agenda which was the first by the wobbling Atta-Mills government? If files were stolen, how did they come by the information that brought Charles Gyimah and Akwasi Osei Adjei to court? Yes, the Asabee matter relating to works done at the Ministry of Information, which files were depended upon for the ongoing court action? If indeed files were stolen by Kwadwo Mpiani as Okudzeto Ablakwa would want the world to believe, what was the basis for the payments of the huge sums to Woyome, Waterville and CP? Betty Mould-Iddrisu, having engineered the payment of the Woyome amount, went to court to say that her office erred in believing that the state did not have a case. Which documents jolted her into knowing subsequently that the state had a case after all? Mr. Martin Amidu also said Woyome used fraudulent means to get the monies paid him. Which documents did he depend on? And now Dr. Kumbour is also saying that the Watervill files are lost or stolen; and by who, Betty Mould-Iddrisu or Martin Amidu? Oh common sense, thou hath fled from brutish criminals, and men and women ruling this nation have lost their reasoning. Governance has been reduced to a level that defies rational thinking, and that any criminal who once upon a time bought two motorcycles to support a presidential campaign would walk through the corridors of power and make claims on the state, and presto, without files to authenticate the claims, he or she would be paid huge sums of monies just for government to come to insult our intelligence by telling us that the claims were not challenged as it were because some members of the previous administration stole some files? Gush, it is as stinking as the stenches that come from their mouths. I am not rich, but what I hate in my life is for anybody to think I am stupid and attempt to dance on my intelligence. Having failed miserably to cover up this gargantuan crime through other diversionary tactics, this latest ploy is just a quintessence of roguery at the highest level of political leadership ever recorded in the history of this country. Meanwhile, Egya Atta is in the market buying kenkey without fish. I wonder how he was going to eat it. Anyway he could also �soak� them. Egya Atta and his team of greedy bastards and team B stars have given us more pain than we can bear and I implore them to stop insulting our intelligence as if Ghanaians are some nincompoops incapable of reasoning. His men and women may not have the reasoning abilities but those of us outside do have. When, in the first time in the history of this country, almost a whooping GH�700, 000, 000.00 was put in the budget for judgement debts, we knew the Atta-Mills government was up to something and the motive has come to pass in the midst of erratic energy supply, poor roads, water shortages, poor educational infrastructure and the dying National Health Insurance Scheme. All Atta-Mills can do is to throw away our monies and get his boys to come and insult us. God save this country. Meanwhile, let me wish President Kufuor, the man of honour and a patriot, a speedy recovery. While some greedy bastards in the Atta Mills government travel outside for the treatment of piles, you decided to entrust your life in the hands of your fellow Ghanaians because you trust their capabilities. May God take over now from the surgeons and ensure your speedy recovery.