This rainy season needs to teach us the hard lessons we've been dodging for years. There’ll be no end to this recurring nightmare until we start enforcing the law without mercy.
@Cobby_Ing_Jr@ghonetv You’ve actually strengthened my point. If the officers are so spineless that they yield to interference from politicians and influential people, then they are not fearless. They’re simply not the kind of officers we need.
@SIKAOFFICIAL1@ArmstrongW29406 Begging is already illegal in Ghana under the Beggars and Destitutes Act (1969), but we rarely enforce it. Worse still, some religious groups enable the problem by feeding street beggars, keeping the cycle of dependency alive.
South Africa’s very own Xenowatch project, run by the African Centre for Migration and Society at the University of the Witwatersrand, records a cumulative death toll of 697 from xenophobic violence and discrimination since 1994.
For any government to leave its citizens exposed to a clear, recurring pattern of targeted harassment, looting, and killings would be deeply irresponsible. Ghana has thousands of nationals living and working in South Africa. Prioritising their safety is not just good leadership. It is the most basic duty of care.
The real tragedy is that these attacks keep recurring in deadly cycles. South Africa must confront the root causes: high unemployment, crime, and failures of integration, instead of allowing frustration to spill over onto fellow Africans time and again.
True Pan-African solidarity cannot be one-way traffic.
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Ghana's swift and responsible intervention should now be better appreciated by the critics who accused us of overreacting and moving in too quickly to save our citizens.
The Mahama Administration does not gamble with the precious lives of Ghanaians.
We convey our deepest and sincerest condolences to the Government and people of Mozambique on the loss of five of their nationals due to the ongoing xenophobic attacks as confirmed by the Mozambican Government.
No African should ever be killed by fellow Africans on African soil.
May these condemnable acts never quench our Pan-African resolve for true African unity, full integration, free movement, common market and significant intra-African trade as Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah pioneered and sacrificed greatly for.