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Be proud of Ghana's success at 56 - Gov't

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  • ZIPLOC 11 years ago

    So where is the beef?
    After 56yrs we lack water and power?
    Let us get real.

  • SGT ANANI FIADZOE 11 years ago

    Seeing JM taking the salute at the Black Star Square and delivering the Independence Day speech was worse than a spear going through the heart of Nana Addo. But worse is yet to come! When the SC eventually throws out his friv ...
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  • ZoRRo 11 years ago

    At 56 Years, we have NOTHING to Show:
    1.) A succession of FAILED LEADERSHIPS
    2.) A Government without a vision for the country
    3.) A Government that does not care about the plight of the people
    4.) A citizenry, though lar ...
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  • PROPHET Kwame Twumasi 11 years ago

    SORRY, BUT GHANA IS NOT TRIBALISTIC. WE ARE GETTING OVER TRIBALISM. PLAY YOUR PART.

  • ZoRRo 11 years ago

    Read the comments on Ghana-web and you'll understand my point. When you have a whole presidentiual candidate Akuffo Addo, start a sentence with "Yen Akan Fuo...." what does that mean ?

  • TerriblY Spe cifiC 11 years ago

    OUR POLITICAL LEADERS ARE TOTAL FLOP. PEOPLE WHO DON'T DESERVE TO RULE ARE DESPERATELY STRUGGLING TO RULE FOR SELFISH INTERESTS. HOW CAN WE PROGRESS THEN. NPP BEING IN OPPOSITION HAVE PUASHED RETROGRESSIVE ACTIONS TO DAMAGE G ...
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  • blueprint 11 years ago

    What is there to be proud of? Election staeling, dumso dumso and water shortages at 56. NDC is the curse on mother ghana

  • kwaku 11 years ago

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    Respect

  • KOMFO ANOKYE 11 years ago

    WE DONT EVEN HAVE A COMMON WATER TO DRINK, WHERE DO THE SUCCESSFUL COME FROM? THE DEVIL HAS PREPARED A SPECCIAL PLACE FOR YOU ALL THESE POLITICIANS.

  • CONCERNED CITIZEN 11 years ago

    EXACTLY WHAT SUCCESS ARE WE SUPPOSE TO BE PROUD OF...AFTER 56YRS OF INDEPENDENCE..BAD GOVERNMENT, CORRUPTION, POVERTY, DUM S0 DUM S), WATER SHORTAGE, HOSPITAL CRISIS, POOR EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM, CRIME RATE INCREASING,UMPLOYMENT ...
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  • Gye Nyame 11 years ago

    Independence day should be used for community service, clean our cities etc., it is more useful than letting kids stand in the sun and listen to dumb, useless speeches.

  • Jato Julor (J.J.) Rawlings 11 years ago

    Only the stealers are proud of their stealing.

    For a nation at 56 which cannot provide enough clean water for its citizens, let alone talk of enough electricity for the populace and industry, it is really appalling for tho ...
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  • Kwame Okoampa Ahoofe, Jr., Ph.D. 11 years ago

    NPP ARE CRIMINALS...WE MUST BURN DOWN THEIR HOUSES, LOOT THEIR STORES, KILL THE LOT AT NIGHT...EXECUTE THEM ONE BY ONE AT NIGHT.

    NPP IS A CRIMINAL ORGANISATION...IT'S LEADERSHIP DESERVE TO DIE DIE DIE DIEEEEEEEEEEE.

  • WISE TALK 11 years ago

    TRULY YOU'RE A REAL FOOL. HOW CAN YOU KILL B'COS OF A POLITICIAN? EI EI EI AGYIMIFO3 WO GHANA EBE YE D3N NA OMAN NO AY3 YIE.

  • preman 11 years ago

    isnt the so called minister ashamed to tell ghanaians to be proud of our independence?at 56 no electricity,drinking ect

  • TOGBE GANYO. 11 years ago

    IN THIS 56 YEARS, GHANA LOST THE BLACK STAR LINE, GHANA AIRWAYS, GHANA RAILWAYS, GHANA POST AND TELECOMMUNICATION [ P&T ] GHANA TRASPORT CORPRATION AND ALL THE INDUSTRIES ESTABLISHED DURING THESE YEARS. NOW TURN TO CHINA FOR ...
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  • Pelicles 11 years ago

    Who is the president? I think it is not that man you hate so much. Tell Mahama to lead with a vision because if he fails to deliver, I do not think anyone of you will hold Akuffo Addo responsible.

    By the way, Akans are abo ...
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  • kanga 11 years ago

    What about atopa, mahama, telling northerners to vote for him not Nana Akufo Addo, because he mahama is a northerner, which of two is more tribalistic. So my friend let's deal with the failures of our country, not follow blin ...
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  • WISE-TALK, UK 11 years ago

    hahaha, proud without light,fuel and water?klb hospital is colapsing,hahahaha.

  • Oba Nyansani Baako Pe In Ghana! 11 years ago

    What? 56 yrs with no water, electricity, petrol,gas and diesel? Etan na ebon kankan kan! Mani awu ama Ghana.

  • Anonymous Coward 11 years ago

    Be proud of what success. Apuuu

  • Joe 11 years ago

    No electricity, no water, no proper hospitals, no new proper schools, no teacher training colleges, no new proper universities, no roads, no railway, no sewerage system, no discipline on the roads that exist, court delays, po ...
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  • SHAMO 11 years ago

    We all know that all the utilities were ruined by Kufuor's kleptocratic government. Therefore we are all grateful to JM for fixing the challenges.

  • Jon 11 years ago

    SHAMO,WHEN ARE WE GOING TO STOP THE BLAME GAME. ITS BEEN NPP AND NDC FOR THE LAST 30 YEARS. WHEN WILL WE STOP SUPPORTING THESE THIEVES WHO ARE RAPING GHANA. ITS OUR POLITICIANS WHO DON'T KNOW 'JACK'. EITHER THEY CAN'T THINK O ...
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  • Whatever 11 years ago

    You are so dumb. When they are robbing you blind, you are still trying to blame people who were in power 6 years ago. It is people like you who have brought Ghana down. Supporting these 'get-rich-quick' thieves who havent got ...
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  • SGT ANANI FIADZOE 11 years ago

    Ghana has made two fatal mistakes: 1966 and 2000.
    Voting for NPP in the 200 elections was like a curse on a people who refuse to learn from their mistake. Ghana's progress was reversed in 1966. Thereafter, when JJ was making ...
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  • Nana Appiah 11 years ago

    This is What You get when Your President was Busy Travelling outside for leisure, Building Hotels and Shopping Malls, Currency Manipulation, Creating fraudulent Businesses Overseas for the purpose of Money laundering, Steal ...
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  • ZoRRo 11 years ago

    All previous leaders, except Kwame Nkrumah, share the blame for our current plight. Our situation is just pathetic. If the momentum of our first president (Nkrumah) had been carried forward, Ghana would have been a developed ...
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  • Pelicles 11 years ago

    Nkrumah did well and I believe there is no dispute about that but on the other hand, most of the problems started with him. Why? This is my point. As a young nation, there is the need to lay down a "solid foundation" that ca ...
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  • Dr. med.William Acquah,Germany 11 years ago

    What a laugh? Success? It is rather hopelessness!

  • Joe ballack England 11 years ago

    Success without water and electricity

  • Joe ballack England 11 years ago

    National Chobo party

  • What Again 11 years ago

    Kwame Nkrumah built Akosombo dam, Acheampong Kpong dam, Kuffuor Bui dam, Under NPP at least two major private people came on board. What at all has these visionless NDC people contributed to Ghana's development except stealin ...
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  • Pelicles 11 years ago

    We should all bow down our heads in shame and ask so many unanswered questions as to what went wrong. Imagine having a child who is unable to walk at age 56, what will be his/her diagnosis? That is fate of Ghana at the mome ...
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  • CAPE-COAST BOY 11 years ago

    YEA RIGHT,WE SHOULD BE PROUD OF 56 YEAR'S OF NO LIGHT AND WATER IS THAT THE SUCCESS THE GHANA GOV IS TALKING ABOUT OR WHAT

  • Sammy 11 years ago

    Ghana would have done better and better if the cancer of NDC had not come into our life. Take a look at Kwame Nkrumah and CPP, Busia-Kuffuor NPP over a few years ruling. Then compare it with the evil dwarfs, greedy bastards l ...
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  • JM 11 years ago

    Of course you thieves have succeeded being in government for barely five years and being able to build mansions you have achieved some goals fucking greedy bastards of politicians You all need to be shot. I bet One day it wil ...
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  • Slim 11 years ago

    Hahahaha

  • Balawo President 11 years ago

    What does this visionless govt think would happen to this couuntry if all the money and time spent on these grand parades are channeled to the communities to clean up on our so-called independence day?

  • John 11 years ago

    Even developed economies have a day like this oh

  • Akua 11 years ago

    I have a problem with the heading, what success?

  • NII LARTEY NARTEY 11 years ago

    What success is there to celebrate at 56 when junior countries like Singapore, Korea, Malaysia and co had far-far gone ahead of us in-terms of social developments, economic power, infrastructure, selfless purposeful governanc ...
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  • Johnson 11 years ago

    It is true. I see the weakest link now in Ghana's developmental progress. Ghana would have done better and better if the cancer of NDC had not come into our life. Take a look at Kwame Nkrumah and CPP, Busia-Kuffuor NPP over a ...
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  • Akua 11 years ago

    Get real!

  • Jon 11 years ago

    BE PROUD OF WHAT??. WHAT IS THERE TO CELEBRATE. BESIDES THE AIR THAT GOD HAS FREELY GIVEN TO US, WHAT CAN WE BE PROUD TO CELEBRATE AND SAY YES!! WE DID IT. ARE WE NOT SHAMEFUL OF THE FACT THAT AFTER 56 YEARS, WE CAN'T BOAST O ...
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  • Nana Adu 11 years ago

    Mahama show boy! What have you and your NDC done? We want to know!

  • munaga 11 years ago

    56 YEARS ACHIEVEMENT IS CORRUPTION, POVERTY AND LIGHT OFF. PEACE BUT NOT EQUAL RIGHT....

  • SON OF GHANA 11 years ago

    OUR BEST ACHIEVEMENTS AFTER THE SAID 56YRS OF FREEDOM ARE CORRUPTION, STEALING, INTIMIDATION, BRUTALIZING OUR OWN PEOPLE, ETHNIC DIVISIONS, STOMACH POLITICS AND ECONOMICALLY, BRINGING DOWN THE COUNTRY. COMPLETE NEGATIVE ACHIE ...
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  • Kwame Nkrumah 11 years ago

    Ghanaians, yes, and including everyone of them on this forum, have a chip on their shoulder. they are incapable of seeing good even if they tripped over it. most people will comment as if they have the country's interest at h ...
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  • EZEKIEL 11 years ago

    In 56 yrs our population has jumped up almost 5X but we have NOT even taken Notice of it to PLAN ANYTHING!!
    The Blackman DOESN'T PLAN ANYTHING and this ad hoc running of a WHOLE NATION is NOTHING to be proud of!!!!!
    BASIC A ...
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  • Akosua 11 years ago

    BASIC THINGS GOVERNMENT AND OLITICIANS MUST CEASE MATCHING ON 100 DEGREES TEMPERATURE AND FIX IT. THE MATCHING IS UNPRODUCTIVE.PERIOD.

  • PROPHET Kwame Twumasi 11 years ago

    As we celebrate our 56th self rule, WE ARE PROUD TO HAVE OVERCOME TRIBALISTIC TENTIONS.
    NDC HAS REALLY TRANSFORMED GHANA INTO A UNITY NATION, WHERE EVERY TRIBE HAS EQUAL OPPORTUNITY TO BE OUR PRESIDENT. IT WAS THE DREAM OF ...
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  • PREZZO 11 years ago

    WHO IS THIS NONSENSE AYARIGA MAN. PLSE I DO DO NOT NEED TO REMIND YOU AND MAHAMA THAT ALL THE MONEY WE NEED TO FIX THE CHALLENGES ARE IN THE POCKETS AND BANK ACCOUNTS OF NDC GUYS. I PRAY DOD STRIKES THEM ALL DOWN LIKE HUGO CH ...
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  • AKAN 11 years ago

    PROUD OF WHAT? PEPENI AS PRESIDENT IN GHANA?

  • The Beloved 11 years ago

    you are a disgrace to Akans. small mind!

  • Okomfo, London 11 years ago

    There is nothings to be proud of because things are getting worse everyday.

  • Obeng (Atlanta u.s.a) 11 years ago

    Do u need powerful spiritual help? I know of a very very powerful young lady name Queen who has rescue me from hell, poverty nd shame. Nd has made me very very rich nd powerful. Wats ur problem? Name it nd Queen will solve al ...
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  • The Beloved 11 years ago

    DON'T please....Queen Mother uses water spirits they will give you a solution but you will be in their grip (power) the rest of your lives, and they will also control you sexually! Please do yourself a favor and pray, however ...
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  • Segoe 11 years ago

    You have a gay president and you are proud of that. You have a corrupt Pepeni as president and you are proud of that. You have no light, no water, no roads and you are proud of that after 56 years. What a bunch of people!

  • Kwabena 11 years ago

    Didn't Malaysia have their independance round about the same time as Ghana? And where are they now? Shame on all of the governments that have ruled ghana, we don't have common water and electricity! Thank God that he gave ...
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  • OBIBINI 11 years ago

    I would like to know if the NPP is also celebrating Ghana's independence anniversary.They are the poodles of the imperialists and they do not believe that the african is capable of ruling himself.They are the apostles of the ...
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  • KWABENA JONES 11 years ago

    What is to be proud off? There's nothing to be proud off, when countries who at indepedence, we had a much higher GDP like the Malaysias are all way ahead of us, surely, we cannot be very proud of where we are, and more so, w ...
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  • KWABENA OHEMENG,LONDON 11 years ago

    Kwabena, thanks for your sensible comments which are very factual.However i want to let you know that Ghana has moved a long way forward since independence.The British left Gold Coast a country with no good roads,few schools, ...
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  • Nana Egyir Aggrey 11 years ago

    Why not tell the people the truth-you are disgusting and immoral.You live in filth and you call that an achievement,the people have no clean drinking water,no good health care,millions of children do not go to school,millions ...
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  • Chief amankwa 11 years ago

    Ok

  • Joe 11 years ago

    A nation without light ,water,poor sanitation is not success why are we deceving our self.

  • princewilly@ymail.com 11 years ago

    A husband and wife were having a fine dining experience at their exclusive country club when this stunning young woman comes over to their table, gives the husband a big kiss, says she'll see him later and walks away.
    His wi ...
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  • fredsaid 11 years ago

    BE SHAMEFUL OF YOUR ACHIEVEMENTS! THAT IS MORE LIKE IT. all the political leaders can be proud of are:
    1. No water
    2.No electricity
    3. No medical care
    4.old dilapidated hospitals
    5. Terrible roads
    6. No infracstructure
    ...
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  • NTAFUO-GOVERNMENT WHAT A JOLKE !!! 11 years ago

    NO WATER,NO ELECTRICITY

  • Kodwo 11 years ago

    ....."As Ghana marks its 56th independence anniversary today with colourful parades across the country, government has appealed to Ghanaians to be proud of the success the country has achieved in the last 56 years".

    WE WIL ...
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  • Ayawo 11 years ago

    About six or seven years ago most Ghanaians.
    has no clue of computers mobiles ??
    Oil discoverid Lots of universities to educate the youths to compete with the world that is success and development.

  • Quaye mensah 11 years ago

    i see such an unforgivable and foolish president

  • Ohenenana 11 years ago

    How many tribes is made up of Akans in Ghana?.Why People think Ashantis are the only akan tribe in Ghana.Akans are made up of 85 percent of Ghanas Population,so if Nana Addo says akan fuo ,why are you People such as ZoRRo tal ...
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  • Whatever 11 years ago

    What success??? You mean all kinds of illiterates and peasants stealing our money, gold and national earnings, I dread to think what the country will be like a few years from now. The NDC govt should be brave and stand up to ...
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  • Senior Wisdom 11 years ago

    I am proud of my country and desperately looking to see us move into a middle income status. What saddens me is the level of corruption that has become a national canker. Nothing in Ghana can be achieved without doing a backh ...
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  • SHAKAMORA 11 years ago

    be proud of ghana's success poverty hovering around nkwaseafuo r ruling the nation

  • SGT ANANI FIAZOE GAY 11 years ago

    GHANIANS SALUTE NANA ADDO,WISE MAN,WE ARE PROUD OF YOU,GOD BLESSES YOU,AND GHANA AMEN TO THAT,PERIOD

  • Joe 11 years ago

    It is a shame for this boy to say we should be proud of Ghana's success. What success? Success of no light, water, gas, liquid gas, etc. Come on and do not live in a fool's paradise, Ayariga.

  • DOKORDOKOR 11 years ago

    GOD BLESS GHANA MY MOTHERLAND.

  • Maama 11 years ago

    KEEP ON DOKODOKORING AND DOKODOKOR WILL KILL YOU AND YOU WILL NOT SEE NANA ADDO INSTALLED.

  • insight to the bone 11 years ago

    pepeni its obvious we need to break things down for you and your illiterate cat and dog eaters not forgetting your ashanti retards who sent their king loaded with 500kgs of gold to battle and got drowned. You are incompetent ...
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  • Kretz D - Beantown 11 years ago

    Say what? Who said that? More than 50 years and no decent water, no good health system, poor educational system, just to mention a few, and you are saying Ghanaians should be proud of these? Wow, whoever said this must be liv ...
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  • omanba pa(H 11 years ago

    we should be ashame 56yrs we can't solve water and light problems.56yrs and so what?

  • KOFORIDUA Flowers (fr) 11 years ago

    A LOT OF DEVELOPMENTS INCLUDE: SLEEPING IN DARKNESS,DRINKING CONTAMINATED WATER IN SPASMODIC INTERVALS,DEADLY ROAD ACCIDENTS, FIRE GUSHING FROM MARKET TO MARKET, HOUSE TO HOUSE,INCLUDING POOR MEDICAL CARE, MASS UNEMPLOYMENT,P ...
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  • STONER KOBYLYNTON 11 years ago

    Yes, Ayariga will say this nonsense because in Accra he gets a little bit of clean water to drink unlike Northern Region where inhabitants drink with Cows, Goats and sheep from filthy ponds. Proof me wrong and travel to North ...
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  • Abeiku - SW2 London 11 years ago

    What success ...... at 56 still no proper running water ... no electricity .. kids still selling by d road side ... Woyome and co should be proud of their success ... not d ordinary Ghanian

  • shamu 11 years ago

    If Ghana will be proud of it`s success, what about countries like Malaysia, singapore, HongKong, Indonesia and so on and on. Sometimes we need to think before we talk.

  • fredsaid 11 years ago

    BE SHAMEFUL OF YOUR ACHIEVEMENTS! THAT IS MORE LIKE IT. all the political leaders can be proud of are:
    1. No water
    2.No electricity
    3. No medical care
    4.old dilapidated hospitals
    5. Terrible roads
    6. No infracstructure
    ...
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  • A.M.A 11 years ago

    WHAT SHOULD WE BE PROUD OF? SHOULD WE BE PROUD OF WATER, FOOD, POVERTY, OR ELECTRICITY? POOR GHANA!

  • yiddana@yahoo.com 11 years ago

    There is nothing to celebrate about Ghana's independence. Ghanaian s have no basic amenities of life, water, housing electricity @ 56. Look @ Somalia, it never had a functioning government for 20 years, yet the war torn coun ...
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  • FF 11 years ago

    SHAME MAHAMA

  • FF 11 years ago

    SHAMEFUL GOVERNMENT WITH NO VISION

  • FF 11 years ago

    NO WONDER WE LACK WATER AND ELECTRICITY.

  • MAHAMA MORE CORRUPT NOW 11 years ago

    PROUD WITHOUT WATER,LIGHTS,CRIMINAL THIEVE GANGATUAN DEPTS,MAHAMA SHIP AND JET,GOLD DIGGER,TOO MUCH JUJU,KILLED MILLS FOR POWER,UELESS INCOMPETENT PREZ,SHAME SHAME SHAME,

  • Tetamaklan 11 years ago

    you, mahama, the people hate you.

  • JH-New York City 11 years ago

    Mr Ayariga, are U serious? Ghana is apathetic story.Do you mean 56 years of persistent lacks of basic common amenities like, Water, Electricity, Hospital Equipment,Agrarian society, pan latrines, Mosquitos, not a single irri ...
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  • JH-New York City 11 years ago

    Mr Ayariga, are U serious? Ghana is apathetic story.Do you mean 56 years of persistent lacks of basic common amenities like, Water, Electricity, Hospital Equipment,Agrarian society, pan latrines, Mosquitos, not a single irri ...
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  • OGOGLO QUARTER 11 years ago

    GHANA LIKE A STUPID 56YRS OLD BROKE MAN WITHOUT A WIFE AND ALWAYS DRUNK."OGOGLO"

  • Adwowa Mansah 11 years ago

    56 Years of Independence - what we have achieved so far

    Gold Refinery – still born
    Sugar industry – RIP
    Ceramic industry – yamutu
    Glass industry - RIP
    Rubber industry - on slippery slope
    Vehicle Assembly indust ...
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  • Meshack 11 years ago

    Shut up you idiots and stop jarring my eardrums...what success...after fifty-six years, we still have a government that is as dumb as it can get...a band of criminal nation-wreckers...it would have been better if the British ...
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