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IT IS TERRIBLE FOR US AS A NATION TO WAIT TILL THINGS COME TGO THIS. I WISH THE TASK FORCE WELL AND HOPE THEY WILL CONTINUE TO WORK WITHOUT FEAR OF FAVOUR AND WITH INTEGRITY
Author:...OBAA YAA...
OOO FATHER FORGIVE HIM FOR HE KNOWS NOT WHAT HE IS DOING.
A hallmark of any incompetency is an excuse, which by the way is a trademark for Mahama’s Administration an extension Mill’s inability to ...
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The Chinese Gold miners also have rights. What we are doing to this people is not nice. If they are guilty send them to court. Why Parade them like this. This I against fundamental Human Right Worldwide.
We should treat them ...
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Osbon
The difference is that the Ghanaian people you are referring to do not destroy the the land they have travelled to and moreover they pay taxes when they work even without having proper documentation. These Chinese, Ind ...
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STOP LYING YOURSELVES THAT HUMAN RIGHT OR WHATEVER. IF YOU DO THIS IN CHINA THAT WILL BE THE END OF YOUR PEOPLE SEEING YOU ALIVE. THEY WILL HUNG YOU OR SEND YOU TO LIFE IN PRISON. IF THEY WERE NOT TOLD THEN IT IS NOT GOOD, BU ...
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no my brother no one can do this here im in china n the foriegners here are going through alot here
I think the chinese doing this illegal mining in ghana must be blamed on ghana government. the government is not doing enough to punish them very very hard to their death points so they are doing this. The chinese government ...
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I DON,T KNOW HOW SOME GHANAIANS LIKE OSBORN CAN BE SO STUPID TO SUPPORT ILLEGAL ACTS IN HIS OWN COUNTRY AND MAKE SUCH FALSE REFERENCES.DO GHANAIANS IN UK AND GERMANY MINE ILLEGALLY TO DESTROY THE LANDS IN THESE COUNTRIES?
TH ...
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OSBORNE IS NOT SAYING WE SHOULD ALLOW THEM TO RAPE OUR LAND. HIS POINT IIS WE SHOULD TAKE THEM TO COURT. HE IS TALKING ABOUT HUMAN RIGHTS. ALL PEOPLE SHOULD BE TREATED LIKE HUMANS.
IF A GHANAIAN IN GERMANY OR THE USA IS TR ...
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idiot
KPATA, I GUESS YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT HUMAN RIGHTS MEAN. I AM SURPRISED YOU CAN SPELL THE WORD 'IDIOT'.
GO TO CHINA AND INDIAN DO THIS OVER THERE AND TALK ABOUT YOUR RIGHTS, WAI...AND SEE WAT WILL HAPPEN TO YOU.....GYIMIFUO OSBORN.
CHARLES KOFI, you can disagree with me without insult. Your picture is shown when you are charged. And even then, it is not paraded in the National Newspaper. Show me one instant you have seen any police in America or UK para ...
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U ALLOW THESE CHINESE N FILTHY INDIANS TO COME INTO UR HOUSE WITH THEIR DIRTY SHOES. U DONT SAY/DO NOTHING N U EXPECT THEM TO STOP! ABOA GH GOVT!...START JAILING THESE SONS OF BITCHES N LET MOSQUITOES DO SALAH ON THEIR BODIES ...
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osborn,were these people u are talking about destroying nature and yet given documents to stay and work?
they didn't have working permits legally..And you can bet if they where drug dealers or whores and drinking and driving their pictures would be listed in usa newspapers!
"The task-force, during the operation, destroyed 13 locally made machines belonging to some of the miners at two different locations".
What grade of stupidity is this? When shall we as nation start thinking productive at all ...
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Who told you there are fundamental human rights for illegal immigrants to engage in illegal mining and as a result destroy our land and pollute our rivers? Come on, wake up !
KINGSLEY, you can disagree with me without insult. Your picture is shown when you are charged. And even then, it is not paraded in the National Newspaper. Show me one instant you have seen any police in America or UK parading ...
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Ghana must be the most humane place on earth, here are a group of illegal criminals who have shown total disregard for law and order, they have been stealing our natural resources, destroying our ecosystems, and raining insul ...
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ARE YOU SERIOUS ?...FUCK HUMAN RIGHTS FOR A FEW WATER POISONERS and POLLUTERS, THEY SHOULD BE FLOGGED AND DEPORTED.
leave everything aside and order the forces to shoot them wherever they spot them. open fire on them especially the Chinese. they are dangerous people on earth
you fuck your mother? go to china and work with L tourist visa and let the police get you,then you tell them you have left and right they should send you to court.. you motherfucker dog eater
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I am in support of the government trying to remove illegal immigrants from the so called galamsay. However, it is disgusting to parade human being like animals. The other day, two Chinese guys were paraded in front of cameras ...
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Nyansasen, you are 100% right. What we are doing to Chinese is very bad for our country. Why parade them? why. where is CHRIJ? This country has gone to the dogs. period.
Why don't you complain to the The Ghanaian Times editor? You wanted freedom of speech and free press and now you are complaining. CHRIJ whoever they are can not stop the freedom of the press so my advice is direct your concer ...
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You need to read a little bit about freedom of press and freedom of speech.
So you think, a journalist can take a picture of a naked woman and publish it for public consumption in the National papers?
None of our righ ...
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IT'S FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND PRESS.OSBORN LISTEN TO SOME OF THE AKAN NEWS AND HEAR HOW THEY MANIPULATE WORDS INTO PROFANITY AND YET ITS FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND OF THE PRESS.AND THE HUMAN RIGHT ACTIVIST SHOULD ASK THIS GUYS WHY W ...
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I agree with Templar
Who tells you that your pictures will not be shown if you are caught engaged in illegal activities in the U.K, U.S, India or China? Do you know how the Chinese treat their own people who break the law? If you can go to anothe ...
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Your picture is shown when you are charged. And even then, it is not paraded in the National Newspaper. Show me one instant you have seen any police in America or UK parading illegal immigrants who have not been charged, yet. ...
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Sorry Sir, these people were not arrested because they are illegal, that is not something that's ever done in Ghana. They are arrested because they are illegal miners, that's a criminal offence. In the U.K, the young Ewe guy ...
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Nyansasem, You are only one of the few people I will apologize to if my words have offended you. That's because I respect your comments most of the time. To answer your question, you will be shocked to know that I am a securi ...
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We should be careful the way we handle these Chinese galasayers,the security institutions should look for their Ghanaian collaborators who brought them down and punish them severely.We should not let the outside world feel we ...
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By @Ghanaian collaborators' you mean the corrupt senior officials in GIS who collaborated in supplying fraudulent entry visas and work permits?
Yes!
I thougt these little Redckins have all these Rev Chinese are alresdy back home. What happened, Mahama.
LET THEM GO AND DO THEIR GALAMAXAY NEAR THE GREAT WALL OF CHINA AND THE TAJ MAHAL IN INDIA.
A CHINA MAN AND INDIAN UNION IS CALLED
CHEN-SINGH-PATEL.
IF A CHINESE MADE A RACIST JOKE ABOUT BLACKS YOU WOULD FEEL OFFENDED. STOP IT.
MOST OF THE GHANAIAN COLLABORATORS OF THE ILLEGAL MINING ARE THE CHIEFS.THE GOVT. MUST CLAMP DOWN ON THESE CHIEFS AND DE-STOOL AND JAIL THEM.THIS WAY,THE GOVT WOULD ERADICATE GALAMSEY.
MY 80 YEAR OLD JEWISH GHANAIAN FATHER MARRIED AN 18 YEAR OLD CHINESE WOMAN AT THE GALAMASAY.
AT 80 HIS NAME IS TOO OLD TO FUCK.
HIS WIFE'S AT I8 NAME IS TO YOUNG TO FUCK.
THEY HAVE A BABY AT THE MOMENT AND HIS NAME IS "WHY ...
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Maybe the Baby should be named:
"Coming Unfucked"?
yes deport the ghanaian counterpart to china and india and see if they can do that there. stupid ghanains.
That's corruption for you supported by NDC.Galamsey became international in 2009 when NDC came to power
Good. Do not stop, continue to disrupt their operations through such surprise arrests. Fine and/or jail them; set the foreigners packing immediately after serving their jail sentences.
Almost too late. Only in Ghana is this possible.
This is the fruit of NDC. It is sad to see my country being taken for granted. Do we have leaders?
Those illegal miners must be jailed for at least six months before they are sent home, this would put some fear in those who are planning to come down to do same. Sending them back home is not enough. You cannot just go to Ch ...
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47! that's it? out of 3 billion people? Every Ghanaian MP has a Chines or Indian friend, when they are returning from vacations and bring you those ipads iphones, you think because you smell good, no. Wise up you are mortgagi ...
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"Hu Jin Tau" sounds more Korean than Chinese...
Hun Jin Tau YOU A BIG FOOL IS OUR USELESS GOVT WELLCOME SUCH CHINESE DOGS IN GH I HAVE BEEN IN CHINA AND I KNOW HOW THESE CHINESE PEOPLE TREAT BLACK PEOPLE THEY SHOULD DEPORTED ALL OF THEM THEY DONT EVEN HAVE PASSPORT USELES ...
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now is not hu jin tao is not the prez they have a new prez now and he knows what his stupid chinese are doing in ghana
Pls we plead with the GHANA govt to kick this enemies of the state out of GHANA right away.Watchout for officials handling this case so that bribes are not taken inorder to release them pls,kick them out they are thieves and ...
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THIS FOOLS ASS DO NEED TO BE DEPORTED ASAP . OUR LEADERS ARE VERY STUPID AND WAS THE REASON WHY THIS CHINESE HAS NO RESPECT FOR THE GHANAIANS ,A COUNTRY WITHOUT A LAW .
you all are fools supporting the govt.ask me why and i will tell you.
SHAME TO GHANAIAN AUTHORITIES IF THEY ARE NOT DEPARTED. I JUST CAME FROM CHINA AND SWEARLY YOU CANNOT DO THIS IN CHINA. THERE IS A HOTEL TO HOTEL CHECKING TWICE A WEEK Y CHINESE SPECIAL POLICE TO WEED-OUT ALLIENS. SEND THEM ...
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IT IS ONLY CORRUPTED GHANA WITH CORRUPTED GOVERNMENT IN CHARGE THAT WOULD ARREST ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS COMING INTO THEIR COUNTY WITH INPUNITY AND COMING TO STEAL OUR VALUABLE RESOURCES AND THEN INSTEAD OF PUTTING THEM IN JAIL FO ...
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we have to protect our natural resources from these foreign nationals.Good work done on the side of our security personnels.
If a Ghanaian nationals are imprison for possession of Indian hemp, how about cocaine possession? They will return illegally if they don't face any type of sentencing for stolen federal property. Imagine African doing same in ...
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The hotel owner should be jailed too. He/She knew about their activities but kept quite just to make the money. When will Ghanaians learn to report illegal activities around them and stop complaining about government inaction ...
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I am not surprised, we do not have rules and regualtions relating to how expetriates live and operate within our country. You simply acnnot do this in the US, we are miles away from being a developed country. Sad but glad the ...
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We should ask ourselves can we go to China or India to do such unlawful act? this is disrespect to our motherland Ghana and people of Ghana. Ship their fucking ass to their Countries.
The question I have for the Ghanaian authorities is: How did these people get into the country in the first place?
You see where your corrupt behavior is taking the country. Which Ghanaian can get visa to any of these peo ...
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Deport them all immediately without waste no time. They are parasites who came to destroy our environment by taking granted over our literacy with a narrow minded that their operation is a form of creating jobs in those areas ...
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who go China or any country to do the mining? there is no where this can happen unles ghana. give them 10 yrs each.
REFRESHING MEMORIES AND TO RESPECTFULLY REQUEST HON.NANA AKUFO ADDO TO TALK AND TO HELP CLARIFY THE POSITION OF THE MATTERS RAISED BELOW, THERETO.
RESPECTFULLY SUBMITTED.
GOD BLESS GHANA AND AMERICA.
VERY TRULY YOURS,
BEN ...
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NO. NO. NO. THEY SHOULD BE DEPORTED AFTER THEY HAVE BEEN TRIED AND SENTENCED FOR BREAKING GHANA'S LAWS. CAN A GHANAIN GO TO CHINA AND INDIA AND ILLEGALLY CONDUCT MINING OPERATIONS THERE? GHANAINS SHOULD WAKE UP TO THIS MENACE ...
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At last the Police are doing their work. Sustain the pressure and eleminate officers who stand in the way of justice for immediate stomach satisfaction. Kudos!!
this is what south African are doing.
they always make sure that,all foriegners are deport. they hat foriegners.
what is going on in Ghana is very
pathetic.foreigners are enjoying our
gold ndc gorvernment they are mess
Jail them all for 10 years each and then deport them and keep them out. Ghanaians cannot go to China or India to engage in illegal activities. They will be killed in China for less
kill them all
If they were illegal European immigrants would you deport them or allow them to stay and work illegally like we do in their countries.
Looks like you could use some education. When Ghanaians (or any foreigners) for that matter are caught living illegally or engaged in illegal activities in Europe, the Americas or Oceana, they are first jailed and then deport ...
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ki
You can't kill them - its too late for that. You have shown their faces on public media and on the internet - now the Chinese govt would want to know their whereabouts as all due processes unfold.
IF THEY ARE DOING ILLEGAL BUSINESS HERE THEY SHOULD STILL BE TAXED ON THEIR INCOME BEFORE THEY ARE DEPORTED. WHILST THEY WERE HERE THEY WERE MAKING PLENTY OF PROFITS MINING GOLD SO THEY SHOULD PAY THE STATE WHAT IS DUE BEFORE ...
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LIKE IN CHINA ALL PLACES THAT HOUSE THEM MUST CHECK THEIR RESIDENCE/WORK PERMIT BEFORE THEY GIVE THEM ACCOMODATION. IF ANY HOTEL OR LANDLORD FOUND HAARBOURING THEM THEY SHOULD BE FINED HEAVILY
think they only look in passport to see if your lying about your name
"The task-forces during the operation,
destroyed 13 locally made machines".
So my question is whether destruction of the machines was the best way available.
I think the Common Sense approach should have been employed. Fo ...
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If you do not want to be insulted, ie told how stupid and incompetent you really are, then you wont be told how to become competent and effective - and so you would remain poor and stupid and exploited forever!
I see only 16 people in the picture where are the rest? this is an old picture
A chinaman arranges for a Ghanaian Prostitute to come to his room for the evening. Once in the room they undress, climb into bed, and go at it.
When finished, the chinaman jumps up, runs over to the window, takes a deep brea ...
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stop Publicity of the Images, and deal with them dimplomaticaly in accordiance with the laws offended, the Publicity sent a wrong Signal.
were the immigration personnel not there when they came into the country
Why should imigration issue visas anyhow to anybody who arrives at kotoka airport. These expats usually arrive as tourists but end up as destroyers and illegals. What a loose african imigration.
There would be many more chinese illegals if that dwarf called Akufo-Addo was at flagstaff house.Thank God we have a wiser man in Mahama.
WAS THE NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER AWARE THESE ALIENS HAVE BEEN IN GHANA WITHOUT NECESSARY DOCUMENTATION?
I BELIEVE HE CO-ORDINATES AFFAIRS OF ALL THE SECURITY AGENCIES IN GHANA.NO WONDER HE HAS SHIED FROM HIS CORE JOB AND ME ...
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It is total disrespect to us as Africans, you can't do this any where in the world. Does the land not belong to some family, passed on from generations before us. I think the useless kings and queens involved in this illegal ...
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KICK THEIR ASSES AND SEN THEM BACK TO CHINA AND INDIA.WHY GHANAIANS ARE SO STUPID? WE ALLOW FOREINERS INTO OUR COUNTRY AND ALLOW THEM TO EXPLOIT US LIKE THIS.
Please deport them all. The cannot come to someones country, steal from them and destroy natural resources and leave. This cannot be done in their country. Do not take bribe please. Stand for what is right for our country.
send them home as possible
Good Job,
some is protecting the Nation's interests. I hope Mahama gets credit for it.
PROVIDE JOBS FOR THE YOUTH.
THESE ILLIGAL MINERS DIFFICULT BECAUSE SOME CHIEFS, MCEs AND DCEs ENJOY THE FRUITS. THANK YOU MINISTER. CHECK, NYINAWUSU, DIASO, SUBIN AKWABOSO AND SO ON.
The central Regional minister is doing a good job. Can the Eastern Regional Minister do same to rescue the Birim River? I beg.
HELLO WE ARE LOOKING FOR MEN AND WOMEN TO TRAVEL AND WORK IN AUSTRALIA. SKILLED AND UNSKILLED ALIKE.ALL WE NEED IS PEOPLE WHO ARE STRONG AND ARE READY TO WORK AND MAKE MONEY.APPLICANTS WOULD HAVE TO PASS A MEDICAL BEFORE BEI ...
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WELL, WHAT DO YOU EXPECT WHEN WE HAVE GHANAIAN "LEADERS" WHOSE MAIN PREOCCUPATION IS TO DESTROY GHANA WITH THEIR LOOTING SPREE?
THE TOP IS ROTTEN, SO THE BOTTOM CANNOT BE EXPECTED TO STAY FRESH.
“Trust is one of the main elements in any relationship from friendship to alliances. If that trust is damaged you run the high risk of not giving issues/situations your full focus because you will always have one eye turned ...
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it is not an easy task an it is also easy that the illegal can be stop through by our leaders in the traditional communities.where from the source of illegal minning?arent our mp's,chiefs,dce's existing?our rivers our polluti ...
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Where are the chiefs and the local accomplices of these criminals? They should be arrested too. The chiefs claim to be custodians of the land. Well, it is time for them to show it!
Until we root out the local accomplai ...
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These illegal miners should be treated fairly but firmly. Foreign nationals, have an obligation to respect the laws of host countries.
Wow! I can't imagine these illegal "galamsey" operators flouting our laws with the help our local people. Our institutions are not functioning proper that's why we have foreigners destroying everything just to make a living.
THESE PEOPLE THINK DWE ARE FOOLS AND DONT KNOW THE VALUE OF GOLD. MOST OF THEM DONT HAVE ANY VALID DOCUMENT BUT WERE ABLE TO ENTER THE COUNTRY. WE NEED TO KNODW HODW THEY GOT IN THERE IN THE FIRST PLACE AND TRY TO SEAL THAT L ...
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THE LEADERSHIP IS GONE TO THE DOGS
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DO HAVE SECURITY MEN ???
DO WE HAVE POLICE MEN ??
DO HAVE CHIEFS ???
DO WE HAVE LAWYERS??
DO WE HAVE CONCERN CITIZENS ???
GOD ...
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YOU CAN NEVER DO THIS IN CHINA OR INDIA. THEY THINK WE ARE BLACK AFRICANS WHO DO NOT KNOW THEIR LEFT FROM THEIR RIGHT. THESE THIEVES SHOULD BE DEALT WITH SEVERELY. EXECUTE THEM AND THAT WILL PUT A STOP TO THEIR STUPIDITY. ...
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Deporting these illegal miners is not the issue,find how they entered the country,who employed them, their local contacts, who was harbouring them,who was paying them,and finally their local contact.Those found to have broken ...
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They have no fear of the Ghanaian authorities because mahama is in their pockets. He is a toothless and incompetent leader. This man must be impeached before Ghana descends into chaos.
Arrest them all. The locals also need to make a living. Govt. should put in place policies and actions to help them out.