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This is nice. Our first full week of 2015, and boy, it's been a heck of a start to the new year.
On Monday, we were joined by Sydney Casley-Hayford from Occupy Ghana who was not impressed with the NPA's decision after three months of continuous reduction in world crude prices. He talked us through a breakdown of our fuel prices, and suggested that we the consumers ought not be denied the benefits of these favourable world crude prices.
Yaro Kasanbata of the NPA justified the decision not to pass on these benefits in full to consumers, saying the Automatic Price Adjustment system initiated by government early last year has never actually been implemented.
What he said was it has not fully been implemented. I don't know about you, but I don't know how you can partially implement an automatic adjustment system. Prices either get adjusted automatically or they don't.
Yaro also told us that government's full debt to BDCs was 412 million cedis, of which 200 million had already been paid. As soon as he said that, Senyo Hossi of the BDCs Chamber joined us and said the debt was actually 1.5 billion cedis, not 412 million.
Yaro Kasanbata then chimed back in to say yes, indeed, it's 1.5 billion, but government was only committed to paying the 412 million. They were not interested in paying the rest. I'll leave you to make of that what you will, because we need to talk about Tuesday.
For nine months, I have been developing a charity initiative to help improve conditions for diabetics in Ghana, and finally, on Tuesday, the Sugar Project was launched.
A special nationwide initiative aimed at offering free blood sugar testing, dietary and lifestyle advice, tools, apps and a diverse menu of support for not only the 11.1% of Ghanaians who have so far been diagnosed with the condition, but also the rest of us, who may be at risk, but have not yet realised the danger our lifestyle puts us in.
This is a huge campaign, and it affects you too, so let's get on board and help Ghanaians Live Right. Stay tuned for details.
Wednesday was when we all woke up to the news that Nayele Ametefe had been sentenced to 8 years and 8 months for trafficking 12 kilos of cocaine from Ghana to Heathrow. The sentencing hearing revealed a number of interesting details: turns out the drugs were headed for a destination in the Caribbean, and Ruby had only stopped in London for a spot of shopping with the $25000 and £6000 she had on her.
Also, Ruby's lawyer told the court that she fell on drug trafficking to maintain the lavish lifestyle that her husband was cruel enough to introduce her to before divorcing her. Poor girl. But the biggest bombshell was the fact that Ruby Baby has been frolicking with some high-profile Ghanaians since 2005. She and these high-rolling big ballers have been travelling around the world having fun, and it was through them that Auntie Ametefe was introduced to a very prominent middle-aged woman - a trader - who sent her on her 12.5 million cocaine mission.
The one thing I didn't hear her lawyer say in court, was what she allegedly told Ghana High Commission officials who visited her in jail, that she thought she was carrying gold, and didn't realise it was cocaine. Maybe she changed her mind about how sweet that story sounded.
Yesterday, we had a look at the President's most recent live interview in which he said the 10% reduction in fuel prices was a drastic and significant drop. He also said we were on course to build 200 community SHSs by 2016. Ghanaians called in to share their views on these, and let's just say not everyone was impressed.
Today, we're capping it all off with a big conversation about sex. Yep. It's all around us. Some men think women like to be dominated sexually. Some women think men expect them to act coy and reluctant when it comes to have sex. Some men think sex is a prize to be fought for and won by strength. Some women like rough sex.
All this creates a sexual grey area when it comes to the definition of rape and sexual abuse. Have men and women got their sexual wires crossed? Does no sometimes mean yes?
These and many more questions are to be answered this morning in our Relation Conversation. It's going to be titillating and fascinating. Don't miss a minute of this morning's show.
My name is Kojo Yankson, and it's been a week of Sugar, Subsudues and Sentencing. Let's cap it off with some Sex, shall we?
GOOD MORNING, GHANAFO!
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