Environmental degradation costs Ghana 5-10% of GDP

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• The mask 11 years ago

  There are many fields where Ghana lacks the needed expertise. To solve this problem the government of Ghana has over the decades made scholarships available for the needed human resource to be trained abroad. In some cases so ...
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  There are many fields where Ghana lacks the needed expertise. To solve this problem the government of Ghana has over the decades made scholarships available for the needed human resource to be trained abroad. In some cases so many people were sent and not even one returned. If you know you are not prepared to work and live in Ghana and would therefore not return do not take the scholarships.
  
  The Takoradi Poly Students who were sacked for applying with fake certificates must be prosecuted in a court of competent jurisdiction. Just sacking them is not enough.
  
  Nowadays businesses and government organisations have stopped demanding Secondary School Certificate or Basic Education Certificate.
  
  Each of these certificates are important. For example for many tertiary graduates the only certificate that can tell whether one can speak good English or whether one has adequate knowledge of Mathematics is the Secondary School Certificate.
  
  Similarly the only certificate that can tell whether a tertiary graduate has basic knowledge of Ghanaian history, culture, agriculture and the basic geography of West Africa is the Basic Education Certificate.

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• MARCUS AMPADU 11 years ago

  We don't have a credible environmental policy the whole nation can adhere to. This makes the work of the Ghana's EPA next to impossible to enforce compliance and prosecution.
  
  In addition, we must begin to teach our young o ...
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  We don't have a credible environmental policy the whole nation can adhere to. This makes the work of the Ghana's EPA next to impossible to enforce compliance and prosecution.
  
  In addition, we must begin to teach our young ones ecology, or environmental science, or conservation. It is rather disappointing that our children are running away from nature.

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• Frank Agyena-Karikari 11 years ago

  We can teach our children about the environment but if governments do not robustly follow environmental laws but allow the Chinese to do what they like, that is what happens.

  We can teach our children about the environment but if governments do not robustly follow environmental laws but allow the Chinese to do what they like, that is what happens.

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