Election petition: SC to deliver judgment 4 March
The Supreme Court has set Thursday, 4 March 2021 to deliver judgment in the ongoing election petition. This was announced by the Chair of the seven-member panel of judges, Chief Justice (CJ) Kwasi Anin Yeboah during the hearing on Tuesday, 22 February 2021. Meanwhile, the court has dismissed a third review application filed by former President John Mahama, the petitioner in the ongoing election petition, which prayed the court to overturn its own ruling of 16 February 2021, in which it denied Mr Mahama the opportunity to reopen his case. “The application under review was dismissed because it was not based on known law or rules of practice. We dismiss the instant application and we hold it without merit”, Chief Justice ANin Yeboah read out in court on Monday, 22 February 2021. Prior to Monday’s ruling, Mr Tsatsu Tsikata, the lead counsel for Mr Mahama, had argued that the court “prejudiced” its “fair exercise of discretion” in denying his client the opportunity to reopen his case in the earlier ruling. The ordinary court, on Tuesday, 16 February 2021, ruled unanimously that “a mere filing of a witness statement is not an election to testify”. Chief Justice Anin Yeboah read: “As we’ve already indicated in this ruling supra, the petitioner in this application has not given us an inkling of the new or fresh evidence he wants to bring to the fore through the Chairperson of the first respondent and how that evidence could assist the court to do justice to the matters under consideration in this petition. Neither has he disclosed how that evidence will advance the cause of his petition. “For the above-stated reasons, we find no merit or favour in the petitioner’s application to reopen his case for the sole purpose of compelling his adversaries’ intended witness to testify through a subpoena without indicating the sort of evidence he intends to solicit from the said witness and how that evidence is going to help the court in resolving the dispute before us. We accordingly refuse the application and proceed without any hesitation to dismiss it”, the ruling said. Classfm Please contact Apexnewsgh.com on email apexnewsgh@gmail.com for your credible news publications. Contact: 0555568093
Mahama not being given fair hearing – Sammy Gyamfi
National Communications Officer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Sammy Gyamfi has said that the petitioner in the ongoing election petition hearing, Mr John Mahama is not being given a fair hearing by the court. Addressing the media after court proceedings on Monday February 22, Mr Gyamfi said “The bottom line is that the petitioner is worried that the court, in deciding these applications are not applying statutes that had been passed by our parliament, statutes that the court has been applying in other cases and we think that the petitioner is being denied a fair hearing and it is important to pursue these issues to the logical conclusions.” During proceedings on Monday, the Supreme Court of Ghana by a unanimous decision dismissed a review application filed by lawyers of Mr Mahama, against the court’s earlier ruling on whether or not witnesses can be compelled to testify in the court. Chief Justice Anin Yeboah in the ruling on behalf of the nine justices said the application was without merit and accordingly dismissed it. Lead counsel of the petitioner in the ongoing election petition hearing Tsatsu Tsikata has yet again made a case for the Supreme Court to reconsider its ruling on Tuesday, February 16. The seven justices of the apex court of Ghana unanimously dismissed the application of the petitioner, John Dramani Mahama, for the case to be re-opened in order to subpoena the Chair of the Electoral Commission, Ghana (EC), the First Respondent, to testify in court as a “hostile witness”. On Monday, February 22, Mr Tsikata questioned the basis of the ruling, saying the justices themselves were surprised when the First Respondent closed its case without calling its witness, Jean Adukwei Mensah, to testify. Mr Tsikata said the justices may have their reasons for the decision to dismiss the application but “it is the ruling of the panel that we are here to question”. “I am not in the minds of the panel,” he stressed. He further argued that for Mrs Mensa to have filed a witness statement meant that she was committed to mount the witness box. “We have no reason to say she was not telling the truth,” he said. For him, the Holy Bible should guide the nine justices reviewing the case, quoting Hosea 8:7. For him, the Holy Bible should guide the nine justices reviewing the case, quoting Hosea 8:7. It states: “For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk: the bud shall yield no meal: if so be it yield, the strangers shall swallow it up.” He concluded: “May each of the lordships decide based on your conscience and your judicial oath.” Counsels for the respondents – Justin Amenuvor for the First Respondent and Akoto Ampaw for the Second Respondent – asked the Court to set aside the review application since it does not merit its prayer. Please contact Apexnewsgh.com on email apexnewsgh@gmail.com for your credible news publications. Contact: 0555568093
Ayine is solely responsible for consequences of his comments against Supreme Court – NPP
The governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) has rejected claims by the National Democratic Congress (NDC) that spokespersons for lawyers of the 2nd respondent in the election petition hearing, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah and Henry Nana Boakye are inciting the court against Dr Dominic Ayine who also speaks for lawyers of the petitioner. A Statement by Yaw Buabeng Asamoah, National Communications Director, of the NPP said on Friday February 19 “it is an affront to the apex court of the land for the NDC to suggest that the venerable, experienced and learned Justices of the Supreme Court (SC) who, over time, have demonstrated to be independent and objective are amenable to ‘incitement’ by spokespersons of the 2nd Respondent.” It added “The claim that Hon. Kojo Oppong-Nkrumah Esq. and Henry Nana Boakye Esq. seek to incite the SC against Dr Dominic Ayine is a blatant falsehood that must be rejected by Ghanaians. “The unfortunate comments from Dr Dominic Ayine that ‘for the Supreme Court to reduce the Petition into a single issue Petition is rather unfortunate and smacks of a predetermined agenda to rule against the Petitioner in this matter…we think that the court by this decision has not done the people of this country a great service. In the sense that Ghanaians are interested in knowing the truth…the Justices, today, have not given us a reason to believe that they want the people of this country to know the truth about what happened’ were voluntarily uttered by Dr. Ayine and he is solely responsible for its consequences.” Below is the full statement… RE: ATTEMPTS BY KOJO OPPONG-NKRUMAH AND HENRY NANA BOAKYE TO INCITE THE SUPREME COURT AGAINST NDC LAWYERS The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has taken notice of a press release from the NDC that seeks to create the false impression that the Supreme Court is being “INCITED” to cite Dr. Dominic Ayine for Contempt and also the lead Counsel of the Petitioner has been subjected to attacks by Hon. Kojo Oppong- Nkrumah Esq. and Henry Nana Boakye Esq. The NPP takes strong exception to the plain lies therein and without a shred of equivocation, state: 1. It is an affront to the apex court of the land for the NDC to suggest that the venerable, experienced and learned Justices of the Supreme Court (SC) who, over time, have demonstrated to be independent and objective are amenable to “INCITEMENT” by spokespersons of the 2nd Respondent. 2. The claim that Hon. Kojo Oppong-Nkrumah Esq. and Henry Nana Boakye Esq. seek to incite the SC against Dr Dominic Ayine is a blatant falsehood that must be rejected by Ghanaians. 3. The unfortunate comments from Dr Dominic Ayine that “for the Supreme Court to reduce the Petition into a single issue Petition is rather unfortunate and smacks of a predetermined agenda to rule against the Petitioner in this matter…we think that the court by this decision has not done the people of this country a great service. In the sense that Ghanaians are interested in knowing the truth…the Justices, today, have not given us a reason to believe that they want the people of this country to know the truth about what happened” were voluntarily uttered by Dr. Ayine and he is solely responsible for its consequences. 4. Dr Ayine has in the past been warned by the court for his conduct aimed at disparaging the Supreme Court. 5. The suggestion that the Lawyers and Spokespersons of the 2nd Respondent have been attacking, insulting and belittling the lead Counsel of the Petitioner is a plain falsehood, mischievously crafted to solicit public sympathy for the legal team of the Petitioner to conceal their poor performance, evident from the dismissals almost every major motion/application they have filed has suffered thus far. 6. The regrettable attitude of the lead Counsel of the Petitioner towards the bench has been a matter of public outrage and it is not correct to suggest that it is the lawyers or spokespersons of the 2nd Respondent that have made a case out of it. 7. It is utterly shocking for the National Communications Officer of the NDC who, over the years, have persistently insulted and disrespected President Akufo-Addo – someone whose legal and political achievements, the former may never be able to attain in his entire life – to lament and suggest that the spokespersons of the 2nd Respondent ought to show deference to seniors at the Bar when in actual fact, there hasn’t been any act of disrespect on the part of the 2nd Respondent’s team towards the Petitioner’s lawyers or spokespersons. 8. We encourage the NDC team to focus on explaining to their supporters why the statistics they earlier claimed were in their favour have been abandoned in court. 9. We also admonish them to desist from misinforming the public on developments in court and also refrain from their penchant to create a false impression that the court is biased against them. 10. The Spokespersons for the 2nd Respondent’s legal team will remain forthright and continuously inform the public on the truth about developments in court and not hesitate to respond adequately to the NDC propaganda. Thank you Yaw Buabeng Asamoah, Esq. (National Communications Director, NPP) Please contact Apexnewsgh.com on email apexnewsgh@gmail.com for your credible news publications. Contact: 0555568093
Ayine blocks questions from media after apologizing to Supreme Court
Former Deputy Attorney General Dr Dominic Ayine has apologized to the Supreme Court over his contemptuous comments against the justices of the high court regarding the ongoing election petition hearing. The Supreme Court Monday February 22, 2021 ordered the Bolgatanga East lawmaker to go and retract comments he had publicly made which the court deems contemptuous. He had earlier said in a media interview that the decision of the Supreme Court not to allow the petitioner reopen his case to subpoena chairperson of the 1st Respondent Electoral Commission, Jean Mensa, was “predetermined”. This, the court deemed scandalous and brought contempt charges against Mr. Ayine, a case which was heard Monday. During the hearing, a remorseful looking Mr. Ayine said he had written a letter to the court apologizing for his comments. Counsel for the contemnor Dr. Ayine also pleaded on behalf of his client asking the mercy of the court. The court, in accepting the apology of the contemnor acknowledged the fact he is a senior member of the bar but made the following consequential orders. “We accept the apology of learned counsel for the contemnor, we however order that the contemnor purges his contempt by retracting his scandalous on the very same medium before Thursday, 25th February, 2021, when the court will reconvene. The contempt proceedings is thus adjourned to Thursday, 25th February, 2021″, the ruled. After apologizing to the court on live television, Dr Ayine told the journalists that “In respect of this matter I won’t take any questions from the press.” 3news Please contact Apexnewsgh.com on email apexnewsgh@gmail.com for your credible news publications. Contact: 0555568093
National Security, Police shut down LGBTQ office on Akufo-Addo’s orders
Amidst the raging controversy regarding the opening of an office by members of the Lesbians Gays Bisexuals Transgender Queer and Intersexed community (LGBTQI), President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has ordered for the swift closure of same at Tesano in Accra. Mynewsgh.com reports that a combined team of heavily armed police accompanied by armed National Security officials in mufti trooped the alleged LGBTQI premises and ordered all operations and activities to cease with immediate effect. Additionally, all persons occupying the building were also asked to vacate the premises. According to mynewsgh, the closure was confirmed by ardent critic of the LGBTQ community who is the Executive Secretary of the National Coalition for Proper Human Sexual Rights and Family Values. Moses Foh-Amoaning had earlier called on the government to close down the newly opened LGBT office in Tesano. Further explaining the development, Mr Foh-Amoaning noted that his outfit, which comprises of the Christian Council and the Catholic Bishops Conference, the Muslim community as well as the traditional community would do everything in their power to fight the LGBTQI agenda in the country should President Akufo-Addo fail to heed the numerous calls to bring conclusion to the matter. In a related development, the Kwabenya Traditional Council in the GA East Municipality of the Greater Accra Region has threatened to burn a house at Ashongman, a community within the Kwabenya District and under the Traditional Council after the premises allegedly hosted a meeting of Lesbians, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer and Intersex community members. According to the Public Relations Officer of the Traditional Council who is also the Kwabenya Musuku Manhene, Nii Mensah Dza Nyomo 1 the said house hosted the members of the group on Wednesday, noting that it had not been the first. He lamented the occurrence as unacceptable during a press conference addressed by the Traditional Council in Accra. Ghanaweb Please contact Apexnewsgh.com on email apexnewsgh@gmail.com for your credible news publications. Contact: 0555568093
‘I went overboard, crossed the line; I apologise, retract’ contemptuous words – Ayine
Former Attorney General Dr Dominic Ayine has apologised for saying the Supreme Court has a “predetermined agenda” to rule against former President John Mahama, the petitioner in the ongoing election petition case. “I have looked at what I said that day and I have come to the conclusion that I went overboard, I crossed the line with respect to the remarks that I made”, Dr Ayine told the media on Monday, 22 February 2021 after the hearing. Dr Ayine’s apology came after the court asked him to do so. In court on Monday, the Bench reprimanded Dr Ayine for those comments and asked him to purge himself of the contemptuous words through the same media by which he made the earlier comments. Dr Ayine has also written an unqualified apology to the court and the Justices. Background Dr Ayine’s comment came after the apex court on Tuesday, 16 February 2021, ruled that Mr Mahama could not reopen his case for the sole purpose of subpoenaing the star witness of the Electoral Commission and using her as an “adverse” witness. In his media address, Dr Ayine said: “The Supreme Court asked itself a question, which we deem as a wrong question and answered that question. It said: why does the Chairperson need to account to the people of Ghana when she’s not a party to the suit”. “Now you’ll recall that counsel made it clear that one of the reasons we are in court is because of the unconstitutional conduct of Mrs Jean Adukwei Mensa as the returning officer under the Constitution and it is not true that there is only one issue that needs to be determined in this matter”, the lawmaker said. He continued: “I am surprised that the Supreme Court itself, having set down five key issues to be determined, is now reducing the issues to one, which is whether and extent to which the evidence that we have led, shows that no one got more than 50 per cent of the votes in accordance with article 53 of the Constitution”. “But we have made it abundantly clear in the petition that there were a number of infractions”. “We are contesting even the constitutionality of the declaration that was made. We are saying that she violated article 23 of the Constitution because she’s an administrative body”. “We have also said her exercise of discretion was contrary to article 296 of the Constitution”. “These are all germane issues under the Constitution and laws of Ghana and to reduce the petition into a single-issue petition, is rather unfortunate and smacks of a predetermined agenda to rule against the petitioner in this matter”. A spokesperson for President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s legal team, Mr Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, described Dr Ayine’s assertion as “unfair to the judicial system”. Speaking to the media, the former information minister said: “It is not fair to the judicial system, it’s not fair to our democracy, it’s not fair to the people of Ghana that when you lose an application because it is not grounded in law or because you’ve failed to meet the legal standard, then you come here and literally poison the minds of the public and make claims that they may be having a predetermined agenda. That’s scandalous of the court”. “When you make a legal argument and it is upheld, that one is good; when you make an argument and it doesn’t meet the threshold, then it means that they are wrong in law or that they have a predetermined agenda. “The Supreme Court has not reduced the petition to a single issue. We tried our best to transcribe the ruling and we’re waiting for the written version of it. The court said that the major issue, it didn’t say there was a single issue before it…” Classfm Please contact Apexnewsgh.com on email apexnewsgh@gmail.com for your credible news publications. Contact: 0555568093
BONGO: Out of 16 candidates contesting the DCEship position in Bongo, one out of these 3 stands a better chance
Even though the NPP National secretary of the governing New Patriotic Party John Boadu days back has cautioned those interested in the position of MMDCEs across the country to be wary of who will come vetting them without any formal announcement from government ahead of MMDCEs position, Bongo District is one of the districts that has gone through their vetting already since January 2021 apexnewsgh.com can confirm. Residents of Bongo in their various locations are now contemplating and as well debating who the best three contestants should be as far as the position DCEship is concerned. According to the information collated by Apexnewsgh.com through interviews and public opinion engagement in the Bongo District of the Upper East Region regarding the position of the District Chief Executive, it appears the three key names that are in the minds of the Bongo people to be appointed as the President’s representative in the District are as follows: Ayinbisa Peter Ayamga, Akurigo Eric and Diana Aburiya .A. The three names above according to the people of Bongo stand the chance of getting the position. However, the former District Chief Executive Peter Ayinbisa chances of maintaining the seat look bright because the majority of those who spoke to Apexnewsgh.com said they won’t be surprised if President decides to maintain Mr. Ayinbisa as their next DCE because he has shown good leadership and as well marketed the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) within the past 4 years as the Bongo District Chief Executive (DCE) now known as ‘Bongo Dubai’ since his administration. However, Mr. Akurugu Eric and Diana Aburiya have also been described by those we engaged as hardworking party members who have contributed their quota to the party in one way or the other. However, the President has the final say, even though these are views of residents Apexnewsgh.com/Ghana/Ngamegbulam Chidozie Stephen Please contact Apexnewsgh.com on email apexnewsgh@gmail.com for your credible news publications. Contact: 0555568093
Outstanding health director “widely” accused by BONABOTO honoured by GHS
The Ghana Health Service (GHS) has renamed its in-service training complex in the Upper East regional capital, Bolgatanga, after a former Upper East Regional Director of Health Services, Dr John Koku Awoonor-Williams. The honour comes two years after the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) had cleared him of a thievery allegation levelled against him in a petition lodged with some entities by BONABOTO, an ethnic association coined from the central part of the Upper East Region. The association— led by Vitus Azeem, Francis Atintono and Stanley Abopaam at the time— had accused Dr Awoonor-Williams of unlawfully taking five official vehicles from the Upper East Regional Health Directorate along with him upon his transfer from the region in 2015. The allegation was rooted in a claim made in August, 2016, by Dr Awoonor-Williams’ successor, Dr Kofi Issah, at a public event and during a media interview that five official vehicles could not be accounted for at the directorate after Dr Awoonor-Williams’ departure from the region. But a four-month-long investigation undertaken by Starr News (a subsidiary of the EIB Network) exonerated Dr Awoonor-Williams. Subsequently, an investigation conducted for 18 months by the CHRAJ—Ghana’s main anti-corruption organ— also affirmed in a 71-page report that BONABOTO’s imputation against Dr Awoonor-Williams and Dr Ebenezer Appiah-Denkyira (a former Director-General of the GHS who was similarly accused by BONABOTO) was not true. Dr Awoonor-Williams stands out among the 11 regional directors of health services the Upper East Region has had from 1972 up to the present time. Whilst he was in charge as the Upper East Regional Director of Health Services, he supported poor widows and orphans and gave scholarship assistance to a number of second-cycle and tertiary students in the region. He refurbished the 3-storey office block of the Upper East Regional Health Directorate and assisted many GHS staff to acquire their own vehicles under the Ministry of Health’s “Staff Vehicle Hire Purchase Scheme” as motivation to accept posting to hard-to-reach areas in the deprived parts of the region. Caption: Dr Awoonor-Williams transformed the Upper East Regional Health Directorate among his numerous achievements. He offered personal incentives to health professionals to accept posting to the Bawku Traditional Area and the rural corners of the region, renovated residential quarters for nurses, midwives and doctors in the region and constructed a 2-storey in-service training centre for the GHS. He introduced motorised tricycle ambulances to bridge ambulance gap in difficult-to-reach areas of the region, established a satellite campus for a “Degree in Public Health Nursing Programme” at Navrongo. He constructed an ultramodern walk-in cold room in the regional capital for storage of vaccines for the region, introduced the Mobile Technology for Community Health (MoTech) Initiative to help the region and Ghana attain the United Nations’ goals on infant fitness and maternal health. Dr Awoonor-Williams introduced the Ghana Essential Health Intervention Project (GEHIP) in the region through a proposal he wrote to the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation (DDCF) to help address maternal deaths and infant morbidity in three districts in the region. After that, he wrote another proposal that won a 9-million-US-dollar funding from the Korean International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) to achieve the same objectives of GEHIP across the region under what is known today in the region as the CHPS-Plus Project. He offered continuous support to the Ghana Red Cross Society, the Ghana Coalition of NGOs in Health, the Red Cross Mothers and several other local GHS partners to promote health in rural communities. Dr Awoonor-Williams also inspired and facilitated the expansion of the Upper East Regional Hospital (an ongoing project) in Bolgatanga and acquired a van for delivery of medicines and other non-consumables to health facilities across the region. He established a laboratory at the Regional Medical Stores at Zuarungu (capital of the Bolgatanga East District) for the preparation of mixtures and syrups. Even as a Regional Director of Health Services, he was also providing surgical services and clinical consultations at the Navrongo War Memorial Hospital, the Bongo District Hospital and the Upper East Regional Hospital as the region was plagued by an acute shortage of medical doctors. “Dr Awoonor has a passion for constructive change”— GHS Director In addition to these rare feats, he also undertook important research work that informed some national policies as well as staff development and capacity building programmes during the seven years he served as the Upper East Regional Director of Health Services. Dr Awoonor-Williams also supported poor patients financially and assisted several sick persons in the region to receive tertiary care at higher-level health facilities outside the region. Besides, he provided a fully furnished office and a restroom for drivers at the Regional Health Directorate and constructed a restaurant for the Regional Health Administration. He also facilitated construction of CHPS compounds in areas including the Builsa North Municipality, the Builsa South District, the Kassena-Nankana Municipality, the Kassena-Nankana West District, the Bawku Municipality, the Binduri District, the Bolgatanga Municipality and the Bongo District. “Dr Awoonor has championed a lot of programmes in Public Health, especially the CHPS. He has a passion of making constructive change or impact wherever he finds himself and he has strong collaboration with development partners in the area of health. He mobilised resources to build the in-service training centre some years ago as a training unit for healthcare staff among other good reasons. Management thought it wise during Dr Winfred Ofosu’s time to name the facility after him to inspire and to motivate people everywhere,” the new Upper East Regional Director of Health Services, Dr Emmanuel Kofi Dzotsi, said in a Starr News interview. Dr Awoonor-Williams was chased out of the region by an incited mob in October, 2015— a situation that reportedly made it impossible for him to hand over to his successor as properly as he should. He held a handkerchief to a tearful eye as he drove out of the deprived region (to which he had devoted everything for 7 years) immediately after he had handed over on a Monday morning.
Election Petition: Your reactions to rulings should be within the law – Atuguba warns
A retired justice of the Supreme Court William Atuguba has told parties in the ongoing election petition hearing that they should act within the framework of the law if they disagree with the court’s rulings. Justice Atuguba who was part of the bench that handled the 2013 election petition hearing indicated that “court decisions on matters of this kind have various impacts and effects, depending on the circumstances in each country. “What I will say is that even if anybody is aggrieved with the ruling, their reactions should be within the framework of the rule of law.” “The Supreme Court judges, including the Chief Justice, have been vetted and approved by Parliament, who are the representatives of the people, so it is important for all actors, particularly the lawyers and the adjudicators, to bear in mind at all times that the decision of the court involves the sovereign welfare of the people of Ghana,” he told the Daily Graphic. Ghana’s apex court is currently hearing the election petition brought before it by the Presidential candidate of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in last year’s elections. Lead counsel of the petitioner in the ongoing election petition hearing Tsatsu Tsikata has yet again made a case for the Supreme Court to reconsider its ruling on Tuesday, February 16. The seven justices of the apex court of Ghana unanimously dismissed the application of the petitioner, John Dramani Mahama, for the case to be re-opened in order to subpoena the Chair of the Electoral Commission, Ghana (EC), the First Respondent, to testify in court as a “hostile witness”. On Monday, February 22, Mr Tsikata questioned the basis of the ruling, saying the justices themselves were surprised when the First Respondent closed its case without calling its witness, Jean Adukwei Mensah, to testify. Mr Tsikata said the justices may have their reasons for the decision to dismiss the application but “it is the ruling of the panel that we are here to question”. “I am not in the minds of the panel,” he stressed. He further argued that for Mrs Mensa to have filed a witness statement meant that she was committed to mount the witness box. “We have no reason to say she was not telling the truth,” he said. For him, the Holy Bible should guide the nine justices reviewing the case, quoting Hosea 8:7. For him, the Holy Bible should guide the nine justices reviewing the case, quoting Hosea 8:7. It states: “For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk: the bud shall yield no meal: if so be it yield, the strangers shall swallow it up.” He concluded: “May each of the lordships decide based on your conscience and your judicial oath.” Counsels for the respondents – Justin Amenuvor for the First Respondent and Akoto Ampaw for the Second Respondent – asked the Court to set aside the review application since it does not merit its prayer. 3news Please contact Apexnewsgh.com on email apexnewsgh@gmail.com for your credible news publications. Contact: 0555568093
Why I’m moving permanently to Ghana – Stevie Wonder
Legendary American singer, Stevie Wonder, has hinted at relocating to Ghana permanently to escape racism. He disclosed this during his recent appearance on the Oprah Winfrey series ‘The Oprah Conversation’. According to the hitmaker, he is tired of racial injustice in America and he can’t watch his great-grandchildren beg for respect and value. “I want to see the nation smile again, and I want to see it before I move to Ghana,” he told Oprah. “I’m going to do that. I’m going to move permanently to Ghana.” “Because I don’t want to see my children’s children’s children’s have to say ‘Oh please, like me. Please respect me. Please value me. What kind of sh*t is that?” He added: “I want the world to get better. I want us to get beyond this place. I want us all to go to the funeral of hate. That’s what I want.” Please contact Apexnewsgh.com on email apexnewsgh@gmail.com for your credible news publications. Contact: 0555568093