It’s increasingly looking like the President is on a warpath to defuse most of the crises his government has saddled the people of Ghana with.

Yesterday he took the largely ineffectual step of ‘firing’ the head of ECG, and he’s now taking more steps aimed at handling another issue that is denting Ghana’s image hard on the international scene.

I am talking about the case of the woman with thousand aliases, Angel for short, who was arrested at London’s Heathrow carrying an obscene amount of cocaine on her. The state agencies handling of the entire saga leaves a lot to be desired.

The Narcotics Control Board (NACOB) has been the worst culprits in this musical chairs of who screwed up most. After failing to detect the cocaine in Ghana (willingly or unwillingly, nobody knows), they then came out to say they allowed her to leave because the operation was a joint one with London authorities.

Of course, that ridiculous assertion was immediately shot down by the Brits, with a statement from the UK High Commission refuting any prior knowledge of anyone travelling with cocaine, whilst saying if that was the case they would ensure the person was arrested here.

So in a fit of rage at this incompetence (presumably), the President has dissolved the governing board of NACOB. A statement signed by the Chief of Staff promised ‘further actions in due course.’

Wow public officials, be scared.

The government itself has handled the whole thing extremely poorly, with Ministers making statements they then have to retract and modify, particularly concerning the issue of whether the woman had a diplomatic passport or not.

Once again an epic fail has Ghana’s image on the international scene hugely dented, and concrete measures, more drastic than just dissolving a board, has to be taken to make this whole sorry affair right.

Still on the President flexing his muscles, a new Ministry of Power has been created to handle the myriad of issues plaguing the sector. The MP for Pru East Kwabena Donkor has been named Minister-designate. I guess time would tell what good, if any, would come out of this measure.

At the very least, President Mahama is making some moves, and that is way better than sitting there watching things go to hell and doing nothing.