Fixthecountry Conveynor Oliver Barker-Vormawor following the National Security campaign against terrorism has asserted that, Nkrumah\u2019s Ghana has become a joke of a country and that its leaders are incompetent criminals parading as clowns.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In a post shared on his official Facebook page, Oliver Barker wrote;<\/p>\n
“1. A few weeks ago the World Bank gave Ghana and three of our coastal neighbors 450 million dollars to aid our preparedness for the fight against terrorism.<\/p>\n
2. So flush with cash, the Ministry of National decided to bombard our airwaves that the terrorists are coming.<\/p>\n
3. Not one educational programme was designed to educate the public on what terrorism is, and what kind of activity is terrorism-leaning.\u00a0<\/p>\n
4. They recruited 1000s of people quietly across the country in all communities and gave them motorbikes. They put them on a 1800 cedis a month salary.\u00a0<\/p>\n
5. They told them if they see anybody coming around mobilizing the youth, or sharing fliers or making any town hall meetings for demonstrations, they should report it to them.\u00a0<\/p>\n
6. None of them were trained on what terrorism is.<\/p>\n
7. They designed flashy posters, one with a Muslim woman in hijab on it. Never mind that Muslim women are facing a lot of stigma over their hijab already; and associations with terrorism will hurt them more. <\/p>\n
I digress but FixTheCountry Co-convenor Bashiratu Kamal-Muslim told me a story of how when they wanted to organize the #HijabIsAnIdentity demonstration, the police verbally abused them and told them that they won\u2019t allow them to bring those Saudi Arabia things to Ghana.<\/p>\n
8. The flashy posters had a toll free number 999. I got a hint from a contact at the national security headquarters that the number on the poster wasn\u2019t operational. So I called the number and video\u2019d myself, and encouraged everyone to do that. Not a single person across the country got any response. We all heard Jazz.\u00a0<\/p>\n
9. Embarrassed by the incident, they put pressure on the call Centre they gave the contract to, to position people to pick the calls. Not a single call attendant has been trained.<\/p>\n
10. The call center operators do not have any system that allows them to track where calls are coming from, or even access the map when the complainant doesn\u2019t have a clue as to their geo location.\u00a0<\/p>\n
11. So when I called the next day, I asked the person, what does terrorism mean and what kind of activities qualify as terrorist related. He said \u201cIf you see something fishy, then you call us.\u201d Again I recorded them.\u00a0<\/p>\n
12. At the same time I was making these calls, Government ministers were holding an event to discuss terrorism. They engaged Kofi Kinaata to come and perform for them. All from the World Bank money.<\/p>\n
13. Today they have engaged Empress Gifty as the Ambassador of their fight against terrorism.<\/p>\n
14. But don\u2019t worry, even they didn\u2019t pick a single call on that day I called, and we listened to Jazz, they released a statement saying they received 10,000 prank calls. <\/p>\n
No single media has asked how can a call you didn\u2019t pick be determined as a prank call. Today, they were on radio saying Ghanaians kraa what kind of people are we, we need to fix ourselves.<\/p>\n
Why are we so gullible as a culture?\u00a0<\/p>\n
Listen and listen well. My whole advocacy is to show you that Nkrumah\u2019s Ghana has become a joke of a country & that your leaders are incompetent criminals parading as clowns. <\/strong><\/p>\n If that offends you, you can prosecute me in a court where judges can be bribed with goats.”<\/p>\n His comments follows the launch of citizen awareness campaign dubbed \u2018See Something, Say Something\u2019 campaign by the National Security Ministry to encourage people to report suspicious acts of terrorism.<\/p>\n Content created and supplied by: Currentworldnews (via Opera \n , . , . () , , , , , , , , . \/ , and\/or . , , and\/or , and\/or <\/span>
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