....Men who will not be bought or sold, men who in their inmost souls are true and honest, men who do not fear to call sin by its right name, men whose conscience is as true to duty as the needle to the pole, men who will stand for the right though the heavens fall.
NPP CANNOT WIN THE COCAINE DEBATE IN GHANA
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1. On 3rd April 2017, a Ghanaian by name Suraka Suala Madugu was arrested at the KIA for swallowing heroin and arriving from Nairobi to Ghana.
2. Again in 2017, about 10.6kg of heroin was confiscated by Narccoc officials at the KIA after same was imported by a Kenyan into Ghana.
3. In January 2018, about 56kg of cocaine was seized at Ghana Post. 6 Ghanaians were involved.
4. On 3rd April 2019, Ghana again seized $1.44m and €255k belonging to a Lebanese national involved in narco-terrorism. A then DAG and a notable political figure cum lawyer settled the matter and released the money to the accused after initially being arraigned before court.
5. About 1.1ton of cocaine was seized in Belgium in December 2023 involving a Ghanaian alleged to be close to some then Govt officials.
6. Two private jets (Gulfstreams 3$4) allegedly delivered about 45 tonnes of cocaine to Ghana in December 2023. The jets are currently confiscated and are packed at the Airforce Base here in Accra.
7. In March 2024, Ghana arrested a South African and a Nigerian at the airport with about 13.76tons of heroin from Thailand.
8. About 166kg of cocaine was seized at the KIA in June 2024 involving 2 British nationals
9. About 76kg of cocaine was seized at DHL depot facility at the KIA in July 2024.
10. Prior to all the above, arguably the greatest drug bust happened sometime in 2008 when an incredible 399kg of cocaine was arrested in Nsawam. Only 2 drivers were arrested in that matter till date.
The US Dept of State as far back as January 2009, stated the ff in its Report:
“Ghana is a transshipment point for illegal drugs, particularly cocaine from South America, as well as heroin from Afghanistan and Pakistan. Although Europe is the main destination, drugs also transit to the United States through Accra’s Kotoka International Airport. Drug trafficking is fueling domestic drug consumption. Local use of cannabis, heroin, and cocaine remains a problem.”
So let’s stop the politics and support Govt efforts to fight the drug menace as a Nation. We were declared a drug trafficking hub under an Npp Govt in 2008.
Surely, you were voted into power for a reason, yet you only compare yourselves to what you perceive to be the shortcomings of the previous administration. It’s rather tragic.
Clearly given the platform your government was returned to power on, you should be offering solutions and policies to buck the trends that the Ghanaian people are unhappy with, your government promised a new dawn — a rest!
Yet, here we are with your salty tears and your throwing of your toys out of your pram like a petulant little child.
With all due respect, you and your cohorts promised to “fix the country” — we are holding you accountable to that promise.
Do what you promised as a party, or tell the Ghanaian people that you lied your way to power.
An anonymous two-minute audio message on a WhatsApp platform predicting a so-called haircut on Government bonds sent all of us into banks and forex bureaus to dump our cedis, and, before we knew it, the cedi had depreciated further.
“I’m a 29-year-old lady who has been married for five years. I love my husband and children, but I want a divorce because I have been taking care of the family for the past five years, and I’m tired.”
- A lady sends a message seeking advice from Apostle Solomon Oduro.
#TheAfternoonShow #TV3GH
Lol.
The fact that someone wrote WASSCE in 2021 doesn’t mean they’re young.
Assuming I wrote WASSCE in 2021 when I was 21 years old, does that mean I’m younger simply because I wrote it in 2021?
One reason why it’s good to help others if you make some money. After all, how much you go chop?
Meanwhile the little you give someone can change their life for the better
🚨🏴 Harry Kane on the Ballon d’Or: “I don’t like to speak about myself… 73 goals speak for themselves”.
“It’s been the best season of my life, by far”, told @marca.
Exactly, Fent.
I got aggregate 20 and was the best student in my school. Those who could afford textbooks and past questions came from relatively good homes. We relied on handwritten notes to prepare for BECE.
I went to Kpando SHS with aggregate 20 (Maths – 5) to study Business. I wrote NOVDEC in Form 2 and got 9, then WASSCE and got 7.
I proceeded to UCC, graduated with first-class honours, and became a chartered accountant before national service.
Sometimes, context matters.
The reason I always hesitate to comment on issues of students’ BECE grades is to avoid committing a fundamental attribution error.
The tendency is to always blame children for poor performance without considering the situational circumstances that may have contributed to those results.
I am living proof of this.
I got aggregate 27 after BECE and it was so good that my father had mother make me guinea fowl light soup . And if you know northern fathers and their guinea fowls, you know this is was a big deal.
But I had only one teacher for the whole three years of JSS. He taught Mathematics and Science. We didn’t have teachers for the remaining eight subjects. We had no textbooks, no desks and no electricity.
The year group ahead of us had only one person who passed and proceeded to secondary school. The rest failed.
The only handwritten notes we had for some of the other subjects were handovers from previous batches of students, dating back five years. Those students had one or two teachers for the other subjects, who gave them notes before quitting along the way. That was what we depended on.
Mind you, those notes didn’t even help them pass. They failed too. But at least, they offered a reference point for what JSS Agric, RME, Social Studies or English looked like.
Imagine merely laughing at me for getting aggregate 27 without considering the full context and the extenuating circumstances.
At the time, the cutoff point for all senior high schools was aggregate 30. Only three of us, from a class of 20, got within the mark and went to secondary school (aggregates 25, 27, 30). The rest either went back to JSS or ended their education altogether.
I got admitted to my beloved Kanton Secondary School, and in my SSS class, I had the worst aggregate. No yawa lol.
But after three years of secondary school, I got aggregate 13 and went straight to Legon.
At Legon, I got a scholarship and went to America to complete my Bachelor's degree.
I know the grades sound bad on paper, but sometimes, those terrible grades are a product of circumstances far beyond the child. And sometimes, an opportunity at a good secondary school can be the game changer.
So, don’t laugh at a kid with aggregate 35 who wants to go to Presec.
Investigate the circumstances that produced that 35. That child may have been performing at the absolute limit of the opportunities available to them.
The context is important. Perhaps you give them a different environment, better teachers, better resources and a proper opportunity to learn, and you may see a completely different student.
Sometimes, the grade tells you what happened. It doesn’t tell you why.