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Brazil's second Health minister in a month resigns: “incompatibility” with Bolsonaro
Brazilian Health Minister Nelson Teich resigned on Friday after less than a month on the job over what an official said was “incompatibility” with President Jair Bolsonaro's approach to fighting the country's spiraling coronavirus crisis. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesTo lose one health minister may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose two looks like carelessness.
May 16th, 2020 - 09:09 pm - Link - Report abuse +1Jair Bolsonaro continues on a path of destruction playing roulette with the lives of his country people.
May 17th, 2020 - 12:02 am - Link - Report abuse 0Those who helped Bolsonaro to obtain Brazil's presidency (such as Sergio Moro) are as guilty as this criminal who does not blink while sacrificing the lives of so many Brazilians.
EM
May 17th, 2020 - 09:59 pm - Link - Report abuse 0With all due respect, how about informing yourself a bit better before making the ridiculous claim that Moro helped Bolsonaro get elected ?
Moro was quiet in his corner, doing his thing - putting corrupt SOBs behind bars, including your 9-fingered hero (which would have happened anyway, even if Moro weren't the presiding judge) - and only after Bolsonaro had been elected, he invited Moro to become Minister.....so, I ask you, did Moro campaign for Bolsonaro ? No, he didn't....you don't even know whom he voted for....
You can keep on worshipping 9-fingers if you want, but please don't make silly claims.
Just to set the record straight, for future reference, I do not condone Bolsonaro's public behaviour, nor his ideas on how to deal with the virus...
DT
Immediately after Teich took over as Mandetta's substitute, I told my wife, “he won't last aa month unless he forgets he's a doctor and decides to play politics”....said and done.
The new Minister - still to be appointed - will only survive if he's politician or a really shitty doctor.
All I'll say is that I'm glad that the STF gave Governors and Mayors the right to decide about isolation.
On a happier note, how's your daughter coming along ??
“Moro was quiet in his corner, doing his thing..”
May 18th, 2020 - 03:22 am - Link - Report abuse 0“Our man in Langley
In addition to the known relationship with the Department of Justice, there were long held, but unsubstantiated suspicions that Moro was “CIA” – a generalised term for US agent. Following his ascension to Justice and Security Minister, he accompanied new President Jair Bolsonaro to CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia. “No Brazilian president had ever paid a visit to the CIA, This is an explicitly submissive position. Nothing compares to this.” said former Foreign and Defence Minister Celso Amorim, interpreting the visit as tacit surrender of Brazilian sovereignty.”
There is another U.S. Military angle. Tom Shannon’s successor as US Ambassador to Brazil was Liliana Ayalde, who arrived in mid 2013 pledging to improve damaged relations between the two countries in the way of the revelations of NSA spying on the Dilma Rousseff Government. She left the post in January 2017, with Rousseff removed in a soft coup, yet with her own State Department insisting that Brazil’s democratic institutions were functioning correctly. Previously with USAID in Colombia and Bolivia, she was Ambassador to Paraguay until exposed in leaked State Department cables as privy to a coup plot against President Fernando Lugo. Ayalde left her Brazil post to join U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) as Civilian Deputy to the Commander and Foreign Policy Advisor.
Not only has Lava Jato’s centrality to regime change in Brazil been proven, so has the fact that its principal beneficiaries are US corporations. The latest leaks reveal not just what was in the open (but was being ignored) about US Department of Justice collaboration in Lava Jato, but beyond that how the Lava Jato taskforce itself was acting in the interest of US Corporations, many of whom represented by Council of the Americas, and some which openly backed Bolsonaro at the 2018 election.
Council of the Americas, also known as AS/COA (in association with sister organisatio
Impressive ! I don't deserve it......only need to mention Moro and the smelly cave dweller comes out of hiding to plug his usual shit.....“our man in Langley” just shows how far leftist sites and loads of BS can influence idiots....
May 18th, 2020 - 12:58 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Ah, was nearly forgetting...'I have shown what a bag of shite he really is'...
Bolsonaro is so far managing to “out Trump, Trump”, on this one.
May 18th, 2020 - 01:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Perhaps the new Health Minister will be more amenable to injecting disinfectant and irradiating people with UV.
Well it would certainly kill the virus!
Jack Bauer
In reply to your post in the, Covid-19 pandemic: thread. “I spent some time in Africa as well…based in Lagos”
I was born some 450 miles (as the crow flies) N.E. of Lagos and grew up there until the Civil War threatened, whereupon we moved to England and my Father went back to work for the MoD and shortly after we were posted to the Middle east.
Which came as some relief to me, as you alluded to, the weather in England was MURDURUSLY COLD, wind, rain even the sunshine, when you saw it, was cold, it certainly didn’t warm anything.
They told me this was “spring time” and it would be better in “summertime”, I somehow doubted it.
Also there were no scorpions, snakes/lizards were few and far between, spiders were all small and ants were tiny, termites non-existent, and all were harmless.
And the day was wrong length, and it kept changing as well!
Jack Bauer Proof less, Truth less, Psychological Transferee, & Nasty Little Pervert
May 18th, 2020 - 02:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0”just shows how(so) far..” You are unable to refute anything I've posted, no proof no truth. Since your humble opinion has no value since you yourself have revealed you are the biggest liar on this site.
http://en.mercopress.com/2018/04/04/brazil-s-conundrum-army-chief-twits-good-citizens-repudiate-impunity-and-respect-the-constitution/comments#comment486481
http ://en.mercopress.com/2017/07/12/brazil-former-president-lula-da-silva-found-guilty-of-corruption/comments#comment470714
http ://en. mercopress.com/2017/07/20/ex-brazilian-president-assets-and-bank-accounts-frozen/comments#comment471145
http ://en. mercopress.com/2018/03/20/lula-begins-tour-of-south-brazil-and-meets-mujica-but-it-was-a-bad-day-for-both-leaders/comments#comment485779
http ://en. mercopress.com/2018/11/22/brazil-s-secret-dealings-to-contract-cuban-physicians-to-work-in-the-more-doctors-program/comments#comment495051
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Council of the Americas, also known as AS/COA (in association with sister organisation the Americas Society), is an organisation created in the early 1960s by a cartel of US business and government figures, with the express objective of controlling political outcomes in Latin America to favour its members interests. It was involved in Brazil’s 1962 elections, 1964 Military takeover and the 1973 coup against Chile’s Salvador Allende.”
http ://www.brasilwire.com/how-the-united-states-killed-brazils-democracy-again/
JB
May 18th, 2020 - 03:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Glad to see you're still okay. The baby is doing well, growing quickly and mostly happy. She's learning to hold her head up and working on her smile. I am very sleep deprived - can't manage to do more than veg out in front of the TV half the time, hence the slow replies. She had her first set of vaccinations today, poor thing, so she's a bit unhappy.
“The new Minister will only survive if he's politician or a really shitty doctor.”
That's really a shame. Bolsonaro just can't resist sticking his oar in, no one wants to be constantly overruled and have their decisions interfered with. It's definitely a good thing the governors can make their own decisions.
Terry just can't resist, can he? How's it feel to have a stalker?
Lol at Pugol-H thinking the weather in England is murderously cold. It barely goes below freezing. Also adders aren't harmless and the red ants bite, but I'm sure they're nothing compared to insects in Africa. As for the day length, heh; don't you enjoy it getting light at 4am in summer and dark before 4pm in winter?
DT
May 18th, 2020 - 04:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Changing day length is something I never fail to notice in England, always reminds me that I’m here, if that makes sense.
I do like the summer evenings, with the long twilight which always seem, almost “mystical” to me.
Everywhere else I lived it was light, then it was dark and visa versa.
As for winter evenings, they remind me that like the Rastas, I an I Bredren, in a Babylon, not Mother Africa.
When you have only ever known 40+C, trust me, 20C is cold enough, anything below 10C is MURDURUSLY COLD, especially when combined with wind and rain.
Yeah, the long summer evenings are nice. And how in June you can see the glow in the sky all night and it never quite gets dark. And then at 3 or 4am the birds start singing and you know dawn is coming. I found it pretty disconcerting when I went to the tropics and it was fully dark within a few minutes of the sun going down. Seeing the moon lying on its back is pretty cool though.
May 18th, 2020 - 05:57 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Don't think I've ever been anywhere with temps over 40C. Sounds unpleasant. But even the 20s can be hot if you're out in the sun. One year we had a colleague from India come over for a couple of months and took him on a bike ride. It was a hot day in May and he turned up wearing a dark coloured tracksuit - thick trousers and long sleeves - and with no water. Dunno if he assumed the UK was always cold or just wasn't used to exercising outdoors. I gather cities in India are way too dangerous for cycling or jogging.
Pugol-H
May 18th, 2020 - 07:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“I was born some 450 miles N.E. of Lagos....there until the Civil War threatened…”. Sounds pretty close to Kano. Went there only a couple of times, but what impressed me was Onitsha, several hours (by car) east of Lagos. Onitsha (near Enugu) had been bombed to hell by the Federal forces during the Biafran War, 'n the destruction was still evident…when I went there (end 1978) looked like the war had ended the day before…
Unfortunately, Harold Wilson’s government had made sure the British public was kept kept in the dark regarding the atrocities it was contributing to. When it leaked out, it contributed to his well-deserved downfall.
Before I went, it was recommended I read Frederick Forsyth’s book, ‘The Biafra Story’. An eye-opener, and very useful to start to understand what had happened.
After being in WAfrica for about 3 months, with average temperatures of 40°C (in Burkina Faso was 50/51) I was called to the HO, in London...arrived end Feb., with a grey sky, rain, and 3° C ; needless to say, froze my balls off, as I didn’t have a coat, far less a sweater. So off I went, up & down Oxford Street looking for a heavy windjammer….finally found what I wanted in a pile of coats on the floor, with a ‘50% discount’ sign above them…what a relief !
I remember the lizards in Africa, some quite big (2 ft), 'n they would dart in/out of restaurants to take scraps of food off the floor…otherwise quite harmless.
DT
Bolsonaro was voted in due to his anti-left stance (to end the PTs corrupt reign), but mainly because he vowed he would not appoint politicians to high posts, in order to curb corruption…in the beginning it worked, but now, besides his reluctance to listen to those who know better than he does (health, economy, justice), he is dabbling in “old politics”, in order to get Congress to cooperate more, and I presume, to cut short any attempts to impeach him…
Forget Gollum, it is not worth the bog roll I throw away in my 21st century toilet.
DemonTree the slavish follower aka The Appendage
May 18th, 2020 - 08:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Oh here comes the bootlicking, third leg of the triad pirouetting back in again.
“How's it feel to have” Your fascist buddy who you failed to prove was not. Who provides his unproven opinion, and is simply shown by the published facts to be a deliberate untruth.
Jack Bauer Proof less, Truth less, Psychological Transferee, & Nasty Little Pervert
“Forget..” No No every time you post a lie, it will always be refuted by corroborated evidence.
“When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.” ― Socrates
“When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of Gollum” - Common Sense.
May 18th, 2020 - 09:13 pm - Link - Report abuse 0DemonTree the slavish follower aka The Appendage
May 19th, 2020 - 10:39 am - Link - Report abuse 0Jack Bauer Proof less, Truth less, Psychological Transferee, & Nasty Little Pervert
“Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness.”― Oscar Wilde
Opinions are like buts everyones got one. Just some stink more than others.
No proof no truth.
Jack Bauer
May 19th, 2020 - 01:08 pm - Link - Report abuse 0My parents lived in in Enugu for 2 years, in what was the “Eastern Region”, before I was born. My mother says there were some beautiful churches.
I once asked my Father why we lived in the north, when his job allowed him to live almost anywhere that was connected, he said “strict Muslim law boy, I’m away most of the week I need to know you’re all ok. The crime rate in Lagos, Ibadan or Enugu doesn’t bear thinking about.”
Wars in Africa are never pretty, in the case of the Biafran war what is often forgotten is that it was the Ibos (so called Biafrans) who began both the massacres and the war.
It was often portrayed as a “Struggle for independence”, “Biafra trying to break away”, it wasn’t, they didn’t to start with. It began with an Ibo led coup where they murdered the elected Prime minster and most of his cabinet (all the Northerners). Then they sent death squads into the North to kill everyone and anyone who could be a threat, starting with Army officers, the intelligentsia and any local leaders. Not forgetting their families and servants as well.
Most of my family’s and my friends were dead within 3 months of us leaving.
This triggered riots in the North and the counter coup, only then did Biafra declare independence and try and break away. Even then it was Biafra that launched the first military action, with an offensive across the Niger delta into the Western region, to punish the Yoruba for not joining them, they claimed to secure the delta, the Yoruba thought otherwise.
The Federal side, at that time, were simply not capable of mounting any kind of military action, they had no officers.
They also tried to portray it as a religious war, it wasn’t, it was purely tribal. Muslims only fought on one side, Christians fought on both sides and the leaders of both sides Gowon and Ojukwu were both Christians.
It wasn’t a problem living in the North as a Christian I can tell you, it could be being an Ibo the tribal tensions were such.
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May 19th, 2020 - 01:49 pm - Link - Report abuse 0For my Father it was particularly sad, he knew the PM Abubaka and many of the dignitaries/military personnel where we lived and across the North. However half his technicians were Ibo, my parents attended several Ibo weddings and christenings. My Father certainly spoke better Ibo than Hausa.
Lizards that size are very useful, our house was on stilts and my mother always put bowls of water and meat underneath, to ensure a healthy population of lizards and thereby no crawling insects got into the house.
Haven’t read ‘The Biafra Story’ I’ll give it a look, always advisable to know the other side of the story.
Pugol-H
May 21st, 2020 - 06:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Eastern Nigeria was richer than the other 2 regions. The Ibos were better educated than the others - Yorubas, in the west, 'n the Hausa-Fulani, north. One of my colleagues and a good friend, an Ibo named Henry, had studied Economics in London and had lived there for 8 years….he was not too fond of the Yorubas, and it was easy to see why.
Don’t recall whether the book portrays the Ibos as the initial aggressors, but after the war started, bloodshed in the East was appalling. But interesting to learn your take on the motives behind it….reckon that tribalism has always, and always will, play a dominant role in African politics, especially when there are riches involved (oil).
Perhaps the Biafran strategy to reach their ultimate goal of independence, was to start by eliminating the more powerful who would no doubt oppose it. Remember reading about Colonel Ojukwu, one of the central figures in the war.
In April 1980 was in Monrovia, ‘n remember the uprising led by Samuel Doe, to topple Tolbert’s government. Tolbert (along with his full cabinet, 'n families) was assassinated on the 12th…street violence was rampant, shops were being ransacked, and I quickly realized I had to get out, asap. On the 10th, me and a group of Americans who were staying at the Intercontinental (hotel up on the hill), managed to get to the airport. We caught the first international flight out….to the US; on the 12th, recall hearing the news on Tolbert’s assassination. My agent in Liberia, a Hungarian fellow, went into hiding ; he managed to get out about a week later, ‘n went to Freetown. He told us about his horrifying experience trying to reach the border, and how the Liberian government officials had been shot /quartered on the beaches. Your right, the wars in Africa, are somehow more savage than most others.
While in Kano, recall the Tuaregs and the Muslim influence, although I never encountered any problems there.
Gollum
Tell me, how’s 'Bosie', your inflatable doll ?
Jack Bauer Proof less, Truth less, Psychological Transferee, & Nasty Little Pervert
May 22nd, 2020 - 12:48 am - Link - Report abuse 0“Tell me, how’s” your transference/projection its going very well, as you keep resurrecting
your playthings.
”Remember to kiss Long-Dong goodnight” I thought struck, me as to who or what is this you're babbling about? So I googled it. Lo and behold, now you've exposed as to how you have been spending your recreational time, you nasty little pervert Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha”
https://en.mercopress.com/2020/04/04/covid-19-pandemic-brazilians-have-greater-trust-in-the-health-than-in-president-bolsonaro/comments#comment508063
At that time Nigeria was a country of approx. 60m people, 30m Hausa/Fulani, 10m Ibo and 10m Yoruba, with another 10m assorted others. The Northern candidate won the elections it was as simple as that.
May 22nd, 2020 - 04:27 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The first election after independence, 1964 I think, my Father said for some inexplicable reason the Ibos actually believed their candidate was going to win it. Of course he didn’t. The tension ramped up from there.
The irony is that had the Ibo just seceded from the union and not tried and take over the whole country they would have had a much better chance of succeeding.
The killing of Abubaka, difficult to overstate the reverence in which he was held in the North, and the purges of their leaders in the north, pretty much sealed the fate of the Ibos.
In the beginning, the Ibos thought the Yoruba would side with them. However the Yoruba were too divided amongst themselves to do anything either way, it was the murder of their regional president and senior military officers by Ibo death squads, followed by the attack of the Biafrans into the western region at the start of the shooting war that really brought them into the war on the Federal side.
The Ibo and Yoruba were probably never too fond of each other to start with, this was then exacerbated by the war. The Hausa/Fulani and the Ibo basically hated each other.
Ojukwu was the wartime leader of Biafra, an Ibo general called Ironsi led the coup then he was killed in the counter coup which brought Gowon to power. Then Ojukwu took over in the east.
Pugol-H
May 22nd, 2020 - 05:46 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Thanks for the information....sounds logical, and knowing that every tribe hated every other, not difficult to see why it led to what it did.
When I arrived in Lagos, end 1978, immigration process was a little strange....I was questioned and seemed that if the official was not pleased with your answers, he could refuse entry.
On the plane I had met a guy from Cotia Trading (big Brazilian company trading in WAfrica) and he made a point of telling me how I should behave when being 'interrogated'....when we arrived, he went on ahead of me and I overheard the immigration officer ask him why he was coming to Nigeria, and the Brazilian's answer, “Ah, I hope to sell a lot of Brazilian goods to you, etc...”.....the official stared own at him - because he was seated behind a kind of elevated pulpit - and said, “you go back to Brazil, you not welcome”....stamped his passport and two guards immediately led him away, probably to put him on the same plane back to Brazil. My turn was next, and I quickly realized the guy from Cotia Trading had said the wrong thing....so when I was asked what I wanted with Nigeria I simply said I was there to promote Nigerian exports to Brasil and Argentina. A big smile on his face, and I was given permission to stay for 6 months. A company car and driver was there to meet me, and the drive into town, at high speed, was pretty uneventful, until a car about 100 metres ahead of us, ran over a man crossing the highway.....the shocker was that no one stopped.
Upon arrival at the office, up a really smelly (sewage) alley way off Broadstreet, I couldn't believe the 'organized' chaos.....to make mattters worse, Varig (Brazilian airline) had lost one of my two suitcases, the one with my clothes....so I had my business material and the clothes I was wearing. Discovered Varig had forgotten it in Rio, and was sent a week later....a bit late really, as I started to travel around before it arrived.....[to be continued next post].
Please continue.
May 22nd, 2020 - 08:50 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Pugol-H
May 22nd, 2020 - 09:41 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Thanks. Only option was to look for suitable clothes, but that was kind of difficult, and had no intention of wearing the traditional local dress.....so off I went to Onitsha, with no extra clothes.....when I got there it had been raining like hell, the storm drains had flooded over, making it unavoidable to walk in watery sewage up my ankles .....after a few hours, my nose got used to it. The hotel looked like an old two-story army barracks - probably had been - and to crown the day, no running water....despite the flooding outside.
At night I'd hang my trousers up to dry , and next morning would try to shake off the dry, crusty crap below the knees....my shirt already had sweat circles under the arm pits, and I realized that no one would notice, as everyone smelled the same....in the end, it was almost funny.....one week later, walking along a street with a few bombed out buildings, I saw a shop with shirts hanging in front....walked in and bought half a dozen bus driver shirts, with epaulettes......back in Lagos, I retrievd my mislaid suitcase and felt like I'd won the lottery.....there are quite a few funny stories, which made most people burst into laughter when told.....it wasn't all that funny then, but nowadays, some are hilarious....
That's all for now...dinner is on the table....
Jack Bauer
May 23rd, 2020 - 02:40 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Thanks for a most entertaining story, although it was many years before you were there, it makes me glad I was in the North.
It sounds like things, especially infrastructure, had deteriorated more than somewhat since my parents lived in the east.
Journeys in Africa are often “adventures” to say the least, I particularly liked the “bus driver shirts”.
However in the North, it would have immediately attracted attention, were they stolen???
A serious matter for anyone, probably more so for an Ibo.
Pugol-H
May 23rd, 2020 - 08:13 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“However in the North, it would have immediately attracted attention, were they stolen???”
Sorry....didn't get it....was 'what stolen ? (the shirts ??)
Jack Bauer
May 24th, 2020 - 02:24 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Yes the shirts, where did bus drivers uniforms come from, if not stolen from the bus company, if they were sold off as surplus and legitimately bought then there would be a verifiable receipt.
If not, stolen, which is serious there.
Pugol-H
May 24th, 2020 - 05:03 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Couldn't say if stolen or legit.....they were light blue 'n were hanging from a cord stretched out in front of the shop....reason why they caught my attention.
I didn't ask for a receipt as had been advised to forget such silly details when buying stuff off a street vendor....'n the shop didn't seem much different. I was also told to never accept the first price...haggle always.
It was interesting however, to see what was being sold on the streets in Lagos - usually on makeshift tables perched on planks spread precariously over the storm drains - found a lot of gadgets 'made in China', which were beginning to invade the market, 'n at ridiculously low prices. Soon found out a lot of it was contraband.....but when in Rome, do as the Romans do... I think I adapted pretty quickly, as my survival instincts kicked in.
One more story : Henry (my Ibo friend) and I had just left a client who, amongst other things imported cheap perfume....Henry had sniffed one and liked it, so it was given to him as a gift. While walking down the middle of the street, with storm drains on either side, Henry dropped the perfume....both of our reactions were to grab it before it hit the ground, but we just managed to flip it into the air again and it landed plonk in the middle of the sewer....we looked at each other, as if to say, 'well, that f****d it'.....just then a boy of about 10, stuck his hand in the pasty muck, pulled it out and handed it to Henry....needless to say, he told the kid to keep it. Never a dull day.
Another: stealing sure was serious....one day, while stuck in traffic on an overpass, people got out of their cars and ran to the side to see what was happening below....we jumped out the car to take a look....a guy had just been caught while stealing, and before the cops arrived (?), they pinned him down by putting tyres over his shoulders 'n legs....then they soaked him in gasoline and set him on fire... pretty shocking but that's how they did it.
My father told me in the East (Ibo country), back in the day, the penalty for stealing was the whole village gathered round and started to clap, the thief was made to dance carrying whatever they had stolen, and were beaten every time they stopped or collapsed until they started again. This continued until they couldn’t stand, then an Iron spike was driven into the top of their head.
May 24th, 2020 - 06:14 pm - Link - Report abuse 0As he said you can’t really lock up a mud hut, this was done as a deterrent.
In the North they usually, but not always, cut your hand off.
Pugol-H
May 25th, 2020 - 02:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 0A pretty efficient form of justice....once caught, it's the last time......but unfortunately, others believe they can still get away with it.
In the north, to be expected, given the Muslim influence.
If they did that with our Congressmen, 75% would have only one hand....
I saw 3 other killings by fire ; what amazed me more than shocked me, was to see how the the people danced around and cheered...gave me some insight into local customs.....but it only applied to petty thievery, even the presidents were known as Mr. 1% (an illegal right to take 1% of the oil revenue)...
One of our offices was on the outskirts of town... in a sparsely occupied area with lots of empty fields/lots.....one Monday morning, we arrived good and early, and as soon as we got out of the car we noticed there was a very strange smell, similar to burned bbq, in the air - not at all nice....when we climbed the stairs to the 2nd floor, we could see a pile of bodies smouldering on the other side of the wall......police eventually arrived, and we were told that locals had rounded up about 20 Ghanaians who were there illegally, killed and burned them...a warning to illegal immigrants who were supposedly taking jobs from Nigerians...
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