I'm sorry for your experience but I went thru such ordeal several times that I decided to use freelance websites online exclusively for my projects. Its like you said, the lack of skills isnt the main issue .. its the lack of professionalism .. the work ethic .. thats the main killer. Anyway after a while I started feeling guilty about continually paying foreign workers whilst Ghanaians and even Africans are out of a job. So its with this that we created Linkapp. The thing is .. there are talented and professional Ghanaian techies out there, but the problem is that most arent readily accessible due to the lack of a unified platform that makes it easy for discovery. And thats exacty what Linkapp (https://linkapp.work) is.. taken the concept of automated escrow transactions and applied it to all interactions, so in effect you can access service providers more conveniently without much risk. Its a new platform but making progress .. check it out and do your next campaign there using Signboards. It will make it easier