August 2010 will go into the annals of history as the season when Ghanaians were treated to a flurry of political and social activities laced with comedy and anomie. Expectedly, they have occasioned a lot of commentaries and interventions, some of which are themselves comical in nature.

It all begun with a former Presiding Bishop of the Methodist Church, Rev Samuel Asante Antwi, who at a New Patriotic Party (NPP) Thanksgiving Service on the election of Nana Akufo-Addo as the party?s Standard bearer for the 2012 elections, castigated the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) for what he described as the poor handling of the economy.

His comments elicited criticisms, some very scathing, from NDC members, some clerics and faithfuls of the Methodist Church for dragging the Church into politics, and that as a member of the clergy he has no business dabbling in politics, more especially when the Church is an apolitical organization with members of varying political persuasions.

Before the dust of Rev Asante-Antwi?s remarks could settle, Dr. Kwabena Adjei mounted the soap box and released a bombshell-the NDC will clean the Judiciary employing the various ?ways of killing a cat?. Dr. Adjei?s ?cat killing? has equally sparked mixed reactions, while many have condemned his statement as a gaffe, and President John Evans Atta Mills has disassociated himself, others are espousing Dr. Adjei?s submissions with all the energy in them.

Flowing out of the NDC Chairman?s remarks is the curious happenings within the presidency; while an aide to the President, Nii Lante Vanderpuye, says Prof Mills shares the concerns of the party Chairman, the President on the contrary has publicly distanced himself from the Chairman?s faux pas. What a dizzying confusion.

Then came the re-arrest of Mr. Lamptey Mills, proprietor of Great Lamptey Mills School, and his subsequent charge of rape by the Attorney-General. Mr. Mills was initially charged with defilement but the case was settled out of court. Then out of the blue came the alleged rape victim claiming to the surprise and disappointment of many Ghanaians that Mr. Lamptey Mills did not rape her, but she willingly gave herself to him. The girl?s submissions disarmed the Attorney- General who accordingly decided to discontinue with the case. But what do we hear; that the A-G is going to prefer new charges against Lamptey Mills?

While the A-G and Mr. Lamptey Mills? case was brewing, the Deputy Attorney-General, Mr. Barton Oduro was also slugging it out with an Accra High Court Judge over allegations of bias in the murder case of Dagbon overlord Ya-na Yakubu Andani. Finally the judge had to decline jurisdiction after he has delivered a strong worded statement on the subject matter. That has equally brought in its wake a plethora of reactions.

We are also witnessing the ongoing impasse between the Civil and Local Government Service Association of Ghana (CLOSAG) and the Fair Wages Commission over the Single Spine Salary with calls by the CLOSAG that Hon. Enoch Teye Mensah should resign his position as Minister for Employment and Social Welfare. CLOSAG has resorted to demonstration and is determined to carry out its agenda to the end. Conversely, the Association is being advised to go the National Labour Commission for a resolution of the matter.

All that we can say to the unfolding drama is that the month of August to Ghanaians has been a season of comedy and confusion. Indeed it a season of anomie!