Emmanuel Ekow Arthur-Entsiwah

[Emmanuel Ekow Arthur-Entsiwah @eekowarthur]

@alaar My condolences to you and the family.

[🇬🇭 Mensa Otabil @MensaOtabil]

How Idolatry is creeping into the church!
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[Kofi Asare @KofiEducation]

FOR THOSE STILL ASKING HOW THE WASSCE FRAUD PLAYS OUT IN SOME EXAM HALLS & ITS IMPACT.

1. Once the question pack is opened, shots are sent via WhatsApp to subject teachers at a hideout.

2. Subject teachers on duty solve the questions and upload them to a Cheating WhatsApp platform.

3. Armed with phones, candidates simply copy from the Platform. You must pay to be on the Platform.

4. Everyone in the room is aware—security, invigilators, supervisors.

5. In those private schools, the cheating fee is built into school fees.

6. In those public schools, a teacher collects the cash and shares among the carbal; usualy led by Asst Head academic.

7. Only members of the Cabal are selected by school authorities to invigilate.

8. There is a certain private school in central region; a remedial school. Their performance was better than Presec and Wesley Girls in 2024.

9. A close relative attended that school for 5 months, obtained 5As, including in English, but couldn’t write myself in my presence.

10. Some are at Uni, barely clinging to a 1.0 GPA. Others enter NTC & CoE with medical & law school results. They cheat again at licensure and become nurses and teachers.

11. You will go and meet them at the hospital. They will give you the wrong injection p3rrrr.

12. The teachers too will teach your children how to cheat, since they can’t teach them well to pass.

It’s a cycle !

Those who started 5-8 years ago are now leading exam fraud syndicates in some schools; grooming the next generation of fraudsters. In those schools too are WASSCE fuaud ancestors.

Some are on social media insulting me because I am exposing them.

Which kentry kraa dis?

[Emmanuel Ekow Arthur-Entsiwah @eekowarthur]

Phew!

[DeepWebSlinger @deepwebslinger]

The English language... Oh my gosh, I can't stop laughing. My gut hurts !!! 😅🤣😂😂🤣🤣😅

[Emmanuel Ekow Arthur-Entsiwah @eekowarthur]

Whew!

[Manasseh Azure Awuni @Manasseh_Azure]

SCANDALOUS DAYLIGHT STEALING
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1. This letter was written by the Chief Executive Officer of the Accra Metropolitan Assembly, Elizabeth Sackey, to the Youth Employment Agency (YEA). The subject is well-known, but let me help you with the details.

2. The YEA has a contract with Zoomlion (since 2006), which states that Zoomlion should manage the cleaners and sweepers of all the metropolitan, municipal and district assemblies (MMDAs) in Ghana.

3. The contract says the YEA and the MMDAs should employ the cleaners and give them to Zoomlion to manage.

4. But, as this letter shows, the MMDAs and the YEA do not know the number of cleaners managed by Zoomlion across the country. The government pays Zoomlion in Accra based on the claim of numbers Zoomlion presents for payment. For a long time, the claim has been that 45,000 people are doing the work.

5. Zoomlion is paid 850 cedis per cleaner, but the contract says Zoomlion should pay each cleaner 250 cedis and keep 600 cedis as fees. The cleaners have no benefits such as transportation, health insurance or retirement package. If they fall ill battling the filth in our gutters and markets, they're on their own.

6. That's not all the woes these miserable cleaners go through. A letter I have intercepted shows that Zoomlion has not paid these cleaners for more than one year, even though the company claims the high fees and interest it charges the government is because it pre-finances the payment before the government pays later.

7. Because the slave wage of 250 cedis ($17) a month is too low and is not always paid, most cleaners do not go to work, as evidenced in this letter from the AMA Chief Executive.

8. But whether there are cleaners working or not, Zoomlion is paid the full amount by the number of workers it presents. To put it clearly, government officials such as the board members of the YEA, Ministers of State related to the programme and state officials paid to represent our interest know that there are not 45,000 people sweeping the streets and markets across the country, but they multiply that number by 850 cedis and pay to Zoomlion as its monthly bill.

9. In 2018, the YEA CEO, Justin Frimpong Koduah (the current NPP General Secretary), conducted a head count and concluded that the number of cleaners was far lower than what Zoomlion presented for payment. At a press conference in Accra, he said Zoomlion failed to produce its payroll to back its claim. He announced that the contract with Zoomlion would be discontinued, but that did not happen. The government continued to pay Zoomlion even though the company failed to authenticate the numbers.

9. In 2022, the AMA CEO wanted the list of the cleaners working in her metropolis, based on which money is deducted from her Common Fund at source and paid to Zoomlion.

10. The YEA, which signed the contract with Zoomlion and is supposed to recruit the cleaners for Zoomlion, told the AMA CEO that it did not know the number of cleaners being managed by Zoomlion, but it continues to pay Zoomlion based on the number Zoomlion presents. How do I know this?

11. The October 13, 2022 board minutes of the YEA captures the frustration of the YEA CEO, Kofi Baah Agyepong, who wanted the contract with Zoomlion terminated. In the board minutes, the YEA CEO is quoted as confessing that the YEA could not respond to the AMA CEO because the YEA did not know the people who were supposed to be working in the AMA area.

12. The board minutes said:

"The CEO further stated that management does not have the data to authenticate any claims from the service provider [Zoomlion], including the number of beneficiaries at post and working. Hence, when the Accra Metropolitan Assembly requested information on beneficiaries working in the metropolis, management could not provide them with the same. The CEO mentioned that this occasioned a meeting with the regional minister, who raised further issues with the quality of work done in Accra city and its environs. The CEO stated that management has the capacity to manage the sanitation [module] if given the opportunity."

13. In 2017, I produced a documentary titled "Robbing the Assemblies". I revealed that the assemblies had resorted to employing their own sweepers to clean the markets and paying them, even though their Common Fund was being used to pay Zoomlion for the non-existent cleaners in their areas.

14. This means that because of the low wage of 250 cedis a month, which can be in areas for more than a year, many of the supposed sweepers managed by Zoomlion have left the job. But Zoomlion continues to receive payment for managing them. And the assemblies, which are already paying Zoomlion for this service, will have to incur additional costs to clean their streets and markets. If this is not robbing the state to pay a shady company, what is it?

15. Former President John Dramani Mahama knows about this theft because when I first revealed details of this scandal in 2013 as part of my GYEEDA investigations, he was the President of Ghana. Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and the NPP said at the time that President Mahama could not cancel fraudulent deals such as this because he was personally benefitting from it. The Akufo-Addo administration escalated the shady deals to Zoomlion when he won the 2016 election and got into office. And Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia knows about this as well.

16. Ladies and gentlemen, I have been consistently writing about this since 2013. The CEO of the YEA wants this deal canceled, and I have been told the Local Government Minister, Martin Agyei-Mensah Korsah, is not happy about it.

17. As revealed in my book, "The President Ghana Never Got", the YEA CEO appealed to top forces in the Akufo-Addo administration, including the presidency, to help him discontinue this brazen theft of our money, but he did not get any support.

18. I don't write this because I hate Joseph Siaw Agyepong, the Zoomlion CEO, who is a respected elder of THE CHURCH OF PENTECOST. The poor sweepers should not be treated like slaves. And the assemblies, which are paying for their streets and markets to be cleaned, should not use their meagre resources to employ additional sweepers because those managed by Zoomlion have left post, but the company continues to get paid.

19. In 2016, Akufo-Addo told us he was not a thief and would not preside over the stealing of our resources. We believed him and voted for him.

20. Mr. President, the ball is in your court.

PLEASE: Share and forward to any government official you know.

[Emmanuel Ekow Arthur-Entsiwah @eekowarthur]

Ɛyɛ asɛm oo....it made sense THEN and I believe it makes sense NOW. .Or is it "warped logic"? anaa I should go and sit down!

[Emmanuel Ekow Arthur-Entsiwah @eekowarthur]

Chaley!

Free Wi-Fi: Government pays service provider GHS56m for no internet in schools - MyJoyOnline https://t.co/4Pj5ekAfjb

[Emmanuel Ekow Arthur-Entsiwah @eekowarthur]

Time has a way of dealing with issues....It's been almost 8 years. We are told the solution to our current economic challenges will be implemented starting the 9th year...Smh!

[Yayra Koku @YayraKoku]

Can someone pls send this to Bawumia?

[Institute of African Studies, Univ. of Ghana @IASUG]

The Institute of African Studies invites you to join in the
CELEBRATION OF GHANA'S
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Theme: Ghana's early years through film

IAS Old Site Quadrangle
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15th March, 2024
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[Emmanuel Ekow Arthur-Entsiwah @eekowarthur]

Can you imagine?

[Daniel Afari-Djan @dafaridjan]

It is reaching alarming limits now......

[Emmanuel Ekow Arthur-Entsiwah @eekowarthur]

Interesting!

[Bright Simons @BBSimons]

The average monthlty salary of Ghanaian public sector employees above the age of 61 is ~14500 GHS. The average monthly salary of Ghanaian public sector employees between the ages of 20 and 60 is ~2500 GHS. Pension-age workers earn ~5x more than working-age workers.

[Emmanuel Ekow Arthur-Entsiwah @eekowarthur]

@Citi973 @benkoku please ask the gentleman about the Santoe to Ashaiman road, I beg

[Emmanuel Ekow Arthur-Entsiwah @eekowarthur]

@dafaridjan Sad! Very little to show for all the taxes collected

[Emmanuel Ekow Arthur-Entsiwah @eekowarthur]

What is this? Value Added Tax on electricity consumption? What/which value? Smh

Government charging VAT on electricity from January 1 - MyJoyOnline https://t.co/u06KVDLs8u

[Bright Simons @BBSimons]

1/
The richest public univ in Ghana in terms of annual income & income per student is KNUST. Followed by UCC & then UG. This is mainly due to student size & thus tuition income. KNUST has ~90k students, UCC has ~80k & UG has ~61k. In 2012, KNUST had ~31k compared to UG's ~38k.

[Bright Simons @BBSimons]

3/
So, in 25 years, KNUST has expanded enrolment by almost 1500%. In the same period, enrolment at MIT grew from 9880 to 11858, i.e. 20%. Not surprising then that MIT can afford to maintain undergraduate non-STEM majors at ~7% of enrolment. In KNUST, 42% of students are non-STEM.

[Bright Simons @BBSimons]

2/
Aggressive enrolment & higher-cost postgrad courses mean KNUST earns ~180m GHS more than the 2nd richest uni, UCC. In 1997, KNUST had just ~6.3k students.

The poorest public uni is CK Tedam. Total income is ~12.1M GHS & avg spend per student is 3.3k versus Ashesi's ~162k.

[Bright Simons @BBSimons]

4/
Avg income per student stats also matter. In the US, avg revenue per student is ~$50,000. At Ashesi, it is $14,000. At KNUST, it is ~$630. At UCC & UG, it is ~$550. At CK Tedam, it is ~$280. At Hilla Limann Tec Uni, it is $215.
Hilla Limann's abandoned hostel speaks volumes.

[Joy 99.7 FM @Joy997FM]

A gentle reminder:

"We are sitting on money, this country is not a poor nation but because of bad governance we are hungry"

- @NAkufoAddo [Before becoming a President] #JoySMS

[Emmanuel Ekow Arthur-Entsiwah @eekowarthur]

Eish! In just a year? Over five billion (old cedis) as "Fees and allowances" for an individual in a year?

[The Fourth Estate @fourthestategh]

BoG Board members receive GH¢510k each as allowances while Bank records GH¢60b loss

https://t.co/3t8sYiAaQ6