'Deportation is a free ride home' - Azar chides government over decision to prosecute foreign galamseyers

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  • Orion Consult 8 months ago

    TEACH IN CANADA..,,

    An International NGOs based CANADA need both qualified and unqualified teachers who can teach orphans and disabled children basic ( English, Maths, Science & IT)
    The NGOs are paying for the expenses in ...
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  • Mr Bob Jnr 8 months ago

    Jail them and use them to clean our cities, and also build our roads. If not every criminal will come knowing that their only punishment is free ride home. That is sick!

  • Osabarima 8 months ago

    so far the DUMBEST decision by JDM and it must be rescinded this very moment.

  • tweeeeeeaaaaaaa 8 months ago

    WHO BROUGHT THEM TO THE COUNTRY? GHANA'S LEADERS VERY SHAMEFUL.
    AND GALAMSEY CANNOT STOP IN GHANA, THEN WE HAVE FOOLISH LEADERS

  • DDT 8 months ago

    Those bastard's must be made to filled up the pits with their bare hands and replant the place before deportation. You cannot continue to waste taxpayers money to deport people who you can not quarantine whether they will not ...
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  • Steve Kaye London 8 months ago

    Ghanaians have voted for criminals, so they are also engaged in all kinds of criminal activities, including galamsey, importation of cocaine and money laundering.
    All those Chinese involved in galamsey were brought in by the ...
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  • General 8 months ago

    Small boys are young, Simple the government in power and it's party people will be bringing the foreigners to work for them,if they are caught what they have already worked for they give them their share and take the large su ...
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  • Akajatayogogo 8 months ago

    Azar you're a fool,a big Fool

  • Abu 8 months ago

    Didn't President Mahama accused Former President Akuffo Addo of not prosecuting illegal Chinese miners before deportation. What has changed? They should come again .

  • Asante 8 months ago

    Just reminds me when South Africa used to deport so many foreign migrants in December each year.They get a free ride and come back in January

  • Azarico 8 months ago

    Rubbish, they should be deported because they wicked criminals who do not deserve to live among us

  • Kusi 8 months ago

    The reasoning is unacceptable. Have we forgotten some Ghanaians are in jail because of galamsy. This is what happens when you fail to develop your country.

  • MANSA 8 months ago

    AKAYATAJOGOGO OR WHATEVER YOU CALL YOURSELF, AN INFERIOR PERSON LIKE YOU. TODAY YOU ARE INSULING AZAR WHO HELPED MAHAMA TO BECOME PRESIDENT. YOU ARE A TWERP. FOOLISH CORRUPT PERSON LIKE YOU. STUPID FOOL. I DONT BLAME YOU. T ...
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  • Saul 8 months ago

    At least deport and ban them from ever stepping foot in Ghana or face the death sentence

  • Kwaku Ampofo Okasu 8 months ago

    This tells you that the NDC Government is a scam. A foreigner comes to your country to engage in illegal business to the extent of destroying your environment including your water bodies. And all that you say is to deport the ...
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  • KWABENA KASAPREKO. 8 months ago

    IT IS ONLY PEOPLE WHO REFER TO THEMSELVES AS "AZAR--"AZAAR-MEN"--FRAUDSTERS, WHO WILL REFUTE A DECISION BY OUR GHANA GOVERNMENT TO PROSECUTE "GALAMSEYERS." GHANA GOVERNMENT SHOULD STOP "GALAMSEY"--ILLEGAL MINING AND THE DES ...
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  • Bunn 8 months ago

    We pay for free ride after destroying our environment.Anokwaa Ghana paa

  • Niimoi 8 months ago

    I totally agree with the Prof. The Minister may have to rethink.

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  • Martin A 8 months ago

    A foreign galasemseyer caught breaking the law should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law and then sent to prison. A prison sentence should be followed by deportation. It makes no sense to apprend and deport the fo ...
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  • KofSam 8 months ago

    Mahama’s administration is showing weakness in their decisions on national issues.
    Galamsey has been a menace which has proven difficult to eradicate. This administration has promised to fight galamsey head on but it looks ...
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  • MUMU FOOT SOLDIERS 8 months ago

    How can jist deport someone destroying your lands illegally? This NDC, NPP are afraid of manhandling the Chinese.

  • Kwesi 8 months ago

    Trump's behavior has prompted this current government to think twice. If Trump disappoints Ghana with his economic policies, the next country to turn to is China (who we already owe so much and can't pay). So if we start PROS ...
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  • Blaise mwinkyebakangbuobukaraa 8 months ago

    That's the fact. I don't even understand this government and its slow motion.
    How is galamsey still thriving when it's one of the main reasons Ghanaians voted out those who were perpetrating the menace?
    There are accusation ...
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  • Ghana man 8 months ago

    Some time we need to try abut to think deep , we all know that the foreigners don’t get to those sit alone it was our people that brought them . If our people doesn’t welcome them you can fine them . Chinese paid for thos ...
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  • Samurai 8 months ago

    Instead of giving them the maximum fine and 25 years in prison, you are giving them a free ride home only for them to return with more of their friends. You want to end it, make it unattractive for anyone to engage in it.

  • Kwame 8 months ago

    Pass a law that any foreigner involved in galamsey will be prosecuted and if found guilty shall be hanged.

  • Osei-Rotterdam 8 months ago

    Very disgusting and disappointing statement from muntaka that foreign galamsayers sent to their country but Ghanaians face the full impact of the law. So,the ndc government is telling you or told you to do illegal mining but ...
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  • Kwam 8 months ago

    Even though no the best, if we to doing this deportation policy, all the foreign illegal miners will have let their foot prints off Ghana. Because they are the real kingpins.

  • Bone crusher 8 months ago

    Is very easy to stop galamsey, there can be no mining on any land without the knowledge of the land owners and the chiefs, let them be the once paying the price for allowing galamsey to take place on their land, if few chiefs ...
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  • Abdul 8 months ago

    The government is not serious,we all know which foreign nationals come to do galamsay in the country,for example a Chinese coming to Ghana to do galamsay unbelievable and we can't do anything about it,seriously,it's time to t ...
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  • Muntaka 8 months ago

    What is the basis for taking any action if not prosecution? How can we ensure that foreigners engaged in legitimate business will not be equally targeted for deportation without first establishing their guilt?

  • Kwame Peter 8 months ago

    Ghana has got some professors too oooh,is this not Prof Azar who was busily campaigning for John Mahama? What did he know or see before doing that? Just hatred for Nana Addo? He shout just allow Ghanaians to manage themselves ...
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  • Kwame Peter 8 months ago

    Can somebody tell me the mystery about excavators that government cannot ban them from Ghana, without excavators and Chanfan the havoc being caused will stop, but the Minister,Armah-Kofi Buah says they cannot be banned so Gha ...
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