Birthday April....!!!

Written By: NASRULLAH IBN MUTAWAKIL 

FOSO COLLEGE OF EDUCATION 

@WEC SECTOR

0540317575

Dear Adusei,
This year, I wrote this letter for Ekow Djan but out of respect for the accident victims on 22nd March, I choose not to repeat this for Kojo Mensah Success because his stingy attitude could have made him to tell me that, he had donated all his monies to victims of black Friday for treatments.
Adusei, the true reason for this letter, lines in the conclusion. Unfortunately, I have left a clue in the first paragraph of which I am so sure you will want to abide by the old principle which is, "One does not understand unexpressed feelings. So,  I have decided to express myself better in the last paragraph.

Ahaaaa!!! That reminds me, what came into mind when you to wrote the poem below?
Sankɔfa, Sankɔfa is the only word,
As the bird turns it's neck,
So must we turn our faces,
To look upon the past,
The past of Africa that pleased her.
Let us reinstate our pure cultural practices,
And cherish our cultural norms and values.
Let us hail the colours of the kente,
And the strings of beads that ornament us.
This is how we were meant to be,
To be brave and courageous,
To be genuine in culture.
To be proud to be Africans,
Thus defend her great name.
Sankɔfa! Sankɔfa!

Let us reinstate our glorious past.
Was it because you cherished the idea of weaving words together to make them meaningful and pleasing to the ears? Or because you wanted people to know how talented you are?

No, I found the reasons in line 5 of this beautiful poem. I choose to say that you are part of the past of fosco that pleases her. When all remained silent you stood firmly to fight for what was right. In your case, you were not Nelson Mandela or Nkrumah.
You chose to be Elikem DE Prime the one who fought for right with his life and signed the vivid air in his honour.

Adusei, when we first got to school, no one imagined you as tiny as you are to soar higher as you did. I remember the number of times people mistook your confidence as arrogance.

Fortunately, none of them judged your appearance as weakness because you had that fragile look but mentally sharp coupled with strong will.

Adusei, today,  I celebrate a friend. I celebrate that awesome friend who is willing to help a friend succeed. I remember how angry you got when I told you that,  I had pulled out of contest to allow my friend Desmond contest. Charley, even on phone self. I couldn't imagine the actions you would have taken if I was standing in front of you. I call that, wishing success for your friends like it was for yourself.

Adusei, I don't think I should celebrate a friend. Rather, I think I should celebrate a brother. Remember how we laughed heartily on 30th May 2019. As we discussed very emotional issues and then, we realised we wore the same shoes. Man, like gangstas usually say; "shits like that happen you know?"

Brother, we deserve better than what we've got. Just like I told you last night,  I know we aren't far from achieving greatness. In sha ALLAH. As we shed tears over the pains we feel in that shoes,  we should look up in the sky with hopes of anticipation as we patiently wait for the greater works of ALLAH.

Last year, an idealist prayer was simple. She told GoD she knew April was gonna be a good month so she prayed to God for luck and success.Before I say the same prayer for you,  allow me to say that you are a winner you need to cast your mind back at those wonderful things you've done privately for the success of the people around you. Always remember that they will tread insults and lies about you just to tarnish your image but when life gives you lemons, remember you are the finest cocktail maker just prepare lemonades with it.

Adusei, lest I forget,  do you remember the promise you made on 24th March, 2019? Okay, I forgive your memory if you do not remember. It is for that promise that gave me a reason to write this letter. Even though I know know how stingy your pockets are but for your hand di33333 Charley no one can doubt it's generosity.

MAN JUST SEND ME 100 CEDIS THROUGH THIS NUMBER 0540317575 TO CELEBRATE YOUR BIRTHDAY IN MY ROOM.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY CHAIRMAN MAY GOD CONTINUE TO BLESS YOU. AMEEN

USE OF CANES CAUSED OUR ROAD ACCIDENTS......letter to dadzie

Written By: NASRULLAH IBN MUTAWAKIL 

FOSO COLLEGE OF EDUCATION 

@WEC SECTOR

0540317575

Dear Dadzie,
After your response to my open letter, I believe you have been expecting another letter from me. It was deliberate for me to desist from the habit of writing to you since she walked in my way.  Hanadi as I affectionately called her, had taken every bit of my time as well as my attention, and for that, I could hardly talk about some of the issues in our fraternity as well as our Ghanaian Kingdom.

Fortunately for you but unfortunately for me, she has decided to give me a break and as I steel myself to accept the pain that comes with it, another horrible incident compelled me to write to you.
Dadzie, on 22nd March 2019, I woke up with the excitement of knowing very well that, Kojo Mensah's birthday was going to be lit. Kojo and I planned to party in town that night. What really increased my euphoria was the rainfall that started around 4am at dawn. I called it “showers of blessings,” especially on a Friday which every Muslim regards as the best day in a week. Then, Boom!!! Like the sound of the atomic bomb that landed on Hiroshima, news surfaced all over social media " two VVIP buses crash leaving 50 passengers dead".

Few minutes later, the educated gossipers confirmed the death toll which meant that it was no longer 50 but 70 passengers. The educated gossipers, whose news usually came with Joy, went further to say that it happened on the Tamale to Kintampo road. Then the other clan of gossipers whose radio is made with our finest Odomanko metal called Gold, confirmed it. What really made it extremely sad was how our peaceful village gossipers who usually ended their gossips with Peace shalom authenticated all the gossips.

Dadzie, this is the first time our Orthodox fetish priests and priestess have kept quiet and not  claim to have pre-informed us in our Kingdom. I am very sure I am not the only one thinking it had nothing to do with our gods. On 6th March, when Ghana became 62 years, we poured libation to them before we used that same road as we celebrated Ghana's birthday to strengthen unity in Dagbon Land. I am proud to say that the gods were peaceful, and I am happy everybody knows it’s true.
You will be wondering, who are the everybody? They are the people from the umbrella tribe and elephant tribe. The people you warned members of the talk and chalk fraternity about, so they do not influence your members.

Just when the incident occurred, some elders from the elephant tribe started pointing fingers at some members of the umbrella tribe. They accused the umbrella tribe of not "awarding road construction contracts to competent people".

In an attempt to ward off the blames on the umbrella tribe, the umbrella tribe also accused the elephant tribe of organising a kenkey party at the forecourt of the man in charge of all our shillings and coweries. A party they organised to celebrate a 3-billion-euro bond. How on earth do we celebrate monit's we have gone to borrow? They quizzed.

Dadzie, in situations like this, everybody will have someone to blame. I could blame the administration of VVIP Buses for not recruiting very competent drivers or I could blame the silence of the passengers for not cautioning their drivers when they were speeding or perhaps dozing off Or the manufacturers of the two buses for painting their buses red or I could blame the successive government for their selfish gains that  only helped Dvla employ incompetent employees.

Instead, I choose to blame members of the talk and chalk fraternity. Dadzie growing up, one of the many childhood debates I participated at school was the one we usually wrote in our essays. "teacher and a doctor, who is more important?"

I believe when you are asked such question, you will say a teacher is more important. Your answer will be because teachers taught the so-called gurus in of  societies. If teachers taught the gurus and teachers are therefore seen as the changers of society, then why haven't our gurus changed with positivity? Will we say it's their individual character? No!
Our very old adage has taught us to support a bending plant with a stick to keep it straightened. If for nothing at all, we should know that the big gurus started from the scratch till they got there. We taught them everything from moral to indecency. Imagine a pupil fighting in class and a teacher ignoring them because that teacher had been told not to use canes in class?

Those pupils will grow up one day and would not carry the values of tolerance as well as forgiveness in their heart. That teacher saddens my heart as he made it look like he was clueless and had no alternative in resolving the fight.
When I was a kid, a teacher slapped me because I had insulted a girl in my class. A girl who insulted me first. I reported the teacher to my mother. The next day, my mother came to the school to warn the teacher. She told him not to teach her son how to slap.

Close to two decades now since the teacher’s slap and I have now come to understand why my mother warned him.  You see as teachers, we carry with us the same behavioural traits we want the pupils to learn. These pupils learn these behaviour both consciously and unconsciously. Therefore, should our behaviour fall below the norms of our society, Then, we are unconsciously developing a social havoc. That is why till date, I have decided to come to terms with the idea of No Caning.

Dadzie, as much as we teach our pupils to be tolerant, so should we be. There are many teachers who would flog pupils without showing empathy. They do that because the whitemans Bible says if you spare the rod, we spoil the child. That teacher may have forgotten that God has still not used His canes on him even with the most sins he commit.

Imagine a teacher who cannot show empathy to his pupil? That teacher will unconsciously develop the likes of our elders in the elephant and umbrella tribe. Those elders do not have the kingdom at heart.

All that they know best is to gather around the market square to discuss our issues as if they had empathy. Then later appoint one of their own who is a native doctor to run the affairs of the talk and chalk fraternity. An example is how the King in our Kingdom appointed the concoction maker to lead all wise men.

Dadzie soon, I will go back to Hanadi to talk issues with her. She will insist that I follow her to see her parents. Dadzie her family comes from the Bono region where this incident occurred. Imagine this happened to me while returning from the home of my in law? eeeeiiiiii. Don't say GOD forbid because it could happen to everyone.

25th April, we shall gather for the annual delegates conference. Just advice the members of the talk and chalk fraternity to develop a good habit. Just tell them they can do better in transforming the lifestyles of our future gurus. Tell them if they allow the gurus they once taught to influence their decisions, they will train more insensitive gurus for our kingdom.
Dadzie, least I forget, another accident happened around Mankessim. This was at my door step. Imagine Hanadi had also come to pay a visit to her in-laws and she suffered the same fate as the victims did? Eiiiiii my life would have been ripped off. Charley like what go happen to me errrrrrh.

As much as members of the elephant tribe lived with excitements on that day while the umbrella tribe lived with shame, others will Forever live  their entire lives grieving over their lost ones.

This is why I am asking you to tell your followers to develop a positive mental attitude and teach the pupils empathy so that when they grow,  matters of our  kingdom will be on their hearts.

As I conclude, ask your followers ""IF HOW WE DIED DETERMINED OUR PLACE IN THE HEREAFTER, WHERE WILL VICTIMS OF ACCIDENT GO? IF IT WAS HELL, WONT WE FOCUS ON GROOMING IMPECCABLE ROAD ENGINEERS AND VERY CAUTIOUS DRIVERS AS WELL AS EXCELLENT LEADERS WHO WILL PLACE THEMSELVES IN THE SHOES OF OTHERS?"

Dadzie, Who would be grooming them? if not the members of the talk and chalk fraternity, who else would do this?
GOODBYE.