Ghana cautioned to end modern slavery or risk losing U.S. aid

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Sinclear 7 years ago

how to have slaves what ashamed

how to have slaves what ashamed
paapa mate 7 years ago

Is you crazy? Learn what from arabs specifically?

Is you crazy? Learn what from arabs specifically?
Oburonewewu 7 years ago

They do not understand the African culture and they want to destroy it for some dirty money. Fuck them Americans.
If helping your parents to feed and clothe you in your free time is termed slavery, then so be it. they can sh ...
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They do not understand the African culture and they want to destroy it for some dirty money. Fuck them Americans.
If helping your parents to feed and clothe you in your free time is termed slavery, then so be it. they can shove their dollars up their fat ass.
They want African kids to become fat potatoes like their kids smoking crack and playing video games all day !! Tweeaaaah
Kojo Jackson 7 years ago

There is more modern slavery in the United States of America than in Ghana. There is the worse form of every crime in America than there is any part of the work.

Solve your problems before trying to impose your foreign cu ...
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There is more modern slavery in the United States of America than in Ghana. There is the worse form of every crime in America than there is any part of the work.

Solve your problems before trying to impose your foreign cultures on us.
Paa Nii 7 years ago

This is serious. Is the report true or I'm I missing something. where are the slaves??? OO!!! maebe the whole country or perhaps continent has been enslaved. What a shambolic Country, sorry Continent.

This is serious. Is the report true or I'm I missing something. where are the slaves??? OO!!! maebe the whole country or perhaps continent has been enslaved. What a shambolic Country, sorry Continent.
KKBK 7 years ago

These US aids comes into the country but only a few enjoy it. US should stop giving out this moneys because its not been used for what its was intended to be used for...

These US aids comes into the country but only a few enjoy it. US should stop giving out this moneys because its not been used for what its was intended to be used for...
Dessir 7 years ago

Gov't should let all NGO n the country accounts for their income and pay taxes on it.US AIDS don't benefit the country.

Gov't should let all NGO n the country accounts for their income and pay taxes on it.US AIDS don't benefit the country.
OFOSUAA 7 years ago

All Ndc Voters Should Examine Themselves To See If They Are Very Normal At All. Its Undeniable That Ndc Strongholds Are The Poorest Of The Poor In Ghana So No One Needs To Be Told Of The Urgent Need For Development In Those A ...
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All Ndc Voters Should Examine Themselves To See If They Are Very Normal At All. Its Undeniable That Ndc Strongholds Are The Poorest Of The Poor In Ghana So No One Needs To Be Told Of The Urgent Need For Development In Those Areas To Facilitate Economic Growth, Create Jobs, Improve Income Earnings And To Give The Poor A Chance To Survive In This Crazy World. Yet Ndc Comes To Power And All They Do Was To First Embezzle Nearly One Billion Dollars Thro Fake Jdgt Debts Paid Dubiously To Cronies, And Family And Friends...Instead Of Ndc Voters Expressing Their Anger At This Thievery, We Got Ndc Voters Foolishly And Moronically Defending This Thievery By Their Elected Leaders....What Manner Of Extreme Stupidity Is This?.......Then Came The Waste Of Over 300 Million Dollars By John Mahama In The Fake And Abortive Stx Housing Projects .....Such A Heavy AMOUNT OF CASH Could Have Done So Much For Ndc Strongholds If Wisely Used By Ndc Govt TO DEVELOP INFRASTRUCTURE.....This Didn’t Even Annoy Ndc Voters Who Even Continued To Shower More Support On The Ndc Leaders Involved In This Thievery.......Then Came Stories Of Sada Subah Gyeeda Etc And Rlg Colluding With Ndc Govt To Continue The Create Loot Share And Weep.....Yet None Of These Annoyed Ndc Voters.......WHAT MANNER OF PEOPLE ARE NDC VOTERS AT ALL....VERY EXTREMELY STUPID INDEED......,Mahamah roams with akuadonkor as if he has no serious business of govt to run .....meanwhile conditions in Ghana continue to worsen whilst ndc leaders don’t feel the heat as they amass wealth and build investments like fuel stations and invest in dubai .....these criminalities deepen poverty in Ghana especially north and volta yet these fools continue to shower praises on ndc criminal leadership......WE ARE NOT SAYING THAT STOP VOTING FOR NDC, WE ARE SAYING THAT CONDEMN THEIR ACT AND REPLACE THEM WITH GOOD STUFFS AND GOOD MATERIALS WITHIN THIS SAME NDC.....STUPID FOOOOOOOOOOLLLLLLS ITS TIME TO WISE UP
OFOSUAA 7 years ago

NDC STRONGHOLDS ARE POOREST YET VERY TRIBALISTIC TOO MUCH....All Ndc Voters Should Examine Themselves To See If They Are Very Normal At All. Its Undeniable That Ndc Strongholds Are The Poorest Of The Poor In Ghana So No One N ...
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NDC STRONGHOLDS ARE POOREST YET VERY TRIBALISTIC TOO MUCH....All Ndc Voters Should Examine Themselves To See If They Are Very Normal At All. Its Undeniable That Ndc Strongholds Are The Poorest Of The Poor In Ghana So No One Needs To Be Told Of The Urgent Need For Development In Those Areas To Facilitate Economic Growth, Create Jobs, Improve Income Earnings And To Give The Poor A Chance To Survive In This Crazy World. Yet Ndc Comes To Power And All They Do Was To First Embezzle Nearly One Billion Dollars Thro Fake Jdgt Debts Paid Dubiously To Cronies, And Family And Friends...Instead Of Ndc Voters Expressing Their Anger At This Thievery, We Got Ndc Voters Foolishly And Moronically Defending This Thievery By Their Elected Leaders....What Manner Of Extreme Stupidity Is This?.......Then Came The Waste Of Over 300 Million Dollars By John Mahama In The Fake And Abortive Stx Housing Projects .....Such A Heavy AMOUNT OF CASH Could Have Done So Much For Ndc Strongholds If Wisely Used By Ndc Govt TO DEVELOP INFRASTRUCTURE.....This Didn’t Even Annoy Ndc Voters Who Even Continued To Shower More Support On The Ndc Leaders Involved In This Thievery.......Then Came Stories Of Sada Subah Gyeeda Etc And Rlg Colluding With Ndc Govt To Continue The Create Loot Share And Weep.....Yet None Of These Annoyed Ndc Voters.......WHAT MANNER OF PEOPLE ARE NDC VOTERS AT ALL....VERY EXTREMELY STUPID INDEED......,Mahamah roams with akuadonkor as if he has no serious business of govt to run .....meanwhile conditions in Ghana continue to worsen whilst ndc leaders don’t feel the heat as they amass wealth and build investments like fuel stations and invest in dubai .....these criminalities deepen poverty in Ghana especially north and volta yet these fools continue to shower praises on ndc criminal leadership......WE ARE NOT SAYING THAT STOP VOTING FOR NDC, WE ARE SAYING THAT CONDEMN THEIR ACT AND REPLACE THEM WITH GOOD STUFFS AND GOOD MATERIALS WITHIN THIS SAME NDC.....STUPID FOOOOOOOOOOLLLLLLS ITS TIME TO WISE UP
Life 7 years ago

Insulting our Volta brothers and sisters does not help. You push them into the arms of the manipulative NDC gurus

Insulting our Volta brothers and sisters does not help. You push them into the arms of the manipulative NDC gurus
Dessir 7 years ago

Rubbish,crappy ridiculous comment:They are the poorest stronghold because Ashanti's had disinfrachised them period of long time:Now they are benefiting g from the fruit of our nation And for the record e of them are the Bevi ...
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Rubbish,crappy ridiculous comment:They are the poorest stronghold because Ashanti's had disinfrachised them period of long time:Now they are benefiting g from the fruit of our nation And for the record e of them are the Bevin of our trllectualism(Voltatianteacher across the country ).Such a bigotry and rubbish statement .Ashant elementary comment
Bentum 7 years ago

Does Ghana really need AID from the US with conditionalities?In my candid opinion,the so called AID is just a fraction of what the US takes from ordinary visa applicants.They find flimsy excuses to refuse 1000s of visa applic ...
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Does Ghana really need AID from the US with conditionalities?In my candid opinion,the so called AID is just a fraction of what the US takes from ordinary visa applicants.They find flimsy excuses to refuse 1000s of visa applicants so when the said visa fees are given back,its not any for of help or service the US is doing.Again about 15 million west Africans were forcefully taken away to US during the slave trade so any form of AID is just what our forefathers worked for so we deserve it with any conditionalities.Again racism and the killing of black people by white police men in the US should also be addressed by them first before trying to police other countries.Mass surveillance,mass gun violence,distabilisation of democratically elected governments across the world and sponsorship of terrorism should be addressed by US first before they continue playing Mr big man
Frustrated Ghanaian Living Abroad 7 years ago

Bentum, obviously you or a family member or a friend was denied visa but your argument is off base and I will explain to you why. If the visa fees were as big a revenue generator as you claim to be, they will be begging Ghana ...
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Bentum, obviously you or a family member or a friend was denied visa but your argument is off base and I will explain to you why. If the visa fees were as big a revenue generator as you claim to be, they will be begging Ghanaians to apply for them and approve them left and right. Every embassy has to temper entrance into their countries with security in their countries and the drain on their economy and mind you, the Ghanaian Embassies do the same around the world. You should be more upset with the fact that in this day on age we still have a slavery problem in Ghana, it is shameful! I don't care how bad it is in other parts of the world, we Ghanaians know better! Focus your energy on how to help the poor and enslaved Ghanaians rather than your beef for being denied a visa. Ghana needs the aid from the US, the only issue is we the US needs to provide better oversight in how the funds are used because our leaders in government have proven to be untrustworthy with monies intended for the state. Focus your anger in the right direction.
NPP = NANA PROMISES PARTY 7 years ago

No one can control this. I repeat, no one, not even America. What is going on is more of a cultural thing that has been there since God-knows-when. It is fueled by cultural practices and poverty.

It is not usual within th ...
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No one can control this. I repeat, no one, not even America. What is going on is more of a cultural thing that has been there since God-knows-when. It is fueled by cultural practices and poverty.

It is not usual within the Ghanaian culture to have a parent send his or her child off to go and live with someone (immediate family member, a sibling, a distant relative, and even unrelated ones) else. On the other hand, this deliberate poaching of kids to go and labour for others without any meaningful compensation besides meals and housing is not something we should either be proud of.

America can threaten us with withholding aid to Ghana but we will turn to others like China to feel in the gap.

I will encourage America to make such threats to nations like India and other Asia countries that also have child-labour practices.

They are human-rights abuses all over the world but only African leaders are brought hunted down like games in and brought before the International Court at the Hague. No one goes to Asia or Latin America to haul in a "game".

Only the worst is good enough for Africa?
RUTH 7 years ago

.... It's JOHNMAHAMA whose thievery and corruption is destroying Ghanaians..... Sada was northern controlled under northern president yet they stole all monies for the program.....

.... It's JOHNMAHAMA whose thievery and corruption is destroying Ghanaians..... Sada was northern controlled under northern president yet they stole all monies for the program.....
NPP = NANA PROMISES PARTY 7 years ago

The practice was still there when your Agyekum Kufour was president of Ghana. This is a systemic problem that is linked to culture and poverty. If you want to politicise it, then apportion some of the blame to your Kufour for ...
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The practice was still there when your Agyekum Kufour was president of Ghana. This is a systemic problem that is linked to culture and poverty. If you want to politicise it, then apportion some of the blame to your Kufour for not stopping it when he could have.
JOSEPH ANTWI BOASIAKO 7 years ago

The worst illiterate is the political illiterate. He hears nothing, sees nothing, takes no part in political life. He doesn't seem to know that the cost of living, the price of beans, of flour, of rent, utility bills, shool f ...
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The worst illiterate is the political illiterate. He hears nothing, sees nothing, takes no part in political life. He doesn't seem to know that the cost of living, the price of beans, of flour, of rent, utility bills, shool fees, transportation fare, jobs, medicines all depends on political decisions. The worst of it all is that, he prides himself on his political ignorance, stick out his chest and says he hates politics. He doesn't know, the imbecile, that from his political non-participation comes the prostitute, the abandoned child, the robber and the worst of all, CORRUPT OFFICIALS, the lackeys of exploitative MULTINATIONAL CORRUPTIONS. DO NOT LET ANYONE BUY YOUR VOTE. IT IS THE BIGGEST DECISION YOU CAN USE TO MAKE GHANA A BETTER PLACE FOR YOURSELF, YOUR CHILDREN AND THE GENERATION THERE AFTER. JAB-USA.
NPP = NANA PROMISES PARTY 7 years ago

This is a problem that NPP didn't solve. Remember how long NPP was in power? 8 years!

This is a problem that NPP didn't solve. Remember how long NPP was in power? 8 years!
LOL 7 years ago

Most of the slaves are NDC supporters so its ok.

Most of the slaves are NDC supporters so its ok.
Daniel ,Sami and Ocansey and kooberna 7 years ago

We are already slaves ,what slavery again do they want us to stop .Africa is already slave under the western world

We are already slaves ,what slavery again do they want us to stop .Africa is already slave under the western world
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OPNINPA 7 years ago

THE US CANNOT DICTATE TO ANYONE ABOUT HUMAN RIGHTS. BLACK PEOPLE ARE STILL KILLED LIKE ANIMALS IN THE USA POLICE. UNTIL THIS IS STOPPED, THE USA HAS NO MORAL ROGHT TO LECTURE ANYONE.

THE US CANNOT DICTATE TO ANYONE ABOUT HUMAN RIGHTS. BLACK PEOPLE ARE STILL KILLED LIKE ANIMALS IN THE USA POLICE. UNTIL THIS IS STOPPED, THE USA HAS NO MORAL ROGHT TO LECTURE ANYONE.
The Don 7 years ago

US is making great efforts to curb police brutality. Are you saying that because injustices happen in the US, that they have no right to criticize the Government of Ghana on efforts to alleviate Child Slavery. Two wrongs do n ...
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US is making great efforts to curb police brutality. Are you saying that because injustices happen in the US, that they have no right to criticize the Government of Ghana on efforts to alleviate Child Slavery. Two wrongs do not make a right. The Ghana Govt should be ashamed of this abysmal ranking. How these children are suffering in these inhumane condition, and you have the front to make excuses. You are a disgrace OPNINPA. I pray that none of you family members never have to live through such an ordeal. You should be concentrating your efforts on helping these poor children instead of looking for excuses.
paapa mate 7 years ago

A-1. A point well made, plus they brutalised it too. This is a sick attempt to pass the buck and blame others.

However, we all moving up. someone is compiling a list. Compile a list also. There is nuff information - compa ...
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A-1. A point well made, plus they brutalised it too. This is a sick attempt to pass the buck and blame others.

However, we all moving up. someone is compiling a list. Compile a list also. There is nuff information - compared to kids fishing. If kids were fishing, it would be called educational fun and survival skills. But smh, someone is calling it with that name?

The money comes in handy. Am sure a lot of us didnt know ghana was getting aid money for those reasons. Sadly, its going to the wrong party who are just f[!@??.,&$%^~}*

Lets assume the kids are working and fishing because they cant go to school as a result of school fees.
So let this point at ndc.
school fees o, school feeding orogramme o, school shoes and clothes o, school books o, social intervention o, childrens support o, oye luther and homosexual buggery o,....
ANANE Faust's ( Italy 7 years ago

Our cultural heritage is to travel and fine something,abrod or home.the akan tribe believe in this. In Ghana if you leave home to abroad,you become a hero,.

Our cultural heritage is to travel and fine something,abrod or home.the akan tribe believe in this. In Ghana if you leave home to abroad,you become a hero,.
Dessir 7 years ago

John Kerry announces in which American channel: And where those child were trafficking to and how many by American statistic:

John Kerry announces in which American channel: And where those child were trafficking to and how many by American statistic:
OWUO MPO SURO. 7 years ago

IT IS LONG OVERDUE,EVEN THE PRESIDENT IS A FORMER RAPIST.PUT AN END TO IT BECAUSE OUR PRESIDENT DOESN'T LIKE AMERICA FORD WHY YOUR MONEY?.ASK MAHAMAH IF GHANAIANS SEE YOUR AID.THEY SHARE IT AMONG THEMSELVES ANYTIME IT COMES,G ...
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IT IS LONG OVERDUE,EVEN THE PRESIDENT IS A FORMER RAPIST.PUT AN END TO IT BECAUSE OUR PRESIDENT DOESN'T LIKE AMERICA FORD WHY YOUR MONEY?.ASK MAHAMAH IF GHANAIANS SEE YOUR AID.THEY SHARE IT AMONG THEMSELVES ANYTIME IT COMES,GIVE US BREAK YOU CAN STOP IT.
Yaonono 7 years ago

How come foooooooooools are always beating the wise?

How come foooooooooools are always beating the wise?
Abargnah 7 years ago

hmm,its a shame,the caution is good bt re we in our selves? what is our coat of arm?freedom and justice ooh no,its rather slavery and injustice, we re still ruled by those gays.

hmm,its a shame,the caution is good bt re we in our selves? what is our coat of arm?freedom and justice ooh no,its rather slavery and injustice, we re still ruled by those gays.
No Mercy 7 years ago

The Ndc Government Mahama is mismanaging Ghana very bad.Corruption 65% of The People are suffering.

The Ndc Government Mahama is mismanaging Ghana very bad.Corruption 65% of The People are suffering.
PATRIOT 7 years ago

Ghana should caution America for the latter's support for terrorism and terrorist groups all over the world.America itself is a terrorist nation.It recruits,trains,finances and equips terrorists to overthrow leaders of natio ...
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Ghana should caution America for the latter's support for terrorism and terrorist groups all over the world.America itself is a terrorist nation.It recruits,trains,finances and equips terrorists to overthrow leaders of nations who refuse to do its bidding.America's support for terrorism has affected the stability and development of Africa.Just look at what is happening in Libya and its effect on Africa.America dzi wo fie as3m.Ghana can exist without America's aid.Do not use aid to blackmail Ghana.
ghanani 7 years ago

Yes America gives aid and later on turn around to use it to blackmail nations.Are children not being used on farms in America to harvest crops?Does that not amount to child slavery.I blame our leaders who have messed up the c ...
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Yes America gives aid and later on turn around to use it to blackmail nations.Are children not being used on farms in America to harvest crops?Does that not amount to child slavery.I blame our leaders who have messed up the country's economy and have allowed the imperialists to give us aid and the chance to dictate to us and interfere in the nation's affairs.
SHAMO 7 years ago

THE MP'S IN GHANA ARE NOT DOING THEIR WORK RIGHT WITH THE PUBLIC BUT TO THEM SELF. SELFISHNESS LIVING ALL THOSE CHILDREN RUNNING AROUND DOING NOTING

THE MP'S IN GHANA ARE NOT DOING THEIR WORK RIGHT WITH THE PUBLIC BUT TO THEM SELF. SELFISHNESS LIVING ALL THOSE CHILDREN RUNNING AROUND DOING NOTING
Iddrisu 7 years ago

Good observation made by the USA. I think US can still support us to come out with practical and realistic measures that can end this unfortunate practice. The kids need education for a prosperous future. They need education ...
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Good observation made by the USA. I think US can still support us to come out with practical and realistic measures that can end this unfortunate practice. The kids need education for a prosperous future. They need education to support open more opportunities for them in future. Hence, modern day slavery involving the children is certainly not the way to go. But all of us have roles to play.
Agbeli Kumordzi 7 years ago

Nonsense is America government made we Ghanaians suffering since they destroyed Dr Kwame Nkrumah government
Is about time we put our resources together build our own nation than taking one million dollars from America ev ...
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Nonsense is America government made we Ghanaians suffering since they destroyed Dr Kwame Nkrumah government
Is about time we put our resources together build our own nation than taking one million dollars from America every year
asem 7 years ago

the government is busy looting what has anti slavery got to do with him? it is none of his business

the government is busy looting what has anti slavery got to do with him? it is none of his business

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