๐ Apologies to my non-Ghanaian followers for lack of context on last few tweets. An explainer:
๐ฌ๐ญ The #OccupyJulorBiHouse hashtag is a play on Occupy and Jubilee House (Ghana's seat of government).
๐ ๐ช๐ก๐ค๐ง ๐ฝ๐ is a Ga (language of the people of Accra, Ghana's capital) phrase meaning 'Child of a Thief', a loose reference to the ruling Executive, who the people believe have negligently driven the country into a mess.
๐ Today, Sept 21, is a public holiday in honour of Ghana's founder, Kwame Nkrumah and had been penned down by a civil rights group called Democracy Hub to protest high cost of living, rampant abuse of power, state capture, throttling press freedom and callous governance.
๐ฎ๐ฝโโ๏ธ Consistently, state Police have used the law to block the demonstration from happening. Yesterday (Wednesday) Police issued a statement claiming they had a court order to injunct the demonstration -- but they could not produce any such document. The statement also warned citizens not to turn up for the demonstration, as a result. This, also, was an illegal action.
Nonetheless, protestors have showed up this morning near the seat of government; the police have arrested more than 50 protestors.
๐I am aware many of you follow me for specific (sporting) content, but I will be unable to provide such content if I am not comfortable, and cannot live a dignified life in Ghana, where I am based.
๐ก Today's event is important in the context of recent uprisings in the West African and Sahelian region, for in every one of those cases, the tipping point was a result of consistent government/state attempts to play dumb to the cries of its people. A cursory reading of Ghanaโs recent path suggests we are probably far from such headlines, but are systemically ticking the troublesome boxes that will get us there.
โ ๏ธ Ghana is neighbours or, at most, a few doors away from every one of these boiling points. We are not immune to the factors that led them where they are. We cannot allow Ghana to get to that point.
And that is why we speak -- not disrupt the peace of fellow citizens, but to ensure the peace,, stability we enjoy is guaranteed for the next generation.
๐ธ @worldatlas
God gave you faith, and He wants you to put it to work! Begin to take action. If you believe you're healed, do something you couldn't do before. If you believe you're successful, speak it out loud. Believe it more than your circumstances and know that you are #victorious!โ
CRISTIANO RONALDO needs to be respected more
Left his comfort zone at MANUTD with Sir Alex after dominating English football.Moved to Spain to score over 400+ goals for Madrid including 4 UCL ๐
Left to Juve at age 33 and still managed over 100+ goals and awards
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We wanna show support to our boys this morning by making our hashtag for this year's @NSMQGhana#WeAre7ALivingGod trend
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Cristiano Ronaldo to Manchester United: HERE WE GO! Done deal between Juventus and Man United on permanent move. Cristiano has accepted the contract proposal from Manchester United and heโs coming back. ๐ด๐ต๐น #MUFC#Ronaldo
Medical to be scheduled soon.
CR7 IS BACK. Here we go.
We do see Oswald as a future ฦdadeษ and want to give him an opportunity to take a tour of Presec, our state of the arts ฦdadeษ Alumni and Mentorship Centre and then finally meet up with our ฦdadeษ Global President; Dr. Ernest Ofori Sarpong and his Veep @PatriciaOboNai