The Moderator of the Presbyterian church of Ghana Right Rev. Prof. Joseph Obiri Yeboah Mante supported by other important personalities to perform the symbolic tape cutting ceremony
The Nana Abena Owusua I school building
The Moderator of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana, Right Rev. Prof. Joseph Obiri Yeboah Mante, has called on parents to pay maximum attention to their wards while at home.
According to him, learning was not only limited to the classroom, therefore, parents should ensure that children take their studies and household chores seriously, stressing, “This is not a play time or time to lose focus and compromise discipline.”
He asked parents to monitor the movements of their children while at home, paying particular attention to the kind of friends they move with, what they eat, and other peer activities they engage in to ensure that they do not contract any disease.
The leader of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana tasked parents and guardians to closely monitor the activities of their children and wards to shield them against bad influences, while ensuring educational investments in them remained a top priority.
Rt. Rev. Prof. Mante was speaking at the dedication of a new school block built by the Group Chairman of the Universal Hospital, Samuel Patrick Oduro, at Boadua in the Denkyembour District of the Eastern Region, under the name Presbyterian Model Senior High School (SHS), Nana Abena Owusua Block.
The state-of-the-arts Nana Abena Owusua I school building, which was named after the late mother of Samuel Patrick Oduro, was handed over to the Presbyterian Church to be used as a model Secondary School.
The Presby Moderator appealed to teachers to be role models, and ensure the provision of a conducive environment for teaching and learning, besides inculcating in the students a sense of responsibility, patriotism, dedication, commitment to duty, and respect for the elderly in society.
He said it was the responsibility of parents and guardians to provide the basic needs of their children and wards, and structure them to be fully integrated into society.
The District Chief Executive (DCE) for the Denkyembour Assembly, Seth Burikorang, commended Samuel Patrick Oduro for his kind gesture, and said admission would start next academy year.
He said previously education in the district was very bad because of the mining activities in the area, but that lately the education standard had improved.
On his part, Mr. Samuel Patrick Oduro admonished parents to take their wards’ education seriously to ease their growth in the future.
Otumfuo arriving at Yiadom Hiwdie palace at about 6pm on Saturday
Otumfuo’s powerful vehicle
His Royal Majesty Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, Asantehene, shook the foundation of Koforidua, the Eastern Region capital, and for some time reduced the mourning flower city into a picnic ground when he made what could be described as a triumphant entry.
Otumfuo Osei Tutu II arrived at Yiadom and Hwidie Palace around 6pm on Saturday to attend the funeral of the late Paramount Chief of New Juabeng, Daasebre Professor Emeritus Oti Boateng, and the late Queenmother, Nana Yaa Daani, who were lying in state.
His Royal Majesty Otumfuo Osei Tutu II in state
There was a huge human traffic as scores of people, both old and young, heckled and pushed each other in an effort to catch a glimpse of the revered King of the Ashantis at the funeral grounds.
The Asantehene’s entry was met with the singing of Asante appellations amid wild cheers from the crowd which wanted to catch a view of Otumfuo Osei Tutu II for the first time for most of the people.
Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu II was welcomed by the Juabenhene, Nana Otuo Siriboe II, and later sat in state at the Yiadom and Hwidie Palace, where various traditional rulers and other dignitaries paid homage to him.
Though scary, this lady could not help but take some picture with this executioner
The atmosphere was a sheer beauty of tradition and culture to behold.
The Chief Executive of the National Petroleum Authority (NPA), Dr. Mustapha Abdul-Hamid, has been named among top 50 public sector leaders on the Africa Continent.
Dr. Abdul-Hamid got the coveted award on Friday, May 13, 2022 at the third edition of the Africa Public Sector Conference & Awards (APSCA) ceremony.
The award night celebrated and recognised outstanding state-owned organisations, public sector agencies, ministries and leaders demonstrating excellence in leadership, policy innovations, service delivery, inspiring innovations and individuals raising the benchmark of excellence that leaded to socio-economic growth across Africa.
This year’s awards ceremony was held in Accra and saw 50 Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) from the public sector across the Continent being honored.
The NPA Boss was grateful to the organisers and promised to even play a more pivotal role in positioning the Authority as a trailblazer in the downstream sector.
The Prang chief and elders at the factory during the visit
The 1D1F- Cassava Factory at Prang
Nana Kwadwo Nyarko III, Paramount Chief of Prang Traditional Area in the Bono East Region, has toured and inspected ongoing projects sited in his area of jurisdiction to ascertain progress of work.
He has expressed appreciation for the many developmental projects currently going on at different levels of completion in the area by the government.
Some of the projects the Chief visited included the “Agenda 111” project site, where the construction of a District Hospital had started, and the premises of the Bono East Regional Feeder Roads site where offices and staff quarters were being g constructed.
Nana Kwadwo Nyarko also visited the Cassava Factory under the One District, One Factory (1D1F) programme at Prang, which is almost completed.
As a result, the Paramount Chief has commended the government for its relentless efforts to complete the proposed 1D1F for the community.
He noted that all the machines had been installed and fixed awaiting the inspection of the consultant and engineers.
Nana Kwadwo Nyarko was optimistic that the factory, when completed, would provide jobs for the youth and help alleviate poverty.
He commended the workers for cooperating with the contractor to execute the project in good time, and appealed to the youth to actively get involved to ensure the early completion of the project for the benefit of the community, and the youth in general.
Graduating Students seated at the 7th Congregation of CAUC.
Dr. Caryn Agyeman Prempeh, a Medical Doctor and Entrepreneur, has urged tertiary institutions in Ghana to make entrepreneurship attractive to the youth, since they had shown profound interest in the free enterprise sector.
According to Dr. Agyeman Prempeh, entrepreneurship happens to be one of the most illustrious business avenues given to mankind. She noted that the prospects of entrepreneurship were so great that significant profits could be accrued from the sector, however, it was coupled with a lot of hard work, sleepless nights, and tough decisions amongst others.
She has, therefore, asked higher educational institutions to devise strategies through which they make entrepreneurship attractive in the eyes and minds of the youth.
Using herself as case study and charging the graduands to take keen interest in entrepreneurship, she stated: “Nobody knew and ever thought entrepreneurship will be my cash cow, because everybody saw me as that beautiful doctor who takes care of kids and smiles at them, however, it has given me more reward than any of my jobs.”
Dr. Caryn Agyeman was speaking at the 7th Graduation ceremony of the Christ Apostolic University College (CAUC) at Kwadaso in the Kumasi Municipality, where she spoke on the theme: “Producing transformational Leaders and Entrepreneurs for Ghana; the role of the Universities in Ghana.”
Whilst Agyeman Prempeh described some of the shortcomings of entrepreneurship as self-doubting, she noted that the sector was still rewarding and fulfilling, igniting the sense of pride in entrepreneurs.
According to her, the emergence of Covid-19 had brought to fore the prowess of entrepreneurship. “Looking at the effect of the pandemic, businesses had to shift from their usual focus to incorporate protective gear, disinfectant, vaccines and others to enable the world combat this uncertain and unplanned pandemic,” she said.
The President of CAUC, Professor Clement Baah Somuah, on his part, urged the graduating students to muster courage and venture into entrepreneurship as they seek to join the Ghanaian workforce.
“It is not an easy path, but you can make it if you are prepared to make the commitment to work hard and persevere. Never ever give up. Attributes such as commitment, honesty and going the extra mile are indispensable for success,” he said.
In a fraternal message delivered on behalf of the Vice Chancellor of Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Prof Mrs. Rita Akosua Dickson, she told the graduands that some years back, when university students were graduating, companies would be around ready to employ them.
According to Akosua Dickson, “in those days, all that one needed was to get a degree, but the status quo changed some 25 years ago,” adding that “degree hardly matters anymore.
“You need it as a requirement, but it hardly matters, because some 25 years ago, what we needed from you was something that came to be called skills – soft skills,” she said, adding, “After whatever degree you were awarded with, you were expected to have some soft skills, and that is why some of us were better than others. We would be doing the same job, but breed differently.”
Prof Akosua Dickson, however, regretted that nobody cared about skills anymore. “In other words, degrees do not matter, it is only a requirement. Skills nobody looks at. What matters now is attitude.”
The Chairman of the Assin North Cocoa Cooperative, Samuel Torbi, says there was no justification for anyone to claim that the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) received no value for the amounts it invested in the purchase of Lithovit Liquid Fertiliser.
Mr. Torbi said the liquid fertiliser was worth its value, and that those cocoa farmers would not forgive anybody who made that assertion, since “Lithovit Liquid Fertiliser is a farmer’s messiah, and I also don’t believe that any staff from COCOBOD will come out and say such a thing.”
According to him, he recorded his best yield in the 2015/16 and 2016/17 cocoa seasons, as a result of applying the controversial Lithovit Fertiliser on his farms.
Mr. Torbi wa the second defence witness in the trial of the former Chief Executive (CE) of COCOBOD, Dr. Stephen Kwabena Opuni, Seidu Agongo and his company, Agricult Ghana Limited.
He also said this while testifying at the Criminal Division ‘1’ of the Accra High Court, presided over by a Supreme Court Justice, Clemence Honyenuga, on Monday.
The witness told the court that it would be out of place for any person from COCOBOD to condemn the agrochemical, since he harvested 8,125 kilogrammes of cocoa beans in the 2015/2016 cocoa season, after applying Lithovit Liquid Fertiliser.
He said this bumper harvest was against the application of other fertilisers, which yielded 2,875kg and 3,687kg of cocoa beans in the 2013/14 and 2014/15 cocoa seasons respectively.
Mr. Torbi further contended that no farmer drank Lithovit Liquid Fertiliser on his farm, as the court was made to believe by the prosecution star witness, Dr. Yaw Adu-Ampomah.
This was as the defence counsel for Mr. Agongo and his company, Nutifafa Nutsukpui, inquired about the witness’ response to the assertion made by Dr. Adu-Ampomah that a senior official from COCOBOD Headquarters in Accra had told this court that farmers were drinking Lithovit Liquid Fertiliser on their farms.
The witness reiterated: “That will not be true, because junior officers at the CHED (Cocoa Health and Extension Division) district office will not say that, and not to talk of a senior officers.”
The witness was led by Samuel Codjeo, Counsel for Dr. Opuni, to give his evidence-in-chief and later cross-examined by Mr. Nutifafa and the Senior State Attorney, Evelyn Keelson.
Witness led in evidence by Counsel for Dr. Opuni
Q: Please, give your full name to the court.
A: My name is Samuel Torbi.
Q: Where do you live?
A: I live at Assin Fosu.
Q: What work do you do?
A: I’m a farmer.
Q: How long have you been a farmer?
A: I have been a cocoa farmer for 17 years now.
Q: Do you have a cocoa farm?
A: I have a cocoa farm.
Q: Do you know why you are before this court?
A: I’m before this court this morning because of Lithovit Liquid Fertiliser.
Q. In paragraph 2 of your witness statement, you said: “I am a farmer and have been engaged in cocoa farming for the past 17 years. I own three different farms. Two of my farms are situated in different places in the Assin North Constituency and cover an area of 10.5 and 3.5 acres respectively. There is one also in Assin Central. I’m a Member of the Ghana Cocoa Coffee and Shea Nut Association. As a cocoa farmer, I have been issued a Cocoa Card by COCOBOD as evidence of recognition. As a cocoa farmer, I am entitled to some benefits, which include scholarships for my children.
“Prior to 2014/15, I was only using granular fertiliser till when I and some farmers were introduced to liquid fertilisers. Lifet A, Sidalco and Lithovit by CHED of COCOBOD. I state that the introduction of these fertilisers was through a training programme organised for cocoa farmers in my district on the use of these new fertilisers, which I attended.
“During the training, we were instructed in the proper use of these fertilisers and were taught how to mix the liquid fertilisers with water and apply them on cocoa farms so as to achieve the proper result.
“We were further informed about the advantages of liquid fertilisers, including the fact that they did not require much rain. This was the first time I was being introduced to liquid fertilisers, and I was naturally fascinated by the fact that the fertiliser could be mixed in water and sprayed on the leaves of cocoa trees with spraying machines.
“In the 2014/15 season, I was supplied with Lifet A and Adom granular fertiliser by CHED officials at Assin Fosu. Since I had never used any liquid fertiliser, and to minimise the effect of the fertiliser, I decided to apply these new fertilisers to equal portions of my farm. I obtained a total of 3,687kg of cocoa beans, which was the highest output I’ve ever had from my farms prior to the 2014/15 season.
“This is based on the fact that prior to 2014/15, I obtained 3,437kg when I used Asaase wura.
In 2013/14, I got 2,875kg after I had applied cocoa feeds granular fertiliser on my said farm. I, therefore, became convinced about the efficacy of liquid fertilisers.
“In 2015/16, CHED supplied me with 12 litres of Lithovit Liquid Fertiliser. Since, I have had success with Lifet A Liquid Fertiliser, I was naturally convinced about the efficacy of liquid fertiliser, and I also took the risk of applying my entire farm with this Lithovit Liquid Fertiliser. I must state that the risk was worth it, as I harvested and sold 8,125kg of cocoa beans for the 2015/16 season. This quantity of cocoa beans was the highest I have ever got, and more than doubled over the previous year’s yield. Having experienced the efficacy of Lithovit, in the 2016/17 cocoa season I specifically requested that the CHED officials in Assin Fosu supplied me only with Lithovit Liquid Fertiliser. Unfortunately, I was given 8 litres as against 12 litres in the 2015/2016 cocoa season. I was informed by the CHED officials that most of the farmers wanted this Lithovit Liquid Fertiliser, hence, they (CHED) could not give me the quantity I had the previous year. I state that even with this less[er] quantity I harvested 6,187.5kg of cocoa beans. “This, again, was remarkable. I was naturally very happy with this Lithovit Liquid Fertiliser which I termed the ‘wonder fertiliser’. In my district, I’m the Chairman of the Cocoa Corporative, and in my role, I interact with most cocoa farmers. I add that other farmers in my district called and informed me about the efficacy of Lithovit Liquid Fertiliser. I, together with other farmers, vowed not to use any other fertiliser apart from Lithovit Liquid Fertiliser.
In the 2017/18 cocoa season, I went to the district office of CHED and requested Lithovit, but I was informed that COCOBOD had ceased supplying Lithovit Liquid Fertiliser. I was naturally disappointed and I combed the open market hoping and willing to purchase Lithovit Liquid Fertiliser on the open market to apply on my farm. Unfortunately, I could not obtain any on the market.
“During that season, I harvested and sold a total of 2,500kg of cocoa beans. A significant reduction in the number of cocoa beans from the two previous seasons when I applied Lithovit Liquid Fertiliser on my farm. I have to add that I did not apply any fertiliser during the cocoa season on my farms. In the 2018/19 cocoa season, I was given Sidalco Liquid Fertiliser, which I applied on my farms. I obtained a total of 2,500kg of cocoa beans, which, again, is a far reduction from the cocoa beans I harvested in the 2014/15 and 2015/16 cocoa seasons.
“I informed my colleagues about this reduction at the time on my farm as a result of the non-use of Lithovit Liquid Fertiliser, and they all confirmed a similar observation on their farms.
“I, together with my colleague farmers, again, comb the open market for Lithovit Liquid Fertiliser, but was not successful, as I could not obtain any on the open market. In the 2019/2020 season, I again requested Lithovit Liquid Fertiliser and I was informed that COCOBOD had stopped supplying that fertiliser. I got 3,687kg cocoa beans that season, a slight improvement over the previous season’s quantity, but nowhere near what I was, hitherto, harvesting when I applied Lithovit.
Q: What do you seek to do with this document?
A: I seek to tender a cocoa passbook.
Q: Why is the passbook having two names and one cancelled?
A: The officer writing the name made a mistake and had to correct it.
Prosecution raises an objection: My lord, the name on the passbook is nowhere near the name Samuel. The name on the passbook is Rockson, and this can certainly not be a mistake spelling of the name Samuel. Not by the stretch of any imagination. TOS appears at the back, on the second page. The Torbi has also been tampered with; both on the back and the second page. Here I’m raising a genuine question of not just the authenticity of the duplicate, but also the original.
It is our submission that the document the witness asks to tender as his own is not his document. Under section 52 of the Evidence Act, even if the document is relevant to the genuine question of authenticity we have raised, its relevance ought to be substantially outweighed by the genuine questions of authenticity we have raised.
Codjoe: We state that contrary to the objection raised by the prosecution, the witness has explained why his first Samuel was wrongly spelt. On the same front page, as explained by the witness, you have Samuel Torbi correctly written. On page 2 you have the picture of the witness on it, and the picture is what tells the story. As the picture is what tells the story, and as explained by the witness, he didn’t write his name wrongly. It was done by a third party.
Section 136 of the Evidence Act where states that the relevance of evidence depends on its authenticity or…
He has explained that he did not claim his name was wrongly spelt, but that it was the Purchasing Clerk of the Licence Buying Company (LBC), PPC Company Limited, who made this wrong name, which was subsequently corrected by the same person on the same day. What the prosecution has not stated is that the picture is not that of Samuel Torbi.
This document is relevant, as it contains the cocoa beans sold by the witness, together with the fertilisers which were used during the years. It is not the position of the law; we submit under Section 52 that a corrected mistake if the name on a document which is not authored by the witness should be rejected.
Nutifafa: We say that the concerns realised by the prosecution about this document should go to weight that the court will attach to its evaluation of the said document.
Court: The document is admitted in evidence for whatever it is worth.
Q: …
A: I harvested and sold the highest quantity of cocoa beans at the time I applied Lithovit Liquid Fertiliser to my farms. I and my colleague farmers were amazed when we were informed by the district office of CHED that COCOBOD had stopped distributing Lithovit Liquid Fertiliser. I state that Lithovit Liquid Fertiliser is the best fertiliser I have ever used on my cocoa farm, and I add that it is the best fertiliser ever supplied by COCOBOD. I confirm that it is a liquid fertiliser and it is very effective. Cross-examination by Nutifafa Nutsukpui
Q. Are you the only person in your family to have used Lithovit Fertiliser?
A. Yes.
Q. You told the court that the first time you used Lithovit was the 2015/16 cocoa season. Is that correct?
A. Yes.
Q. This fertiliser was distributed by COCOBOD?
A. That is so.
Q. The persons who manufacture this fertiliser were not the persons who introduced it to the farmers. That is also correct?
A. No.
Q. In your experience the years after the 2015/16 and 2016/17 seasons you had not harvested close to what you harvested over those two seasons. That is correct?
A. That is correct.
Q. You are aware that other practices may also affect yield?
A. That is correct.
Q. But taking all of those into account, will I understand you to mean that your use of the Lithovit Liquid Fertiliser was the single most important factor in the yields you made in 2015/16 and 2016/17 as compared to any other cocoa farming persons in your experience?
A. That is true.
Q. Did you have any personal issues with the fertiliser?
A. When I used it made me happy and I did not get anything negative about it.
Q. In those two seasons also, in your role as Chairman of a cooperative in your district, did any of the farmers in your district who used Lithovit Liquid Fertiliser complain to you about any challenges with their use of Lithovit Liquid Fertiliser?
A. No my lord, but rather the happiness. I had the same happiness that they had, and they said that it was me that they believe when they say cocoa farming is a business, Lithovit Fertiliser made them realise that.
Q. In those two seasons, or any point in time thereafter, did you hear of any farmers drinking Lithovit on their farms because it was such a useless product?
A. No, my lord, because the training they took us through means any medicine we spray on our cocoa is harmful to our body. So we were given gloves, nose masks, spectacles, overalls and wellington boots when spraying insecticides and fertilisers. So if someone tells you that you can drink Lithovit Liquid Fertiliser then that person is not a farmer, and no farmer will say such a thing.
Q. If a senior official from COCOBOD Headquarters in Accra tells this court that farmers were drinking Lithovit Liquid Fertiliser on their farms, that assertion by that senior official will not be a true representation of your experience in using Lithovit Liquid Fertiliser?
A. That will not be true, because junior officers at the CHED district officer will not say that, and not to talk of a senior officer.
Q. What will be your reaction when someone says that when COCOBOD bought Lithovit Liquid Fertiliser for you farmers to use, COCOBOD receive no value for the amounts that they had invested in the purchase of the fertiliser?
A. Farmers will not forgive that person because Lithovit Liquid Fertiliser is a farmers’ messiah, and I also don’t believe that any staff from COCOBOD will come out and say such a thing.
Q. Would there be any justification for someone to condemn the company or the person that brought the fertiliser?
A. No.
Cross-examination by Mrs, Keelson
Q. You told this court that you used Lithovit Liquid Fertiliser in the 2015/16 and 2016/17 cocoa seasons. Is that not so?
A. That is true.
Q. You did not use Lithovit Liquid Fertiliser in the 2013/14 cocoa season. Is that not so?
A. That is true.
Q. You also did not use the fertiliser in the 2014/15 cocoa season. Is that not so?
A. That is so.
The case adjourned to May 18 at 11:00am.
Dual desks and KG desks and chairs for Asem Experimental schools
Four Junior High schools and two primary schools in the Subin constituency in Kumasi have benefited from the benevolence of the Member of Parliament, Eugene Boakye Antwi.
The law maker on Monday donated a set of furniture, including library tables, book shelves, dual desks and teachers tables.
The beneficiary schools are; Asem Boys JHS, St. Cyprian’s JHS and primary, St. Augustine’s JHS and Asem Experimental JHS and primary.
Asem Boys JHS received 30 pieces of library chairs, two library tables, four book shelves and a table and chair for the Headmistress, whilst the St. Cyprian’s JHS and Primary School received an office Cabinet, three sets of Head teachers’ Table and chair, five pieces of Teachers table and chairs and 70 pieces of dual desks.
At St. Augustine’s JHS, the MP, accompanied by Polling Station Executives, Electoral Area Coordinators and Constituency Executive Committee Officers donated 10 pieces of dual desks, eight library chairs and two library tables, as well as nine pieces each of teachers’ table and chairs, in addition to two book shelves.
Eugene Boakye Antwi also presented 100 pieces of dual desks and 70 pieces of desks and chairs for the Kindergarten and to the Asem Experimental JHS and primary school respectively.
Last week’s New Patriotic Party (NPP) constituency elections in the Upper West Region ended with surprise results.
The elections, which were held in all the eleven constituencies in the region, caused shocks and surprises, as elements believed to be redundant in the running of the party were removed.
Some of the contestants who lost their positions were those believed to be in the camp of the incumbent Regional Chairman, Mr. Sanibaye Baselide Kangbere.
Information available to The Chronicle indicates that over 92% of candidates linked to Mr. Baselide Kangbere’s camp performed abysmally.
This has also raised concerns about the candidature of Mr Kangbere, ahead of the regional executive’s race slated for May 27, 2022.
Signals picked up by this reporter, when he paid a visit to some of the election centers, show an impending defeat for the incumbent Regional Chairman, Mr Kangbere, in the upcoming Regional elections.
Information available to this paper indicates that some newly elected constituency executives are mounting pressure on the leadership of the party to advice Mr. Kangbere to pull-out of the contest, for a new person to contest for the position.
Mr. Rauf Zini, Sissala West Constituency Secretary, in an interview said that it is better for the incumbent chairman to step down because he has not fulfilled some promises he made on the regional executive’s platform some four years ago.
He said Mr Kangbere promised that each constituency will be given a bus and a set of computers but “four years has ended and no constituency can boast of these items.”
He argued that the leadership style of Mr Kangbere in the region has seen a lot of people complaining that the NPP had no leadership.
Meanwhile, efforts made to reach Sanibaye Baselide Kangbere to get his side of the story proved futile, as his phone was off and neither could he respond to whatsapp and text messages sent to him.
Below is the provisional result of some of the constituency executive’s elections in the Upper West Region
Outspoken Broadcaster and Reggae Musician, Blakk Rasta is asking the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) to demand ten times the amount the company fined Artiste D-Black for using power illegally.
On Wednesday, April 27, 2022, a national task force from ECG disconnected D-Black’s Oasis Pool and Shisha Lounge from the national grid for using electricity illegally and charged his business a GH¢480,248.00 fine.
In an interview on Prime Morning, which was monitored by The Chronicle, Blakk Rasta said;
“I don’t believe in prison. He has to pay. For me, he should pay not less than 10-fold of what he had stolen. These are the guys who walk around big. But you are a thief. That’s it. Tell me what other word for stealing. Is it not taking without permission? Do you know how many people died in the hospital because of the 500,00 stealing of power? D-Black should be disgraced. They should let the whole world know that this is what he has done, so that some of us petty thieves will not graduate to mega thieves like him.”
According to Blakk Rasta, D-Black should be taken through the same treatment as everyone else who steals power..
“D-Black should be made to suffer like any other person, yes that is stealing. If D-Black had broken into multimedia and had stolen 500,000, Ghanaians will be talking. But because it is a governmental institution… even in our proverbs, {we say} “government work we don’t carry it on our heads, we drag it on the floor.”
He added that because of this attitude, “D-Black can steal 500,000 worth of electricity and still be part of Dumsor vigil.”
Life is like riding a bicycle, to keep your balance, you must keep moving. Albert Einstein.
Journeying through life as tough as is made evident before the human eye is one journey that requires great strength, the type of strength that maneuvers its way into breaking forth and persisting in life defeating fully every obstacle that gets in the way on the journey to making the best out of one’s life here on earth. Keeping the balance in life denotes that there are days you will have it all figured out and may or can thread on a rather smooth path and remain happy and content with everything in your life and there may also be those days where you may feel you have almost lost it all and life becomes rather worrisome and very fearful for you.
The ups and downs in life requires of us to keep our balance regardless of how our life may turn out, do well to keep the balance through the good and the bad days, everything cannot always run smoothly for you, you may have a few hitches that will need fixing, you may experience a few breaks in life which requires rest for a while and then a bounce back later. But by all means regardless of what happens just keep the pace and keep moving. In a typical example of a person driving a car and mistakenly colliding with another vehicle gets hurt and damages the vehicle as well. The scars left from this incident require that the wounds be treated to aid in the faster rate of their healing process but once they heal they go back to driving again, why? Because a bad break does not always mean you cannot try again, you can and have to try again but this time rather more cautiously focussing most importantly on the lessons from the previous incident in order that you don’t end up living life without experience you begin to live it like a master carrying your lessons learnt as your shield for you to keep moving.
This is to say that once life feels uncertain and failure becomes your new name, you can always reverse your current situation by picking up the pieces and trying to tackle life again with much more zeal and strength willing to fight and face every fear so that you can make your life and whatever you find yourself doing become of great value. Keep moving and don’t stop. Quitting should be a thing of the old for you. I wrote in my second book “Surviving” concerning how to make your life valuable and not a waste and how to keep the pace even when journeying through life seems tough for human comprehension .You will be glad you didn’t give up and stood firm to survive it all. That becomes your strength because you survived the toughest and darkest moments in life and you are still waxing strong.
Every new idea, and initiative meets with resistance .We have to find the courage to take risks even to fail if the goal is worthwhile. Kofi Annan
Take hard risks as you journey through life, all of these forms a part of who you are your values and goals and what you stand for, be courageous enough to face risks in life ,a risk is not a death sentence it’s a realm that helps you self evaluate yourself and get to deduce the true nature of yourself, what you stand for and the what and the where you would want your life to get to. Take risks, important ones and the ones that will break you as well. All of this is for your good once it’s worthwhile and worth the do kindly go ahead with it without being remorseful about it. The last thing anyone wants is to live a life full of misery and regret thus live your life free of guilt and shame. Journeying through can also be equated to running a race, until you keep moving you can never reach your expected end. I want to encourage you reading this wherever you are in this world that you are matter so you matter in this life and on this journey, Go through struggles and remember that these are part of life’s route you will go through them but how you evolve out of them matters more. Keep that in mind. Life will only get better once you don’t stop moving, once you stand firm against every resistance or blockade in your life once you are firm enough to break through the struggles with your shoulders held up high and enjoying every moment on this journey in life. You can get through anything and everything in life once you stay hopeful and put your mind to it.
I recommend a motivational booster audio podcast for you by name “Interactions With Jackie” Podcast which is available weekly on Apple Podcasts, Tune In, Podbean, Amazon Music and Deezer and other major listening platforms, Kindly tune in and listen to weekly episodes which will challenge you into understanding who you are and why you were brought on earth and why the need to keep moving on in life and on this journey never giving up.
Remember to always keep the pace and keep your balance in life and embrace mistakes and not feel bad about them but rather learn the lessons from the mistakes so you can do better next time. Keep moving. I’m Jaclyn Essien on all Social media platforms. Have an amazing day.
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The views expressed in this article are the author’s own and do not necessarily reflect The Chronicle’s stance.
