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Close down all witch camps - Jon Benjamin

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  • FREDDIE 7 years ago

    It is very disgusting and disgraceful. They should be closed down immediately.

  • Abu 7 years ago

    But some of these women are mean and abusive. Throw urine on their house help.they physically abuse their own children.
    But anyway they don't deserve to be camped.

  • Koj 7 years ago

    A bit of joke and a bit of truth here. They are not called witches anymore, that’s old fashion used by only underdeveloped 3rd world countries. They are instead referred to as Yaa Num of even better High Ways Fuo, the appro ...
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  • OLD SOLDIER 7 years ago

    Author:- K Mensah .....
    It is very clear that incompetent president Mahama has lost it
    Was he not the same person who was saying he had immensely developed the Western Region and that Nana Addo was sleeping when he Nana Ad ...
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  • K Mensah 7 years ago

    Seriously, you need a check-up as a mental patient!
    Earlier the better for you to consult a psychiatrist to cure you!!

  • DR TRUTH 7 years ago

    EVEN IN PRESENT DAY COUNTRY OF MR BENJAMIN, WHICH IS UNITED KINGDOM, THERE ARE KNOWN WITCHES WHO EVEN HAVE THIER PUBLIC PLACE OF MEETINGS AND DO SOMETIMES ADVERTISE AT GOVT JOB CENTRES SEEKING FOR WORKERS WHO CAN TAKE CARE OF ...
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  • anang 7 years ago

    you are ignorant this is another form of discrimination how can they acuse a women witch

  • NO NONSENSE TAKER 7 years ago

    Now we are looking at the simple fact, pepeni have a long way to go.

  • HONESTY 7 years ago

    As we speak, the UK wants to break from the Human Rights convention and create her own British Bill of Rights because, well foreigners are enjoying human rights too much to the annoyance of the Superior race.
    The examples le ...
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  • Ghanababapa 7 years ago

    The wiches in UK do it by choice. He did not say do not practice wichcraft he said the camps are to be closed!
    The treatment to those volnerable people are uncalled for in today's century!
    The sad news is, it took an amba ...
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  • duodu 7 years ago

    You must be crazy. Call somebdy a witch in UK and risk paying damages or going to jail by nonpayment. Wake up ,boy.

  • ALL JONS ARE SAME LIKE MAHAMA 7 years ago

    YOU PEOPLE ALWAYS LIES TO WE THE AFRICAN IF IT DOES NOT EXIST HOW COME WE Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry IN YOUR COUNTRY? GO AND TELL THEM TO CLOSE THE SCHOOL

  • john duodu 7 years ago

    We are dealing here with a country filled with a lot of people living in the past, who do not care about public defecation,who simply throw garbage in to drains, who are followers of the so-called prophet Obinim, and are c ...
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  • Yaw Mensah, New York 7 years ago

    Why is this guy always meddling in our country's affairs?? Can our High Commissioner ask these clowns to stop giving Homosexuality the hype?
    This guy sickens me.He is anal to me as an African. They have witches in the UK and ...
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  • Atoklo 7 years ago

    Fools, go to the ant, learn it's ways and be wise. With this mentality we shall never develop. Do people torture and kill witches in the UK? Yaw Mensah, tell me how many witches have been burned in the UK or the USA. Like my ...
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  • $aint Ghfuo: Black Excellence !!! 7 years ago

    They soon forget that Christianity and witchcraft originated from these same brits....prior to this we Africans used to cherish our elderly. Christianity and witchcraft has foncused!

  • agyapee147 7 years ago

    lol l hope you have no history of the UK in respect of witchcraft. they used to be more wicked towards them than us.

  • Newsite Bansah 7 years ago

    I don't believe in witches either but we don't need this ambassador who is behaving like a colonial governor to tell us that.

    So Mr Ambassador, your Queen goes to church and believes in God. Is she in the 21st century or n ...
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  • Kwetteh 7 years ago

    We have no leadership on core issues. It's not his fault. Our leaders talk and do not care about the citizens. Do not shoot the messenger!

  • Bbb 7 years ago

    Nice one,freedom is life and is worthy.

  • AMARIYA 7 years ago

    No real(spiritual)witches exist. It is one ancient belief which perpetuate savagery against women. I always have a field day, arguing with some Ghanaians, even some educated ones the none-existence of witches.
    The belief in ...
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  • AMARIYA 7 years ago

    This man loves Ghana, I mean it.

  • Maame Grace. 7 years ago

    Obinim shouldn't be banned from travelling to any Western country

  • Maame Grace. 7 years ago

    Obinim should be banned from travelling to any Western country

  • Kolo 7 years ago

    I KNOW SOMEONE WHO WAS HARASSED BY WITCHES UNTIL SHE WAS DELIVERED. IN THE UK THE HAVE ANNUAL WITCHCRAFT CONFERENCES IN SOMERSET. PEOPLE PAY MONEY TO ATTEND. THIS MAN IS A LIAR

  • satanic church 7 years ago

    Traditional Satanism is not simply an inversion, but a complete rejection of the images of a
    0244908520particular culture, religion, or philosophy. From there a Satanist uses those images against the ethos itself, that was ...
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  • Dean_from_Ohio 7 years ago

    They certainly do experience a king...the king of demons. They are ever afternbound in spiritual chains by their fear of death. But the light and glory of Jesus Christ breaks every chain and sets people free from Satan, sin, ...
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  • MR 7 years ago

    This FOOL again! !!!

  • Joseph Cabo Verde Islands 7 years ago

    Mr.Jon try tell your people ,stop the same sex marriage. Go to U.K and close down the same sex marriage is a satanic cult. Is Abomination.

  • Bright M.M 7 years ago

    You are foolish man. Are you a ghanaian!! Go and tell your queen. Stupid man..do you know the harm witches cause in this country?? Cry your own cry and mind your own business. Babylon bastard..

  • afua 7 years ago

    Jon we are in the same
    camp for the first time.The gov. Shud also enforce widows inheriting their husbands as well as all women being given their fair share of inheritance be it from a father or husband.

  • Kwame USA 7 years ago

    I really appreciate that !!! My heart bleeds when l hear things like women being witches. We don't have common sense anymore in Ghana it will surprise you that those who patronise this are the well to do and educated ones in ...
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  • SPIRITUAL BULLDOZER 7 years ago

    But your heart dont bleed when briton and usa advocate for same sex marriage and guys.you see

  • apuuuu 7 years ago

    If there's laws and other or rules of laws in Ghana I don't think Ambassador Benjamin will have time to running his mouth the same goes to that idiot from Nigeria Dele Momodu who had time to talk nonsense ...
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  • ROSEMARY 7 years ago

    .... JOHNMAHAMA you are a huge hypocrite paaaaaaa...... After all the borrowing borrowings, you are now buying votes...... JOHNMAHAMA U have destroyed Ghana by overspending our national budget by a whooping 8.7 bn ghc or 4.3 ...
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  • ROSEMARY 7 years ago

    JOHNMAHAMA why are WITCHCAMPS PREVALENT IN NDC STRONGHOLDS at all..... It's simply because Ndc loves to keep people ignorant and vulnerable in order to exploit them for elections...... JOHNMAHAMA you are a huge hypocrite paaa ...
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  • Apple Sauce 7 years ago

    If there's no such thing as witch how come the name? I guess that name "witches camp" is what need to be changed because in Europe and America they have places they keep these old people and sick people were they feed,clothes ...
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  • Chief-USA 7 years ago

    Are we still under colonial rule. Though not a good thing to do in camping women branded as witches, I don't believe the Ghanaian ambassador in UK can just open his mouth and say anything anytime anyhow in UK. He should just ...
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  • not a begger 7 years ago

    When you become lazy and always depending on others, they will always tell you what to do. You have already proven to them your ignorance.

  • Ray. Spain. 7 years ago

    In as much as I agreed with Mr. Benjamin, he should also be giving equal attentions to the atrocities which his country the UK is subjecting poor and innocent souls in Yemen to, by indirectly supplying Arms and Ammunitions ...
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  • obele 7 years ago

    Jon Benjamin, just wait till these witches use ur red balls for pepper soup before u appreciate what they can do.

  • Power to power 7 years ago

    You are right only the poor women

  • Yaonono 7 years ago

    The issue is not with the camps but with the belief system in this country.The majority believe there are witches.Closing the camps would make things worse.They want be accepted back in their communities.

  • ttt Emmanuel. NALERIGU 7 years ago

    eiiiiii when will this happen in his country?

  • Abeam Danso 7 years ago

    U preferably need to re-jig ur comment,Jon. There are still witches in the 21st century. Possibly,the criteria being used to camp these women shud be re-appraised. Bt undoubtedly,there are witches in the 21st century,endlessl ...
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