Several important things have happened in the last seven days.

Dumsor Demonstrations

For the first time, citizens of Abeka Lapaz rioted against the erratic supply of power during this most recent load shedding exercise. Again, we brought in the usual suspects to try and understand why the power companies have simply failed to stick to the latest Dumsor timetable. GRIDCO, VRA and ECG were here with us. GRIDCO said the real culprits are the Nigerians, with their gye-kakra-tw3n-kakra supply of gas to our plants.

ECG said they didn't think it was possible to inform people about changes to the timetable, because the people wouldn't have electricity to listen to radio and watch TV anyway. Clearly, nobody had told the ECG that phones and portable radios exist.

But I think the most interesting nugget of information came from the VRA's Sam Fletcher, who estimated that an investment of just 1,5 billion dollars could be enough to permanently resolve this entire Dumsor ridiculousness once and for all. I just hope the government that allowed GNPC to borrow half of that amount without approval, the government that signed the $3 billion dollar Chinese loan, the government that signed public-private partnership agreements for everything from guinea fowl to the super security sensitive National identification of its citizens… I just hope somebody in that government was listening and taking notes on Monday morning.

Diplomatic Detention

Tuesday was another important day. After Citi FM's Samuel Atta Mensah was "invited" and released by the BNI on Monday evening, we sought to understand the bizarre events surrounding the story that warranted this "invitation",  the mystery lady who had been busted at Heathrow, with 3.5 million pounds sterling's worth of cocaine, and some controversy around her travel documents. Sammens himself refused to tell us why the BNI "invited him in the first place, but several prominent voices from the media landscape lent their voices to unanimously condemn the BNI's methods, which included preventing Sammens' lawyer from seeing or speaking to his client while he was in their custody.

But then the President himself waded into the debate and said that the BNI's actions were justified, because the Citi FM story contained facts that were not checked. Well, as I recall, that story also mentioned the possibility of the drug suspect may be linked to a member of the first family. I'm yet to hear any report of the BNI  "inviting" any member of President Mahama's Ebusua to their headquarters though.

Imported Interventions

Wednesday saw us have a big conversation on Social interventions under the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection. Nana Oye Lithur was here with her guest, Her Excellency, Marcia Lopez, former Brazilian Minister for Social Protection and the Fight Against Poverty. Marcia is the architect of Bolsa Familia, Brazil's poverty-fighting social intervention programme, which Ghana is importing to help provide the nation's needy with crucial financial support on a monthly basis.

Impending Increases

Yesterday was the day after the budget was read. The Finance Minister joined us to talk about the most controversial item in next year's budget, a 12.5% tax on certain petroleum products. This tax is to have different effects on different products, making some cheaper, others more expensive, and some remaining unaffected. For those whose prices are to go up, none of them will increase by more than 3%.

I also asked the Minister why Ghanaians are having to pay more for fuel as world crude prices are continuing to fall. He said the Government was setting up a mitigation account to stabilize the price changes caused by the automatic price adjustment system. So in essence, the government is charging us more for fuel even though prices of crude oil are falling dramatically. They're doing this so that when prices go up, they can increase the subsidies. So in other words, the government is charging us more so they can subsidise us more. Now, even if that seems like a good idea to you, the question still remains: what is the point of an automatic adjustment system if you are going to create an account to mitigate the effect of the automatic adjustments anyway?

Beauty's Beholder

Now today's show is like no other. Our Unique Achiever is a man who had achieved heights, in spite of his visual impairment. We'll also have an intriguing Relation conversation with visually impaired guests and their spouses. We'll find out how difficult or easy it is to live with a person who cannot see. Also, all the questions you ever had about what it must be like to live with blindness will be answered. They say beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder. Well, how do you behold your spouse's beauty when you've never seen them before? That amazingly intriguing conversation is coming your way later this morning.

All that plus some heart-thumping Friday Music comes to you this morning on the Super Morning Show.

My name is Kojo Yankson, and it's been a week of Dumsor Demonstrations, Diplomatic Detention, Imported Interventions, and Impending Increases. Here's to a world-class weekend.

GOOD MORNING, GHANAFO!