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SUSPERSTITION


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Sometimes one wonders whether the state of #Ghana has arrived in #2025.The #country and its current #leaders are so steep in #superstition that it substantially devalues the #mandate they struggle to get from the #people.If every problem is created by and resolved by one #deity or the other, then why do we bother ourselves every four (4) years to line up to #vote for #leaders?We may just continue to #pray our #problems away and forget all the hustles we go through to #elect leaders who look us in the face and proclaim that only one deity or the other can deal with our #economic, #social, and #political problems.One way in which our reliance on #superstition is manifested is the existence of #witches’ camps, desolate places where mostly #old #women acSUSPERSTITION\nSometimes one wonders whether the state of #Ghana has arrived in #2025.\nThe #country and its current #leaders are so steep in #superstition that it substantially devalues the #mandate they struggle to get from the #people.\nIf every problem is created by and resolved by one #deity or the other, then why do we bother ourselves every four (4) years to line up to #vote for #leaders?\nWe may just continue to #pray our #problems away and forget all the hustles we go through to #elect leaders who look us in the face and proclaim that only one deity or the other can deal with our #economic, #social, and #political problems.\nOne way in which our reliance on #superstition is manifested is the existence of #witches’ camps, desolate places where mostly #old #women accused of visiting diseases, #poverty, and #death on our people are kept in isolation.\nRecently, I visited one of these camps at #Gambaga in the #North-East Region of #Ghana and was shocked at the neglect and suffering of these innocent #women who may need #medical help but have been abandoned.\nLet us rise above #superstition and close these witches’ #camps down immediatelySUSPERSTITION\nSometimes one wonders whether the state of #Ghana has arrived in #2025.\nThe #country and its current #leaders are so steep in #superstition that it substantially devalues the #mandate they struggle to get from the #people.\nIf every problem is created by and resolved by one #deity or the other, then why do we bother ourselves every four (4) years to line up to #vote for #leaders?\nWe may just continue to #pray our #problems away and forget all the hustles we go through to #elect leaders who look us in the face and proclaim that only one deity or the other can deal with our #economic, #social, and #political problems.\nOne way in which our reliance on #superstition is manifested is the existence of #witches’ camps, desolate places where mostly #old #women accused of visiting diseases, #poverty, and #death on our people are kept in isolation.\nRecently, I visited one of these camps at #Gambaga in the #North-East Region of #Ghana and was shocked at the neglect and suffering of these innocent #women who may need #medical help but have been abandoned.\nLet us rise above #superstition and close these witches’ #camps down immediately\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\ncused of visiting diseases, #poverty, and #death on our people are kept in isolation.Recently, I visited one of these camps at #Gambaga in the #North-East Region of #Ghana and was shocked at the neglect and suffering of these innocent #women who may need #medical help but have been abandoned.Let us rise above #superstition and close these witches’ #camps down immediatelySUSPERSTITIONSometimes one wonders whether the state of #Ghana has arrived in #2025.The #country and its current #leaders are so steep in #superstition that it substantially devalues the #mandate they struggle to get from the #people.If every problem is created by and resolved by one #deity or the other, then why do we bother ourselves every four (4) years to line up to #vote for #leaders?We may just continue to #pray our #problems away and forget all the hustles we go through to #elect leaders who look us in the face and proclaim that only one deity or the other can deal with our #economic, #social, and #political problems.One way in which our reliance on #superstition is manifested is the existence of #witches’ camps, desolate places where mostly #old #women accused of visiting diseases, #poverty, and #death on our people are kept in isolation.Recently, I visited one of these camps at #Gambaga in the #North-East Region of #Ghana and was shocked at the neglect and suffering of these innocent #women who may need #medical help but have been abandoned.Let us rise above #superstition and close these witches’ #camps down immediately


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