So how has this week been for you? For me, it's been my first week back from my annual holiday, and boy, has it been eventful!

It all kicked off on Monday morning, when news reached us from the Northern region that the notorious Fire Festival had made the news again for all the wrong reasons. One person was hit and killed by a truck. Another was butchered to death with a machete. 15 people sustained gunshot wounds. All because of a celebration?

And that wasn't the only scene of mayhem that played out in the North over the weekend either. Just imagine this: you're in a Tata bus, travelling from Tamale to Gushegu. Just minding your own business. Probably listening to Radio Justice in your earphones, dozing off, minding your own business. Suddenly, you hear gunshots. Your bus has been stopped by armed highway robbers.

They order you and the other 39 passengers off the bus and order you to lie face down on the side of the road so they can rob you. At this point, you're obviously terrified, but already, you recognise that things could be much worse - they could have put a bullet in the back of everyone's head. Just as you start to relax, patiently waiting for the robbers to leave, just as you start to rehearse how you're going to tell this story to everyone at home, you hear some commotion in the distance.

An Albion bus is making its way along the road towards your location. The robbers are flagging it to stop, but the driver has decided to plough through. This obviously annoys one of the robbers who fires at the moving bus. The bus driver veers off his straight path and makes a beeline for the exact spot where you and 39 others are lying face down in the roadside dirt.

As you lie helplessly staring at the big front wheels of the Albion bus rolling directly towards your head, I wonder what your final thought would be. I wonder what the final thoughts were of Hamza Abdulai, Hajia Bintu, Albert Kofi Allie, and Wumbei Neindow (a student of UCC) were, just before that Albion truck ran over and killed them instantly.

From all of us, we wish them a peaceful journey, and share the sorrow of their families.

The other trending story this week has been Paul Afoko's suspension by the NPP. According to the party's National Executive Committee, their National Chairman is on indefinite suspension.

He obviously hasn't got te memo, because he insists he is still Chairman of the party, and continues to conduct himself asuch. Just yesterday, he attended the stakeholder consultation held by the Electoral Commission on the integrity of our Voters' Register.

He insists he was there as Party Chairman. Meanwhile, a suit has been filed by two individuals who claim to support Afoko, seeking to challenge the position of the NEC. We'll see how all that turns out, but for me, the most fascinating part of all this is the process by which the NEC arrived at their decision.

We're told that Afoko was called to appear before the disciplinary committee several times and he failed to do so on each occasion. In one instance, he presented a medical note through his lawyer, suggesting he was too unwell to attend the meeting.

That same day, he attended and chaired another meeting in the North! His lawyer, Martin Kpebu, was on our show on Monday, and when I asked him to explain this contradiction to me, his answer was that even though Afoko was sick in the morning, he later felt well enough to buy a ticket and fly to the north to chair this other meeting.

Of course, I found this hard to swallow whole, so I pressed a bit. Eventually, Afoko's lawyer simply said, "I reserve judgement for now".

Mr Afoko, may I kindly suggest that when your own lawyer reserves judgment on you, it doesn't leave others with much to feel confident about.

What else happened this week? Oh yes! The FDA announced that 49 out of 50 samples of palm oil tested from several marketplaces in the Greater Accra region tested positive for a banned substance called Sudan 4 dye. It is a banned carcinogen that causes cancer.

Once ingested, the body cannot get rid of it. It has now apparently become normal practice to add this poison to palm oil in Ghana. Why, I hear you ask? Oh, just so it will look redder. I only have one question: Why not use food colour? Why go through all these lengths to acquire a banned substance that kills and put it in food just to make it look good?

We spoke to the FDA about it earlier this week, and their advice to Ghanaians was "ask your seller if there's Sudan 4 in their palm oil. If they say no, then you can buy it". Yes. 98% of our palm oil is poisoned, and this is what the FDA advises.

But then again, Ghanaians don't seem to have heeded the warnings about the danger lurking on the surface of their Red-Red. In a quick survey, none of the people we spoke to were willing to stop eating palm oil even if it could kill them. One person at a popular red-red joint said, in typical Ghanaian fashion, "It's God who looks after us all".

Well that may be the case, but does that mean you should rush to meet Him?

My name is Kojo Yankson, and it's been a week of Roadside Carnage, Removed Chairmen and Red Cancer.

GOOD MORNING, GHANAFO!