Our leadership does not see the activities of the chinese miners as bad. They are busy fighting over positions that would give them the chance to treat their fellow Ghanaians the same way as they are being dealt with by the c ... read full comment
Our leadership does not see the activities of the chinese miners as bad. They are busy fighting over positions that would give them the chance to treat their fellow Ghanaians the same way as they are being dealt with by the chinese. We might have to call on someone like we did in 1979 to come and shake up things. Can you imagine Mr. Woyome and other nuts are walking freely and enjoying what they have stole from us?
MIKE 11 years ago
THEY ARE A BUNCH OF HEARTLESS BAFOONS.
THEY ARE A BUNCH OF HEARTLESS BAFOONS.
Mallam Osofo 11 years ago
ITS ABOUT TIME OUR GOVERNMENT AND OUR SECURITY/LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES DEALT MORE RUTHLESS WITH THESE VERY ARROGANT, SLITTY-EYED ORIENTAL LAME-BRAINS WHEN THEY FLOUT OUR LAWS WITH A LEVEL OF IMPUNITY THAT THEY WOULD NEVER E ... read full comment
ITS ABOUT TIME OUR GOVERNMENT AND OUR SECURITY/LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES DEALT MORE RUTHLESS WITH THESE VERY ARROGANT, SLITTY-EYED ORIENTAL LAME-BRAINS WHEN THEY FLOUT OUR LAWS WITH A LEVEL OF IMPUNITY THAT THEY WOULD NEVER EVEN CONTEMPLATE DREAMING ABOUT IN THEIR NATION OF SHODDY GOODS.
DID THEY TRAVEL FROM THEIR BACKWARD CULTURE IN THE BELIEF THAT AFRICANS WERE IMBECILES WHOSE RESOURCES WERE SIMPLY THERE FOR THE TAKING; OR THAT THEY COULD SIMPLY COME AND COLONISE US THE WAY WE WERE COLONISED BY THE EUROPEANS.
ITS ABOUT TIME WE STARTED GIVING THEM LONG SENTENCES IN NSAWAM, DEPORTING THEM IMMEDIATELY ON RELEASE AND YES, ACTUALLY SHOOTING THOSE WHO THREATEN OUR CITIZENS WITH ARMS OR RESIST ARREST WHILST FLOUTING THE LAWS OF OUR INDEPENDENT, SOVEREIGN REPUBLIC.
Alex 11 years ago
Blame Mahama
Blame Mahama
Motherlove 11 years ago
Is sad how a nation can sit there for people to come from China with no legal rights to mine and have the right to guns and they take them to court when they kill Ghanaians these people should be shipped back the next day and ... read full comment
Is sad how a nation can sit there for people to come from China with no legal rights to mine and have the right to guns and they take them to court when they kill Ghanaians these people should be shipped back the next day and let the Chinese government know next time it happens these people will be sentence to death.
MIKE 11 years ago
.....IT IS HAPPENING BECAUSE YOU GHANAIANS HAVE NO LEADERSHIP!
.....IT IS HAPPENING BECAUSE YOU GHANAIANS HAVE NO LEADERSHIP!
yd 11 years ago
Mahama is not ready to deal with them so let deal with them before its too late.
Mahama is not ready to deal with them so let deal with them before its too late.
MIKE 11 years ago
YOU CANNOT DEAL WITH THEM WITHOUT THE AUTHORITIES SUPPORT.
YOU CANNOT DEAL WITH THEM WITHOUT THE AUTHORITIES SUPPORT.
Alex 11 years ago
Sack the leaders
Sack the leaders
Lee Xu 11 years ago
Please understand us. We come here to work legally just like some of you travel to other countries to work. We are dealing in Gold and need to protect ourselves from Armed Robbers. We only defend ourselves when we are attacke ... read full comment
Please understand us. We come here to work legally just like some of you travel to other countries to work. We are dealing in Gold and need to protect ourselves from Armed Robbers. We only defend ourselves when we are attacked.
Big Joe - Belaruss, Russia, Ukraine 11 years ago
the solution lies with the communities readiness to confront those illegal Chinese miners. Moreover the Chinese came there in partnership with locals who convinced them to come and exploit. The inability of district assemblie ... read full comment
the solution lies with the communities readiness to confront those illegal Chinese miners. Moreover the Chinese came there in partnership with locals who convinced them to come and exploit. The inability of district assemblies,chiefs,district chief executives,paramount and regional chiefs as well as Ghana Mineral Commission to challenege illegal chinsese miners destroying their environments,drinking water source, rivers,farms,drainage systems,gardens, road networks ,infrastructures is very clear... MONEY HAS CHANGED HANDS..AS thereby disabling GHANA SECURITY FORCE ...(POLICE, ARMY, IMMIGRATION) to pursue any meaningful action ... The government in power cannot chase the illegal chinese miners out as much as the community bearing the brunt are frightend to CONFRONT THE CHINESE AND GHANAIN MINING TEAM ILLEGALY OPERATING IN THOSE DISTRICTS.
Ghananians like Nigerians talk big, yabs yabs wild ....and acts under bed.....no one want to bear responsibilty .... the lack of action by Ghananians to insist on their right, to register claims, to seize what belongs to them.....is extremely weak in Ghana and Africans in general . ONLY FEW AFRICANS AND INDIVIDUALS ARE HEROS ... AND MAJORITY ARE HUMANS. This is becos CULTURE OF FEAR , CULTURE OF SILENCE ,CULTURE OF LETGO, CULTURE OF RELIGION ,CULTURE OF BRIBERY, CULTURE OF GRANT AND LOSE , have become the fabric within our blood, strength, education,family,and national identity,hence the influx of illegal investors NOTABLY Arabs Chinese,Nigerians ,and South Africans in Ghana to take advantage of our weak public structures to manipulate and profits from Ghanaians while we look on and crtizize political leaders to act ..THATS STUPITY ON THE PART OF GHANAINS GOES ON AND DEMONSTRATE SMART FOREIGNER INVESTORS AND TRADERS ..OUR SLAVERY ATTITUTES ..that expose LUKEWARMNESS,IGNORANCE,SHORTSIGHTNESS,
a nation and a people without any RADICAL LEADERSHIP TO GUIDE US.... SO that have given illegal Chinese miners the right to own guns to defend themselves by slaughtering Ghanaians and robbing Ghanaians of gold, and diamond..at gun point to enrich themselves while the POLICE,WATCHDOGS,DISTRICT EXECUTIVES, DISTRICT ASSEMBLIES ,GHANA MINERAL COMMISSION , AND GOVERNMENT IN POWER looks on unconcerned and impotent .. Where does this leads to ?? Upsurge in corruption, bribery, armed robbery,pen robbery,youth deliquency,large number of youth in prison ,murder,streess,high rate of premature death , hypertention,and confusion everywhere,political and religious havoc ....as witnessing now.
Ghanaians need radical leadership and public education on awareness...otherwise Ghanians as Africans will be slave inour own land while strangers dispossess our wealth
MIKE 11 years ago
I AGREE WITH MOST OF THE POINTS RAISED, BUT I DON'T THINK THE COMMUNITIES CAN STOP THE ILLEGAL MINING WITH THE AUTHORITIES INTERVENTION.
I AGREE WITH MOST OF THE POINTS RAISED, BUT I DON'T THINK THE COMMUNITIES CAN STOP THE ILLEGAL MINING WITH THE AUTHORITIES INTERVENTION.
Kwaku 11 years ago
I really don't understand how a chinese will take up arms in Ghana agaist a Ghanaian and our government will say nothing. Mills was a disgrace to ghana although I go with NDC, Mills wasn't the right choice.
I really don't understand how a chinese will take up arms in Ghana agaist a Ghanaian and our government will say nothing. Mills was a disgrace to ghana although I go with NDC, Mills wasn't the right choice.
Alex 11 years ago
Useless leaders
Useless leaders
ebotee 11 years ago
To me is absurd to see a china man in Ghana wailing guns at the Ghanians why if our leaders haventg sold our rights to them. Me personally enough is enough Ghanians our motherland is all what we have not to sell our selves to ... read full comment
To me is absurd to see a china man in Ghana wailing guns at the Ghanians why if our leaders haventg sold our rights to them. Me personally enough is enough Ghanians our motherland is all what we have not to sell our selves to everybody but not the china man the bully . if you ever seen any nchina man bully a ghanian lets get together to run them out because we cant do that in china period.
Eko 11 years ago
Miners arming themselves though creates the following resentments:-
1) That they are aggressors who cannot be approached peacefully and communicated with rationally.
2)That they are doing something bad enough that the ... read full comment
Miners arming themselves though creates the following resentments:-
1) That they are aggressors who cannot be approached peacefully and communicated with rationally.
2)That they are doing something bad enough that the only way they can protect themselves is with arms, which in Ghana is heavily associated with violent criminal activity. Historically too it is associated with colonial oppression.
Also the issue here is illegal mining, this includes land and water which is left hazardous for those who reside or depend upon it. Also, I can also speak for my own family - but even though many Ghanaians are monotheistic (christian, muslim etc) there is still a deep, old pantheistic connection to the land. You take care of the land and it takes care of you. When I see it being torn apart for petty profit and to satiate the greed of pathetic landowners, officials etc, a part of me is also torn apart. I would not even consider myself an environmentalist, but I do love the beautiful nature of Ghana, and believe that your average Ghanaian has a right to untainted water and vegetation. I do not want it to go up in smoke so that some roly-poly chieftain or official somewhere can send his roly-poly children to private school in America.
Think about it this way; how would you feel if you lived in a village in China, you saw Africans mining upstream and your water and crop was becoming polluted- your land an eyesore, but when you went to talk to them they brandished a gun, and maybe could not talk to you because they knew no Chinese? Unless you are Ghandi let me tell you how, you would feel resentful- even if you knew it was not rational, compassionate or kind. You would call the police and expect them to be immediately evacuated.
If there were no guns involved - people would not focus so much on the miners themselves. They would instead be asking why the planning permission and environmental legislation is either so lax, or is being ignored.
KANEWU 11 years ago
GHANAIAN LEADERS ONLY HAVE THE VISION AND TIME TO PLAN FOR ONE, AND ONLY ONE THING - BRIBE COLLECTION.
THE CHINESE WOULD NEVER HAVE HAD THE AUDACITY TO FIRE GUNS AT GHANAIANS IF THEY HADN'T PAID HEFTY BRIBES TO GHANAIAN CH ... read full comment
GHANAIAN LEADERS ONLY HAVE THE VISION AND TIME TO PLAN FOR ONE, AND ONLY ONE THING - BRIBE COLLECTION.
THE CHINESE WOULD NEVER HAVE HAD THE AUDACITY TO FIRE GUNS AT GHANAIANS IF THEY HADN'T PAID HEFTY BRIBES TO GHANAIAN CHIEFS AND GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS WHOSE JOB IS TO PROTECT OUR NATIONAL ECONOMY FROM EXPLOITATION BY FOREIGNERS.
BY HOOK OR BY CROOK, THE CHINESE HAVE TO GET A RETURN ON THE HEFTY BRIDES THEY INVESTED IN BEFORE BEING LED TO THOSE AREAS.
HAVE ANYBODY AGAIN HEARD ABOUT THE AIRPLANE-LOAD OF GHANA'S GOLD AND SURELY DIAMONDS MYSTERIOUSLY INTERCEPTED IN TURKEY?
BRIBES PAID, CASE CLOSED!!!
THAT IS GHANA FOR YOU!!!!
MOST OF THE INDIANS, LEBANESE, SYRIANS AND OTHERS OPERATING "RETAIL STORES" LIKE MELCOM IN GHANA USE THOSE STORES AS "FRONTS".
THE REVENUES AND PROFITS FROM SUCH "BUSINESSES" ARE INVESTED IN LOOTING GHANA'S PRECIOUS METALS TO THEIR RESPECTIVE COUNTRIES, DUBAI AND THE WEST.
THE REAL BUSINESS THEY DO IS LOOTING OUR GOLD, DIAMONDS AND OTHER PRECIOUS METALS WITH THE COLLUSION, OF COURSE, OF GHANAIANS LIKE SAM JONAH AND OTHERS.
Ken 11 years ago
Presidency (in Ghana) MONOPOLIZES ALL powers (& are worshiped like god. If Districts/Regional Heads get REAL powers (independence)&are accountable to us periodically, then we can flush them out. As for Chiefs we can't trust t ... read full comment
Presidency (in Ghana) MONOPOLIZES ALL powers (& are worshiped like god. If Districts/Regional Heads get REAL powers (independence)&are accountable to us periodically, then we can flush them out. As for Chiefs we can't trust them any longer. It's sad
Our leadership does not see the activities of the chinese miners as bad. They are busy fighting over positions that would give them the chance to treat their fellow Ghanaians the same way as they are being dealt with by the c ...
read full comment
THEY ARE A BUNCH OF HEARTLESS BAFOONS.
ITS ABOUT TIME OUR GOVERNMENT AND OUR SECURITY/LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES DEALT MORE RUTHLESS WITH THESE VERY ARROGANT, SLITTY-EYED ORIENTAL LAME-BRAINS WHEN THEY FLOUT OUR LAWS WITH A LEVEL OF IMPUNITY THAT THEY WOULD NEVER E ...
read full comment
Blame Mahama
Is sad how a nation can sit there for people to come from China with no legal rights to mine and have the right to guns and they take them to court when they kill Ghanaians these people should be shipped back the next day and ...
read full comment
.....IT IS HAPPENING BECAUSE YOU GHANAIANS HAVE NO LEADERSHIP!
Mahama is not ready to deal with them so let deal with them before its too late.
YOU CANNOT DEAL WITH THEM WITHOUT THE AUTHORITIES SUPPORT.
Sack the leaders
Please understand us. We come here to work legally just like some of you travel to other countries to work. We are dealing in Gold and need to protect ourselves from Armed Robbers. We only defend ourselves when we are attacke ...
read full comment
the solution lies with the communities readiness to confront those illegal Chinese miners. Moreover the Chinese came there in partnership with locals who convinced them to come and exploit. The inability of district assemblie ...
read full comment
I AGREE WITH MOST OF THE POINTS RAISED, BUT I DON'T THINK THE COMMUNITIES CAN STOP THE ILLEGAL MINING WITH THE AUTHORITIES INTERVENTION.
I really don't understand how a chinese will take up arms in Ghana agaist a Ghanaian and our government will say nothing. Mills was a disgrace to ghana although I go with NDC, Mills wasn't the right choice.
Useless leaders
To me is absurd to see a china man in Ghana wailing guns at the Ghanians why if our leaders haventg sold our rights to them. Me personally enough is enough Ghanians our motherland is all what we have not to sell our selves to ...
read full comment
Miners arming themselves though creates the following resentments:-
1) That they are aggressors who cannot be approached peacefully and communicated with rationally.
2)That they are doing something bad enough that the ...
read full comment
GHANAIAN LEADERS ONLY HAVE THE VISION AND TIME TO PLAN FOR ONE, AND ONLY ONE THING - BRIBE COLLECTION.
THE CHINESE WOULD NEVER HAVE HAD THE AUDACITY TO FIRE GUNS AT GHANAIANS IF THEY HADN'T PAID HEFTY BRIBES TO GHANAIAN CH ...
read full comment
Presidency (in Ghana) MONOPOLIZES ALL powers (& are worshiped like god. If Districts/Regional Heads get REAL powers (independence)&are accountable to us periodically, then we can flush them out. As for Chiefs we can't trust t ...
read full comment
Keek the chinese out