It’s Friday. For many of you it’s your last chance of a productive day for this week so I pray you make it count. Let’s wrap up our week on the Super Morning Show.

On Monday, we were still reeling from the news out of Paris. 129 people killed in shootings and explosions across the French capital coordinated and executed by ISIS. In Ghana, some people decided to show solidarity with the victims by using a new Facebook app to superimpose the French flag over their profile pictures. Others thought this was absurd. Unnecessary. Neo-colonialist thinking.

Why did they not put up the Nigerian flag when Boko Haram took the Chibok girls? Why not the Kenyan flag to show solidarity with the Al Shabab victims? Why not the Guinean, Liberian or Sierra-Leonean flags when Ebola was killing Africans by the hour?

I found that position interesting. I never thought anyone would ever feel the need to criticize a show of solidarity. People have died. People are in pain. But some think they don’t deserve our sympathy because we didn’t get theirs? But wait. Didn’t we get theirs? Didn’t the West send troops to help bring back our girls? Didn’t Michelle Obama personally join the #bringbackourgirls campaign? In fact, where did the campaign begin? Didn’t the US government send the FBI to help investigate the Al Shabab attacks? And where did the MSF doctors who battled Ebola in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone come from? Doesn’t the West constantly send their military and medical staff here to die trying to solve OUR problems? Like I said, I found their position interesting. And by interesting I mean ridiculous.

On Tuesday, Anas Aremeyaw Anas was in the studio to talk about all the matters arising from his recent investigation into judicial corruption. He answered questions about Martin Amidu’s recent accusations, and took us behind the curtain into the on-going proceedings at the Judicial Council Committee investigating the matter. Since he stopped by, I have been picking up some extra tit-bits from other sources. I hear one of the Judges brought in his own video expert to prove that the evidence was doctored. The expert talked at length about how the video had been spliced together and edited to tell a story that did not happen. The committee asked him to prove his assertion with scientific evidence. Did he run the video through some machine that produced a report that said the video was doctored? No, he said. This was his “expert opinion”, he said. Ei. This is the Judicial Council Investigative Committee. And you are coming here with your opinion?

So anyway, the committee then played the video evidence to this expert for his opinion. And his opinion was: this was not the tape he viewed earlier. He had never seen the Anas tape before. So the committee then asked him for his “expert opinion” on the tape he had just viewed. The brodda man said the Anas tape was authentic. He came in to affirm the defence’s case and went out bolstering the prosecution’s instead. Masere saa.

On Wednesday, we had Sam George in the studio. He talked about his job as a Presidential staffer, and his ambitions to be an MP. On the former, he attempted to defend the President’s recent comments about who is qualified to call him incompetent. And that list included all former Presidents and all Ghanaians. Except the likes of Akuffo-Addo and his running mate, Bawumiah. Sam George felt that the whole world had misunderstood the President – yet again – and yet again, it was Multimedia’s fault. We have been twisting the President’s words since Adam. Instead of picking other parts of his speech that they want us to focus on, we have decided to pick on these bits that everyone seems to have misunderstood. So if you didn’t want anyone to piuck on those bits, why add them to his speech?

In any case, the President employs a huge team of communication experts – in cluding Sam George, all paid by the taxpayer to advise him on what to say and how to say it. He himself is a communications expert with many years of experience. If in spite of his huge team and his own personal expertise, the President is still being misunderstood by the people of Ghana, then someone is not communicating very well.

Either way,  after we have paid our taxes, it would be unreasonable for us to expect the media – which is largely private - to step in and do the job of his communicators, who still get paid whether we understand the president or not.

On Thursday, we learnt that Kwabena Donkor officially says there’s a difference between Dumsor and load shedding. He still stands by his promise that he will resign if he does not solve the load shedding problem. 42 days more…

Today, we have crucial conversations on the show about many things, including the President’s speech at the Volta Region rally. Who is Opana? Stay tuned to find out.

My name is Kojo Yankson, and it’s been Quite a Week

GOOD MORNING, GHANAFO!