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@Uebert_Myles @_blue_blooded @tailorMARIQUE @thearmah_ Oh, it’s sad how many believers believe system has been damaged to the core. The Christian life is to know Jesus for yourself and not through any prophet.

@_blue_blooded @tailorMARIQUE @thearmah_ You get reading problem?

Let me leave this here for my fellow Christians….make what you make of this

@_InfoGram_ Trump is rather the savior of the world. Instead of us stopping Iran and chastising them for breaching international maritime rules, you are sitting on the fence complaining. Oil price will rise through the roof and we will all pay it. Let all support Trump and free the Strait.

BREAKING: 🇺🇸 Donald Trump is on the verge of becoming the most foolish president who drove the highest oil prices ever.

Is Dumsor back? In my area in and Tema Community 22 and it’s environs for the past one month between peak hours 7 - 11pm, the power will go off, and between 10: pm-12pm , it will be restored. Please this slow motion Dumsor, stop it. The president don’t want this nightmare! #ECG

I agree that there’s potential threat of inflation due to the Iran war, nonetheless with the strong economy that’s been touted we could have done better than the 150 basis point, we should done not less than 300 basis points.

A second cycle school, Dabokpa Technical Inst. in the Northern Region is doing something amazing. Building tractors, tricycles, incubators, etc. I believe they require some serious collaboration with industry. Let's encourage them. Repost this till they get the needed attention.

@lordcudjoe So true about Ato Boateng, he’s an astute finance professional and a man of integrity! Hon Asafoah’s smear campaign won’t stick. I will say let the institutions be allowed to investigate, but be assured that it will amount to nothing, his accusers will be put to shame.

It is disgraceful that a sitting member of Parliament would allow himself to be used by crooked companies that want to virtualy steal from COCOBOD with fictitious and fraudulent claims of over GHS120m they claim are owed them by the.previous administration when infact they are owed.just abiout GHS30m. Ato Boateng's technically qualified eyes saw through the broad day scam the company had masterminded. From the moment Ato denied this.company the opportunity to steal from COCOBOD, Ato became public enemy number 1. Machinations from within Cocobod and some senior staff of allied agencies compromised by the same company made life hell for Ato. Ato survived until eventually they landed on a pliant, verily ready assassin in Parliament who like Judas couldn't wait to sell Ato' to them. Rewards of $30k and a further $500k had been promised to finish off Ato so he would be sacked. So who are we talking about here? Ato Boateng is a Harvard trained Chartered Financial Analyst and Large Projects Manager who has worked at the IFC until he established Atlas Commodities Limited He was not hungry, he wasn't unemployed. It was his rare expertise and years of direct involvement in bean sale and management that endeared him to be asked to serve as Cocobod's Deputy Chief Executive Officer in charge of.Finance and Administration. Mr.Assafuah must render an unqualified apology to the Honourable Ato Boateng for the unjustfied character assassination. He and his friends should restrain themsselves from attempting to blackmail Ato Boateng . And please OSP, please drop the disgraceful charges. They were procured fraudulently to take down a critical pillar in cocobod- Trust me, if the ugly noise generated by this cold and marchiavellian project is allowed to fester, it would damage Cocobod's standing in the eyes of its true financial partners and ultimately lead to a raid on the finances of cocobod by a lot of criminals. It would die! Mr. President, if you let Ato Boateng go or resign kiss COCOBOD goodbye. You would have yielded to the utterly corrupt calls from those incapable of pushing their dirty deals through. Right now Ato is the best decision ever made by the CEO, Randy Abbey and the President!

@pksalasya You don’t know what saying. Stop your ignorance and just watch how it ends 😀

@KAgbodza Great! We look forward to such engineering marvel on our landscape.

A good discussions on Volivo Bridge this morning with JICA led by Head of Africa Investment, Yushi Nagano. God willing, President Mahama will break ground this year for the construction of the Bridge itself. It will be the most impressive engineering piece on our landscape.

I can’t get past “they searched my phones.” If the church hierarchy is this abusive towards their pastors (people in the same circle), imagine what they do to the common floor people. Anyhoo, good on him for processing his pain with us.

@Manasseh_Azure Citizens, please let us beware of the orchestrations and machinations of the politicians. We should not fall for it. The OSP no matter how incompetent it is today will be better tomorrow and it will serve us all good in the future. Let keep it.

@Manasseh_Azure The politicians should not touch the OSP. They are well aware of their shopping list if the OSP is scrapped. Even in the face of one, we have witnessed what the politicians can do. Please it’s better to have an incompetent OSP than scraping it.

The Parliament of Ghana, which approved all of Ken Ofori-Atta's expenditures and loans, wants us to scrap the Office of the Special Prosecutor, which allowed him to leave.

@kwakuasanteb It’s a mission school not a public school. Then we should fine space for LGBT+ to also exercise their rights in school or that you say is different. Please you cannot enter an akpeteshie bar and demand to buy Scotch whiskey, bcos their are all alcohol. Leave our mission sch alone

Here's a Court speaking on the legal effect of an undertaking. It has no legal effect if its unconstitutional. If you just take your time and move away from the bigotry and Islamophobia, you'd understand some of these things. I hope this is the last time I'd engage your bigotry.

@BasiruDawda @KofiEducation The Gov’t literally put a gun to their heads culminating in the signing of those MoUs. Do you know how long the churches have been fighting to get their schools returned to them? If you don’t know ask.

@joe_smockscreen @KofiEducation Point of corrections. They had a choice and signed the MoU with the government. Where did you read the government forcefully took the school?

PRESEC Legon is a Christian school, yet Muslim students freely observe Ramadan there. They even have a place where they pray. If Muslim students do Ramadan at Wesley Girls, will the school collapse?

@barkervogues If you’re arguing for rights of students to manifest their beliefs, will you also argue for Gay rights in schools, or do I hear you say they’re not the same? A mission school, either Christian or Islamic is mission school don’t go there and change it’s purpose. Simplicita!

So apparently some Christians believe that Ghana is a Christian nation. I find that laughable. I thought we all agreed that Ghana is a Corruption nation. Judas energy paa. Anaa?

@KofiEducation Kofi, how far do we want to take rights and liberty of individuals. If you don’t see anything wrong or any harm, then let also allow Gay rights in our schools. Do I hear you say it’s not the same? We must be careful what we wish for.

Dear esteemed Christian Council and Catholic Bishops, With much reverence,I greet you with the love of God. I have read your statement, and I acknowledge that your schools were founded to nurture both intellectual learning and the virtues of the Christian faith. Infact, no one has ever disputed the fact that you established schools. Yet it remaineth unclear what harm might befall a Christian school should Muslim students be permitted to observe their fast. Your statement failed to mention that. For we ask not for a mosque, neither for a slaughter house for a Sallah cow; but only those things which are reasonably practicable, such as the right to observe Ramadan and pray in a quiet corner, even as hath been done in esteemed Christian PRESEC for many decades. Respectfully, two questions: What detriment doth Wesley Girls or Augusco suffer when Muslim students’ fast and hold quiet prayers, neither lifting up their voices nor troubling any? In what manner doth this diminish Christian values, hinder the shaping of character, or disturb the Christian life upon the campus? This, I beseech thee, make plain unto us. Very truly yours, Kofi Asare, 99 Fog Avenue, Legon Bypass.

@egbertvizeng @KofiEducation Under what authority can a government withdraw what license. My dear that can’t happen unless the church acts unlawfully. Most mission schools have shown excellence, that’s the reason why the gov’t took them by force. They should #returnthemissionschools

@joe_smockscreen @KofiEducation Will you agree when government takes their “license” to operate a school so Methodist church focus on preaching salvation and winning souls for Christ ? They shouldn’t be in the business of formal classroom education. They can operate school of theology

@KofiEducation If you don’t believe in the faith of the school, don’t join. We cannot in the name of human rights begin to change the purpose of the mission school setup by a private institution. #returnmissionschools

@KofiEducation Missions schools are what they are, there’s a purpose for which the church set it up. Gov’t took the schools by force, if you want other faiths to be in those schools, then Gov’t should return the schools to its owners and setup its own and allow every faith to attend.

@KwesiHubert @ShaficOsman @JusticeSremSai @DeLaw_Platform @dr_ayine @ghana_service @wesleygirlshigh There’s a reason why there are faith based, non-faith based, and public schools. Why do you want to force a faith based school into non-faith based school. If you don’t believe in that faith please don’t join. It’s as simple as that.

Something very interesting is going on today. Back in December 2024, Shafic Osman, a Ghanaian lawyer and PhD candidate at the London School of Economics, sued Wesley Girls’ Senior High School and the Government at the Supreme Court. His argument was very simple: a public school cannot lawfully restrict the religious rights of Muslim students nor compel them to practise a faith they do not subscribe to. He grounded his case in the Constitution and international human rights principles. But today the Attorney General has taken a very different position. According to the AG, Wesley Girls is not a public school in the ordinary sense. It is a school owned by the Methodist Church but managed and funded by the government of Ghana. The State funds it, yes, but that funding does not strip the school of its right to preserve its ownership and Methodist character. The AG argues that Ghana’s entire education history supports this view. Mission schools existed long before independence, they were formally recognised and classified as assisted schools under colonial ordinances, and even after independence they were integrated into the public system without losing their foundational identity. Under today’s governing law, faith-based schools are explicitly recognised as unique institutions within the public system. They enter formal agreements with the GES, maintain representation at the national level and are legally acknowledged as faith-based bodies. Wesley Girls therefore, in the AG’s view, remains a Methodist mission school that receives government support but retains its right to practise and promote its religion. So the real question before the court is no longer just about fasting or prayer. It is about the status of mission schools in Ghana’s constitutional order. Are they public schools bound to absolute religious neutrality or faith-based institutions with protected identities even within the public education framework? What the court decides will redefine the relationship between the State, religion and education in Ghana for years to come. Stat tune. Credit: The Law Platform Hubert Tieku Esq

@benboakye I don’t think the independence of the commission is lost on the minister, but we are in this country where decisions of constitutional bodies have changed like traffic lights depending on who’s in power. A third party independent expert wouldn’t be a bad idea.

This morning, I listened to Ghana’s Minister of Energy and Green Transition on Joy FM. A few comments: 1. To be fair, the Minister shared the same position when I asked him before my earlier post. We have had open and honest engagement with him since he assumed office. ACEP’s policy engagement and influence have strengthened under his tenure more than under any other minister. We agree and disagree frankly, and he has never tried to gag our policy views. 2. He and the Minister of Finance entrusted us with leading negotiations with the IPPs, saving the country about $250m in exiting debt and more than $7 billion across the life of the agreements. 3. We also acknowledge the significant reforms he has driven in the energy sector over the past ten months, which are genuinely commendable. 4. Our position is not about his support for local companies. The law already provides incentives for Ghanaian participation in the oil sector. ACEP supports the local content regulations, even though their implementation leaves much to be desired. 5. The real issue is that no law allows the state to absorb private sector losses, whether local or foreign, especially when the evidence shows the venture is risky and likely to cost the country. 6. On the “independent evaluation” of the Springfield’s field: the Petroleum Commission is the legally mandated independent regulator with more than a decade of institutional history. If the government doubts its independence, or the Commission itself cannot assert it, then we have a much bigger governance problem. 7. The Commission has repeatedly stated that Springfield has not provided the complete raw data. If the regulator is not satisfied, its evaluation remains inconclusive. Full stop. The state must allow the Commission to deliver a judgment that the industry can also assess and trust or critique. 8. There’s no need to sidestep an incomplete regulatory process simply because a private company dislikes the outcome. Doing so undermines the entire regulatory ecosystem and weakens the authority of the Commission over all sector players. 9. We insist that having GNPC and Explorco lead a new “independent valuation” is problematic. Their past actions and poor judgement have cost the country money, both directly and through project delays. The Minister himself reversed some of their decisions which anchored the unitisation claim until Ghana lost at arbitration. It is the same technical people leading the corporation today. 10..These same entities carried out a valuation less than six months ago that endorsed Springfield’s data, ignoring the Commission’s technical concerns and established international processes for reservoir audits. 11. If the Commission is no longer independent, that should be stated openly. Otherwise, it must be allowed to complete its work with full access to the data before any external intervention. Companies may challenge the Commission’s decisions in law only after complying fully with regulatory requirements. 12. Bringing in a new consultant, paid with state funds before the regulator completes its job, weakens institutional control and undermines the state’s ability to manage the petroleum sector. 13. Thus far, every analysis, except that of Springfield and GNPC, contradicts the claims of commerciality of the field. 14. The solution is simple: give the regulator full access to the raw data and allow it to finish its work. If any party disagrees, the remedies lie in law, not political shortcuts.