Parliament has passed the Community Service Bill, 2026, introducing community service as an alternative to imprisonment for persons convicted of specified categories of offences.
The new legislation establishes a National Community Service Secretariat and provides a legal framework for non-custodial sentencing, with the aim of reducing overcrowding in Ghana's prisons and promoting offender rehabilitation.
Under the law, courts will have broader discretion to impose community service instead of custodial sentences in eligible cases.
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i remember when i first started dating my ex .. and we used to do midnight calls, one day i called her she didn’t pick, so i texted her “ hey honey are you home ? pick your call” that was how her mom texted back “ honey is sleeping o, this is the bee ” 😭😭
You build a mosque in your town instead of a factory. The young people in your town are moving to Accra and Kumasi to do kayayei. You are a foolish animal who doesn't deserve to live with humans.
Im gonna say something controversial: a lot of you would do stuff like this for a man but huff and puff when your parents ask you to help them write an email, letter or fill out an application
🚨 White teenagers in Florida left their Black friend Marquise to drown in a river while taunting him with slurs and monkey noises from the shore.
Marquise couldn’t swim well and was wearing an ill-fitting child-sized life jacket. A kayaking family rescued him as he feared for his life.
He said his “friends” expected him to swim back alone. This kind of racist behavior is disgusting and should be investigated.
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In less than 12 hours, over 3,500 Ghanaians have signed this petition. This sends a clear message that many citizens want accountability, transparency, and meaningful reforms in Ghana football. The leadership of the Ghana Football Association should recognize that these concerns are widely shared and deserve a serious response.
https://t.co/xRRV5wSJgA
The good people of Ghana 🇬🇭 are ready to dissolve Kurt Okraku administration and rescue our Football
You will pay street light levy and drive in darkness.
Pay water bill and have to dig a borehole still.
Pay sanitation levy and be expected to close your business to go sweep gutters.
What the hell are they doing with my money?!
Yep. This is the real body showing its real face.
Imagine this is their reaction to a random audio that's gone viral.
Now, imagine how they have legally gone after journalists who have said things that they have been unable to prove, over the past couple of years — some of those things we KNOW are true, but couldnt get the affected persons or documents to come forward to corroborate.
Should we give you names of respected sports journos/pundits who dont bother doing that hard stuff anymore because of these suits? A few: Nabila. Songo. Julian. Atta Poku. And others.
You people want which sports journalists to speak to power? The majority of sports journos who are being paid GHS 5k a month, or less? Note: people like me, Akoto, Obama, BKB, Ayala, Fent, Rahman and a few others you know are not among the majority — our lifestyles are anot the norm at all.
The President of the Sports Writers Association of Ghana was here in the USA on the ticket of this same body. Yes, he is an incorruptible man, but how do you expect the up and coming sports journalist in a small station in Nkroful or JamesTown to have the courage to speak up with such optics?
You want the journalists whose media houses dont even have lawyers for normal cases, let alone defamation suits, you won't them to "speak truth to power"?
The same sports journos who suddenly have strange cars and motorbikes following them when they do "hot" programs? Strange phone calls speaking strange languages to them at strange hours?
Or @Chiefseiduadamu, who was OPENLY assaulted at a gathering by a bodyguard affiliated to this body, with witnesses present, and nothing came of it?
Or the ones, like me, whose ENTIRE stations got blacklisted from covering Ghana Premier League matches (when everyone else is given permission to do so, thereby denying us of important revenue) — simply because I did a video that criticised the GFA boss for working to go for a third term? Video here: https://t.co/jjdlMbZ6Ff
Because of the above video, my ENTIRE station has not been given accreditation to cover Black Stars matches by the GFA for almost a year now — and we have had to get accredited through third parties.
Read that again.
Are these the sports journalists whose lives, families and livelihoods are at stake that you expect to speak truth to power for you?
A whole @anasglobal — one of the greatest investigative journos in our country's history — was brought to his proverbial knees after investigating the GFA. His assistant was MURDERED. It didnt happen on Mars; it happened at Madina, in Accra, in Ghana.
You people — all of you — are not serious. Maybe some of you dont know this, so I'll forgive you.
But those of you who know this, and still expect us to work normally in such hostile conditions — you are all mad. Moabobɔ dam.
Properly empower journalists. And watch us do magic. Otherwise, dont waste our fucking time.
Have a good day.
Community died when mothers started telling people they weren’t allowed to correct children’s behaviors. Nobody wants to watch your undisciplined child that starts screaming when they are told no.