How much weed is too much weed?

Exactly 256 sacks!

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Chale News
September 05, 2024

Sometime in April 1930, the BBC once said, “there is no news” on a slow day. We can’t relate though—we’ve got a whole lineup of juicy updates for you today!

  • National: Only 16% of babies get their shots in time? Bruh!

  • Crime: Police to Burn 256 Bags of Weed—What, You Thought We Were Starting a Farm?

  • National: Prince, Ransford, and Johnson went lumberjacking without a permit, and now the trees aren’t the only ones getting cut down.

  • National: No secret police recruits here—just 487 Ponzi suspects getting a reality check at the Kumasi Police Academy.

  • Fact of the Day: There’s something that’s equally as dangerous as smoking that can end you. We can’t believe what it is either!

  • National: Reset button, Anyone? Ghana's Economy Needs a Total Makeover – Says Kwakye Ofosu”

  • National: Techiman election victims cash out GH¢150k.

  • National: No one likes surprises during an election season, and the NDC is not about to play guessing games with the voters’ list.

  • National: Randy says even Lucifer is jealous of Ghana.

  • National: Nkoranza Traditional Council denies cursing elders.

  • National: Parliament approves $250 million loan with a cool $90 million “consultancy fee”.

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  • Chale, the police are about to light up. Turns out they’ve been hoarding 256 sacks of dried leaves—yes, weed—and it’s taking up so much space that they literally can’t do their paperwork. The place is packed, like that one chair we all have with clothes just sitting on it. So now, they’ve got the green light to burn it all up and free some room at the CID HQ. Apparently, some of the sacks were part of cases that didn’t even make it to court, and for others, the Attorney General was like, “Nah, don’t bother.” Either way, the weed’s gotta go. And to top it off, storing weed in the wrong conditions is bad for your health if it’s not kept right. Who knew there was a proper way to stash weed—other than, you know, not doing it in the first place? Read more

  • Ah, the Amama Forest Reserve—a nice patch of green that’s minding its business until three guys show up with chainsaws like they’re auditioning for a lumberjack reality show. Prince Owusu, Ransford Solomon, and Johnson Berko decided it was time to turn 45 beautiful Cidrella trees into lumber, like, who needs permission, right? Wrong. They forgot one teeny little detail: that Timber Utilization Contract. And now they’re in court, acting like they didn’t know cutting down trees in a forest reserve is, you know, illegal. Get the 411 in the Deep Dive section below

  • Only 16% of babies in Ghana are getting the Hepatitis B vaccine within 24 hours of being born. Raphael Godlove Ahenu, CEO of GloMeF, has had it up to here with the low vaccine coverage. He’s kicked off a campaign to make sure more babies get vaccinated on time, because Hep B’s no joke. It’s like skipping breakfast and thinking you’ll be fine—trouble always comes later. Want the deets in full? Check out the Deep Dive section.

  • So, Parliament just approved a $250 million loan from the World Bank to save Ghana’s energy sector. But here’s the tea—there’s a cool $90 million “consultancy fee” sitting in the middle of this deal, and let’s just say, the Minority MPs are side-eyeing that real hard. Like, who’s getting paid to "consult" and why do they need all that cash? The Majority’s like, "Bro, we need this money to fix the lights ASAP!" Meanwhile, we’re all sitting here like, "Is this a legit deal or a scam? Get more deets in the Deep Dive section

  • So, word on the street—or better yet, Facebook—is that the Ghana Police Service was holding a sneaky recruitment session at the Kumasi Training School. The streets of Kumasi were buzzing with this info, but spoiler alert: not a single police uniform was handed out. Instead, what actually went down was a massive police operation where they rounded up 487 people. And nah, these weren’t future officers—they were suspects in the QNET Ponzi scheme. The kind of squad you don’t wanna be a part of. Anyway, they rounded up almost 500 suspects linked to a QNET Ponzi scheme. Yeah, not exactly the police graduation some folks thought was going down. Read more

  • Felix Kwakye Ofosu, the man running for MP in Abura Asebu-Kwamankese, is out here saying Ghana needs a total economic glow-up. And honestly, with inflation rising faster than Accra rent prices and the cedi giving the dollar way too much love, we can’t disagree. Kwakye Ofosu didn’t hold back saying the economy’s been so messed up that everything has hit levels that nobody’s vibing with, and Ghana’s debts are a meme at this point. Read more

FACT OF THE DAY

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Turns out, having no friends could be as risky as smoking!

This came from a Harvard study that says, loneliness can cause your blood to clot just as much as smoking.

So person cannot even be lonely in peace again. Eiii😂😂

  • It got real when the crowd started getting loud about election results, and next thing you know—bam! Security officers fired their guns into the crowd. Six people caught some serious heat, but instead of backing down, they took the government to court. And guess what? They won. Justice Frederick Nawurah of the Wenchi High Court just told the government to cough up GH¢150,000 for their pain, plus GH¢20K extra to each of them for the psychological damage. Read more

  • So, the NDC is officially calling for full transparency—like, livestream-the-whole-thing transparency. They’ve written to the EC, asking for a live broadcast of their Friday meeting to discuss some fishy findings in the Provisional Voters Register (PVR). According to them, when the voters’ register was on display last week, they found some pretty sketchy stuff, and they want to make sure the air is cleared in front of the cameras.

    It all kicked off after the NDC analyzed the PVR from the EC and found what they’re calling “serious discrepancies.” The EC has yet to respond, but if the NDC gets their way, it’ll be less “behind closed doors” and more “watch it on your phone” when they sit down to discuss the state of the voters' register for the December 7 elections. Read more

  • So, some elders in Nkoranza woke up and chose vibes… and curses. All because they felt ex-prez Mahama snubbed them during his visit. Like, dude didn’t check in, and now they’re big mad. Yup, they basically threw some spiritual shade at the NDC. But then the Nkoranza Traditional Council just popped up like, "Uh-uh, not on our watch. We don’t know these guys." It’s like when your friend causes drama at a party, and you’re quick to say, “Yo, I just met them tonight.” The council’s out here doing PR damage control. Read more

DEEP DIVE

Babies aren’t getting their shots!

You know that feeling when it’s raining and you’re stuck in town trying to get home. You start waving at trotros like a desperado, nobody stops and all the Bolts, Yangos and Ubers are suddenly busy. You’re lucky to find a car just 45 mins after the rain has beaten you black and blue😂😂

Apparently, it’s like that with the Hepatitis B vaccines and newborn babies. Turns out only 16% of newborns are getting their shots within the first 24 hours of birth. And it’s wild because this shot could save them from a whole lifetime of health drama. But it’s like the system just isn’t vibing with these kids—they’re left hanging, and the risks are real.

Raphael Ahenu, isn’t about to let this slide. He’s starting a whole campaign called Hepatitis-Free Ghana to turn this around. He’s talking to the health sector, “Yo, stop ghosting these babies. We need that vaccine to be a priority, like the way fufu is on Sundays after church—non-negotiable.” He’s pushing to have it included in the regular vaccine lineup for newborns, so every baby leaves the hospital ready to dodge Hep B.

And you know how in Ghana, if you want something to actually happen, you get the whole community involved? Well, Ahenu’s doing just that—calling in chiefs, nurses, your auntie who knows everybody at the hospital—everyone’s about to hear about this. Read more

When tree logging goes wrong

Chief Inspector Eric Agyenim Boateng, who’s got serious “I don’t play” vibes, told the court how these guys were caught red-handed when the forest patrol team heard chainsaws buzzing like some underground party in the woods. The team followed the noise and boom—there were the accused, chopping away like it was the last tree on Earth. The team confiscated their chainsaw and handed the trio over to the police. Meanwhile, one of their boys, Ebenezer, is out here pulling a Houdini, still on the run. Can someone tell him the game’s over?

After the court hearing, Mr. Francis Brobbey, the Sunyani Forest District Manager said, if we don’t chill with the whole “log all the trees” vibe, the government’s Green Ghana Initiative might as well be called "Goodbye Ghana." The forest is disappearing faster than money in your pocket these days, and something’s gotta give.

Brobbey is calling on everyone—yes, that includes you—to team up with the Forestry Commission to help protect what’s left of the forest.

Anyway, the court is like, “See y’all again September 27 for the next episode.” Read more

What’s $250 million minus $90 million ?

Parliament, right? Everyone’s supposed to be on holiday, chilling, but nah, the Majority’s like, “Let’s pull an emergency link-up. We got some unfinished business—like that energy sector that’s more broke than our wallets after Detty December.” They’re pushing for this $250 million World Bank loan to save us from dumsor 2.0. Pretty solid plan, yeah? Until the Minority catches that sneaky $90 million consultancy fee and hits us with the “Ah, what’s this?” energy.

Now, imagine you’re at a restau, ordering a two-piece, and then they hit you with a service fee that's almost the price of your meal. That's basically what the Minority MPs are screaming about. Like, why is it costing us almost half the loan to “consult”? Are these consultants using golden pens and paper? The Minority’s basically like, “Yo, run us the breakdown. Who’s consulting and for what?” And trust, they’re not letting it slide till someone explains why this fee is flexing harder than the actual money to fix the lights.

But here’s where it gets funny: the Majority MPs are out here acting like parents rushing through Christmas shopping. They’re like, “Guys, forget about the fine print, we NEED this money to fix the sector before it totally collapses!” To them, $90 million is just a small chop on the way to the main goal. They're making it sound like if we don't approve this thing fast, we’ll be in dumsor by December.

At the end of the day, Parliament did what Parliament does—they approved it. Now, we’re all just waiting to see if this $250 million saves us from energy drama or if it’s just another fancy excuse for folks to get their chop-chop on. Fingers crossed the lights stay on and that $90 million "consultancy fee" doesn't come back to bite us like the ghosting ex who suddenly pops up with drama. Read more

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