Master Planner

Dr Anthony Akoto Osei had every right to exist. I say this in true recognition of a man of profound intellectual prowess, the kind you want to root for until you can no longer do so, as he rests today. No hero worship intended, but he was a master performer when he purposed to perform, either in committee or plenary, the picture of a superior, incisive, thoughtful debater several octaves higher than the pedestrianism which, unfortunately, is creeping into the corridors of the legislature, notably in the spectacles mounted by the baptised and confirmed but unrecognised cheerleaders and yesmen and…