You are fortunate to have been admitted to a university.
Instead of learning and ensuring political accountability whenever you can, you've joined political party groups on campus, fanfooling other students while doing the bidding of politicians.
Then, when you finish school, you become a foot soldier. In the long run, these politicians create structural problems that keep you poor and unemployed so you can continue to serve them.
But because you don't see beyond today, you fail to realise it.
You are keeping the incompetence thriving, directly or indirectly.
Songhor is a reminder of how the rich and the politicians collaborate to dehumanize the poor and take their property.
“Songhor people,” who used to mine the lagoon, can no longer do so. They've lost both property and lives over the years. They've witnessed growing poverty while living in fear.
Songhor is a painful reminder of how our society has failed its people.
The country that failed to pay its debts, had to restructure obligations to both domestic and foreign investors to meet the requirements for an IMF bailout isn’t broke? What message does that send to the investors who suffered significant losses due to these debt exchanges?
'You polluted the water more than us!'
The contentious issue of illegal mining, also known as galamsey, has sparked heated debates in parliament, with both sides trading accusations. During an emergency parliamentary sitting, members seized the opportunity to express their concerns over the government's inability to effectively address the galamsey menace. #CitiNewsroom
Given that citizens are very busy, trying to make a living, how do we get them to see the connections between bad policies & their immediate woes?
How will Kejetia traders understand that one of the reasons for the erratic power supply in West Africa's largest market is because Kumasi city govt officials keep using the fees they pay as collateral for fresh loans, which they then pump into poorly managed projects that don't deliver returns?
Or that there are big, private, businesses like Fidelity Ghana always standing by to cut these kinds of deals? And when confronted will hire big politicians as their lawyers in the hope that they will scare away activists?
Folks blame democracy in the abstract as the problem. But democracy has to be PUT INTO PRACTICE. Citizens have to be informed & primed to push for their interests. What happens when they are too busy trying to survive?
Give them a benign dictatorship so that they don't need to bother? How does a country/people CHOOSE a benign dictatorship? 🤷🏾♂️🤷🏾♂️
Technically, Rev. Victor Kusi Boateng’s declaration that he has never received a contract from the Akufo-Addo/Bawumia government even though he enjoys great friendship with the President and Vice is quite true.
From my unimpeachable tracking, all the Akufo-Addo/Bawumia government contracts have been awarded to Kusi Boateng’s second identity — which is Kwabena Adu Gyamfi.
See attached evidence of government’s payment vouchers to two companies: EL Dunamis Limited and JNS Talent Centre Limited both owned by Kwabena Adu Gyamfi.
The two companies were paid a total of GHS7million (GHS3.5million each) for the supply of paper towels to the Ministry of Health in 2021.
JNS Talent received payment from government on 23rd July, 2021.
EL Dunamis was also paid by government on 17th August, 2021 for the supply of tissues.
I can’t imagine how GHS7million worth of tissues look like.
Interestingly, both contracts were single-sourced.
Obviously, if diligent parliamentary oversight had not exposed his criminal double identity scheme, this is how he would have gotten away by deceiving many with such dishonest sermons and contract-induced prophecies.
May God have mercy on humankind.
For God and Country.
Ghana First 🇬🇭