471 Ghanaian migrants rescued from Mediterranean Sea

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PRINCE KWASI ADADE (OFIE P33) 10 years ago

AUTHOR: KOFI --------
THIS WICKED AND THIEVING NDC GOVT EVEN BUDGETED FOR JUDGEMENT DEBTS PAYMENTS WHEN THEY CAME TO POWER...GHANAIANS SAW THIER THIEVERY AND BAD IDEAS ABOUT GHANA SO THEY QUICKLY REMOVED IT FROM SUBSEQUENT B ...
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AUTHOR: KOFI --------
THIS WICKED AND THIEVING NDC GOVT EVEN BUDGETED FOR JUDGEMENT DEBTS PAYMENTS WHEN THEY CAME TO POWER...GHANAIANS SAW THIER THIEVERY AND BAD IDEAS ABOUT GHANA SO THEY QUICKLY REMOVED IT FROM SUBSEQUENT BUDGETS....THEY ARE ALL THIEVES WHO HAVE ENDED UP WORSENING POVERTY IN GHANA BUT WORSE IN VOLTA AND CENTRAL AND NORTHERN REGIONS WHICH ARE THE POOREST IN GHANA......ide biiii kekekekeee
John 10 years ago

It's so scary what 471 Ghanaians packed into this small boat trying to rich Europe,what is the problem at all?Is it only due to economic problems?

It's so scary what 471 Ghanaians packed into this small boat trying to rich Europe,what is the problem at all?Is it only due to economic problems?
Joe Accra 10 years ago

If your foolish thieves and corrupt NDC people have used Ghana's money for creating jobs and built proper infrastructure,these people would not have risked their lives going somewhere to seek employment. Do you have a problem ...
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If your foolish thieves and corrupt NDC people have used Ghana's money for creating jobs and built proper infrastructure,these people would not have risked their lives going somewhere to seek employment. Do you have a problem to that?
I wonder who in his or her right mind will vote for thieves like NDC?
John 10 years ago

If I were the only voter on the electoral register NDC will never win any election in my lifetime.What wanted to say is why risk your dear life just to reach Europe?To those of us who know there it's not worth it.

If I were the only voter on the electoral register NDC will never win any election in my lifetime.What wanted to say is why risk your dear life just to reach Europe?To those of us who know there it's not worth it.
SIMION 10 years ago

WHY STAY IF THE COUNTRY LEADERS CONTINUE TO MISMANAGED RESOURCES AND THE ECONOMY

WHY STAY IF THE COUNTRY LEADERS CONTINUE TO MISMANAGED RESOURCES AND THE ECONOMY
GOD SAVE GHANA 10 years ago

We have Skilled and human resource of high quality across the international civil service,we lived in abundance yet poor.because of NDC hate,envy,propaganda lies and the likes of Ben Ephson,Kwesi Pratt for their Stomach lead, ...
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We have Skilled and human resource of high quality across the international civil service,we lived in abundance yet poor.because of NDC hate,envy,propaganda lies and the likes of Ben Ephson,Kwesi Pratt for their Stomach lead,Convice our unfortunate illiterate and semi-literate to look and vote the other way and deny Ghana a Positive Stride and Develoment.
GHFUO 10 years ago

THEIR LEADERS MUST BE LOCKED UP. GH HASNT HAD ANY IOTA OF ANYTHING TO BE PROUD OF SINCE THESE ROGUES GAINED POWER. VERY BAD. ALL NDC MEMBERS SHOULD BOW THEIR HEADS IN SHAME. INWARD LOOKING ASSHOLES.

THEIR LEADERS MUST BE LOCKED UP. GH HASNT HAD ANY IOTA OF ANYTHING TO BE PROUD OF SINCE THESE ROGUES GAINED POWER. VERY BAD. ALL NDC MEMBERS SHOULD BOW THEIR HEADS IN SHAME. INWARD LOOKING ASSHOLES.
ROMANO 10 years ago

U STUPID FOOL JUST SHUT UP AND GET UR LIFE TOGETHER IN THE BRONX... U ARE RATHER AN ASSHOLE.

U STUPID FOOL JUST SHUT UP AND GET UR LIFE TOGETHER IN THE BRONX... U ARE RATHER AN ASSHOLE.
Tiemen 10 years ago

Europe is not the land of milk and honey, Ghanaians do the dirty, heavy and nasty jobs in europe. Europe is expensive, the taxes are killing you, every year thing get more worse higher prices, tax and unemployment. Even many ...
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Europe is not the land of milk and honey, Ghanaians do the dirty, heavy and nasty jobs in europe. Europe is expensive, the taxes are killing you, every year thing get more worse higher prices, tax and unemployment. Even many with college education, are cleaners. Even before the end of the month your money is finished. Many want to return to Ghana, so dont risk your live. I am obruny living in GHana, didpite all the problems I like it here more then there.
JMK 10 years ago

Mahama and his people came and ate the jobs the NPP created for all youths in Ghana so let us blame them. Blame game syndrome!

Mahama and his people came and ate the jobs the NPP created for all youths in Ghana so let us blame them. Blame game syndrome!

GHFUO 10 years ago

YET CHINESE N WHITES ARE COMING TO GH IN DROVES. WHY ARE YOU RUNNING AWAY FROM A NATION FULL OF GOLD, OIL, COCOA, DIAMONDS, SOCCER PLAYERS ETC? BCOS THE SPINELESS LEADERS DONT UNDERSTAND THE POWER OF THE COLLECTIVE, HOW TO US ...
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YET CHINESE N WHITES ARE COMING TO GH IN DROVES. WHY ARE YOU RUNNING AWAY FROM A NATION FULL OF GOLD, OIL, COCOA, DIAMONDS, SOCCER PLAYERS ETC? BCOS THE SPINELESS LEADERS DONT UNDERSTAND THE POWER OF THE COLLECTIVE, HOW TO USE RESOURCES TO MAXIMISE N RAISE THE STANDARD OF LIVING FOR ALL GHPPL. NO FACTORIES, NO JOBS, NO FRE EDUCATION....RAW MATERIAL PRICES KEEP DECREASING WHILE PRICES FOR FINISHED GOODS KEEP INCREASING. MAHAMA, ARE YOU A FOL OR WAT? YOU MUST BE ASSASSINATED.
Ogyam 10 years ago

Now is the time to educate them that if you don't go the right way you will suffer. Indeed that is the truth

Now is the time to educate them that if you don't go the right way you will suffer. Indeed that is the truth
insight to the bone 10 years ago

Nobody can hide the light and true destiny of the great nation of Akan. they use all kinds of schemes and tricks to undermine or deny a proper standard to us but we shall never surrender. we shall change and adapt as like the ...
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Nobody can hide the light and true destiny of the great nation of Akan. they use all kinds of schemes and tricks to undermine or deny a proper standard to us but we shall never surrender. we shall change and adapt as like the Israelis we are the chosen people of God and he in his great design has made us diverse but unified in spirit. the ashantis like the tribe of Judah are and will remain an integral part of our being to to attack any one part we all end up feeling it sooner or later. they have succeed in turning some of our chiefs and kings against us and work for their evil ungodly agenda but we still see clearly . God has brought us into the 21st century and with that a new system of governance and state of mind based on democracy since it is HE alone who blesses the individuals with the gift of leadership wisdom and justice irrespective of status at birth. he has shown us the blue print of the way forward in the bible and other holy books and the time has come to free ourselves from this man made bondage called Ghana. just as in the Ukraine we must fight so the truth will come out , fear not the battle as they will crumble like the walls of Jericho . cast away our so called fake leaders and politicians who are nothing but cowards and like our enemies fear even their own shadows . yes God has put a million fears in their empty bodies as he who does not fear the Lord , the Lord will ensure all fears of the world will reside in him. They threaten us with superstition , juju and what have you and we say fuck you and go to hell as the divine power is with us . Yes all the tribes of Akan are fingers on the same hands and God has ordained we remain united so our strength and light will be visible throughout the whole world and universe , our time has come . everyday its becoming clearer and clearer to all children of Akan that we must prepare mentally for a battle of freedom . they come with tricks that say we must take a non Akan as our leader because its nice ? do they not think that out of 30 million Akans we can not find sensible down to earth leaders and warriors to lead our own people to our own destiny? a govt of the people and by the people is what the 21st century democracy is all about . let them continue to play with the consensus and other figures that justify their fantasy and enable them to marginalize the participation of the Akan majority in the Affairs of their own land , to marginalize us thus preventing us to afford a better standard for our people . The had of God has given them pestilence after pestilence but they refuse to let our people go , soon they will be swept away like chaff in the hurricane of fury .
daladam 10 years ago

LIKE IT OR NOT WHILE LOT OF FALKS THING GHANA IS" DOING WELL" REALITY SHOWS THAT FAMILYS ARE SUFFRING ,CANT FEED THEMSELFS,CANT PAY THE SCHOOL FEES AND CANT AFFORD DECENT AFFORDABLE HOUSING,IN ADDISSION MAHAMA HUGH UN-E ...
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LIKE IT OR NOT WHILE LOT OF FALKS THING GHANA IS" DOING WELL" REALITY SHOWS THAT FAMILYS ARE SUFFRING ,CANT FEED THEMSELFS,CANT PAY THE SCHOOL FEES AND CANT AFFORD DECENT AFFORDABLE HOUSING,IN ADDISSION MAHAMA HUGH UN-EMPLOYMENT RATE AND CRIME RATE IN GHANA MAKES IT VERY HARD ON SOME PEOPLE TO SURVIVE
HENCE THIS SITUATION THAT GHANA PEOPLE WILLING TO RIK THEIR LIFES TO RUN AWAY FROM GHANA
osei yaw 10 years ago

Odwan tell your family to walk to Libya and pay 2000 dollars and jump on boat to Italy, ask yourself how many Ghanaians have 6000 dollars in Italy, Ghanaians will even leave heaven and go to Europe for monkey jobs anyway,
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Odwan tell your family to walk to Libya and pay 2000 dollars and jump on boat to Italy, ask yourself how many Ghanaians have 6000 dollars in Italy, Ghanaians will even leave heaven and go to Europe for monkey jobs anyway,

woye kwasia paa tell your mum jump on one of the boats
GHFUO 10 years ago

NOW, THEY ARE RUNNING AWAY FROM MAHAMA? MUAGAHAAAAAA TOGBE FIFITOR!

NOW, THEY ARE RUNNING AWAY FROM MAHAMA? MUAGAHAAAAAA TOGBE FIFITOR!
PEACE 10 years ago

JOHN IS NOT ABOUT ECONOMICAL PROBLEMS AT ALL,IF YOU ARE A GHANAIAN U SHOULD HAVE KNOWN THIS,THOSE WHO LEFT GHANA ABOUT 30 TO 40 YEARS AGO TOO WAS IT ALSO ECONOMICAL PROBLEMS? GHANANIAS ARE LIKE FULANIS AND WITH GOOD EARNED SA ...
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JOHN IS NOT ABOUT ECONOMICAL PROBLEMS AT ALL,IF YOU ARE A GHANAIAN U SHOULD HAVE KNOWN THIS,THOSE WHO LEFT GHANA ABOUT 30 TO 40 YEARS AGO TOO WAS IT ALSO ECONOMICAL PROBLEMS? GHANANIAS ARE LIKE FULANIS AND WITH GOOD EARNED SALARY OR NOT, THE WISH IS TO GO OUT OF THE COUNTRY, EVEN TO TOGO OR THE POOREST COUNTRY IN AFRICA. TRAVELING IS IN THEIR BLOOD SO IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH WORKING OR NOT WORKING or THE CURRENT GOVERNMENT,DID THEY STOPED DURING KOFFOURS REGIME?EVEN IF GHANA IS HEAVEN, GHANAIAN WILL STILL TRAVEL TO HELL! THAT IS GHANAIAN
GOD SAVE GHANA 10 years ago

THOSE WHO LEFT IN THE 30 TO 40 YEARS AGO DID NOT WALK TO THEIR DEATH,EVEN WHEN THERE WAS FEW AIRLINES IN GHANA.MOST OF GHANAIANS WERE WILLING TO COME BACK TO GHANA AND STAY AT K4'S REGIME.

THOSE WHO LEFT IN THE 30 TO 40 YEARS AGO DID NOT WALK TO THEIR DEATH,EVEN WHEN THERE WAS FEW AIRLINES IN GHANA.MOST OF GHANAIANS WERE WILLING TO COME BACK TO GHANA AND STAY AT K4'S REGIME.
GHFUO 10 years ago

MAJORITY OF GH WHO LEFT GH AFTER INDEPENDENCE OR 30, 40YRS AGO LEFT FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES. IT WAS DURNG RAWLINGS ERA THAT GH STARTED LEAVING FOR ECONOMIC, REFUGE, INSTABILITY ETC....IT HAS CONTINUED TILL NOW. WHY? NO JOBS, ...
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MAJORITY OF GH WHO LEFT GH AFTER INDEPENDENCE OR 30, 40YRS AGO LEFT FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES. IT WAS DURNG RAWLINGS ERA THAT GH STARTED LEAVING FOR ECONOMIC, REFUGE, INSTABILITY ETC....IT HAS CONTINUED TILL NOW. WHY? NO JOBS, LIVING STANDARDS IS POOR. A NATION FULL OF RESOURCES? AND YET CANT MAXIMISE WAT YOU HAVE TO FEED EVERYONE BECOS THE LEADERS ARE FOOLISH N GREEDY? THE LEADERS MUST LEAVE NOT THE PPL
SANTACLAUSIAN, Croydon 10 years ago

I agree with you, every Ghanaian has the burning ambition to travel abroad. No doubt one gets a lot of exposure and knowledge upgrade when you travel to the western world. Nothing wrong with that per se. The problem though is ...
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I agree with you, every Ghanaian has the burning ambition to travel abroad. No doubt one gets a lot of exposure and knowledge upgrade when you travel to the western world. Nothing wrong with that per se. The problem though is, if you do not have the means to secure a valid visa and travel by legitimate and the safest means ( by air), then you are not ready to travel. Risking one's life by undertaking such hazardous, perilous journeys is just madness. I understand it if one is fleeing from civil war or from seriously unstable areas such as Afganistan or Syria. I wish Ghanaians would value their lives more and wait for the right time to travel if they so want to

ben 10 years ago

this is not true.

this is not true.
mensah abrampa 10 years ago

There has got to be compelling reasons for people to flee their homes, leaving family and friends to become sojourners and squatters in strange lands that may not be too friendly. What else could the reason be if it's not ex ...
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There has got to be compelling reasons for people to flee their homes, leaving family and friends to become sojourners and squatters in strange lands that may not be too friendly. What else could the reason be if it's not extreme poverty that leads people to embark on extremely dangerous and and stressful journeys to far off lands because there's political stability at home? Arguably, this migration does not serve the best needs of the people but it gets accepted as the necessary evil. What else can we say than to surmise that this crazy state of the state is an indictment on the inept administration. It has failed to create the enabling environment for job growth. Instead they keep making it increasingly easy for the people to live below the poverty line because of their gross incompetency and massive unprecedentedcorruption. Though most Ghanaian migrants become disappointed when they finally disembark at their destination, they are not at all willing to return to the Land of no Hope any time soon. Some learn rather painfully that it's better to be subjugated to a life of penury and humiliation far away from home than to live in extreme poverty at the home front. What a life!
Essel 10 years ago

A man with an air conditioned kitchen told Ghanaians if the kitchen is HOT GET OUT.

A man with an air conditioned kitchen told Ghanaians if the kitchen is HOT GET OUT.
SAUDIQ 10 years ago

Isn't Ghana equally a poor country as others around it or Ghanaians have soon fogotten the more 300 football fun that sought refugee status in Brazil, very unprecidented in the history of a world cup ever do people refuse to ...
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Isn't Ghana equally a poor country as others around it or Ghanaians have soon fogotten the more 300 football fun that sought refugee status in Brazil, very unprecidented in the history of a world cup ever do people refuse to return to their country but, Ghanaians did it without shame and yet insult every other country around them while, they choose to close their eyes on their own waeknesses and disgraceful behaviour.
Bobby,Denmark 10 years ago

John Dramani Mr. Promise and Fail.Is this your better Ghana??

John Dramani Mr. Promise and Fail.Is this your better Ghana??
John 10 years ago

True John Dramani Mahama,Rawlings,Kufour have to carry the greater part of the problem,but don't you think it could also be our own thinking which is deceiving us?Is Europe(Denmark) a Paradise?

True John Dramani Mahama,Rawlings,Kufour have to carry the greater part of the problem,but don't you think it could also be our own thinking which is deceiving us?Is Europe(Denmark) a Paradise?
freeman 10 years ago

John,I like your comments, you see it is pure stupidity, the white people came we drove them out now we are chasing them to live with them.

John,I like your comments, you see it is pure stupidity, the white people came we drove them out now we are chasing them to live with them.
Mawunyegah 10 years ago

We (Ghanaians) have allowed ourselves to be fooled by the ndc government that we are better than some others. Really? Are we better than anyone else in Africa? May be Chad and Togo...

We (Ghanaians) have allowed ourselves to be fooled by the ndc government that we are better than some others. Really? Are we better than anyone else in Africa? May be Chad and Togo...
GHFUO 10 years ago

ALL THESE SPINELESS LEADERS MUST BE ELIMINATED LIKE ROACHES. TAKE YOUR STOLEN MONEY TO THE AFTERLIFE..POW!

ALL THESE SPINELESS LEADERS MUST BE ELIMINATED LIKE ROACHES. TAKE YOUR STOLEN MONEY TO THE AFTERLIFE..POW!
AUSSIE 10 years ago

Ministers of state comes out to tell us if you cannt hold the heat get out so they are all getting out, better ghana agenda

Ministers of state comes out to tell us if you cannt hold the heat get out so they are all getting out, better ghana agenda

SIMION 10 years ago

GOOD FOR THEM AND EVERYONE WHO MADE MY TAUGHTS AND PRAYERS TO THOSE WHO COULDN'T MAKE IT

GOOD FOR THEM AND EVERYONE WHO MADE MY TAUGHTS AND PRAYERS TO THOSE WHO COULDN'T MAKE IT
RICHARD BOAT ANTWI 10 years ago

It is betterf to be traped on the sea than to stay in this mess called BETTER GHAUNA. shame orn mahama and his ndc group group of robbersn

It is betterf to be traped on the sea than to stay in this mess called BETTER GHAUNA. shame orn mahama and his ndc group group of robbersn
mensa 10 years ago

that is something else ooo

that is something else ooo
LAST DON 10 years ago

Knows the root. Fight the blood suckers who are disturbing Africa's growth.

Knows the root. Fight the blood suckers who are disturbing Africa's growth.
Tinga 10 years ago

Ghanaians are dying in circle, in the Mediterranean sea and pepeni is sleeping on the job. Can a big hip woman go and wake him up?

Ghanaians are dying in circle, in the Mediterranean sea and pepeni is sleeping on the job. Can a big hip woman go and wake him up?
Elizabeth Mekpor 10 years ago

Send your mother to the rescue since she has a big hip. Foolish IDIOT Bastard.

Send your mother to the rescue since she has a big hip. Foolish IDIOT Bastard.
Avudzaglah 10 years ago

Elizabeth, by now you should know that your president is clueless and brainless and has nothing to offer Ghana. From his history, we all know he cannot do without big hips. Just look for one for him and you will see him jump ...
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Elizabeth, by now you should know that your president is clueless and brainless and has nothing to offer Ghana. From his history, we all know he cannot do without big hips. Just look for one for him and you will see him jump up from his sleep. If yours too are hip then try him. We must be serious in this small, rich country that greedy bastards have taken over. You must support human beings to ensure that they leave and come back no more. Amen
saas 10 years ago

So are you happy about what mahama is doing to Ghanaians? May be your one of the criminals.

So are you happy about what mahama is doing to Ghanaians? May be your one of the criminals.
saas 10 years ago

Lizzy so are you about what your president is doing to Ghanaians? May be your one of his accomplices, think like mother who loves her children and stop supporting this criminal call president mahama.

Lizzy so are you about what your president is doing to Ghanaians? May be your one of his accomplices, think like mother who loves her children and stop supporting this criminal call president mahama.
Efa Poku 10 years ago

Tinga, insult our president is not good let us try to stop it

Tinga, insult our president is not good let us try to stop it
Akans Prophecies 10 years ago

Who cares for a fake president? A self made president who profited from the lost protection of his president to assassinate him? To bribe himself to the presidency , with your money. A stupid man who call himself a dead goat. ...
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Who cares for a fake president? A self made president who profited from the lost protection of his president to assassinate him? To bribe himself to the presidency , with your money. A stupid man who call himself a dead goat. Come on, don't plead for a goatwhore.
meyaa 10 years ago

Do some farming and stop risking your life's.

Do some farming and stop risking your life's.
SIMION 10 years ago

WHO DO FARMING AND WHERE IS THE CAPITAL IN THIS CORRUPT NDC SYSTEM WHO CARRIED A WHOLE LOAD OF MONEY TO BRAZIL TO BLOW. YOU GO HOME TO DO FARMING IDIOT

WHO DO FARMING AND WHERE IS THE CAPITAL IN THIS CORRUPT NDC SYSTEM WHO CARRIED A WHOLE LOAD OF MONEY TO BRAZIL TO BLOW. YOU GO HOME TO DO FARMING IDIOT
Mansah, Berne-Switzerland 10 years ago

This was not happening even under Atta Mills! What is really happening in Ghana. Is Mahama that clueless?

This was not happening even under Atta Mills! What is really happening in Ghana. Is Mahama that clueless?
Kofi 10 years ago

Say something sensible.What prompted you to leave Ghana then?

Say something sensible.What prompted you to leave Ghana then?
ohemaa esther 10 years ago

aahh i hope they are safe

aahh i hope they are safe
williams Ju 10 years ago

Send them back home if you can. They did vote and pick Mahama so why are they running away from Ghana?

Send them back home if you can. They did vote and pick Mahama so why are they running away from Ghana?
SIMION 10 years ago

WHERE IS RAWLINGS, KUFFOUR, MAHAMA WHY LEADERS IN GHANA CONTINUE TO FAIL GHANA. THE YOUTH SURVIVAL WITH IDLE HANDS IS TO LEAVE INSTEAD OF FACING CORRUPT USELESS GREEDY LEADERS IN GHANA. SOONER THIS GOVERNMENT LEAVES THE BETTE ...
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WHERE IS RAWLINGS, KUFFOUR, MAHAMA WHY LEADERS IN GHANA CONTINUE TO FAIL GHANA. THE YOUTH SURVIVAL WITH IDLE HANDS IS TO LEAVE INSTEAD OF FACING CORRUPT USELESS GREEDY LEADERS IN GHANA. SOONER THIS GOVERNMENT LEAVES THE BETTER GHANAIANS WILL BE.
Man of Character 10 years ago

Ghana is not poor but government officials are making the country poor by looting the coffers. They buildings petrol stations even in the cemetery. They are denying the rights of the citizens.

Ghana is not poor but government officials are making the country poor by looting the coffers. They buildings petrol stations even in the cemetery. They are denying the rights of the citizens.
Papa Yaw 10 years ago

So

So
MTN 10 years ago

they are all criminals, they will destroy Italy and run away. you will do the kind of work you guys don't want to in Ghana in Italy.

they are all criminals, they will destroy Italy and run away. you will do the kind of work you guys don't want to in Ghana in Italy.
care 10 years ago

Ghanaians are anibri people, a friend has go so he too will go, and even if those who are suffering there told people back home all they said we will go and see for our self every body have his lucky.i saw some one who sister ...
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Ghanaians are anibri people, a friend has go so he too will go, and even if those who are suffering there told people back home all they said we will go and see for our self every body have his lucky.i saw some one who sister is want to help him he said no and he is working.
saas 10 years ago

Care thanks for insulting Ghanaians, please wait 2016 around the corner.

Care thanks for insulting Ghanaians, please wait 2016 around the corner.
JMK 10 years ago

I cant understand this nonsense! People are making it in Ghana! They can farm and feed themselves and their families. If they can raise between 2500€-4000+€, i.e., over 6000$ then I will be insane to pitty them when they ...
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I cant understand this nonsense! People are making it in Ghana! They can farm and feed themselves and their families. If they can raise between 2500€-4000+€, i.e., over 6000$ then I will be insane to pitty them when they perish. They are NOT poor! They will come over and do worse jobs than farming! Is that what they need? To HELL with all!
YIKRA 10 years ago

They want people to praise them and call them Borger.They want to eat good food and ride on trains. Working as a cleaner is more rewarding than working as a banker in Ghana. Greed and selfishness is what is driving these risk ...
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They want people to praise them and call them Borger.They want to eat good food and ride on trains. Working as a cleaner is more rewarding than working as a banker in Ghana. Greed and selfishness is what is driving these risk-takers. They are not aware that there is something called "being CONTENT with little that you have."

Blame government for not educating the citizens enough about business opportunities under their noses.
bogga ali 10 years ago

it is sad you cou;ld end up living in petty that even food and not to talk about getting money to get on trains can be an issue. Is it worth it...to arrive and start leaving from hand to mouth worse off that you came or coul ...
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it is sad you cou;ld end up living in petty that even food and not to talk about getting money to get on trains can be an issue. Is it worth it...to arrive and start leaving from hand to mouth worse off that you came or could make yourself into back Gh.

I understand opportunities and capital is an issue but believing me there is untapped resources back Gh which we need to explore. Dont waste your life or time to embark only to return and say had I known.
ghanian 10 years ago

How much do your so called bankers receive as a salary in ghana per month onless they steal from the country or the institution they are working for,as compare to that cleaner that you are insulting who clean send money to su ...
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How much do your so called bankers receive as a salary in ghana per month onless they steal from the country or the institution they are working for,as compare to that cleaner that you are insulting who clean send money to support his family,build his own house without stealing from his country,instead of supporting the country.
You dont insult people who are working hard to better their lives just because you envy them.
Anyway Zoomlion used to be in ghana or is in ghana and i saw people cleaning in ghana for a living.is it bad?
bob 10 years ago

This is the failure of corrupt leaders in AFRICA.What a shame to see Africans running away because of brain death leaders who their only interest is to steal everything they,i mean the "politicians" from the president and al ...
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This is the failure of corrupt leaders in AFRICA.What a shame to see Africans running away because of brain death leaders who their only interest is to steal everything they,i mean the "politicians" from the president and all his cronies, can get their hand on,and let the people whom they come to serve go to hell with their miserable life.God will asked them with all their wicked ways staving those who put them in office to serve.What we are witnessing in the MEDITERRANEAN SEA speaks to the failure and the corruption in African governances on display.This is the true result of the type of politics that geos on the continent.GOD help us.
c.stephen sackey. 10 years ago

Some years ago-make it 300 plus - Africans were either sold off by their own kindreds, or ensnared in slave nets and captured like animals.
They were then chained, packed and placed in ship holds to be sold as slaves in the ...
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Some years ago-make it 300 plus - Africans were either sold off by their own kindreds, or ensnared in slave nets and captured like animals.
They were then chained, packed and placed in ship holds to be sold as slaves in the new lands of the Americas.
As should be expected of all humans they resisted their capture, captivity , and servitude. Those who survived the tortuous trans-Atantic slave trade route went on to enrich the new lands( read the nobel economist recipient A.M Lewis's book on the subject).
Now instead of screaming and wailing not to be be enslaved, Africans on their own choice , are scheming to leave the continent to be slavery-lited.

And the African leaders? Yes, have an caveat. A Ghanaian minister was reported to have said ," they have passports they can leave."
Another ducey from an Ethiopian minister "our economic development can't sustain all of our people."

I am an optimist- believe all this shall pass - but, when I see this replay of slavery-lite, it dulls my optimism.

But, I'll keep praying to the African gods on high to help guide the leaders of this natural-resource-rich continent to find and mend their ways.
They should, for the hyenas of this brave new world are once again encircling the continent-the birth place of mankind, to poach them of their prime resources - their people.
Truth 10 years ago

Can't we post any meaningful community without insults and politics? I can say that any person who can read and make comments here already knows who to vote for. Unfortunately majority of Ghanaians will not read these commen ...
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Can't we post any meaningful community without insults and politics? I can say that any person who can read and make comments here already knows who to vote for. Unfortunately majority of Ghanaians will not read these comments so no need for insults and insinuations.
Truth 10 years ago

First line should read "...any meaningful comments. ."

First line should read "...any meaningful comments. ."
Efa Poku 10 years ago

Truth, good l dont know why some of the people always want to insult intead of solution & advice on this media. lnfact it does not speak good of you pls pls stop the insult be'cos our children lean from this

Truth, good l dont know why some of the people always want to insult intead of solution & advice on this media. lnfact it does not speak good of you pls pls stop the insult be'cos our children lean from this
CEAZER, HO 10 years ago

If there shd. jobs available in this country, people will not be suffering like this.but friends, dont u think its too risky cos life is only one and its like how you make . Your life is so precious to me, my guy.

If there shd. jobs available in this country, people will not be suffering like this.but friends, dont u think its too risky cos life is only one and its like how you make . Your life is so precious to me, my guy.
Farmer 10 years ago

Exploiting poor people by talking them into risking their lives in boats is a new criminal trade in this country. They take 5-10 times the money it would cost to buy a cheap plane ticket to Europe.

Exploiting poor people by talking them into risking their lives in boats is a new criminal trade in this country. They take 5-10 times the money it would cost to buy a cheap plane ticket to Europe.
thelma 10 years ago

Is Ghana so hard and bad that people are living to Europe then is very bad the government must do something about things... feeling so bad for my country and people living there indeed no wonder the ministers are corrupt and ...
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Is Ghana so hard and bad that people are living to Europe then is very bad the government must do something about things... feeling so bad for my country and people living there indeed no wonder the ministers are corrupt and the mps whom they claim to do something better for the country are rather stealing the country's money.. i sometimes imagine a country with such Gold and resources which is wealth a money is suffering ...mmmm this country need a better and discipline presidents like jerry john rawlings tho they said he was wicked but his discipline made the country move forward without any corruption Ghana is full of bad leaders no wonder the was a flood in Accra that was your punishmaents...
Dr Kwesi Sakyi 10 years ago

By Dr Kwesi Atta Sakyi

16th May, 2015

The recent upsurge in out-migration of Africans from Sub-Saharan African countries to Mediterranean-bound countries has hit international headlines and grabbed the limelight. It mus ...
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By Dr Kwesi Atta Sakyi

16th May, 2015

The recent upsurge in out-migration of Africans from Sub-Saharan African countries to Mediterranean-bound countries has hit international headlines and grabbed the limelight. It must be noted that the migration of Africans across the Sahara Desert to North Africa, and thence to Europe, is not a recent phenomenon.

Students of History recall the trans-Saharan trade which blossomed hundreds of years ago during the apogee and zenith of the old empires of Ghana, Mali, and Songhai from 300 AD to about 1340 AD, when the Sultan of Morocco, jealous of the glory, wealth, and civilisation of the ancient Songhai Empire, and aided by western-trained mercenaries of Moors and Berbers from Morocco and Spain, literarily shot down the Songhai Empire in 1340 AD, with their newly-acquired armament of guns from Europe, under the rule of Ishak II.

The Songhai army was ill-equipped, wielding spears, swords, and bows and arrows. The hordes of Almoravids and the Moors had earlier on in about 1240 AD, terminated the old Ghana Empire by their incessant attacks, using the occasion to propagate their Muslim religion.

Historians like Dike, Ajayi, Fage, Webster, Basil Davidson, Adu Boahen, F.K. Buah, Agbedeka, Ivor Wilks, Michael Crowder, Addo Fening, among others had written vivid and extensive accounts about those illustrious empires from accounts left behind by ancient Arab and other writers such as Ali Bakry, Ibn Batuta, Ibn Khaldun, Leo Africanus, among others.

However, the recent surge in the unprecedented large numbers of north-bound African migrants rekindles the Akan proverb that states, ‘a rat may not run out in daylight unless it is in great danger or being pursued by a ferocious and formidable prey or foe’. Many youth in West Africa are desperate for something to do for themselves but they see no light at the end of the tunnel for themselves and out of utter frustration and social rejection, they embark on wide adventures up north into uncharted territories, into the Sahara Desert to pursue the Golden Fleece or seek an imaginary El Dorado.

The trans-Saharan trade route linked the forested areas of the Guinea coast to the south of West Africa with the North African countries of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, and Egypt. The ancient Carthaginians from modern day Tunisia, and the Phoenicians from modern day Syria and Lebanon, cherished greatly that trade, as they were among some of the greatest traders and seafarers in the ancient civilised world.

They exchanged dates, fabrics, beads, horses, ornaments, oils, silk and calico, porcelain and urns for forest products such as honey, ivory, feathers, parrots, gold, kola-nuts, and salt, among others. The camel caravan convoys criss-crossed and traversed the large expanse of the desert, from north to south, linking up trading nodes such as Fez, Marrakesh, Gao, Kumbi Saleh, Timbuctoo, Agadiz, Kano, Salaga, Techiman, among others. That trade propped up those ancient African empires as they subsisted on the tax revenue from it. It also attracted great scholars and architects from as far afield as ancient Persia and Egypt.

Just as those fronting and fringing the Atlantic Ocean are lured by the azure expanse of the waters of the Atlantic Ocean to sail on their fishing expeditions, so are those in the forested interior to be challenged by the prospect of crossing the vast sandy Desert to see what lies beyond it. Perhaps, they will find greener pastures beyond the desert. Little will they envisage terrible ordeals awaiting them in those African countries on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea, and the ordeal of crossing the Middle Sea in dinghies, rafts, and fragile life-saving inflatable craft, amidst tempestuous storms and howling gales.

Hundreds of desperados pay fortunes to be crammed like sardines into the sea-unworthy crafts, and at some point in time, their crafts are marooned at sea without victuals, amidst starvation, sickness, conflict, intimidation, beatings, rape, torture, and at worst, facing the dim prospect of shipwreck or being thrown into the sea by the wicked traffickers, or some severe storms in the boisterous sea taking its toll.

It reminds one of some sailor stories we heard of old concerning sailors sailing past the Bermuda Triangle, or Bay of Biscay, or it reminds one of the ignoble Middle Passage slave ships in the infamous Triangular Trade which saw millions of Africans ferried across the Atlantic Ocean as human cargo from West and Central Africa, and sold under inhumane conditions to slave owners in the Americas, who owned huge cotton, sugar cane, and tobacco estates. Thousands of that human cargo perished at sea due to illness, sea sickness, trauma, starvation, anguish, and torture. And thousands more were successfully ferried across to be offloaded into slavery in the Americas and the Carribean.

It is unusual to find graduates and educated young men and women going on such perilous journeys across the desert as such educated people know too well the high price to pay for such wanton and reckless adventure. Many are the tall tales told by some returnees from Italy and some European countries about the replete of jobs and promise of good jobs in those European countries. Many are the youth who are gullible and easily taken in by such yarns, as they know little about the economic travails and woes of the PIGS countries such as Portugal, Italy, Greece, and Spain. On enduring an ordeal of the harshest type by crossing the treacherous desert to North Africa, the young adventurers fall from frying pan to fire as they go from bad to worse.

They may be robbed of their meagre possessions by desert brigands and marauders. They may be arrested by gendarmeries and imprisoned under terrible conditions, raped and tortured. Many die of dehydration while crossing the desert. Many lose their bearings or direction as the sandstorms and typhoons and Simoons, and the Harmattan mist obliterate the footpaths on the desert, and without navigational aids, they end up wandering about aimlessly in circles on the wide expanse of sand, till they die of starvation and thirst.

Many are the skeletons found of such unfortunate ones skirting and dotting the grim desert landscape of barkhans, oases, zeugens, sand dunes, wadi, yardang and inselbergs or bornhardts. The lucky ones who make the crossing, find to their consternation and chagrin that there are far more daunting rivers to cross after their seemingly great triumph. They only realise that they have had a Pyrrhic victory. They may be rounded up in the Mediterranean African countries and charged with all sorts of offences.

They may be held for years on end, and eventually they may have a break to cross to Europe via Sicily, or the Island of Lampedusa, or Crete, or Greece, or Malta, or via any of the thousands of islands dotting the Mediterranean Sea such as Kefalonia in the Ionian Sea. Other Greek islands in the Aegean Sea include Rhodes, Samos, Ikaria, Thassos, Lemnos, Chalkida, Lesbos, Cyclades, Zakynthos, and the main Italian islands are Sicily, Sardinia, Corsica, Elba, Ikaria, Hios, and Thassos.

The new arrivals from the south are brutalised, assaulted, raped, starved, tortured and imprisoned as if we had no African Union or Berne or Geneva Conventions and protocols, or the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Most potential and actual migrants are half-educated non-professionals, artisans, mostly male, who are fleeing wars, economic downturn, religious persecution from terrorists, political upheavals, famine, social sequestration, bad governance, low quality of life, rising costs of living, poor standards of living, among other causes.

Some of the worsening conditions in their home countries have been partially caused by poor leadership style, and partly by external global economic pressures which are unleashed on poor countries, such as harsh economic conditionalities imposed on poor countries by donor, multilateral institutions, and creditor countries, among others.

This is why it is imperative to dismantle the New Economic Order which is making millions of people unemployed, and enriching a scanty miniscule of humanity who are the captains of industry, and who are causing the poverty gap to widen more and more through systems of disintermediation, digital-driven online commerce, among others. The escalation in the scale of outmigration to Europe is caused by the big corporate giants who are not willing to employ young people but prefer to do business using robots and computers. They outsource work cheaply, thus creating fewer jobs, all in the name of disintermediation and globalisation.

On the part of the migrants, do they pause to rationally conjecture the choices between staying at home under failed governments and totalitarian regimes on the one hand, and that of going into an unknown country where even severe weather conditions can end their lives prematurely? Our churches, schools, social groups, government outfits, and the general populace have a duty to mentor their youth and dissuade them from embarking on modern day Marco Polo-like or Mungo Park-like adventures, which may lead them to a brutal and undignified demise. Many are the school-dropouts who are roaming the streets in the cities for want of anything useful to do and are governments are unconcerned.

For many years now, I have been thinking of the formation of a Pan-African institution for youth networking and transfer of skills and entrepreneurship to be known as the Great African Society for Social Political Economic Reconstruction Reform and Restoration (GASSPERRR). This organisation will help the youth register and move across boundaries to areas of employment where their skills are needed most. That can be organised under the auspices of the AU and UNDP/ILO/UNIDO/FAO/IFAD. They can be organised as Volunteer Corps and paid decent allowances for the type of tasks they undertake such as offering IT solutions, operating call centres, working on innovative research centres, working on farms, hospitals, emergency operations in Refugee Camps, among others.

There is urgent need for renowned research institutions such as Oxford and Harvard to carry out triangulation research of cross-sectional and time series data gathering to explain the root causes of the upsurge in this trans-Saharan migration. Perhaps, they will discover that failed educational systems, failed governments, electricity blues, unsustainable debt servicing, and inequitable social services distribution, plus lack of social support systems such as subsidised education and medi-care are among the major culprits behind the centripetal and centrifugal pull and push factors which drive this syndrome of trans-Saharan migration syndrome, and the panacea for curing this Pan-Euro migraine may lie within the conjoined efforts of the global community or comity of nations.

By Dr Kwesi Atta Sakyi
saas 10 years ago

I wonder why some of the youth of this rich country always support the corrupt leaders of this land, please do you really think about your future and the future of this country, let kick against the corrupt leaders of this c ...
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I wonder why some of the youth of this rich country always support the corrupt leaders of this land, please do you really think about your future and the future of this country, let kick against the corrupt leaders of this country including the president and his ndc party. See how innocent people are dying. Please Ghanaian youth wake up.
Efa Poku 10 years ago

Saas, we will wake up z good figt good idear l suport u

Saas, we will wake up z good figt good idear l suport u
Kenkey Warriors!! 10 years ago

That's about $1M in lost remittances if they are sent back home.

That's about $1M in lost remittances if they are sent back home.
Nii 10 years ago

Deceptive headline. please add "so far"
else it looks as if they were all found in a boat on a particular day.

Deceptive headline. please add "so far"
else it looks as if they were all found in a boat on a particular day.
Okyere 10 years ago

Why rescued them. They all live in rich (raw materials and agriculture) independent countries.
Sent back.
In Europe they will never integrated tu much full of their primitif culture.
European are to soft.

Why rescued them. They all live in rich (raw materials and agriculture) independent countries.
Sent back.
In Europe they will never integrated tu much full of their primitif culture.
European are to soft.
General Mosquito 10 years ago

Ghanaians are the most stupid people on the globe....I general mosquito said so....if u don't like u can go and die..kwasia fuo

Ghanaians are the most stupid people on the globe....I general mosquito said so....if u don't like u can go and die..kwasia fuo
John Lewis 10 years ago

FACT. MORE GHANAIANS EMIGRATED UNDER MAHAMA'S GOVT THAN EVEN UNDER RAWLINGS.

FACT. MORE GHANAIANS EMIGRATED UNDER MAHAMA'S GOVT THAN EVEN UNDER RAWLINGS.
Asem U.S.A. 10 years ago

The report is totally fault, and we need to tighting the way to obtaine Ghanaian PASSPORT, because in Europe here there are a lot of people from Nigeria,Togo,Ivory Coast, Bokina Foso and many claime to come from Ghana,
becau ...
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The report is totally fault, and we need to tighting the way to obtaine Ghanaian PASSPORT, because in Europe here there are a lot of people from Nigeria,Togo,Ivory Coast, Bokina Foso and many claime to come from Ghana,
because they hold Ghana passport
J.B. 10 years ago

Yes a retired army officer who was a minister of state told Ghanaians that if Ghana is hot they should go for pasports and leave the country. Is that all easy to grab a passport in Ghana ? And apart from that visa to travel?. ...
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Yes a retired army officer who was a minister of state told Ghanaians that if Ghana is hot they should go for pasports and leave the country. Is that all easy to grab a passport in Ghana ? And apart from that visa to travel?. No So the only means is by what is happening now.
joe nyamekye 10 years ago

Better Ghana agenda has compelled them to leave Ghana as Nuno Mensah said, they think Ghana is hot. A was surprise hearing from a minister of state making this senseless statement to Ghanaians. This is the result as it is no ...
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Better Ghana agenda has compelled them to leave Ghana as Nuno Mensah said, they think Ghana is hot. A was surprise hearing from a minister of state making this senseless statement to Ghanaians. This is the result as it is not easy to get a passport and visa to travel out of the country.
wasake 10 years ago

poor journalism is a Big problem in Ghana, 80% of them are not Ghanaian

poor journalism is a Big problem in Ghana, 80% of them are not Ghanaian
Akua 10 years ago

Africans are dying on the Mediterranean Sea to go and clean the streets and toilets of Europe because of unemployment and poverty when our own streets are littered with rubbish. Cleaning and maintenance creates a lot of jobs ...
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Africans are dying on the Mediterranean Sea to go and clean the streets and toilets of Europe because of unemployment and poverty when our own streets are littered with rubbish. Cleaning and maintenance creates a lot of jobs in the west which are filled by Africans. Why can't African leaders support Africans to create jobs cleaning and maintaining our cities and towns to create employment and also avoid disasters like floods and diseases like cholera
cee cee 10 years ago

where on earth are you leaving your land of gold and oil to?
There is no country on earth so blessed like Ghana, yet citizens are not happy?
What might be the problem.
Political communicators could answer all questions but ...
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where on earth are you leaving your land of gold and oil to?
There is no country on earth so blessed like Ghana, yet citizens are not happy?
What might be the problem.
Political communicators could answer all questions but cannot answer this.
gonja damango 10 years ago

N d c yantey obiaa.mahama for life.

N d c yantey obiaa.mahama for life.
gonja damango 10 years ago

Ndc yantey kowa if kowa go to italy den we sell ghana for china people.

Ndc yantey kowa if kowa go to italy den we sell ghana for china people.

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