He said 'Ghana" PHD. So he respects a Dutch or American PHD holder but with his Dutch passport and his menial job he has a better life than a Ghanaian living in Ghana with a PHD gotten from one of the Ghanaian universities.
All Kofi is trying to say is the benefits that comes with his new Citizenship. He'll never have to pay for medical care etc. Yes he's a toilet cleaner but the guy and his children will never go hungry and if what he earns is below national average, the system will top it up for him. The guy is an European Citizen now and will enjoy the same privileges in all member Countries and am talking about 27 of them. His Dutch passport is not just for travel, it is a resident / work permit in any of the Union with the same privileges. Dr Bawumiah told Ghanaians GH card is very important than 1000 interchanges but after covid he was in London for treatment. The man never used Korle Bu with his GH card. I honestly do not know the benefits of a PHD holders in GH apart from the tittles and status but can still sleep on the floor at 37Military Hospital because there's no bed with all the knowledge acquired. Kofi's statement is outrageous and provocative but I fully understand where he's coming from.
Even Bawumia at point in time he was holding British passport. The whole argument is about the benefits that comes with PhD against Dutch passport. He is not against PhD holding.
Very interesting panel, Felicia is very smart and intelligent, I hope she run for president someday to change Ghana. Having a Dutch passport is better than anything you can think of in Ghana. Watching from NY
@@roseanne1466 of course there are CEOs in Europe with PhD who are rich. Does the riches man in the world Elon Mask, have PhD? What about Africa's richest man? Or even Bill Gate? He had an honorary doctorate. Even Mayweather( boxer 🥊)is richer than many PhD holders... PhD is for acquiring knowledge not riches. PhD can also make you rich anyway.
Mr. happiness has a point but he should leave the PhD holders alone. Most PhD holders in Ghana are not poor. Most of the lectures enjoy what they do. Finding riches is different from PhD. I think Mr. Happiness has problem with a country called Ghana, not PhD.
@@abdulmajeedpiyam6199 You are right. The subject should be "a country called Ghana not PhD; because even the "unborn child" in Europe don't stress to live a normal life
Mr. Atsu’s introductory remarks were so misguided, unrealistic, and unfortunate - it extends (and frankly avoids) the grief of the ordinary Ghanaian by negating Kofi Garb’s intelligence and purpose for sharing his experiences. Ghana is struggling economically - review any publicly sourced data, from Ghana’s own Statistical Service to African/global market indicators, and you would know how many people are genuinely interested in how to make ends meet for themselves and their families. ‘Mr. Happiness’ is correct: Ghana’s leadership, private sector, and institutions of public trust must improve rapidly to meet the ever-evolving, competitive market conditions. Ghanaians are wonderful people; however, at times, the leaders and so-called higher-learners are disconnected from the real need to grow the nation…FOR THE PEOPLE. One Love! Less self, less tribe.
The lady's first few words absolutely demolished the guys "academic" argument. What is the purpose of getting the PhD. What change have the PhD holders done in Ghana?
Ghanaians are always angry about the wrong things. The Kofi dude wants us to question our leaders, leaders who have fleeced us to a really long time, this has nothing to do with education😂. Felicia hit the nail right on the head.
He should direct those questions to the leaders but not to disrespect your own countrymen because you have left and having some soft life somewhere. If he could not earn even a first degree in Ghana then that should tell him those few who have reached the PhD level have so well to even earn it in Ghana. It's leadership that has failed us and a PhD is a academic qualifications and doesn't represent leadership.
Get your facts right please. Monthly salary of an E1 is not even up to 2000 dollars the last I checked, talk less of a trainee. That being said Kofi is still right.
Ghanaians majority of them always comparing their country with another countries. Learn this: Ghana just needs to work hard and respect your own little contribution to the development of your country. Comparison with other countries will take nowhere.
Atsu, you are wrong, your social security number, justify that , you have legal documents, 2. Building credit is not about money, it’s about buying and being able to pay back and that helps you to built your credit. Phone can be delivered to you and you will pay in installment bases. Albert Einstein, once said, education does not make you intelligent, smart or rich but it gives you the ability to think and do critical analysis. ❤❤❤
Tell me which country's leaders have been able to fix their country's economy since the pandemic. Show me any country that's doing a 5 percent gdp since covid struck. You guys talk by heart. America only have to print more dollars to prop up their economy increasing their public debts into trillion of dollars which even occasioned a warning from from the IMF.
How much is the Ghanaian PHD holder paid? How much is the toilet cleaner in the Netherlands paid? Just check that and you will understand want he really meant
Atsu is being prideful. Who is supposed to clean our toilets? That's the problem we have in Ghana. We pick and choose which job is decent. That is why people are poor in Ghana.
Have we as a country benefited from all the good stuff that comes along with holding a PHD? Am sorry a foreign passport is not only for identification but comes with more goodies. Maybe in Ghana the card for identification serves only 1 purpose. The lady is a smart woman.
Mr Happiness is talking about the BENEFITS that comes with a HOLLAND PASSPORT and the BENEFITS that comes with a PHD degree in Ghana. Comparism between: 1. BENEFITS of HOLLAND PASSPORT. 2. BENEFITS of a PHD degree in Ghana.
To be honest what can the whole Ghana offer anyone? Really to my opinion Dutch passport is better than the whole Ghana and not only PHD. I agreed with the guy totally. Please don't compere. PHD in Ghana is like a toilet paper. Just look at the people we gave our country to handle. Most of them have PHD but look at what they are doing with the PHD. Really Ghana PHD is a toilet Paper 🧻.
When he buys a flight ticket with his Netherlands passport he can travel to hundreds of countries. Can you buy a flight ticket with the Ghanaian passport and travel to any country or hundreds of countries without applying for a visa
Ask him again? I live in germany since 2003 and with my Ghana passporti was always frustrated when i wanted to travel with my german wife and kids to our holidays destinations. I was frustrated to the extent that even serbian immigration office in germany nearly rejected me visa eventhough i have my german resident permit in my passport. The ghanaian passport frustrated me so i had to neutralize to take the german passport. Now i can travel to over 200 countries without applying for Visa. We went to the dominican Republic for holidays visa Free like with my Ghana passport wahala go come
The system in Ghana renders Ghanaian Phd holders useless. Apart from being a lecturer and becoming a government official that steals from the country’s coffers what other use do we have for Phd holders in this country. A perfect example being our vice president Dr Bawumia.He has proved to us how useless a Phd is in Ghana. The problem is we as Ghanaians are so motivated by titles so most people who go for higher education are driven by their egos. They end up as lecturers who fail students haphazardly . In short a Phd holder in Ghana is worthless in this Ghanaian system. Simple as ABC
And there are immigrants at American without documents who are making it big and there are people with American passport who have made it so its Al about individual choices and life decisions
What shows that the Ghanaian education system has failed. These same Ghanaian intellectuals are being engaged all over the world. And they didn't go there for re education. Stop the brainless argument.
Why you people dey debate on this issue 😂 Passport wey dey give you: - Visa-free travel to many countries - Access to better job opportunities and higher paying jobs in the EU - Right to live and work in the Netherlands or other EU countries - Access to quality healthcare and education in the EU On the other hand, having a PhD in Ghana might be prestigious, but it may not offer the same level of practical benefits and opportunities as a Dutch passport
In most of the western countries, the requirements for getting citizenship is made less strict if you have PhDs and highly educated people. Mostly those attained in the country. Simply because they want to keep such people. This clearly indicate that they know it is important.
Most women understand being successful in terms of financial wealth....The PhD holder can easily acquire a Dutch passport but can we say the same if the coin is flipped?
Out of all the top news stories this news media could have talk and debate about, they are debating whether a passport from Dutch is more valuable than a PhD In Ghana. This let me know Ghanians are not serious.
The guy's comparison itself qualifies for a PhD thesis. For the fact that he is able to correlate a travel document to an educational certificate the guy himself needs to be awarded a Dutch PhD in addition to his passport.
PhD is given by an educational institution, passport is given to an individual by a country. A passport is your citizenship status. In Ghana, people attach more importance to certificates than their country. What's more valuable; your nationality or your PhD?
Anybody can have 🇳🇱🇺🇸🇬🇧🇩🇪🇨🇦 in this world even a Kayaye in Ghana . You dont need knowledge , skill and talent to have it . All you have to do is getting married or having kids with citizens of these countries.You can even buy citizenship from these countries if you have money to invest. You cant have a PHD by marriage or pregnancy . The passport is just a travel documents that gives you travel benefits and dont determine how rich or successful you will become . You only touch your passport when you about to travel what other value does it add to your life . The whole comparison dont make sense
What kind of comparison is this? Why are you comparing a passport as an ID and academia. What purpose do both of them serve and their usefulness? Are they meant for the same purpose or do they have any similarities? A baby born today can obtain a passport, can a baby born today obtain a PHD? Can a baby born today with a pssport contribute knowledge on the field of academic to society? Useless comparison, and you get people who are naive about the purpose of the two also talking wrobbish.
It's sad how many Ghanaians out of fraustration as a result of bad leadership are becoming anti academia and anti intellectualism, very sad. It has become very common to have any school dropout rubbishing and discrediting academia and education. Who misled these ignoramuses that, PHD as an academic qualification is meant for the holders to become rich? Such a lazy approach to thinking and unreasonable assumptions is why we are where we are today as a country!!
I live in germany since 2003 and with my Ghana passport i was always frustrated when i wanted to travel with my german wife and kids to our holidays destinations. I was frustrated to the extent that even serbian immigration office in germany nearly rejected me visa eventhough i have my german resident permit in my passport. The ghanaian passport frustrated me so i had to neutralize to take the german passport. Now i can travel to over 200 countries without applying for Visa. We went to the dominican Republic for holidays visa Free like with my Ghana passport wahala go come
An attorney who has become a president , A PHD holder as a vice president , the speaker is an attorney , Minority leader is an attorney and majority leader also an attorney but Ghana is struggling . Mr Happiness was 100 % right .
Mr happiness is correct in all aspects of the argument. He’s not disrespecting education. He is challenging the lazy thinkers who can’t solve the nations problems!!
His argument is based on the fact that: 1. What can you do with a PHD acquired in *Ghana* in terms of access to basic necessities of life? Emphasis on Ghana. I don't think he is completely against PHD in its entirety. 2. What can you do with a Dutch passport in terms of access to basic necessities of life? Think about it and draw your conclusion.
On the issue of creditworthiness, I agree with the gentleman. Access to credit in the West is not solely reliant on holding a passport. There are many people who hold these passports but do not have quality credit score. Such people cannot easily access credit in spite of their status as passport holders.
Enrolling for a course in an institution for a better education and a higher qualification unlike PHD, is because you want to make impact in society, make your life valuable for the future………. But if you attain all these in a country whereby the SYSTEMS are not working, things are not in accordance then what is the NEED FOR PHD?? 🤔🤔 Pls can someone help maybe I don’t understand
The lady should open her eyes to see what people with higher education are doing for the development of Ghana and Africa: Ghanaian doctors, engineers, professors, scientists, etc.
On a sensitive issue of this nature you don't bring male and female to debate. Women are generally emotional and for them it's all about money money. So it would have make sense to use male to male or female to female.
I'm a Ghanaian living in Estonia in Europe and here we don't have credit system so you don't need to have any credit to your name. All you need is an Estonian ID and a Job and then you can order anything online including iPhone and it will be delivered to you the same day or next day or you can go fetch it yourself without you paying a cent immediately because you will pay for it monthly. No Credit required, just Estonian ID and a Job. Also Transportation is free here in Tallinn and Hospitals are free for anyone with an Estonian ID no Job required. Felicia speaks more sense than this Atsu guy - facts
Yes it’s factual and reality. No disrespect for education. He’s educated himself. Why do you think many educated persons are in agreement with Mr. Happiness ?
The process of acquiring a PhD is different from the process of acquiring a Dutch passport. The two cannot be compared. However, the inference I make from what he said is that, Ghana has not been fair to PhD holders.
Ghana PHD holders do not come closer to PHD holders abroad . The PHD holders in Europe are performing marvelously and the people benefit from it but Ghana is a zero .
The first guest is contradicting himself...he says PHD holders are supposed to bring practical solutions to solving problems and then says that we shouldn't blame PHD holders for the mess in the country. Which is which!
With all the issues Ghana is facing why cant these so called PhD holders in Ghana come with models to get Ghana out some of the problems? Bawumia, a supposedly PhD holder in Economics promised heaven and esrth that he was going to transform GHANA's economy when the NPP comes to power. It is almost 8yrs since they came to power. How is GHANA's economy now ?
A point many are missing is the quality of PhDs being churned out in Ghana. The fact that the PhD holders are only talkers and not doers emphasizes this. How many PhD holders in automobile engineering don't send their cars to the wayside mechanic to fix? Basic policies to optimize food production, stabilize the currency and keep our country clean; the PhDs cannot think about. The Dutch passport ushers him into a society that values merit, whose PhD holders think and do. Let's allow Me Happiness to be happy.
Many don’t understand me happiness. It’s not about relationship. It’s about value, opportunities etc the Dutch passport brings to ordinary folks. How many ph. d holders have come together to solve the nations problems have create jobs for themselves and others. We are talking about relevance!!
