He called it Anlo Development fund. What happened to the money since 2000?
He called it Anlo Development fund. What happened to the money since 2000?
ELINAM 9 years ago
Gathering chiefs and carrying them in palanquin for two days and read speeches and invite corrupt politician to grace the occasion who wouldlie on what they can not and would not do is too OLD SCHOOL.
If churches can raise m ... read full comment
Gathering chiefs and carrying them in palanquin for two days and read speeches and invite corrupt politician to grace the occasion who wouldlie on what they can not and would not do is too OLD SCHOOL.
If churches can raise money to build universities and gated communities all on the back of ordinary church folks, then any king,chief or clan leader who have more power over all these church members including moslems and traditionalists as his subjects must be very DUMB not to use the same ploy to raise money for development and just waste all these opportunity in the name of tradition.
Do you know how many criminal men of god will like to have Catholics,Presbys,Zions, Charismatics of all shades, Muslims and Traditionalists for a convention? Pastors salivate when all these people come together to praise their traditional leaders whether is in the Volta region or in Asante or in the Dangobas or in the Efutu areas of Ghana.
Why the men of god know what to do with crowd and our kings and chiefs have no clue but just waste precious time and money to gather their subjects just to come drink and dance while the hospital buildings cry out for some fresh paint and the maternity and other wards in the hospitals need some fresh beds and wheel chairs?
Our governments are for the white man's interests so the traditional Africa has to cease the opportunity to control us and take us back from the Euro- controlled puppets.
Use for example Hogbetsotso to initiate big projects and tax the people and each year show to the crowd which level of project achieved till it is completed and move on to another.
In fact let it be so big to make the people proud and patriotic.
Dead king or chief is the one who does nothing for their people and boy, do we have many dead ones alive?
yao fiagbeto 9 years ago
thank you very much, your ideas are very brilliant. I will include your ideas in my future publications. if you would like read through my articles b4 publication l will gladly do that. thanks again
thank you very much, your ideas are very brilliant. I will include your ideas in my future publications. if you would like read through my articles b4 publication l will gladly do that. thanks again
ELINAN 9 years ago
Will be glad to share,and you can contact me at kofisulla@yahoo.com. Have a nice day.
Will be glad to share,and you can contact me at kofisulla@yahoo.com. Have a nice day.
Torgbui of Chicago 9 years ago
I can help create a $10,000 per week US income within 6 months for ANY Anlo that will listen to me...be coach-able and diligent...easily!
With so many GH-Americans calling me, "Akata" instead...how can I organize such closed ... read full comment
I can help create a $10,000 per week US income within 6 months for ANY Anlo that will listen to me...be coach-able and diligent...easily!
With so many GH-Americans calling me, "Akata" instead...how can I organize such closed-minded folks. Whom really have forgotten the TRADITION. Of which, reincarnation is a tool in it.
Born an African American male in this present life, I am of the Bate' Clan and my family lives in Tegbi, V/R.
I once attempted to have Fiaga Addo of Klikor once help me by directing Ewes to me to uplift. I sent a Keta dwelling elder rep to speak to him. To gain his directive inside the US. So US-Ewes would have the financial tools to later return 'Home' to uplift the Volta Region in less than 5 years, then GH and finally all of Africa. He dismissed me as a 419 type scammer. Without even holding audience with the Ancestors and Dieties first. It seems the White man's mis-education and organized white religion had impacted his
mindset.
I am still here but will not live forever in this dimension.
Whom, among the Anlos, is AWAKE enough to really know TRADITION has sent me? Whom? Festivals mean nothing if you do not really understand the depths of the African Spiritual World.
Yao Atito, my brother, I will contact you...maybe you have a group of spiritually AWAKE Anlos to sit with me? I know more than one way to raise capital with NO startup capital needed(fundraisers,donations, etc.)...none.
Do the math: $10,000 per week income is $520,000 income in one year. So if 5,000 Ewes in the US returned Home with such an income that is still increasing over time, no US storefronts and no jobs to babysit, how much of an impact can they have upon the Volta Region?
Without CORRUPTION and BRIBERY, Africa can raise in this 21st Century.
Cordially,
Torgbui
PS: To fight ebola in Africa requires tons of capital just by itself.
In the past, I have tried to help Liberian-Americans, Haitian-Americans, etc. It is not easy to find a Black people that love and have true confidence in themselves.
Pettiness, envy and jealousy always raises its head. We must overcome our short-comings. We must do this ourselves.
PSS: Andy K, out of Europe, you spoke to me by email once in the past.
Torgbui Adeladza II knew of me, as he and the House of Chiefs visited my village, Chicago, in 1988. I helped show them around while they were on tour. The group included Torgbui Addo of Klikor, ironically, at that time.Today, maybe due to age, he does not know me...his help mate.
ELINAN 9 years ago
Send mail to kofisulla@yahoo.com
Send mail to kofisulla@yahoo.com
WARD GDX - WE THE PEOPLE 9 years ago
Anlo Kingdom? Did you just wake up from a dream?
Anlo Kingdom? Did you just wake up from a dream?
C.Y. ANDY-K 9 years ago
I waded through you garbled write-up and I was amazed at how some of you think.
Yes, agric and fishing are very important in every country to sustain the livelihood of the population. After all, humans must eat in order to ... read full comment
I waded through you garbled write-up and I was amazed at how some of you think.
Yes, agric and fishing are very important in every country to sustain the livelihood of the population. After all, humans must eat in order to exist. But all over the developed world, the trend is for a smaller proportion of the pop. to be engaged in agric, while other sectors such as industries which add value to the primary produce and services take a greater share of the working pop. and contribute more to GDP. Ghana's present econ. crisis, all have been saying, is a result of the failure to walk this path, and now you are telling us we Anlos must focus on agric and even ignore the potentials of oil and gas? Where the land to farm on in Anlo in the first place? Do you know how many years it takes Anloga farmers to reclaim salty, muddy land from the lagoon flood plain?
To belittle the life changing role discovery of petroleum and gas is simply blowing the horn for those currently messing up the oil boon in Ghana while getting rich themselves, becoming millionaires even before the first barrel of oil was lifted! Yeah! Didn't Tsatsu Tsikata go to the Anlo and told them even if oil is discovered in the area, the people should not hope a great change in their life styles, while he himself made a a few million $$$$s doing komso for the building of the oil platform?!
My brother Efo Solo has shown very well WHY indeed the mass of Ghanaians won't benefit from the oil deposits in Ghana, thanks to the actions of our so-called leaders.
BTW, your continuing support for that Awoamefia impostor Patrick Agboba is noted. It clearly puts you in the camp of the lawless and unconscionable Anlos who are bent on destroying Anlo, rather than build it. Once again, Agboba is not even an Anlo in origin. Have you even seen the CV he presented? Do you know where his birth place, Tafi Atome is? I shall fwd you the crazy family tree they drew to support their evil agenda.
Andy-K
WARD GDX - WE THE PEOPLE 9 years ago
You are too irritating with your self-absorbed grandstanding my-version-of -events is always the pure last word.
You are no doubt a psychotic megalomaniac
You are too irritating with your self-absorbed grandstanding my-version-of -events is always the pure last word.
You are no doubt a psychotic megalomaniac
C.Y. ANDY-K 9 years ago
Just get off my face and stop being a pathetic cyber troll. If you knew any better, just tell us all and show how wrong I was.
Andy-K
Just get off my face and stop being a pathetic cyber troll. If you knew any better, just tell us all and show how wrong I was.
Andy-K
C.Y. ANDY-K 9 years ago
For records sake, I'd like to post the latest written by Efo Solo and a previous one to back why I took exception to my namesake Yao's position on oil and gas in Ghana. His position is the kind of mentality Ghanaians are bein ... read full comment
For records sake, I'd like to post the latest written by Efo Solo and a previous one to back why I took exception to my namesake Yao's position on oil and gas in Ghana. His position is the kind of mentality Ghanaians are being brainwashed to believe, while some few people are going to get stupidly rich beyond their wildest dream on the same oil and gas. They must be exposed as the conspirators that they are.
A MODERN CONSPIRACY AGAINST GHANAIANS: THE PETROLEUM EXPLORATION AND PRODUCTION BILL 2013.
“Imagine what Africa will look like when it has fully tapped into its potential,” he said, citing opportunities in agriculture, manufacturing and intra-African trade. “But Africa and its partners will miss the opportunity to transform the lives of future as well as present generation if they carry on with business as usual,” he added. “Tax avoidance and opaque business practices block Africa’s extractives sector, too,” said Mr. Kofi Annan. He was upbeat about prospects for Africa’s resource rich countries.
‘’Africa’s natural resources wealth rights belongs to the continent’s citizens, but these citizens are being robbed of its benefits by revenue diversion, corruption, jobless growth and rising inequality,‘’ Kofi Annan, Geneva, September 26, 2013.
Dr. Peter Eigen, the Founder of Transparency International observed that the World Bank and Western Governments do not see anything wrong with the multinational companies engaged in extractive industries paying tens of millions of dollars into private accounts overseas to secure bad agreements, and contracts and laws in their favor. DW TV Journal Interview, 31st December, 2013.
Without mincing words, the World Bank and Oxfam America are actively involved in pushing for the passage of the current Bill in Ghana into Law to rob us of our oil wealth in favor of Western (British and American) vested interests and their local accomplices in the name of investment.
You may ask: how are the World Bank and Oxfam America involved in getting this obnoxious Bill pass into law to regulate the Upstream Oil Industry in the country?
Before production began in December 2010, they supported the establishment of 135 branches of CSO Platform on Oil and Gas in 2008 throughout the country except the Volta Region. This was resourced and financed by Revenue Watch Institute and Star Ghana. Revenue Watch Institute and Star Ghana were set up in the year the announcement of discovery of oil in Ghana was made, as financial conduits to these 135 CSO Platform on Oil and Gas branches and other Think Tank groups in the country. Their hidden objective was to execute the diabolical plan and agenda of the World Bank and Oxfam America, through a system of confidence mechanisms or distracting gimmicks, to deny Ghanaians a fair and equitable share of their Oil Wealth in the name of investment purportedly in the interest of Ghanaians.
These CSO and their leaders are projected by the World Bank, Oxfam America and Revenue Watch Institute as the only knowledgeable people in Ghana to speak and be listened to on Oil and Gas matters. They are influencing and shaping what Ghana should do, doing the bidding of these transnational organizations, not mindful of the harm they are doing to their country, in exchange for whatever scrubs fall their way. Scrubs from the oil and gas table, mind you, translate into mega dollars and can make you rich beyond your wildest dreams.
Membership of these CSO are also made up of young men and women journalists positioned in various private and public Radio Stations and Press Houses, individuals whose consciences have been bought and/or brainwashed to believe that what the powers-that-be are doing is the best that can be achieved, and to make sure nothing contrary is published. This was achieved through juicy allowances and scholarships abroad to study what is being called Masters in Oil and Gas Reporting. These scholarships and allowances were channeled through Revenue Watch Institute and Star Ghana.
As is well known, before the discovery of oil and gas in Ghana, the nation had been blessed with a number of other extractive natural resources in the form of gold, diamond, bauxite, manganese and others. In respect of gold for example, it has been mined and left the shores of Ghana for over 500 years. However, in terms of visible, concrete returns to the nation’s development as well as its socio-economic wellbeing no one can dispute the fact that not much has been achieved. The evidence is visible for all to see.
The providence sent discovery of Oil and Gas has come at an opportune time when Ghana most needed an injection and, indeed a booster, into the nation’s general welfare and socio-economic development. The announcement of the discovery in 2007 sent expectations of Ghanaians high through the roofs all over Ghana. However, the general consensus of public opinion on the operations of the Oil and Gas Industry in Ghana after 3 years had so far been negative, because the euphoria and expectation of the whole nation which accompanied and greeted the announcement of the discovery has flattened to the grounds. Only few have taken issues with the conditionalities under which the Oil Companies are operating, because the expected revenue inflows are not forthcoming as Ghanaians were made to believe.
For example, before production begun regional workshops were held in the 10 regional capitals soliciting views from Ghanaians as to how the first US$5 billion for the first 5 years would be spent. Three years down the line not even half of the amount has been realized but total silence surrounds this fiasco.
We at GIGS believe the current prevailing system [the Modern Concession which the Draft Bill seeks to consolidate into law] under which the Oil Companies are currently operating in Ghana is the cause of this, and on careful analysis, as we have done repeatedly, could not be in the best interest of the people of Ghana.
The framework for managing the Upstream Petroleum Industry in Ghana before the discovery of oil was established and given legal backing by two main statutes, PNDC Law 64 and the Petroleum Exploration and the Production Law 84.
Law 64 established GNPC and gave it the sole rights to engage in Petroleum Operations alone or in association with others in the country.
Law 64 also gives GNPC the power to enter into Petroleum Exploration and Production agreements and other Petroleum Contracts providing for the assistance, participation or co-operation of contractors in connection with Petroleum Operations if it cannot do it alone.
Law 84 vests all petroleum existing in its natural state within the jurisdiction of Ghana in the Republic of Ghana.
Law 84 also conferred on GNPC the sole rights of exploration, development and production of petroleum.
Law 84 also gave GNPC rights over all Oil blocks in Ghana except those granted before the coming into force of the Law 84.
Law 84 also gave GNPC the power to enter into Petroleum agreement with a Contractor to carry out its Petroleum operations, if it cannot do it alone.
The Law also spells out the duties and obligations of the Contractor or Sub-Contractors.
Section 30 (b) of the Law limits the management control of the Contractor or Sub-Contractor in the Petroleum operations with GNPC. They are only assisting.
These two Laws were crafted and modeled to suit the most progressive, equitable and fairer fiscal regime or arrangements in sharing Petroleum revenue in the world currently – The Production Sharing Agreement. Records available at Oxford Institute of Energy Studies indicated, earlier agreements entered into by Ghana in the 1990’s based on these Laws were Production Sharing Agreements.
But all agreements and contracts entered into from the NPP administration to the current NDC administration and approved by Parliament - our Lawmakers, are modeled to suit Modern Concession Laws which were not in existence in our statute books at the time of signing these agreements and contracts.
These agreements and contracts are therefore not compatible and in conformity with the tenets of the existing two Laws. In our layman, legal opinion, these agreements and contracts are illegal and ultra vires because they are at variance with the existing PNDC Laws.
What is happening now is an attempt to give retrospective legal backing to these agreements and contracts by introducing into this Petroleum Exploration and Production Bill, Modern Concession fiscal provisions to consolidate and give legal effects to these obnoxious and exploitative agreements and contracts signed up to date.
The implication of passing this Bill into Law will mean taking away all the sole rights and controls granted GNPC under Law 64 and 84 and place the ownership of all the Oil blocks in private hands contrary to Sec 1 (1) of Law 84, Article 257, Section 6 of the Constitution of the Republic of Ghana and 1962 General Assembly Resolution on Permanent Sovereignty over Natural Resources (GRA 1803).
In a Paper titled From Concession to Service Contracts by Ernest E. Smith in Tulsa, Law Review Vol. 27, Issue 4 International Energy Law Symposium 1992, Modern Concessions are alleged to be subject to undue influences and corruption, and that is exactly what is happening in Ghana.
Ghana’s adoption of exploitative Modern Concession Laws to replace a progressive, equitable and fairer Production Sharing Agreement (PSA) Law was due to a political decision to reverse anything to do with the PNDC regime, without properly thinking through the dire economic consequences it will have. Secondly, the desire and propensity by the political class and elite technocrats to amass wealth by placing the control of our rich oil and gas resources wealth in private hands contrary to what is happening in countries of lesser stature than Ghana, e.g., South Sudan, Chad, Niger, Togo and Republic of Benin. Private greed is therefore the major motivating factor behind this obnoxious Bill.
Ghana’s Oil and Gas Technical Committee headed by a Professor who claimed the responsibility for the introduction of the hybrid system – the Modern Concession upon which the fiscal provisions has been drawn and incorporated into the Petroleum Exploration and Production Bill now under discussion - has dealt the greatest collateral damages to Ghana’s economic independence and emancipation since our flag independence.
At this juncture, we want to tell the people of Ghana and the whole world and to put it on record that, if the President and his Cabinet understood the dire economic consequences and ramifications of this Draft Bill becoming a Law to regulate our Upstream Oil Industry, he and his Cabinet would not have approved of it. The Government has been deceived to believe it is a good Bill in the interest of the mass of Ghanaians instead of a few.
“When the Truth appears every form of error or discord must necessarily disappear,” Charles Haanel. Unfortunately, this does not happen in Ghana’s case.
Mr. Solomon Kwawukume
(Senior Research Officer)
Oil & Gas, GIGS
C.Y. ANDY-K 9 years ago
WORDS OF ADMONITION TO GHANAIANS
The whole human society and intellect, narrowing it down to Ghana, has become infested with influences of evil of Luciferic proportions at all levels of governance. These have manifested in ... read full comment
WORDS OF ADMONITION TO GHANAIANS
The whole human society and intellect, narrowing it down to Ghana, has become infested with influences of evil of Luciferic proportions at all levels of governance. These have manifested into intellectual and political deceits, dishonesty, corruption, greed, selfishness, arrogance, bigotry and intrigues over the years that have brought us to where we are now; bringing down Ghana to her knees.
We have behaved over the decades like ostriches and pretended as if nothing was happening and accepted the situation as Ghanaians. The realities are beginning to dawn on us and we are complaining and crying, but we have not learnt any lessons yet. It is business as usual which is reflected in the way and manner our leaders are handling our new found wealth in the oil and gas resources, which is undesirable and detrimental to the majority of the masses of the people of Ghana.
No amount of Economic Forums and Declarations would change and reverse the abyss we are falling into, unless there is complete exorcising of all these evils and a launching of a moral crusade to change attitudes and perceptions about high political and administrative positions and offices as means of amassing wealth, rather than service to humanity and enfoldment and growth of one’s soul.
“Ghana would rise to fame, but would crash like Ancient Ghana. The seed for the manifestation of the process are being planted today”. It was like a revelation, handed down to me by the Cosmic Masters, when I first started in September 2009 the advocacy on the best policies Ghana should adopt in handling the Upstream Oil and Gas Industry. But one does not need to have the ability to read the stars, nor be a Nobel Laureate in Economics to bear witness to the fact that we are on a perilous path to socio-economic damnation, and eventually political instability.
The dark clouds swelling around Ghana under the Crystal Ball, the Crystal Ball gazers say, are frightening and alarming. Individuals are meditating and praying ceaselessly every day to avert this calamity. Or, if it should happen the effects must be less devastating. Some of us are working on the physical plane to prevent that crash, advocating for the correct policies to be adopted in handling our Upstream Oil Industry. “Oil can be a curse or a blessing”. It depends upon how you handle it from the beginning.
In my quest for the good of Ghanaians, through my contacts and interactions in respect of the Upstream Oil Industry, I discovered that matters of state are not being handled transparently and selflessly, but with the mind-set of what benefits one from one’s decisions as a person appears foremost. Some people in high positions forget that they are mortals and are not repository of all knowledge irrespective of their level of education. The level of intellectual and political dishonesty and deceit coming from both sides of the political divide is alarming and it would do this country no good. The Truth is always being suppressed, forgetting that the absence of Truth breeds instability and disorder in society. The moral fabric of the society is fast being eroded. It is rather unfortunate I cannot disclose to all revelations about the destiny of this country but the signs and writings are on the wall for those who have eyes to see.
May we put on sack clothes, pour ashes on ourselves and unite in invocation if it will help?
Omnipotent, Omniscience and Omnipresent God, infuse the Minds and Beings of our leaders to discern the Truth and to see the Light, to enable them make sound judgments and decisions affecting the Destiny of Ghana for the manifestation of Peace, Stability and Harmony.
So Mote it Be.
By: Solomon Kwawukume
C.Y. ANDY-K 9 years ago
And for those who think they know better, here is the Open Challenge.
OPEN CHALLENGE
As a follow up to our Press Statement on the Petroleum Exploration and Production Bill 2013, released on 28th July, 2014, the Ghana I ... read full comment
And for those who think they know better, here is the Open Challenge.
OPEN CHALLENGE
As a follow up to our Press Statement on the Petroleum Exploration and Production Bill 2013, released on 28th July, 2014, the Ghana Institute of Governance and Security (GIGS) is challenging the following under-listed organizations and their executives to come out and tell Ghanaians how much revenue would eventually accrue to them from the Jubilee Fields which is considered to hold 2 billion barrels of oil and 5000 billion cubic feet of gas worth estimated conservative value of US$175 billion, that is, (2 billion x US$75) + (5000 billion x US$5.00 per 1000 cubic feet), under the hybrid system -THE MODERN CONCESSION - they are championing and collaborating with the World Bank, IMF, Oxfam America, Revenue Watch Institute, Star Ghana, to force down the throats of Ghanaians.
The World Bank and IMF have estimated theirs to be US$19.390 billion and US$20.269 billion respectively, using a long term base price of US$75 per barrel when the field becomes exhausted. We at GIGS have also estimated ours using the same base price of US$75 per barrel and US$ 5 per 1000 cubic feet for gas as indicated above to be between US$83.475 billion, representing profit oil only (47.70% of total estimated revenue), and US$ 86.94 billion, representing Royalties and Profit oil (49.68% of total estimated revenue) as the “Minimum Government Take,” excluding Profit Taxes, under the simplest Production Sharing Agreement. Note: Under this simplest Production Sharing Agreement, Ghana is not contributing a cent towards exploration, development and daily operating costs.
These conservative estimated revenue figures accruing to Ghana under the PSA fall within the 42%-60% “Minimum Government Take” range set by the US Government Accountability Office (GAO), that should accrue to any host government from total production revenue by allowing its oil and gas resources to be exploited under any fiscal arrangement or contract [(DCMNR 2006) Department of Communication, Marine and Natural Resources, Dublin, Ireland].
If the Modern Concession formula was not being manipulated by the Foreign Oil Companies, as the case is now to their advantage, Ghana should at least earn US$66.8675 billion including taxes, representing 38.21% of the total estimated revenue of US$175 billion, though this falls short of the base Minimum Government Take of 42%.
The price of light crude oil since production began in 2010, has been fluctuating between US$100 and US$120 and is currently around US$105 per barrel.
The World Bank and the IMF estimates are 11.08% and 11.58% of the total estimated production revenue of the US$175 billion respectively as the ‘Minimum Government Take’, under the current prevailing system – the Modern Concession which makes Ghana to also contribute toward development and daily operating cost. Ghana currently is required to be paying US$150 million or more yearly to the lead operator Tullow as her share of daily operating and technical costs for participation in the project contrary to international practice. The total operating cost plus capital cost that Ghana is expected to pay over the next ten years average roughly US$180 million per year.
This is a clear and absolute example of robberies in the name of investment Mr. Kofi Annan complained against, but our elite technocrats and political leaders do not seem to realize it. The passage of the current Petroleum Exploration and Production Bill which is in the pipe-line would amount to complete perpetuation of these robberies and a death sentence on Ghana’s economic emancipation and independence, reducing us to modern day slavery status. We say a BIG NO to selling Ghanaians down the river all over again.
The organizations being challenged are:
1. Africa Centre for Energy Policy (ACEP).
2. Ghana’s Oil and Gas Technical Committee.
3. Institute of Economic Affairs
4. Centre for Economic Policy Analysis
5. Oxfam America
6. The 135 CSO Platform on Oil and Gas
7. Oil Watch Ghana
8. Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC)
9. Energy Commission
10. Petroleum Commission
11. IMANI Ghana
12. ISODEC
13. Friends of the Earth
14. Friedrich Ebert Foundation
15. Select Committee on Energy and Petroleum
16. Select Committee on Finance
17. Ministry of Finance
18. Ministry of Energy and Petroleum
We challenge them, in addition, to publish the list of countries in Africa producing oil in recent times under the Modern Concession.
Ghanaians are waiting for your answers. Please DO NOT take forever to respond.
Solomon Kwawukume
Senior Research Officer
Oil & Gas, GIGS
Note: This article takes precedence over our earlier publication due to the revision and evaluation of the Gas deposits.
26th August, 2014.
yao fiagbeto 9 years ago
Thanks for your commentary, l did not mean to offend you in anyway.
Thanks for your commentary, l did not mean to offend you in anyway.
C.Y. ANDY-K 9 years ago
Namesake Yao,
You pissed me off already. I hope you had received the crazy family tree which Agboba and his gang presented I sent to your email address. It is part of the court documents before the VR House of Chiefs. Sinc ... read full comment
Namesake Yao,
You pissed me off already. I hope you had received the crazy family tree which Agboba and his gang presented I sent to your email address. It is part of the court documents before the VR House of Chiefs. Since they could not successfully defend those claims, they had done everything within their powers to corrupt the House of Chiefs and collapsed it at a time when the Hohoe Paramount Chief was its President. Yes, just as they are stalling the Fast Track Court too with all kinds of delay tactics. Next court sitting is 16th Oct. Turn up to give them morale support.
You know, Tafi Atome, Agboba's birth place, is not far from Hohoe where Agboba attended primary school, according to his own account. We just wanted the House of Chiefs to sit so that we also narrate how his father ended up with him in Anlo. After all, our fathers were the ones called to go to Tofa's house - where his irresponsible son had abandoned him to die in destitute - to collect his body for burial. Was your father even at the funeral? Trust me that anytime you guys mentioned that impostor publicly and give him some accolade, I shall come out to attack you and divulge more of the nasty stuffs about him, even at the risk of prejudicing the case in court. Enough is enough! That old goat of a womanising ex-Policeman with abandoned children at every station he was posted to HAS NOTHING TO GIVE TO ANLOS EXCEPT MORE CORRUPTION AND LAWLESSNESS! Funny, I dreamt today that he died. His end is coming soon. The Awadada should therefore gather courage and support the Hogbeza, as the word out is that they are all scared associatng with it this year 'cos, hmmm, a bokor has divined bad news. Ha! ha! ha!
And, of course, I take exception to your rubbishing the boon that oil and gas can be to countries if handled properly, which is not presently the case in Ghana and some of us are devoting much time to point out that.
And we don't have land in Anlo at all to support your views on agric. The fishing aspect of it too is exaggerated. Anlo fishermen have been migrating to as far as Senegal and the Congo to fish before the building of the Akosombo Dam. Polly Hill has written on them in the 1950s. I have a copy somewhere in my things. I really don't have the time to debunk your position and educate you on these things. I am not saying that some qualitative changes cannot be made to support a more lucrative fishing industry. As for farming, the pple themselves are doing that already, the level of irrigated cultivation as intense as the Nile Valley! Get that? They are literally farming in sea sands in Anloga right now and harvesting crops throughout the year! Rain or drought!
Andy-K
Torgbui of Chicago 9 years ago
I am in a renewable energy company here in the US. I pay $150 every 8 months to serve as an independent rep. It pays me a percentage monthly for any bill paid by a US customer I help place with the company. A provider of gree ... read full comment
I am in a renewable energy company here in the US. I pay $150 every 8 months to serve as an independent rep. It pays me a percentage monthly for any bill paid by a US customer I help place with the company. A provider of green gas and green electric.For a customer to join, it is free if they are paying a gas or electric bill monthly in the US states the company is registered in to do business(CT, GA, IL, MD, NH, ME, NY, NJ, OH, PA, RI, TX). Plus it provides me a smartphone app that gains me discounts as a retail customer that shops at any of over 330,000 businesses in the US monthly.So can you imagine if I were a GH-American sending barrels to GH monthly with goods to be sold? Soon, I would be able to afford to send containers.
I know Afr Amer people in the renewable energy program that make $15,000 or more monthly in this home-based business (signing up new customers). They have no formal job and don't need one.
For me to get
Africa-born, now living in the US to take a look at this opportunity...IMPOSSIBLE! No-shows, as usual at weekly meetings.
Andy, can you imagine 5,000 Ewes returning to GH with the knowledge and support of this parent company steeped in the US energy field? The impact it could have on the V/R?
Africa needs a 24/7 think tank headed by Blacks from across the globe. All funded by ourselves.
But we have not yet, like even before the white man returned to enslave, overcome our infighting till this day. Look at the size of Europe than look at the size of Africa. We must re-gain our senses.
NEMESIS 9 years ago
The word should be "celebrate", not "celebrates". We're talking about a plural noun "The people", which must be followed by a singular verb "celebrate".
The word should be "celebrate", not "celebrates". We're talking about a plural noun "The people", which must be followed by a singular verb "celebrate".
yao fiagbeto 9 years ago
THANKS
THANKS
Mahama 9 years ago
Trokosi-filled Hogbetsotso rubbish.
Trokosi-filled Hogbetsotso rubbish.
ELINAM 9 years ago
When you alienate yourself from your root, you are then finished.The way you cloth yourself does not necessarily make you an European but to Europeanize is a mind set if that mind set takes over, that kills your African huma ... read full comment
When you alienate yourself from your root, you are then finished.The way you cloth yourself does not necessarily make you an European but to Europeanize is a mind set if that mind set takes over, that kills your African humanity that is based on egalitarianism and communalism that had been the bed rock of African social formation for over thirty thousand years long before the first European society was formed in Greece less than five thousand years ago.
To be a Europeanized African and think you can develop Africa where there would be balance for the people in absence of African spirituality that up holds the feminine principles is a joke. It never worked and would never work unless we do it as who we really are.
We confused teachings from babies who have had 95% of the whole world's resources at their disposal for their minority population and we went gaga and called it an achievement that got to be replicated. Any fool who got such advantage has to be high in output while others scramble for bones. That is anti growth and anti human.
If that model of rape on other people's resources can be sustainable, then Portugal that went around the world taking and raping, looting, killing and burning would have been a super power today but as they lose all colonies and the freebies that came with it, their European and western values are not helping them today either but rather had exposed them as people who are not that smart after all.
If a small population like that of Portugal who went around looting freely for over 400 years could be in such terrible situation today with all their so-called western values of capitalism, democracy and fake religion of Christianity that dead brain Africans are falling over,then I don't think there's anything there worth emulating.
The people of Dagbamate and their chiefs of the Tsiame clan in the Akatsi district have carved a path for their future. They united behind a restored spirituality and the thousands of devotee with their communal spirit and contributions have done what Anlos could not have done.
YOUTUBE DAGBAMATE.ORG to see for yourself. And I say with their spiritual awakening in African egalitarian principles, they have a future and the earlier Togbi Sri iii goes and takes some lessons with his elders and brainstorm the way forward and stop relying on Euro-controlled bonded slaves called politicians we will not see no development ever.
yao fiagbeto 9 years ago
l am touch and l do appreciate your deep understanding of our problem and solution. by the way l am a very good friend to togbi EKU shrine. take care
l am touch and l do appreciate your deep understanding of our problem and solution. by the way l am a very good friend to togbi EKU shrine. take care
francis kwarteng 9 years ago
Dear ELINAM,
I have read all your comments here. Brilliant.
Thanks.
Dear ELINAM,
I have read all your comments here. Brilliant.
Thanks.
Collins Samuel Doe Ahiabor 9 years ago
The Anlo kingdom needs to be governed by intelligent brains like you. Your article is just realistic and attainable. Kudos!
The Anlo kingdom needs to be governed by intelligent brains like you. Your article is just realistic and attainable. Kudos!
He called it Anlo Development fund. What happened to the money since 2000?
Gathering chiefs and carrying them in palanquin for two days and read speeches and invite corrupt politician to grace the occasion who wouldlie on what they can not and would not do is too OLD SCHOOL.
If churches can raise m ...
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thank you very much, your ideas are very brilliant. I will include your ideas in my future publications. if you would like read through my articles b4 publication l will gladly do that. thanks again
Will be glad to share,and you can contact me at kofisulla@yahoo.com. Have a nice day.
I can help create a $10,000 per week US income within 6 months for ANY Anlo that will listen to me...be coach-able and diligent...easily!
With so many GH-Americans calling me, "Akata" instead...how can I organize such closed ...
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Send mail to kofisulla@yahoo.com
Anlo Kingdom? Did you just wake up from a dream?
I waded through you garbled write-up and I was amazed at how some of you think.
Yes, agric and fishing are very important in every country to sustain the livelihood of the population. After all, humans must eat in order to ...
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You are too irritating with your self-absorbed grandstanding my-version-of -events is always the pure last word.
You are no doubt a psychotic megalomaniac
Just get off my face and stop being a pathetic cyber troll. If you knew any better, just tell us all and show how wrong I was.
Andy-K
For records sake, I'd like to post the latest written by Efo Solo and a previous one to back why I took exception to my namesake Yao's position on oil and gas in Ghana. His position is the kind of mentality Ghanaians are bein ...
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WORDS OF ADMONITION TO GHANAIANS
The whole human society and intellect, narrowing it down to Ghana, has become infested with influences of evil of Luciferic proportions at all levels of governance. These have manifested in ...
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And for those who think they know better, here is the Open Challenge.
OPEN CHALLENGE
As a follow up to our Press Statement on the Petroleum Exploration and Production Bill 2013, released on 28th July, 2014, the Ghana I ...
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Thanks for your commentary, l did not mean to offend you in anyway.
Namesake Yao,
You pissed me off already. I hope you had received the crazy family tree which Agboba and his gang presented I sent to your email address. It is part of the court documents before the VR House of Chiefs. Sinc ...
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I am in a renewable energy company here in the US. I pay $150 every 8 months to serve as an independent rep. It pays me a percentage monthly for any bill paid by a US customer I help place with the company. A provider of gree ...
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The word should be "celebrate", not "celebrates". We're talking about a plural noun "The people", which must be followed by a singular verb "celebrate".
THANKS
Trokosi-filled Hogbetsotso rubbish.
When you alienate yourself from your root, you are then finished.The way you cloth yourself does not necessarily make you an European but to Europeanize is a mind set if that mind set takes over, that kills your African huma ...
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l am touch and l do appreciate your deep understanding of our problem and solution. by the way l am a very good friend to togbi EKU shrine. take care
Dear ELINAM,
I have read all your comments here. Brilliant.
Thanks.
The Anlo kingdom needs to be governed by intelligent brains like you. Your article is just realistic and attainable. Kudos!
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