The late Sir John’s statement that human beings are the most fearful apart from ghosts reminds me of some chilling ghost stories; and I’m going to tell you one.
There is this young man who adopted a trick to have free transportation anytime he was cash stripped. He keeps some cotton wool and a pair of white gloves in his bag, picks a “dropping” and makes himself comfortable at the back seat of the taxi. In the course of the journey, he secretly puts on his pair of white gloves, and inserts two pieces of cotton wool in his nostrils. As the taxi approaches a cemetery which is not too far from where he lives, he will tap the shoulder of the taxi driver, and speak through his nose: “Driver, please I’ll alight here!” The taxi driver thinking he is a ghost will allow him to alight and flee with his car without taking the transport fare. This went on for sometime till the young man met a taxi driver who was a real ghost, and your guess could be as good as mine.
Since then, the young man learned his lessons, and never attempted to cheat taxi drivers, but the ghost taxi driver would not allow him to have his peace. He decided to revenge on behalf of the cheated taxi drivers and also show him that ghosts have two balls, kikikikiki, big ones of course.
One day, the young man struck a business deal which fetched him a huge sum of money. It was late in the night when he finished the business transaction, and boarded a taxi with a friend, with the intention of depositing the money at the bank the following morning. As the young man was narrating to his friend with regard to what happened to him when he met a ghost taxi driver, the driver of the taxi in which they were traveling, stopped the car, and with cotton wool in his nostrils, looked back and asked, “Likadish?” (Like this?).
The two friends tore the doors of the car open and bolted, leaving behind the money. The ghost driver was killed in a car accident and had many of his teeth removed which made him speak in a funny way, so that was how come he pronounced “like this?” as “likadish?”
On a more serious note and on the back of a promise made by the NPP to replace commercial motorbikes (Okada) with cars, the National Concerned Drivers Association is asking Dr. Bawumia when his government will give out the cars.
We are in an election year and time is running out for Bawumia and the NPP to honour their promise. My fear is that if they don’t hurry up enough, Okada, Pragia and Aboboyaa riders will be compelled to bare their teeth and ask Dr. Bawumia, “Likadish”? on election day.
Please enjoy Meso Me Show No by Awura Ama Badu.
Anthony Obeng Afrane
