The Asamoah Boateng affair: the troubles of Mr Asamoah Boateng, a former Ghanaian minister of information, in the hands of the Ghana Bureau of National Investigations (BNI) should make him go down in history, and it is awful that the BNI should be acting as if the country were still under military rule.

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The Asamoah Boateng affair: the troubles of Mr Asamoah Boateng, a former Ghanaian minister of information, in the hands of the Ghana Bureau of National Investigations (BNI) should make him go down in history, and it is awful that the BNI should be acting as if the country were still under military rule.

Mr Asamoah Boateng is being cast in the role of someone who will go down in history as "the Ghanaian Marie Antoinette". He is reported to have said on a radio station that those of his constituents who were complaining because they could no longer afford to eat fufu, should "eat konkonte"! Konkonte is made from cassava, and in the Akan areas of Ghana, where his constituency is situated, cassava products, such as konkonte (or what the Ga ...

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