Public apathy towards upcoming local elections high – CODEO

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• MANTSE 9 years ago

  The THEME for the Local Elections is:
  " Deepening Ghana’s Decentralization Process,”
  
  And is CODEO saying they Do NOT Know why there is HIGH PUBLIC APATHY towards the Elections?
  
  Well, let me attempt to help them.
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  The THEME for the Local Elections is:
  " Deepening Ghana’s Decentralization Process,”
  
  And is CODEO saying they Do NOT Know why there is HIGH PUBLIC APATHY towards the Elections?
  
  Well, let me attempt to help them.
  
  The People are TIRED of being taken for FOOLS. They have come to the Realization that DECENTRALIZATION is ONLY on Paper. Local Government at the DCE, MCE and Assembly Levels are seldom funded at Meaningful levels.
  When Funds are Appropriated for the Local Assemblies, LESDEC and other USELESS and NON-PERFORMING Institutions, controlled by a few of the 'GRREDY ONES' are used to Syphon most of the Money.
  
  NO Assembly receives more than 40% of the Money voted for it on Paper.
  
  An assembly will be told they have been given 50 Million Cedis for their Programs. When the Money eventually comes it is ONLY 20 Million Cedis. The DCE or MCE, having expressed NO NEED for certain Items or request for ITEMS which are NOT a PRIORITY, is forced to prepare Paperwork Justifying the USELESS Items FORCED on the Local Govt. by LESDEC, etc. If he doesn't do it, he will, FOR SURE, lose his Position.
  
  It is even worse in the RURAL Communities. I don't know where LESDEC gets these USELESS Items from; Water Tankers which are LEAKING Water, and have Worn Tyres, Garbage Disposal Trucks which will NOT move and some Useless Tractor Trailers that some of these GREEDY FEW used in their Businesses and no longer have any use for because they have outspent their Useful Lives are OFF-LOADED unto the Assemblies, some at Original Cost.
  
  These things are done by People who are respected in society and behave and want us to believe they are for the 'Ordinary Man'
  
  This is how the Local Assembly CONCEPT operates in Ghana hence the High Public Apathy.

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• OLD SOLDIER 9 years ago

  AUTHOR:-BOLUS, MERCY ADEDE...
  
  "The drug barons are currently targeting Ghana making us a vulnerable nation hence we must toughen our national security at all our Airports. If Ms Ametefeh has been allegedly doing such mano ...
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  AUTHOR:-BOLUS, MERCY ADEDE...
  
  "The drug barons are currently targeting Ghana making us a vulnerable nation hence we must toughen our national security at all our Airports. If Ms Ametefeh has been allegedly doing such manoeuvres since 2009 goodness knows how many of such people have used this method just because of their status in society as security around such people have been relaxed. No one can be trusted when it comes to such issues any more as our security is at stake. We should not even allow the VVIP section security to be relaxed so that unscrupulous people take advantage of such freedom afforded to them in the wake of this saga".

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• The mask 9 years ago

  The reason is that economic woes have heightened the anxiety is many families.
  
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  The reason is that economic woes have heightened the anxiety is many families.
  
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  For more information on managing family finances read the following article:
  
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• Soothsayer 9 years ago

  The concept has been hijacked by political parties thus the apathy.Why must I belong to a political party instead of being neutral and judge the candidates before voting? If you belong to a party you are controlled but if you ...
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  The concept has been hijacked by political parties thus the apathy.Why must I belong to a political party instead of being neutral and judge the candidates before voting? If you belong to a party you are controlled but if you stay neutral you control the parties. The politicians can never know where your vote will go so they will respect you.

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• bitter Ghana! 9 years ago

  London’s Heathrow Grabs Africa’s
  Narcotic Cleopatra
  November 24, 2014
  It was a fairytale life for the 32 year
  old. A high flying life with deep political
  connections across a sub-region of over
  260 million people � ...
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  London’s Heathrow Grabs Africa’s
  Narcotic Cleopatra
  November 24, 2014
  It was a fairytale life for the 32 year
  old. A high flying life with deep political
  connections across a sub-region of over
  260 million people – frequent flights in
  not only the first class sections of some
  of the World’s leading airlines, but
  Bombadier Private Jets reportedly
  belonging to one of West Africa’s
  richest men and the brother of the
  current Ghanaian President and
  Chairman of the Regional Political
  Union. Sleeping in the choicest hotels
  around the world came only as an aside.
  But this life at 15,000ft, for someone
  born and bred in a country with per
  capita just over a $1,000, came crushing
  down on the Morning of November 10
  when Border Security at London’s
  Heathrow crashed the operation of the
  lady who has been described and
  nicknamed by some within the
  Intelligence Community as “Africa’s
  drug Cleopatra”, having used her
  extensive political and social networks to
  courier an estimated $75 million of
  cocaine directly in just the past three
  years.
  It all ended for the modern “cleopatra”,
  originally born Ruby Adu-Gyamfi when
  a trip planned to be like the many she
  has undertaken to over 28 countries in 5
  continents turned out to be the opposite
  as a result of collaborative work
  between intelligence agencies in four
  continents but interestingly without the
  knowledge of any of her native Ghana
  or Africa’s security units due to a
  strong suspicion of complicity at the
  highest level of Ghana’s political system.
  With the world’s best intelligence and
  security agencies behind her track, it
  was supposed to only be a matter of
  small time before this drug baroness was
  nailed. However, numerous aliases, dozens
  of passports bearing different names
  and pictures – including those from
  Austria, Canada, Brazil and Belarus and
  several Ghanaian and Nigerian
  passports – including a Ghanaian
  diplomatic passport, allowed her rare
  privileges both within the country and
  outside. As though this was not enough,
  cosmetic surgeries, aided by plastic
  surgeons, and the sheer brazenness of
  her operations plus the well documented
  help of officialdom in her native Ghana
  had succeeded in aiding her to escape
  arrest for over 24 months.
  When security officials finally closed in
  on her, not even the power of the
  Ghanaian Presidency or the brandishing
  of a diplomatic passport could save her.
  In her possession was as much as 12
  kilograms of cocaine valued
  conservatively at $5 million. So
  unbothered was her operation that
  unlike many others who conceal their
  consignment in several ingenious ways,
  ‘Cleopatra’ carried her full consignment
  in her hand luggage, having used the
  VVIP Presidential lounge at Ghana’s
  Kotoka International Airport, according
  to local reports and signals picked from
  Scotland Yard, one of the agencies that
  worked on her capture.
  Intelligence officers indicate that Ruby
  managed to get her consignment safely
  into the first class section of the
  particular British Airways flight using
  her connections in the Ghanaian
  establishment, who managed to even get
  a security official to safely courier her
  consignment into the plane. Sources
  close to the operation that nailed her
  say that Ruby was spotted by other
  first class passengers trying to fit 2kg
  of her consignment into her hand bag.
  These passengers alerted the British
  Airways staff while the plane was
  approaching London with the staff in
  turn radioing Heathrow to be on alert.
  On arrival at Heathrow, border security
  officials, who had ordered only the first
  class passengers to disembark, quickly
  asked her to step aside to be searched.
  This request is said to have infuriated
  Ruby, who questioned the security
  officials, pulling out her Ghanaian
  diplomatic passport in the process. This
  diplomatic passport with the name Ruby
  Mahama did little to convince Border
  Security who proceeded to carry out the
  search.
  So excited were the global intelligence
  agency when she was finally captured
  that three top officials of the Drug
  Enforcement Administration (DEA) of
  the United States quickly jetted off to
  London, within 4 hours of her arrest, to
  interrogate her on various matters of
  concern to American officials in their
  unending war on narcotics.
  Norman Shanks, an Aviation Security
  expert who spoke to Airport
  International was puzzled that the
  major achievement chalked by Heathrow
  in capturing this long sought after Drug
  Empress did not make it into headlines
  of the mainstream British and
  International Press, but was also of the
  view that it did not make it into the
  major headlines because the top
  international agencies that worked on it
  wanted to keep a lid on her arrest for
  various reasons.
  “This for me seems to be the biggest
  victory in many months for the global
  drug war. Arresting this lady was
  important to stop a large part of the
  volumes of narcotics we have seen
  pouring into Europe and North America
  in the past few years. Again, this was
  one of the most difficult operations in
  recent years because with her very close
  connections and helpers in the Ghana
  government, it was almost impossible to
  expect any local help to close in on her.
  All the work therefore was completely
  done by agents of foreign agencies and
  mostly from foreign bases and in such a
  situation, you can only depend on luck”,
  Shanks said, from his Coventry base.
  Before her arrest, Ruby, who also goes
  by the name “Angel” had been spotted,
  according to intelligence sources in
  Nigeria, during the inauguration of a
  multimillion dollar Stadium in a country
  where over 70% of the population still to
  find, let alone live on a dollar a day. Her
  mission there, according to the reports,
  was to help entertain the top political
  elite across West Africa, including the
  Presidents of the three big West
  African Nations – Nigeria, Ghana and
  Cote d’ivoire, who descended on Akwa
  Ibom, one of the many states in Nigeria
  whose Governor put up the Stadium as a
  legacy project.
  For now, Ruby Angel or Cleopatra as she
  was appropriately christened will no
  longer be travelling with Presidents or
  entertaining them. She will not also
  enjoy the luxury of her villas in Accra’s
  most expensive suburbs including her
  main mansion at Trassaco Valley, which
  is the city’s Beverley Hills with multi-
  million mansions belonging to Ghana’s
  political class and business elite as well as
  some of Nigeria’s richest. Her properties
  in Cantonments and East Legon, which
  are also extremely expensive suburbs in
  Ghana’s capital with land going for as
  much as a million dollars, will certainly
  also miss her.
  By Tom Allett
  Airports International
  This article was published in the
  November Print / hard copy edition of
  Airports International.

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