Yesterday, in Saturday’s newspaper (I didn’t know there was a Saturday news paper before today) they announced a price increase on all tolls, 10x the existing price! Please imagine paying 50 cents to go work, 50 cents to return and then the toll goes to $5.00, each way!! What could be more ludicrous? Only the way they have increased petroleum in the past.

This is Ghana’s financial planning. In Ghana we pay more for gas than one does in America, higher rates for telecommunications and internet, more for all household appliances, cars and other imports thanks to import taxes and yet we are paid less than 25% of the average salary in Europe and the rest of the West. But they expect us to survive in such an environment absent of corruption? How in the world do these financial planners figure the average Ghanaian can factor the added expense to their daily, weekly or monthly expenses, without taking food out of our brother’s plate? The answer is simple, they don’t expect anything but the domino effect that will stop at the bottom of the food chain, hitting the poorest the hardest. Case and point, tro-tro drivers unaware of the price increases pulled over and changed the rate to passengers on the spot, causing pandemonium on many a public transport. But if there should have been any real opposition, you know, like someone protesting the injustice, the police were eagerly waiting the first sign, only to stomp it out like they do. Instead, our people continued smiling and suffering as they paid the new extortion rates.

It seems like just yesterday I heard someone say they are putting chips in the American passports.  I took the news with relative calm because I, like everyone else, have been totally desensitized by the magnitude of the matrix, the effectiveness of its propaganda machine and its subtle approach.  After all, a passport is not mandatory.   But now I just learned that Ghana has employed the same system.  All Ghana passports will now be biometric, complete with your own personal chip, effective yesterday.  If that isn’t enough, the big debate on the airwaves is whether or not the government has the right to force our telecommunications companies to register every chip in our phone, matching it with our biometric driver’s license or the newly required national I.D., which will be biometric and mandatory for every one in Ghana.  All of these impositions were expected Babylon-side, but I thought we had more time in Zion.  At this rate, they are less than a decade from forcing the chip into the body.

The question becomes more basic.  At what point do we draw the line.  The Gideon is obviously coming from all angles, there is no clear escape, but there will clearly be more optimal places to weather the storms.  As we know, their objective is to make it impossible to buy or sell without the mark of the beast (chip), thus impossible to feed our babies.  Speaking of which, they have flooded our market with genetically modified foods and seeds. All this withstanding, I can still figure ways for us to manoeuvre. .

First and foremost, we must tend to our gardens.  Not only must we make use of abundant lands, but we must cooperate with like minded farmers who grow organically and start by trading by-weekly or monthly.

Second, we must keep all liens off of our property.  Now they are offering Ghanaians the same damn loans they used to bankrupt American citizens.  Low interest rates that fluctuate.  Mind you, 95% Ghanaians own their property (house and car) outright.  Most build and pay the cost as they go along.  Five years ago you the word mortgage wasn’t even a part of the local vocabulary.  Now it is the latest come-up.  Anyone in debt is a slave to their debtor, and a caretaker, not a owner.

With our roof and shelter secure, we must employ fronts to own and operate our  businesses.  People who will readily accept the chip and operate bank accounts for their own benefit.  This will be a bit of a challenge for those who don’t know the art of managing human resources, but not one without several blueprints to study from.

For transportation we can hire a driver, but eventually we should seek other alternatives.   I want horses.  Equestrian sports are a nice draw and decent hobby.   Once the family is comfortable riding, then, if in the distant future we have to trod off-road, we would be able to move much faster than the pedestrians and far away from the road blocks and their thieving police or military.

For security I suggest dogs bred for that purpose.  Pits are my preference, so I will have a Pit farm.  Pups draw about $300-$500, plus they put some distance between the police and thieves.   Body traps, strategically located on your property will also insure intruders are unsuccessful in their aims.

I haven’t figured the air travel.  Africa is basically borderless so land I can penetrate, but the friendly skies may be a challenge.  Suggestions are welcome.

My point is to show that we stand a better chance of survival at home than in their meticulously designed matrix.  More importantly, the hour has drawn nigh.

Under the leadership of Toussaint  Lóuveture, Haitians led the first revolt against their slavers.  Blood thirsty as the Europeans were (are), blood alone could satiate their appetite, so blood they got, just not the blood they wanted.  Accustomed to submission and domination, the French were surprised when their own wickedness visited them on that fine day.  Their blood colored the sea as far as the eye could see, a lesson they would never forget nor ever forgive.  One pastor spoke their truth when he claimed this was the Haitian’s judgment for that defeat way back when.  I think he is right, but it was not God’s call, but the minion missionaries, scientists and soldiers in the army of the empire which inflicted this catastrophe.

In Ghana, two days after the quake in Haiti, there was a false alarm, started, who knows where?  But I will guess, at the American Embassy.  The rumour claimed that there was a earthquake about to hit.  The rumour started just after 1:30 am and by 2:00 am, half the population in the capital was outside, in anticipation of this quake.  Cute.

The best news to come from this event was the offer by Senegal’s President Abdoulaye Wade, who said Haitians would be provided land if they wish to repatriate and start a fresh.  Wow, what a wonderful suggestion and practical solution to a people displaced and suffering every possible oppression at the hands of the West.  Might that start a trend?  Next time there is a Katrina, maybe Ghana Airways will swoop down airlift survivors to ZionJ!

Then again, since it is clear they don’t have any plans of going anywhere just yet, we are forced to endure the consequences of them driving property prices through the roof.  Now that oil has surfaced in Ghana, previously affordable lands and rent have literally been multiplied out of the average Ghanaian’s reach.  Even before oil we were experiencing a constant growth in property rates higher than our Western counterpart. It has gotten to the point that buying in Accra is virtually out of the question, with empty plots going for an average of $75,000 in most decent areas.  Rents are also peaking every day, both residential and commercial, nothing sits, it’s a sellers market.

This news may be discouraging to those just coming in, considering that hard as it is to afford repatriation,  now it’s becoming unaffordable.  Have no illusions, if they could have it their way, we will not be able to afford a parcel of land in our own homeland, thus if you who know what I know then you would be about getting yours while you can.  Time is not on your side.

Fortunately there are still lands on the outskirts of Accra, the capital city, where one can acquire for $3,000 to $5,000.  Thus one can utilize the bulk of their savings on the buildings that will house your family and provide income.   Naturally, it will be many years before these lands are on par with those in Accra, but it will only be another 2-3 years before these lands double in price, which means getting half of what you could afford.  However, if you started now, by buying a piece of land and engaging a contractor to build upon it over the next year or 5 years, what ever works within your budget, then you can realistically and practically provide your family with the security of a safe haven in heaven.

Another suggestion is that you buy land that can be both residential and commercial.  Instead of just building a home for yourself, build a home with guest rooms or build structure that houses 4 self contained apartments and stay in one.  Or you could build a small office complex, with say 4 stores on the ground level, 8 office suits on the first 2 floors and a loft on the top.  The money you will earn in rent will sustain you the way nothing else can, allowing you to comfortably get your feet wet, without being hung out to dry before you can get firmly planted in the land.

But as with everything, move cautiously when buying land.  For information on the process click our article on Buying Land in Ghana.