Kids. LOL. Just saw a Facebook post with images of questions kids asked God. A certain Sarra Lou Comandante made the post. Mostly funny but very logical questions. Will share here.
If you were carried from 37 to the regional headquarters yesterday & have been asked to report at 1pm today to claim your phone, i have permission to let you know arrangements have been made for legal assistance with the process.
Please do not talk to officers by yourself.
people wake 6 year olds up at 4.30 am so they can do drop off & make it to work early too. you're a whole adult & can't get to your meetings without sirens & speed cos you want to be able to move whenever. people who're forced to go about earlier than normal deɛ they have 2 heads
The ICA-G is holding a big conference in Koforidua at the moment. Because of this conference, I've had a hard time finding accommodation. Started searching weeks ago. Was even willing to stomach the GHS 800 a night at one of the ‘big’ places here but they said they were booked 1/
If you're ever in Koforidua & need to sleep somewhere, do not stay at the Baca Hotel.
If you know who owns the place tell them George Boateng who is supposedly a manager is ruining it for them.
I'm going to try & calm down & share why later but yeah don't stay there.
yesterday, i sent almost GHS 2000 to someone. MTN took GHS 7+ as fee. The wicked Government of 🇬🇭claimed GHS 17+ as e-levy.
I basically spent GHS 23+ trying to move money.
The GOG takes & takes & takes & we never see what use all the money is put to.
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Hi
@konkrumah
! It's week 5 of asking: have you and other staff of the Ministry of Information who claimed Covid Risk Allowance given it back like the Auditor General asked?
The Renal Unit at Korle Bu has been closed for months. It could use some of that money.
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everyone here is so real!
lawyers + friends & family kept coming by to check on us + brought snacks and meals and water.
Fafa even left us money for just in case we needed to buy something while they were away sorting out stuff.
Let us also remember that the year Eric Ofotsu was killed for being outside during llockdown, Carlos Ahenkorah was out and about while COVID positive. He did not lose his life. He was not penalised in any way for that action.
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I'm protesting in memory of Ashaiman's Eric Ofotsu aka No Yawa, a person living with a mental illness, who was shot dead by a soldier in 2020 for flouting the COVID-19 lockdown rules. Disproportionate force is the mantra of our security forces.
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on a more serious note, i'm home. our phones are still at the regional headquarters. we get to pick them up tomorrow.
thank you to all the lawyers who have been working hard today to ensure all of us who were picked up & detained were good + got out.
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Ghana's funeral service for Prof. Ama Ata Aidoo is holding tomorrow at the forecourt of the State House.
Final funeral rites for her will happen at her hometown, Abeadze Kyeakor in the Central region on Saturday & Sunday.
it was on this day 4 years ago
@GhPoliceService
sprayed hot water on young ghanaians who were protesting unfair conditions meted out to them by the body that handles these qualifying exams for lawyers-to-be, no? in their news release they said they used 'reasonable lawful force.'
Reading that the Auditor General's report asked that
@konkrumah
& everyone else at
@moigovgh
who received the covid risk allowance return it to the Auditor General's Recoveries Account.
@konkrumah
have you & your staff who received the monies returned it yet?
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😭😭🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
(also, very much love all the ways we have available to us to document these events. my life could be better but i'm so grateful i get to experience this lifetime with you people)
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wai.
Hi hiii logistics team!
Do we have bin bags? Is there a plan to segregate waste?
I think it will be great to gather all our plastic bottles and sachets & offer them to everyday people in the 37 area who pass them on to recyclers for money.
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Hi everyone!
GH has a cybersecurity team that you can reach out to when your SM accounts get hacked into.
They are interested in whether or not the account you have lost is being used for malicious activities, etc but they also help you put in requests for recovery.
Also
@konkrumah
, you paid yourself and some of your staff the covid risk allowance without authorisation from the Chief of Staff even? You clearly need to show us where you're buying the food/drink that gives you this vim.
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2nd sunday since i asked
@konkrumah
if he's given back the monies he received as covid risk allowance like the Auditor General asked in their report.
still odn't have a response like his website promises. maybe this week
@konkrumah
will make time & tell us.
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hi
@konkrumah
,
i sent you a message via the contact sheet on your website a few minutes ago.
i am counting on your own promise to reply for a response.
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Oh speaking of:
Please me & my account are pro LGBTQI+ people.
If you followed me yesterday/today & have no regard for the lives of LGBTQI+ people, please feel very welcome to unfollow/block/whatever you want to do.
my uber drive claims he's just recently heard Fireboy's Like I Do & has been playing it on replay. he had it on when i got in the car. he asked for permission to keep it replaying.
There is a long story here. Might tell it one day.
Short story is i'm wearing “It will be good. Everything good will come to me” from Sefi Atta's Everything Good Will Come on my skin now.
It's in Gonja & i thank Uncle Ken & my granduncle Ibrahim for help with the translation.
see what Kojo jr is doing? need same in other ghanaian languages. 🥺also imagining small community/bus stop screenings of all of these documentations of why we're outside & online + what happened while we were outside. let everybody see them for who they are.
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this person was wearing the flyer in their hair & i don't know, it made me think maybe we can keep doing ‘small things’ like this even after today.
tshirts? caps/hats with inscriptions?
we're already doing the tshirts so we can certainly think up other ways
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Bro, are we talking about medication right now?
See, i paid some GHS 400+ for my antidepressants and anxiety meds eh, my chest was so tight after.
This place is just trying to finish all of us.
If you're ever in Koforidua & need to sleep somewhere, do not stay at the Baca Hotel.
If you know who owns the place tell them George Boateng who is supposedly a manager is ruining it for them.
I'm going to try & calm down & share why later but yeah don't stay there.
hi
@konkrumah
,
i sent you a message via the contact sheet on your website a few minutes ago.
i am counting on your own promise to reply for a response.
#OccupyJulorbiHouse
Reading that the Auditor General's report asked that
@konkrumah
& everyone else at
@moigovgh
who received the covid risk allowance return it to the Auditor General's Recoveries Account.
@konkrumah
have you & your staff who received the monies returned it yet?
#OccupyJulorbiHouse
They arrested a man who was granting a TV crew an interview.
From the look of things, they're moving to anyone at all they think is dressed for protest.
Should have seen the way they moved to him. Like they had learned he was carrying bombs.
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there's so many people who won't have the luxury of taking the day off. won't even have it in them to ask because they're scared of what that will mean for their jobs.
this is why i will never forgive all of you making boxbox houses that you leave empty in the centre of the city
i ask a friend to consider calling in sick because she tells me she got to kasoa after 10PM. but, she somehow, managed to get to work this morning at 6am.
There’s a level of anxiety and burnout commuters from Kasoa are experiencing. health implications hm
I'm very happy to keep protesting online, people.
Looking forward to tweeting/retweeting reasons with
#OccupyJulorbiHouse
everyday until I don't even know when.
One of them, I believe, is Frank AK Tagbor! Started photographing Keta & its people in the 1950s and retired in 2011. Trained nearly 20 people during active service.
So glad i got to see an exhibition his family put together in his honour before he passed later on in 2022.
📷:🙋🏿
I'm sure there were plenty of amazing photographers like James Barnor who captured the essence of Ghana back in the day but are just not visible... I'm surprised to find out he didn't get his flowers until he was 79!
I'm awake and just want to say i hope the people who put the 3 day protest together aren't going to sit in any meeting with
@GhPoliceService
in the name of debriefing. The GPS refused to acknowledge the gathering. They came there to unlawfully arrest people.
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(if you think i'm a cry baby & i worry too much, my nuclear family members are worse & that is why i don't say shit to them & navigate life on the interwebs & sometimes in real life like i don't have family. my baby sisters have been wailing 😭)
1. okay baby they said there's traffic outside but we can do this, it's time sensitive so let's go.
2. ei, this is what the sun is doing? and the mframa??? what is this?😅
3. yeah that's it. kai.
Osei Korankye, the seperewa master :)
First encountered him via the Koo Nimo and the Palmwine Quartet videos that live on YouTube and I only came to proper know about Koo Nimo's life, music and those videos because I took Papa Baah's African Popular Music class.
Hi!
If you're home/in a quiet place, can you start calling the Police Professional Standards Bureau?
Per a tweet by
@AbeikuLytle
some of the people who have been arrested are being beaten.
Have more info? Call PPBS & report. I'm working w/ very little faith here but call.
There's a bus waiting at the Atlantic Mall, Atomic junction.
There's a mall security man who is being very strange talmbout you have 30 minutes to move the bus because you've been here too long.
Y'all come and let's go chale.
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This government is actually very shameless, you know. Very very shameless.
Can't believe this is the one i personally believed was going to do right by us.