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The world, Ghana and everywhere we find ourselves, we can never do without farmers. Because without them, you will go hungry.
You can have your money.
But is money everything? Would you eat money by chewing it and getting food? No!
So, farmers are extremely important people and we can never do away with them.
In fact, left with me alone,
Everybody, whatever you do
you always have to think and do something in the interest of the ordinary farmer,
especially the smallholder farmer.
The smallholder farmer is the one who feeds the people in the country.
The large-scale farmers are actually exporters.
So in every country, we need to do things that will actually help or benefit
the smallholder farmer.
I'm happy to do that.
It's timely.
Just to motivate myself and my team.
It is timely,
to also tell my listeners, who are farmers and people in the rural community
that it's worth it (what we are doing). Their engagement is worth it
and we need to keep it up.
In fact, we need to take it to another level.
And, like I said earlier on, it's a celebration and a joy to all of us.
You, myself, the owners of the institution (Rite FM)
Our listeners, the cherished ones of course
who are always engaging with us
who are telling us what is happening.
I'm sure this is actually what won the award. It's an award for us!
I'm sure this is actually what won the award. It's an award for us!
And we've actually lifted the flag of Ghana high, and the flag of Somanya high.
Somanya, Ghana,
is actually on the map now.
I was five years old, when I saw my father listening to a radio.
When he was listening to the radio I was so much attracted
to go closer to him
And I requested for my father: "Please can you open this radio,
so I can see those people speaking there?"
He said "No, if I open it they will run (away)."
So then I said "If they will run, please, can you put me there and I speak?"
He said "Yes you can.
But you have to go to school."
That's when my vision started of being a journalist and speaking on the radio.
So, I'm so proud of Farm Radio International. I'm so proud,
and humbled with the way they gave me an opportunity.
In 1996 I was given a script from Farm Radio International to start translating.
That's when I knew Farm Radio International. I continued working there (with them).
But the opportunity was limited
But Farm Radio came in now
where they have been giving me more work of producing programs by writing scripts,
participating in competitions
and again,
being part of the trainers in Africa, in Tanzania, training people here.
I'm so happy. It's surely that they gave me an opportunity in radio
to be able to expose what was in me and what I wanted speak (say) in radio
when I asked my father "Please
can I get onto the radio?"
So this has a lot of meaning to me because I was aspiring to share
the knowledge to my
pastoralists
My poor farmers. And today I can say that I have contributed a lot
for my fellow farmers and pastoralists.
I'm so happy and humbled. All the glory just go to God.