Elmina fisherfolk apologize to Hawa Koomson for rejecting her food items
- Fisher folk at Elmina have apologize to the minister of fisheries
- The fishing community rejected her food items last week
- Their anger bored out of the closure of the sea to the closed season
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The fishing community at Elmina has apologized to the minister of fisheries and aquaculture, Hawa Koomson, for rejecting food items she presented to them.
These fisher folk described their act as unforgivable. They argue that their anger was out of the closure of the sea for the closed season.
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Not only did they reject the food items, but they also booed and jeered at the minister and her entourage until the bags of rice and gallons of oil meant for the fishermen were packed back into a pickup truck.
“We have apologized to the Omanhen of the Edina Traditional Area for such an embarrassment, and it is so that we also apologize to the minister. Our actions were embarrassing, to say the least,” the chief fisherman, Nana Badu, expressed.
Anti-LGBTQ bill
Member of Parliament for Ningo Prampram, Sam George, says the Australian High Commissioner to Ghana, Gregory Andrews, threatened never to grant him visa to any European Country.
The controversial Member of Parliament, known for his threats against Ghana’s gay community said on Joy News that the Australian High Commissioner to Ghana also threatened to get him arrested when he leaves Ghana.
“We met at the Heart-Kotoko game, and there he came and accosted me and threatened me that I will never get a visa to any European country and he said that if I ever step there, I will be arrested,” he alleged.
Meanwhile, Sam George has explained that no intimidation will stop the private members bill on homosexuality from being passed in parliament.
Social media blues
John Dramani Mahama has announced that his 14-year-old daughter, Farida Mahama, does not own a Facebook or Instagram account.
In a public statement issued by his special aide, Bawa Mogtari, the former president warned that person’s risk being defrauded if they use the said account.
The former president revealed that; “An Instagram page set up by the same scammers in the name of Farida, @farida_mahama_ is also fake.”
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