At all costs we must end cybercrime in Ghana

Dear critical-reader, at all costs, we must end cybercrime in Ghana. Full stop. No question. It is in that light that news that Chinese and Russian scientists have tested a ‘hack-proof’ quantum communication link for Brics countries, encrypted with the help of secure keys transmitted by China's Mozi satellite, is to be welcomed.

It is fantastic news, as it more or less means that at long last the end of Africa's many online fraudsters is nigh. Wow. Apparently, in the first half of 2023, cyber fraud activities led to direct financial losses of $4.32 million (GH¢49.5m) in Ghana, according to Business Insider Africa, quoting the Director-General of Ghana's Cyber Security Authority (CSA), Dr. Albert Antwi-Boasiako.

One loathes cybercriminals, because the destructive nature of the impacts of their crimes on victims worldwide, effectively means that cybercriminals worldwide, can literally get away with murder, as it happens, dear critical-reader.

If one had one's way, they would all be shot when apprehended - after their being investigated and prosecuted, if found guilty after trial in fast-track specialised cybercrime courts: using new legislation prescribing mandatory death sentences for online fraud of all kinds. Full stop.

Given the pivotal importance of ecommerce, in the age of the Generative AI bedrocked 4th industrial revolution, it is so unfortunate that lack of resources is preventing Ghana's security agencies from effectively fighting cybercriminals from across the ECOWAS region, who together with their Ghanaian collaborators, have succeeded in turning Ghana into a global power in cybercrime. Pity.

As it happens, dear critical-reader, super-ruthless multinational criminal syndicates, operating in parts of Ghana, often use enslaved trafficked young people from across the West African sub-region, who work day and night, literally, in sundery hacking-farms, in melting pot communities, such as our beautiful and bountiful Central Region's world-famed Gomoa Buduburam's Camp Liberia refugee settlement area, for that vile purpose. The sods. Monsters.

One hopes that all the world's cybercriminals will rot in the hottest part of hell, when they finally pass away, dear critical-reader. Enough, really is enough, in this reputation-damaging matter, oooo, Ghanafuor. That is why at all costs, we must end cybercrime in Ghana, oooo, Ghanafuor. Full stop. No question. Case closed. Yooooooo...