Rasta had always been wondering how the phrase ‘cocoa season’ came about but recent events gave an inkling although it’s just a guess. Maybe you have also used the phrase when there’s an abundance of something in a given situation.
For example, (Headmasters go skin me). Before the FSHS, we used to say the school authorities’ have their cocoa season when it’s admission time. But this time around it’s yaa mutu!
So, why don’t we use it for tomato and pepper farmers when they have a bumper harvest? Like tomato season or pepper season? Rasta conf ooo…. hmmm…
Ibi Ghana we dey!
When it’s a market day in the semi urban and farming areas, it’s a cocoa season for the trotro drivers who charge fares independently from the market women and are in turn also ripped off by the Men in Black on the roads. You do me, somebody go do you. Abi you know?
Ibi Ghana we dey!!
So, the guess on the origin cocoa season just came when we heard that cocoa prices had been increased for our hardworking farmers. But wait a minute…. don’t they harvest every year at the end of the farming season? But that’s not their cocoa season comes in either the year before elections or the election year. For whatever reason, your guess is as good as mine. Now, that’s the proper cocoa season.
Ibi Ghana we dey!!!
Fellow citizens of this Republic of our death, how many times haven’t we been talking about galamsey over the years? Talk, talk and talk. Even My President put his Presidency on the line. I lie? And no show!
Journalists from various media houses did their best to let citizens know about the harm being caused. Engineer and his media alliance against galamsey also played their part. The academy of Arts and Science gave us warning and even petitioned the People’s House but….. and what did the rest of the citizens do?
Now, the galant and brave Otumfour takes a pragmatic step by destooling some of his chiefs involved in the practice and adding to that Ghana Water gave a grave situation and the flood gates gets opened!
Just within a week, everybody and group have started springing press statements on us calling for a ban on galamsey.
Two profound groups were the TUC and the Fathers of the Apostles or the Fathers of the Apostles. Whichever.
Question is where were all these groups and unions over the years? Last minute Republic.
By the way, can an illegal activity be banned? The thing is already banned and that makes it illegal. Abi?
Well, ibi Ghana we dey!!!
Abeg, this is no insult to citizens of this Republic of our death. We’ve got problems in this Republic but they are graded. And one of the biggest is our…. well I have no name to put on it.
We are here and some people have to come and tell us our stadium is not fit for international matches. So we couldn’t see? Or we saw it and didn’t care? Before we see, they’ll bring expats to come and repair it for us. As if we don’t have experienced experts in the Republic to get it done.
Setting and meeting standards is one problem. And yet, we have a standards board or authority.
Even the trousers our men in black wear has a problem and it had to take some foreign body to point it out to us.
Ibi Ghana we dey!!!
And who says galamsey has not polluted our rivers in the past few years? Hmmm… commenting on things is just annoying.
Anyway, Rasta in has tried to guess the origin of cocoa season and was privileged to get the actual origin of galamsey.
It is said that it’s the corrupted name for the phrase ‘gather and sell’. This we’re informed was a term used for the local miners who gathered small amounts of gold and sold it, by the British colonialists during the days of their actual presence on this land we now assume independent.
Ibi Ghana we dey!!!
Have a great Saturday Morning hangover and a weekend filled with how as an individual contribute in stopping galamsey.
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