When The aL-hAJJ recently admonished the immediate past Finance Minister and Founder of the HODA Group, Dr Kwabena Duffuor not to allow his enviable and hard earned reputation to be dragged in the mud by the vindictive conduct of his former economic advisor; now Executive Director of his newly established think tank, Institute of Fiscal Studies (IFS), Prof Newman Kwadwo Kusi, little did we anticipate it to begin so early and so fast.