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Mahama: Gutters and drains are not garbage containers

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  • Abudu i Adam 11 years ago

    EXCELLENT DEVELOPMENT , HOWEVER PARLIAMENT SHOULD BE WORKING AROUND 95% LOCAL CONTENT LABOUR


    THERE ARE ENOUGH SKILLED LABOR , PIPEFITTERS , WELDERS , FRONTLOADER , CRANES OPERATORS , PIPEFITTERS , ETC

  • OLD SOLDIER 11 years ago

    ...Prez.Atta Mills was named in Woyome's saga,
    Naadu Mills, P.V. Obeng, The Ahwois, Barton Oduro, Betty Moulds, Kwabena Duffour, Michael Dokosi, Solomon Nkansa, Fiifi Kwertey, Koby Fiagbe, Asiedu-Nketia, Kwabena Adjei, Otuko ...
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  • Abudu i Adam 11 years ago

    WE RECOMMEND THE CONTRACT SECURED FOR POOR DRAINAGE AND THEREFORE EXPECTS GHANAIAN LABOR CONTENT BE MADE COMPULSORY AS A PREREQUISITE IN INTERNATIONAL SOURCING & CONTRACTING.

    WHAT'S IS ALL THESE NONSENSE YOU ARE COMMENTING ...
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  • Abudu i Adam 11 years ago

    YOU CAN'T EVEN PRESENT EFFECTIVE , LOGICAL DISCUSSION , WHAT IS WRONG SECURING A CONTRACT TO UNDERTAKE A NATIONAL CATASTROPHE ?

  • Gyae Wasem 11 years ago

    simply put , Old soldier you are a FOOL

  • ANOKYE 11 years ago

    STUPID AND DIRTY MAN

  • KWAKU 11 years ago

    WASTE
    OF
    MONEY!!WHAT WE NEED IS PROPER EDUCATION OF THE CITIZENS TO AVOID THROWING THEIR WASTE IN THE GUTTERS,WHILE THE AUTHORITIES SAVE MONEY FOR UNDERGROUND SEWERAGE.THE GUTTERS HAVE NO PLACE IN CIVILISED SOCIETIES.

  • UNMISGUIDED AFRICAN 11 years ago

    Ghanaians are a very proud race.Working together to CLEAN our cities,communities,our Airport bathrooms,our beaches,hamlets, and villages is a NATIONAL RESPONSIBILITY.THIS NATIONAL PRIDE IS NON-PARTISAN !!!

    Proper Sanitatio ...
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  • BASAT 11 years ago

    Stop talking about gutters, where you see gutters? In the bush.
    NO OPEN DRAINS.
    STOP blame ghanaians when you made those gutters in towns. Mahama have seen a gutter in UK.
    Get off your backside and do something and stop t ...
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  • DON 11 years ago

    Accra dont need that amount of money for drains and storages. How you educate a people not to throw rubbish in gutters. Its better you educate wind and dry leafs.
    What every that is open will coverup. Am not saying we are s ...
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  • OLD SOLDIER 11 years ago

    Source: Daily Guide...

    All of a sudden nonentities want to portray to the world how close they were to the late President.

    Those who had to chat with him for one hour everyday, those Deputy Ministers who had to call h ...
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  • PALMWINE SELLER 11 years ago

    Yes these educated fools from the north, south, east and west only talk talk talk, yet nothing has changed. They want to sound civilised and nothing showing we all know we r dirty filty like rats its been our way of life till ...
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  • Gyae Wasem 11 years ago

    you have no sense and no respect.

  • joey london! 11 years ago

    Talking of the UK come to peckham,go to the back of the library then made your way towards Rye lane what do you see nima or west minister?As you sound more than an idiot don't stop in Rye lane make your way to walworth road t ...
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  • Lynne 11 years ago

    Great start but, what about covering these gutters & providing waste bins for your citizens? That'll help people from using the gutters for garbage.

  • Abba 11 years ago

    Absolutely, open gutters are very disgusting and it makes an unpleasant stench in the air. You'll think that, after five decades since independence, govt would at least, come up with a solution to cover them. This project wil ...
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  • Jonas Ansah 11 years ago

    Sanitation is an eyesore in urban areas and we need a pragmatic approach to solving it. Drains must be constructed and covered and all roads demarcated and tarred with pavements. This will make Accra look clean, provide jobs ...
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  • OH GHFUO, WHY SO PRIMITIVE? 11 years ago

    IM WILLING TO INVEST IN REGIONAL MAXIMUM SECURITY JAIL. TOO MANY GHFUO ACT N THINK LIKE ANIMALS. THEY MUST BE CAGED N USED AS FREE/ VERY VERY CHEAP LABOR TO DEVELOP OUR NATION. IM WILLING TO INVEST

    ARREST THESE FOOLS WHO T ...
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  • Daavi 11 years ago

    ENFORCE THE LAW,
    PROVIDE BINS. GOVT AND CONCERNED AUTHORITIES TO BE BLAMED.

  • KWAKU 11 years ago

    WHY THIS ABUSIVE LANGUAGE?

  • Kwasi Miezah, Western Region. 11 years ago

    Without extensive public education and law enforcement this will NOT work. Sadly, like everything else, we only act when donor countries tell us to do so. CAN THE BLACK MANAGE HIS OWN AFFAIRS???

  • John,Tema 11 years ago

    If you live in the capital of Ghana in this century, where for 20yrs water do not flow through our pipes where do you expect the inhabitant to ease themselves.John Mahama was in Moscow about 25yrs ago did he see an open drain ...
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  • Li lo 11 years ago

    And the party that came after them did nothing about it either. They're all the same, corrupt, incompetent, visionless & lazy bunch of thieves!

  • IDRIS PACAS 11 years ago

    First, why did the Govt construct open drains? Places of convenience are the scarcest to locate in our urban centres. Zoomlion and the other garbage transporters ignore waste lying openly on our streets. Let's be serious in G ...
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  • KANEWU 11 years ago

    TALK! TALK! NO POSITIVE ACTION.

    NO DIRECTION, NO PURPOSE!!

    CHEAP TALK. THAT'S WHAT GHANA'S USELESS "LEADERS" ARE GOOD AT.

    IN THIS GENERATION WHEN EVERY VISIONARY LEADERSHIP IS GETTING RID OF OPEN SURFACE WATER DRAINA ...
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  • Gyae Wasem 11 years ago

    be sensible, Kanewu

  • ASAASE 11 years ago

    If gutters and drains are not garbage containers then cover them, for its a breeding grounds of malaria and other sickness.

  • Classpeter 11 years ago

    YES SIR,GUTERS AND DRAIN ARE NOT GABBAGE CONTAINERS. I SOMETIMES ASKED THIS QUESTION''DOES GHANAIANS THINK ABOUT OUR HEALTH STATUS''?,WHY DOES GHANAIANS REACTS TO FLOORS WHEN OCCURED IN SOME OF OUR COMMUNITIES?WHAT IS THE MOT ...
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  • Aamah 11 years ago

    Close the gutters and also educate Ghanaians about the importance of keeping the environment clean.
    Defecating in streets and gutters without shame is disgusting and spreads malaria, cholera etc.

  • Doggone it!!!!!!!!!!!!! 11 years ago

    Go back to school - "this will reduced," "Does Ghanaians"? Are you kidding? future verbs cannot mix with past verbs, thus - "this will reduce," and it is not "Does Ghanaians" it is "Do Ghanaians" plural. Grammar, my dear cl ...
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  • MARCUS AMPADU 11 years ago

    The President just can't make a speech and preach about the health threats of dumping garbage in gutters and drains, the need to "constantly eschew and educate Ghanaians on that bad attitude ...advance the city's ecology, eco ...
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  • Ewura Esi 11 years ago

    Cover the stupid gutters. Even the most backward countries (as Ghanaians are fond to claim) have their gutters covered. What do you expect squatters to do with their garbage?

  • Justice delayed is justice denied 11 years ago

    you didnt know this the past 4 years?

  • Gyae Wasem 11 years ago

    He was not in charge the past 4 years. You were so why didn't you do anything about it Justice delayed?

  • NANA YAA KUSI 11 years ago

    GOOD, BUT PLEASE COVER THE GUTTERS LIKE IN THE UK, US ETC

  • NII LARTEY NARTEY 11 years ago

    In the 21st century and inter global civilization it is only in Ghana where open gutters and drains are open to the mercy of the garbage to brew first class mosquitoes and cause us diseases to stupidly spend huge state monies ...
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  • NIMA OLD SOLDIER 11 years ago

    Let us pray this does not become yet another STX garbage.

  • Kwame Bruku 11 years ago

    Another loan again when is our country gonna be self-sufficient

  • PEACE 11 years ago

    IF ONLY THEY WILL USE SUCH A HUGE DOLLERS

  • Kwasi Adjei 11 years ago

    My friends the solution is simple. COVER THE GUTTERS AND DRAINS!!!

    To our city and town leaders, please, please, please do not approve the construction of new open gutters and drains.

  • Gyae Wasem 11 years ago

    tell them, my friend

  • kwakuyaw 11 years ago

    tell them

  • PAPA ARKOH, USA 11 years ago

    THIS IS NOT THE WORK OF A PRESIDENT.WHAT IS THE SO-CALLED MINISTER OF ENVIRONMENT DOING TO EDUCATE THE PEOPLE.THIS IS JUST COMMON SENSE BUT AS USUAL IT WILL NOT BE COMMON TO THE BLACK MAN.SO SHAMEFUL AND NEVER PROUD TO BE AN ...
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  • Abudu i Adam 11 years ago

    IS HEALTH NOT A NATIONAL ISSUE ?, IS THERE ANY MINISTER OF HEALTH OF HEALTH AT AT THE MOMENT ? NO, THERE ARE NOT YET COFIRMED BY PARLIAMENT.

    MALARIA & ITS IMPACT IS WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION ISSUE WHAT IS WRONG THE PRESIDE ...
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  • Gyae Wasem 11 years ago

    Common sense is not common,that is why it 's taking a whole President to bring awareness to the importance of SANITATION to the BLACK FILTHY MAN! The people are mostly from the villages [ where the bush is their place of conv ...
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  • yen asem hwe 11 years ago

    stop talking and do the work,after you finish than we can say ayekooooo,

  • EZEKIEL 11 years ago

    The "Prevention" is very important and the CURE has been STARTED. I think both ...PREVENTION & the CURE...should go hand-in-hand!
    There was a time coming out of KIA one read at the BASE of the Statue.." DO NOT URINATE HERE" ...
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  • Gyae Wasem 11 years ago

    You are absolutely right

  • MAHAMA MORE CORRUPT NOW 11 years ago

    OLD SOLDIER GOD BLESS U,MAHAMA IS CORUPTS,WOYOME GANGATUAN DEPTS

  • Gyae Wasem 11 years ago

    what has corruption got to do with this. He is addressing our filthy behavior which is an eyesore. We have traveled and seen how the developed countries work , but our black minds will never see the light. MINDS TOO DARK TO ...
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  • Solvability 11 years ago

    1. Just cover those damn gutters! Underground drainage is well overdue.
    2. EDUCATE Ghanaians

  • capital 11 years ago

    Mahama John doesn't know how to speak intelligently. he thinks he is president so he can just speak any how. this is a cheek. who says gutters and drains are garbage containers, huh? during the elections this dramani guy said ...
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  • Akwasi 11 years ago

    Mr. President, if gutters and drains are not garbage containers, then pleases provide trash cans or over the city for people to despose their waste.

  • NANA 11 years ago

    WE NEED RECYCLING PLANTS IN ALL THE REGINAL CAPITALS. NPP CAN HELP.STOP THE COURT ACTION AND COME TOGETHER NDC / NPP PLEASE, PRES JDM.N NANA A A. HELP MOTHER GHANA.

  • K Philly 11 years ago

    There are economic, aesthetic, health , etc when we cover gutters. Why do we continue to maintain open drainage? Cover the gutters. Covered gutters reduce the smell in the cities.

  • marian 11 years ago

    Covering the gutters is not the problem. AMA should make sure every household in Accra has a soakaway for their toilets. For example people living in the Zongos dump garbage and flush thier toilets directly into the gutters, ...
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  • Kwame Akoto 11 years ago

    We all know what sanitation problems we have, we grew with it. We all shit anyhow too until we were educated enough to know the consequences. Educate!, educate!, educate!, educate!, educate!, educate!
    No amount of money can ...
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  • Eko 11 years ago

    Then build more public bins and toilets, cover the gutters and maintain them. Simple. This is how other countries do it, Where is all this supposed oil wealth going anyway?

  • Sankofa 11 years ago

    WE must ask the participating companies to employ as many Ghanaians as possible to enable us acquire expertise .

    We need to be able to undertake such large-scale projects ourselves.

  • akua AU 11 years ago

    Mr President and all health ministry stakeholders in Ghana, there is only a simple solution which you guys have been missing from time immemorial. Local councils are collecting 'land polls' since Adam, but they fail to provid ...
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  • Agya Odi Asempa 11 years ago

    Provide garbage containers, and gutters and drains will not be used for garbage.

  • WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU VISITED ZO 11 years ago

    PREACH TO YOUR PEOPLE-MAHAMA