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Opinions of Friday, 8 August 2003

Columnist: Fukuor, J. A.

Letter From The President (XII): Sell Everything

Countrymen and women, loyalists and opponents,
I have heard people passing some unsavoury comments about my government’s wish to wash its hands off the Ghana Commercial Bank. With the on-gong debate the reality has dawned on me that almost all those who call into radio programme do so because they have nothing to say. This is not really bad in itself because our elder says that “you only get a cure for your illness when you tell people about it”.

The problem is that those who call into these radio stations to sell their illness (which in this case is ignorance) do not take the prescribed drugs for it. I am not out today to help cure the ignorance of the people. My mission today is simply to respond to some of the comments making the rounds about the planned divestiture of the Ghana Commercial Bank and other parastatals.