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  • Keta MP recounts humble beginnings as he confesses to selling crabs for a living 

    Keta MP recounts humble beginnings as he confesses to selling crabs for a living 

    Despite now having the privilege of driving his own cars and having access to the highest corridors of power, Kwame Dzudzorli Gakpey, the Member of Parliament for Keta, remains deeply connected to his humble upbringing.

    Recalling his early life in Anlo-Afiadenyigba, Volta Region, he shared that despite his parents being teachers, life was far from easy for him.

    As an example, he mentioned that he had to make a barefoot journey of three miles to school daily.

    Also, Kwame Gakpey noted that to survive and support his mother, he had to trade in selling crabs at a point.

    He recounted how those trading years took him from Anloga to places like the Afram Plains.

    “I was going into even petty trading where I have to take crabs from Anloga Market all the way to Afram Plains in the 90s where my mom, though a teacher, would go into such trades, and I would follow her. And we would have to go to such places as Nkawkaw, Afram Plains, Kwesi Fante, Maame Krobo, those days… it was a good business,” he said.

    Kwame Gakpey also recounted other stories about his life in the interview on GhanaWeb.

  • Deaths of swimming crabs in Zanzibar  being investigated

    The government of Zanzibar is probing why hundreds of dead swimming crabs have washed up on the beaches of Tanzania’s islands.

    There have been reports of dead crabs washing ashore at Mtoni, Mizingani, and Forodhani public beaches since September 28.

    The government is urging people not to worry it might be caused by pollution.

    Reports indicate climate change leading to an abrupt change in the temperature of the sea might be to blame.

    “Some living things like the swimming crabs cannot resist sudden changes in the sea, and they die and wash ashore,” Dr Salum Soud, a marine biologist and Zanzibar’s director of development and fisheries, told the BBC.

    “Ocean waters have layers of temperatures and so the waves force water underneath to go up, thus may cause low oxygen hence the crabs are likely to face death,” he added.

    The mass deaths of the crabs is not an isolated incident, according to Sheha Mjaja Juma, Director General of the Zanzibar Environment Management Authority (Zema), who told Tanzania’s The Citizen paper it had also happened in Seychelles.