Let Us Get Serious About Fighting Crime Nationwide - By Putting It On A War-Footing

Our leaders need to take the vital-task of fighting crime more seriously. It ought to be put on a war-footing. Full stop. Case closed. Sadly, we still don't get it. What we now need to fight the criminal-types terrorising Ghanaians, is the creation of a fourth armed service, to add to the existing three armed services of the Ghana Armed Forces  (GAF), to be known as the Ghana Homeland Force.

The Ghana Homeland Force ought to be created by merging the Ghana Police Service, the Ghana Prison Service, the Ghana National Fire Service, the Ghana Immigration Service, as well as all  former and present-day NYE  Community Police Assistants (who in fairness deserve to gain automatic entrance  regardless of age), who must be retrained, to gain entry into the Ghana Homeland Force.

The money saved by such a merger, will make more resources available to the GHF - and enable it to make use of the latest cutting-edge technologies: to underpin its operations nationwide, with a national Command Centre, Regional and District Command Centres.

Their personnel will have the same pay and conditions of service currently enjoyed by their counterparts in the GAF. Making extensive use of drones is a must. Ditto troop-carrying helicopters to enable the quick  deployment of units to trouble spots and locations where reported ongoing crimes have come from, 24/7.

 

Above all, since many criminals now routinely  execute those they attack, by shooting them dead, with the powerful weapons most now carry,  because they are often high on drugs, the time has now come for Parliament to do the right thing, if Ghana is to remain a mostly peaceful and safe country,  for the law-abiding.

 

We must now ensure that the right to life, of law-abiding-folk, nationwide, is put  ahead of all the rights of criminals, who carry guns, by the passage of new laws that will indemnify all GHF personnel, when formed, who kill criminals, who threaten their lives, while carrying out their operational duties.

We must end the molly-coddling of hardened criminals that is resulting in the callous murder of ordinary people, across our homeland Ghana, and endangering the lives of personnel of today's Ghana Police Service, on a daily basis. Enough is enough. We must take the fight against crime more seriously  -  by putting it on a war-footing. Full stop. Haaba.

 

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An Open Letter To Sam Hanson And His Fellow Liberian Refugees Who Opted For Integration Into Ghanaian Society

My dear Sam,

I am aghast at the insouciance still being shown by some of those in the Camp Liberia  Liberian refugee community, who opted for integration into Ghanaian society, as the UNHCR formally ends the role it has played in protecting and promoting their welfare, since they first set foot on Ghanaian soil.  

Sam, what is the role of Noble Symbols Welfare Council, in averting the looming disaster, which the category of individuals amongst the Liberian refugee community, who opted for integration into Ghanaian society,  face,  as we speak  - and why should Kofi Thompson be the one to reach out to their chairperson, at what is the eleventh-hour, for your community that faces the threat of having its refugee settlement area demolished?

With the greatest respect, I no longer chase disadvantaged-people who need help - so I can  help them, ooooo. That was then. 

 

I am now fed up to the backteeth, with  people in trouble, who insult one in their being  suspicious of one's motives, and doubting one's integrity - simply because one happens to enjoy helping those with resolvable-challenges. Sadly,  such people invariably think one seeks to exploit their situation,  somehow, for personal advantage, I have now come to realise. I don't need their wahala, and egregious-negativity, at this stage of my life, koraaaaa. I turn 70 next year, Sam. 

Yes, I am still willing to play a part in making available, the ideas and resource-persons,  needed, to empower that base-of-the-pyramid demographic to bootstrap their own success - but it is they who should reach out to Kofi Thompson: not the other way round, wai, Massa. To use a popular Ghanaian pidgin English phrase: Make you people do something, quick, oooo - otherwise it go be too late.  Yooooooo...

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Entrepreneurship: Are Our Leaders Abandoning Micro And Small Businesspeople?

On the subject of  entrepreneurship, perhaps the question we ought to ponder over is: Eeiiii, Oman Ghana - enti yewieye paaaa enei, anaaaa - and,  why, pray, are our leaders abandoning micro and small entrepreneurs in droves? (By the way,  lovely photograph. Thanks for sharing, Ohemaa Paaapabi Mary). Cool.

Ohemaa Paaapabi Mary, it is dedicated private-sector players, such as you, in the garment industry, who need to be resourced to provide our younger generations with the skills-training, needed to empower them, to successfully bootstrap their way out of the poverty-trap, themselves, ooooo, not sodden governments of the day, which are always dominated by greed-filled and super-ruthless ace-hypocrites, whose respectable miens,  belie their amoral-thieving-natures. 

Ohemaa, in my humble opinion, and, with the greatest respect, it is nonsensical for  sane-folk to think that any government-of-the-day, can provide fulfilling jobs for young people across Ghana. 

You and your dear husband,  gave up a good life in Holland, to come and help help build the Ghana you both love so much. I am so ashamed  that the two of you, are obviously frustrated, by the calcified-system, which the big-thieves-in-high-places, amongst our current ruling-élites, are exploiting so ruthlessly, to enrich themselves, at the expense of Mother Ghana, and the masses of the Ghanaian people. 

The question we must all ponder over is: Are we sitting on a densely-packed keg-of-high-explosives, anaaa  - and is it the case that a ruinous  social explosion cannot be ruled out, koraaaa, anaaaa?  Eeiiii, Oman Ghana  - enti yewieye paaaaa, enei, anaaaa? Hmmmm, eyeasem, oooooo...

Will Nkrumah's Ghana Survive The Myraid Of Challenges It Currently Faces?

• As a committed Nkrumahist and pan-Africanist, I am firm in my belief that no matter what is thrown, at it,  Nkrumah's Ghana will survive and thrive - regardless of the myraid of challenges it faces currently. No question. Ghana is the Black race's  best hope for restoring our true place in the world - as an example of  a peace-loving and welcoming melting-pot society: full of happy and aspirational people blessed with endless creative-energy. Cool.
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• Do we not have some of the world's best green entrepreneurs, such as the Eugene Kofi Boakye-Yiadoms of Legon Botanical Gardens fame,  I  ask - and is it not the case that virtually all of them have been creating wealth, which remains locally, as well as generating fulfilling and sustainable jobs, over the years (and still are, incidentally, even as we speak), without any creative-interventionist-support, from governments-of-the-day,  for decades?

  
  

  
  

  As someone who is never dispirited - and constantly seeks opportunities, from what others regard as disasters, one is fed up to the backteeth, with the confidence-destroying  negativity, of those who think that our still-beautiful country, is doomed. That negative-belief is utter rubbish. Ghana has a very bright future ahead of it, indeed.

  
  

  
  

  With the greatest respect, we must discourage the gloom-riddled discouragers-in-our-midst, at home and abroad, from infecting Mother Ghana's beautiful African-soul, with their endless-negativity.  Such clever folk must be told to the face that Ghana is not an African nation jam-packed with lazy, corrupt and dishonest lying-thieves.

  
  
  Furthermore, despite its many challenges,  our nation is neither a basket-case, nor is it a banana republic. Haaba. In any case, speaking personally, knowing what I know, for example, I am 100 percent certain that Ghana will be eventually successfully transformed. That dramatic societal-sea-change, will occur, within the next decade. For sure. Full stop.
  
  And, wonder of wonders, it will turn our homeland Ghana, into a wealthy African global-economic-superpower - in which the citizenry live extremely well - by all global quality-of-life metrics. It will all be fully-funded from the  unimaginable  wealth generated by the clean power invention, of a Ghanaian engineering genius, I happen to be friends with. 

  
  

  
  

  Finally,  as a patriot who passionately loves his still-very-beautiful nation, I shall end this piece,  by saying this:  May God Almighty bless, protect and guide Mother Ghana: and may all the doom-mongers, amongst us,  at home and abroad, be shamed  -  for wallowing in  their never-ending dispiriting-negativity. Some of us refuse to join them in their constant-mud-bathing. Enough is enough. Nkrumah's famed-Ghana will survive and thrive. Full stop. Haaba.