Kay

TheDaughterOfTheKing, Speaker, Writer, Spontaneous Traveler, Lead Director "Shoulder to Lean on Initiative" , Solving problems one at a time.

[Kay @DaLassOfTheKing]

@prime_rakon "Those who are dead are 6 and not 12" As if it makes it any better. Madam are you listening to yourself? Let's be sensitive!

[Manasseh Azure Awuni @Manasseh_Azure]

CHIEF CLEARING AGENT
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Ghanaians deserve to know the basis for the government's mass discontinuation of court cases against officials and associates of the previous Mahama administration.

A few of the cases, such as the prosecution of the Democracy Hub protesters, raised concerns among many Ghanaians. One may not be surprised that those charges are dropped.

A majority of the cases, however, border on corruption and charges of causing financial loss to the state. For a president vowing to reset Ghana and prosecute government officials who have stolen or caused money to be stolen from the public purse, the mass clearance is a wrong start. It's a dangerous precedent.

What President Mahama is telling the NPP officials his administration will charge is very simple: if you are charged, drag the case as long as you can, and if your party comes into office, the court process will be truncated, and you will be set free.

This does not portend well for accountability. This dangerous precedent defeats Mahama's resolve to fight corruption and defeats such future endeavours. For a president whose administration began the prosecution that resulted in the jailing of its own party people in the GYEEDA scandal, this is a new low and a faulty step.

The Attorney-General must not truncate prosecution just because he has the power to do so. That power belongs to Ghanaians and must be exercised in our interest.

The courts should be allowed to deal with the evidence and decide on the guilt or innocence of the persons charged. In some cases, the state lost vast sums of money, and we should have answers.

Even with the ambulance case, in which the persons charged were acquitted by the court, the state had lost money. That scandal was not fabricated, even if the wrong actors may have been targeted.

I produced a documentary on those ambulances (titled "Grounded Wheels" on YouTube), and I had no doubt the ambulance procurement was a scandal. I was surprised at the fixation on Jakpa and Ato Forson, while officials of the ministry that procured the ambulances and labelled them substandard after failing to inspect them before shipment were left untouched.

Had the procurement not been a scandal, the Mahama administration would not have moved the ambulances from the forecourt of the State House and hidden them at the Air Force Base in Burma Camp. People were dying for lack of ambulances, and the movement was to keep the problematic vehicles from the public eye. I entered and filmed the ambulances for my documentary, and some of the defects matched the inspection report that labeled them unfit for use as ambulances.

So, if the case in which the defendants were set free was an actual scandal, one can imagine the rest.

I nicknamed Akufo-Addo the Chief Clearing Agent, and Mahama seems to relish that title. Let us not forget that the persons Akufo-Addo cleared and publicly defended were not all clean. Pius Hadzide, for instance, who was cleared of his involvement in the Australia visa scandal, publicly confessed his role when he was campaigning to be the MP for Asuogyaman in the just-ended election.

If the government clears all its party people standing trial, the people whose power the government exercises must be given sound reasons. Operation Recover All Loot (ORAL) cannot succeed when its implementers are engaged in Operation Clear All Looters (OCAL).

And we can do better than pick lessons from failing democracies like the United States.

[thousand. @oneman1000_]

‼️‼️ Please be careful on the motorway. Portions are heavily flooded. ‼️‼️

This is why we are making the noise we are making. Is proper drainage a hard ask? Everytime it rains, we suffer. #OccupyJulorbiHouse

[Nana Asare ❤️🌹 @nana_hemmaa]

Look at this ?????
Do you think the younger ones deserve this???
#OccupyJulorbiHouse

[Dr. George @GeorgeAnagli]

We deserve better!

#OccupyJulorbiHouse

[Seyram @__theSeyram]

Whether rain or shine, we will keep fighting for a better Ghana!!! #OccupyJulorbiHouse

[Akani @Ak_Ntoni]

https://t.co/Dm2OHjGbB6

[ghanaspora @ghanaspora]

What Nkrumah said! 👇🏾#OccupyJulorbiHouse

[Wajalifts👸🏾🏋️🏾‍♀️🏋️🏾‍♀️ @_pheephee]

1. President is using the police to arrest peaceful protesters
2. He tore down a major hospital and put up a signboard congratulating himself for rebuilding it. We are yet to locate the new one
3. People are sleeping on the floor in hospitals but he is building a cathedral

[SIKAOFFICIAL🦍 @SIKAOFFICIAL1]

A lot of people are asking, “what’s the OccupyJulorbiDemo about?” Let’s break it down for you.

Julorbi is a deliberate misspelling of Jubilee House, Ghana’s seat of government.
Julorbi is a Ga word which means child of a thief.
This hashtag was coined by Democracy Hub, an Accra-based civil society group to help seek reforms in the country.

The reasons for the protest includes:
1. The economic mismanagement by the incumbent government
2. Corruption scandals which are not addressed but swept under the carpet
3. Ineffective health-care system in Ghana
4. Countless human rights abuse that have occurred under the current government and the previous ones
5. Abuse of power and authority by those Ghanaians have selected to lead them as a people.

The protest was supposed to come off on 21st September, 2023, which is symbolic because it marks the birthday of Kwame Nkrumah, who fought for Ghana’s independence. However, what was supposed to be a peaceful protest was disrupted as police men came in their numbers and arrested all those who happened to be at the convergence point and even arrested innocent bystanders whose only crimes were that they happened to be in a black or red outfit.

There were reports of people being beaten up and phones being seized so that there won’t be evidence of occurrences. Journalists and lawyers were not left out of this maltreatment by the police whose primary mandate is to serve and protect with integrity.

The protest continues today with full force as the spirits of Ghanaians refuses to be let down by the activities of yesterday.
The fight for a better Ghana is a collective effort that requires unity, determination and the active participation of every citizen.

[YourDubaiCarGuy 🇦🇪🇬🇭 🚘🕺🏾 @FrankDoe101]

There’ll always be money for elections, voter registrations and others that will give them power.
All these things have been constitutionalized and made to look like top priorities… cool. Cool kraa.

How come there’s never money to fix our roads ?
Where’s the money to fix our hospitals and build new ones ?
How are schools under trees ?
Or these ones no need at all ?

If u go nzulenzu before er u go see say politicians will do anything for power cosssssssssss they’ll go all the way and sell these people hopes just to get their votes and leave them to their fate right after elections.
Same for every part of the country.
Some places sef citizens den ballot boxes 🗳️ all for cross rivers and things cos roads no even dey.
Road network be shit all across the country.
If dem do am ego benefit we all but dem go do am ? No !
They just need the votes any means possible!

[Kay @DaLassOfTheKing]

@Sir_Stevensarp 🤣😆 You have succeeded. 👏🏾

[Kay @DaLassOfTheKing]

@Sir_Stevensarp They sent you to tempt me but I won’t fall! Sheesh 😟🙂

[Kay @DaLassOfTheKing]

Best believe it… 😊

[Dzidzornu @pholli]

No

[Kay @DaLassOfTheKing]

Would you believe me
If I told you that
What you are looking for
Is looking for you too?

[Kay @DaLassOfTheKing]

Life is choosing priorities…

[Dennis Rodman @IsaacMbaegbu]

😂😂

[Kay @DaLassOfTheKing]

Wake up!
And choose you!
Over and over again!
Everyone else is taken…
😘

[Kay @DaLassOfTheKing]

You cannot be extraordinary
and keep doing ordinary things.
When you are set apart,
sometimes you do strange acts.
Not many would understand,
that’s what your purpose requires.
Stay in that lane,you are not alone.
Emmanuel,GOD with you 🙏🏾