There were organisations that supported things like 'Clean up Australia Day', but there was little community or family support for my ideals and as I grew older, I became disillusioned that I could ever make a difference on my own. But back then, there really wasn't a lot of support. It made me really care about the environment not just the cute ponies and flowers, but for every environmental issue that came up on the TV or in the newspaper. This cartoon impacted on my life a lot when I was younger. I know, its a broad generalisation, but the world of commercialism has taken over children's programs, and while I still enjoy cartoons, I can only feel free from the 'buy this' and 'you must have this' craze when I watch ABC TV (no commercials). Now I'm older and somewhat more corrupted at age 18, I look back to those days and I can honestly say that though it may have been cheesy (the entire 'Go Planeteers!' and similar catchphrases) the cartoons like 'Captain Planet' that I was brought up on were so much more educational and fulfilling then the ones I see today. Yes, you have the freedom to talk about galamsey, which everybody is against, but his speech seems like a threat and that’s what got him into trouble.When I first started watching 'Captain Planet', I was pretty much the ideal target audience 5 years old, a sympathetic female with innocent cares for the environment, and that 'virgin' mindset that there was always going to be just good, bad and the unfortunate. “He sought to wage a rebellion against Otumfuo and the entire Ashanti Kingdom. In another tweet today, Friday, 26 August 2022, Captain Planet (CP) cited a screenshot of Odike behind a microphone at the Oyerepa FM studios with the caption: The member of the Ghanaian musical trio, 4x4, was making these comments following recent controversial comments made on Kumasi-based Oyerepa FM by the leader of the United Progressive Party (UPP), Akwasi Addai ‘Odike’, who is accused by the Kumasi Traditional Council of denigrating the Asante monarch by insinuating that the revered traditional figure is complicit in the nature crime, galamsey, by his inactivity to deal with those who are engaged in it under his watch. “If the kingdom goes to attack them right now to stop, people will come & say the king is taking food off their tables. The other half of Captain Planet’s tweet, quoted above, appears to argue that were the kingdom and its king to swoop down on galamsey operators, they would be met with resistance and accused of tampering with people’s much-needed source of income. “For my part, I have already warned my chiefs and elders against participation in such illegalities, and I will not hesitate to strongly sanction any such infraction,” Otumfuo added. The Asantehene had famously said he had told the Ashanti Regional Minister, Mr Simon Osei-Mensah, and the Lands and Natural Resources Minister, Mr Samuel Jinapor, whom he referred to as “my son,” that “truth be told, as we talk about galamsey, about 30% of the people gathered right here in this place know all those involved in galamsey.” It is the video that captured the Ashanti monarch addressing the audience at the maiden event of the ‘Regional Consultative Dialogue on Small Scale Mining’ in the Ashanti Region on Wednesday. He captioned the 2-minute video with the words: “This is Otumfuo condemning Galamsey & some of you people dey act like the man no dey speak against. In an earlier tweet, the ‘Abodie’ hitmaker shared a video that captures the head of the Ashanti Kingdom, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II condemning the nature crime. “The funny thing be say the galamsey koraa e be some of us our parents & families are those engaging. He said this via a tweet, with his handle today, Friday, 26 August 2022. Rapper Captain Planet has indicated that contrary to assumptions that traditional leaders are to blame for illegal mining, popularly known in Ghana as galamsey, it’s rather the ordinary citizens who should bear the blame.
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