Chronicles of Wofa Ampong Kwesi

  The Marketing Director stood in front of her office and called out my name to come for a short discussion in her office. I immediately got up, walked into her office and sat in one of the two chairs positioned next to her side round table in her office. She then proceeded to ask. “Kwame, when is the scheduled date for your wedding with Sabina?” I replied “9th April”. Then she dropped the bombshell, “You have to postpone your wedding. It cannot come off on April 9 th ”. The reason was not due to illness, the death of a colleague or relative or something devastative. Let me rewind and take you back to events leading to this interesting directive from my Marketing Director. Can I? My church adheres to a strict 6 months counselling session ahead of any marriage. They had over the years stressed that they do not embark on any emergency weddings. They still stress this fact today. I and Sabina enrolled to be part of the counselling class in September 2010 ahead of commencement in O...

 A story is told of a man called James who had a very interesting encounter with a group of guys at a traffic intersection he uses every single day. I saw this story some 24 months ago and thought, his experience was interesting and strange until a similar thing happened to me at N’Adom’s school on the last day of school in December last year. Let’s talk about the experiences of James first after which I will share mine with you.   James drove a BMW X6. Those who are into cars know the caliber of a BMW X6 car. If you have no idea, just Google it. Whenever James got to the traffic light at Opeibea in Accra, the boys who wipe car windscreens for coins rush to him, smile, and attempt to clean his car windshield. He always prevented them from cleaning his screen, but that did not stop them from smiling at him, showering him with their usual praises “Boooorsuu, Honorable, Chief Justice and to a point IGP”.   He always gave them some “coins” because he was of the notion that ...