Manasseh Azure Awuni's article titled as above made interesting reading for the captivating positions he put forward on ethnicity in Ghanaian politics.

I have been admiringly interested in Mr. Awuni's writings since his earlier life as a freelance journalist and thought him more than deserving of the coveted Journalist of the Year Award when he won it. 

You never failed to notice the integrity, authority, and ease with which he immortalized his reflections on many important topics.  These qualities, no doubt, had become emblematic of his writing efforts. And this, I think, justified a certain gracious public solicitude of his works.

I have however become deeply worried -for want of a better word- about some of his recent articles, such as this one, which give the impression that he set out to throw poisonous political darts at the President, H.E. John Mahama.

The persistent spotlight that the writer throws on the severe challenges at the Savannah Accelerated Development Authority (SADA) and the inescapable responsibility which is the President's to take is completely justified. It echoes the displeasure shared by many about the mismanagement of the SADA resources.

But could that point not have been forcefully made without referencing Ibrahim Mahama's jet? To be sure, if the President's brother enriches himself by subverting due process in the award of government contracts, particularly SADA contracts that should pass for impropriety.

But is that the writer's point? If that is not the point he seeks to make, then the nexus he draws between the difficulties of SADA and the jet purchased by Ibrahim is completely unwarranted and may be interpreted as an attempt to expose the President and his brother to public hatred and contempt.

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I do not know how Mr. Awuni allowed an otherwise fantastic piece of writing to go awry. But I am sure it is a frightening reminder that as a nation, we are yet to completely wean ourselves off the infamy of the past when business success was regarded with deep suspicion and even criminalized.

When we were railroaded that path, the Ghanaian creativity, and industry took such an awful beating, our friends in neighboring countries overtook us in individual business achievements. Sadly, the relics of this, as reflected in needless modesty in entrepreneurial pursuits is still yet to be fully exorcised.

We must not especially those of us who have the benefit of media platforms with large audiences, do anything that entrenched hackneyed belief systems.

The writer also claims" President Mahama's failure is the failure of northerners. And Dr. Bawumia is seen as an exceptional northerner". No one can miss the political mischief which may be the object of such needless comparison, especially for an article that seeks to belittle ethnicity and its place in Ghanaian politics.

To my mind, the assertion" President Mahama's failure is a failure of all northerners" invites us to evaluate his performance in presidential office by a certain standard -a northern standard.

This is just as objectionable as a public request by a candidate for political office to be voted for by people with whom he shares a common ethnic heritage just because he is one of them, without more. Why cannot President Mahama be assessed as President Mahama?

I worry because these slants belie a writing style and tradition of Mr. Awuni to which I have become almost slavishly accustomed. And by the way, there is nothing wrong with slants.

As E.B. White reflected, "I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that does not have a slant. All writing slants the way a writer leans, and no man is born perpendicular".

The problem, however, is that writers deny it, and in the case of journalists, they would swear lightning and thunder that their works are without bias. And we believe them, sometimes.

The author, Kwesi Keli-Delataa with the Faculty of Law at Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA)