Ghanaian journalist Enimil Ashon had it on good authority, he wrote in the Daily Graphic on 25 November 2022, that the President of his country had thought that a new candidate applying to head the then moribund State Transport Corporation (STC) in 2017 “needed a mental examination.” The subsequent presidential decision to give the job to that very candidate, an MP called Nana Akomea, was therefore probably informed by the fact that no one else wanted it. State appointments in Ghana are often favours, allocated to friends and relatives of those in power, but having to manage the state bus company would have been more like a punishment. STC at that point had been so run down that, out of a fleet of 50 buses, 22 were permanently parked and staff were regularly on strike to demand unpaid salaries.