OBSERVER'S CORNER

After listening Hon. Moses Asaga the boss of the Ghana Petroleum Authority on 28th of May, 2015 on his take on the increase of petroleum prices it baffles my minds. when petroleum products were reduced at world market he did not reduce it in Ghana all because he claim we the the Bulk Distribution Companies (BDCs) but here is the case he has increased the price when it was increased at world market not the percentage it was initially. I want to believe he has no regard for the average Ghanaian citizen and when he he said Ghanaians are buying expensive cars from Europe. In this current power crisis when people are buying generators to supplement the crisis petroleum prices are being increased how do we manage this economy in the current brouhaha?

  Its been barely a three now that the mantle was given to Madugu to led the student body, many are those who complained about the akwaaba trip the Akosombo. I wasn't there yet those that made the trip couldn't hid their discomfort in how accommodation was arranged. Information reaching my desk indicates that many are those who made it without paying full or nothing at all. The feedback from the office of the SRC was so poor for one to wonder how someone will come from home with the intention that a friend will enter the bus and Hanover ticket to him or her? I can't think far about this. I pray it never happen again in any next organized trip. I never supported Madugu in the elections but comparing his administration to what I have witnessed he has done far better than his predecessors especially the during the era of "branded canopies" which are nowhere to be found on campus barely a year after unveiling.

We are all aware that as journalists as we are we should be objective in everything we do no matter what the situation will be. I was not surprised to hear such insults leveled against the flagbearer of the main opposition party in Ghana by a suspended constituency chairman of the party on Radio Gold's most listened programme, Alhaji and Alhaji. I was worried about the way and manner Alhaji Suhuyini sat as the host and allowed such utterances being leveled against against another all in the name of politics. How would a host sit and allow a panelist insult the dignity of another? Age is just a number and he, Nii Djabang Abbey to insult Nana Akuffo Addo is just uncultured on his part. I am very well convinced that the host allowed that because it was against his opposition party leader.  I was very much disappointed in Mr. Suhuyini to allow that on his show. The intelligence of a man to be addressed in such a devastated way should have prompted him to let the suspended chairm

themes Political campaigns are in a way to inform and lure electorates to buy into their idea of what they will do when given the waggle to govern the country and not make countless promises which cannot be achieved in a four year period. It is obvious that when elections are drawing near in any institution or country, aspirants are tempted and forced to make promises and pledges which are sometimes not achieved. This year’s general election is of no different from the others. In the previous election of 2012 we heard the “one student, one laptop” policy of the National Democratic Congress ( NDC ) and “free education” from the New Patriotic Party ( NPP ). This year is not different as earlier stated as we are hearing countless of promises which have turned to be talk of the people in town from promises of the power drunk two main political parties in the country. This year’s political campaign has taken a new facet from “I will do this” syndrome to “promises of ones.” How do