OF OCCUPATION AND DEMONSTRATION: MY HUMBLE REACTION.

For once the middle class of the country left their comfortable homes and offices and endeavoured to get into the streets to vent their frustrations at government. Basically, they are asking that Ghana be made to work again. I personally doff my cap to all demonstrators who ventured forth. The message has been sent.

From the inception of the demonstration to its very end, various members of officialdom, reacted to it. Some were interesting while others were dumb and provocative. A few notable ones will however remain with me.

John 'drama' Dramani Mahama, the president, reacted by saying he has been listening and will continue to listen. My appeal is that whoever advised him to make that statement needs to be sacked with immediate effect. Does the president think what we want in this country is someone who will sit down for crisis to occur and then tell us he is listening? We have our mothers, wives and girlfriends to talk to about our frustrations, his is one too many ear. We want action, we want solutions, we want Ghana to work again not just another ear to listen to us. I guess his damage control specialists will now have to come and spin this one too that his statement was incomplete and that the part of him promising to solve the problems was left out by unscrupulous media men and women who are advocating "regime change".

The least said about Hannah Tetteh, the better. She is one woman I had grown to respect over the years but her recent actions leave a very bitter taste in my mind. I guess the group think mentality of he party has affected her too. Such a sad case.

Dr. Micheal Kpessah White needs to be careful though. I was once with him in a tv discussion show and I walked away with the impression that he was an emotional bag that explodes to spew vitriol once he feels the ruling government is under attack. An otherwise finely educated gentleman, his outbursts will surely leave a large majority of the people think his 'cool dude' attitude is a calculated pretence meant to deceive. For a person who until his appointment as a presidential staffer was always freely sharing his opinions on radio, it is mortifying to realise that he is so intolerant of divergent opinions.

The rest are best left ignored. The principal matter here is that the youth of this country have arisen. I hope this 'arising' will lead to better results.