Manasseh Azure Writes: An open letter to Organised Labour

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ROB 1 year ago

OUR MAIN PROBLEM IS THE CONSTITUTION OF GHANA. WINNER TAKES ALL.

OUR MAIN PROBLEM IS THE CONSTITUTION OF GHANA. WINNER TAKES ALL.
Solo Pobee 1 year ago

The strike action is certainly coming on. The divisive machinations by some worker unions to undermine the industrial action is not discouraging us. We cannot let Ghanaians down.

The strike action is certainly coming on. The divisive machinations by some worker unions to undermine the industrial action is not discouraging us. We cannot let Ghanaians down.
Kissangani 1 year ago

A good piece. We cannot trust any political party. All they care about is their pockets, and we dont care who looses or wins the election. The galamsey has to stop now now now. Not later!!! Choooooboe...boe...boe.

Good ble ...
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A good piece. We cannot trust any political party. All they care about is their pockets, and we dont care who looses or wins the election. The galamsey has to stop now now now. Not later!!! Choooooboe...boe...boe.

Good bless our homeland Ghana.
Talking For A Living 1 year ago

Indeed it seems that people need to say out somethng by which they could eke out a living!!

In which year did Manasseh write about the Ford Vehicle gift to Ghana Presidency through John Mahama? Ford from just a Burkinabe? ...
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Indeed it seems that people need to say out somethng by which they could eke out a living!!

In which year did Manasseh write about the Ford Vehicle gift to Ghana Presidency through John Mahama? Ford from just a Burkinabe?????

How "silent", I mean SILENT were Ghanaians when LIGHTS OFF was peaking and peaking, necessitating John Mahama's Government to go for expensive BUT problem-solving power sources? Worse of it wall, Energy Minister had to resign??

Dear Manasseh: The GALAMSEY crisis, to me, has nothing to advantage NDC in the coming election.

Was it not recently that Prof Kwabena Frimpong-Boateng released his very strong write-up on GALAMSEY? What did the Government do about it?

Please allow the sun to rise from the east and set in the west.

Long live GHANA
Wisefolk 1 year ago

Rejoinder: Manasseh Azure Writes: An open letter to Organised Labour

Who does this guy think he is to write an article full of hatred for NDC and Mahama? Did dumsor originate from Mahama? Yet, did he not put in the effort ...
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Rejoinder: Manasseh Azure Writes: An open letter to Organised Labour

Who does this guy think he is to write an article full of hatred for NDC and Mahama? Did dumsor originate from Mahama? Yet, did he not put in the effort to address it? During that period, we did not see articles full of hatred aimed at blaming Rawlings or Kuffour for not solving it prior.

Galamsay started becoming a topical issue towards the end of Mahama's first term, this idiot did everything to ensure Mahama never got a second term to address it. You think Mahama would have handled Galamsey this way by further putting in place an LI that allowed party folk to enter and degrade our forests and water bodies the way it has turned out under Akufo Addo? Do you think Mahama would have issued out hundreds of licenses to party folk like we have now?

Akufo Addo, who you foolishly claim was going to be the best thing to have ever happened to Ghana, turned out to be a monumental failure - the worst in the history of this country. Instead of staying on the topic, you wrote a 12-point article with 6 paragraphs aimed at the NDC. Are you sick or something?

Galamsay for locals is not a problem to be solved by the military, the NDC was right in withdrawing them. It's been 8 years of military and police deployment under Akufo Addo, is the situation not worse? Apart from the political interests that have been the fault solely of this administration and the main driver behind the level of destruction, Galamsay for the poor locals is a matter of livelihood and you do not address that with military deployments. Get that in your thick head!

This article mentions Mahama on four occasions (all in a negative light) and Akufo Addo whose actions/inactions have brought us here just 6 times (2 of which were not even to admonish him). When you were doing everything to bring Akufo Addo into office, were you expecting him to takeover a country that had all its problems solved by Mahama, especially when you did not give Mahama the second opportunity to solve them?

Admit that you are part of the problem. Do note that you will not be allowed to foolishly blame NDC/Mahama for the negligence and incompetence of an 80 year old man that you supported and essentially campaigned for to come into office.

And just look at the contradiction in that last paragraph, that you do not trust the NDC to resolve the problem, why do you then advise labour to demand commitment from them? Then you enter into the realm of conjecture, that the NDC are waiting to be issued licenses - really? Can you tell us how many licenses the NDC issued at the time when this was not event topical? You are an idiot if you cannot draw a correlation between the number of licenses issued under this government and the scale of destruction.

Before I conclude, have you asked your friend the vice president how and from where they are buying the gold for his opaque gold for oil program? Do you know every activity thrives when there is a market for it, even if it is illegal? Check phone thefts, prostitution, and illicit drugs for answers.

Get your head screwed on my guy, the days of those stupid publications against NDC/Mahama are over.
Baaba nuhu 1 year ago

More licenses were issued in mahama’s era than now. Get your facts right, but that doesn’t give room for this menace to go on

More licenses were issued in mahama’s era than now. Get your facts right, but that doesn’t give room for this menace to go on
The Spear 1 year ago

And you got this from where? Quote the source.

And you got this from where? Quote the source.
Wisefolk 1 year ago

The gullible Ghanaian. Just because you have been shown some table you call that fact?

The gullible Ghanaian. Just because you have been shown some table you call that fact?
The Spear 1 year ago

What constitutes the hatred for NDC and Mahama in that letter?

What he said is the absolute (gospel) truth without a shred of ambiguity! Stop peddling lies. If you [were] hibernating on the moon or somewhere else in the un ...
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What constitutes the hatred for NDC and Mahama in that letter?

What he said is the absolute (gospel) truth without a shred of ambiguity! Stop peddling lies. If you [were] hibernating on the moon or somewhere else in the universe, we were right here on earth, in Ghana, and saw it happen.

I don't want to hit on old refrains and evoke misinterpretations from those who'd not understand.

**DO NOT VOTE FOR BAWUMIA - he is a fake prof and as corrupt as no VP has ever been.
Wisefolk 1 year ago

What did you read? And which part of my write up is the lie. Just provide a reference or quote?

What did you read? And which part of my write up is the lie. Just provide a reference or quote?
Alhaj Baakome 1 year ago

You started with the Ford Expedition saga. Do you honestly think that a president should receive a second hand vehicle from a foreign contractor who has been awarded a govt contract? Do you know if the contractor transferred ...
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You started with the Ford Expedition saga. Do you honestly think that a president should receive a second hand vehicle from a foreign contractor who has been awarded a govt contract? Do you know if the contractor transferred foreign currency to aid the pr3sidents campaign? In my opinion, Azures article is balanced. In fact, it favours the NDC in the long run.
Dana 1 year ago

I wish ECG, GWSC, GMA and Controller and Accountant Generals Department joins the strike till December 31, 2024.

I wish ECG, GWSC, GMA and Controller and Accountant Generals Department joins the strike till December 31, 2024.
Baaba nuhu 1 year ago

You think NADAA will suffer? It is we the same low class people who will die. Let’s give dialogue a chance. It is better than taking to violence. The pen has always been mightier than the gum

You think NADAA will suffer? It is we the same low class people who will die. Let’s give dialogue a chance. It is better than taking to violence. The pen has always been mightier than the gum
Koki 1 year ago

Spot on, Awuni! A 5-star piece. I hope they will listen for the sake of the nation.

Spot on, Awuni! A 5-star piece. I hope they will listen for the sake of the nation.
ELORM OLEG MORTOO 1 year ago

Manase, you have said it all. we have elected greedy, selfish,useless and wicked leaders; who are just interested in using the nation's resources at their disposal to enrich themselves and their cronies, at the health and eco ...
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Manase, you have said it all. we have elected greedy, selfish,useless and wicked leaders; who are just interested in using the nation's resources at their disposal to enrich themselves and their cronies, at the health and economic depletion rate of the masses. These crop of politicians do not value human lives.Nature must find a way of eliminating wicked people like this from our society. This country is doomed . There is no future for the youth and generation to come.
J0eY l0nD0N 1 year ago

Just say your cathedral pit of hell construction President is a wicked man.

Just say your cathedral pit of hell construction President is a wicked man.
KH 1 year ago

It is better for a nation to be ruled by people with interest and knowledge in the Sciences rather than dishonest lawyers who are only obsessed with money rather than heeding to the advice of others in government who update ...
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It is better for a nation to be ruled by people with interest and knowledge in the Sciences rather than dishonest lawyers who are only obsessed with money rather than heeding to the advice of others in government who update themselves with trends in the Sciences
Anyway, why is the Akim Cameron Duodu mute now? No wonder he was anti Nkrumah during Osagyefo's rule.
kwame 1 year ago

BRAVO!!!!! I think you are on point.

BRAVO!!!!! I think you are on point.
Amar Okai Amarteifio 1 year ago

Manasseh--Azure's Letter [open] to ORGANIZED LABOR--is misplaced --ill-advised-----reading through it--there is an important missing LINK--objectively what sanctimonious Mr. Azure is missing out on is that -the President has ...
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Manasseh--Azure's Letter [open] to ORGANIZED LABOR--is misplaced --ill-advised-----reading through it--there is an important missing LINK--objectively what sanctimonious Mr. Azure is missing out on is that -the President has no magic wand that can END GALAMSAY--Let it be known that even if Addo Dankwa Akuffo ADDO wishes to STOP GALAMSAY and makes such a DECLARATION--believe me IT IS just EMPTY and wishful-----Why cannot Azure know that the fight to END the GALAMSAY MENANCE is in the hands of Parliament and not the PRESIDENT----Speaker Bagbin and his hung PARLAIAMENT has the POWER to END THIS GALAMSAY MENACE
The Legislative body which is the Parliament must enact a LAW to BAN ANY FORM OF SMALL-SCALE MINING for a foreseeable period to allow the agricultural land and water bodies regain an unpolluted state. --meanwhile a serious afforestation program must follow. If Parliament can waste precious time on an ANTI GAY-ISM BILL--where was MANNASEH?
See how that ridiculous PROPER ALDULT HUMAN SEXUAL BEHAVIOR BILL -attracted nation-wide attention? --Such a private members Bill should not even have been tabled --for the difference between Cultural Right and HUMAN RIGHT is alien to clueless Sam George and co---such a display of ignorance and arrogance.
All the protesting GROUPS and the Organized Labour --should and must
direct their call for action re the GALAMSAY MENANCE to PARLIAMENT--for a LAW to be PAASED----ENACT THE LAW and THE PRESIDENT will endorse IT.
And to those youth who think GALAMSAY MINING is a JOB---let them know that any JOB that has a negative effect on society at large is not an employment--THEY ARE GREEDY, IGNORANT & CRIMINALS. --WATER is PRICELESS and NOT gold -----Our LIFE is in the hand of PARLIIAMENT and not the EXECUTIVE branch of Government .
Amar Okai Amarteifio 1 year ago

PARLIAMENT must pass a LAW to BAN any form of Small-Scale Mining--[legal or illegal] -----for a foreseeable PERIOD such that the AGRICULTURAL LAND & WATER BODIES regain an unpolluted state. --PASS the LAW and the President
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PARLIAMENT must pass a LAW to BAN any form of Small-Scale Mining--[legal or illegal] -----for a foreseeable PERIOD such that the AGRICULTURAL LAND & WATER BODIES regain an unpolluted state. --PASS the LAW and the President
will endorse IT ]-----severe penalty for VIOLATORS----and it shall be enforced by the appropriate institution,
Note that in the ASIA 'Tiger' Countries--DRUG [NARCOTIC]TRAFFICKING is dealt without mercy. PASS the LAW and it will work --Direct the protests to/at Parliament and not at the executive branch of government, The Legislative body has to ACT. ---we MUST pressure our hung Parliament to live up to their responsibility. Instead of the embracing equalization
banter going on in Parliament---GET them to get a LAW pass ---so over to you Manasseh Azure- I am asking you to do the right thing ---TELL Speaker Badgin and his Parliament to Act ---and stop your critical focus on the President Nana Akuffo -Addo
John 1 year ago

Hypocrite Manasseh Azure Your plans want work because you people doing Politics. President should not make mistake to declare State of emergency.

Hypocrite Manasseh Azure Your plans want work because you people doing Politics. President should not make mistake to declare State of emergency.
ObuasiMan 1 year ago

This is a fantastic piece from Manasseh and hope Organized Labour does not fail Ghana.

This is a fantastic piece from Manasseh and hope Organized Labour does not fail Ghana.
Yaw Mensah 1 year ago

Manasseh, what do you say about state departments who are supposed to monitor and report this illegal mining for prosecution and failed to do so, and yet, joining the demonstration? "Who will then be the first to cast a ston ...
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Manasseh, what do you say about state departments who are supposed to monitor and report this illegal mining for prosecution and failed to do so, and yet, joining the demonstration? "Who will then be the first to cast a stone"? ASEMSEBE !
Dogo 1 year ago

I admire Manasseh but I don't understand his reluctance in giving the NDC their credit where it is due. Yes, the NDC is not perfect but some facts about their work for the nation is so glaring but you fail to talk about it in ...
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I admire Manasseh but I don't understand his reluctance in giving the NDC their credit where it is due. Yes, the NDC is not perfect but some facts about their work for the nation is so glaring but you fail to talk about it in your write ups. What could be fueling your hate and disdain for that political grouping? Just asking
Wisefolk 1 year ago

This is the point I make in my write up. He is full of hate for the NDC but Mahama even more. He is a Bawumiah boy, but he tries to hide that aspect and always find space to make Mahama look bad.

This is the point I make in my write up. He is full of hate for the NDC but Mahama even more. He is a Bawumiah boy, but he tries to hide that aspect and always find space to make Mahama look bad.
kankan NYAME 1 year ago

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PARTY POLITICS is the problem...

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PARTY POLITICS is the problem...
Josh Bruno 1 year ago

When did Organised Labour become aware of the menace? Why didn't Organised Labour take any action until NDC's appendages started demanding that govt must halt all mining operation and suffer consequences as they did in 2020 e ...
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When did Organised Labour become aware of the menace? Why didn't Organised Labour take any action until NDC's appendages started demanding that govt must halt all mining operation and suffer consequences as they did in 2020 elections. Lost all seats inining constituencies. Rightly or wrongly your actions would be interpreted that you've been bribed by NDC to go on strike against the government. Some unions have disassociated themselves from your decision because they perceive it to be politically motivated. The timing of your action is completely wrong. Think again and act at a proper time not now that general election is less than two months away.
Kwame 1 year ago

What Manasseh Azure wrote are half truth.
There is no other family which member paid daily for fighting galamsey, than the Mahama family.
Their son Major MaxwelL Mahama was lynched by galaseyers for preventing them from d ...
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What Manasseh Azure wrote are half truth.
There is no other family which member paid daily for fighting galamsey, than the Mahama family.
Their son Major MaxwelL Mahama was lynched by galaseyers for preventing them from doing galamsey.
This incident took place a few months after John Mahama left office.
All of us are not wasps with short memory.
Rob 1 year ago

The main problem of Ghana is the CONSTITUTION Crafted by JJ Rawlings and his Cohorts. WINNER TAKES ALL! Nobody from the Media, Lawyers, Academia, Clergy, Politicians to the ordinary citizens is demonstrating for a change of t ...
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The main problem of Ghana is the CONSTITUTION Crafted by JJ Rawlings and his Cohorts. WINNER TAKES ALL! Nobody from the Media, Lawyers, Academia, Clergy, Politicians to the ordinary citizens is demonstrating for a change of the present Constitution. You can bring Presidents Obama, Clinton, Biden and all the best leaders the world has ever had and they will FAIL with the constitution that we are using. NDC and NPP have been in power from 1992 but we’re still complaining. There’s something fundamentally wrong. And that is the CONSTITUTION. Unless we rather demonstrate for it to be changed nothing can change. Sad.
Re: See your life. 1 year ago

Manasseh your article is a non-starter. Your so-called leaders of Organized Labour did not consult any of their members before plotting these strikes? This is where I find your article very interesting and full of your usual ...
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Manasseh your article is a non-starter. Your so-called leaders of Organized Labour did not consult any of their members before plotting these strikes? This is where I find your article very interesting and full of your usual hypocrisy ?
Mannaseh bear in mind that the strikes are illegal and we know that Carbone and Gyampo -the Dross professor , have been paid by the NDC to use these strikes to cause a regime change ? None of the workers who embark on these senseless strikes will be paid? These needless demonstrations and strikes cost the government including the tax payer a lot of money? Where was organized labour before 2017, after that period till January,2024?
This is truly a politically induced strike but mind you -Ghanaians are very discerning and won't vote for the Dead Goat?
Kwame 1 year ago

For workers to go on strike and demand that an illegality to be cut off like a rotten skin, its not possible for someone to refuse to pay them.
That will be a precept for disaster.

For workers to go on strike and demand that an illegality to be cut off like a rotten skin, its not possible for someone to refuse to pay them.
That will be a precept for disaster.
bobby 1 year ago

why dont you wait till the election is over? Abi you know Mahama go lose? hahaha this alternative supports Galamsey. Nonesense!

why dont you wait till the election is over? Abi you know Mahama go lose? hahaha this alternative supports Galamsey. Nonesense!
Solo Pobee 1 year ago

The strike is definitely coming on. We cannot fail Ghanaians by calling off the strike action. The various machination by other organised union would not deter us.

The strike is definitely coming on. We cannot fail Ghanaians by calling off the strike action. The various machination by other organised union would not deter us.
BlackC 1 year ago

Thank you Manasseh Azure! When you speak the nation wreckers come out of the bushes and speak hate towards you. More power to you Manasseh Azure. Ghana and its people welfare comes first. One Ghana.

Thank you Manasseh Azure! When you speak the nation wreckers come out of the bushes and speak hate towards you. More power to you Manasseh Azure. Ghana and its people welfare comes first. One Ghana.
Emily 1 year ago

Vote massively for John Mahama no 8 to break the wasted 8

Vote massively for John Mahama no 8 to break the wasted 8
BOYIIMEN 1 year ago

The Organise Labour should stop the hypocrisy and bootlicking and strike to show the current NPP government the tip of the iceberg.
The divisive machinations by some worker unions to undermine the industrial action is not di ...
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The Organise Labour should stop the hypocrisy and bootlicking and strike to show the current NPP government the tip of the iceberg.
The divisive machinations by some worker unions to undermine the industrial action is not discouraging us. We cannot let Ghanaians down.
Ghanaians have elected greedy, selfish,useless and wicked leaders; who are just interested in using the nation's resources at their disposal to enrich themselves and their cronies, at the health and economic depletion rate of the masses. These crop of NPP politicians do not value human lives.Nature must find a way of eliminating wicked people like this from our society. This country is doomed . There is no future for the youth and generation to come.
Virus 1 year ago

Masa they have failed the text....Organised Labour is a joke in ghana

Masa they have failed the text....Organised Labour is a joke in ghana

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