Video: The plight of rented children in Ghana

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BB 9 years ago

stupit ghana politicians all they care about is to winning elections because of their stomach

stupit ghana politicians all they care about is to winning elections because of their stomach
Fedup 9 years ago

And wasting money on fruitless things. CHRAJ boss still living in a hotel with the bill being paid by taxpayers while the very poor remain neglected.

And wasting money on fruitless things. CHRAJ boss still living in a hotel with the bill being paid by taxpayers while the very poor remain neglected.
NO NONSENSE TAKER 9 years ago

Don't be surprised, we are dealing with the common sense value of pepeni. I have never and will never forgive "Pepeni born ayigbes" for wasting our hard giving free education. Just look around their own communities and you co ...
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Don't be surprised, we are dealing with the common sense value of pepeni. I have never and will never forgive "Pepeni born ayigbes" for wasting our hard giving free education. Just look around their own communities and you couldn't doubt what you would have for a president. We would sooner difend these innocent children by any means necessary. To confront these challenges we need to look how pepeni, ayigbes and as well as their mixed offsprings, the zongo boys value their senses to conditions around them. I can tell you, these are not ordinary matters but real matters of facts
PRINCE KWASI ADADE (OFIE) 9 years ago

DR. BAWUMIA:-----------
“In the last six years, the NDC has borrowed US$27 billion. Before that, we, the NPP, borrowed a total of US$5.5 billion in eight years. Compare that to the NDC borrowing $27 billion in six years an ...
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DR. BAWUMIA:-----------
“In the last six years, the NDC has borrowed US$27 billion. Before that, we, the NPP, borrowed a total of US$5.5 billion in eight years. Compare that to the NDC borrowing $27 billion in six years and ask yourself what they have done with all that money,” the running mate to Nana Akufo-Addo said.

He said, though a lot more money has been spent, it is a paradox of economic management that this level of excessive spending has only led to greater hardships being visited on the people.

“NDC inherited a public debt stock of GHS9.5 billion in 2009,” the former Deputy Governor of the central bank said. “Today, Ghana’s debt has gone up to GHS65.7 billion. So when I say the stakes are high I am talking about the destiny of our country, Ghana, the future of the youth.”

“The NDC has been taxing everything, including condoms and cutlasses. In terms of resources, this NDC government has had more resources than any other government. We did not have oil. Yet, Ghanaians know what we did with the limited resources we had. We spent money responsibly to create the NHIS, introduce Capitation Grant, expand access to education, we spent wisely on infrastructure and built more roads than any other government,” he said.
wazzup 9 years ago

Can you please stop this tribalism since it is of no use to build a country, unity is strength, just go straight and give a civilized suggestion, thanks

Can you please stop this tribalism since it is of no use to build a country, unity is strength, just go straight and give a civilized suggestion, thanks
DOTSE SEDEM. (TEELL THEEM)Ho 9 years ago

U senseless period. instead of u bringing out comments which will affect our country positively, u are there insulting tribes. I wonder how u take decisions on ur own cos u are empty headed

U senseless period. instead of u bringing out comments which will affect our country positively, u are there insulting tribes. I wonder how u take decisions on ur own cos u are empty headed
MENSA 9 years ago

AND ALLOW THIS SLAVERY "RENTED" BULL-SHIT TO TAKE PLACE IN GHANA.
THIS KIDS SHULD BE IN SCHOOL STUDYING NOT BEING SLAVES OUT THERE
I AM ASHAME TO BE GANAIN NOW DAYS

AND ALLOW THIS SLAVERY "RENTED" BULL-SHIT TO TAKE PLACE IN GHANA.
THIS KIDS SHULD BE IN SCHOOL STUDYING NOT BEING SLAVES OUT THERE
I AM ASHAME TO BE GANAIN NOW DAYS
Mahmoud 9 years ago

All our taxes have been used in paying for luxurious hotel bill for useless women. They are all vampires devouring the future of this country.

All our taxes have been used in paying for luxurious hotel bill for useless women. They are all vampires devouring the future of this country.
Obaayaa 9 years ago

This is what Oye Lithur should be doing or has she not heard of it. Than going round distributing money to old people. She should rather go and help these kids. Minister for Gander and children Affiars, the children are wai ...
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This is what Oye Lithur should be doing or has she not heard of it. Than going round distributing money to old people. She should rather go and help these kids. Minister for Gander and children Affiars, the children are waiting for you.
Wofa Yaw 9 years ago

This is a very sad Piece. I spoke with the Producer of this Video footage to get more Facts. He himself has been a victim of this modern day slavery about 30 years ago and had the luck to be saved by a good samaritan. He had ...
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This is a very sad Piece. I spoke with the Producer of this Video footage to get more Facts. He himself has been a victim of this modern day slavery about 30 years ago and had the luck to be saved by a good samaritan. He had contacted . Ministry for Gander and children Affiars and they appear to be not interested.
Fellow Ghanaians what can we do to save these innocent children. Left to the government alone the Kids will perish
0506182344 9 years ago

Mark my words. Its a great you have done. hope our leaders respond positively.

Mark my words. Its a great you have done. hope our leaders respond positively.
Foster 9 years ago

Where is oye luthor.
This is modern day slavery.

Where is oye luthor.
This is modern day slavery.
Boamah Gyamerah 9 years ago

Thank you very much for this piece of work. It is really great and educative not the usual copy work the reportage on child labour in West Africa by Europeans. Because of the Reportage on European TV, child labour is believed ...
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Thank you very much for this piece of work. It is really great and educative not the usual copy work the reportage on child labour in West Africa by Europeans. Because of the Reportage on European TV, child labour is believed by even Ghanaians to be in the Cocoa industry. Being a son of a cocoa farmer who grew up in the cocoa producing area. I know that all the farmers depended on the services of their children during school holidays and either saturday or sunday depending on whether they go to church on saturday or sunday and very early morning before classes begins to bring the cocoa seeds home from the farms. This for me is understandable from the exploited farmers point of view and by no means be classified as child labour employed by wicked parents but if anything institunalized child labour by the state which prevent the farmers to sell the cocoa at the market and price of the choice to at least cover their high labour cost. More so when the farmers and their children are denied all services of the state from security, eduction,health, housing, water, sanitation, market, transportation both road and rail, sporting facilities etc. I never knew there is rented child labour in Ghana talkless of thinking of Child labour in the animal husbandary and fishing industry. It will be great and very educative if you can extend you good work to other areas especially the Cocoa industry and the house work (Maid servants) shoe shine, buying and selling and give it a large publication if possible internationally. Once again keep you good work up to change the situation of the exploited Ghanaians.
LET'S PUT GHANA FIRST OO! 9 years ago

awww ayigbe! you guys see all these and you still voted for NDC....is it witchcraft or what?..........hmmmm, just wondering........no offence please!

awww ayigbe! you guys see all these and you still voted for NDC....is it witchcraft or what?..........hmmmm, just wondering........no offence please!
Sakawa Churches 9 years ago

This problem is everywhere in Ghana. Aboa

This problem is everywhere in Ghana. Aboa
Vodoo Xebieso 9 years ago

Bastard animal shit consumer. Just mind your business and continue raping the giant she-apes in your forests.

Bastard animal shit consumer. Just mind your business and continue raping the giant she-apes in your forests.
DABENDA 9 years ago

I WISH EVERY CONTRIBUTER EXPRESSED SOMETHING BETTER THAN INSULTS. LOOK AT THOSE CHILDREN AND THEIR FUTURE. LET US BE SYMPATHETIC AND OFFER FERTILE SUGGESTIONS THAT CAN HELP THEM. WHEN WILL PEOPLE IN HOSE AREAS EVER LEARN WHAT ...
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I WISH EVERY CONTRIBUTER EXPRESSED SOMETHING BETTER THAN INSULTS. LOOK AT THOSE CHILDREN AND THEIR FUTURE. LET US BE SYMPATHETIC AND OFFER FERTILE SUGGESTIONS THAT CAN HELP THEM. WHEN WILL PEOPLE IN HOSE AREAS EVER LEARN WHAT IS MEANT BY PLANNING THE FUTURE OF THEIR CHILDREN?--DABENDA
SHAKA 9 years ago

Whats next after they have served their time; armed Robery recruitment..

Whats next after they have served their time; armed Robery recruitment..
Egya Blay 9 years ago

I thought slavery has been eliminated in Ghana. Hmmm! With the numerous resources, thats what we are seeing. I don't think ballot boxes should be sent out to these places.What is wrong with the blackman? NUMEROUS QUESTIONS ST ...
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I thought slavery has been eliminated in Ghana. Hmmm! With the numerous resources, thats what we are seeing. I don't think ballot boxes should be sent out to these places.What is wrong with the blackman? NUMEROUS QUESTIONS STILL LINGERING ON MY MIND.
STEVOOOO... 9 years ago

Imagine 45 million dollars stolen for WOYOME,..... 94 million euros stolen for CP........, ABLKWAH asking poor Ghanaians to pay 1.5 billion dollars to Africa Auto Ltd for dubious judgment debts........ SADA....... SUBAH...... ...
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Imagine 45 million dollars stolen for WOYOME,..... 94 million euros stolen for CP........, ABLKWAH asking poor Ghanaians to pay 1.5 billion dollars to Africa Auto Ltd for dubious judgment debts........ SADA....... SUBAH.......... GYEEDA....... RLG/NDC CRIMINALITY COSTING GHANAIANS millions of dollars........ ETC ETC etc........ NDC IRONICALLY has poorest areas of Ghana as their strongholds..... YET NDC CONTINUE TO CREATE LOOT AND SHARE WHICH ALSO KEEPS DEEPENING POVERTY OF THE FUTURE OF OUR CHILDREN...... KICK NDC OUT NOW.....
Solo Pobee, Accra 9 years ago

This is pure illiteracy at the highest order. Nana Oye much arrange for the arrest of the parents.

This is pure illiteracy at the highest order. Nana Oye much arrange for the arrest of the parents.
STEVOOOO... 9 years ago

When NDC steals precious money through gyeeda sada subah fake judgement debts, do we expect parents to get the good paying jobs to raise the kids....... When thieves are in power, EVERYTHING DETERIORATES...... BLAME NDC FOR ...
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When NDC steals precious money through gyeeda sada subah fake judgement debts, do we expect parents to get the good paying jobs to raise the kids....... When thieves are in power, EVERYTHING DETERIORATES...... BLAME NDC FOR INCREASING HARDSHIPS .. ...
Asiwome 9 years ago

Are they any different from child actors and models? Unfortunately, we live in a world where people must depend on others for their livelihood, so wherever goes the parent so goes the child. We must help parents to nourish an ...
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Are they any different from child actors and models? Unfortunately, we live in a world where people must depend on others for their livelihood, so wherever goes the parent so goes the child. We must help parents to nourish and educate their children without having to take handouts.
YOUNGEST 9 years ago

today's leaders are only concern of themselves @ de expense of de future leaders

today's leaders are only concern of themselves @ de expense of de future leaders
Owonta 9 years ago

I never thought such wickedness cld exist in our motherland. A million thanks to this writer for bringing this out n is our responsibilities to take it from here. I believe the children ministry and also labour , rural n ot ...
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I never thought such wickedness cld exist in our motherland. A million thanks to this writer for bringing this out n is our responsibilities to take it from here. I believe the children ministry and also labour , rural n other NGOs for development are going to investigate this further n prosecute those behind this wickedness. May God hv mercy on our children.
DOTSE SEDEM. (TEELL THEEM)Ho 9 years ago

The poverty wind has blown with the highest intencity that people now rent their children like these children are manufactured goods. our politicians are the main causes cos they refuse to work so the poorest person on the st ...
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The poverty wind has blown with the highest intencity that people now rent their children like these children are manufactured goods. our politicians are the main causes cos they refuse to work so the poorest person on the street can get something to feed on. only God can save us.
great 9 years ago

is a shame to our Leaders.

is a shame to our Leaders.
Jay london 9 years ago

Last week it was children in a village 30 miles of Kasoa were shown to the world in classrooms of no furniture.

Now it is children in SLAVERY; Call what you like.

Now WHERE IS ABLAKWA? THE GUY WHO GOT WHERE HE IS TODAY ...
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Last week it was children in a village 30 miles of Kasoa were shown to the world in classrooms of no furniture.

Now it is children in SLAVERY; Call what you like.

Now WHERE IS ABLAKWA? THE GUY WHO GOT WHERE HE IS TODAY DOING THE DIVIDE AND CONQUER JOB OF THE NDC POLITICS.

ONLY A FEW DAYS AGO HE WAS IN THE THICK OF THE COCAINE SAGA STAINING THE NPP WHILE THE CHILDREN PLACED IN HIS CARE ARE BEING ABUSED AND NEGLECTED ON DAILY BASIS.

THE SAD REALITY IS THAT NDC WANTS GHANAIANS TO VOTE THEM INTO OFFICE COME 2016. A NOTHER SAD REALITY IS THAT MANY GHANAIANS HAVE DEVELOPED A DISEASE THAT PREVENT THEM TO SEE THINGS IN THEIR TRUE COLOURS. MANY GHANAIANS SEE POLITICS AS WE AND THEM GAME NO MATTER WHAT OUR SIDE DOES AND THE NDC REALIZES THIS FOOLHARDINESS ON THE PART OF MANY GHANAIANS AND SO KEEP ON WITH THEIR DAILY THIEVING PRACTICES.

LOOK AT THE AIRPORT VIP SAGA NOW RAGING ON. WHAT DOES THAT TELL US AS A NATION.

FIRST OUR LAW AND POLICING SYSTEM ARE WORTH NOTHING. WHAT SORT OF LAWS ARE IN PLACE FOR THE POLICE TO PROTECT THE NATION?

THE POLICE LOOK ON HELPLESS WHILE POLITICAL CORRUPTION IS RIFE.

NBI HAS ITS ORIGIN IN PNDC AND SO CONTINUES TO SERVE THE DIRTY EST OF THE NDC NOT THE PEOPLE OF GHANA.

NDC HAS POLITICIZED EVERY STATE INSTITUTION NOW IN GHANA AND THEY ALL WORK FOR THE SURVIVAL OF NDC.

WHERE DOES THIS ALL LEAVE THE NPP?

NPP TO ME IS VERY WEAK. EVEN WHEN THEY HAVE THE FACTS TO DAMAGE THE CREDIBILITY WAR THAT NDC SEEM TO ENGAGE THEM IN THEY WAY THEY PRESENT THEIR FACTS ARE NOT PUNCHY ENOUGH T O ACHIEVE THEIR PURPOSE.

WE NEED A MORE EFFECTIVE OPPOSITION TO THIS NDC CROOKS WHO ARE HELL BENT ON STEALING TILL THE LAST CEDI OF THE STATE.

LOOK AT THE BACKGROUND OF NDC OFFICIALS THEY ALL PEOPLE WHO HAVE COME INTO MONEY VIA POLITICS. THEY DON'T COME FROM RICH FAMILIES. FROM RAWLINGS TO PV OBENG, KWESI BOTWE, ASIEDU NKETIA, TSIKATA, ABLAKWA, TO MAHAMA.

ALL THESE PEOPLE LIVE LIFESTYLES TODAY WHICH WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN POSSIBLE HAD IT NOT BEEN FOR THE PNDC OR THE NDC.
daladam 9 years ago

GHANA KIDS ARE SUFFRING IN GHANA BEING USED AS SLAVES AND MAHAM EVIL GOVT IS EITHER LOOKING THE OTHER WAY OR REFUSE TO RESCUE THIS POOR KIDS
THAT SHOULD BE IN SCHOOL

GHANA KIDS ARE SUFFRING IN GHANA BEING USED AS SLAVES AND MAHAM EVIL GOVT IS EITHER LOOKING THE OTHER WAY OR REFUSE TO RESCUE THIS POOR KIDS
THAT SHOULD BE IN SCHOOL
Edwin Ahorli 9 years ago

In fact our leaders don't have any future plans for our little once that is problem including the parents who brought them into the WORLD

In fact our leaders don't have any future plans for our little once that is problem including the parents who brought them into the WORLD
KOKOLIKOKO 9 years ago

Your watch these videos and you can't even cry!!!

Though the horror and sadness eating you and eating away at you is so much and so intense that the next natural thing to follow is shedding of tears, but the tears don't f ...
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Your watch these videos and you can't even cry!!!

Though the horror and sadness eating you and eating away at you is so much and so intense that the next natural thing to follow is shedding of tears, but the tears don't flow! You can't even cry! You're numb -- while the heart bleeds!

Children are treated in this inhuman way!

Meanwhile, the other half, those who are in control of the national purse, and are helping themselves to it through gargantuan corruption and embezzelment, are eductaing their children in schools abroad!
godson addo 9 years ago

ILLEGAL SCALE ADJUSTMENT IS PUTTING FINANCIAL PRESSURE ON THE COCOA FARMERS IN GHANA. LBCs TO BLAME. THEY ARE USING PURCHASING CLERKS AS TOOLS TO CHEAT.

ILLEGAL SCALE ADJUSTMENT IS PUTTING FINANCIAL PRESSURE ON THE COCOA FARMERS IN GHANA. LBCs TO BLAME. THEY ARE USING PURCHASING CLERKS AS TOOLS TO CHEAT.
Wahab Iddrisu 9 years ago

It very bad

It very bad
Wahab Iddrisu 9 years ago

Oh Ghana wh

Oh Ghana wh
yakub 9 years ago

our nations motto is not at work and as in our history slavery was part of it should have make us the first in combartin any such practice of makin others like that even when is poverty the cause of it,for as mention children ...
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our nations motto is not at work and as in our history slavery was part of it should have make us the first in combartin any such practice of makin others like that even when is poverty the cause of it,for as mention children form the foundation of any country.So if in parliment they can show the Ghana freedom and justice symbol while our children are goin through modern day slavery independance has to be called again for we are still not yet free.
especially our children.
Asantewaa 9 years ago

what a pity if at this centry children are being sold to be used as cattle boys leaving school.what a shame!

what a pity if at this centry children are being sold to be used as cattle boys leaving school.what a shame!
Soothsayer 9 years ago

Not only enslavement but our actions, inactions and speeches as parents, teachers, politicians etc etc spoil the children before they grow up. So the insults and baseless argument and quarrels on our tvs and radio aren't goi ...
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Not only enslavement but our actions, inactions and speeches as parents, teachers, politicians etc etc spoil the children before they grow up. So the insults and baseless argument and quarrels on our tvs and radio aren't going anywhere rather than marring the chn's future
Soothsayer 9 years ago

May all who use this medium to insult rather than expressing their opinions be cured . There are many things one can say here to help mother Ghana . Why insult and make divisive statements?

May all who use this medium to insult rather than expressing their opinions be cured . There are many things one can say here to help mother Ghana . Why insult and make divisive statements?
Nana Yaw Sunshine 9 years ago

I sugest this video should be shown in the parliament house every week till something is done about it.

I sugest this video should be shown in the parliament house every week till something is done about it.
mahall 9 years ago

JJ do something your own ewe ppl

JJ do something your own ewe ppl

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