I’m so pissed off at how some people have acted during this exercise.
This is a PHARMACY ! Imagine denying someone of medication that maybe critical?
I’m also irritated at the need to carry cameras everywhere to prove you’re doing your job,
1. The Presidency said citizens were “strongly encouraged” to participate, how did people understand this and why were there reports of harassment?
2. Civic responsibility should be encouraged, not enforced through intimidation. Celebrate those who willingly showed up. Use the moment to educate and build a culture of responsibility.
3. Ordering people out of their cars or screaming at them achieves the opposite.
Also, responsibility doesn’t rest with citizens alone.
Still, in many places that were distilled, heaps of rubbish are by the roadside, should it rain again, a lot will go back into the drains.
A customer is seeking help after allegedly sending GHC6,198 to a Yango driver instead of the GHC61 fare due to a Mobile Money mistake.
The victim says MTN Ghana confirmed the money was withdrawn shortly after the transaction, and the driver is currently unreachable.
ORAL ADDRESS TO THE WIND - What the Court refused to hear.
In the matter of Abu Trica
1. May it please the Court. I rise this morning with a question I had hoped never to carry into this room. What is the point of justice?
2. I ask it not as a matter of being impolite but as a matter of record, because the conduct of the Republic in this matter has pressed the question into my hands and left me no honest way to set it down.
3. Your Honour will recall that we last stood before this Court. We came ex parte, seeking an order to restrain the removal of Mr Frederick Kumi from the jurisdiction until his application could be heard. This Court, mindful of the liberty of the individual and mindful equally of the sovereignty of the State, declined to make an interim order. The Court directed that the matter proceed on notice, so that the State might be heard before any order touching it was made. We did not quarrel with that direction. We accepted it. We accepted it because we came to this Court in good faith, and because we assumed that same good faith on every side.
4. I also pressed the Court as to the difficulties we were having in having access to our Client. That we had written to the Attorney-General to grant us access to Mr Frederick Kumi and that that request had not been acceded to. We contacted the Interpol Division of the Ghana Police Service, which had custody over him; they told us they did not have him in their custody. We contacted the lawyer on record representing the Attorney-General, he failed to respond to our request even though the message was delivered.
5. This Court again expressed grace, and stayed its hand. The Court directed that we should make all private attempts to get the Attorney-General to grant us access to our client; and that if that fails, this court would grant an order for us to see the client, the next morning. On the Court’s direction, we went to the AGs Office, searched for the lawyer on record to no avail.
6. We reported back to the Court that these attempts had failed; but the Court in its continuous grace decided against the order and directed that we appear today at 11 am.
7. Yesterday, we found out through whistleblowers that he had been sent to the Police Hospital to conduct the preparing to take him out of the Country. We put people on standby, surveilled their vehicle and realized that he was being held in BNI custody.
8. So Yesterday, myself and three other lawyers followed up to the BNI Headquarters and after hours of waiting, we were told that our request to see him was approved. So we should proceed to Blue Gate where he was being kept.
9. When we got there, we were told that it was too late and they wont grant us access. They told us to come back the next day today. This morning on our way to the BNI, we found that Frederick Kumi had been removed at 7am.
10. I must now tell this Court what has reached us since this matter was set down, and, I believe, since I entered this room. The public press this morning reports that Mr Frederick Kumi was removed from this jurisdiction earlier today, aboard Delta Air Lines flight 157, an aircraft that departed at sixteen minutes past nine o'clock. I do not ask this Court to take that report as proved upon my word.
11. I invite the State, which alone holds the truth of it, to rise and tell this Court plainly whether it is so.
12. And if it is so, then let this Court weigh the hour. At sixteen minutes past nine, as this Court had convened us to consider whether a detained man might be permitted to see his lawyers, that man, if the report is true, was already above the clouds and already beyond our borders. The hearing this Court fixed, in fairness, so that the State could be heard, was overtaken by the very party for whose benefit it was fixed.