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Editorial
MISCHIEF
It is just pure mischief and it
is a continuation of the political propaganda initiated against Professor John
Evans Atta Mills.
Since the death of
President Mills, some people and institutions have deliberately sought to
create doubt about the circumstance of his death and in the process suggest
that he was murdered.
Now it is clear to
even his most ardent opponents that Professor Mills enjoys the tremendous
support and sympathy of people from all walks of life.
An aura of sainthood hangs over Professor
Mills after his death and his opponents are worried about the possibility that
this good will can very easily be transferred to President John Mahama.
They desperately want
to prevent this and the strategy is to subtly suggest that those who are likely
to be beneficiaries of the goodwill are those who killed him.
That way, the political opponents of Professor
Mills believe that the goodwill Professor Mills enjoys can be dissipated.
In our view, this is a show of utter
disrespect to Professor Mills and the People of Ghana.
This dirty campaign
must end now.
KILLED BY
POLICE: THE FAMILY’S PETITION TO IGP
Dear Sir,
"PETITION FOR-REDRESS REGARDING DEATH OF MY BROTHER
MOHAMMED AYOROGO AS A RESULT OF ACCIDENT
CAUSED BY POLICE VEHICLE NO.GP1247
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| Mohammed Alhassan IGP |
The facts of the case
are that on the 18th of February 2013, my late brother who
was a dispatch rider of Royal Dutch Pharmacy, a private company in Accra was
riding the company's official motor bike with registration number M-I0-GR-9426
from Abokobi towards Accra and at about 3.00pm, the Police vehicle with
registration number GP 1247 also driving from the opposite direction i.e. from
Accra towards Abokobi, suddenly left their lane and was driving against traffic
and knocked down the late Mohammed Ayorogo, and he sustained injuries on the leg
and hands. According to eye witnesses, the Police driver now identified as Cpl.
Attuah of the Rapid Deployment Force (RDF), Police Headquarters, Accra got down
and picked the victim and instead of putting him safely in the police Vehicle,
he hired a Taxi Cab and put him in the boot, like a dead animal.
Witnesses and
drivers who were caught up in Traffic vehemently protested against the police
action and demanded that they convey him in the police vehicle and send him to
the nearest hospital. The Police ignored this suggestion and only removed him
from the boot of the taxi and put him at the back seats of the Taxi and ordered
the driver to take off while the- Police followed with the Police vehicle.
Unfortunately for the Police, an Etv Ghana television crew arrived at the scene
and filmed the incident and broadcasted it live from the scene in their news
bulletin. (Please Sir, you can call for the excepts from Etv Ghana and watch
the horrible incident for your good
selves)
Sir, it was friends and
some relatives who watched the T.V news bulletin and saw my late brother who
informed me of the accident. I rushed to the Police hospital first and
contacted the nurses at the OPD and the emergency ward in search of my brother
but I was told that no motor accident case or victim had been brought there. I
continued to the 37 military hospital and was told the same story. I proceeded
to Korle Bu, Ridge and La hospitals but did not see my brother.
Sir, after the Police had allegedly completed
their investigation the body was released to the, family for burial. The Police
never showed any concern or sympathy to even assist the family in the burial
and funeral rites, up to date the Police have not found it appropriate ,to apprise
the family of the action it has taken to ensure that the driver of the vehicle
is prosecuted and compensation paid to the family. I have been to the Police
Headquarters on several occasions and what some of the Policemen in charge tell
me is unprintable.
Consequently, I was compelled to petition the
Director General MTTU, Police Headquarters on the issue. He told me verbally
that according to his inquires, the docket on the accident had been forwarded
to the Attorney General's office for directives, that has forced me to write
this petition to your Honorable Ministers to ensure that justice is done
expeditiously to dispel the notion being bandied around by the Policemen concerned that the docket will
remain in the Attorney- General's office for years.
I hope this petition will be given due
attention.
0244034257
The
Attorney - General
Attorney - General Department
Ministry of justice
Attorney - General Department
Ministry of justice
Accra
The Minister of the Interior
Ministry of the interior
Ministries Accra
Ministry of the interior
Ministries Accra
Cc The Inspector- General Of Police
Ghana Police Headquarters
Ghana Police Headquarters
AFRICA CRIMINAL COURT
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| Barack Obama |
About Ten years ago, when the doors of the International
Criminal Court (ICC) were opened in Hague, the expectations were that, the days
of injustice and impunity especially on the part of elected authorities and
other influential persons across the world will seize to see the light of the
day. Today, the International Criminal Court is supported by many countries in
the world with some African countries such as Uganda, Central African Republic,
Mali and Democratic Republic of Congo already petitioned the court whilst the
United Nation in recent past also referred some leaders of Libya and Sudan for
prosecutions by the Court.
Recently, in the
light of the visit of His Excellency President Omar Hassan Ahmed Al Basher to
Abuja to attend African union(AU) special summit on HIV/AIDS, malaria and
Tuberculosis, Ambassador Tinn Intelmann of the Court in a letter protested the
visit and urged the authorities in Nigeria to comply with the Rome statute by
arresting President Al Basher. The same arguments made whenever President Omar
Al Basher visits any state party including Ghana in 2008.The opponents of
President Al Bashir are accusing him of perpetrating an immoral act and
presiding over a government with determined agenda of wiping out people of
black skinned in Darfur.
It appears that, in a
very desperate attempt to divert attention of American populations in the run
up to the elections in 2004 from the terrible fallouts in Iraq. The government
of United States of America hastily claimed and declared the conflict in Darfur
as genocidal and strangely enough quickly warned against preoccupying
themselves with it. Fortunately, given its apparent political opportunism, many
in the International Community including both former Secretary General His
Excellency Kofi Annan and former President His Excellency President Olusegun
Obasanjo rejected it and called for a disregard of such claims of genocide in
Sudan. As if that was not enough, the Special Commission On Darfur created by
the Security Council of United Nation and chaired by Mr. Antonio Cassese was
unambiguous and emphatic in their report that, both the claim and declarations
of genocide occurrence in Darfur were baseless.
Furthermore, there is
a very little if any at all racial distinction between the many ethnic groupings
in Darfur. Both the so labeled Arabs and African are dark in complexion and the
only possible differences are located in the cultural practices of the groups.
Undoubtedly, the displacements of many innocent people within the region of
Darfur are very disturbing and unacceptable. The Sudanese government under the
leadership of President Omar Al Bashir was evidently very open and eager in
signing the agreements with International Organization For Migration to oversee
the returning of victims to their homes and ever since promoted the visits of
many countless aid workers to the region. The arguments of President Al Bashir
and the government ability to influence and control the activities of the
criminal and bloody gangs are not supported by the evidence in the grounds.
Many of the Sudanese government institutions including the Security agencies
have been recorded as part of the victims of those criminals groups.
Recognizing and accepting the conflict in Darfur as a clash over natural
resource and never about an ethnic cleansing agenda is certainly the direction
in helping solve the problem.
Many years ago, the
founders according to the treaty establishing the Organization of African Unity
(OAU) were inspired by a common drive to encourage understanding and cooperation
among African nations in a response to the aspirations of Africans for
brotherhood, solidarity and greater unity to overcome national and ethnic
differences. Today, more than ever before, the developments in which decisions
affecting the world are dominated by small countries some of which are not even
signatory to institutions such as the International Criminal Court are
backwards and no longer tolerable. African countries and other developing
states should be given bigger voice at international institutions to take
decisions to give international relations democratic character. Considering the
structure and mode of operations of the International Criminal Court, very
clearly it is targeted at African leaders and interests and therefore does not make
sense for some countries within the Continent to maintain, they will comply
with the Rome statute by arresting President Omar Al Bashir.
By Akin Olukiran
First impression, they say, counts. I recall a
near-comedic episode over a decade ago when I had to visit a stupendously rich
man with some mental health issues in a leafy suburb of London, on a cold
winter morning, in company of a Caucasian professional colleague. Upon
arrival at the mansion, seeing the state of the expansive but filthy living
room, we both made up our minds not to accept any offer of a drink.
Why? It’s the first impression we had, with the deplorable and unhygienic
state of the living room. I was shocked when the man invited us to sit
with him on the breakfast table in the kitchen and I saw how immaculate the
kitchen was. This was contrary to the ramshackle state of the living
room. Though the kitchen was immaculate, I had already formed an
impression that I couldn’t shift. To my consternation, when the man offered
us a cup of tea and I declined, my colleague said yes and went ahead to have a
cuppa. After we left the place, I asked him why he went back on his
earlier resolve to decline an offer of a cup of tea. He responded that as
an Englishman, he just could not resist the offer of a cup of tea! Had
the situation been reversed, with the living room looking immaculate and the
kitchen as filthy as a pig’s trough, we would have had a drink without knowing
state of the rest of the house. That is the power of “first impression”!
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| Goodluck Jonathan, Nigeria President |
To anyone visiting Nigeria, either for the first time or as
a returnee, coming in through the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, the
first contact with anything remotely Nigeria is the drive through the Airport
Road. What an unpleasant drive! Whether going to a five star hotel
in Ikoyi or wherever in Lagos metropolis, you have to pass through this eyesore
of a road. As a seasoned traveller, and at the risk of sounding rather
conceited, I have the privilege of having visited over twenty different
countries spread across Europe, the Americas, the Caribbean and Africa (four in
Africa). I have never seen any country that I can compare its airport
road to that of Nigeria. The road to and from Nigeria’s busiest
international airport and the first point of contact with Nigeria’s road
infrastructure by any visitor coming to the country, is reflective of the
shamelessness of our leaders and their lack of pride in the Nigeria project.
This is more disturbing when one draws a parallel with our
homes. No matter how unpleasant, dirty, poor, or untidy one’s home might
be, for most sane people with any iota of self-worth, the sitting room or
“parlour” (in the case of Nigerians’ popular room and parlour abodes) which
visitors and guests see, is usually tidied up, arranged pristinely and
presented nicely to give a good impression. This is notwithstanding the
state of the rest of the house where the bedrooms might be in deplorable,
filthy conditions. This however, is only applicable to those who have
pride! It appears that successive governments in Nigeria have lost all
sense of amour-propre and are so shameless that they cannot see the eyesore
that this stretch of less than five kilometres of road has become.
Airport roads, in even the poorest of all the countries that
I have visited are well tarred, pothole-free, lined with trees and well lit
with functional street lights. The Lagos airport road is anything
but all of the above. This unfortunately, is another symptom of the cantankerous
relationship between the federal and state governments in Nigeria. I
understand that the Lagos State government is both keen and willing to carry
out the necessary repair works to the road to enable the state to showcase the
nation’s crown jewel, but because of the prevailing regressive and seemingly
intractable federal law, the state is grossly disempowered to take any action.
On the deplorable state of the Lagos-Ibadan expressway, what
can one say? It is diabolical! It is a scar on the country’s
conscience and a curse on our leaders for the countless number of innocent
lives that have perished on this short, mere 120km (<75miles) stretch of
motorway. It is incomprehensible that the most strategic arterial route
that links the heartbeat of the country – Lagos, with the rest of the country
is not just a death-trap in a perpetual state of peril, but most worryingly, it
is also home to countless number of sprawling mega-churches and an Islamic
centre on a 28 hectare piece of land at Mowe, all vying for bragging rights on
how many millions attend their weekly and monthly gatherings. A short
journey that shouldn’t take more than a little over an hour, travelling at an
internationally acceptable speed of 70m per hour, ends up taking four to six
hours.
Our leaders have conveniently found an alternative route of
travelling by air to their various destinations at our expense and at a cost
way beyond the reach of millions of Nigerians who have to endure and brave the
hazards that this road poses. We have become a nation of jokers that
collectively, the whole country has become a stage to rival the Apollo in
Hammersmith, London, where a plethora of top comedians perform their best
stand-up and we are all comedians playing to a virtual international audience
looking at us with both disdain and incredulity. This can only be the
view of the international community when, as a concerned Nigerian who ply this
route quite frequently, words failed me when I read in one of our national
dailies on 7th June
this year that the Ogun State command of the Federal Road Safety Corps sought
divine intervention on the high rate of road crashes on the Lagos-Ibadan
Expressway! The statement read “The Sector Commander, FRSC, Ogun State,
Mr. Christopher Ademoluti, has taken the battle against Road Traffic Crashes in
Ogun State, especially on Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, to the General Overseer of
RCCG, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, for his spiritual intervention.” The
statement then added that Pastor Adeboye prayed for the safety of all road
users. This, to me, trivializes the laudable, innovative and practical
initiatives which the likes of Dr Kayode Olagunju of FRSC , (a fine officer
whose daily road safety tips I tend to follow) are advancing.
This, to say the least, is laughable! The answer to
the problems on this road is in our hands. God has already given us the
wherewithal to make the road safer for road users but we have failed to apply
them for the good of all. The Redeemed Church, with all its wealth and
other resources can, and should work collaboratively with other faith
organisations that have set up shops along the Expressway to provide an
alternative road to and from Lagos to ease the unsustainable congestion on this
road. In other climes where adequate planning procedures are followed and
understood, the granting of permission to any of these faith groups to set up
their mega churches/mosque along the Expressway would have taken the consequent
traffic flow into consideration to demand planning gains. Part of these
gains would have been the provision of an alternative route for worshippers to
and from Lagos and other facilities that would be of general public and local
community benefit.
I thank God though that as I finish writing this piece, my
dear father, Pa Joseph Babalola Idariapo Olukiran left this sinful and badly
scarred country to be with the Lord in the wee hours of Saturday 29th June 2013. He died peacefully in his home
at the ripe age of 96. May his gentle soul and those of thousands of
innocent souls who had to face avoidable violent deaths on Nigeria’s deplorable
roads, rest in the perfect peace of God, our creator, and to whom we all must
return.
Akin Olukiran
Genetic Engineering: The Global Food
and Agricultural Crisis
In 2012, Professsor Seralini
of the University of Caen in France led a team
that carried out research into the health impacts on rats fed GMOs (genetically
modified organisms) (1). The two-year long study concluded that rats fed GMOs
experienced serious health problems compared to those fed non GM food. Now
comes a new major peer-reviewed study that has appeared in another respected
journal. This study throws into question the claim often forwarded by the
biotech sector that GMO technology increases production and is beneficial
to agriculture.
Researchers
at the University of Canterbury in the UK have found that the GM strategy
used in North American staple crop production is limiting yields and increasing
pesticide use compared to non-GM farming in Western
Europe. Led by Professor Jack Heinemann, the study’s findings have been
published in the June edition of the International Journal of Agricultural
Sustainability (2). The research analysed data on agricultural productivity in North America and Western Europe over the last 50 years.
Heinemann states his team found that the combination of non-GM
seed and management practices used by Western Europe is
increasing corn yields faster than the use of the GM-led package chosen by the
US. The research showed rapeseed (canola) yields increasing faster in
Europe without GM than in the GM-led package chosen by Canada. What is more, the study finds that it is decreasing chemical
herbicide and achieving even larger declines in insecticide use without
sacrificing yield gains, while chemical herbicide use in the US has
increased with GM seed.
According to Heinemann, Europe has learned to grow
more food per hectare and use fewer chemicals in the process. On the other
hand, the US choices in biotechnology are causing it to fall behind Europe in
productivity and sustainability.
The Heinemann team’s report notes that incentives in North America are leading to a reliance on GM seeds and
management practices that are inferior to those being adopted under the
incentive systems in Europe. This is also affecting non GM crops. US yield in non-GM wheat is falling further behind Europe,
“demonstrating that American choices in biotechnology penalise both GM and
non-GM crop types relative to Europe,” according to Professor Heinemann.
He goes on to state that the decrease in annual variation in yield
suggests that Europe has a superior combination of seed and crop management
technology and is better suited to withstand weather variations. This is
important because annual variations cause price speculations that can drive
hundreds of millions of people into food poverty.
The report also highlights some grave concerns about the impact of
modern agriculture per se in terms of the general move towards depleted genetic
diversity and the consequently potential catastrophic risk to staple food
crops. Of the nearly 10,000 wheat varieties in use in China in 1949, only 1,000 remained in the 1970s. In the US, 95 percent of the cabbage, 91 percent of the field maize, 94
percent of the pea and 81 percent of the tomato varieties cultivated in the
last century have been lost. GMOs and the control of seeds through patents have
restricted farmer choice and prevented seed saving. This has exacerbated this
problem.
Heinemann concludes that we need a diversity of practices for
growing and making food that GM does not support. We also need systems that are
useful, not just profit-making biotechnologies, and which provide a resilient
supply to feed the world well.
Despite the evidence, governments
capitulate
Given the mounting evidence that questions the efficacy and safety
of GMOs (3,4,5,6,7), it raises the issue why certain governments are siding
with the biotech sector to allow GMOs to be made available on commercial
markets. It is simply not the case that country after country is accepting GMOs
on the basis of scientific evidence, as scientists-cum-lobbyists for the GM
sector often state (8). If scientific evidence were to be determining factor,
few if any countries would have sanctioned GMOs.
Part of the answer lies in the fact that the powerful
US biotech sector continues to forward its agenda that GMOs are a frontier
technology that will save humanity from famine and hunger. This is despite
evidence that most of the world’s hunger is the product of profiteering industrial
chemical agriculture and the global structuring of food production and
distribution under the banner of ‘free trade’ and ‘structural adjustment’
(9,10), or as many of us know it brow beating and structural dependency.
Yet, the mantra of GM as the saviour of humanity persists courtesy
of the GM sector’s puppet politicians and regulatory bodies (11). The US is
pushing for lop-sided bilateral trade agreements with other countries not only
to generally tie economies into US economic hegemony in an attempt to boost its
ailing economy and flagging currency, but more specifically to get nations to
‘accept’ GMOs. Through behind-closed-door deals (12,13) coercion (14) or the
hijack of regulatory bodies (15), there has been some success, and many think
it could be just a matter of time before other countries, not least India,
capitulate to allow GM food crops onto the commercial market.
In fact, regardless of any legal statute, it may be
and probably is already happening in India, not least via contamination (16).
However, if
contamination by means of illegal planting and open field ‘testing’ fails to
get GMOs on to the commercial market via the back door, the GM sector is
attempting to cover all angles. Immediately after a moratorium on BT Brinjal
was announced in 2010, a Biotechnology Regulatory Authority of India (BRAI)
Bill suddenly emerged. The BRAI Bill could not be passed in 2010 and 2011
because of objections, but it has surfaced again as a 2013 Bill.
Environmentalist Vandana Shiva argues that it not so much constitutes a
Biotechnology Regulation Act, but a
Biotechnology Deregulation Act, designed to dismantle the existing
bio-safety regulation and give the green-light to the GM sector to press ahead
with its agenda in the country.
By
highlighting the GM sector interests behind the proposed legislation, Shiva
says that the goal is to give the sector’s corporations immunity by
freeing them of courts and democratic control under India’s federal
structure. For those who follow such developments in India, it doesn’t take a great
deal of imagination to appreciate that the future of Indian agriculture is in
the wrong hands. Certain key scientists and top politicians have already been
ideologically (or otherwise) ‘bought and paid for’ by proponents of the ‘Green
Revolution’ and more recently the GM sector (7).
On a
global level, with reports of wheat (17), rice (18) and maize (19) having been
widely contaminated with GMOs, there seems to be a conscious ploy to
contaminate so much of the world’s crops so that eventually GMOs take over
regardless and render the pro/anti GM debate almost academic (20).
It seems that secretive trade deals, the hijack of official bodies
designed to ensure the ‘public interest’ and bullying or intimidation are not
enough. Contamination strategies are but one more way of achieving through
closed and non-transparent methods what could not be possible by transparent
and democratic means – simply because hundreds of millions of people do not
want GMOs.
A generation down the line (or much sooner), will we
looking at the health and environmental consequences of GMOs in the same way we
now regard the impacts of the original ‘Green Revolution’?
“There are very good reasons why we have never introduced a Green
Revolution into Africa, namely because there is broad consensus that the Green
Revolution in India has been a failure, with Indian farmers in debt, bound to
paying high costs for seed and pesticides, committing suicide at much higher
rates, and resulting in a depleted water table and a poisoned environment, and
by extension, higher rates of cancer.” Paula Crossfield, food policy
writer/activist (21).
We don’t have to take Paula Crossfield’s word for it, though.
Punjab was the ‘Green Revolution’s’ original poster boy, but is fast becoming
transformed from a food bowl to a cancer epicenter and now reels under an
agrarian crisis marked by discontent, debt, water shortages, contaminated
water, diseased soils and pest infested cops (22,23,24).
In the meantime, big ‘ag’ in collusion with big
pharma will continue to control our food and define our healthcare by pushing
their highly profitable ‘miracle solutions’ for the health and environmental
problems which they conspired to create in the first place. It is all part of
the wider corporate-elite agenda to colonise and control every facet of human
existence.
Notes
23) http://sagarmediainc.wordpress.com/2013/06/07/punjab-indias-grain-bowl-now-reels-under-agrarian/
LIES IN DEFENCE OF
FREEDOM
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| Barack Hussein Obama, US President |
All of us who use telephones or any internet
communications services – that is almost all e-mail, chat, video-chat, internet
phone calls or document delivery – have been informed that we are potentially
subject to spying on the part of United States intelligence agencies,
particularly if our communication is international. We have just been informed
that those responsible for the supervision of these programs, in the name of
the people, were not fully informed of the extent of this massive system of
surveillance. We have just been informed by those who govern that no one needs
to worry, that we can be confident they are doing the right thing.
We are only now hearing about all this, and no one knows what else has been going on, because the government must keep the defense of liberty secret, they say. Even the rules that ensure that all this is done in accordance with the law and respecting the rights of citizens – as the Obama administration and legislative leaders of both parties assure us has been the case – are secret.
The valiant columnist Glenn Greenwald, of the Guardian, has announced that there is much more, that what has been published is just the tip of the iceberg of what former National Security Agency employee Edward Snowden has leaked about the massive secret spying program – which Daniel Ellsberg, who made public the Pentagon Papers 40 years ago, described as the most important leak in U.S. history.
The justifications are the same ones we have heard since September 11, 2001, although what is most noteworthy now is that a Democratic President, and a large number of Democratic Congress members who strongly criticized violations of individual privacy when George W. Bush was in office, are now defending these intrusions with the same rhetoric about protecting the country from terrorism.
The legendary journalist I.F. Stone advised all journalists who covered politics, "All governments are run by liars and nothing they say should be believed."
In this instance, when a government’s lies are exposed, not telling the truth is justified as necessary for the defense of freedom, transparency and democracy, faced with the threat of an ever-present enemy. For example, National Intelligence director James Clapper admitted in an evasive answer to a direct question from a Senator who asked if the communications of millions of U.S. citizens had been spied upon. Clapper offered the least deceitful version of the truth he could.
The public is not very surprised by any of this and polls show mixed reactions. Some indicate that the majority are wiling to give up some of their liberties in exchange for public and national security. A Timemagazine poll found that 54% of those questioned believed that Edward Snowden had done the right thing, while 30% thought the opposite. To confuse things, according to the same survey, 53% said he should be prosecuted, while 28% said no – although among those 18 to 34 years of age, the results were 43% against his prosecution, to 41% in favor. There is a statistical tie between those who approve of internal spying programs and those who do not.
What has been the most impacted is the credibility of the ruling class, although little remains of that. In a June 13 Gallup poll, confidence in Congress is down to 10%, ranking the legislative body last on a list of 16 institutions This is the lowest level of confidence Gallup has found for any institution on record, lower than big business (22%), banks (26%), newspapers and television news (23%) and organized labor (20%), among others. Those polled expressed the highest level of confidence in the military, 76%.
The debate unleashed is no doubt healthy, showing the lack of transparency and accountability of an immense, secret, increasingly powerful government.
Ellsberg wrote in the Guardian, June 10, "… to say that there is judicial oversight is nonsense – as is the alleged oversight function of the intelligence committees in Congress. Not for the first time – as with issues of torture, kidnapping, detention, assassination by drones and death squads – they have shown themselves to be thoroughly co-opted by the agencies they supposedly monitor."
High level officials and veteran intelligence agents have said the same recently. While some commentators have noted the continuity of Bush policies in this area, which were once strongly denounced.
The debate continues in the United States and other countries, as well. European governments and Asian civic and political groups have requested clarification from the U.S. government about the scope and legality of the right it claims to tap and spy on anyone on the planet.
In Mexico and the rest of Latin America, everyone can assume that their private internet communications are subject to secret U.S. surveillance. Does Washington have this right? Does the U.S. have the permission or cooperation of other governments? Are citizens informed?
If this is not enough to provoke a change and remember that it is
thedemos, the people, who
must keep watch on the government, if it is to be considered a democracy, all
that has been revealed will only amount to an Orwellian Blues.
ANCESTRAL MOONSPLASH
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| Black Rasta |
The Atmosphere At La Palm Beach Hotel Was Full Of
Expectation When Black Rasta In An All White Attire With The Rasta Colours On
His Breast.
He also wore a small bag in Rasta colours
strapped on is left shoulder.
The rhythms which poured from the African
musical instruments sent the message
out there clearly.
The time for a new type of reggae which
incorporates true African sounds has come and the pioneer is Black Rasta.
Mr. Kwesi Pratt, Jnr. Editor of The Insight
launched the new album of 18 tracks.
He said “you may not like what Black Rasta
says, but you can’t ignore the fact that at time when many musician are making
noise, black Rasta is making the effort to make sense.
He described Black Rasta as an extraordinary
musician with a passion for Ghana and Africa.
Dr Henry Danaa,
Minister for Chieftaincy and Traditional Affairs, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa,
Murtaka Mohammed and John Ginapo all Deputy Minister joined the long list of
funs who showed up.
Zap Malet, Daddy
Bosco, Kwaw Kesse were some of the big names in musical circles which showed
up.
One of the special
guests was Grace Asibi, a film producer.
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