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I pray I don't miss the match. |
These moronic savages again?! What I still can't fathom is why a society will produce animals who are willing to die for a cause, which to remain uneducated. Moronic nation, moronic peeps! |
Sagamite: You mean you are describing your family where a village has a high population?Nah! I'm describing your society with no electricity, good roads, portable water and modern infrastructures, that you see as a city. ![]() |
[quote author=OXYGENO1][/quote]Obsessed with Ghana? What an expensive joke! |
GHKWAME1: Which coward liked this post?Must be a Ghanaian. |
GHKWAME1: I have been in Ghana enjoying the fruit of citizenship and contributing my quota for God and country.That's nice and I must congratulate you Kwame for you've really changed! What's really wrong with your economy? |
GHKWAME1: I've been around reading your trash. |
GHKWAME1: I've been around reading your trash. ![]() I'm just taking the remnants of those Ghanaians that tried seeking asylum in Brazil to the cleaners. However, where and how have you been? |
Gyan, let's discuss Ghana a little please. ![]() |
Joavid:Karen is that you? |
IloveGH: [s]Before I came to nairaland I thought nigerians liked Ghanaians, but damn I was wrong. Now anytime I meet a Nigerian and they are acting nice I know they are just pretending. Even my very close Nigerian friends are all suspects[/s]Vacuous trash!!!! |
Is Aregbesola not the same governor that commissioned the world tallest taking drum? What a feat! |
Imagine a society to produce animals who are willing to die for a cause, which to remain uneducated. Moronic nation, moronic peeps! |
Crap! |
Sagamite: Almost perfectly describes the filth you engage in with all4naija.Nah! It describes the abomination your family engage in. ![]() Remember, you're brother and son to one man... Incestuous family! |
Sagamite: Cretinous person, why do you continue trying to be like Sagamite?Sagamite, you're an odious dunce! Have you learned the meaning of a city? |
This chic is fuggly! ![]() She should start masking her face in order to save lives. WTF! |
illugun: Our military has come with another propaganda...Hopeless ilugunboy, you asked the Mods to ban me. |
Sagamite: person, you can't take it no more? You are here to defend your man-biatch, all4naija?Garbage in, garbage out. |
PetroDolla3: fooool you'd been thoroughly flogged, like a rented mule! don't run away now. the show is just starting, magg0t!You're just deceiving yourself because you know iconize never surrenders. This is not the first time I'm whipping your burnt assss. You were avoiding me until when I announced that I was leaving, you hurriedly quoted me. What a coward! Nkrumah tout. |
otumfour:Look at this servant.. ![]() You're coming to talk gibberish after I've molested your peeps countless times. I even invited you to watch the show but you fled to Brazil. ![]() Mister man, go and sleep. |
Gaynaians bye! ![]() Its nice teasing and playing with your emotions.. ![]() Bye! |
Adamskutty, come and console your gaynaian friends! ![]() They've been molested... |
PetroDolla3: o boy no be small thing oooooGaynaians fleeing to Brazil to seek asylum as usual. ![]()
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Talk about one person taking countless gaynaians to the cleaners. ![]() Gaynaians bye! Y'all should enjoy hell... ![]() |
PetroDolla3: where is that goat who now calls itself iconise or some sh1tty crap? I wonder how many cows that modafaka has fvcked today! see how ediots have turned themselves into animals fvcking cows, birds and anything that moves.chei roforoforoforofoSTFU! Petrodullard, you're taking about slavery even when your father is part of the Trokosi brotherhood? ![]() Slavery in Gayna: The Trokosi tradition According to the trokosi tradition practiced in southeastern Ghana, virgin girls are given to village priests as a way of appeasing the gods for crimes committed by family members. The word trokosi in the Ewe language means "slaves of the gods." Once given to the priest, a girl becomes his property and is made to carry out domestic chores such as cooking and washing, as well as farming and fetching water. After the onset of menstruation, the bondage also involves sexual servitude. (Photo: Abla Kotor, Courtesy of Robert Grossman/NYT Pictures) In March 1998, Equality Now launched a campaign calling for the banning of the practice and release of trokosi. Later the same year the government of Ghana passed a law prohibiting the practice. Equality Now welcomed this development, as well as reports of the subsequent release of around 2,800 girls. In its 1998 Women's Action on the trokosi practice, Equality Now highlighted the case of Abla Kotor (pictured). At the age of 12, Abla had been given to a local priest in atonement for the rape that resulted in her birth—the rape of her mother by her mother's uncle. Although other trokosi were liberated from the Awlo-Korti shrine where Abla was enslaved, after the law was passed Abla continued to live in the shrine effectively under the control of the priest because her aunt was afraid that otherwise the curse of the gods would revisit the family. Happily, Abla has now moved away from the shrine and is living with an uncle and going to school in western Ghana. Many of those who have been liberated from the shrines are being helped by International Needs Ghana, a non-governmental organization that has been central to the release and rehabilitation of trokosi. It negotiates the return of the women and girls to their families or communities, provides housing and food, counseling, schooling and income-generating skills. Survivors for Change, a human rights organization formed by survivors of the trokosi practice, is also advocating for enforcement of the law against the practice and has launched its own campaign aimed at various government ministries and seeking the support of international ambassadors based in Accra. In spite of this welcome progress, Equality Now is deeply concerned that, over three years after the banning of the practice of trokosi by the Ghanaian Government, several thousand girls and women are reported to be still in bondage as trokosi. According to reports, some traditionalist groups in Ghana are obstructing the release of the trokosi. One group, Afrikania Mission, maintains that the practice is part of its culture and that the law should not destroy its culture. Afrikania Mission is said to be exerting pressure to prevent the enforcement of the law, and to have persuaded some priests that it is their right to continue the tradition. The work of International Needs Ghana has apparently also been hindered by several inaccurate descriptions of the trokosi practice by the United States Government, which minimize the severity of the practice and have reportedly influenced some funders to stop supporting the efforts of International Needs Ghana to end the trokosi practice. The State Department's reports on human rights and religious freedoms for 2001 differ substantially from those issued in previous years, and it is interesting to note from one of these that in May and July 2001 US Embassy officials met with the leadership of the Afrikania Mission "in order to learn about their views on religious freedom in the country," and reported that "the Afrikania leaders expressed gratitude for the visit…" One hundred and thirty trokosi priests who have released all trokosi from their own shrines and now oppose the practice were so incensed by the inaccuracies in the US Government reports that they met on 4 January 2002 to refute in very specific terms the US Government's claims. The State Department, for example, claims that trokosi is a religious practice "involving a period of servitude lasting up to 3 years" and that "there is no evidence that sexual abuse is an ingrained or systematic part of the practice." The trokosi priests affirmed in contrast that "once a girl has been sent into trokosi servitude, she is a trokosi until her death. After she dies, she has to be replaced by her family, " and that the trokosi "serve we the priests domestically, satisfy our sexual desires and work on our farms to provide our economic security." The priests affirmed that "the girls have no right whatsoever in deciding when and who in the shrine should have sexual intercourse with them…" and that part "of the rationale for deciding on the female gender as the object of reparation has to do with providing sexual gratification to those serving the deity." Equality Now has repeatedly raised its concern with State Department officials that the United States Government has misrepresented the trokosi practice, but has not to date received a substantive response. In addition to the 1998 law specifically criminalizing the trokosi practice as a form of slavery, the trokosi practice violates the Ghanaian Constitution, specifically Article 14, which provides that "Every person has a right to personal liberty" and Article 16, which provides, "No person shall be held in slavery and servitude or be required to perform forced labor." Numerous international human rights standards similarly prohibit slavery, in particular the Slavery Convention and the Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery, the Slave Trade and Institutions and Practices Similar to Slavery, and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, all ratified by Ghana. Although Ghanaian government officials have expressed their opposition to the practice, and a new government, which took office in 2001, has declared its commitment to human rights, it is clear that not enough action has been taken to ensure the release of the remaining trokosi. There have been no prosecutions under the 1998 law.
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Only Otumfool can save Y'all today. ![]() |
BankuTilapia2: Charlie lets hit diz bokos once n for all. 3ti s3n GhanabaYou're asking petrodullard who's full of emotions to hit his superiors? ![]() |
BankuTilapia2: Dis is how ur mom conceived u .......hahaaaBanku, Royalpearl, v0lvo, Otumfour, petrodolla3, Ghkawame, Ashantiking, Oxygen, elementary school class picture below. ![]() So hard to identify them.... ![]()
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Petrodullard, why are you not quoting me? ![]() |
BankuTilapia2: Not as pitch black as ur mom private partsBanku and his white brother taking a ride. ![]()
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BankuTilapia2: [s]Hahaaaaaaa are you showing us nigeria? Da biggest slum on earth. Rick Ross will agree witHas Rick ross ever been to Gayna? ![]()
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