Thanks to Mrs Amissah-Arthur

Mrs Matilda Amissah-Arthur is not a Ghanaian. Put another way, she is not your typical Ghanaian politician. Apology is not in the vocabulary of the Ghanaian politician. From killing judges, to stripping women naked and caning them in public; from “Cocoa-ase kuraseni” to “Akoko asa”, the Ghanaian politicians’ refusal to swallow their pride and eat back their words is no more a habit; it is character.

I am not unmindful of President Mahama’s recent apology to Okyeman after his “Akyems-Galamsey” faux-pas, but I will not pat him for that because it took him almost a year to render the apology.

That is why Mrs Amissah-Arthur stands out. She used the occasion of a speech day in Accra last weekend to apologise for her infamous Kukurantumi-chalk outburst. Peace FM’s Kwame Sefa Kayi, one of Ghana’s finest, ordered a ceasefire on his Kokrokoo programme last Wednesday, when he sensed that some of his panellists with sharp teeth were baying for the blood of the Second Lady over