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anna 11 years ago

after 56 yrs still half of the citizens not educated no law abiding nothing is working from top to bottom so sad lets not celebrats but reflect and put things in order!!!!!

after 56 yrs still half of the citizens not educated no law abiding nothing is working from top to bottom so sad lets not celebrats but reflect and put things in order!!!!!
ZAMIA N22 LONDON 11 years ago

56 YEARS OF SELF INFLICTED PAIN AND BAD GOVERNANCE. INCOMPETENT AND GREEDY LEADERS WHO DO NOT HAVE THE NATION AT HEART BUT RATHER TO LOOT THE NATION DRY AND DESTROY IT'S PEOPLE WITH SELF IMPOSED ABJECT POVERTY.

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56 YEARS OF SELF INFLICTED PAIN AND BAD GOVERNANCE. INCOMPETENT AND GREEDY LEADERS WHO DO NOT HAVE THE NATION AT HEART BUT RATHER TO LOOT THE NATION DRY AND DESTROY IT'S PEOPLE WITH SELF IMPOSED ABJECT POVERTY.

LET US ALL CHANGE OUR DUBIOUS WAYS FROM TOMORROW WHEN WE MARK OUR 56 YEARS OF INDEPENDENCE AND SEE WHAT DIFFERENCE THE COMING YEARS WILL MAKE.

WE ARE WHERE WE ARE BECAUSE OF OUR STUPID AND GREED MENTALITY.
GHANAVIA 11 years ago

Of the 56 years of self-rule, NDC alone had 23 and they have nothing to show for it. Surprisingly it is that till this day none of the NDC supporters and sympathizers see anything wrong and the direction of their party. All t ...
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Of the 56 years of self-rule, NDC alone had 23 and they have nothing to show for it. Surprisingly it is that till this day none of the NDC supporters and sympathizers see anything wrong and the direction of their party. All they want is their party in government, whether fair or foul. Efficiency is not in their lexicon, yet they shout hoarse at everything the opposition says or does.
OLD SOLDIER 11 years ago

When Kwaku Baako informed us about the atrocities of Kwesi Pratt during PNDC Regime, some of us did not believe until the truth was confirmed during the NRC. Kwesi Pratt is the most dangerous Journalist Ghana had ever have, h ...
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When Kwaku Baako informed us about the atrocities of Kwesi Pratt during PNDC Regime, some of us did not believe until the truth was confirmed during the NRC. Kwesi Pratt is the most dangerous Journalist Ghana had ever have, he had the gut to recommend his fellow journalists to be executed by PNDC. Pratt even recommended Baako to be killed by the regime, thank God Baako was instead touchered violently and severely but his life was spared. This is what Kwesi Pratt can do. Now Pratt is a secret agent to NDC and US Embassy in Ghana. May God forgive Pratt and spare him the untold evils that will come upon him and his generations. The souls of those journalist killed through Pratt's recommendations to PNDC will never forgive Pratt. Now Pratt has the guts to take Diplomatic Passport and smuggled his weak-headed children to work at the Ministries under Mills NDC, may God forgive Pratt and his dependance and spare them of the evils ahead of them...
PRESIDENT JOHN MAHAMA THE THIEF 11 years ago

Ghana is moving backwards bcos of some fools among us. 56 years of nothing. NDC has made Ghana like drying leafs. everything is going on the wrong directions. Ghana is sinking very fast. Yet we have some fools who will suppor ...
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Ghana is moving backwards bcos of some fools among us. 56 years of nothing. NDC has made Ghana like drying leafs. everything is going on the wrong directions. Ghana is sinking very fast. Yet we have some fools who will support this foolish NDC governement. NDC voters and its government dont want to see ghana moving forward. They dont want progress for Ghana. They have harbour they heart with tribal voting, enviness, foolishness. YET bcos of their animal like beings they dont think like smart humans. they cant see they light. they still prefer the darkness, no jobs, no water, no good road. fools. while NDC is stealing all the nations money for nothing. CURSE BE UNTO ALL THOSE WHO DONT WANT GHANA TO PROSPER BCOS OF TRIBALISM. AMEN.
GHFUO, BE SERIOUS NOT PRIDEFUL! 11 years ago

NO FACTORIES, NO FARMING, NO EDUCATION, NO SKILLED TRADES. NO KNOWLEDGE BASED MANPOWER. EVEN ANIMALS HAVE WORTH THAN THESE PETTY TRADERS...

NO FACTORIES, NO FARMING, NO EDUCATION, NO SKILLED TRADES. NO KNOWLEDGE BASED MANPOWER. EVEN ANIMALS HAVE WORTH THAN THESE PETTY TRADERS...
GHFUO, BE SERIOUS NOT PRIDEFUL! 11 years ago

OUR LEADERS HAVE NO VISION. ALL THESE KIDS ENGAGING IN PETTY TRADING OUGHT TO BE IN SCHOOL. THE CITY MAYOR N REGIONAL MINISTERS MUST SET UP STORES, CORNER STORES, BODEGAS THAT ARE CONTROLLED, PAY TAXES. CLOSE AND OPEN AT SPEC ...
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OUR LEADERS HAVE NO VISION. ALL THESE KIDS ENGAGING IN PETTY TRADING OUGHT TO BE IN SCHOOL. THE CITY MAYOR N REGIONAL MINISTERS MUST SET UP STORES, CORNER STORES, BODEGAS THAT ARE CONTROLLED, PAY TAXES. CLOSE AND OPEN AT SPECIFIC TIMES OF THE DAY. THIS IS HOW LEADERS WITH FORESIGHT RUN A VALUABLE ECONOMY. ALL THIS PETTY HUSTLERS ARE WORKING FOR NOTHING AT THE EXPENSE OF THEMSELVES AND THE EXPENSE OF THEIR VARIOUS CITIES N REGIONS. DO THEY PAY TAXES?
Sefakor 11 years ago

Hawkers were introduced by Rawlings' vigilante regime, instead of him preaching righteousness all the time. it will be best if he channels his energy into encouraging the hawkers to go back to the rural areas and help increas ...
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Hawkers were introduced by Rawlings' vigilante regime, instead of him preaching righteousness all the time. it will be best if he channels his energy into encouraging the hawkers to go back to the rural areas and help increase the country's economy instead of draining the economy & turning the city into a filth.
Accra and Ghana in general used to be a beautiful country. Restore it back to its glory! Tree planting & everyone cleaning their surroundings!!!! Clear the street hawkers & their filthy habits.
Quabby Joe, USA 11 years ago

During the tenure of Nana Akwasi Agyemag as the Mayor of Kumasi,the city shone again as the GARDEN CITY of WEST AFRICA. Because he was strick and insisted on CLEANINGNESS, he was dubbed the SATAN. Fellow Ghanaians,it is our a ...
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During the tenure of Nana Akwasi Agyemag as the Mayor of Kumasi,the city shone again as the GARDEN CITY of WEST AFRICA. Because he was strick and insisted on CLEANINGNESS, he was dubbed the SATAN. Fellow Ghanaians,it is our attitude and culture of filth which is killing us.
KWABENA OHEMENG,LONDON. 11 years ago

This is what the imperialists who were behind the 1966 coup wanted Ghana to be;a nation which will be totally dependent on them for everything.Since the coup of 1966 what progress has this nation made in terms of economic dev ...
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This is what the imperialists who were behind the 1966 coup wanted Ghana to be;a nation which will be totally dependent on them for everything.Since the coup of 1966 what progress has this nation made in terms of economic development and which has created jobs for ghanaians?Ghana is just a 'warehouse' for foreign goods with ghanaians consuming them to create jobs and wealth for other nations.Since the coup of 1966 it has been economic regression and poverty all along.Even maize and rice which we can produce in Ghana are imported.Quality textiles can be produced in the country and yet we import them.Even toothpicks we import them even though we have timber in abundance in the country.The only way forward for Ghana to solve most of its economic problems especially unempolyment is to industrialise.To continue to patronise foreign industries to the neglect of ours will only deepen our economic problems.We industrialise or we can never solve our economic problems.
Ato 11 years ago

It is true that this is what the imperialists wanted our country Ghana to become. However we should rather blame the local imperialist errand boys who have aided the 'colonial (terrorists) masters' to ruin our country so that ...
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It is true that this is what the imperialists wanted our country Ghana to become. However we should rather blame the local imperialist errand boys who have aided the 'colonial (terrorists) masters' to ruin our country so that they can bring it to its knees and take it over again.

By this, I am referring to the likes of Kufuor, Akuffo Addo, Jake Obetsebi Lamptey and co. The NDC has also obediently played the game well for global imperilism without even knowing that this is what they have done. This is because they are too daft to realize what they are doing. A typical example is reverting the name of the Jubilee House back to its former imperialist name - the Flag Staff house. They (NDC) have sold more state enterprises than any of the other equally useless govts since 1966. Tell me, what manner of African can look at a state enterprise like the former Ghana Cement Works and sell it to the imperialists when the demand for cement in this country - a developing country, will continue to outstrip supply for at least the next 100 years. But yet Rawlings and his evil thieving cohorts like the Tsikatas, Ahwois and Totobi-Quarkyies thought that Ghanaians, forty to fifty years after independence, were not qualified nor capable enough of running a cement factory and so sold it as well as other very viable state enterprises under the frivolous and untruthful pretext that we could not efficiently manage them. However the imperialists to whom the factory was sold to, employed Ghanaians to manage it for them. See how stupid Ghanaians can get????

Again, what manner of an African can look at a state enterprise like Ghana Telecom and sell it to imperialists? Despite the fact that we are in the Information and Communication age where telephony is one of the most sought for components in the unprecedented proliferation of information dissemination. Yet Kufuor and his band of subservient imperialist lackeys thought otherwise and went ahead and sold that institution that held not only financial but sentimental and historical value for Ghana. However the imperialists to whom the factory was sold to, again employed Ghanaians to manage it for them. See how very stupid Ghanaians can get????

Today, believe it or not, they are even considering selling off the Tema Oil Refinery (TOR). To that end they have done what they do best by preparing the grounds to undermine and cripple that institution and then say that Ghanaians cannot run it.

Of course if they appoint their dumb friends, relatives and foot-soldiers of their inept political Parties as managers, the damn enterprises will not be well managed. Anyway the long and the short of it all is that either the NDC or the the NPP will eventually sell-off the TOR and then they will get a tidy commission running into a few million dollars from the imperialists that will carry them to the end of their days.

Obviously as far as they are concerned, the future and posterity of Ghanaians can go to hell!
OSUBI 11 years ago

1. THEY ARE PROVIDING A SERVICE
2. THERE IS A NEED FOR THAT SERVICE, OTHERWISE THEY WILL NOT BE THERE.
3. THEY ARE FEEDING THEMSELVES AND FAMILY FROM THESE ACTIVITIES AND NOT DEPENDENT ON THE STATE, WHICH IS U AND I
4. THE ...
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1. THEY ARE PROVIDING A SERVICE
2. THERE IS A NEED FOR THAT SERVICE, OTHERWISE THEY WILL NOT BE THERE.
3. THEY ARE FEEDING THEMSELVES AND FAMILY FROM THESE ACTIVITIES AND NOT DEPENDENT ON THE STATE, WHICH IS U AND I
4. THEY ARE NOT ENGAGED IN ANTI SOCIAL ACTIVITIES, LIKE STEALING AND PROSTITUTION.
5. IT IS THE DUTY OF THE GOV. TO PROVIDE MARKET SPACES FOR THESE PEOPLE WHERE THEY WILL SELL AND WE BUY.
6. YOU CANNOT KILL A MARKET. WHEN YOU DRIVE THEM OUT OF THE STREET, THEY WILL POP OP SOMEWHERE ELSE, THE MARKET WILL EXIST.
7. WHEN JJ RAWLINGS STUPIDLY PUT BOMBS UNDER MAKOLA AND DESTROYED THE STRUCTURE, DID THE MARKET DIE? NO. THE MARKET IS NOW ON THE STREET INSTEAD OF BEING INSIDE A STRUCTURE BUILT FORTHE PURPOSE.
8. RETURN RAWLINGS PARK TO MAKOLA MARKET AND YOU WILL SOLVE 70% STREET HAWKING IN THAT AREA.
DAN 11 years ago

with your sort of attitude Ghana will remain filthy,chaotic and underdeveloped- and you are supposed to be the educated ones! i dont believe you have travelled much outside ghana and africa.

with your sort of attitude Ghana will remain filthy,chaotic and underdeveloped- and you are supposed to be the educated ones! i dont believe you have travelled much outside ghana and africa.
Biibi 11 years ago

what is wrong if people hawk for livelyhood? if government want people to give up hawking, it should creat altenatives for people to survive on or better still force hawkers out of hawking and expect a daring rates in armed r ...
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what is wrong if people hawk for livelyhood? if government want people to give up hawking, it should creat altenatives for people to survive on or better still force hawkers out of hawking and expect a daring rates in armed robbery, unprotected prostitution and alarming increase in new HIV infections. thanks
Akua AU 11 years ago

You would be surprised to know that these hawkers who are supposed to be in school could not because their mums who may be selling in a stall at the market is not able to send this child to school. Because the stall she occu ...
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You would be surprised to know that these hawkers who are supposed to be in school could not because their mums who may be selling in a stall at the market is not able to send this child to school. Because the stall she occupies is owned by a worker or an official who works at the city or local council who will take huge sums of money from her as rent and even charge heavy levies for their greedy needs, leaving this poor market woman struggling to survive with her family, lest manage to send her child to school.
Krua Krua Krua 11 years ago

There are a lot of innovations that can modify the activities of this hawkers. Unfortunately we have resorted to using forceful means to destroy the livelihood of this business men and women. 2. We end up collecting taxes fro ...
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There are a lot of innovations that can modify the activities of this hawkers. Unfortunately we have resorted to using forceful means to destroy the livelihood of this business men and women. 2. We end up collecting taxes from this very business people. Something is wrong. I have the solution but will the authorities listen
DAN 11 years ago

and what exactly is you solution?

and what exactly is you solution?
Kofi 11 years ago

Dr kwame nkrumah

Dr kwame nkrumah
Gawuga 11 years ago

What have you done for your country other than criticism?

What have you done for your country other than criticism?
Gawuga 11 years ago

Have you created an environment for them to flourish?

Have you created an environment for them to flourish?
Mr. Kobb. 11 years ago

One great example my brother, Just visit Takoradi Market Circle is more than worst, and authorities are being paid and nobody cares.

One great example my brother, Just visit Takoradi Market Circle is more than worst, and authorities are being paid and nobody cares.
NANDOS 11 years ago

they will still continue to RULE!

they will still continue to RULE!
blablabla 11 years ago

I prefer the hawkers on the road,that urinaters and chitters

I prefer the hawkers on the road,that urinaters and chitters
business developer 11 years ago

Its very shameful that past and present governments lack thev will power to handle and deal with these faceless hawkers on our streets,yetb we brand ghana as get way to west africa which i think is not true and laughable,as t ...
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Its very shameful that past and present governments lack thev will power to handle and deal with these faceless hawkers on our streets,yetb we brand ghana as get way to west africa which i think is not true and laughable,as the country attract investors and tourists the current governmemt must have the courage and deal with these hawkers and okada riders.
ama 11 years ago

Sister Efua you can write like a true Ghanaian I was told to be not these political badints. Your thoughts are less political.God bless YOU.

Sister Efua you can write like a true Ghanaian I was told to be not these political badints. Your thoughts are less political.God bless YOU.
blablabla 11 years ago

after 56 years.nothing change.light still off every day.no roads,people still urinate in the street,no gas,no water.poor ghanians.you are not yet ready for all this technologie that the world is offering.please stay eating fu ...
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after 56 years.nothing change.light still off every day.no roads,people still urinate in the street,no gas,no water.poor ghanians.you are not yet ready for all this technologie that the world is offering.please stay eating fufu.thats all you can do.you people are tooo slow.system down.im coming.i don't know,who do you think you are,where do you thinks you going,ade come.no balance.thanks to god????????????
Kofi 11 years ago

The government should be bold in dealing with this hawkering menance.Stop them with heavy panelties,with community service when
when arrested.Hawkers will always give
reasons for hawkering even if market
is built.cctv ca ...
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The government should be bold in dealing with this hawkering menance.Stop them with heavy panelties,with community service when
when arrested.Hawkers will always give
reasons for hawkering even if market
is built.cctv cameras should be place
at traffic junction to arrest drivers
who stop and buy things.Instead of
painting bridges light poles ghana
flag makes us look like bush people.
Too much of it. If you travel outside
Ghana, you don't see countries painting light poles or flyover thier
it looks childish.
ghanaba 11 years ago

please leave the hawkers alone.they are descendants of abraham so take your hands off them. europeans with all their years of civilization, still have flea (not sure of the word) market which is similar to hawking. debt is a ...
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please leave the hawkers alone.they are descendants of abraham so take your hands off them. europeans with all their years of civilization, still have flea (not sure of the word) market which is similar to hawking. debt is a curse, whereas hawking has never been. let us finish with our national curse in the form of a debt. the day when people could sell from their stalls they will refuse on their own to face the scorching sun. let us pray for them to receive their share of their multiplication and blessing as children of abraham. amen
GOD IS MY JUDGE HONESTNEST 11 years ago

We have no respect for ourselves as a nation.

We have no respect for ourselves as a nation.
THE TRUTH!!!! 11 years ago

well said. you have hit the nail right on the head. The most interesting part of this issue is that we ourselves condone this,we need to stop being lenient and stop this practice once and for all and its high time we stopped ...
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well said. you have hit the nail right on the head. The most interesting part of this issue is that we ourselves condone this,we need to stop being lenient and stop this practice once and for all and its high time we stopped pretending that this menace is non existent and actually do something about it . Hope the leaders will read this article and take the necessary action.
Dr. med.William Acquah,Germany 11 years ago

I do understand your frustration.This shows how hopeless our so-called leaders are!Another example of our stupidity:Floods occur all over the world.No houses are pulled down because they are situated on waterways.Drainage is ...
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I do understand your frustration.This shows how hopeless our so-called leaders are!Another example of our stupidity:Floods occur all over the world.No houses are pulled down because they are situated on waterways.Drainage is done to solve the problem.In Ghana, where people are poor,houses are pulled down!We do things as if we don`t have brains.Everywhere you go,you have to bribe people to get normal work done for you.How can one be proud to be a Ghanaian?Nothing works well in this country.Our people are suffering but our politicians don`t care because they are the only ones enjoying.What a shame!
Pegapas 11 years ago

"Let us abhor what is wrong and uphold what is right"! This is just what we all need! Nobody is saying people should not hawk, but not on the streets and pavements! Markets exist for that function. Anyway, it takes two to tan ...
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"Let us abhor what is wrong and uphold what is right"! This is just what we all need! Nobody is saying people should not hawk, but not on the streets and pavements! Markets exist for that function. Anyway, it takes two to tango;if people are not buying their wares, they will not be hawking them there. Why not the AMA consider sanctions for both parties, the hawkers and their customers? We as a people are too indisciplined, corrupt, greedy and selfish. Let every one of us resolve on this 56th anniversary to make a concious effort to desist from these ills and see if it will not help improve every aspect of our lives and communities! Let us all contribute our widows, mite and baby steps to solve our woes. "A word to the wise is in the north". Meanwhile happy anniversary to all Ghanaians everywhere on the globe.
buggy 11 years ago

people are suffereing n parlimentarians are shoutin for more salaries oh Ghana

people are suffereing n parlimentarians are shoutin for more salaries oh Ghana
Anane 11 years ago

My Brother, you piece is good, and at the same time it sad. But who do I blame? For me I always blame the so-called Legoneers (graduates from Legon) who are running our country now. They themselves, most of them are semi elli ...
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My Brother, you piece is good, and at the same time it sad. But who do I blame? For me I always blame the so-called Legoneers (graduates from Legon) who are running our country now. They themselves, most of them are semi ellitrates. I say this without reservation. Because if these people claim to be leaders and the country is sinking into abyss who is to blame? It is very sad. These people have the funds to travel into forein countries and they see the beauty of those countries and yet when they return they fail to implement things that will make our country beautiful. Take the case of Mr. Vanderpuye, former school administrator in the south of the United States, and this is all that he can offer? He is a disgrace to those of us who know him and started the struggle with him from the late 70s from Washington D.C.
luck 11 years ago

There is the need an urgent need to sanitize the capital.It stinks and it is chaotic with everything in limbo. Oko Vanderpuiye must do something now.

There is the need an urgent need to sanitize the capital.It stinks and it is chaotic with everything in limbo. Oko Vanderpuiye must do something now.
Abeeku Mensah 11 years ago

Stories of failed nations can be told without end but each starting with the very same underground economic activities that deprive central governments of needed taxes.
For some unexplained reason(s) Ghanaians especially tho ...
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Stories of failed nations can be told without end but each starting with the very same underground economic activities that deprive central governments of needed taxes.
For some unexplained reason(s) Ghanaians especially those who pretend to understand and or preach from the property seeking society play book are clueless about the role of government in a civilized, developed, self sustaining and or self sufficient society that requires progressive taxation and an effective and efficient system of tax collection. Ghana is dying a slow death because we cannot provide a continuous supply of electricity, pipe-borne water, in house plumbing, public toilet facilities, effective network of roads and bridges and a national infrastructure that would enhance and attract Foreign Direct Investments (FDI). Our leaders are nothing but chicken hawks with the innate propensity to be thieves and selfish. These are the leaders who cannot implement a comprehensive taxation system that will rid the streets of these hawkers because the “honorable” thieves who represent us in parliament cannot pay civil service workers on time but can afford to pay themselves enough monthly housing allowances to build decent homes in 4 years while they collect their salaries without work. When an Oxford educated Kufour would not blink an eye to sell Ghana Telecom to Vodafone under the pretext of mismanagement or would purchase mass transit buses into Ghana but buckle under pressure from private transport owners it should tell Ghanaians that our leaders have been bought and sold. Every civilized nation, from the West to East do have public transport systems partly or wholly owned by government that competes with private transport companies. Ghana of late cannot count on men with courage, vision and or foresight God forbid with wisdom; we are ruled by men and women afraid of their shadow leading a nation of spineless cheats who do not and cannot understand why we are a nation of beggars even with all the natural and mineral resources some nations can only dream of.
Fghjk 11 years ago

Stop buying from the roadside and they will go

Stop buying from the roadside and they will go
kishi 11 years ago

I blame the buyers too

I blame the buyers too
crorkz 9 years ago

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1DXuZ3 Appreciate you sharing, great blog article.Really thank you! Great.

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