Former Accra Mayor Alfred Oko Vanderpuije and his new wife, who held their traditional marriage this week, would walk down the aisle in church this Sunday. Vanderpuije and his new wife, Cynthia, are set to get married at Labone SDA church this weekend. The wedding invitations for the ceremony have been obtained by GhanaCelebrities.Com, which … Read more
The newly elected Member of Parliament for Ablekuma South and former Accra Mayor, Alfred Oko Vanderpuije, has got right down to work, proposing a new law to establish a new term of office for Ghana’s Presidents.
The former AMA boss, speaking in Parliament Tuesday, March 7, said the two 4 year terms aren’t ideal and instead should be replaced with one, six year term, with no possibility of re-election.
What is there to say? Just watch the Accra Metropolitan Chief Executive, Alfred Oko Vanderpuije (Mayor of Accra) and the recently crowned Best Mayor of Africa dance in the street of Accra—and then, form whatever idea you want in your own head. You are allowed to think aloud though! Watch the video below… Oh Nii … Read more
Beyond my recent article titled “The Greatest Irony: Africa’s Best Mayor’s City Flooded Again | Killing Over 150 People”, the fact that the Accra Metropolitan Chief Executive, Alfred Oko Vanderpuije (Mayor of Accra) is still in position after last week’s flood which killed over 200 people and that of the previous years is a strong confirmation that we are addicted to incompetence.
Truly, our leaders have no conscience to even resign if they totally fail us…
Interestingly, I was recently a member of a JOY FM’s Ghana-Connect discussion panel which looked at the hovering incompetence in Ghana and the non-existent culture of resignation—the Mayor of Accra-Alfred Oko Vanderpuije being in office today is an indication of how deep this problem goes within our public offices.
In my submission during the discussion, I said that “by default no one would resign even if that person is grossly incompetent but in other societies, people resign because of either a hovering tendency of being FIRED or excessive pressure from the masses.
In Ghana, we have wrongly aligned everything to politics and we are unable to separate the daily political propaganda and hogwash from serious national issues or problems…”
This brings me to my question; why is Alfred Oko Vanderpuije still the Mayor of a city that floods each year under his leadership?
The answer is simple, no one will fire him despite the gross incompetence and the masses are unable to mount enough pressure on him to resign—because, we cannot separate national crisis such as floods even when we are dying from politics.
The rains are coming down in full force and already Accra is flooded, leading to the loss of life and property that accompanies this phenomenon every single year. As usual the problems come, authorities go around paying lip service, and then everyone goes back to normal when the rains recede. Nothing is ever done to … Read more
It’s social media so you cannot really trust these photos but we’ve been told it’s pretty authentic—a billboard was mounted in Accra to welcome the mayor-Alfred Oko Vanderpuije from a trip to Angola and the question is; whose money was used to pay for this billboard? Of course, the reasonable person who comes to mind … Read more
