{"id":1212031,"date":"2022-09-27T17:16:32","date_gmt":"2022-09-27T17:16:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/27\/i-dont-work-all-i-do-is-smoke-all-day-accra-girl\/"},"modified":"2022-09-27T17:16:32","modified_gmt":"2022-09-27T17:16:32","slug":"i-dont-work-all-i-do-is-smoke-all-day-accra-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/27\/i-dont-work-all-i-do-is-smoke-all-day-accra-girl\/","title":{"rendered":"I don\u2019t work, all I do is smoke all day \u2013 Accra girl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"post-31350\">\n<div class=\"td-post-content\">\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"485\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Screenshot-2022-09-27-at-4.40.12-PM-696x485.png\"   alt=\"I don\u2019t work, all I do is smoke all day \u2013 Accra girl\" title=\"smoke\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">I don\u2019t work, all I do is smoke all day \u2013 Accra girl <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<h2><strong>The plight of Monica Owusu Sekyere, 16, a homeless person in Kantamanto, Accra who says she left her home at an early age just to smoke has been shared by the YouTube channel, SVTV Africa.<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Monica said that she is currently unemployed and all she does is smoke. The school dropout also revealed that she left her house when she was 12 years old.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI quit school in class six while in Koforidua. I met some girls who told me to come to Accra and that I would get free food and have the freedom to do anything I wanted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut when I got here, I had to sleep outside. I realised that I had the freedom to do what I wanted, so I decided to stay.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The young lady has previously nurtured the ambition of becoming a journalist in future but fate took her in a different direction.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am jobless; I smoke for Ghana. I wanted to become a journalist or a nurse, but I can\u2019t do that now. I\u2019m planning to learn how to braid.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Monica began smoking when she was 13 years old. She mentioned that she would like to quit smoking because it has not proven beneficial to her.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not easy here. It\u2019s better to be jobless at home than on the streets. You can stay here all day without food. Many think those outside have a place to sleep, but we sleep in stalls here at the market.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you\u2019re as young as me, don\u2019t listen to friends and join them on the streets,\u201d Monica advised.<\/p>\n<p>Source: TheBBCghana.Com<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<footer>\n<div class=\"td-block-row td-post-next-prev\">\n<div class=\"td-block-span6 td-post-prev-post\">\n<div class=\"td-post-next-prev-content\"><span>Previous article<\/span>Kwame Nkrumah did nothing for Ghana; Akufo Addo is better off \u2013 Agya Koo<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>  <span class=\"td-page-meta\" itemprop=\"author\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Person\"><meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"Kofi Anokye, PhD\"\/><\/span><meta itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"2022-09-27T16:48:52+00:00\"\/><meta itemprop=\"dateModified\" content=\"2022-09-27T16:48:52+00:00\"\/><meta itemscope=\"\" itemprop=\"mainEntityOfPage\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/WebPage\" itemid=\"https:\/\/thebbcghana.com\/i-dont-work-all-i-do-is-smoke-all-day-accra-girl\/\"\/><span class=\"td-page-meta\" itemprop=\"publisher\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Organization\"><span class=\"td-page-meta\" itemprop=\"logo\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"><meta itemprop=\"url\" content=\"https:\/\/thebbcghana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/NEW-BBC-e1587657736248.png\"\/><\/span><meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"BBC Ghana Reports\"\/><\/span><meta itemprop=\"headline \" content=\"I don\u2019t work, all I do is smoke all day \u2013 Accra girl\"\/><span class=\"td-page-meta\" itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"><meta itemprop=\"url\" content=\"https:\/\/thebbcghana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Screenshot-2022-09-27-at-4.40.12-PM.png\"\/><meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"856\"\/><meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"596\"\/><\/span> <\/footer>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don\u2019t work, all I do is smoke all day \u2013 Accra girl The plight of Monica Owusu Sekyere, 16, a homeless person in Kantamanto, Accra who says she left her home at an early age just to smoke has been shared by the YouTube channel, SVTV Africa. 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