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They of congress, who do little and, therefore, have all the time to talk and don�t even talk well because they talk all kinds of little things, and talk not so sensible talk, are slowly and steadily dangerously talking drug use into a joke. Drug use is a menace for humankind. It, thus, needs to be vigorously contained. But rather than containment, congress is politicking with it by repeatedly lying that their opponent is a drug user. The talk is leading into whiplash consequences of regret by congresspeople for a long, long time. Imagine Barbara game-opening the mouth on television to ask the patriotic man to clear himself of allegations of drug use. This was on a programme hosted by the chief who is not a chief with Stella of the CPP triumvirate and Ursula the demolisher as co-panelists. As the game woman was talking drugs, one of the slave castle bufties was roaring that the president would be speaking about drugs at the UN. What ended up being said at the UN in my first copy book font size is now retired into history as non-performance. But if you get it, the despicable strategy is, keep talking drugs and cocaine and citizens will not vote for the patriotic man because they will associate him with cocaine. My compatriots don�t get fooled twice. The dread with this kind of strategy, though, is that, eventually, it has the psychological implication of reducing a serious issue like drugs to a joke; because, yesterday, I heard someone tell congress that cocaine does not vote. If you heard that, my compatriots, the man said cocaine does not vote. One interpretation is that people are tired of cocaine. My compatriots are tired of cocaine on radio. Hear that all you hosts and hostesses, presenters, announcers, panelists, producers, everyone who has anything to do with our electronic media which have become agents of amplification of newspaper nonsense. I hope everyone is paying attention to the consequences of people getting tired of cocaine; that cocaine is trivia! My concern, possibly the concern of many, many of my compatriots too, is that that kind of mind-set would spell doom for the motherland. If you haven�t noticed, the other fall-out of the cocaine talk is people now talking openly about the slippery grounds of Articles 69(b)(i) and/or 69(c). If the congresspeople think it�s a joke, let them carry on with their banal loose talk. Of course, they can seek comfort in elections being so close. But if I were anywhere close to their coup mentality of prove that you haven�t done it, I would caution against talking cocaine by heart and avoiding throwing pebbles because there are more than enough rocks to throw against them. If you heard the Osono man, you will appreciate the danger. He said he had never seen someone drinking or buried in smoke. If it comes to drinking and smoking, the tables turn to incumbency and drinking and smoking one�s self to a bill of USD5 million, charged against the consolidated fund, each month!! Sometime ago, I asked in what font size agreements that have to be signed are printed. I got no answer. Now we hear he the dog born of them all who ought to know by professional training about what is contained in an agreement is playing ignorant of printed IMF conditionality. Nananom Nsamanfo know what else he is ignorant about; that ministers are spending the tax payer�s money and time going to school because they see themselves as not schooled enough to be ministers. And no one will tell them finish school before you become minister because then you will know you are ready to be minister. The previously revered position of minister has been reduced to a state of questionable persona, idling, schooling and a record instance of ministerial teenage pregnancy which means, immediately becoming pregnant on, or became pregnant just before, appointment as a minister when becoming pregnant is not a job expectation. For all the time that they have had, and with all the unprecedented resources for implementing development projects, what the motherland has gotten from congresspeople is a desecration of public positions, big and small, top and below with planted square pegs in round holes or round pegs in square holes. I might have reiterated a colleague�s concern about the lack of integrity in the politics of the motherland. The she professor believes strongly that he who knows he is not fit to, and, therefore, cannot be a leader because he is a follower but insists on being a leader at the expense of the motherland�s development, is without integrity. Integrity would be lacking before becoming a leader, during tenure and post-leadership tenure.