Kwami Ahiabenu,II Knowledge Chief

  By Bernard Tabaire ( email the author ) Posted Sunday, July 29 2012 at 01:00 Sometime in the late afternoon of Tuesday last week, a hush swept through the room affecting only Ghanaians. But amongst them were journalists, and the need to spread news, or some version of it, quickly overcame them. Kwami, seated a table away in a meeting room at the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA) in Accra, passed me a note. President Atta Mills was in a bad way. Then I got another note from another Ghanaian. About an hour later, the Ghanaian journalists in the group had stopped paying attention to their compatriot who was leading a session on how oil is metered. Their BlackBerrys, smart phones, iPads and tablets were aflame inside the room and on the balcony. The President was dead. Later in the GIMPA dining room, debate revolved around whether the presidential passing had altered the dynamic heading into the December pres...