'I survived on borrowed food' – Teacher reveals why he quit teaching for 'Okada' riding

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  • FRANKIE 2 days ago

    I don't doubt him for a minute! The Okada business is very lucrative and they won't trade it for anything. I deal with a lot of them so I know exactly what I'm saying.

  • Karikakchar 2 days ago

    It's terrible the way we take care of teachers. The highest paid teacher's pay is less than 15% of what's paid to a parliamentarian. That's sad, the resultant effect is thst they don't teach with a heart

  • Kwaku Tee 2 days ago

    The state has failed its citizens , we lack planning for the nation. Why do we train so many doctors teachers, nurses etc and at the end of their courses cannot engage them or even when they're employed the salary is scanty ...
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  • Ghanaman 1 day ago

    Another man borrowing yokogari on credit. Maybe he was also borrowing classroom chairs for his living room....reminds me of somebody.
    Well done bro, but please be very careful. I dont know anyone who has used a motorcycle fo ...
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  • ST GHFUO: Kwame Nkrumah International Airport 2 days ago

    Gh leaders are fools smh

  • POURFENDEUR DE LA CORRUPTION/ANTI CORRUPTION 2 days ago

    John Mahama promised teachers and nurses of port free cars and also housing for teachers and nurses. He lied for power. This promises would haunt John Mahama forever if he is unable to fulfill them.

  • Blue Pen 2 days ago

    Good for him. I only hope he is not overcharging the okada customers. Some of these okada guys demand abnormal amounts relative to the distances they cover.

  • Nonsense 2 days ago

    Was John Mahama the president of Ghana in 2022? Stupid idiot!

  • Kwaku Tee 2 days ago

    This has got nothing to do with President Mahama however I would blame PNDC. The Education Reforms of 1989 was not well done. They shd have forseen this. How I wish Ghana was a Federal State where each state could employ t ...
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  • Frank Agyena -Karikari. 2 days ago

    That would have been disastrous for some Geographical Regions. How would have Regions like the Volta, the Northern and Upper Regions employ and pay its workers? The Ashanti Region is rich and proposed for a Federal System of ...
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  • Ewvevi 2 days ago

    Agyena yakame mephimeh wvewve, you're free to have your opinions about Eves, but get it straight that the perception that we Eves also have about you akans is even more demeaning, so the perceptions are mutual. Kooorshia. How ...
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  • JJ RAWLINGS 6 - 0 @FRANK AGYENA-KWASIA-KWASIA 1 day ago

    SIX (6) YEARS ON, AND THE GREAT WARRIOR..... JJ RAWLINGS KEEPS WINNING HIS FIGHT AGAINST @FRANK AGYENA-KWASIA-KWASIA. AND THIS IS HAPPENING, EVEN AS HE LIES DOWN IN HIS FLOWERY GRAVE.

  • KOFI 1 day ago

    For Ghana to be a federal state? Ha ha ha

    Just look at Nigeria wai. Ha ha ha ha.

  • DU 1 day ago

    @Frank Agyena Karikari. What makes you thnk the asante region is rich over other regions? You have made a stupid comment demeaning northern Ghana. If you're rich are claim, why're you people trooping to europe and america in ...
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  • Kennedy Agyepong 2 days ago

    U are a liar. Mahama never promised free cars and houses to teachers and nurses. Can u tell us a country in the world where things are just so easy to get as u are saying?

  • Opon owusu 2 days ago

    He said port free not free cars

  • Frank Agyena -Karikari. 2 days ago

    There can never be free Ports and Harbours in Ghana. How can we maintain the Ports and Harbours if everything that passes through there is free. Never trust the Political jargon of our crooked, greedy and criminal Politicians ...
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  • JJ RAWLINGS 6 - 0 @FRANK AGYENA-KWASIA-KWASIA 1 day ago

    OH, AMANFUOR..... SIX (6) YEARS ON, AND THE GREAT WARRIOR..... JJ RAWLINGS KEEPS WINNING HIS FIGHT AGAINST @FRANK AGYENA-KWASIA-KWASIA.

    AND THIS IS HAPPENING, EVEN AS THE GREAT MAN LIES DOWN IN HIS FLOWERY GRAVE.

    CLAP ...
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  • Dk 2 days ago

    Read to understand. Again, kindly tone down your emotional outburst on public platforms.

  • Kofibee 2 days ago

    It's sad that even prison officers or walders are paid better than teachers and nurses. This is sad. That's why I also stopped teaching.

  • KOFI 1 day ago

    I was a teacher for a while during my National Service and i swore never ever to be a teacher in Ghana.

  • POURFENDEUR DE LA CORRUPTION/ANTI CORRUPTION 2 days ago

    @kennedy agyepong you brand me a liar? These things are verifiable. You can search John Mahama's campaign promise to trs and nurses. And come back and tell I'm lying

  • Peter 2 days ago

    You see oo, whey don't you pull it out to defend your case? After all he who alleges must come with a proof

  • Mwengu 2 days ago

    I'm proud of you my brother, Logan, for the bold decision you took. You won't regret it at all.

  • KALLI 2 days ago

    Ha,ha ha soon he'll buy a private jet!

  • KALLI 2 days ago

    Ha, ha ha soon he'll buy a private jet!

  • KALLI 2 days ago

    Ha, ha ha, very soon he'll buy a private jet!

  • Dpassy 2 days ago

    Great decision. All that you said about the living condition of the teacher are factual. Politicians apportion to themselves fat salaries at the expense of the Ghanaian worker especially the teacher. The result is that societ ...
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  • Frank Agyena -Karikari. 2 days ago

    I am a Professional Teacher but we could have helped ourselves to be paid better. Just PRETEND TO PAY THE TEACHERS AS IT IS BEING DONE NOW AND LET THE TEACHERS ALSO PRETEND TO TEACH. We shall finally see who shall suffer. Tea ...
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  • JJ RAWLINGS 6 - 0 @FRANK AGYENA-KWASIA-KWASIA 1 day ago

    KWASIA BOY...!!!!! A PROFESSIONAL TEACHER WHO ONLY KNOWS HOW TO WRITE LONG THESES & ROTTEN SHIT...???? ONYAAYE GBEMI...!!!! DO YOU GET TO TEACH YOUR PUPILD ANYTHING ABOUT SUMMARY WRITING..???? ODWANN..!!!!!

  • Konfo 2 days ago

    I hope you are saving for any accident that might happen during your okada profession, and for your old age days. You have to know, there's no retirement remittance for you.

  • Yaaaa 2 days ago

    Fool. A teacher could also be inolved in an accident whilst walking or in trotro
    o to sukuu

  • Atoapoma Abransamadu 2 days ago

    @Yaaaa: A teacher will still be paid if involved in an accident or sick. He / she will also receive a pension if even his / her appointment is even terminated for a reason! I don't think quiting teaching was the best option, ...
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  • Kk 1 day ago

    Nice reply

  • Nyameye 2 days ago

    Parliamentarians raised their salary recently from 30000 to 60000. What a shit country. What do they do better?

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  • At least we're enjoying a stable economy 1 day ago

    Sam, stop deceiving the public!

  • Fuseini Bawa 2 days ago

    The fact remains clear classroom teachers do not have any better allowances attached to their basic or net salaries. Many teachers work from hand to mouth and as a result of inadequate monthly salaries many of them are unable ...
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  • Rasta 2 days ago

    The risks in police service & teaching are they the same? Have you checked the number of police people who die in operations as compare to number of teachers who die in classrooms? How many times do you stand in the scorching ...
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  • Oneday Oneday 2 days ago

    Congratulations to you my brother Logan for making the best decision. We live in a country where our leaders careless about Teachers and Nurses. Even a police officer with only WASCCE certificate earns higher than teachers an ...
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  • Rasta 2 days ago

    The risks in police service & teaching are they the same? Have you checked the number of police people who die in operations as compare to number of teachers who die in classrooms? How many times do you stand in the scorching ...
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  • OZYMANDIAS 2 days ago

    So many teachers like him will quit their jobs out of frustration. The NDC has made the profession unattractive and unbearable for so many teachers with most of them not being paid for more than 18 months.

  • Dont burn bridges 2 days ago

    Okada business might be good today, but remember , its is only good when you are healthy and young. It has no pension and if you run into an accident(God forbid) there is not insurance to take care of you. Thankfully you stil ...
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  • GABRIEL OWARE 2 days ago

    May GOD CONTINUE TO EMPOWER YOU TO BECOME billionaire.

  • Rasta 2 days ago

    It Was his decision, but he should not compare teaching and Okada ridding. The risk factors associated with the 2 professions are totally different
    1. Injuries are very high in okada
    2. Death is very close in okada
    3. No ...
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  • Chief 2 days ago

    As a teacher, I can only admit the reality/pain in silence but I praise Logan for bold decision. His testimony alone will remain a reference to future discussions on teachers' remuneration

  • Rasta 2 days ago

    It Was his decision, but he should not compare teaching and Okada ridding. The risk factors associated with the 2 professions are totally different
    1. Injuries are very high in okada
    2. Death is very close in okada
    3. No ...
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  • King Kong 2 days ago

    Most okada riders are thieves. No okada rider can build a house in one if he does his job genuinely. There is more to his source of wealth. Anyway those blaming Mahama should know that he was not the president in 2022

  • Sasabronsam 1 day ago

    Most Ghanaians are thieves and profiteer from their work duping customers at their most vulnerable moments. Okada fares don't make sense to me so I avoid okada and take trotro or taxi if they are available. I have used okada ...
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  • Tonyb 2 days ago

    In Ghana a lot of people earn revenue without paying tax and his expose is betraying them

  • Sasabronsam 1 day ago

    Yes. Unless customers are paying through channels GRA can track, no taxes can be collected. Easy money.

  • Baafour 2 days ago

    The stupidity of some Ghanaians is beyond human comprehension, we turn everything into politics and at the end if the day, no problem solved. The teacher unions are a waste and the earlier they get serious, the better. The fe ...
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  • Sam Fante warrior 2 days ago

    Education is nothing in Ghana if you don't join the politics. Only politicians and big men in high position are making it in Ghana. Let's pray for God kingdom to come on Earth.

  • ESSENTIAL WORKERS INCLUDING TEACHERS HAVE NEVER BEEN YAKEN DERIOUSLY IN GHANA. WE ARE PAYING A VERY HEAVY PRICE FOR THIS ATTITUDE. 1 day ago

    Successive goverments with the exception of Kwame Nkrumah have failed to acknowledge the critical importance of ESSENTIAL WORKERS in the development of Ghana.
    Countries like Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam all started at the sa ...
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  • ESSENTIAL WORKERS. WO ARE THEY AND WHY ARE THEY CRITICAL FOR A NATION'S DEVELOPMENT? 1 day ago

    Essential workers are individuals who provide the foundational services necessary to keep a society, economy, and public health system functioning during normal times and emergencies. According to definitions by bodies like t ...
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  • Ayewater 1 day ago

    I don’t doubt him. My advice to him however, is that, he should take a personal insurance for himself, and enroll on the SSNIT Pension or any other scheme of his choice to prepare for his retirement/old age.

  • Kojo say 1 day ago

    It’s sad but that’s his reward for the risk he is taking. Even people who have left their banking job to do uber or bolt are earning more than their former colleagues.
    Yes teachers are not paid well, so everyone will sa ...
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  • Quick money generation 1 day ago

    Logan was only seeing today. He could have diversified his intellectual resource into another venture to bring him extra income. Quick money syndrome without considering going through process is the bane of today's generatio ...
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  • DU 1 day ago

    As for our policians, it's God who'll deal with them. You decided to increase MPs salaries by 100% from 15k to 30k and now to 60k, with many other accompanying allowances, yet the average salary of a public/civil servant can ...
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  • Kennedy Agyepong 1 day ago

    If it was me l would have kept quiet and not to expose myself in the media. I remember in 1990s, a policeman was exporting round logs to far east countries while he was still in the service. He got a lot of money. That was in ...
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  • OSAFO KANTANKA 1 day ago

    I wonder the kind of “JOB” his mother who bought the LAND did to make money to buy the land he has built on? Teaching is NOT that “BAD” if you Live within your means and plan properly.

  • That's why the Okada drivers chop more ladies 1 day ago

    Because cash dey waaaaa !

  • A 1 day ago

    On other hand I know a lot of hardworking teachers who have been able to put up mansions and a lot of Okada riders who are living 8n kiosks and uncomplicated buildings

  • NMG 1 day ago

    I DONT BLAME HIM AT ALL

  • MELO 1 day ago

    Teaching is a cursed profession in Ghana especially for a man .

  • Augustina QuaysonP 1 day ago

    Oh No, Melo, Teaching is a noble profession.

  • Thunderstorm 1 day ago

    Ghana is a joke !
    l left Ghana 50yrs ago, and have never looked back. A country where you would suffer and then die with nothing to be proud of, except that we are Blacks Stars.
    Blacks Stars my foot, I am starving and stru ...
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  • NDC NPP SAME DEVILy 1 day ago

    Nana addo told us a bitter truth. The teaching profession in ghana is cursed. Every teacher that quits and choose any job I mean any job atall he or she prosper. U can check the history