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Asantehene: We don't need toilets and schools from donors

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  • Dhuruwah 10 years ago

    Nana, we are not building toilets ourselves. Sanitation is very bad in Ghana, cant you see? Anyway why don't you say we will do it our self. We have educated people and schools in Ghana that can train the so-called local asse ...
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  • Kwaku 10 years ago

    If we refuse to use the little money we have to do the most important things that we need,we will continue to beg foreigners to built toilets & schools.Why should we Akans continue to spend so much on funerals.

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  • TerriblY Spe cifiC 10 years ago

    Yes, you still live on royalties that belong to the state and fly free. Why? Your people still use ebro dua and ntamago t clean their asses. You have annexed all their valuable jewelry. Ignorance is seriously killing Asantes. ...
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  • Ghanavi 10 years ago

    Osei Tutu, how would you know what average ghanaian need? If you did, you wouldn't be taking your people's wealth away from them to abroad whenever you get the chance. Stop the nonsense. Stop peeing on your people and telling ...
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  • real ghanaian 10 years ago

    @Ghanavi
    who cares. you wished you had such a chief in your dynasty. Do you know that if it was not the technological advancement of Britain the Asantehene would have been on the same scale as queen Elizabeth. we downgrade o ...
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  • real ghanaian 10 years ago

    @ kwaku
    there are certain issues u have raised in your discourse but whats wrong if we spend money on funerals? let me just point out just a few issues to you.brazilians have something called carnival. in that they have crea ...
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  • yilo 10 years ago

    ...And he will curse your father!

  • DAN 10 years ago

    they will take your passport on entry and girls will become whores (both private and public) and men will toil in hot sun till death! Do people a face and pay the connection man for visa's to usa and uk! No Arab countrys..Ev ...
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  • KMAN 10 years ago

    THIS ASANTE CHIEF BEHAVES LIKE AN ILLITERATE.

  • real ghanaian 10 years ago

    Beggar?. you are the beggar. why should you be begging for toilets in this 21st century. If i had the power i will stop all this aids. it will let the people think on their toes and force the government to deliver on its prom ...
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  • yilo 10 years ago

    You must be a joker! Thousands have already applied and their papers are being processed!

  • Jonny 10 years ago

    We that what we saying is they are going there to be whores or slaves i have heard it on the news in America. They will sieze your passport and all traveling documents

  • Frank Agyena-Karikari 10 years ago

    Nana, how many toilets and schools have you and your government built? We just need them to help. If you don't agree and the kitchen is too hot, pack your stuff and leave the country. Hahahahahaha. Nunoo Mensah.

  • Frank Agyena-Karikari 10 years ago

    Just asking. Did Kuffour and NPP asked that foreign mayor to visit Manshia palace? Why not Ga manche? Just asking.

  • FOYOOSIS 10 years ago

    Don't try to politicise this visit by her to Manhyia! For your information, she's the mayor of Dutch town of (Almere) that has adopted Kumasi as a sister-city in terms of development and co-operation.

  • Joseph Adofo 10 years ago

    The White colonial masters have return to build toilets for us in Kumasi. They realized we don't know basic hygiene and we defecate all over the place. At least the lazy Ewes, Fantes, and Gas have their shit washed away by th ...
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  • real ghanaian 10 years ago

    @ Frank
    They know the history of the Asantehene. Ga mantse does not have such a great vein of history in ghana. they regard him in high esteem

  • Spiky 10 years ago

    It's a shame that someone should come from somewhere to build you a toilet. All the King is saying is to shift your thinking to a higher level where you accept responsibility and use your brains and resources to do things for ...
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  • real ghanaian 10 years ago

    @ Frank
    Such is our thinking mentality. We joke over serious issues and serious become a joke

  • Ka Na Wu 10 years ago

    But Nana that is what Nunoo-Mensah the stupid donated in Accra and he feels he has got the license to insult Ghanaians, Ghanaian workers and their family. Anyway Nana, how is your girlfriend in London?

  • Kwame Asante Yeboah 10 years ago

    You need cash so that you can build mansions in England and South Africa.You live in Ghana and building mansions somewhere and who do you expect to use his money to train your people.

  • OTCHERE DARKO 10 years ago

    Would our foreign partners build toilets for us if we had credible development plans.

    Ghana lacks visionary leaders that are capable of building Ghana to reach its full potentials.

  • vl 10 years ago

    Darko,
    I agree with you, but look the Asantehene is the one who is putting forward this vision. Ghana has lots of well-educated people, the problem is that on one wants to sacrifice like Nkrumah did. Look at Nigeria, they h ...
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  • Yes Sir 10 years ago

    What, accountability at KMA? We need more!!!

  • Kojo T 10 years ago

    Luv FM’s Erastus Asare Donkor reports that Otumfuo Osei Tutu hinted of plans to move into the offices of the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) to demand accountability The chiefs must be involved in the development of th ...
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  • Norman Kubla 10 years ago

    Otumfuo should take seriously what he has hinted on concerning KMA accountability. I think this will reduce the hardship people of Kumasi are facing . Kumasi is been reduced to some old filthy village . Dust is found everywhe ...
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  • Konoreyawa 10 years ago

    Indeed foerign aid should be bigger than just building peerhaps enhancing exsiting with ICt would go down really well.

  • Palm Wine Tapper 10 years ago

    "Uncle Tom Boy"
    Still depending on the white man to feed u?
    Get off your ASS self and clean your stinky ASS with corncob. There are too
    many corncobs going to waste in Ghana. You need to have some stored for your ASS clean ...
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  • princewilly@ymail.com 10 years ago

    THE ROYAL HOME MOVING INTO THE AMA TO DEMAND ACCOUNTABILITY ,WILL ALSO LEAD THE GA MANTSE TO INTO THE FLAG STAFF HOUSE TO DEMAND ACCOUNTABILITY.
    SOON ALL THE REGIONS WILL DO THE SAME.
    WHAT ARE THE DUTIES OF THE REGIONAL HOU ...
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  • btg 10 years ago

    It gets to a point where "parents" have to supervise the home work of thier children if they find that they are not serious.
    What the Otumfour is asking to do is the right thing to do. If the GA Mantse, if there is one,wants ...
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  • W. Atugubah 10 years ago

    Before you demand any accountability from KMA, pls nana go and clear your criminal doings in Canada. Mr Ashanti chief don't dream to show your urgly thievery face at KMA .We shall rejects and resist with force all your cu ...
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  • jyga 10 years ago

    You're so stupid and uneducated to understand what the great King is saying. No wonder you write "we shall rejects"...

  • THE GERMAN FACT 10 years ago

    KWAKU DUAH HAS CORECTED 10,000,000 CEDIS FROM EACH HOUSE IN KUMASI FOR DEVELOPMENT BUT NOTHING HAS HAPPEN SINCE. WHERE IS THE DEVELOPMENT KWAKU?

  • Bongo Boy 10 years ago

    Sicko

  • MINOR CASE 10 years ago

    Your English is terrible.

  • PAA KWAO 10 years ago

    NANA WAKYE

  • ghanaba 10 years ago

    You should have done this for long time. Go ahead kumasi is money city for other cities.

  • Wahalla 10 years ago

    Asantehene, complaining because he does not want Ghana to turn into a country of toilet cleaners. It is better to shit in the rubber and throw it into someone else's compound.

  • Kofi 10 years ago

    Nana, they have seen we are not capable of providing toilets and schools for our people so they have stepped in to help. If we do what we are expected to, no foreigner will come and build toilets for us. Supposin a foreigner ...
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  • Parker 10 years ago

    Indeed welcome,with our cities over crowding and population growth,water and toilet are the most basic necessity,and education comes next to meet the population growth.Nana clean city will ensure healthy people.

  • DAN 10 years ago

    who wan't to go in toilet that might not have running water to flush or wash hand and only a scrap of paper to wipe..Most supermarkets and jobs in usa keep toilet full of paper in PUBLIC toilet and employee toilets..Laws requ ...
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  • Parker 10 years ago

    They receive tax breaks for providing such amenities for the public,maybe the same should apply to businesses and establishments in Ghana,

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  • Owura 10 years ago

    When you die the Chinese will dig your grave due to lack of creativity, and corruption that have eaten into the fabric of Ghanaian society.

  • USMAN 10 years ago

    If you can't afford to make nice toilets for yourselves why won't the white man offer you one? They don't want their people to come around to see open defecation by our compatriots.

  • kpeglar 10 years ago

    SHUT YOUR MOUTH AND STOP HAVEN SEX WITH SMALL SMALL GIRLS, KWAKU DUAH YOUR ARE DISGRACING YOURSELF.NDC MAN

  • Bongo Boy 10 years ago

    You'll rot in jail

  • Kwame Mensah 10 years ago

    Kwaku Dua, your so-called foreign partners wouldn't be building toilets and school buildings for you if you got off your lazy ass and organized your people to build one for yourselves. Aren't you ashamed of yourself when you ...
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  • Bongo Boy 10 years ago

    You should clean your arse first before attacking our King. Can you read at all? Berk

  • Kwame Mensah 10 years ago

    You're as stupid and as lazy as your king. If you were building your own toilets and schools foreigners wouldn't out of condescension build one for you. Fools, do you have any shame?

  • jyga 10 years ago

    You are rather stupid and uncultured for insulting the great King. If you don't agree with what he's saying, why insult him. Perhaps you did not even understand what Nana is saying or the wisdom in it. No wonder your chiefs, ...
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  • Kwame Mensah 10 years ago

    Another ashante bastard on the loose. Do you people think at all. Your king is a dolt for complaining about foreigners building schools and toilets for you. I repeat, what prevents lazy idiots like you from building your own ...
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  • jyga 10 years ago

    I repeat "you are so dumb to understand the article". Let me help you. The King is not asking foreigners to build toilets for us. Your fucking tribe has no respectable and honorable King, and so no foreigner wants to interact ...
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  • peace 10 years ago

    NANA STAY OUT OF THIS U ARE CHIEF NOT POLITICIAN UNLESS YOUR BUDDY MAHAMA ASK U TO SAY THIS

  • MANYHIA OBSERVER 10 years ago

    THIS ASANTEHENE IS VERY CORRUPT AND CRIMINAL. HE IS IN FACT A CON ARTIST. HE EVEN HAD HANDS IN THE PLANE-LOAD OF SEIZED GOLD IN TURKEY. THIS SO-CALLED CHIEF IS A DISGRACE TO THE GOLDEN STOOL AND SHOULD BE REMOVED IMMEDIATELY. ...
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  • Bongo Boy 10 years ago

    You stink

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  • FOYOOSIS 10 years ago

    Some Ghanaian journalists are so ignorant they cannot spell names correctly. Why wouldn't you first verify to know exactly how one's name is spelt before publication?

    No wonder, everything in Ghana comes with a mistake! Ju ...
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  • Bongo Boy 10 years ago

    Concerned citizen

  • OmanheneU$A 10 years ago

    ... LACK OF FUNCTIONING GOVERNING INSTITUTIONS".

    Why is that in Ghana, and most of Africa, governance or the government is CENTRALIZED?? In Ghana it is all centralized in ACCRA. That's the problem, Nana. Our governing inst ...
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  • Newsite Bansah 10 years ago

    When will this national disease of begging stop? It is so disgraceful. We mean we can't build our own toilets? We beg for everything. Even as we receive a gift, we use that occasion to beg for more. Nobody is immune from t ...
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  • clarence 10 years ago

    Well said Nana, thank you

  • Palm Wine Tapper 10 years ago

    What's this Cocaine PUNK Head talking about?
    FACT CHECK: he's been sitting on his stinky FAT Ashanti ASS for years letting his so-called Primitive Ashanti region to be infested with bunch of criminals, street thugs, killings ...
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  • km agyin 10 years ago

    Now the Asantehene is acting like a real king of a proud nation, Asanteman.We the Asantes can develop Asanteman ourselves. We occupy one of the richest regions in the country. Yes it is within the rights of the Asantehene to ...
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  • Palm Wine Tapper 10 years ago

    Singing praises for doing absolutely NOTHING for yrs? U must be some prick.

  • DAN 10 years ago

    or the whites wouldn't be building toilets..When i want to shit in Kumansi or Sunyani i expect to shit in good toilet..not one like they had in 1940's in usa!

  • yilo 10 years ago

    Poverty has driven 12-yr olds girls into prostitution in Kumasi and you are talking of being one on the richest? I pity your ignorance!

  • Santrofi 10 years ago

    This man shoots from the hip sometimes.
    1. how many schools and toilets have you built in the last 15 years: All you done is change the name of the secondary school (Trabuoam Sec Sech)built during the SMCI ( General Acheampo ...
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  • DAN 10 years ago

    oh i forget in ghana toilets are stolen too!

  • Kojovi 10 years ago

    Moving to KMA to demand accountability is right. Then the next move should be the accountability of all the lands sold by you and that "land tax" (Ntokoatow). Then abolishing of this corrupt and stupid institution because it ...
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  • DOKODORKO 10 years ago

    THANK YOU KWAKU DUAH

  • Mike 10 years ago

    Beggers have no choice. If you think everybody is privilege like you then you need to go out there and find out.

  • Busy Bee 10 years ago

    The chief's position is not an elective office so idiots like this Osei Tutu are foisted on the people for life. What has this chief done for the country himself? The country is doing nothing for itself in all areas. Beggars ...
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  • Kofi 10 years ago

    Otumfuo I humbly disagree with you on this matter because a common toilet and basic proper schools cannot be provided by our dear chiefs and the assemblies. Nowadays some chiefs are only interested in selling of their lands a ...
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  • JOE 10 years ago

    THE ACCOUNTABILITY SHOULD START WITH YOU. THEY'ER BUILDING SCHOOLS AND TOILETS BUT YOU WANT THEY TO GIVE THE MONEY TO YOU, WHAT FOR?

  • Amavie 10 years ago

    Ghanaians are LAZY, pure and simple. We delight in irrelevant gossips, talking politics and working lotto. How can we think beyond the basis of toilet building, when most of our time and energy is geared towards irrelevance? ...
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  • obeng 10 years ago

    how many toilets have u built in kejetia? people shit all over the place

  • SOLOMON OWUSU 10 years ago

    hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

  • MARCUS AMPADU 10 years ago

    Chiefs must be in charge of rural development period. Good governance, accountability, fast track development must start and end with them. They must all learn to use ICT to manage what they are trying to accomplish.

  • KING LOMOTEY 10 years ago

    I like your idea. Yes the chiefs must be solely for developing their rural communities.

  • mr Tina 10 years ago

    I dont know why ghanaians continue to worship their chiefs while they dont bring any development to their communities.

  • YAW ODURO 10 years ago

    WE ASANTES WISH OTUMFUO OSEI TUTU II SHOULDN'T HAVE CHOSEN THE NAME OF OUR LEGEND KING WHO BROUGHT US OUT FROM SLAVERY UNDER THE DENKYIRA KING BOAPOMSEM. KWAKU DUA AS A KING OF THE ASHANTIS HAD OUTLIVED HIS RESPONSIBILITIES. ...
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  • asibey 10 years ago

    May the public know the level of education that asantehene has?from his statements,he need further education!

  • real ghanaian 10 years ago

    @ Asibey
    What intellectual dispensation are you propagating yourself. You don't need a rocket scientist to educate before you can deduce simple assumption. God already gave you a brain to do that. So you the learned person s ...
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  • Good Pastor 10 years ago

    This man's desire is to rule the People of Ghana.But our world is faster than his mind.

  • CHARITY 10 years ago

    THE ASANTE ETHNIC GROUP IS MADE UP OF PEOPLE FROM ALL THE OTHER ETHNIC GROUPS IN GHANA. THERE ARE SOME ASANTES IN THE IVORY COAST. NOBODY SHOULD ENVY ASANTES. THE ORIGINAL ASANTES WELCOMED AND ACCEPTED PEOPLE FROM THE OTHER E ...
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  • KELEVE KORMI 10 years ago

    nana in fact you have said it again and spoke the mind many of us who are passionate about ghana's development problems. nana its gnana's own public officials who are crippling the nation's development. all the sectors of the ...
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  • Kofi 10 years ago

    Nana,people are still waiting for their papers.All together i was charged about 14,000,000 i paid it all more than 7 months ego. As i am writing I have still not got the document .Whats going on.

  • Jeff, UK 10 years ago

    If Ghana cannot afford to build public places of convenience, then what are we worth. I was ashamed when I came to GH once some years back and found the inscription "HIPIC BENEFIT" inscribed on toilets and classroom blocks. I ...
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  • Techiman Oyokoni 10 years ago

    With do respect to Asantehene, It is time for Ghana develop and invest in their own land. You all people need to stop using europeans to build your country. Ghanains should learn the technologies necessary to develop and crea ...
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  • Fuseni 10 years ago

    Talking about donors building toilet and schools what have you done for even Ashanti Region since you become the king ? All is your self ,buying big houses abroad and fancy cars .Look at the Kumasi airport and the streets .

  • real ghanaian 10 years ago

    @ Fuseini
    Does the airport belong to him?

  • obrenpon 10 years ago

    Nana you have been on the sidelines for far too long.Sorry to say you have no concrete plans for the development of Kumasi let alone Ashanti Region.Everything in Kumasi is in shambles.Town planning,Sanitation,Lorry parks,Stre ...
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  • mugu 10 years ago

    Nana it would have been better if you ask the donors to add the training of local assembly personnel to the building of schools and toilets as part of the good services they are providing than saying we don't need them.

  • Akyirebea Ntow 10 years ago

    There is no King in Ghana! and the Asantehene like all the Chiefs in Ghana
    is not a King . Period!

    Your presence at KMA will create anarchy as far as democratic governance is concerned. other Chiefs will take similar stan ...
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  • Techiman Oyokoni 10 years ago

    SHUT UP! You educated fool!