{"id":1248969,"date":"2022-11-11T15:09:28","date_gmt":"2022-11-11T15:09:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/11\/i-cant-leave-ghana-this-country-is-sweet-lebanese-engineer-reveals\/"},"modified":"2022-11-11T15:09:28","modified_gmt":"2022-11-11T15:09:28","slug":"i-cant-leave-ghana-this-country-is-sweet-lebanese-engineer-reveals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/11\/i-cant-leave-ghana-this-country-is-sweet-lebanese-engineer-reveals\/","title":{"rendered":"I can\u2019t leave Ghana; this country is sweet &#8211; Lebanese engineer reveals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/88d510146fd8427db35df733a421e81c\"\/>Lebanese engineer born in Ghana, Christopher Mensah, has stated that he would readily decline an offer to work abroad because \u201cGhana is sweet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a chat on Daily Hustle on SVTV Africa, Christopher indicated that Ghana is the home he knows, and he will not leave for another country regardless of the offer.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The host of Daily Hustle, DJ Nyaami, quizzed him on whether opportunities are available in Ghana, and he said, \u201cof course, Ghana is sweet. I can\u2019t leave. Even if I get a job offer abroad, I won\u2019t go.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFreedom. You won\u2019t get it anywhere else. Everybody is one with everybody. Everyone is a brother. You won\u2019t get that anywhere else,\u201d he said<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, Christopher mentioned that he does not fault the Ghanaian youth for leaving Ghana because \u201cthey don\u2019t see the opportunities here. They are used to it. They see it every day. I know many people who have left but came back running because of hardships there. Home is home.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Born to Lebanese parents, Christopher indicated that his family has been living in Ghana since \u2018Gold Coast\u2019 and holds one nationality; Ghanaian.<\/p>\n<p>Christopher Mensah is an Elevator and Escalator Engineer. He has been working in the field for over a decade. Christopher revealed that he has no formal education in the occupation but received onsite training.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Kindly watch the full interview below;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Meet Lebanese Elevator &amp; Escalator Engineer, Who Speaks Twi - Reveals His Love For Ghana \ud83c\uddec\ud83c\udded\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rXj57450WxY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: SVTVAfrica.com (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\">\nChristopher<br \/>\nChristopher Mensah<br \/>\nGhana<br \/>\nLebanese<br \/>\nSVTV Africa<br \/>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lebanese engineer born in Ghana, Christopher Mensah, has stated that he would readily decline an offer to work abroad because \u201cGhana is sweet.\u201d In a chat on Daily Hustle on SVTV Africa, Christopher indicated that Ghana is the home he knows, and he will not leave for another country regardless of the offer.\u00a0 The host [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1248970,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1721,6718,85,3156,9433,51,6985],"class_list":["post-1248969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories","tag-country","tag-engineer","tag-ghana","tag-leave","tag-lebanese","tag-reveals","tag-sweet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1248969","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=1248969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1248969\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1248969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1248969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1248969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}