{"id":1219928,"date":"2022-10-10T06:04:55","date_gmt":"2022-10-10T06:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/10\/poverty-is-the-source-of-all-evil-opanka\/"},"modified":"2022-10-10T06:04:55","modified_gmt":"2022-10-10T06:04:55","slug":"poverty-is-the-source-of-all-evil-opanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/10\/poverty-is-the-source-of-all-evil-opanka\/","title":{"rendered":"Poverty is the source of all evil \u2013 Opanka \u00bb \u2122"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_33\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<h2><strong>A 20-second video by the Ghanaian rap artist Opanka was uploaded on his Facebook page, in which he made the case that poverty is the root of all evil and crime.<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>This was at the 100.5 FM studio in Accra where he made the remark.<br \/>\u201cIt is poverty that brings thoughts of crime and evil into the minds of people,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you have money, will you think of ritual killings for money?\u201d the Tema-based musician asked rhetorically.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you have money, will you think of robbery? No!\u201d he stressed his point.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<p>READ ALSO:\u00a0I\u2019m not happy with the kind of players Chelsea FC bought- Opanka<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe cause of hatred and all other [undesirable thoughts and actions] is poverty,\u201d Dadie Opanka concluded.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<p>He gave the impression getting rich is the antidote to these evil thoughts and actions, according to him, poverty inspires.<\/p>\n<p>The rapper\u2019s latest song is titled \u2018Enye Betee (It\u2019s Not Easy)\u2019 and in which he notes times of economic hardships and desperation, all the while giving hope to listeners.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><noscript><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"IHReSReksOo\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Opanka - Enye Betee (3ny3 B3t33) [Official Video]\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IHReSReksOo?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211; &#8211; A 20-second video by the Ghanaian rap artist Opanka was uploaded on his Facebook page, in which he made the case that poverty is the root of all evil and crime. This was at the 100.5 FM studio in Accra where he made the remark.\u201cIt is poverty that brings thoughts of crime and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1219930,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[3704,25360,5489,3589],"class_list":["post-1219928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-evil","tag-opanka","tag-poverty","tag-source"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1219928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1219928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1219928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1219928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1219928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1219928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}