China has criticised the US withdrawal from Afghanistan, accusing Washington of having “selfish” foreign policy priorities.
It said the US had used the rhetoric of a rules-based global order to defend its own “bullying, hegemonic behaviour”.
“The US can wantonly conduct military intervention in a sovereign country and does not need to be responsible for the suffering of the people in that country,” foreign ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin told a press briefing. “The US can arbitrarily smear, suppress, coerce and bully other countries without paying any price,” he added.
The Afghanistan exit has been a golden opportunity for China to convince the Asian public that the US cannot be trusted, experts say.
Meanwhile, China has called at that meeting of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva for the US, UK, and other countries to “be held accountable for the violation of human rights committed by their military in Afghanistan”.
THOSE THREATENING ANTI-LGBTQ PETITIONER WILL SEE THE WRATH OF GOD IF… – BISHOP GEORGE NII AYEH
The founder and leader of Rivers of Life Ministry, Bishop George Nii Ayeh (OTAFREGYA), has warned those who are threatening the Anti-LGBTQ+ Petitioner to put a stop to that in order not to face the wrath of God.
According to Bishop George Nii Ayeh, he has heard that some people are threatening the Anti-LGBTQ petitioner, who is known as (OLUMANBA) a media practitioner.
It is a big sin to support LGBTQ, and also the Ghanaian culture doesn’t support those act- he added.
God’s angry will come upon Ghana if we legalize LGBTQ, so those supporting should be very careful else, they should be ready for God’s anger.
God is very happy with what the Anti-LGBTQ petitioner is doing so he has also promised to support him with prayers and all kinds of support that he needs.
• French ambassador to Ghana was under fire last week for meeting an anti-LGBTQ+ MP
• She hosted MP Sam Nartey George on her TV program, Touch of France
• Pro-LGBTQ+ activists were unhappy that she hosted a homophobe
The French ambassador to Ghana, Anne Sophie Ave, has apologized to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer (LGBTQ+) advocates for hosting Ningo Prampram Member of Parliament, Sam Nartey George, on a TV show last week.
Ambassador Ave was forced to delete social media postings she shared of her meeting with Sam Nartey George on the “Touch of France,” show.
It turned out that a number of pro-LGBTQ+ activists were dissatisfied that an ambassador will host a public figure who was promoting a law against what they say is a sexual orientation that France supports.
In the midst of the backlash, she locked her account and according to activists, went on a blocking spree of all persons who lambasted her for the incident. She has since unblocked her tweets and has also issued an apology for hosting the controversial MP.
Her August 9 apology via Twitter read in part: “The French embassy in Ghana and Touchoffrance.gh promote France and the actions of France in Ghana. Our guests are ppl with an experience of France, and of FR Ghana relations, to share.
“Hosting MP S George was based on these sole criteria. I understand this has created a perception that we offered a platform to anti-LGBTQIA+ ideas: this is not the case at all. However, some people have felt offended and I wish to apologise for that.”
Sam Nartey George has become the face of a new anti-LGBTQ+ bill which is currently before Parliament.
He recently had an altercation with the Australian ambassador to Ghana, Gregory Andrews, who he accuses of being a champion of the gay rights movement in Ghana despite his actions being against the Geneva Convention.
PARTISAN POLITICS, COVER UPS, CORRUPTION, TRIBALISM, INDISCIPLINE, AND CO ARE GHANA’S REAL ENEMIES OF PROGRESS.
The truth must be told. The LORD GOD has really blessed us with every natural resources we need as a country. It seems we have taken all these privileges for granted. Religiously there is peace, harmony, and understanding among the religious beliefs in the country.
The question is that why can’t Ghana turn to become a first-class Nation?
I have a problem about how we elect our president and vice mostly on religious background.
I am of the view that if we can have a patriotic and competent president and vice from one religion, there is no need to mixed the president and vice based on religious background.
It looks like we have abused the time needed to achieve’s certain developments on record time with bad attitudes.
We don’t take our works seriously especially some of the workers in the public sector, some of the them don’t thinks about how to progress the work , but what some of them are interested in is how to satisfy’s their stomach and pocket.
Cover-up is another Epidemic of the enemies of progress in Ghana. Most of the leaders needs those who can dance to their music to work with so that I snatch your back and you snatch my back game will be outplayed to the gallery. When sometimes you overheard a certain leader glamouring against someone, not interested to work with someone,is simply because he can’t create, loot, and share with the person.
When a certain leaders see those working with him to be a threat for him, he will do anything humanly possible, to sabotage them.
No leader want to be exposed. They always want those who can do cover-ups for them to work with. So that their cobwebs and skeletons will be hidden, from the public.
Partisan politics always hijacked the truth to be seen and known. The political parties communicators will always defend the indefensible. Even when their parties are wrong, they will still defend the party. Because of political appointment, none of the parties members wants to criticize’s and condemn’s his or her own party for wrongful doing, bad actions, and unneedful policies.
Apart from Honourable Kennedy Ohene Agyapong the legislature a member of parliament for Assin central who sometimes fires his own party, when he disagrees with them. Some also says when he needs certain contracts from his party, then he will deliberately criticize them, for he is very loud and has the media power and influence.
Corruption is bleeding and sinking the country into an abyss. Looking at the over-pricing of certain government contracts will make you cry for mother Ghana. The mindset of some people is if you don’t become corrupt you can’t make it or be successful in life. This is why corruption galon is everywhere. Monies that can be used for state development goes to a corrupt people’s pocket. Corruption is milking the country and it is very sad and pathetic.It clearly shows that we don’t have any love for the country and also don’t think about the future of the country which belongs to the next generation.
The way some are chopping corruption monies today as if the is no tomorrow for the country. Until we have an independent anti-corruption body to fight vigorously against corrupt practices in the country, it will always stampies the social-economic, and developmental growth in the country. Another failing gears and break fails that disappoint the fight against corruption is the anti-corruption crusaders, most of them are corrupt than the corruption machinery. They themselves are real definition of corruption.
Tribal bigotry is very sensitive and fragile when talking about it without been circumspect. We should see ourselves as one people, without tribal differences.. There should not be any tribal war and selectiveness among ourselves as a country. We shouldn’t classify’s some tribes to be more superior than others.
There are certain positions and job employment’s if you don’t belong to a certain tribe you will be disqualified, base on your tribal background. This is a real picture of tribalism.Is true that we have different tribe’s among ourselves but the truth is that we are all one people. We are in a 21century the world has changed from the past. Stopping ourselves to intermarry each other because of tribal difference’s must be stopped.
Indiscipline is another canker. Some of us don’t want to be law-abiding citizens. The reason for that is how some of us are indisciplined. Looking at some behaviors of our’s, in the way some of us talk, dress, our actions and inactions shows clearly that some of us are not disciplined.If we don’t change from our indiscipline nature and character,Ghana our beloved country will never progress, economically, socially physically, and financially. Most developed countries were able to develop because they were discipline. We don’t want to do the right thing but we always needs the rightful results. The discipline organisations and authorities must enforce their veto powers without fear or favor. The laws that must ensures discipline needs to work effectively.The systems and structures to hit on the nails of discipline must not be hijacked. Building a Nation without discipline is like sitting in a glass room, you must not throws stones. Let us avoid and devoid indiscipline, from our personal lives, our homes, and offices. When we crucified indiscipline and resurrects discipline and our Homeland Ghana, will becomes one of the best country in the world.
‘Lionel Messi feels betrayed by Barcelona’ – the inside track on new PSG star’s Nou Camp exit
So now we know for sure that the day Barcelona never thought they would see is upon them.
After more than 20 years, 778 games, 672 goals, 35 trophies including 10 La Liga titles, four Champions Leagues and numerous personal records and honours, Lionel Messi has left Barcelona.
Even as he packed his bags in readiness for a new life at Paris St-Germain, rumours were swirling around the Catalan capital that Barcelona were on the verge of making a last-ditch offer that would keep him at the club, rumours that sources close to both sides were quick to deny. It was not going to happen.
Lionel Messi
Rumours were started more in hope than expectation by a Catalan media outlet, perhaps unable to grasp the unimaginable reality that from now on this will be a Barcelona without Messi. If they are unable to accept it, imagine how Messi must be feeling.
To begin to try to understand where Messi finds himself as the six-time Ballon d’Or winner prepares for a new life in Paris, we should start with the end of the highly-emotional media conference at which he announced he would be leaving Barcelona.
At the end of it, the cold greeting Messi extended to the recently installed Barcelona president Joan Laporta was in sharp contrast to the effusive display of affection shown by the player when they met at the Nou Camp shortly after Laporta won election.
Disguising his body language either on or off the pitch has never been the Argentine superstar’s strong point.
Throughout the long and drawn out ‘will he stay or will he go?’ saga that has been playing out in Barcelona, Laporta has been unfailingly optimistic, always insisting he and Messi were very close, had an excellent relationship and that things were going very well.
Meanwhile, all the messages I was receiving from the Messi side were similarly upbeat, hopeful that a deal could be done. But – they insisted – they were much more cautious than the president.
Right from the start of his election campaign, Laporta insisted that not only would he be able to persuade Messi to stay (he just needed a “barbecue with him”) but also that he was the only candidate who could do so.
Lionel Messi
So what did he know that the other candidates didn’t? Because what he knows now about the Financial Fair Play regulations that have to be adhered to, the limitations the club are forced to operate under, are no different to what he knew then. Nothing has changed.
What he didn’t know perhaps was the extent of the problem he and the club are facing.
Once in power he was obviously shocked to discover the level of debt. He expected to find a total debt from last season of about 200m euros and instead he has found it nudging 500m.
But also he owes his presidency to those who put down their money as guarantee of 15% of the budget, an obligation from the new directors to confirm the new regime. Those forces are now in charge of a club supposedly owned by season-ticket holders. And they do not want to keep Messi and continue with the huge debt.
A month and a half ago the two men went for dinner, after which Messi felt reassured that Laporta knew a way to guarantee he could stay at the club.
Barcelona eventually produced two different contracts, one for two years, the other for five. The five-year arrangement, which both parties shook hands-on, was one the club felt sure would be approved by La Liga.
La Liga boss Javier Tebas and Laporta met two or three days later, with Tebas telling him they could approve the Messi deal but that it might need the help of private equity group CVC, who have recently agreed a deal, pending club approval, that would inject 2.7bn euros (£2.3bn) into La Liga in exchange for just over a 10% stake in most of its business, with 90% of the injection going to clubs.
The problem with that idea was that Real Madrid and Barcelona decided to go against the deal; a deal would have brought money into the club and 15% of it – around 40m euros – could have been put towards the wage bill.
Although Laporta knew perfectly well that the only way Barcelona could keep Messi would be by accepting the deal (and expressed his enthusiasm for it when he met Tebas), he was convinced by Barcelona’s new chief executive, Ferran Reverter, that doing so would not be in the best interests of the club.
Then things went from bad to worse when Reverter (who has not forgotten the club is now in the hands of those financial forces mentioned earlier) hit Laporta with some numbers that probably made the new president’s blood run cold. With Messi’s wages last season, the wage bill was 110% of income, without them 95%.
Simply put, things became impossible.
But the most worrying aspect, in the opinion of many, is not so much the fact that Laporta decided he was not going to give Messi a contract but rather the way the situation was explained to Messi and his father.
Laporta admitted he decided on the Tuesday not to give a new contract to Messi, two days before he told Jorge Messi that their Barcelona story was over. And now there are more and more clues emerging that the decision had in fact been taken even earlier.
Lionel Messi
Laporta, unsurprisingly, blamed La Liga and its lack of flexibility, while also maintaining that the proposed CVC investment plan was not in Barcelona’s best interests.
But what has really irritated people and has already precipitated the resignation of director Jaume Llopis is the feeling that Barcelona have not done enough to keep him – and it’s safe to say that Messi and his camp wholeheartedly agree.
In an interview on Monday, Llopis said: “I didn’t want to cause such a commotion. I resigned to have the freedom to be able to say what many Barcelona fans think and demand – transparency – which is something that has been lacking. Leo even said so himself: ‘They didn’t do everything that could have been done.’”
But perhaps the most damning revelation of all is the news that on the day of the Messi announcement Laporta was spotted in a top Barcelona restaurant along with Real Madrid president Florentino Perez and Juventus’s Andrea Agnelli, the two most eloquent proponents of the controversial European Super League.
A scathing Llopis said: “Nobody can understand that while barcelonistas are crying about Leo leaving, Laporta is enjoying a fish supper with Real Madrid’s president. That doesn’t paint a very good image.”
In their situation, Barcelona’s financial common sense is understandable – but from Messi’s point of view, he went on holiday confident everything would be resolved and came back convinced that all that was missing was his signature.
It broke Messi’s heart and once again he feels betrayed by the club he has given so much to. Barcelona had asked him to accept a 50% reduction in wages and he accepted without even trying to negotiate it.
In fact a 50% reduction is the legal maximum anyone can be compelled to take, so even if Messi had been prepared to accept a bigger reduction, the club would have been breaking the law had they agreed to it.
After a successful Copa America with Argentina he felt good and his plan was to continue his top-level career for two more years, at which point he would be 36. After that, he intended to finish his playing days in Major League Soccer in the United States, possibly with Cesc Fabregas and possibly at David Beckham’s Inter Miami.
While it is true that during his holiday in Ibiza he met with ex-Barca team-mate Neymar, Argentina team-mates Angel di Maria and Leandro Paredes, and Italian star Marco Verratti (all of whom play for PSG), nothing at that point had been decided and he still fully believed he would sign for Barcelona when he returned.
Messi had come close to leaving the club before. Back in 2014, just days before Tito Vilanova’s death from cancer, the former coach had persuaded him to resist the advances of PSG. “You won’t be as happy anywhere as you are here,” Vilanova told him. Messi listened.
Lionel Messi
Then two years later, when he felt that he was being unfairly harassed by the Inland Revenue, he announced that he wanted to leave, not Barcelona, per se, but rather Spain itself. Once again he was talked around.
And then in 2020, after the 8-2 humiliation against Bayern Munich, he tried to put into effect a promise made to him by Bartomeu that he could leave at the end of the season, only for the board to renege on the pledge by claiming that Messi had not made his request in time. Messi’s explanation of the situation was disarmingly simple. “I was lied to,” he said.
Messi has been here before. Back in 2000, just six months after he arrived in Barcelona, during which time injury and bureaucracy had prevented him from playing, the 13-year-old sat down with his parents, two brothers and one sister to make the most important decision of his young life.
Messi told them he was going to stay – and the repercussions would go on to tear the family apart, with his brothers and sister eventually returning to Rosario with their mother while his father, Jorge, stayed with his son in Barcelona.
Now an immensely proud husband and father to three sons, he is desperate to ensure that history does not repeat itself. That is why last year he spoke at length, not just with his wife and soul mate Antonella, but also his children, about whether or not he should move.
Messi was brought up surrounded by the dust-blown, glass-strewn ‘canchos’ prevalent in the working-class district of Rosario but it is Barcelona that his sons Thiago (born 2012), Mateo (born 2015) and Ciro (born 2018) now call home.
Lionel Messi
There were tears then and there are tears now, and Messi has promised his family the move will only be temporary and they will all eventually return to Barcelona.
Jacob Zuma moved to an outside hospital for ‘routine observation’, says prison authority
Former president Jacob Zuma. File photo. Image: Rogan Ward
The department of correctional services said on Friday that former president Jacob Zuma has been admitted to an outside hospital for medical observation.
Zuma, who was sentenced last month to a 15-month jail term for contempt of court, has been medically supervised by staff from the SA Military Health Services since his admission at the Estcourt Correctional Centre.
“A routine observation prompted that Mr Zuma be taken for in-hospitalisation,” said spokesperson Singabakho Nxumalo.
The JGZ Foundation, which speaks on behalf of the former president and his family, downplayed Zuma’s move from the prison to hospital.
In a short statement posted on its social media page, the foundation said the 79–year-old Zuma “is attending to his annual medical routine check-up. No need to be alarmed … yet.”
Zuma began serving the prison sentence on July 8 on the order of the Constitutional Court after repeatedly snubbing a call to appear at the commission of inquiry into state capture. He is classified as a “short-term low-risk inmate”.
Two weeks ago, he joined his family for the funeral of his brother Michael, in Nkandla, after he was granted compassionate leave.
When asked how Zuma was doing in jail, his son Edward said at the time that while there were a few things his father was not happy with, he was doing well. “He is in top spirits.”
Lionel Messi and FC Barcelona weren’t able to solidify a new contract, which means the star forward won’t re-sign with the club, according to an official statement.
The football club via their website had the following announcement to make following the news that broke:
Despite FC Barcelona and Lionel Messi having reached an agreement and the clear intention of both parties to sign a new contract today, this cannot happen because of financial and structural obstacles (Spanish Liga regulations).
As a result of this situation, Messi shall not be staying on at FC Barcelona. Both parties deeply regret that the wishes of the player and the club will ultimately not be fulfilled.
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FC Barcelona wholeheartedly expresses its gratitude to the player for his contribution to the aggrandisement of the club and wishes him all the very best for the future in his personal and professional life.
Former South African President Jacob Zuma will be allowed out of the prison to appear in person before the commission of inquiry on state capture.
Zuma is expected to appear before a Pietermaritzburg court next week Tuesday.
In a court order dated 4 August, Koen said the hearing will be conducted “in open court at the High Court in Pietermaritzburg”.
Zuma’s lawyers have been adamant fighting for him to appear in court claiming it was a violation to virtually appear for the hearing.
“To do so would be unconstitutional and illegal, irrespective of the situation in a particular case, a particular date or the particular circumstance which may or may not prevail on 9 August 2021,” his lawyer said in a short two-page submission to the court.
The judge later turned the earlier ruling that the inquiry could be done virtually since no evidence was to be presented.
“The currently applicable Disaster Management (Covid) regulations, particularly those regarding the wearing of face masks, maintaining social distance, and the restrictions on the numbers of attendees at indoor venues, must at all times be adhered to strictly,” Judge Piet Koen said.
Zuma is currently serving a 15-month sentence for defying an order from the Constitutional Court, the country’s highest court, that he should testify at the commission of inquiry probing allegations of corruption during his term as president from 2009 to 2018.
The start of Zuma’s imprisonment on July 8 sparked off protests which quickly escalated into violent riots in KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng provinces that lasted a week.
The death toll in the unrest has risen to 337, and police are investigating 213 of those for murder, Khumbudzo Ntshavheni, acting minister in the presidency, said Thursday. The rise in fatalities has been caused by people dying from serious injuries, she said.
The police investigations indicate that many deaths may have been caused by shootings and other intentional acts. Amnesty International is also investigating the deaths.
South Africa’s widespread poverty and inequality contributed to the wave of unrest which saw widespread ransacking of shopping centers, the burning of freight trucks, and the barricading of two of the country’s major highways.
Chelsea have seen an £85m ($118m) bid, that included Marcos Alonso heading in the opposite direction, rejected by Inter for striker Romelu Lukaku, Goal can confirm.
Thomas Tuchel is keen to add a world-class forward to his attack as the Blues look to challenge for the Premier League title in the 2021-22 campaign.
Chelsea were hopeful that they could capitalise on Inter’s financial difficulties by making a big offer for Lukaku, although the Nerazzurri have thus far proved resistant.
Lukaku said last week that he is gearing up for the new season with the Italian champions after he returned to training, suggesting he wants to stay.
Meanwhile, Inter CEO Giuseppe Marotta has insisted that the forward will not be allowed to leave any time soon, saying: “Lukaku is not for sale. Lukaku is an important piece on the chessboard available to Simone Inzaghi.”
The Stamford Bridge side are in the hunt for a new striker, having seen Olivier Giroud leave this summer.
Chelsea already have Erling Haaland and Harry Kane on their list of targets, but Borussia Dortmund are not willing to sell the former during this transfer window and Tottenham are not letting their star man join their London rivals.
Chelsea have seen an £85m ($118m)
Lukaku, 28, has blossomed into one of the world’s top strikers in recent years.
He scored 24 goals and registered 11 assists in Serie A last season as the Nerazzurri secured the league title.
Only Cristiano Ronaldo scored more goals in the Italian top-flight in 2020-21.
Lukaku joined Chelsea from Anderlecht in 2011 but was unable to secure a place in the first team.
He ended up joining West Brom on loan for a year in 2012 and then went to Everton a year later.
Lukaku then joined the Toffees on a permanent deal, leaving Chelsea with just 15 competitive appearances to his name and no goals.
The Blues are already trying to sign Jules Kounde from Sevilla ahead of the new season.
They have been offering several players to the Spanish side in exchange for the defender.
Kurt Zouma, Emerson Palmieri and Kenedy are among the names the Premier League side have floated by Sevilla.
They are trying to get rid of Zouma first to make room in the squad for Kounde, with West Ham also in talks to sign the French centre-back.
Singer Rihanna is now officially a billionaire, second richest female entertainer in the world
Entrepreneur and singer Rihanna is officially now the richest woman musician in the world with net worth estimated at $1.7 billion. She may now be one of the richest musicians in the world but her music is not the primary source of her wealth, as per a report in Forbes magazine.
The Barbados-born singer, whose birth name is Robyn Fenty, derives an estimated $1.4 billion of her fortune from her 50% stake in the Fenty Beauty cosmetics line, Forbes reported.
The rest of Rihanna`s wealth comes from her share of the Savage x Fenty lingerie company and her income as a singer and actress, the magazine said.
Rihanna`s beauty company is part-owned by LVMH. The brand is known for its broad range of 50 skin tones, including dark shades for women of color, which were rare when it launched in 2017. This made it a leader in inclusivity in the industry.
Rihanna is also known for hits like ‘Umbrella’ and ‘Love The Way You Lie’ although she has created new music for a very long time. According to Forbes, the singer now ranks second behind Oprah as the richest female entertainer in the world.
Acting Inspector General of Police, George Akuffo Dampare was up in action with his men ahead of the much anticipated #FixTheCountry demonstration which happened yesterday.
Having given the green light for the peaceful march to be held, COP Akuffo Dampare before the dispersion of his men, met officers at the Accra Regional Command together with members of the Police Management Board.
He sought to, through the meeting, brief the men who were going to be on the field himself. Though this is usually done by heads at the Regional Command, the IGP spearheaded this meeting to motivate and encourage the men to be professional before they set off to shepherd the demonstrators.
Photos available to GhanaWeb from his office show COP Dampare speaking to his men who had gathered to get some ‘morale’ from their chief.
George Akuffo Dampare
The #FixTheCountry demonstration which is the first demonstration exercise held under his leadership was an incident-free one.
Meanwhile, scores of citizens from various spheres joined the #FixTheCountry protest Wednesday morning, to register their displeasure about happenings in leadership and governance.
FixtheCountry demonstrations have already happened in Spain and England, and Ghana is next.
It’s coming off on Wednesday, the 4th of August, 2021, and the meeting point is Obra Spot, Kwame Nkrumah Circle in Accra at 7:00am. Put on your mask. Add a face shield if you want to and hit the streets.
Do it for the patients who have to sleep on the bare floor at our hospitals while our leaders have oxygen tanks ready and available in their bedrooms and go for treatment abroad. #FixGhanaHealthService.
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Do it for the poor children still studying under trees while your favourite politician’s children get driven in V8’s to Cambridge curriculum teaching schools. #FixGES.
Do it for the lack of good roads, good hospitals, national indebtedness and the endemic corruption in governance that sees a few people amassing wealth while Ghana remains poor.
On the 3rd of May, 2021, something big happened in Ghana. Something unprecedented. Only the new media could make it possible.
If Joshua Boye-Doe (aka KalyJay) had written a 2000 word long feature in the Daily Graphic about the problems bedeviling the country due to the incompetence of the NPP-NDC duopoly, a few hundred people might have read it and maybe two would have reached out.
But majority of Ghanaians, the young and adult populace on social media wouldn’t have heard about it, and maybe the Daily Graphic wouldn’t have published the article anyway.
The paper that did not see Ejura as worthy enough to feature on its front would have probably hidden a #FixTheCountry article somewhere else–between three electronic goods adverts. I doubt if they would have published it even.
Enter the internet and social media. A reading platform available to every smartphone user, and Twitter, the social media platform that inspires the most hashtags.
It was easier to sound the clarion call with three little words than a feature long article or speech delivered on TV or radio.
KalyJay named a couple of things wrong with Ghana and tweeted #FixtheCountry.
That set the ball rolling. It was as good as Mohamed Bouazizi setting himself on fire in the streets of Tunis. It was as good as Rosa Parks saying ‘my feet hurt.’ It was as good as Martin Luther King Jnr. saying ‘I have a dream.’
Macho Kaaka had a dream as well. He wanted Ejura fixed. He wanted his community developed and its myriad of problems taken care of. His allegiance to community mattered to him more than the party he belonged to. Don’t let his dream die. Keep it alive. #FixEjura.
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Few weeks later, government officials with verified accounts reported KalyJay’s account and it got suspended by Twitter.
That’s the kind of Government you have, Ghana. A government that does not tolerate criticism and sees anybody not singing their praises as the enemy. It’s political vindictiveness of the lowest form.
Joshua lost access to his Twitter account for sometime, but the horse had already bolted. Almost every Ghanaian on Twitter was tweeting #FixtheCountry, using the hashtag on Facebook, and it wasn’t long before a leader emerged, calling on others to join him to petition the police about an intended #fixthecountry demonstration.
The signatories to that first letter sent to the Police were Mawuse Oliver Barker-Vormawor, Joshua Boye-Doe, Samuel Alesu-Dordzi, Efia Odo, Dela Russell Ocloo, Felicity Nelson, Bashiratu Kamal Muslim, Agyapong Forster, Adatsi Brownson, Benjamin Darko, Gabriel Ohene Kwasi Addai, Comedian Warris, Prince Kwaku Addo and Stan Dugah.
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Other signatories have signed subsequent letters and worked and continue working hard to #fixthecountry.
Now, look over the names again. Are they all Ewes? Are they all Akans? Are they all Christian names? Are they all Islamic names?
The greatest mistake ever made by the NPP in 2021 is assuming that Ghana is so polarized, so divided, so politically binary that anybody who supports or identifies with #fixtheCountry must be an NDC member or sympathizer.
Not true.
When I launched my first book in November, 2020, I predicted that both the NDC and NPP will win less than 20% of total votes cast in 2024. Sounds crazy, I know. But it will happen in our lifetime. The Grand Awakening is almost here.
Oliver Barker-Vormawor was a staunch supporter and member of #OccupyGhana in 2014, so why will you tag him as a surrogate of the NDC?
If you are wondering what #OccupyGhana was, I can only tell you that it was a pressure group that was doing in 2014 exactly what #FixtheCountry is doing in 2021, and most of their members are now Government appointees and lawyers who worked on the Agyapa deal. No wonder they think #FixtheCountry is a vehicle created to bring JDM back. They are too short-sighted to see the truth.
That’s the difference between us and them. We were part of #OccupyGhana; they are not part of #FixtheCountry.
Legendary Nollywood Actress Rachael Oniga Dies At 64
Veteran Nollywood actress Rachael Oniga, a legendary presence in the Nigerian movie industry, died Friday, according to reports. She was 64 years old.
It was not immediately clear how Oniga died. Reports on social media varied, with the cause of Oniga’s death in some cases being attributed to complications from COVID-19. However, Oniga’s family reportedly has pushed back against that assertion and claims it is false.
