"Mr. Speaker,.....the Ministry [of Education], following consultations with stakeholders, has prepared a report on the road map for a progressive introduction of free secondary education in Ghana as required under the 1992 Constitution. This road map would be presented to Cabinet for approval and subsequent implementation" - President John Dramani Mahama, 25th Feb, 2014.

Okay. That's what the president said. But what did he really really mean? To get that, a little background is necessary.

The governing National Democratic Congress fiercely campaigned against the opposition NPP's  promise for free SHS, calling it an 'undoable' 'propaganda' desperado tactics. Period.

Now you can read that excerpt of the State of the Nation address once again.

So if I heard the president right, it's really okay if Chinese nationals kill off local textile industry by dumping stolen, copied textiles patterns in the country.

Because that’s the extended meaning of taking, copying, plagiarizing another political party’s idea without in the least crediting them.

Sure it's a different scenario - but it's the same principle.

Your trade minister while on Joy FM, called it 'borrowing'. Well, so why has he set up a taskforce combing Accra's market to seize these textiles from China with ‘borrowed’ Ghanaian patterns.

Every 'borrowing' is 'borrowing', or is it not?

Clearly, his banned Christmas hamper must have a dictionary – because coincidentally in page…lemme check…yeah..901 of the Oxford dictionary -  borrowing ....-- requires obtaining consent.

So I was gonna write about the president’s unprecedented effort at being the marketing manager, PR manager, brand ambassador, business solutions manager and advertising manager for the guy who gave him a Horseman-branded local shoe.

Yeah, I was gonna do a PR about the PR you did yesterday for Tonyi Senyah, the CEO.

Until you crashed your own surprise party and ‘borrowed’ your own birthday cake. Now eat this.

Look; this stealing, plagiarizing, copying, scanning, 'borrowing' of some party's idea without any credit is such a low blow - it's like celebrating a goal scored with your fingers on the blind side of the referee - Johnny Bravo? You are Ghana's Diego Maradonna.

Diego Maradona rises above Peter Shilton to score his infamous 'Hand of God' goal against England in Mexico City in the 1986 World Cup.

Because if you follow football, you should know that you score goals with your feet not fingers.  And you would know that despite being opponents on the field, Team A kicks the ball out when an opponent is down. They exchange jerseys after defeating the other. And he lifts a player off the turf apologetically after giving him a bad tackle.

There is a word for this. Fair Play. Minister Haruna Iddrisu - check that word too.

You are no different from a cheating MBA student who lifts an entire project work on the internet and dumps it on his supervior's desk for an A-grade.

In the work we do as journalists, giving your competitor credit for a story you publish or broadcast is so fundamental. We rant when credit is not given. And you actually called us to step up our game. Guess who needs to step up his?

It's a new personal low.

You are the reason why all over the world, patent laws are being strengthened to protect good ideas from guys like you.

It's so low a blow.

And you are the reason why  [although we don't see naked people going to work] our textiles industry is collapsing because nobody is protecting or rewarding creative local designs from the Chinese assassins of creativity.

It's so low a blow.

Look; many young people whom you urge to be creative - including the guy whose shoe you wore, Tonyi - are really afraid of people like you. Go to telecommunication companies, advertising, banks, -young ideas are getting stolen everyday massively like this raping rampage going on in India.

In corporate Ghana, it's a wanton, brazen, thievery of people's idea with a cold knowing smile.

John Mahama and Nana Addo after an IEA Presidential Debate

And yet, this was such a glorious, juicy opportunity to rise above the partisanship you tell us is detestable - well so much for detestable, it's your delicacy.

Lemme show you how to be like a statesman: Your statement should have read like this:

"Mr. Speaker...when your political opponent gets 43% of the votes campaigning on a free SHS policy. It doesn't matter anymore that he lost. It means nearly 5 out of 10 people like the idea. A good idea is what it is - a good idea.

And so to demonstrate that this country is greater than our political divisions; to demonstrate that Ghana must win if Ghana must work, my government will be implementing the Free SHS policy beginning next academic year. I have said before - I want partnership not partisanship - and I mean it"

This is partnership. The one you did on Tuesday - that was partisanship.

It doesn't affect your votes to be authentic does it? Who cares who said it: We care who did it.

Why do you think these J.B Danquah boys are trying so hard to enlarge the founder's list to include those who talked about it, when it was Nkrumah who actually pulled off our independence struggle?

History remembers those who do - not those who promised to do.

Giving credit to the opposition, contrary to what your advisors might have told you -actually disarms the opposition. It takes the venom out of their sting. It forces them to either walk the high road of commending your statesmanship or take the low gutters of partisan screaming.

Afterall, NPP also cried brimstone and sulphur over the introduction of VAT. Guess what? They topped it up when they won power. And they actually also stole the free SHS idea from CPP's 2008 manifesto - thief man thief thief man in full circle.

So crediting your opponent actually shows your class -and you know what footballers say about class? - it's permanent. But form [ like the falling cedi] is temporary.

That's is how you write history. That is how you win floating voters - and that's how you walk the talk.

Now what you have done is to give them another chance to call all their book-writing, book-launching guys; huddle in an office somewhere in Chairman Wontumi's new regional headquarters  -to write another book - the stolen idea.

And you know how the NPP love to write -especially about defeats - stolen verdict, chasing the elephant - and now coming to a bookstore near you - The Stolen Idea.

John - this is your second coup d'etat - and counting.

So next time when you call for a stakeholder's meeting to discuss ideas or find creative ways to solve a national problem, don't be surprised if you walk into the Flagstaff House and find the place full of Chinese folks ready with their pen and paper - not to contribute ideas - but to steal yours.

You are on your own - Maradonna.

Pastor Mensa Otabil said in church last Sunday, the problem with Ghana's politicians is that they don't stand on principles. And I really was thinking about some of your deputies and some opposition hotheads.

But apparently, the only thing you could be standing on is - a pair of free Horseman Shoes.