{"id":1229735,"date":"2022-10-20T12:33:01","date_gmt":"2022-10-20T12:33:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/20\/social-media-users-blast-mahama-over-insensitive-comments-on-kasoa-suicide-case\/"},"modified":"2022-10-20T12:33:01","modified_gmt":"2022-10-20T12:33:01","slug":"social-media-users-blast-mahama-over-insensitive-comments-on-kasoa-suicide-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/20\/social-media-users-blast-mahama-over-insensitive-comments-on-kasoa-suicide-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Media Users Blast Mahama Over \u201cInsensitive\u201d Comments On Kasoa Suicide Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/e63707d37365459881ceff18d324a12f\" alt=\"Mahama denies GH\u00a214m ex-gratia claims - Ghanaian Times\"\/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">Former President John Dramani Mahama has reacted to the death of a young man who electrocuted himself at Kasoa.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">Over the weekend a young man, identified as Kakra, ended his own life after he was electrocuted on top of an electricity transformer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">Video of the said incident went viral on social media with many Ghanaians expressing their sympathies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">Kakra was heard in the video shouting \u201cI\u2019m tired\u201d, \u2018\u201dI\u2019m tired\u201d before ending his life after several attempts to persuade him to change his mind failed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">The Former President, who was out of the country at the time of the incident, posted on his social media platforms upon his return to sympathize with the family of the deceased and also advised Ghanaians to never commit suicide no matter the difficulties they find themselves in.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">\u201cI returned from a trip to the sad news of Kakra who electrocuted himself.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">\u201cLevels of hardship in Ghana are dire; worst in 3 decades. But suicide is never an answer. Even in the darkest night there\u2019ll come dawn. The sun will rise again. Let&#8217;s be each other\u2019s keeper &#038; keep hope alive\u201d, he wrote.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">However, this comment appears to have rather incur the wrath of some Ghanaians on social media who have taken the former President on for making what they describe as an &#8220;insensitive&#8221; comment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">m\u01ddl with twitter handle @limmthedevil, wrote \u201cLike ebi your time electricity sef no go pass through make he electrocute. We dey watch ball masa\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">@Gen_Buhari_also wrote \u201cWhen did he tell you he committed suicide because of hardship? Or did he leave a written document to confirm that? It\u2019s funny you base on someone\u2019s commentary to conclude, 1,500 people committed suicide in 2015 under your watch, Can we conclude it was as a result of Hardship?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">Bongo Ideas (@BongoIdeas) says \u201cUsing the death of the young man to score political points is cheap and basic. People still kill themselves even in better economies.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">\u201cYou can sympathise with the family without necessarily trying to come across as the Messiah. Everything shouldn\u2019t be about politics!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">Kwame Gabby (@GabbyGreyy) &#8220;If you like, organize a press conference, you will never be president again. Forget it. Politically, you&#8217;re done! Just retire in peace and take care of your family\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">Mr Yussif C Murder (@yussif505) also had this to say \u201cMr President with the greatest of respect to you STOP this. We survived under your leadership the unprecedented power outages this nation has ever seen in our country&#8217;s history. The world will surely come out of this.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: OPolitics (via  Opera<br \/>\nNews )<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p class=\"copyright hide\">\n<span class=\"content\">    ,  .   ,     .       () , , , , , , , , .      \/ ,  and\/or  .     ,  , and\/or  ,      and\/or     <\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"see-more\"><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<section class=\"tags\">\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President John Dramani Mahama has reacted to the death of a young man who electrocuted himself at Kasoa. Over the weekend a young man, identified as Kakra, ended his own life after he was electrocuted on top of an electricity transformer. 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