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Let’s invite Europeans to help us manage traffic – Konadu

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  • William 9 years ago

    Ghanaian diaspora and here at home can help! Ask the competent ones! Oko Vanderpuye and others, don't you know that?

  • Ato 9 years ago

    How can you run transport with a "fake qualified and inexperience" person on top. Mahama's your transport minister has fake qualification from USA. That useless parliamentarian should have detected this during the vetting per ...
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  • Jim Kakraba - Harvard 9 years ago

    It's about time, Ghanaians started scrutinizing people they put in high places. No wonder Ghana's transportation systems are among the worse in the world

  • Oba Nyansani Baako Pe In Ghana! 9 years ago

    I thought you said black man can manage his own affairs?

  • Zoobe-Zoobe 9 years ago

    Blackmen cannot manage but not when you have an incompetent President with a low grade team and inflated qualifications

  • Zoobe-Zoobe 9 years ago

    what a stupid statement...

  • sam 9 years ago

    This woman has a serious colonialism mentality. What is so difficult about managing traffic. Every honest person knows it is the mind set which is our number one problem. Lack of regard for proper driving protocols and respec ...
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  • They Say They Say 9 years ago

    You are absolutely right on point. This kind of mentality of these so called leaders have been a major problem for Ghana. Their inability to diagnose problems, how to fix 'em but shift the responsibility to others and or kick ...
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  • concernier 9 years ago

    we don't have enough crossover bridges and most of our roads are single lane roads. for example all roads leading to Dansoman are single lane roads and they are few. Also our neighborhood roads are in poor shape, so the motor ...
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  • Mahmoud 9 years ago

    “That new Africa is ready to fight his own battles and show that after all the black man is capable of managing his own affairs”

  • Kofi Konadu 9 years ago

    Konadu you deserve to go to firing squad for your stupid asthmatic comments

  • gesie 9 years ago

    They helped us to do it in 1986, 89,:IN those years pple did not have much cars in Ghana.Today pple can afford cars so we only need to do more roads.

  • OBAA YAA 9 years ago

    As someone with experience in transportation engineering I can say that. The problem with Ghana transportation in relationship with traffic engineering (or control) is not with lack of planning. However, if is with lack of en ...
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  • daladm 9 years ago

    IF WE BUILD SUBWAY SYSTEM IN GHANA WE WILL HAVE NO TRAFFIC ISSUES CAN ANYONE IN THIS COUNTRY THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX AND IMPLEMENT SUCH A THING?

  • MENSA 9 years ago

    WE NEED SUBWAY SYSTEM FROM ACCRA TO TEMA AND ALL AREA OF ACCRA AND THE PROBLEM WILL BE SOLVED ,THE PROBLEM IS NO ONE IN PARLAMENT OR MAHAMA GOVT CAN THINK AND MOVE TOWARD SUCH A SALUTION

  • Ibrahim Baba 9 years ago

    Is this all an aspiring president can say? God save us.

  • Asare 9 years ago

    You have no proof

  • CITIZEN ONE 9 years ago

    If we have the balls to banish all Taxis and Tro-tros and utilize only Metro Tranports just maybe we will advance from monkeys to subhumans and slowly progress on.

    Every single one of you who rides the tro-tro almost want ...
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  • KING LOMOTEY 9 years ago

    Why Europeans, why not Americans. Brazilians, and Japanese.

    Our horrific traffic management is a proof that our technocrats lack common sense, period.

  • mohammed 9 years ago

    We just have to bottle our pride and call our colonial masters to come and govern us. one white colonial master is honest and diligent than one billion Africans. True Naana Konadu. you are right on your money.

  • sam 9 years ago

    Grow up my friend .what a conment to make. So brainwashed

  • BBC NEWS! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 9 years ago

    She is far better than those myopic Nana Akanfuo binaddo and his npp thieves, who criticized with NO solution to the problem at hand.

  • AGYAAKU 9 years ago

    Else where this same Nana Konadu is calling on government ti invite Europeans to help solve the traffic conjection. She is at the same time criticising building the NKRUMA INTERCHANGE, describing it as misplaced priority. Doe ...
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  • Aikins 9 years ago

    As for me I believe in NANA ADDO DANQUAH AKUFO ADDO, all that problems will be solved in 2017 by God's grace. Merry Christmas and Happy New year to all Ghanaians. God bless Ghana.

  • Naaba kugri 9 years ago

    In only one year every problem in Ghana will be solved ? You see this why some of us Ghanaians will never vote for npp and akuffo addo. Stop misleading your self and in turn misleading your party supporters. Such sayings bre ...
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  • KWAA 9 years ago

    This has nothing to do with Ghanaians being incompetent of solving the traffic problems in the Country.Most of the traffic jams are caused by indiscipline from the Drivers and the Police.Traffic regulations are not being enfo ...
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  • Ganyobi Aryitey 9 years ago

    Mi Brother Kwaa, your comments, is the most precise of all, where i am in overseas is a city bigger than Ghana which doesnt have the roads Ghana has,but because the drivers are decipline, the police are precisly active and th ...
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  • Floating Voter. 9 years ago

    yOU MAY EQUALLY INVITE THE EUROPEANS TO COME AND MANAGE THE NSAWAM CANERY BECAUSE IT IS FALLING APART !

  • Ad Wa. 9 years ago

    Where r thr compitent ghanaians? Both ndc n npp who now become the only princes n princesses hav no people to manage our assets so they hav to sell our ships, planes, telecom mines all gov't companies sold all lands etc. N no ...
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  • SMART FREMPAH, UK 9 years ago

    That is what is called lack of infrastructure. Not only traffic, we can't manage ourselves in all spheres of life. The traffic chaos is one of the many. Call a spade a spade.

  • andropov jnr 9 years ago

    per this your refrainm we will pay them and you will come to say the NDC is not managing the countrys' resources well
    wo na twe

  • SIMON 9 years ago

    CASTRO EMERGED FROM 51YRS OF EMBARGO WITH EDUCATION, CLEAN ENVIRONMENT, TOURISM, GREAT CULTURE INSTEAD OF LAS VEGAS MENTALITY. THIS IS WHAT GHANA AND AFRICA NEED. LAST YEAR 4000 CUBAN MEDICAL BRIGADE WAS HIRED BY BRAZIL. TALK ...
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  • DOBOO 9 years ago

    But the Cubans have no freedoms. Castro is a dictator. Ghana and Africa does not need any more dictators.

  • Kanawu 9 years ago

    Lets get foreigners to compete with Ghanaians for top jobs in the police, army,judiciary, civil and public services, hospitals, universities, etc

  • SIMON 9 years ago

    CASTRO THE GREAT HERO CHECK CUBA THEY EMERGED FROM EMBARGO WITH EDUCATION, MECHANIZED AGRICULTURE, IRRIGATION, CLEAN ENVIRONMENT, 4000CUBAN MEDICAL BRIGADE WAS HIRED BY BRAZIL THINK ABOUT INFLOWS. CUBA WITH CASTRO DID DEAL WI ...
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  • PAPA BOLO 9 years ago

    THE EUROPEANS GRATUATE WITH PROJECTS, WHAT ABOUT OUR STUDENTS. I THINK WE SHOULD INPROVE OUR EDUCATION STANDARD.

  • Sidney 9 years ago

    Has the traffic issues started after u n husband left office?or u didn't see it cause u travelled in convoy

  • Owura 9 years ago

    so can't anybody say something without such stupid comments. If you haven't anything to say just SHUT UP

  • kofi,ny 9 years ago

    Those are not stupid comments from observers. This lady just said the construction of the circle interchange is not needed now and yet want the Europeans to manage our roads? Very sad for someone who wants to be president. JJ ...
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  • Naa 9 years ago

    me too, I can manage handle this task.

  • Kwaku Mansa Musah 9 years ago

    What European will tell you is that,when you make a law for something allow the law to work without any interference.In Ghana politicians don't allow our laws to work. Our country has been divided into political lines hence n ...
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  • SIMON 9 years ago

    STILL ENSLAVED BY GREED, CORRUPTION LACK OF VISIONARY LEADERS ONLY IN GHANA AND AFRICA FULL OF WAR, IGNORANCE, DISEASES, POVERTY WITH LEADERS WHO ARE USELESS

  • Naa 9 years ago

    Hey is this howw you will manage Ghana given the chanced? ghana has the talent. Please I like you. This job is not for you.

  • SIMON 9 years ago

    NOTHING PROMISED BY THESE BLACK MONKEY POLITICIANS EVER HAPPEN ONLY GREED, CORRUPT, LOST VISION AND ALWAYS MASTER SLAVE MENTALITY

  • GHANABA NO 1 9 years ago

    BUT IT WILL YOU COST YOU MONEY, LOTS OF IT.

  • Modibo Keita 9 years ago

    I do not think we need the whiteman to school us on how to direct our traffic, I think we don´t have enough roads that may be the reason.

  • Allossman 9 years ago

    The solution is not in building more roads,it does not work.The govt should build light railways or tram links within all the major cities.Best of all an underground.All the major cities in the world learnt from London when t ...
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  • Concerned 9 years ago

    It's stupid to think the Europeans can do everything better than us. There's traffic in London just as bad as the ones in Accra. We just need to build more roads and flyovers. The planned circular road around Accra will allev ...
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  • JB Mann 9 years ago

    Yes, Europeans can do everything better than Ghana.

    FYI, It is Britain that has serious traffic problems, countries on the continent have better planning and less trafic problems than the UK, from which we in Ghana copy.

  • Modibo Keita 9 years ago

    As for our parliamentarians the least we talk about them the better. This means wrong people are ruling us.

  • mojingles 9 years ago

    Urban traffic is a global problem afflicting many cities from Accra to Manila, New York, Washington D.C. and Lagos. City planners are tearing their hair out trying to fashion solutions with more roads and arteries linking t ...
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  • Linda 9 years ago

    Poor planning of transportation system is the root of the traffic congestion. The roads are in bad shape, there's inadequate traffic management coupled with indiscipline drivers, causing traffic jams everyday. You don't need ...
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  • Asare 9 years ago

    Train service could help!

  • Kofi Virginia 9 years ago

    Part of the problem is our lack of respect for rules. Yes, a lot of cars, and bad roads, but simple respect for traffic rules can help.

  • Afia Ntosi 9 years ago

    Nonsense

  • kwesi 9 years ago

    Not only traffic. There are so many areas that we should not be ashamed to seek help. The europeans seeks help all the time from other countries.

  • Asem 9 years ago

    Not just traffic but everything. We should invite the white man back to fix your husbands failures.

  • KOOBOY 9 years ago

    IS THIS THE SAME KONADU WHO WANTS TO BE PRESIDENT? THERE ARE GHANAIANS WHO CAN DO THIS WITHOUT A BIG BILL.

  • Kk 9 years ago

    We don't need Europeans . Ghanaians are indiscipline and it's keeping in poverty.

  • YEBOPOWER 9 years ago

    Give the whole country to the Europeans. Once again the black man has failed to fulfill his own destiny. Ghana is a classic example. The problem is corruption at its epic. Shame unto Ghanaians. They can't even use the interne ...
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  • Iddris 9 years ago

    Then its better we invite Europeans to run our country for us.If we cannot manage common traffic.

  • Sincerity 9 years ago

    You and your husband caused it

  • SAMMY 9 years ago

    VERY STUPID INDEED.
    SOLUTION...... FIX THE BACK ROADS AND SEE IF DRIVERS WILL NOT USE IT..
    IF THE ONLY DRIVABLE ROADS ARE THE MAIN ONES AND EVERYBODY IS USING IT WHY WONTIT JAMMED UP.

    I THOT THE KONADU LADY WAS SMARTER ...
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  • Neutral Zone 9 years ago

    She's just another corrupt Ghanaian.

  • DADDY LAW 9 years ago

    This woman does not respect at all. She is a disgrace to womanhood. How can she show this gross disrespect to the husband and be talking about how to manage a situation in the country? No doubt she a military officer's wife. ...
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  • JH New York 9 years ago

    What lesson did you learn from the Europeans to manage your own affairs in the future when they helped you in the years 1986 and 1989.
    Having said that,the problem could be partly blamed on myopic road design and not enough ...
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  • Big Daddy 9 years ago

    It's very sad to read some of news from ghana, well, it doesn't harm seeking help from a develop partner,but my question is what is the use of our universities ghana?

  • CONCERN 9 years ago

    Major way of controlling traffic is to put effect road signs in place. Minister of roads and transportation is no doing a good Job. Also the should be a ban to regular police checking for licenses during morning and evening r ...
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  • adanko 9 years ago

    Railways are down, roads are bad , air travel and fuels too expensive. All these make movement expensive and our leaders are waiting money on useless projects just for cuts!If a white man comes he will just tell us to fix our ...
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  • Azumah Nelson 9 years ago

    This is a stupid suggestion.

  • ibn abudu @ Canadasheabutter (GhUWR) 9 years ago

    WHICH EUROPEAN COUNTRY DONT HAVE TRAFFIC PROBLEM ? ARE YOU A DAY DREAMER

  • princewilly@ymail.com 9 years ago

    The European Doctor told a guy that masturbating before sex often helped men last longer during the act. The man decided, "What the hell, I'll try it," He spent the rest of the day thinking about where to do it. He couldn't d ...
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  • Kpenyigba Kwesi 9 years ago

    Congratulations Nana. We need external advice to regulate our traffic in the major cities. Ghanaians also need you to return to NDC as a prodigal daughter to help win the 2016 élections. Ghana counts on you badly.You are bei ...
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  • ugly akufo addo 9 years ago

    fool

  • Zoobe-Zoobe 9 years ago

    is she?

  • Fredsaid 9 years ago

    in managing his affairs. How sad is that?

  • Kwasi 9 years ago

    Don't we have sense of our own to manage traffic? How many Europeans are driving on our roads?

  • Paapa Owusu-Ansah 9 years ago

    Who is this again ? Who is this Konsdu again ? Is this Konadu have sense at all? Very soon Ghanaians will invite the Europeans to help us to shit period .

  • tintin 9 years ago

    SEKE ALOO GBESHI?

  • Miss May 9 years ago

    I think you mean invite Europeans to help manage the affairs of the country, which will be the wisest move you and your husband or any leader would have made. Just look around you and tell the suffering people of the country ...
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  • pk 9 years ago

    The country has a university teaching civil engineering. The professors are there. So where lies the problem. Planning and adherence to traffic regulation is all that's required.

  • JB Mann 9 years ago

    Construct two circular roads around the periphery of Accra, say Outer Circle 1 and Outer Circle 2.

    Increase public transportation system by 300%.

    Construct railway network between Central Acra and Kotoka International A ...
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  • truth 9 years ago

    each year they visit cemetery to bury the dead yet they do not learn. Pastors across the country Stop prosperity prayers. Pray for common sense for Ghanaians road users.

  • Joseph, calgary 9 years ago

    You mean invite Europeans to help manage our traffic in Accra .this is what she is going to do.sick have you being to London,Hamburg,Copenhagen.to see traffic.

  • SIMON 9 years ago

    WHEN LAWS ARE MADE LET THE LAWS WORK. THOSE WHO INTERFER WITH THE LAW PROSECUTE THEM

  • Egblewogbe. Dzikunyawonye 9 years ago

    Close all technological institutions cos lecturers can't turn out qualified engineers .

  • THE CHOSEN ONE 9 years ago

    WHERE ARE THESE COMMENTS COMING FROM.

  • Kofi Basabasa 9 years ago

    Why don't you rather agitate for the whole country of Ghana to be put under complete British rule. You do not have self confidence and you are filled with satiable appetite to rule Ghana in future. Do you have a sense of comm ...
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  • DOBOO 9 years ago

    We all agree that there are too many vehicles on Accra roads causing the traffic jams. An interim solution is to implement a system of alternate days for vehicles with even and odd numbered plates to enter Accra during week d ...
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  • Yaw 9 years ago

    Oh sad, konadu is getting out hand

  • Nii 9 years ago

    To invite Europeans means all the experts,professors,doctors and even the school of planning are useless and must be scrapped.
    1. To reduce or organize the number of vehicles,all mini buses must convert to long buses because ...
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  • GHANA MUNTIE 9 years ago

    Those are the only 2 counties who can help ghana succede.

    Israel since 1948 and Germanysince 1948. We had independence in 1957 and looked the wrong way. Even broke up diplomatic relations with Israel.

  • Village Food 9 years ago

    GHANA muntie Japan can also help, Japan is the only country in the World to be attacked with nuclear weapons but they worked hard to develop their country and made it one of the best in the World

  • Osei Yao 9 years ago

    ARE YOU ASHAMED OF YOUR BLACKNESS? IS THAT WHY YOU MASRRIED AJATO-JURO? YOU ADMIRE THE THUG AND DISRESPECT OTHERS BECAUSE THEY ARE DARK-SKINNED? YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF YOURSELF

  • Moses -Accra 9 years ago

    Infact mom you are right.Our engineers are carrying pieces of papers.Back outside engineers are not wearing coats.Just by the way our Trafic systen is bad and we do not need more than 2 police men manning it.At times you find ...
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  • NOBODY 9 years ago

    “You can even manage traffic. The Europeans do it. They helped us to do it in 1986, 89, we can call them to help us,” Konadu rawlings

    Well, Konadu, if the Europeans helped you in the years you and your spouse were in ...
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