EXPLAINER: How a state of emergency could impact the galamsey fight

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OPEN LETTER TO THE RESIDENCY AND PARLIAMENT OF GHANA 4 months ago

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Kumasi streets deserted earlier than expected as curfew takes effect ahead of Asantehemaa's burial
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Agbogbloshie Toilet manager6 hours ago
Day of head cuttings. Hahahahaha. If you are a man identified by Human Rights International, just attempt going to a public toilet built by Bawumia near Kejetia. Wo b3 ti borborlibobor

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FRANKIE6 hours ago
Why is our freedom of movement being curtailed with careless abandon? Why are the so-called human rights activists silent? Very soon the Ga Mants3 will impose a curfew in Accra when his sister dies. Same will be replicated in ...
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Baba Siaka Stevens4 hours ago
@Frankie if you are a man go there and talk about your right, you sit in your shithole Russia or Sukura and bragging like Kwaku Ananse

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FRANKIE4 hours ago
@Baba, if you're sensible you won't support chopping of heads in this 21st century. Where's your civil liberty?

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ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!3 hours ago
The Constitution of the Republic of Ghana is weak, to be silent on this age old archaic custom of the Ashantes (murdering people in the name of tradition) to continue.

Just imagine, Trokorshie has been outlawed; the Death ...
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ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!3 hours ago
Typo: The Death Penalty has been repealed...

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OPEN LETTER TO THE RESIDENCY AND PARLIAMENT OF GHANA2 hours ago
Subject: End the Barbaric Practice of Human Sacrifice in the Name of Tradition

Mr. President, Hon. Members of Parliament,

It is a national disgrace that in 2025, Ghana — a country celebrated as a beacon of democracy in Africa — still tolerates archaic customs that permit the taking of human life in the name of tradition.

We outlawed trokosi. We repealed the death penalty. Yet we remain silent while barbaric rituals persist in the Ashanti Kingdom, where individuals can openly declare themselves as “executioners,” threatening the public with impunity. How can this be tolerated under the rule of law?

No custom, no stool, no throne, and no dead king deserves the blood of another Ghanaian. The Constitution of Ghana guarantees the right to life. This right is non-negotiable, sacred, and untouchable — and no tradition can stand above it.

The Asantehene himself, who sat at the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II, should know better. Was human sacrifice practiced there? He claims to modernise chieftaincy and enjoys the privileges of state protection and motorcades — yet tolerates a custom that drags us back into the dark ages. Modernisation cannot be selective. It cannot mean luxury for the throne and barbarism for the people.

Where are Ghana’s human rights lawyers? Our Civil Society Organisations? Our pastors who shout loudest when it comes to politics and wealth, but are suddenly silent in the face of murder?

And most of all — where are our political leaders? Shame on every government that has failed to call this out. Shame on every Parliament that has allowed silence to pass for law. If the Asantehene can truely command respect, then he can command respect to end ritual killings and stop galamsey among his subjects. Your refusal to act is complicity.

Mr. President, Hon. Members, Ghana cannot walk into the future while chained to the blood-stained practices of the past. You swore an oath to protect life, liberty, and justice. That oath demands action — now.

History will not forgive silence.

End this barbaric custom. Protect the living. Honour our Constitution.

Respectfully,
A Concerned Citizen
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Ozymandias 4 months ago

The powerful cartels that are behind this Galamsey menace also include highly placed government officials in the current government. JDM himself is likely to be benefiting from it by proxy. There is no way he will implement a ...
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The powerful cartels that are behind this Galamsey menace also include highly placed government officials in the current government. JDM himself is likely to be benefiting from it by proxy. There is no way he will implement a state of emergency to halt the destruction that has made Ghana a laughing stock in the world.
Jim 4 months ago

If President Mahama insists teh current laws are enough to deal with the galamsey menace and as government in power galamsey is still being perpetrated, then it means either the present government is incompetent to deal with ...
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If President Mahama insists teh current laws are enough to deal with the galamsey menace and as government in power galamsey is still being perpetrated, then it means either the present government is incompetent to deal with the issue, or simply incapable or unwilling to impement the laws. If critics of the government are being jailed for expressing their free speech rights, how come others destroying our forests and water bodies are doing it with impunity? With his failure to deal with the galamsey issue, Mahama has indicated his impotence in governance, and the NDC should be ready to pay for that during the next election. There is no excuse for such nigligence.

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