hello everyone my name is Richard before
I begin this presentation I’d like to
remind everyone all put to not just
worth more than presents in this
auditorium now all you’re gonna hear
about me today things that are clear in
the past and no one should judge me
or I don’t expect to see the Norwegian
police outside the auditorium at the end
of this presentation I would also like
to be put to notice to everyone presence
in this auditorium that issue of gangs
in Ghana is not as huge or prevalent as
in certain countries such as the United
States of America Mexico or Italy
according to Wikipedia bag refers to a
group of recurrent individuals we take
charge of our territory have a leader
indulge in illegal activities when I was
ten years old my parents got separated I
was left to my dad and my two sisters my
big sister went to boarding school
leaving my kid sister alone and myself
in the household since my dad was a
reverend pastor he had to attend a lot
of religious programs I started hanging
out with a friend of mine named
Nathaniel Nathaniel was skinny cute
funny and he always had my back
he was one of the best friends I’ve ever
had
I said hanging out with Daniel even to
the point of going to his house and
meeting his friends
Nathaniel looked at the world boarding
at town to limit us away from Italian
lived in either go to Spain Tennessee
the boys in Italians neighborhood had a
bunch of stronger than friendship it was
more like a brotherhood the leader of
this brotherhood or gang I should call
it was an ensign in so Cucina High
School in the second year in the
beginning I wasn’t considered to be a
part of this group awesome
part of this Brotherhood I was just
nataniel’s friend now it’s Mac’s friend
the East economy they used to frighten
me so cheap stuff to me a really high
prices cause I wasn’t part of the 7 of
brotherhood but then with time a Gordon
went I was just it this group of friends
and dogs and illegal activities to just
stealing food for internet scams credit
card fraud Sakawa
and forgery vandalism frightened for
those of us who know hosokawa is suck
away as an interaction between a fetish
priest and a client where the priest
promises the client protection or
thanks bad someone might ask again its
core skills to be morally perverse I’ll
talk more about that later or you must
know why these kids joined gangs in the
first place some of them who were born
into the neighborhood some of them are
born into the wrong body they had no
other option to handle these group of
friends its ally with them I have no
friends at all some of them joined gangs
for my reason I joined the gang because
I wanted to overcome prejudice people
strong to be this nerd people saw me to
be this kid he could mess with and go
scot-free
I didn’t like that feeling I wanted to
look hard I wanted to be hard so I
joined this group of friends well
someone join a gang dude asked again
easy money it’s just a picture of my
friends in high school this is not a
kind of so you know
this is a conversation that how do my
friend whose thing I’m not going to
mention he told me in this conversation
that he has upgraded from internet fraud
to credit card fraud in this email he
told me that there’s someone in the
United States of America that he’s
working with and that that person always
said well via Ghana Cedis and that he
wants me to call that person and
threaten the person so the person sent
the mother to him he isn’t gonna right
now the friend of mine are talking about
his in Ghana right now and he’s probably
richer than all the teachers in this
school is probably sure that everyone in
this school money that comes by so quick
money that comes by so fast that you
can’t even explain worked for 30 minutes
and Nick wouldn’t be in u.s. dollars
someone might seem exaggerated but it’s
this is a picture of a guy at forward 20
hours in junior high school a second
young junior high school why we show you
this picture this is the normal human
being I’ve fought with in my second
injury he was a third year he quit
school after junior high school and
indulged in internet fraud and credit
card fraud with his gang and look at him
now he’s shafted all around the world
this is a picture he took probably in
Las Vegas he is so rich money that comes
by so easy why don’t I join a gang if I
this is a picture of another friend of
mine working his put it in work equality
for 30 minutes or for an hour and then
you could make money once I join a gang
make money so easily the most and final
reason why dating people joined gangs is
that sense of brotherhood that sense of
protection that he had is the best
feeling a man could ever ask for
I remember this one time we’re at a
beach and I caused a fight with someone
someone taller than me someone bigger
than me I musta fight already but then
all I could see was that my friends came
up from behind me and fought for me this
that fights it for me I won the fight
without lifting a finger
this is the best feeling that man could
ever ask for seriously you’re not this
tall big guy coming to beat you up with
any friends fight for you if you like
your Akane why would I join a gang
invited you feel protected if I feel
wronged someone might say that you’re
going talking about move our body why
you saying that they are gangs in Ghana
just so you know towns such as the
Shepherd tishy Konishi new mercy fight
Zumba’s and parts of Tamra in Ghana have
gangs which are more dangerous than the
gang that I grew up with
that’s they endured worse activities
that the gang that I grew up with did
going back to the question I raised in
the beginning I had gangs bad as I said
it makes the youth morally perverse I
remember the first time I saw someone
get hit in the head with an inanimate
object my heart almost literally jumped
out of my body I was so scared that
someone has been hit in the head with a
metal someone has been hit in the head
with a bottle
there’s blood oozing out well then it
became a normal thing to me we used to
find out the guys sequestered she we
used to fight whenever playful for
almost every time we played football
there was a fight and things happened I
lost that sense of feeling that
conscience that I had was gone then I
started hitting people in the head with
stuff and it felt good trust me it might
sound insane but when you lose you when
you lose what will it become already
perverse you
your feelings you hit someone in the
head with something you liked to someone
you steal from someone you rub someone
and you don’t feel anything bad that’s
what’s happening to the kids in Ghana
right now they go to someone with a
knife bring your money if you don’t
bring them we need to cut you up the
teacher all you have from you and they
don’t feel bad after all senses are gone
why it earns bad again I couldn’t do a
discussion that harder one of my friends
respect to Korea or Bashir’s if she is
here she proved to me that the GDP of a
country immensely increases when kids
are in school imagine that was fifty
fifteen to twenty kids and every
community in Ghana quit after high
school do not further the education of
the high school or even some of them
after junior high school what do you
think is happening to the GDP of the
country what do you think establish the
economy of the country the last and
final reason widening gangs are bad is
because before it takes the network
village but was not it a friend of mine
died his name was Paris
according to a 20-megaton Burton garden
means ears he had really big ears and he
had this thing he did with his bag where
he moved the strap along this he’s with
it and it’s dead now
I asked different members of the gang I
have different friends of mine how did
Emma Skye equally telling me different
stories no one no two people have told
me the same story about how Alice died
but truth of the matter is he’s dead
he’s gone how many more kids do we want
to lose there’s a piece of advice I want
to give to God any parents African
parents when your kids come back from
soccer practice late when they come back
from school lady ask them where they
went
let let them tell you what they were
doing
the only now we’ll send groups of
friends they don’t want them to hang
that would stop them
my dad didn’t have time for us he used
to attend another religious meetings it
was me my kids to spend the house though
I cheated the house office if she was
nothing because I thought I was the king
of the house if she met with me up to
beat her up or have my friends beat her
if your kids are hanging out with Cooper
friends they don’t want to have that
would stop them let them know the
importance of education and I’ve also
encouraged the government’s back home
the government to provide these kids
with jobs he didn’t want to go to school
just give them something to do instead
of having them hang out with friends
that will ruin your life
my name is Rachel affirm me I was once part of the gang