Africa News of Monday, 6 January 2025

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'They will tell you everything is alright' - Nollywood Ghana President pens open letter to Tinubu

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President of the Nollywood Ghana Chapter and presenter of 100% Naija Pidgin show on CTV, Destiny Austine Omon has penned an open letter to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

Destiny in his introductory message, welcomed President Bola Tinubu to Ghana and commended his visit to the country which signifies progress.

The Nollywood president wrote;

OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT AHMED TINUBU

Hello, Your Excellency, sir.

You are welcome to Ghana. The fact that you have decided to visit Ghana now shows progress. I know you enjoyed the scenes you saw at the airport. No begging, like where you came from. I know you will be staying at the Kempinski hotels, which is one of the best in Ghana, anyway. I know you will be meeting a few well-to-do Nigerians who will tell you everything is alright. You will meet Nigerians wearing nice suits and Agbada, smelling well and looking good. You will not see your children sleeping at the beachside. No, you will not be allowed to see your children in Kasoa. They will make sure you don't drive past Lagos Avenue at night, so you don't see what your granddaughters have become.

Of course, they won't let you meet your children at the immigration cells, whose only crime is not having close to $1,000 to normalize their stay in Ghana. No, they won't allow you to meet the family of Mr. Oliseh of Asamian, who was shot in 2021 by armed robbers, and his Toyota Highlander was snatched (which was later tracked and recovered by our team). Those armed robbers are actually Ghanaian police, after intensive investigations by our media team, they were arrested. Yet nothing happened.

I know they won't allow you to meet the mother of a three-month-old girl whose father was shot by Ghanaian police, and his body was left to rot at the police hospital. They will make sure you don't meet with traders whose stores have been locked because Jack Toronto and his avengers want them to pay one million dollars before doing business in an ECOWAS country.

Your Excellency, sir, I can go on and on. My point is this: today is not to drink tea; today is to address all your children have suffered in the last eight years of a government that came to avenge what happened before some of us were born. A government that took a bulldozer and demolished our mission house, a government that packed Nigerians like sardines into immigration cells. But thank God it is finished, and the Egyptians we see today, we will see them no more.

We know most of the association heads you will meet today are people with dual nationality who will tell you everything is alright. But before someone slaps a child in the presence of his father, then he has already measured his strength. Prove your strength now, before the Giant of Africa turns into the Ant of Africa.

I come in peace!


Destiny Austine Omon
President, Nollywood Ghana Chapter
Presenter, 100% Naija Pidgin show on CTV.