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Ghana: Best in electricity access in Africa

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  • KNYC (USMC) 11 years ago

    Lip service.

  • Be Bold 11 years ago

    Just stop this shit talk. This is why there will be a coup in Ghana one day soon. What is access to electricity if I have to run my generator 90% of time? When the Water Company cannot pump water to the masses because there i ...
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  • DAN 11 years ago

    my 350 kilowatts in usa is only $40..so who is getting ripped off?????

  • gretchy 11 years ago

    Geeze hahaha there is nothing to compare against u idiot.Ghana is Ghana so get your nose out of Mahama's backside.How can any business run without electricity or even the homes where it is most important.Ghana is rich in res ...
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  • A,D,A,G 11 years ago

    all they can do is talk blablablabla,! Members of the foreign Embassies, and government officials have access to water and electricity daily. Only the general public as to suffer. Each one for himself, and God for all, huh ...
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  • Nicholas J Bedzo 11 years ago

    All blablabla,ends in nothing. There
    must be a light and thats all we want.
    We dont adequally receive light sufficiently in our own country but happen to sell power to our neibours for money,and that money to someones pock ...
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  • PRINCE KWASI ADADE 11 years ago

    THE WRITING IS NOW ON THE WALLS. ECONOMIC & SOCIAL UNREST THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY. PEOPLE WILL NOW TAKE MY WORD SERIOUS.-------"IT IS ONLY A FOOL, WHO ALLOWS HIS TESTICLES TO BE STEPPED ON TWICE"-------GO OUT THERE AND RECEIVE ...
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  • Ama Sekan Kesseh 11 years ago

    OOHH . Honourable VRA CEO, totally disagree with ur interview with "The EL-HAJJ !!!.Ghana is putting the Cart before the Horse in everything we do when it's not entirely necessary to offer anything but keenly have the job don ...
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  • MAHA MA GBAGBO 11 years ago

    He is protecting his job.

  • Nicholas J Bedzo 11 years ago

    This means a lot,tongue thight.

  • Agyeman 11 years ago

    Measuring your "achievements" by gauging yourself against those in the lowest tier is both misguided and likely to lead you to rest on your subpar laurels.Give us 24/7 electicity supply and raise further the access rate for G ...
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  • ECOMINI 11 years ago

    ALL WE NEED IS 24 HOURS OF UNINTERRUPTED POWER.

  • KK_D 11 years ago

    Yes, mediocrity at the highest order. This CEO has no shame. He has the guts to have this news published again. Whoever is doing this MUST, with due respect to all Ghanaians and all stakeholders (including all living in Ghana ...
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  • Osofo 11 years ago

    This is but crap.

  • raw 11 years ago

    still expensive because some people are surving under 1$ a day

  • KNYC (USMC) 11 years ago

    Presiden dumsor dumsor Mahama, with his lack of economy ideas.

  • AKASI MARTHA ARIZONA USA. 11 years ago

    THANKS TO ELECTRICITY CORPARATION TO INTRODUCING THE ELECTRIC METER.NOW PEOPLE ARE PAYING THEIR BILLS THAN BEFORE. VERY SOON GHANA WILL BE THE TOP OF THE WORLD IN ELECTRICITY

  • DAN 11 years ago

    smelly,fishy pussy...$5 per hour. anal and oral $2 extra

  • Yes I said it (USA) 11 years ago

    Women-hating gay man you.Probably can't make kids anyway.

  • SAY IT LOUD ! 11 years ago

    STUPID FOOLISH GHANAIANS.
    LOOK AT HOW THEY ARE MEASURING AND COMPARING, BACKWARDS!.

    ALL THEY KNOW IS CHURCH, CHURCH, CHURCH.

    MORONS !!

  • Chief amankwa 11 years ago

    Low life a awotwe.
    Get the hell out of the place.

  • DAN 11 years ago

    ???

  • ANU 11 years ago

    why people are today talking of what they actually dont know. Who tolk you this ?

  • Ras Juvas 11 years ago

    Mr VRA boss, I want to know what institutional reforms u are talking about and why are u not initiating those reforms since u are the boss? INCOMPETENCE AT THE HIGHEST LEVEL.

  • Sir Herman 11 years ago

    WRONG COMPARISON!! WITH THE WORST SCENARIOS.

  • why us 11 years ago

    we dont want to hear this. all we want to see is electricity in our rooms

  • ABIRI 11 years ago

    THINK OUT OF THE BOX LIKE NKRUMAH DID. IF KWAME NKRUMAH HAD COMPARED US TO THE OUR SUB-SAHARAN NEIGHBORS.. MAYBE EVERYTHING WOULD BE AT SUB-STANDARD IN GHANA LIKE YOU THINK, SIR. AIM HIGH, MY FRIEND.

  • KK_D 11 years ago

    DEAR FOLKS,
    Yes, mediocrity at the highest order. This CEO has no shame. He has the guts to have this news published again. Whoever is doing this MUST, with due respect to all Ghanaians and all stakeholders (including all li ...
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  • Fredsaid 11 years ago

    Why are Ghanaians being continuously subjected to these kind of ignorant, uninformed and uneducated pronouncements to justify their positions as heads of departments.

    It is because these spokesperson seriously believe Ghan ...
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  • Bob 11 years ago

    Kwaku Awotwe are you really serious?You are to be fired for this nonsense.Big time thieves give Ghanaians a break and stop the shit.

  • JEQ 11 years ago

    Just compared can not be the absolut solution to the problem since what we in Ghana are looking for is not thesame as what the other nations you keep comparering wont.

    We have problems in the power sector this is a fact an ...
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  • AMADI SANYARIGA 11 years ago

    ALL THE WOODEN ELECTRICITY POLES AROUND UTC,ACCRA MUST BE REMOVED.WE NEED MODERN ONES.THE COST MUST BE SHARED BY THE CONSUMERS.

  • A,D,A,G 11 years ago

    then the VRA boss should act and not just talk blablablabla then actions speaks more than words. They should have long mobilize funds to use wind and solar energy. This load shedding and frequent light-offs is a matter of l ...
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  • pk 11 years ago

    Aim for 100% access. It's achievable.

  • Sammy 11 years ago

    YES! BEST IN CORRUPTION! Mr.Empty Awotwe! Day Dreamer!

  • JH-New York City 11 years ago

    Here they come again,saying what they don't know.Always comparing Ghana to other countries instead of getting the job done.Not until such morons as Kweku Awotwe and the likes are removed from office, the people will continue ...
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  • EZEKIEL 11 years ago

    WHY do we always compare Ghana with other AFRICAN COUNTRIES ???Why don't we COMPARE OURSELVES with Singapure,Malyasia, S.Korea AND STRIVE TO GET THERE ??? this thumping of EMPTY CHEST is doing us NO good !!
    If in EXAMS your ...
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  • Agyeman 11 years ago

    Good analysis there.Nobody ever did their best by gauging themselves against the bottom tier.Its counter intuitive.

  • Eko 11 years ago

    Renewable energy, driven by uncorruptable leadership is the way forward for Africa.The problem is that often it is a big investment to install; but the returns that we will get will make it worth it.

  • PHILIP GYAN,OSLO-NORWAY. 11 years ago

    AWOTWE,WITH ALL YOUR SO-CALLED EDUCATION YOU COMPARE YOURSELF WITH THE WORST INSTEAD OF THE BEST.AWOTWE, YOU SHOULD EITHER BE THE BEST OR AMONG THE BEST AND THAT MAKES YOU EFFICIENT.
    THIS IS THE STUPID MENTALITY OF GHANA LEA ...
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  • PHILIP GYAN,OSLO-NORWAY. 11 years ago

    NAIVE CEO SHOULD BE SACKED FOR COMPARING WITH THE MOST INEFFICIENT. THAT TELLS HOW NAIVE,STUPID AND INEFFICIENT HE IS.HE DOES NOT DESERVE TO BE THERE.

  • Sunkwa 11 years ago

    Simply incompetent---and always with their hands open to accept bribes for discharging their duties--shame on you.

  • facts 11 years ago

    Go to Libya to see how they have electricity 24 by 7 days a week and learn from them.

  • azie 11 years ago

    You telling the intellengence of ghanaians that we should compare ourselves to these idiotic disorganise african leaders, instead of roll modeling organised nation with patrotic leaders who always think ahead for their grand ...
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  • Say the TRUTH 11 years ago

    IF GHANA IS THE COUNTRY IN AFRICA WITH THE BEST ACCESS TO ELECTRICITY THEN IS SHOWS HOW AFRICA IN A BIG MESS!!!

    hmmmmmm the BEST AMONG THE WORST!!!

    SHOULD WE BE PROUD OF THAT??????


    hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm WHAT A PITY - ...
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  • Kofi Kwegyir 11 years ago

    This Awotwe fellow sounds arrogant and a trifle too foolish. I listened to him on a Radio station in Ghana and felt rather disappointed.
    Ghanaians are not asking him to do a comparative analysis of electricity supply in Afri ...
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  • Dr. med.William Acquah,Germany 11 years ago

    What a laugh! Two years ago, on my visit to Ghana,most of my medical equipments were destroyed due to power outages!I had to take a loan to buy new ones!

  • Yes I said it (USA) 11 years ago

    would like to hear your blueprint to uplift Ghana into this 21st century?

  • Adjei 11 years ago

    Not enough! Can we say the same when we compare Ghana to Singapore, Malaysia etc which gained independence about the same time?

  • Kofi 11 years ago

    Now go ahead with the dumsor, dumsor because Ghana is okay, idiot!

  • Kordiaber 11 years ago

    When people in higher places accept lower type of living, the Country perishes.Ghana is stagnant because our Leaders lack vision and in the state of Hopelessness.My goodness,
    what kind of retards running the Country.

  • Balatunde 11 years ago

    This Awotwe guy doesnot know what the hell he is talking about. If he thinks Ghana has enough electricity, then why doesn't he make sure all parts of Ghana have enough of it before exporting it?

    Another pig head who happen ...
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  • Obaapa 11 years ago

    Small boys with small minds.

  • oscar 11 years ago

    They just wake up and say any stupid thing from their stomach.

  • Nana Kweku Arhin 11 years ago

    Hello Mr. Awotwe,

    Your comparison does not make sense if Ghanaians cannot get power or electricity to cook or boil water to take a bath. Whether Ghana is second to or not to South Africa in terms of electricity supply doe ...
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  • Tokyo !! 11 years ago

    I just can't beleive this. If we are the best in Africa. Then Africa is completely doomed. Poor lazy minds at work. !!

  • Tommy 11 years ago

    SHUP UP?DUMSO DUMSO BE LIGHT 414 LIGHT BE LIGHT?U DE CRAZ.

  • antwi bosiako 10 years ago

    is bullshit to hear kind of this excuses Ghanaian must fight to against the ecg team