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GHANA IS BEING SOLD — AND WE ARE WATCHING IN SILENCE

Ghanaians must wake up before it is too late. Our nation, built on the sweat and sacrifice of our forebears, is quietly being handed over to foreigners while our leaders look on. Every sector of national life now shows signs that Ghana is no longer in full control of its destiny. Here is the bitter truth:
1. Foreign domination of our markets:
The government has sat idly by while Chinese, Lebanese, Indians, Nigerians, and others take over Ghana’s retail trade, businesses that by law are reserved for Ghanaians. Many of these foreign ventures operate illegally with undocumented owners, particularly those from Nigeria who flood into the country because they cannot stay in their own.
2. Foreigners invading our forests through galamsey:
Illegal mining has become a major threat to our environment and national security. It now plays a role in the illicit gold trade that fuels terrorism in the Sahel and beyond. Foreigners from countries whose borders Ghanaians cannot even cross freely are being caught deep in our forests, destroying our land and poisoning our rivers.
3. Collapse of local banks, rise of foreign control:
Our own government shut down local Ghanaian banks that served our people while giving foreign banks, including those from Nigeria, a free pass to expand. These banks exploit Ghanaians, both workers and customers, while our indigenous financial institutions are left to die.
4. Broken borders and unchecked migration:
Ghana’s borders have become open highways. Foreigners are entering in large numbers with the intention of settling permanently, placing heavy pressure on our healthcare, education, and housing systems. Visit major hospitals like UGMC on busy days and you will see long queues filled with foreign nationals, especially Nigerians, freely accessing facilities built for Ghanaians.
5. Rising social vices linked to foreign nationals:
We have allowed crime, prostitution, kidnapping, extortion, and violence, often driven by foreign syndicates, to spread across our cities. Nigerians in particular have been implicated in many of these vices, yet law enforcement treats them with hesitation while Ghanaians are punished harshly for lower offences. Nigerians drive in Ghana with Nigerian registered number plates with full tinted windows. Etc
6. Fearful silence of the media and authorities:
Our media and political class are too afraid to speak the truth. It is as if Ghana has become another Nigerian state. Foreign prostitution rings now operate openly, even as far as Wa, without fear or shame, lining the roadsides as night falls.

This is not xenophobia. It is patriotism. Ghana is a peaceful country, but peace does not mean surrender. Foreigners are welcome here, but only those who respect our laws, our people, and our sovereignty. Controlling the number of people who can come here is a correct policy to keep our country intact. Let us start talking louder.

Letter to Kwame Nkrumah from Richard Wright (London and New York,1954)
(London and New York,1954)
I say to you publicly and frankly: the burden of suffering that must be borne,impose it upon one generation! Do not, with the false kindness of the missionaries and business-men,drag out this agony for another five hundred years while your villages rot and your people's mind sink into the nicrass of a subjective darkness...Be merciful by being stern! If I lived under your regime, I'd asked for this hardness, this coldness ...
Make no mistake, Kwame, they are coming at you with the words about democracy; you are going to be pinned on the wall and warned about decency;plump-faced men will mumble academic phrases about 'sound' development; gentlemen with the cloth will speak unctuously of values and standards;in short,a barrage of concentrated arguments will be hurled at you to persuade you to temper the peace and drive of your movement ...
But you know as well as I do that the logic of your actions is being determined by the conditions of the lives of your people ...
There will be no way to avoid a degree of suffering, of trial,of tribulation, suffering comes to all people, but you have within your power the means to make this suffering of your people a meaningful, to redeem whatever stresses and stains may come. None but Africans can perform this for Africa. And ,as you launch your bold programmes,as you call on your people for sacrifices, you can be confident that there are free men beyond the continent of Africa who see deeply enough into life to know and understand what you do, what you must impose... This extract is reproduced by the kind permission of the author's London agents, John Farquharson Ltd, And if Harper and Row, New York.