20/09/2019
Good afternoon fellow Ghanaians, I really am imploring on all well meaning Ghanaians to raise their voices and show concern. The invasion of Ghana, by our global friends, the Chinese is becoming hindrance to our future survival as a nation. They are destroying our environment, forest and rivers, they are involved in petty trading, they are taking over economy from small scale to industry. Hold on, I am not saying that all Chinese businesses are bad and not welcome, we need to protect ourselves and our own.
Now my main issue is to do with this illegal mining (Galamsey) menace. Are we being serious about stamping it out just giving mouth service to the masses. A few questions;
How many individual arrest has been made since the inception of Operation Vanguard?
How many Chinese have been arrested so far?
How many Chinese have been jailed?
How many have been deported?
How much has it cost the tax payer to deport these undesirables?
These are a few questions I would like to get answers to.
I just read that four Ghanaians have been jailed 4 years each and fined 24,000.00 each in addition. If my understanding of custodial sentence is correctional, then I hope these four and others will come out with a skill to keep them away from whatever it is that sent them there. I will come back to the Chinese in a little while, lets talk a bit about our prisons as a correctional facility and a deterrent to crime.
Are our sentences harsh enough to deter? Both custodial and community sentences need to be reviewed to really deter people from committing crime in the first place. When deterrents are not stringent enough it becomes a motivation to criminals or people with selfish motives. https://dailyverses.net/mark/7/20-23. He went on: “What comes out of a person is what defiles them. For it is from within, out of a person’s heart, that evil thoughts come—sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly. All these evils come from inside and defile a person.”
As human beings we are fallible and need to be supervised as a group, individually we can do what we want but in a collective there has to be supervision hence rule of law, deterrent and punishment. If democracy is to flourish in Ghana we need to be disciplined as individuals and as a nation, we must allow the rule of law to proceed without interference, without fear or favour.
Talking about correctional, I think the Prison service should look critically more at partnerships with the private sector that will train the inmates to acquire alternate skills that will benefit them when they get out of jail, carpentry in construction and furniture, masonry, auto mechanics, tailoring and dressmaking, shoe-making and cobbling, electronics and IT to mention a few areas that the prisons and the private sector can work together. Punishment should reflect the crime committed.
The Chinese, they are another subject altogether, they are a culture that is difficult to understand because they will not let you try, they are inward looking and believe that they are better that all, in fact when it comes to Africa and Ghana we are second class, maybe the last in human hierarchy. And while we are thinking about today and the immediate they are thinking a hundred years ahead, and when you understand what lies a hundred years ahead you will pay anything for it. They don't care about our environment, the forest, farms and rivers they don't give a toss, all they care about is them and them alone.
They are having children with our women, in fact our women are chasing them because they are in need, they are struggling, our men don't have work to do earn a living income that will allow him to take care of his woman. These children are Chinese, even when they don't have fathers so imagine a Ghanaian-Chinese with a right to vote who thinks like a Chinese rather than a Ghanaian.
We arrest them and deport them, is that a deterrent? The Chinese have closed their borders in the past for over 30 decades to instill in its people a sense of one China, an ideology that has put China before everything else for the Chinese, they have come here with a purpose and this purpose is to take any and everything they can take irrespective of the consequences to us as Ghanaians and Ghana as a whole. The Chinese will deal with us anyhow, they understand the system, if we are straight they will play straight, if we are crooked they will play crooked and in that they know the game better than we do, they have been playing this game since before Christ. We can work with them if we begin to understand and appreciate what we are and have, and what they want and how much they will pay to have it.
When we offend in their country they punish us and severely, sometimes even by death and all we do is deport them. They are killing us through this galamsy, destroying our farms and forest, and polluting our water-bodies. Crimes they won't dare commit in their country, they go about committing with impunity here, and because of our own institutionalised bias we help them to screw us.
I could go on and on. We don't owe them anything, let us not forget Sri Lanka, Djibouti and Zambia to mention a few Countries that have paid the price of trusting the Chinese.
Operation Vanguard arrests 20 Chinese illegal miners at Prestea By Jonathan Adjei - September 20, 2019 Facebook Twitter Google+ Pinterest WhatsApp At least 20 Chinese nationals suspected of engaging in illegal mining have been apprehended following a massive operation conducted by VANGUARD personnel...
