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Weekend fires vindicate Mahama's arson claims - Murtala

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  • Kay 10 years ago

    Can't somebody stop these people from making those stupid statements?Are we saying those whose residents got burnt were also caused by arsonists?

  • Nhyiraba 10 years ago

    This NDC comment is always making baseless assumptions. Can't it be that market women are less careful on the weekends. So you are telling us that a government worker closes for the week and sets the market on fire on his day ...
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  • AFARI GYAN & MAHAMA ARMED ROBBERY 10 years ago

    AFARI GYAN, MAHAMA AND ASIEDU NKETIA ARE ALL ARMED ROBBERS

  • Nicholas J Bedzo 10 years ago

    NPP,your God never sleeps,he is watching a very bit movement done by
    NDC assciates to down fall you.Now is
    the pay day for them. Corupt Party since Mills time.

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  • FAR INDIA 10 years ago

    KUWAIT 'S TOP COURT HAS ORDERED THE DISSOLUTION OF PARLIAMENT AND FRESH ELECTIONS. So this is possible afterall. Ghana should brace for the impact of supreme court judgement. NDC in real trouble!

  • OLD SOLDIER 10 years ago

    Author:SGT ANANI FIADZOE...
    When can we get some sensible people in this Coup D'etat born so-called political party who are encouraging
    dumso-dumso, thievery, looting, incompetency, violence, deceitful, dishonesty, lies and ...
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  • krikri 10 years ago

    Why is your appetite for destruction targetted at chewing electric cables installed only at market places? Is that how to behave in opposition? Is that 'win at all cost' else 'all die be die' mean? 70 year old blood thirsty a ...
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  • OBAA YAA 10 years ago

    A boy was said to have been left to sleep in the “candle lit structure” while his mother went out to buy diapers and this fool thinks that the fire outbreak in that structure is the work of arsonist

    Another fire at Nu ...
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  • kubolo 10 years ago

    As for me I lik to saying my opinios that Mahama govament hav not tink proper becouse Mahama hav saying many many tings is not truf at all. mahama govament hav now promising market peoplese 2millions so therfor I tink that so ...
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  • Nicholas J Bedzo 10 years ago

    NDC, Party you are now paying for your
    actions in the Election by duping NPP.
    Why now crying,this is a purnishment
    from God.The Bible says dont cheat your neibor and you have done that.
    What you sow that you reap.

  • REALITY 10 years ago

    Keep burning the country because that 70 years old man certificateless Nana Ado. He is 70 and will soon join his ancestors whiles most of you fools are still young and will live in the country you are destroying. Fools

  • DAN 10 years ago

    First the mother must be arrested(she would be in usa)...You never leave a child alone in a real house( brick and electric lites) for all we know the child knocked over the candle and started the fire..If no lights you must u ...
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  • TON JAPAN 10 years ago

    YOUR BRAINLESS COMMENTS MAKE ME SICK THERE IS A PROBLEMS IS THE COUNTRY INSTERD FOR THE GOVT TO FIND WAYOUT YOU ALWAYS KEEP ON BLEAMING NPP AND NANADDO CERTIFICALESS DO YOU HAVE WORK IN YOUR LIFE GET LIFE

  • REALITY 10 years ago

    NPP, you keep burning your brothers and sisters because of 70 years old Nana Ado who is a total failure.He is drawing nearer to his grave and you young NPP fools will see the damage you are causing to yourselves. Cowards.

  • DAN 10 years ago

    ndc=Nigger dickSucking company...This guy makes money by allowing white tourist to stick their penis in his mouth and anus for 5 ghana cedi!

  • JDM 10 years ago

    WHAT A STUPID STATEMENT, WHAT A CURSED PARTY, AND A GOOD FOR NOTHING PREZ.

  • Yaa - canada 10 years ago

    President Mahama should find solution to the light off.Is one major cause of fire in Ghana

  • HON SHAMO 10 years ago

    HOPE THE VICTIMES ARE NDC SUPPORTERS! VOTING FOR INCOMPETENCE AND VERRANDAH BOYS ALWAYS YIELD BAD RESULTS! NDC HAVENT SEEN ANYTHING YET! RIGGING ELECTIONS? THIS YOU WILL PAY

  • KOFORIDUA Flowers (fr) 10 years ago

    Stop weeping mr minister,remember no NPP member will consider it Wise to set markets in the country ablaze including that of Ashanti Region.The government and leaders should cast their minds back to the ndc foot soldiers and ...
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  • Kwesi Mends, Takoradi 10 years ago

    I bet the fires are resulting from the erratic power supply (dumso), cheap electric wires/sockets etc imported from China, power electric connections by unqualified persons. A million dollar house was burned in Trassaco Vall ...
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  • Kwaku 10 years ago

    Kwesi Mends you are among the few sensible guys we have around.Nobody seems to talking about the erratic power supply,inferior cables from China and our negligence.For now all our hopes is hanging around the Americans.

  • Birahma 10 years ago

    We have allowed Politics to take the better part of us and given the Power Suppliiers the chance to escape blame for all the calamities we are going thru

  • SHAMO 10 years ago

    Anyone who doubts that it is NPP burning down the markets is more mad than the maddest person on admission at Pantang Mental Hospital. In fact that person's mind must be even more 'on high' than when Nana smokes heavily in th ...
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  • HON SHAMO 10 years ago

    WHAT AN INCOMPETENT NDC GREEDY BASTARDS! NPP COMING FROM OPOSITION, WITHOUT POWER OVER SECURITY CAN BURN THE WHOLE GHANA? HAHAHA! THEN NDC MUST PACKED AND GO THEY ARE SIMPLY DOGS WHO DONT HAVE TEETH! NPP THEN GO ON PUT GHANA ...
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  • SHAMO 10 years ago

    You are rather the leading in-patient of the Pantang hospital together with your stupid parents.

  • DAN 10 years ago

    the kkk is looking for you..We need new NIGGERS to hang!

  • Yaa 10 years ago

    Mr Deputy Minister I am sorry to say that if you do not have anything to say just keep quiet. The President said what he had to say as the father of the land and has brought in investigators from the USA. Their report is wh ...
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  • Kwesi Mends, Takoradi 10 years ago

    If you know the answer then why bring American experts to investigate. You don't diagnose yourself before you go to the doctor.

  • DAN 10 years ago

    why you think they sell over the counter medicines in supermarkets for the runs,eye problems,nose problems,headache...The americans can tell you what started the fire, petro,diesel,propane,paper,electric short but it will be ...
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  • MANU 10 years ago

    ALL NPP PEOPLE SHOULD BE PAINTED BLUE AND NDC PEOPLE RED SO THAT WHEN A FIRE STARTS BURNING A PLACE WE COUNT THE COLORS TO DETERMINE WHO STARTED THE FIRE. GEEE! EDUCATION, EDUCATION AND EDUCATION IS WHAT WE NEED SO WE VCAN ST ...
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  • KWAA 10 years ago

    In this statement where did Murtala proved the arsonist version of the President?
    My God,people are dying in fires and all the Gov`t spokesman can do is try scoring cheap political points.
    Until we sitdown as a nation and t ...
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  • Kwadwo agyekum 10 years ago

    It is a miracle that we do not experience more fires in Ghana. We have messed up pretty bad as a nation. We are actually sitting on a million time bombs a-ticking.

  • Concerned Citizen 10 years ago

    All of these fires is as a result of DUMSO. If there was constant supply of electricity nobody will think of lighting a candle whilst sleeping.

  • Skotsman 10 years ago

    What s vindication about this issue? Has the gov't/authorities arrested and confirmed any one in the act to come out with vindicative pronouncements? What a childish talk from a whole minister of state??? If you have nothing ...
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  • KOFI ASANTE 10 years ago

    Hon. Murtala Mohammed stated that the fire outbreaks over the weekend clearly indicate that what is happening is not ordinary. FOUR FIRES IN FOUR DIFFERENT LOCATIONS
    HOW DID THIS FOOL COME TO THIS CONCLUSION THAT THEY ARE A ...
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  • TUMTUO 10 years ago

    What do you think will happen when you put a lit candle in a wooden structure?.

  • KOFORIDUA Flowers (fr) 10 years ago

    Stop making such unecessary noice but rather find out who is behind such barberous action.I think yaw boateng and his so called security takoons need be ordered to speed up events.

  • Sir-Richie 10 years ago

    Why this picture GhanaWEB?

  • NAT 10 years ago

    WHEN YOU ALWAYS TRY TO LOOK FOR SOLUTIONS RATHER THAN CAUSES,YOU DEVELOP FASTER.LET ALL MAJOR MARKETS MARKETS SHOULD OPERATE 6AM -6PM MONDAY-SATURDAY
    ALL MAJOR MARKETSSHOULD BE MANNED BY UNIFORM POLICE MEN FROM 6PM -6AM,AL ...
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  • DKB 10 years ago

    Nat, that is not the answer. Your solution seems to conclude these fires are started intentionally. What we need is education education education. The fire service should go to the market and educate the traders on causes of ...
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  • Patty 10 years ago

    These third class ministers should be sacked. The minister doesn't know the meaning of arson. When we use the word arson, it means the fire was deliberately caused by somebody. If someone buys and lights a candle in his room ...
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  • K. Owusu-Sekyere (London) 10 years ago

    I don't think this is down to politics,it's the negligence of the people.The gov't should take though action against those who smoke,who use coal port and those who lit candle in the busiest market area.

  • yaw 10 years ago

    I FULLY SUSPECT NDC NDC NDC NDC NDC AND NO ONE ELES BUT NDC NDC NDC.AAAAAH! YABRE MO. AWUDIFUOR!

  • The same/Salutation. 10 years ago

    THE LAW OF KARMA WILL DEFINATLY STIKE ON THOSE BEHIND THESE FIRES

  • NANA IS USING BAWUMIA 10 years ago

    NPP IS BURNING GHANA. THEY CAN BURN ALL THE MARKETS IN GHANA, BUT THEY CAN NEVER BECOME THE RULING PARTY ANY LONGER. GHANAIANS HAVE NOW SEEN HOW WICKED NPP ARE AND NANA CAN FORGET IT. NPP CAN CONTINUE BURNING TILL THY KINGDOM ...
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  • EMMEYSCOTLAND 10 years ago

    THERE IS THE NEED FOR GHANA TO PASS A LAW IN OUR SYSTEM FOR HOME/PROPERTY/CAR INSURANCE WHICH EVERY OWNER MUST HAVE VALID AT ALL TIMES THIS SHOULD BE CHECKED REGULARLY.THIS WILL EASE GOVERNMENT OF ACCIDENTAL DAMAGES THAT SHO ...
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  • THINK STRAIGHT 10 years ago

    WEEKEND FIRES VINICATE MAHAMA'S ARSON CLAIM-MURTALA

  • IamQuattro 10 years ago

    Full of Crap.. Words of the mediocre minds ruling the country.. God Save Ghana.... Ghanaian's really need to wake up and smell the coffee. Its like the country has been put on rewind.. Sad!!!

  • John Mensah 10 years ago

    This guy is speaking from his anus. So where are the arsonist? I suppose they are under arrest at the presidency or the fools house? No wonder the country is a mess!

  • FREEMAN 10 years ago

    I believe Ghanaians can understand the story of the wise ruler. The real mother to the baby in contest said to the king that the baby should not be killed whilst the jealous woman insisted that the baby be divided into two so ...
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  • Egya 10 years ago

    What do these NDC crackpots take us for? Arson??? Hoooooo. Incompetence!!

  • OSEI STEPHEN,NORWAY 10 years ago

    ONE BIG PROBLEM IS TOO MUCH LIGHT OFF IN THE COUNTRY ,LIGHT CAN GO OFF WHEN IRONING AND YOU FORGOT TO SWICH IT OFF SO WHEN THE LIGHT COMES BACK THEN START TO BERN.

  • shame on you 10 years ago

    another stupid talk from a stupid minister.. so an arson created the trasaaco one too? you guys must think before talking... am sorry you are an idiot with a big tail

  • USELESS MAN.. CURSED PARTY. FOOLS PA 10 years ago

    USELESS MAN.. CURSED PARTY. FOOLS PARTY

  • Martin 10 years ago

    The fires are the result of carelessness from the market women and not from arsonists.

  • SULE 10 years ago

    This is the most unserious, grossly incompetent and monumentally inept administration, ever witnessed in the history of Ghana.
    It started with the late Atta Mills and now, it has been extended into the fraudulent contested M ...
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  • Ka Na Wu 10 years ago

    People will not be sleeping in wooden stalls meanty for horses if we have good government and not NDC government

  • joseph 10 years ago

    arson is the best reason they can find for the rampant fires? incredibly dumb, if you ask me and Murtala, eager to sing the tune of his boss, is also saying the same thing. Why do some seemingly intelligent people lose their ...
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  • TESANO NIGGA 1 10 years ago

    SIMPLE THE SO CALL MAHAMA IS A FOOL WHO LICKS KIDS ASS HAHAHAH USELESS PRESIDENT.

  • osei yao 10 years ago

    This minister must know better. The fires must be investigated to find the causes before any pronoincement can be made. What do we have now - government by majic? Such foolish comments do not enchance the credibility of gover ...
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  • Joe Boateng ---Dabaa . 10 years ago

    Why are you these people making so much noise?Keep quite and look at the result from your people from heaven to give their report,thats matters.

  • ablakwa 10 years ago

    Why would a nursing mother leave a sleeping baby at night in a candle-lit wooden structure to go buy diapers. Why go buy diapers at night?

  • Nii Akwei 10 years ago

    You have been claiming arson for any fire in the country. You blame opposition elements for anything. In time, you are going to have a copy cat because you are reinforcing this behavior. If the President feels vindicated, the ...
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  • km agyin 10 years ago

    Have evidence before you open your mouth,sir

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  • NKREKETE 10 years ago

    What numbness? Please get the meaning of arson and stop disturbing our ears. The parents of these kids who died in these fires dod not criminal set these fires with the intention of killing their children. Arsonists are cr ...
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  • wahab salifu wise 10 years ago

    sad news

  • Kofi 10 years ago

    samtyms it's amazing how some intellectuals can just jump to conclusion without de slightest evidence. If our fires are arson as dey claim, den what's de essence of de investigation?

  • Hazor 10 years ago

    Its very disappointing and shameful to Ghana educators and Ghanaians in general that a soo call minister did not understand the difference between arson and fire accident.Murtala should go back to school for he is disgracing ...
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  • Whatever 10 years ago

    Yesterday myjoyonline reported three separate fire outbreaks. That Fm station is being used used as medium for the campaign of those NPP terrorist who are burning down shops and market

  • gha 10 years ago

    what is the work of fm?

  • DAN 10 years ago

    your a muslim terrorist...

  • Daabodaaabo. 10 years ago

    WHEN WILL WE SEE THE LIGHT UNDER THIS NDC REGIME? PPEOPLE ARE SUFFERING YET OUR PRESIDENT HAS GUST TO BUY PRIVATE JET UNDER HIS BROTHER'S NAME, SIGNING DOCUMMENTS WHICH ARE FRAUDING THE COUNTRY,INCREASING PAYMENT OF PARLIAMEN ...
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  • ABC 10 years ago

    What prove has ndc got to substantiate their claim??? Lack of direction govt Ghana has ever had, just wasting our ears!!!

  • Brain 10 years ago

    Master, please talk senseble to the public.Your stabilize dumso - dumso in the country

  • Yaa 10 years ago

    So now "saboteurs" are not only setting fire to markets where their political opponents do business, but also setting ablaze individual kiosks where mothers are sleeping with the babies because they want to roast them?

    Mur ...
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  • GHFUO, LOVE/DOR YOURSELF! 10 years ago

    HOW CAN THE SO CALLED LEADERS ALLOW SUCH ATROCITIES TO CONTINUE?. ARE THEY CLUELESS, DONT CARE OR DONT KNOW WAT TO DO?

    At the moment JOHN MAHAMA has NOT articulated any vision for the country and his governance. Ghanaians ...
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  • DAN 10 years ago

    you seem to forget that Argentina had a ship seized in tema port! And Chavez money system has failed due to them giving away oil to Cuba....Yes Ghana is fucked..If you asked retirees in usa you woulf find that Social security ...
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  • XXXX 10 years ago

    can you revive the lives lost?

  • Dayan 10 years ago

    Murtala you are a fool, a big fool.

  • KARL J 10 years ago

    CAN A CARELESS MOTHER WHO LEFT A CANDLE WHICH INCIDENTALLY STARTED A FIRE BE DESCRIBED AS ARSON? WILL MURTALA LOOK UP THE MEANING OF ARSON AND PLEASE STOP THE STOOPING.

  • MARCUS AMPADU 10 years ago

    THE NAZI PARTY WAS KNOWN TO BE ARSONITS THEY SET FIRES TO ACHIEVE POLITICAL GOALS - BEER HOUSE PUSCHE,
    REICHSTAG FIRE.

  • AKONFEM ERROR PREZ 10 years ago

    MAHAMA IS A CAURSE TO GHANA,WE ALL KONW WHAT IS UNDER HIM,

  • joyce 10 years ago

    yebedi k3k3

  • JOJO 10 years ago

    GHANA NEWS!!!