ZONGO YOUTH LAWLESSNESS YIELD RESULT IN "MISSING BABY SAGA"

The Ministry of Health has directed the doctor and nurse under whose supervision a still-born baby was declared missing to proceed on leave.

The unfortunate incident which took place at the Akomfo Anokye Teaching Hospital in Kumasi about two weeks ago was triggered when a Muslim lady by name Suwaiba put to birth in the said hospital and demanded for the body of her baby after she was told it was a still- birth.

The inability of the hospital officials to produce the corps of Suwaiba's dead baby reportedly led to someyouth from the Muslim community(zongo youths) taking the law into their own hands, invading the hospital and subsequently assaulting some of the health workers.

The doctors and nurses in anger and in fear of further attacks withdrew their services for about a week. They returned only after several appeals and promises of increased police presence to secure the hospital and their private homes.

Suwaiba allegedly demanded the body of her baby in order to bury him in accordance with her Islamic traditions but all efforts to retrieve the body proved futile although she had earlier been made to thumb print a document confirming the death of her baby..

According to some nurses at the KATH, an orderly, hired only two weeks before the incident, picked the baby with instructions to take it to the morgue but a search at the mortuary revealed the body had not been deposited there. Nurses say the orderly initially claimed he incinerated the body of the baby but the hospital authorities have denied the claim saying the incinerator had not been used in several days.

The Kumasi Police after some investigations are reported to have arrested seven unidentified people believed to be staff of the same hospital with stealing and conspiracy to steal a baby. The Hospital authorities have promised to liaise with the police to get to the bottom of the matter.

SOURCE: LURENCIA BOSSMAN,ACCRA.

'' LEGON STUDENTS"AND INSTANT JUSTICE.

There is a video which has gone viral showing the faces of three girls believed to be students of University of Ghana being made to crawl in a very inhuman and disgraceful manner as punishment for allegedly stealing panties from the Accra Mall.

This happened as people including men in private security uniforms looked on happily and hooting at the girls in condemnation.
What is not certain is who orchestrated that action and at whose command.

Although some right thinking members of society have spoken against the act, calling for justice to prevail , it baffling to think this can happen in an open a place like the Accra Mall which is considered as the shopping center for the "elite".

How can any civilized society behave in this manner and what happened to the basic principle of the rule of law that says "innocent until proven guilty by a competent court"

If care is not taken, people will end up punishing suspected criminals with sharia law or even burning them alive. This is not the first time an incident of this this nature has popped up on in the media involving students.
In 2011, a petty trader on Legon campus suffered similar fate. The victim who was known as Amina was sexually molested by some students of University of Ghana, Legon.

The wholes incidents was caught on camera by some of the students and later uploaded onto Youtube.
The video capyured how she was surrounded by these students and being subjected to their punishment for allegedly stealing a laptop and unspecified amount of other items.

The video didn't show the faces of her perpetrators but rather exposed her nakedness and how her thighs were being ripped apart as these students took turns in fingering her and touching her in a very humiliating way. After taking thier pound of flesh in that mob instant justice, she was later handed over to the Legon Police station.

The commander in charge in an interview with the press at the time confirmed Amina was brought in half naked.
These incident received public condemnation, at least everyone expected the students to have known better that Ghana is govern by the rule of law.

The attention of the university was brought to the matter which led to a court action for violating and abusing the rights of Amina. After investigations, 13 of the students were arrested and arraigned before court with the of restoring justice as well as serving as a deterrent to others.
Well I hope we are yet to see if indeed people really understand what the rule of law means and the statutes of democracy.

WhatsAPP FOUNDERS, TRUE INSPIRATION

Making headlines in the Technology world today is the $19 billion sale of WhatsApp, to Facebook.
The founders of WhatsApp are $19 billion rich by selling the App to facebook.

what is fascinating about this deal is the guys behind the App. The life stories of these guys are very inspiring. Brian Acton, was rejected by Facebook and Twitter when he applied for job in 2009. His co-founder Jan Koum, a poor U.S Immigrant from Ukraine. He virtually lived in the streets Mountain View and survived on foods tamps.

There is nothing determination can not achieve and it pays to press on towards ones goal even in the face of disappontments and rejection.
WhatsApp might not be that much popular here in America like the way Ghanaians have embraced it. It is widely used by most Ghanaians especially among the youth. The App enables free texting, fast videos and audiuos as well as pictures for the first year then charges $1 for a subscription.
It has over 450 million users.

WHO IS CHECKING THIS...SCHOOL FEEDING PROGRAM.

In the land of the blind, the one-eye man is a king. this was the case of this boy who holds in his hands a ball of banku in what is suppose to be groundnut soup without fish or meat but he commands crowd of other children who were not lucky enough to have a taste of that days meal. His crowd hopes to get a bit of what is in the bowl to satisfy their hunger.

It is break time in Besoso District Assembly (D.A) Primary School in Fantiakwa District in the Eastern Region of Ghana. over 250 primary schools children queue for food. Each child homes to be fed by the school feeding program but unfortunately, only a hand full were served. The menu was Banku and soup. The first 50 plus were privileged to have their food served with a piece of meat. The rest had to eat their banku without any fish or meat and even that is considered being lucky as many could not be served because the food was not enough.

This was not free food or a gesture from a philanthropist trying to do good to these under privileged children, it is the Government funded school feeding program we are talking about.

The school feeding program was meant to feed primary school children in some selected Government school. The intention of the program is to provide a well balance and nutritious meal to children who are believed to be coming from poor homes and are malnourished but what these kids are eating in some of the schools in the name of school feeding, is really bizarre.

Food prepared for these school children are usually made with rotten food stuff which have less market value simply because cooks can not afford the right ingredient due to tight budget.Others also do so just maximize profit for their selfish gains. Soups are often diluted so much that its becomes difficult to differentiate groundnut soup from palm nut soup.

Menus under this program was said to include a well balance diet, to help reduce malnourishment from these less privilege children and to also motivate their interest in school attendance.


" We are serving these children out of our own pocket...no one is paying attention to us.For the past four months, we have not been payed, we have been borrowing and purchasing food stuffs on ctredit" one of the cooks told Michael Akrofi, our news reporter who was at the Besoso DA Primary school.

Since the introduction of the school feeding program, several media reports have revealed that due to poor supervision and party-politics, food served to these vulnerable children are not nutritious at all.
there have been reports on how kids are being fed with maggots infected rice or beans and cooks using food coluor in place of tomatoes to prepare Jollof-Rice.

If the Disrict Assemblies are in charge of such programs then whose responsibility is it, to ensure that the proper thing is done? Each year huge amounts are quoted by government in this area so who is keeping these monies meant to feed these poor children?
when we seek for answers then the blame game begins but we keep asking WHO IS CHECKING THIS?

Source; Michael Akrofi, E.R