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Rent charges killing Ghanaians – Fiifi Kwetey

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  • OSEI TAWIAH -UK 11 years ago

    IDIOT TALK

  • OSEI TAWIAH -UK 11 years ago

    CORRECTING

  • insight to the bone 11 years ago

    Obviously i need to break things down for you ewe idiots . The Germans being the lead tribe of Europe isnt as stupid as you wish , more than half of the Nobel prize winners before the second world war were german yet Hollywoo ...
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  • TROUBLE-MAKER 11 years ago

    What has the rubbish you pasted here got to do with this article,fool?
    Some of you idiots needs to be in a mental home.

  • Lady Detective 11 years ago

    These babies with sharp teeth have amassed huge wealth in owning houses and mansions all over Ghana.
    If he is really concerned about the high levels of rent, why not charge half price at his many houses he has got in the few ...
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  • Frank Agyena-Karikari 11 years ago

    The reason for this rent hikes is that most of these landlords do not have any meaningful employment and they have to take care of issues by the rent their tenants pay. So, if prices of petrol shoots up and prices of things i ...
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  • insight to the bone 11 years ago

    why bother with this loser of a minister with his office behind the toilet. he is supposed to be one of the media spin doctors of the ayigbe and this article is only meant to distract our attention from whats really important ...
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  • Taharka 11 years ago

    I agree with you.

  • EZEKIEL 11 years ago

    I had thought it will be the Kingdom of Akan,Idiot!

  • insight to the bone 11 years ago

    kingdoms are a matter of the middle ages which obviously you are still living in. fool

  • messa 11 years ago

    IT TIME ALL THE GREEDY LANDLORD OF ACCRA COME DOWN TO EARTH NOW AND STOP RIPPING OFF FALKS WE CANT PAY SUCH HIGH RENT O

  • Saint Paul 11 years ago

    I thought Fiifi Kwetey studied Economics.It is SUPPLY and DEMAND at work.This is Basic Economics.

  • MARY 11 years ago

    Re;Blame the nigerians the are buying our land selling it to us and bring their criminals to ghana.

  • DAN 11 years ago

    in usa at apartment complex you pay 2 months called the first and last month rent..when the area has competiors some even allow the first month free..But credit is checked to insure you have money to pay..And you are taken to ...
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  • Waga drill 11 years ago

    if u think rent is expensive, try building your own house

  • OSEI TAWIAH -UK 11 years ago

    WE HAVE A VASE OF LAND IN GHANA

  • Waga drill 11 years ago

    the cost of land alone in ghana now is SIKA-PRUUDUU.

  • Kwaku 11 years ago

    The vast land is not only meant for housing,it needs to be put to other uses like farming,forestry,industry,recreation,research etc.By the way do they put up houses anyhow where you are?Individuals just don't start by buying ...
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  • OSEI TAWIAH -UK 11 years ago

    STAY COOL AND KEEP ON PAYING

  • DAN 11 years ago

    It should be pre-planned that certain areas are for farms/forest/ other for living, areas for industry ( lite or heavy) and areas for shopping such as ring road or main street of osu..Just because you buy a piece of land in u ...
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  • Terribly Spe cific 11 years ago

    TELL FIIFI KOTRE TO RENT HIS NUMEROUS HOUSES HE HAS BUILT WITH HIS NDC BOOTY FREE TO IS NDC FOOTSOLDIERS.

  • TROUBLE-MAKER 11 years ago

    The property market in the UK is completely different to that of Ghana.

  • papa 11 years ago

    h

  • OSEI TAWIAH -UK 11 years ago

    NOT EVEN UK CAN AFFORD TO GIVE US EVERYTHING CHEAP

  • Waga drill 11 years ago

    That's why u r cleaning public toilets in UK even after graduating from legon

  • OSEI TAWIAH -UK 11 years ago

    I DO NOT COMPLAIN OF MY WORK AND RENT

  • Waga drill 11 years ago

    yea, it's becos u r sleeping under the london bridge 4 free. shame on run-away street boy...

  • Obed Adore 11 years ago

    I think the rent itself is quite cheap in Ghana. However, the conditions attached are problematic. How on earth should a landlord ask for a 3-years advance rent from a poor labourer? Unfortunately, such is the rent situation ...
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  • BabaUS 11 years ago

    Stop misusing funds and make it easier to build more. You are making noise for nothing

  • Ajit Babu 11 years ago

    Go and ask about the prices of building materials before you expose your ignorance and stupidity, ABOA like you.

  • Kwaku 11 years ago

    The P/NDC govt has been in power for almost 25yrs,assuming each year they had put up 50,000 houses the state would be having 1,250,000 houses by now.25yrs just wasted like that,they dont have any conscience they keep on talki ...
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  • KWAME 11 years ago

    IF PRICES COULD BE REDUCED THEN I THINK RENTS WILL FALL DRAMATICALLY.

  • Chief Justice 11 years ago

    Shup up, hypocrite. Have you ever paid rent before. The high rent charges is as a result of the wicked and jaundiced economic policies of the NDC. If you want rent to come down, then manage the economy better or give way to t ...
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  • JOHN WHITE 11 years ago

    Blame Akomfem Mahama!

  • KFC 11 years ago

    Fools, with all the Korean housing project that
    Mahama undersigned , how many have you managed to build

  • Rokos 11 years ago

    Africans spend their moneys on luxury funerals, presidential jets, big cars and beg for necessities like- food, water, electricity, housing !!!!
    Africans can never get their priorities right- their mindset is all screwed up.

  • Medusa 11 years ago

    Fiifi Kwettey will always be Fiifi Kwetey - All talk, no substance. I'm not surprised for "empty barrels" they say "make the most noise". Is he still flying to the UK on a weekly basis to attend lectures at the Ghanaian tax p ...
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  • Gilbert 11 years ago

    Reform the rent ACT or Enforce its implementation. Otherwise scrap the Rent Control department

  • Nana Kofi, Kumasi 11 years ago

    This is a major issue and must be tackled with all seriousness. This is also the reasons while workers steal to build their own houses. Government should start something now.

  • TROUBLE-MAKER 11 years ago

    In his bloody 8 years Ghanaians saw the cost of building materials went sky high.The cost of cement went higher twice its original price. And so it has been and still going up.
    Try putting up a house and see how expensive bu ...
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  • CHARCOAL SELLER. 11 years ago

    Saga drill, you made me laugh until I started coughing, "sleeping under London Bridge" that's a funny one alright.

  • Nii Akwei 11 years ago

    Consider the damage some do to the house. They use the kitchen counter(Formica) as a cutting board. Dirty the walls, I mean DIRTY. Bathroom and Toilet, I don't want to talk about it. Nasty. Using newspaper to wipe their ass ...
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  • American D 11 years ago

    Perhaps if there was affordable housing instead of houses sitting there vacant for years on ens (such as those in Ayigya) people would have a place to live. The prices of cement have more than tripled over the past few years ...
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  • AGYAKU 11 years ago

    THE NDC GOVT MUST MAKE A LAW THAT LANLORDS CAN?NOT CHARGE TWO YEARS ADVANCE PAYMENT FOR HIRING THEIR HOUSES. IN EUROPE ADVANCE PAYMENT IS JUST FOR TWO MONTHS B UT IN GHANA IS JUST TOO MUCH SO THE POOR PEOPLE ARE SUFFERING AND ...
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  • Kwame 11 years ago

    Government does not fix prices of commodities, services and interest rates in Ghana and can not enforce them. Government does not also fix wages and salaries for workers, because if that is the case even the president will be ...
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  • Kwame 11 years ago

    The government does not also control the prices of houses built by several housing companies and are for sale. I am of the view that Fifi Kwetey is talking about a poor landlord or landlady with some number of hall and chamb ...
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  • Neither NDC Nor NPP 11 years ago

    You have enough intelligence to recognize that as back as 1963, Nkrumah was taking progressive measures to assist struggling citizens from undue exploitation in housing (in addition to increasing the housing stock through the ...
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  • SANTO 11 years ago

    she lives in America and controls her rent in ghana.she does not even know that when u build a house n decides to remt it out the gov becomes part of your house.niavity and nkurase s3m will send her to the mental home

  • KWAME 11 years ago

    This is a matter of demand and supply.As long as there is inadequate housing for the people in the country, landlords will take advantage to make extra-ordinary profit.
    In this situation, state institutions have to adopt sta ...
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  • messa 11 years ago

    HOW CAN A FAMILY FROM GHANA PAY $900-$1000 A MON TH RENT ON A 3-4 BEDRROM HOME WE CANT MAKE O RENT MUST COME DOWN GREEDY LANDLORD MUST BE REALISTIC

  • Nana Mensah 11 years ago

    The answer to all these must be dis centralization.
    It's very stupid for a country to put her eggs in one basket.Everything is all about Accra.What about other parts of the country?
    Everybody complains about over crowding i ...
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  • KODZOVI DZADU from Denu V/R 11 years ago

    Fifi you are welcome,it is true that rent charges killing Ghanaians.If MPs can do something about this issues in parliament i will be very glad.When you want to rent a room they ask you to pay 2 to 3 years advance but hardly ...
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  • APEEE TOOOO 11 years ago

    OOOh Fiifi why were u given 50,000? In simple terms, when demand outweighs demand what happens ? You need not be an economist or financial officer to understand this basic and simple natural phenomenon

  • Dave 11 years ago

    Ghana is not an island. Is it only in Ghana that demand outstrips supply? Go to Nigeria, Togo, guinea, Congo etc and h never hear of rent charged over a period of two years. Not even a year. Why only US? That's the essence of ...
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  • BIG JOE - belarus russia, ukraine 11 years ago

    Do landowners build homes at the expense of tenants? Do tenants also consider renting a flat means house ownership ? Everyone has a place to lay his head in Ghana . Contrary to expectations on one travels along with his /the ...
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  • Dave 11 years ago

    Is Ghana an island? Why are others in Africa not also charging two years and three years rent? That's the issue

  • Omanba Pa, London-Islington 11 years ago

    You informed us during the campaign period that Ghana had a huge resource and NDC is the only party that can move Ghana forward.

    So, where is our money then? Answer me! "Wo kwasea".

  • Dave 11 years ago

    If u have nothing intelligent to contribute just shut up Fifi raised a pertinent issue that must elicit intelligent response.

  • predator 11 years ago

    KWETEY - YOU SAID IT: DEMAND OUTSTRIPS SUPPLY OF HOUSING. IF SUPPLY WAS MORE THAN DEMAND WILL YOU THINK RENT WILL BEHIGH? DEMAND- SUPPLY CURVE BRO. AS FOR GOVERNMENT AFFORDABLE HOUSING PROJECTS, I REST MY CASE AND WATCH.

  • DAN 11 years ago

    Gov's in usa are tearing down every housing project built in america from 30-50 years ago and replace them with paper vouchers to use in private apartment complex. Lower interest rates will allow either apartments or homes t ...
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  • Lord HateGood 11 years ago

    Has Fiifi checked prices of building materials of late? If a landlord spends that lots of money in putting up a building, do not expect rent control to have a say in how much he rents it.Why not begin with controling prices o ...
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  • Efo Kobla 11 years ago

    I thought you were going talk about the STX. Did you not tell the ecomini was good because inflation was single digit? If PMs can collect GHC50,000 as rent advance what do you want landlords to do. Tell us to move houses buil ...
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  • From Italy 11 years ago

    Please fortify rent Control to be on it own for better services

  • kwaku 11 years ago

    This is true most especially in the upper west region ofghana

  • Cash 11 years ago

    This idiot is comparing Ghana's rent to Nigeria and Kenya. Has he compared the duties they charge the poor traders of Ghana to those countries? These imbeciles in government have always tried their best to make it hard for bu ...
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  • Dave 11 years ago

    So u guys can cement on important national discussions without insults and political biased analysis. Where is this country headed?