This Is Neither Good for Okyeman Nor Ghana

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Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law 11 years ago

Three months ago when I visited Ghana, I drove on the rough road from Asamama to Akropong to Kade and crossed the Birim river at some point. That river is now completely polluted and nearly dead. It was of dark brown color an ...
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Three months ago when I visited Ghana, I drove on the rough road from Asamama to Akropong to Kade and crossed the Birim river at some point. That river is now completely polluted and nearly dead. It was of dark brown color and oozing along with filth due to galamsey operations.
Illegal mining has irreversibly poisoned the Kwaebibirim environment, and this present call for action is a mere swan song.
KASBAND 11 years ago

You wrote:"Merely exhorting Galamsey operatives to observe environmentally friendly rules is nothing short of the inexcusably oxymoronic. The parliamentarians and district assembly representatives of the affected areas would ...
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You wrote:"Merely exhorting Galamsey operatives to observe environmentally friendly rules is nothing short of the inexcusably oxymoronic. The parliamentarians and district assembly representatives of the affected areas would need to pressure the President into taking more drastic measures to stop Galamsey activities, in much the same way that Mr. Mahama is widely reported to be doing in the Central and Western regions, and elsewhere".
I write: For once you've written something better than your politically mischievous articles. However to say that assemblymen and women, etc. should pressurise the President to do exactly what he's been doing in the the Central and Western Regions is not good either. MMDAs are empowered to ensure that sanity prevails in the areas where galamseyers are destroying the environment. The President does not go to those areas with soldiers and policemen to ensure discipline. Its up to your MMDAs in Akyim Abuakwa land to emulate the examples of the people of the Central and Western Regions, in this regard. Meanwhile it is on record that some prominent chiefs from the area are encouraging galamsey and are even enjoying the fruits from it. When the President was reported to have labeled the area as the capital of galamsey the Akyem Abuakwahene was on air castigating the President for doing so. To him the President has disrespected the people. Whither are we going???????
KASBAND 11 years ago

Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe,Jr.,Ph.D. wrote:
"Merely exhorting Galamsey operatives to observe environmentally friendly rules is nothing short of the inexcusably oxymoronic. The parliamentarians and district assembly representatives ...
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Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe,Jr.,Ph.D. wrote:
"Merely exhorting Galamsey operatives to observe environmentally friendly rules is nothing short of the inexcusably oxymoronic. The parliamentarians and district assembly representatives of the affected areas would need to pressure the President into taking more drastic measures to stop Galamsey activities, in much the same way that Mr. Mahama is widely reported to be doing in the Central and Western regions, and elsewhere".
I write: For once Kwame you've written something better than your politically mischievous articles. However to say that assemblymen and women, etc. should pressurise the President to do exactly what he's been doing in the the Central and Western Regions is not good either. MMDAs are empowered to ensure that sanity prevails in the areas where galamseyers are destroying the environment. The President does not go to those areas with soldiers and policemen to ensure discipline. Its up to your MMDAs in Akyim Abuakwa land to emulate the examples of the people of the Central and Western Regions, in this regard. Meanwhile it is on record that some prominent chiefs from the area are encouraging galamsey and are even enjoying the fruits from it. When the President was reported to have labeled the area as the capital of galamsey the Akyem Abuakwahene was on air castigating the President for doing so. To him the President has disrespected the people. Whither are we going???????
Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law 11 years ago

Like Rip Van Winkle, you just woke up from your cocaine infested sleep to feign serendipity about a problem that has existed in your backyard for four decades. Instead of being an agent for change, you have chosen to be a tri ...
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Like Rip Van Winkle, you just woke up from your cocaine infested sleep to feign serendipity about a problem that has existed in your backyard for four decades. Instead of being an agent for change, you have chosen to be a tribal warlord leading the charge in bigotry while Okyeman rots.
Kojo Billy Duncan 11 years ago

It is refreshing to read an article that redirects your "conniption, or anger" to improving the lives of the people in Kyebi and its environs.

It is refreshing to read an article that redirects your "conniption, or anger" to improving the lives of the people in Kyebi and its environs.
Chaskele boy 11 years ago

All those people and places you mentioned, are they as proud to be associated with you as you are with them?

All those people and places you mentioned, are they as proud to be associated with you as you are with them?
Kwesi 11 years ago

Okoampa left Ghana 1984 or 1985. For more than half his life, he has been living outside Ghana. He doesn't visit often. This man actually boasts of his long stay in the USA (i.e. long stay outside the motherland). Remember, S ...
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Okoampa left Ghana 1984 or 1985. For more than half his life, he has been living outside Ghana. He doesn't visit often. This man actually boasts of his long stay in the USA (i.e. long stay outside the motherland). Remember, SAS, that he accused you of being JJC!!!

Yet of all the writers on ghanaweb, he is the one who talks most authoritatively and in the greatest detail about Ghana - its past, present and future path.

This guy does not know much about Ghana. The Ghana Okoampa knows in detail is the Ghana of more than 30 years ago! His present knowledge of the country is based on what he reads online - ghanaweb, joyonline, citifm, internet ghana radios and snippets of information from people actually travelling there. And yet he writes commentaries on these on a daily basis! He is not in the country and still claims to know about everything in the country - even more than those in the country sef sef!
Cut the Crap ! 11 years ago

I read this with amusement :

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I feel a lot of anguish because I spent a considerable span of my childhood years in this great and naturally well-endowed sub-region of the country, including almost a ...
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I read this with amusement :

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I feel a lot of anguish because I spent a considerable span of my childhood years in this great and naturally well-endowed sub-region of the country, including almost all the towns mentioned by Mr. Mahama where Galamsey has taken a tragic toll on the lives of the residents. Kyebi, as most of my readers may already know, is my fatherland. I also began my formal education at the Kwabeng Presbyterian Primary School; and frequented the Anyinam health center, or clinic, as a malaria-afflicted patient while in the second grade at the Kankang (now Sekyere) Presbyterian Primary School.

Then also, Apedwa is where my mother's side of the family has been settled for several generations, having effectively moved out of Nkronso, partly for conjugal purposes, and partly as a result of post-Christian cultural disengagement. Osenasi was also one of the frequently visited pastoral stations ministered by my maternal grandfather, the Rev. T. H. Sintim (1896-1982), himself a bona fide native of Begoro on his mother's side of the family. And then, of course, Asiakwa is the font of my sociocultural and academic and civic upbringing.

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I would bet my bottom-dollar that most Ghanaians have never heard of these bush villages where Okoampa went to school.

His background of poverty , deprivation and backwardness explains an awful lot of his anger with himself and ethnic bigotry.

After going to schools nobody has ever heard of he ends up teaching at a community college most people would avoid like the plague !

Need I say more ?
Solomon Dormenyo Quist 11 years ago

To my knowledge, most land in Ghana resorts under the control of traditional leaders. If the status quo still prevails, is it not the responsibility of the Okyenhene and any other traditional leader for that matter, to ensure ...
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To my knowledge, most land in Ghana resorts under the control of traditional leaders. If the status quo still prevails, is it not the responsibility of the Okyenhene and any other traditional leader for that matter, to ensure that his subjects refrain from this nefarious activity?
Obournana 11 years ago

Some people especially, the NPP blinded followers only comment for politics sake or just have computers at home. You are right that lands in Ghana are under the control of the kings and they are the ones who sell them to thes ...
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Some people especially, the NPP blinded followers only comment for politics sake or just have computers at home. You are right that lands in Ghana are under the control of the kings and they are the ones who sell them to these galamsey operators but come out to blame the government just to divert attention.

SIMON 11 years ago

Since when did this tribal bigot realise that president Mahama is the constituionally elected president of this country? By the way, who cares about where you went to school? You are a waste of your father´s sperm. Bigot!

Since when did this tribal bigot realise that president Mahama is the constituionally elected president of this country? By the way, who cares about where you went to school? You are a waste of your father´s sperm. Bigot!
Joe Kojo 11 years ago

For once this guy has written something close to sensibility.

For once this guy has written something close to sensibility.
kwaku kwame 11 years ago

this fool is now begging the president to send men to stop Galamsey.why cant he ask nana to do so.Big fool.

this fool is now begging the president to send men to stop Galamsey.why cant he ask nana to do so.Big fool.
Kwesi 11 years ago

If "conniption" means the same thing as "anger", then why use both?

If "conniption" means the same thing as "anger", then why use both?
Yaw, Ofori-Attah. 11 years ago

Ahoofe, stop hiding your head in the sand. Wake up to the call and bring your idea home for improvement. I know you don't like being told the truth. May be psychologically, you have been caught out or the truth is simply too ...
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Ahoofe, stop hiding your head in the sand. Wake up to the call and bring your idea home for improvement. I know you don't like being told the truth. May be psychologically, you have been caught out or the truth is simply too much for you to handle. Be reall Ahoofe, tell me any other town in Ghana where the land and the environments have been worst destroyed than your beloved Kyebi? What action/s have your traditional leaders, head by the Okyehene, Amoatia, your MPs, district police, religious groups and the youth taken so far since the commencement of galamsey in Ghana?. Face the fact Ahoofe, the ball is in your court. You can choose to do nothing or just rain insults and irresponsible words on the President and others who will point at Kyebi as the headquarters of galamsey. After all the people of Kyebi know that this perception is positive unless you continue to play the infantile political game
asante 11 years ago

Prof. I wish you will always write like this. Congrats for eliciting the spirit of collaboration rather than your usual war-like effusions

Prof. I wish you will always write like this. Congrats for eliciting the spirit of collaboration rather than your usual war-like effusions
Kwame Yeboah 11 years ago

I now understand why this gentleman doesn't see anything good with others. Our elite are the nations downfall.

I now understand why this gentleman doesn't see anything good with others. Our elite are the nations downfall.
OKATAKYIE 11 years ago

By the way, how long did it take you to know the environmental destruction caused by Galamsey activities in your Okyeman? Hasn't this been going on for years? The Okyenhene, Osagyefo Amoatia Ofori-Panyin II, his sub-chiefs, ...
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By the way, how long did it take you to know the environmental destruction caused by Galamsey activities in your Okyeman? Hasn't this been going on for years? The Okyenhene, Osagyefo Amoatia Ofori-Panyin II, his sub-chiefs, and politicians from your neck of the wood encourage the Galamsey operations. They approve it, they profit financially from it.
Agonaba 11 years ago

Politics is always dirty.I'm sure almost all the regions have galamsay with some even higher than Akim Abuakwa,but don't forget where Nana Addo's back yard is,and therefore a little hit at him indirectly will lift his ego.

Politics is always dirty.I'm sure almost all the regions have galamsay with some even higher than Akim Abuakwa,but don't forget where Nana Addo's back yard is,and therefore a little hit at him indirectly will lift his ego.

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