Politicians helping "criminals" who butcher trees for "jungle of nonsense"

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

I personally disagreed with Dr. Nyaho Tamakloe on this issue. Nana " Y3n Akanfuo " Binaddo did not in anyway abused or take the tribalistic Npp Motorbikes thieves for granted, but rather the entire Npp is foolish to bets with ...
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I personally disagreed with Dr. Nyaho Tamakloe on this issue. Nana " Y3n Akanfuo " Binaddo did not in anyway abused or take the tribalistic Npp Motorbikes thieves for granted, but rather the entire Npp is foolish to bets with a man who is NOT marketable.
Issah Amin 9 years ago

The person under the cover of BBC News
should have conscience and stop this tribal hate nonsense he/she has been spewing

The person under the cover of BBC News
should have conscience and stop this tribal hate nonsense he/she has been spewing
KOLA, LONDON PROPER 9 years ago

Jungle of houses was under the watch of the npp mate me ho of the Kufuor's government when Kufuor sold all Ga lands to his cronies with Georgina Wood bribed with a piece of it too.

Even Certificateless Obetsebi too got som ...
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Jungle of houses was under the watch of the npp mate me ho of the Kufuor's government when Kufuor sold all Ga lands to his cronies with Georgina Wood bribed with a piece of it too.

Even Certificateless Obetsebi too got some, could you imagine?

Talk, My Lion Heart.
Awula naa 9 years ago

JJR its a high time u cm back cox our leaders are soooo corupt we fear what d future holds cm back we need u

JJR its a high time u cm back cox our leaders are soooo corupt we fear what d future holds cm back we need u
Prince Massachusetts 9 years ago

Issa. U right. I don't know . He or she never made a good comment. Stupid fool. BBC news

Issa. U right. I don't know . He or she never made a good comment. Stupid fool. BBC news
JJ. STOP TALKING-19 YERAS OF WASTE 9 years ago

YOU DID NOTHING FOR GHANA. STOP TALKING. YOU HAD 19 YEARS TO MAKE GHANA LIKE SINGAPORE. YOU DID NOTHING. STOP TALKING. WASTE OF TIME AND SPACE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

YOU DID NOTHING FOR GHANA. STOP TALKING. YOU HAD 19 YEARS TO MAKE GHANA LIKE SINGAPORE. YOU DID NOTHING. STOP TALKING. WASTE OF TIME AND SPACE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ekow nyame 9 years ago

These are politicians you gromed. God will save Ghana. AMEN.

These are politicians you gromed. God will save Ghana. AMEN.
Issah Amin 9 years ago

It is not the job of politicians to stop the concrete jungles but the Forestry Commission, The Mayor, MCE, DCE and Town and city planners

It is not the job of politicians to stop the concrete jungles but the Forestry Commission, The Mayor, MCE, DCE and Town and city planners
Kwaku 9 years ago

The environmental destruction is nationwide. Most of the rivers and streams in Ghana have been severely polluted by increased mining ventures with fatal consequences to many Ghanaians.

The environmental destruction is nationwide. Most of the rivers and streams in Ghana have been severely polluted by increased mining ventures with fatal consequences to many Ghanaians.
Nii Addotey 9 years ago

Let analyse our comments before posting them. Is the forestry commision not attached to the ministry of science, enviroment and technology? Is the MCE and DCE not political appointmemt? Is the head of the environmental commis ...
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Let analyse our comments before posting them. Is the forestry commision not attached to the ministry of science, enviroment and technology? Is the MCE and DCE not political appointmemt? Is the head of the environmental commission not a polical appointment? When Jerry Rawlings speaks let's take time to reflect before commenting.Thank you and may Jesus bless all of us.
Possible 9 years ago

You mention The MAYOR ,do you think polictian we permit VAN To do his JOB?

You mention The MAYOR ,do you think polictian we permit VAN To do his JOB?
Mo 9 years ago

JJ you are right people don't think that they are destroying our forest, check Ghanaian bedrooms we are sleeping on Onyina wood beds, and check white European bedroom you will see that they are sleeping Odum woods beds, ...
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JJ you are right people don't think that they are destroying our forest, check Ghanaian bedrooms we are sleeping on Onyina wood beds, and check white European bedroom you will see that they are sleeping Odum woods beds, they have to introduce punishment for those who cut our trees and give them life imprisonment, Not only Ghanaian whole Africa countries are cutting down trees, I am with you Akwasi,
Efo 9 years ago

Well spoken but advise your party leaders.

Well spoken but advise your party leaders.
Nana Effah 9 years ago

It is very sad, Jerry. The Chinese have destroyed and poisoned our sacred rivers. The politicians who did not study Geography to know the value of trees are selling our forests to crooks for their selfish gains. When shall Gh ...
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It is very sad, Jerry. The Chinese have destroyed and poisoned our sacred rivers. The politicians who did not study Geography to know the value of trees are selling our forests to crooks for their selfish gains. When shall Ghana get a 'Daniel' to save us?
kwadwo 9 years ago

well said jj, is about time they learn to appreciate our dear environment. they shall one day pay for it.

well said jj, is about time they learn to appreciate our dear environment. they shall one day pay for it.
KWAA 9 years ago

J.J is speaking the gospel truth,we are destroying our Nation.For the few years our generation is going to live on this Earth we really intend to destroy everything for the sake of money,for the next generation.But Mr Rawling ...
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J.J is speaking the gospel truth,we are destroying our Nation.For the few years our generation is going to live on this Earth we really intend to destroy everything for the sake of money,for the next generation.But Mr Rawlings should take some of the blame,because this nonsense,this indiscipline was started by him and his cronies all in the name of a so called revolution.I am glad that .Mr Rawlings is alive today to witness where he has brought Ghana today,all because he wanted to live a comfortable life.I pray he lives longer to witness the worse which is yet come,as long as NDC stays in power
Possible 9 years ago

Sir,what JJ ,is saying have noting to do with NDC,we need solution .

Sir,what JJ ,is saying have noting to do with NDC,we need solution .
Wonderful 9 years ago

This is one of the many excellent speeches of JJ.l wish he will put up all the powers and respect he has to stopt this "nonsense" Okay.

This is one of the many excellent speeches of JJ.l wish he will put up all the powers and respect he has to stopt this "nonsense" Okay.
if the lone crusader 9 years ago

Dont hide behind and talk as you use to do massa! Is it not your own boys doing the crazy nonsenses ? Why are you coward now? Becos of the innflow? Be man and go straig

Dont hide behind and talk as you use to do massa! Is it not your own boys doing the crazy nonsenses ? Why are you coward now? Becos of the innflow? Be man and go straig
Asem se be 9 years ago

Now Rawlings is directing his attention at the right places. The environmental destruction by Ghanaians and foreigners and the one man churches. I wish I cud have a month as a President of Ghana, hmmm, one man churches ll p ...
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Now Rawlings is directing his attention at the right places. The environmental destruction by Ghanaians and foreigners and the one man churches. I wish I cud have a month as a President of Ghana, hmmm, one man churches ll pay 50 % tax to the government and Ghanaians ll cm first in Ghana
williss 9 years ago

is ur own illustrate president and bush cabinets around him so tell him point blank n stop disturbing us

is ur own illustrate president and bush cabinets around him so tell him point blank n stop disturbing us
Canada 9 years ago

You guys made a white mans form of government rip you apart. Even when a man makes a good point that is important to the country you idiots still talk shit. Real men can agree and disagree with their opposition.

You guys made a white mans form of government rip you apart. Even when a man makes a good point that is important to the country you idiots still talk shit. Real men can agree and disagree with their opposition.
Nana Kofi 9 years ago

he should shut up.mahama has corrupt him not to criticise his abysmal governance

he should shut up.mahama has corrupt him not to criticise his abysmal governance
Kaleao KO 9 years ago

Flt, Lieutenant Ret ..Jerry Rawlings is not the old J J we know now...lnstead of being the voice of the Voiceless we known him to be; he is now ranting about trees. .fine, jj pls compare 50.60.85 even up 95% of Ghanaian liv ...
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Flt, Lieutenant Ret ..Jerry Rawlings is not the old J J we know now...lnstead of being the voice of the Voiceless we known him to be; he is now ranting about trees. .fine, jj pls compare 50.60.85 even up 95% of Ghanaian living in "poverty"; while your party's helmsman and his? ??? Criminal gangsters are looting and milking GHANA like nobodies business: this is what the Voiceless explicitly expected from you on any platform. ... not trees as for the criminals as you rightly call them .we the masses shall deal with them when we Bellyful.... So JJ pls, don't ever tried to divert the hungry anger of the masses that's piling up like a Rogue waves towards this emptied heads in government. Tweeeah-- jokers headed jokers oratoriooooo.
kojo 9 years ago

Mr. President, thanks....
A president Ghana will always MISS...
the lion of our Time...

Mr. President, thanks....
A president Ghana will always MISS...
the lion of our Time...
FREEDOM&CORRUPTION 9 years ago

JJ YOU BUTCHERED PEOPLE DURING YOUR REGIME, WHAT IS WRONG WITH BUTCHERING TREES. KEEP TAKING YOUR HRT, YOU'RE LOOSING YOUR MIND!

JJ YOU BUTCHERED PEOPLE DURING YOUR REGIME, WHAT IS WRONG WITH BUTCHERING TREES. KEEP TAKING YOUR HRT, YOU'RE LOOSING YOUR MIND!
GADIDIMGADAM 9 years ago

It's funny the Butcher of a few good men is making such a comment. At least he has said the truth since he knows a thing or two about butchering which creates a jungle of nonsense.
Today as we speak, his self-appointed disci ...
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It's funny the Butcher of a few good men is making such a comment. At least he has said the truth since he knows a thing or two about butchering which creates a jungle of nonsense.
Today as we speak, his self-appointed disciple in whom he's well pleased the Mahama-led NDC gov't is on the verge of oh yes, butchering the Achimota forest to create that very apt jungle of nonsense he so eloquently yells about, after he butchered his way through our governance structure to establish the jungle of nonsense that has firmly guaranteed Ghana a foothold in the doldrums of failure, retrogression and stagnation.
The Butcher is correct and Ghana is clearly a goner.
The antidote is you guessed right, the magnificently massive firing of this jungle of nonsense at the ballot box in 2016, to preserve our sanity as a people and as a country.
yaw bekoe 9 years ago

Please talk corruption and dum dum

Please talk corruption and dum dum
Edmund 9 years ago

These are the of people the country need as leader

These are the of people the country need as leader
Paddy 9 years ago

Well said Jerry John. but this nonsense started long ago, and it's still going on. The media should focus on this and make it a national issue.

Well said Jerry John. but this nonsense started long ago, and it's still going on. The media should focus on this and make it a national issue.
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Jojo 9 years ago

I am very disappointed in you Papa Jay. For given back the power to these hungry vultures. Who convinced you that civilian can transform ghana?

I am very disappointed in you Papa Jay. For given back the power to these hungry vultures. Who convinced you that civilian can transform ghana?
Mike 9 years ago

Please Mr Rawlings help us safe Ghana. ....
our families are still there...

Please Mr Rawlings help us safe Ghana. ....
our families are still there...
Akans. Prophecies 9 years ago

Still a crook. Even age doesn't change him. Is it important to talk about ecology, when this nation have undergone the waste of every management under your by force administration. Idiot ! Look at our marketing places. Stup ...
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Still a crook. Even age doesn't change him. Is it important to talk about ecology, when this nation have undergone the waste of every management under your by force administration. Idiot ! Look at our marketing places. Stupid plannings and we have to live , sell and breath in dust. Untarred roads, since your annexation, we live in dust to the price of tuberculoses and asthme. Chat did you do to save thèse situation under tour 2 décades. Save us annoter of your nonsense .
Abena 9 years ago

Go Rawlings

Go Rawlings
zombi politician. 9 years ago

Indiscipline Flt. Lt. look at your face in the mirror and you will see a lawful politicians.

Indiscipline Flt. Lt. look at your face in the mirror and you will see a lawful politicians.
kelton 9 years ago

TELL this Truth to ur very men in POWER-THEY ARE THE VERY CRIMINALS DESTROYING THIS COUNTRY AT ALL LEVELS.

TELL this Truth to ur very men in POWER-THEY ARE THE VERY CRIMINALS DESTROYING THIS COUNTRY AT ALL LEVELS.
sammi 9 years ago

are you all fools ? the man is making sense and you are insulting him God have mercy.

are you all fools ? the man is making sense and you are insulting him God have mercy.
Victor A. Young 9 years ago

Mr. Rawlings' concern is a serious one that gov't must respond to with speed. Some greedy individuals are helping Realtors remove Ghana's tree shade or covering from our lands with catastrophic consequences. What's wrong with ...
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Mr. Rawlings' concern is a serious one that gov't must respond to with speed. Some greedy individuals are helping Realtors remove Ghana's tree shade or covering from our lands with catastrophic consequences. What's wrong with our society; Town and Country Planning didn't see to proper lay-out and building in our cities and town in the beginning. Now that things seem a bit improved, some people are helping destroy our forest cover. Hmmmm! I'm one of Rawlings' biggest critics but on this one, I think this is a serious national matter and there shouldn't be any jokes about it at all. Those found to be behind these crazy acts must be brought to justice. Plain and simple!
OKOROMANSA 9 years ago

YES OF COURSE, JERRY, AND YOU ARE GHANA'S # 1 CRAZY BASTARD. YOU JUST DON'T WANT TO TALK ABOUT MAHAMA FOR FEAR OF LOSING YOUR DAILY BREAD.

YES OF COURSE, JERRY, AND YOU ARE GHANA'S # 1 CRAZY BASTARD. YOU JUST DON'T WANT TO TALK ABOUT MAHAMA FOR FEAR OF LOSING YOUR DAILY BREAD.
Kwaku 9 years ago

Good but don't generalise. Ndc is on power and they are to blame. Are you not a politician?

Good but don't generalise. Ndc is on power and they are to blame. Are you not a politician?
Kwame 9 years ago

He is a politician himself so it begins with him. He is the biggest criminal.

He is a politician himself so it begins with him. He is the biggest criminal.
GOODMAN 9 years ago

sometimes i wonder if our leaders are reasonable people. you find these trees in western countries where the temperature is very favourable. you come to ghana with an unfavourable temperature with scorchy sun, and you are f ...
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sometimes i wonder if our leaders are reasonable people. you find these trees in western countries where the temperature is very favourable. you come to ghana with an unfavourable temperature with scorchy sun, and you are faced with treeless, unplanned, bare, and slum, cities, towns, and villages. do we have a sense of reasoning as humanbeings?
Adama d'Gharty 9 years ago

Once I incline to agree with the greatest gift ever given to the Volta Region. Our greedy politicians, who know next to nothing about complete environmental degradation, except the only way to their enormously filled bank acc ...
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Once I incline to agree with the greatest gift ever given to the Volta Region. Our greedy politicians, who know next to nothing about complete environmental degradation, except the only way to their enormously filled bank accounts, just like to stand aside watching foreign criminal elements cause in many cases irreparable damage to our fertile lands, the only legacy we can safely leave for the future of the next generation. The selfish interest of the present politicians in Ghana include welcoming foreign illegal miners to seek precious metals which leave our environment scared with poisoned trenches and polluted rivers. These criminal elements from abroad are not remotely interested in the good of our environment, they're intently here to destroy our lands so are our own insatiable corrupt, and greedy politicians.
dju 9 years ago

I don't know what is wrong with the gov.all what they know is v8.How can u destroy your own country.Ask the stupid president who does't respect Ghanaians even water for villagers he has allowed foreigners to destroy them. I h ...
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I don't know what is wrong with the gov.all what they know is v8.How can u destroy your own country.Ask the stupid president who does't respect Ghanaians even water for villagers he has allowed foreigners to destroy them. I hope he suffers all hardships Ghanaians are going through.
Pasma Kote 9 years ago

HOW LONG HAS THIS BEEN GOING ON, Rawlings are just ware of it.......???????????, please do not pretend.

HOW LONG HAS THIS BEEN GOING ON, Rawlings are just ware of it.......???????????, please do not pretend.
Augusco Boy 9 years ago

For a guy with so little education, Rawlings is in fact an intelligent man. Can other Ghanaian politicians begin to think like him?

For a guy with so little education, Rawlings is in fact an intelligent man. Can other Ghanaian politicians begin to think like him?
Odikro Eyuo Mununkum 9 years ago

JJ is the must patriotic person in Ghana now.He should have made this statement directory to mahama and all the traditional leaders who don`t have a mare sense about foreign investors. The so call illegal mining which mahama ...
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JJ is the must patriotic person in Ghana now.He should have made this statement directory to mahama and all the traditional leaders who don`t have a mare sense about foreign investors. The so call illegal mining which mahama and traditional leaders allowed to roll as a dice will destroy Ghana`s environment completely.
kutsii. 9 years ago

I learnt that sometime in 2006, Rawlings and the wife visited the forest of Begoro with the now cheif of staff Debrah and other officials of the party to inspect teak tress and other forest trees which the 31st DWMA planted 1 ...
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I learnt that sometime in 2006, Rawlings and the wife visited the forest of Begoro with the now cheif of staff Debrah and other officials of the party to inspect teak tress and other forest trees which the 31st DWMA planted 1983 after the forest had been ravaged by bush fires. Rawlings was happy that the forest cover will prevent erosion and also create relief rainfall. Rawlings loves the environment. Removing weeds in the river volta to help local fishermen ? Anybody can hate Rawlings, but let God be the judge.
Sly A 9 years ago

If we have an effective town planning for the whole country with a strategic picture of what needs to be at an areas no one can bribe any one to destroy the Master plan of a community. JJ did you enforce such a thing when you ...
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If we have an effective town planning for the whole country with a strategic picture of what needs to be at an areas no one can bribe any one to destroy the Master plan of a community. JJ did you enforce such a thing when you were in [power. I don't think you did but with hindsight you are beginning to realize that wild park a greens is as important as building everywhere like Teshi people did.Its not too late to rescue lost lands.
anas garba 9 years ago

I never gave my support to JJ since he became a civilian government. I was one of his biggest fun when he was a military, because he was bold and straight forward. These are some of terms I like to hear from him. He should ...
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I never gave my support to JJ since he became a civilian government. I was one of his biggest fun when he was a military, because he was bold and straight forward. These are some of terms I like to hear from him. He should try also to wake up JDM from sleeping.
GHANABA 9 years ago

THOSE RULING ARE FROM WHERE ? THEY ARE YOU PRODUCTS . THE SENSE TO MANAGE PEOPLE THEY DON'T HAVE AND ONLY STEALING PLUS DESTRUCTION.

THOSE RULING ARE FROM WHERE ? THEY ARE YOU PRODUCTS . THE SENSE TO MANAGE PEOPLE THEY DON'T HAVE AND ONLY STEALING PLUS DESTRUCTION.

Politicians helping "criminals" who butcher trees for "jungle of nonsense"

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