VIDEO- How Ghana's Gold Resources are Being Illegally Exploited By Chinese Peasants in Ghana

Source : GLU
Folks,

According to minelinks Ghana's Obuasi mine alone has produced more than 25 million ounces of GOLD, (Sika Koookooo) since its inception in the 1890's, how much of this resource has benefited local people or the nation of Ghana ?

Our relationship with foreigners, who most of the time have their HEADS SCREWED ON , has not changed in 400 years. They stimulate our passions by the introduction of useless wants and fancies and we take our eyes OFF THE BALL, whilst they cart away our resources leaving us poor and desperate.

Another SAD example of leadership failure in Ghana ?

I wish to share with you about how our taxes are supporting our leaders in dignified idleness whilst foreigners rape and pillage our resources for free and we suffer for lack of the basic necessities of life.

Just look at how Peasant Chinese Gold Miners have invaded our rural areas in Ghana with impunity, and hauling out huge amounts of resources free of charge back to their country whilst our people loose their farmlands and left with poisoned environment and lost lands.

This is been happening for years Whilst our leaders wallop in the FONDNESS FOR SHOW AND PARADE, AND POMPOSITY, the Chinese have arrived. I must admit it is not only them, the others are even worse. At least the Chinese give us something back.

Tell me after watching this clip "WHERE IS THE LEADERSHIP" in Ghana.? Who is responsible, for running the country and policing and protecting the environment ?

Who is responsible for making sure Foreigners who come into the country obey our laws ?

Who is responsible for making sure that the correct taxes are paid and the nation gets its fair share of the resources for national development ?


Who is responsible for making sure the local government in these areas are on top of things ?

What is Government for ?

Who is responsible for unearthing unethical things in our country ? The journalists are not even interested, they will rather chase after "sensation" and insults in radio and television stations

The simple fact is No one is.

Investigative journalism is alive and well but sadly it is not in the studios of GBC or TV3.

Watch this Video clip from France 24 about the rape of Ghana's resources and when you go to church tomorrow please pray for our dear country.

Where is the Leadership, I hear you say, they cant even safegaurd the little resources we have!

Video Clip

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Folks

The Diorderliness and lack of Management of Everything in Ghana is just getting TOO MUCH but what can we do ?

As I keep saying "Knowledge is Every thing"

Regards

Two top Nigerian politicians charged with theft: official

Dimeji Bankole, pictured in January. By Pius Utomi Ekpei (AFP/File)


ABUJA (AFP) - Two former leaders of Nigeria's lower house of parliament faced a 17-count charge of theft and the misappropiation of 241 million dollars in bank loans in an Abuja court Monday, prosecutors said.

Dimeji Bankole, the ex-speaker of the House of Representatives, and his deputy, Usman Nafada, were charged with a "fresh 17 count charge of criminal breach of trust, misappropriating and theft", anti-graft police EFCC said.

Both former parlimentarians, who were arrested on June 5 and June 12 respectively, were alleged to have obtained the 37.7 billion naira (241 million dollar, 168 million euro) loans and disbursed the amount as allowances to legislators in violation of the law, the EFCC said in a statement.

The Revenue Mobilization, Allocation and Fiscal Commission is the official government agency that fixes salaries and allowances of government officials.

According to the charge, the politicians' "dishonestly" used the parliament's account to obtain the loans which were paid out to the legislators "to augment their allowances and 'running costs'" in violation of government financial regulations.

The prosecutors accused them of theft because they allegedly agreed to approve these allowances to legislators without the consent and approval of the Commission.

Bankole and Nafada pleaded not guilty to these charges and were ordered remanded in custody of the EFCC, the agency said.

Bankole had on Wednesday at the Federal High Court in Abuja pleaded innocent to 16 charges of fraud laid against him.

He and other leaders of the former parliament had been accused of misappropriating nine billion naira in inflated contracts.

Nigerian 'baby factory' raided, 32 teenage girls freed

Source: AFP

LAGOS (AFP) - Nigerian police have raided a home allegedly being used to force teenage girls to have babies that were then offered for sale for trafficking or other purposes, authorities said on Wednesday.

"We stormed the premises of the Cross Foundation in Aba three days ago following a report that pregnant girls aged between 15 and 17 are being made to make babies for the proprietor," said Bala Hassan, police commissioner for Abia state in the country's southeast.

"We rescued 32 pregnant girls and arrested the proprietor who is undergoing interrogation over allegations that he normally sells the babies to people who may use them for rituals or other purposes."

Some of the girls told police they had been offered to sell their babies for between 25,000 and 30,000 naira (192 dollars) depending on the sex of the baby.

The babies would then be sold to buyers for anything from 300,000 naira to one million naira (1,920 and 6,400 dollars) each, according to a state agency fighting human trafficking in Nigeria, the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP).

The girls were expected to be transferred to the regional NAPTIP offices in Enugu on Wednesday, the regional head Ijeoma Okoronkwo told AFP.

Hassan said the owner of the "illegal baby factory" is likely to face child abuse and human trafficking charges. Buying or selling of babies is illegal in Nigeria and can carry a 14-year jail term.

"We have so many cases going on in court right now," said Okoronkwo.

In 2008, police raids revealed an alleged network of such clinics, dubbed baby "farms" or "factories" in the local press.

Cases of child abuse and people trafficking are common in West Africa. Some children are bought from their families to for use as labour in plantations, mines, factories or as domestic help.

Others are sold into prostitution while a few are either killed or tortured in black magic rituals. NAPTIP says it has also seen a trend of illegal adoption.

"There is a problem of illict adoption and people not knowing the right way to adopt children," said Okoronkwo.

Human trafficking is ranked the third most common crime after economic fraud and drug trafficking in the country, according to UNESCO.

Kudos, Cuban Doctors

Source: - Daily Graphic

For quite some time now health workers, especially doctors from Cuba, have been working tirelessly to extend healthcare services to the doorstep of Ghanaians.

Cuban doctors have accepted posting to all parts of the country, particularly the three northern regions and the most deprived districts, so that our people in need of critical care can have access to health care.

The level of care and love shown by the Cuban doctors is quite amazing because our own kinsmen who were trained with the taxpayers’ money sometimes turn their backs on requests to serve in rural communities.

It is no secret that the doctor/patient ratio in the country does not measure up to the world's standards and the situation is further aggravated by the refusal of some health workers to work in areas where their services are badly needed.

One critical mandate or charge imposed on doctors when they take the Hippocratic Oath is to try as much as possible to save lives, no matter the circumstance, because life is an inviolable right.

The activities of health workers, including doctors, sometimes leave a sour taste in the mouths of ordinary people who suffer most when medical practitioners desert the health facilities in protest against poor conditions of service.

It is said that no army marches on an empty stomach. The same holds true for health workers who have to maintain themselves and their families and, therefore, need to be adequately rewarded by their employers to maintain their keep.

Indeed, doctors and their colleagues in the health profession are held in high esteem by members of society because of their critical role in ensuring that the people stay healthy at all times.

This high regard for the medical profession can be reciprocated by health professionals pledging not to go on strike, no matter the provocation.

Strikes by health workers in the past caused so much pain and anguish to some members of the public who lost relations and friends as a result, although our laws prohibit strikes by all essential services, including health services.

Society is, however, obliged to take good care of these critical professionals, so that they will not join the brain drain but stay in the country to contribute their quota to nation-building.

The Daily Graphic believes that Cuban doctors who travel from their country to serve our people in remote areas can serve as role models, particularly for young doctors.

The decision by the government to include health workers in the National service Scheme will go a long way to address the shortfall of doctors in the rural areas.

During his interaction with Cuban doctors at the Castle in Accra last Friday, President J.E.A. Mills commended them for their dedication and commitment to duty in Ghana.

'I have been around for some time and what amazes me is your dedication to work. Without your support, we will have difficulty in our health services,' the President said.

The Executive endorsement of the contribution of the Cuban doctors to our healthcare delivery system should be a challenge to Ghanaian doctors to be more nationalistic in their outlook.

Never again should they refuse posting to the rural areas and thereby expose our hardworking farmers and others in the rural setting to poor healthcare services.

The Daily Graphic hopes to witness more collaboration between Ghana and Cuba in the years ahead, especially as more Cuban doctors help address the health needs of our people.

Libyan troops fire rockets into Tunisia

TUNIS (Reuters) – Libyan troops fired Grad rockets from positions controlled by Muammar Gaddafi over the border into Tunisia on Tuesday, witnesses said, in an assault likely to raise already high tensions between the two countries.

The explosions caused no damage or injuries.

The last time Libyan forces fired rockets into Tunisia, on May 17, the Tunisian government threatened to report Libya to the U.N. Security Council for committing "enemy actions."

"At least five rockets fell on Tunisian soil today in the Mrabeh. It was a heavy bombardment from Gaddafi's side of the mountains," said resident Mohammed Nagez, a local trader.

Anti-Gaddafi rebels control the border with Tunisia along Libya's Western Mountains region.

Another local trader, who could only be identified by his first name, Morad, said there had been a "heavy bombardment that started last night and still hasn't stopped."

A local police officer, who could not be named, said Tunisian security forces feared the rockets might hit the main border crossing at Wazen, where thousands of people are often gathered at any one time.