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Stop “criminal” Ebola vaccines trial in Ghana - Coalition

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  • :KWASI IN EUROPE 8 years ago

    Any new medicine is dangerous. It takes time for it to be perfected. All the people used for trials suffer. I swear that somebody has collected bribe from the whiteman and asked him to use Ghanaians as guinea pigs. Why try th ...
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  • DR. KOFI IN GERMANY 8 years ago

    They want and also prefer to make these Trials in Ghana because they know Ghanaians are in need of money and also money-minded .How the people of Ghana will then be infected and die doesn't interest them at all .

  • KOFI BOYE 8 years ago

    THESE DAYS ANYTHING HAPPENING IN GHANA EVEN IF POSITIVE IS CONDEMNED BY THESE PEOPLE WHO OPPOSE THE GOVERNMENT. HOW ELSE WILL A VACCINE BE TESTED AT THAT STAGE UNDER WHO. ILLITERATES. THEY ARE BEING TESTED IN OTHER COUNTRIES ...
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  • afotey 8 years ago

    Can you tell me of a country where the vaccine is being tested on people who have not contracted the virus?

  • Concerned Citizen 8 years ago

    This Ebola vaccine testing in Ghana makes no sense because there is no case of Ebola in Ghana, so how and when are the authorities going to know if the vaccine has been successful?

  • Concerned Citizen 8 years ago

    This Ebola vaccine testing in Ghana makes no sense because there is no case of Ebola in Ghana, so how and when are the authorities going to know if the vaccine has been successful? There is no way they can even know if the va ...
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  • Concerned Citizen 8 years ago

    This is just like taking a strong antimalarial drug when there is nothing wrong with you, and after 2 weeks you say "i'm still feeling very well, so the drug is working". No it's not working, you are just plain stupid and abu ...
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  • Saint Ghfuo: nyantakyi must GO! 8 years ago

    OWUO MPO SURO

  • Atoapoma Abransamadu 8 years ago

    I don't think you love your country Kofi. Why can't they do the testing in the affected countries but try to import this deadly deserve into the country for trial! Mind you, a whole tribe could be wiped out if this trial goes ...
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  • Sampson Amedegbe 8 years ago

    So will you accept to be used for testing! We're just not been real here! Ebola was created in a lab and It was launched here! With plans that it'll spread to all the strong countries in Africa but God spared us! So why then ...
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  • EBBY 8 years ago

    It is sad this plaque is being visited on their own people in Volta Region. They have no one to defend them against this imminent genocide by their own NDC government. The Ewes and the Volta Region people should wise up

  • Ametefe 8 years ago

    Another foolish boy

  • fuck ndc 8 years ago

    You thinking like a toddler there was no case in Ghana so why do u test the vaccines here . Jst Google about conspiracy theory and think twice you think is because of NPP or ndc death doesn't discriminate but the safety of GH ...
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  • fuck ndc 8 years ago

    You thinking like a toddler there was no case in Ghana so why do u test the vaccines here . Jst Google about conspiracy theory and think twice you think is because of NPP or ndc death doesn't discriminate but the safety of GH ...
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  • KAY, Italy. 8 years ago

    Kofi, my question is, why should this vaccine be tested on people who have not had the disease?

  • K. A. 8 years ago

    KOFI BOYE, don't remain ignorant. Listen to the voice of reason.

    Please read the ff.and educate yourself a bit:


    Comment: Government Must Stop This Devilish Plan!

    Author: K. A.
    Date: 2015-05-31 07:06:15
    Comment to ...
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  • Nana Oben 8 years ago

    But for the timely outcry of Ghanaians against another idiocy, Dr. Kwabena Adyei, the then chairman of the NDC would have brought into our forests chimps and monkeys that had been used for lab experiments in America and Europ ...
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  • Kem A. 8 years ago

    Nana Oben, what has this got to do with 'Northerners and Ewes in the NDC government'? But where did you get the ignorant notion that Dr. Kwabena Adjei is an Ewe or Northerner?

    Now, who're as corrupt in Ghana as the Asantes ...
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  • REEPE. 8 years ago

    Kof boye or whatever u call yourself, kindly take your entire family there some the testing. Nonese, haven't you heard that this is an Whitman invention in other to kill Africans? Don't u know it is a strategy to control ...
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  • Asiwome 8 years ago

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  • neeroo 8 years ago

    right on point. wen tou live under a government that refuse to think its pple are boubd to be condemned

  • Patriotic Ghanaian . USA. 8 years ago

    You should never have added "Dr." to your name if you were going to make such a stupid comment.

  • Arnold L 8 years ago

    This vaccine dont contain the whole pathogen (virus), but only a small fraction of the virus called an antigen. Therefore cant cause any disease. It is also not true that the people will have to be infected before given the v ...
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  • Agbolosu 8 years ago

    arnold ur parent have really invested in u n u re making them proud. pls spread them news to the lgnorant n lost souls in science. l guess u were a science student

  • Concerned 8 years ago

    If there is any ndc minister with morals around, they would resign over this issue. Mahama is just beyond words. The npp as the main opposition should not keep quiet over this unless they support it too

  • Patriotic Ghanaian . USA. 8 years ago

    "Prevention is better than cure" . Have you guys making all these negative comments taken time to study the components of Chicken Pox and Flu Vaccines?

  • Kwame Birmingham 8 years ago

    You are very ignorant. Stay in your hole in Ghana and write nonsense. This vaccine has been tried in other countries, Switzerland, Liberia, senegal, the list goes on. Is Switzerland an Ebola country? What about the Germans an ...
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  • Bafour 8 years ago

    You've said it all. Can't add more to this cheap advocacy without merit. God help Ghana.

  • SIKANI 8 years ago

    Kwame u abig fool NDC can fool thier people in volta not we the eye openers criminal mahama will collect money and do anything from Gm FOOD to Ebola vaccine this crimial corrupt mahama should try it on his family first

  • United Ghana 8 years ago

    Are you willing to participate in these trials

  • REEPE. 8 years ago

    Were you there or you were told by the media? Don't forget these guys control everything including the media ofor course they can't control Christ and His true believers. You are basing your argument on the media report no ...
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  • kwame burmingham 8 years ago

    Learn how to spell before responding to my educated contribution. I am a public health specialist and I have British colleague who went to Sierra Leone. That village mentality must stop. Even polio vaccine Africans says it is ...
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  • Talk Some 8 years ago

    you are the ignorant one. so think the white is doing us a favor? I am sure you have heard of... " there is no free lunch" yea? Look this is not free!!! wake up

  • Amnotanignorant 8 years ago

    This is no crime as it's not done on illiterates, it's done on doctors and nurses to be and I think they're well informed and been compensated for putting their life on the line to save Africa and the world.
    Some countries ...
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  • OGYEABOUR, 8 years ago

    Please, stop this Ebola vaccines trials now!!! it is not good trail!
    NEVER TAKE THIS EBOLA VACCINES!!!!

  • John A Quarshie 8 years ago

    Nothing good has happened in this NDC government... I wonder if the so call leaders think at all...good news anyway , but after they have killed the voltarians with their ebomahama vaccine they should do same in the three nor ...
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  • Nash 8 years ago

    Mr George, we know it bad we should stop pointing any bad thing on NDC, so the killed of Adams is NDC?. we should stand as one family to help mother Ghana bcos i dont believe in both parties

  • Constructivist 8 years ago

    Another idiot, who is talking about Adams here!

  • KWAME,BOLGA 8 years ago

    OKUDJETO ABLAKWA IS BEHIND THIS EBOLA TEST.HE IS SO DESPARATE FOR MONEY,HE CAN DO ANYTHING FOR IT.THAT BOY SHOULD BE CLOSELY WATCHED WHEREVER HE IS.

  • kakum 8 years ago

    aaah ghana paaaa any foolish prof,dr,reseachers can wake up starts nonsense tin wer dose trails medcine wen de out break get out of hand,n r we an infected country.dese pple ghana is wasting it resouce on dem both hom/abroad ...
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  • Kolo 8 years ago

    What kind of brofo are you spewing?

  • OKESS 8 years ago

    THIS SHOWS THE STUPIDITY OF OUR GOVT. EBOLA IS A WORLDWIDE DISEASE - THE MANUFACTURER OF THE VACCINE IS NOT BASED IN GHANA. WHY NOT DO THE TRIAL IN THE COUNTRY OF MANUFACTURE. THIS IS CRIMINAL ACTIVITY AND SHOULD BE STOPPED ...
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  • KOFI BOYE 8 years ago

    BE EDUCATED BEFORE SPEAKING. IT IS BEING TESTED IN SWITZERLAND AS WELL.

  • OKESS 8 years ago

    YOU NEED MORE EDUCATION ON EBOLA. DO YOU KNOW WHAT YEAR THE EBOLA VIRUS WAS DISCOVERED - AND BY WHOM? IF THE THE VACCINE HAS ALREADY BEEN TESTED ON THE SWISS AND IS WORKING - WHY DO THEY NEED TO TEST IT AGAIN ON POOR AFRICANS ...
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  • afotey 8 years ago

    Nobody is testing anything on humans who have not contracted the disease. Other countries are using chimps for now

  • Kwapps 8 years ago

    ...as at the last count...:)

  • lol 8 years ago

    So because it's being tested in switzerland that means it shud be tested on ghanaians too. R they better than us? U r very stupid..

  • kwame burmingham 8 years ago

    The vaccine is being tested in all the countries affected by the virus including British doctors and nurses I know. It has been and been tested in countries without the virus even in Europe. Sit in Ghana and die of stupidity. ...
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  • Elmina Dame 8 years ago

    Does it make sense to test a vaccine on people who do not have the disease and in a country where there has not been one single case? Why don't they test it in America or UK? Are we Ghanaians mad or stupid to allow people to ...
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  • kadiri 8 years ago

    Are we sure ghana is not put out for sale?

  • yaman 8 years ago

    No NPP news today? Stupid ple GhanaIan!

  • man made. 8 years ago

    oh Ghana, when your leaders are money conscious they can do anything for it. May the Lord have mercy on us.

  • yaman 8 years ago

    No NPP news today? Stupid ple Ghanaweb!

  • Adobah 8 years ago

    The people of Ghana must wake up and rise against such treacherous event from ever happening. This is so serious and we should consider the past misgivings of the world major drug industries. At least one example we can take ...
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  • OKESS 8 years ago

    Africa will never learn. Our leaders are demonic! No wonder they sell their own people to the so called "whiteman" as slaves.

  • GPS 8 years ago

    Why are you using your people to try these vaccines? Are you sick from ebola?
    Our people are useless, even animals can think better than us. Oh Ghana leaders

  • kwabena N 8 years ago

    Why behave like an ostrich and think that Ebola trial is a bad thing in Ghana. ? If this group claim they have Ghanaian at heart, then the trial must go on bearing in mind the number of deaths it caused to our neighbouring ...
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  • GPS 8 years ago

    You should tell your families and friends not to take it. that is all

  • Amricana 8 years ago

    When you read documentaries of the EuropeanS, THEY PLAN LONG AGO TO REDUCE THE POPULATION OF AFRICANS Through Medicine/vaccines and food.So please this is a planned business by an individual to enriched themselves thereby pa ...
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  • PRINCEWILLY@YMAIL.COM 8 years ago

    And this from an institution partially financed by taxes derived from the "illicit" trade !!!

    And I agree with your suspicion, this definitely looks like the WHO is lending a greased hand to the tobacco industry !

  • Nkonya Terminator III 8 years ago

    Why Hohoe Midwifery School and not the presidency with a population of 692 and still counting.

  • PRINCEWILLY@YMAIL.COM 8 years ago

    ALL THE AFRICANS WHO HAD EBOLA AND BROUGHT TO THE USA FOR TREATMENT DIED BUT THE WHITE DOCTORS WHO CAME TO AMERICA FOR TREATMENT SURVIVED.
    WISE UP GHANAIAN'S BEFORE IS TOO LATE.
    WHOEVER INTRODUCED THAT EBOLA VACCINE SHOULD ...
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  • Sim 8 years ago

    No, whoever discover the Ebola vaccine comes from a country with human beings. S/he should take it to his/her country for trial. S/he will have more knowledge about the success or otherwise from his/her own country than tryin ...
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  • patriot 8 years ago

    America brought ebola to West Africa and africans are being used as guinea pigs.Americans should be used as guinea pigs and not africans,especially ghanaians.

  • oppong london 8 years ago

    with this trial ,ebola will start to spread after the trial because this medicine may contain ebola virus,in fact it is clear that ndc government has no sense,no human feeling for ghana,why not try in ebola affected country b ...
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  • Yakubu Aziz 8 years ago

    Total not a scientific analysis. Vaccines are preventable substances not curative. To suggest that the disease has to be introduced to humans beforre the vaccine is administered is not true. What a Ghana that we live in?. Co ...
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  • EBBY 8 years ago

    Just shut the f...k up. You have no medical knowledge about how vacine works. The vacine is made up of attenuated, live viruses which have been rendered extremely weak to infect. However, in some cases, these weakened viruses ...
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  • Yakubu Aziz 8 years ago

    EBBY you are dam hasty in conclusions. You really do not know me and my backgtound hence yout unfounded conclusions. May be you are an expert in Immunology' but let me tell you a vaccine is either attenuated, live or dead. Yo ...
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  • kobby 8 years ago

    preventable substances indeed. Preventing what? non existent substance/disease? How can the vaccine's efficacy be measured then?. where are the controls?
    You kidding me.

  • Patriotic Ghanaian . USA. 8 years ago

    Write to Dr. Fauchi of the USA National Institute of Health( NIH) about Ebola , and he and other Renowned Experts will educate you on the advantages of the Ebola Vaccine .

  • XYZ 8 years ago

    Do these NDC guys hsve human heads or animal heads. I the later is right animal heads thus the reason nothing is working in the country. Just name them; dumsor, the falling of the cide, unemployment.........etc. The dead goat ...
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  • Y B 8 years ago

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  • Ametefe 8 years ago

    Stupid government with stupid actions

  • Cash 8 years ago

    How dare you allow killing of people in the Volta Region take place!!!. People of Volta Region are you human beings and not animals. When will people in high authority begin to respect people from the Volta Region? Stop this ...
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  • Agbolosu 8 years ago

    all those making the comments re medically n pharmacologicaly uneducated. the vacine in question does not contain a live or dead virus.if u really read on ur health u will not be decieved by this headless n certificateless so ...
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  • BBH 8 years ago

    My brother, if the Kenyan government is as stupid as the Mahama one here in Ghana, sorry is their own palaver.
    We all know that there is not a single case of the disease in Ghana, so my question is if they carry out the tes ...
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  • fuck ndc 8 years ago

    Mahama is a fool no two ways about that

  • man made. 8 years ago

    I smell something fishy here, at least they should have educated yhe public first before commencing this exercise. ....

  • Agbolosu 8 years ago

    Did u ask ursef why they went to the midwifery school? such programs need more education n dat was why they went there. in anycase re u saying the students in the school who re midwives re so stupid n hungry that only 200gh t ...
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  • Shape teeth 8 years ago

    oooohh..ghana bcos of Ghc 200 u ar ready for ebola vaccine.what a shame.

  • Tarim 8 years ago

    I feel like weeping. I hope this is not true

  • K. A. 8 years ago

    This is a very dangerous move by the Ghana government, if it has indeed agreed to allow Ghanaians to be used for the Ebola vaccine trial. It just doesn't make sense since there has not been a single Ebola case in Ghana.

    Wh ...
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  • jim 8 years ago

    U can just think about such things. Are we being lead by humans or animals.

  • Amnotanignorant 8 years ago

    This is no crime as it's not done on illiterates, it's done on doctors and nurses to be and I think they're well informed and been compensate for putting their life on the line to save Africa and the world.
    Some countries ...
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  • jim 8 years ago

    The company producing the vaccines have people living in their country why not try it on the? they are also human.

  • Emmanuel 8 years ago

    Where is that prawn Kofi usA?

  • kwam 8 years ago

    this is a stupid idea, if they really want to text the vaccines why not just go the already infected countries And do the trials there?

  • Agbolosu 8 years ago

    your ldea is much more stupid bcus u dont even know abt vacines n wat trail means n wher is coming frm.only read the news n u re commenting.

  • innocent kwasi 8 years ago

    Ignorant as sum one said what abt de cervical cancer trial test in northern region will dat one also kill de northers. I tink we are in a continent dat we will each . It not let stop AU and ECOWAS n watch our neighbors die. I ...
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  • The don 8 years ago

    Is MAHAMA human at all,is he really presiding over the affairs of this nation.why don't they do these trials in their own country if it's safe,,,they call us apes up here and I'm sorry to say that we are surely behaving like ...
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  • Whatever 8 years ago

    I agree with the coalition. This is nothing but an exploitation of poor people. The duty of Ministry of Health is to protect the health of Ghanaians and not to allow this kind risky experiments.

  • Famous J.K 8 years ago

    JDM is a flop and a mess to the nation. As a father of a nation you agreed to such naive and blockminded agenda only to help reduce population for him because the people are many in the country and hence making it difficult f ...
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  • Patriotic Ghanaian . USA. 8 years ago

    Who put this idea in your mind ? Please go back to history and you will learn that people in those days made same silly comments about Chicken Pox , Flu , Measles , Polio, TB, And Small Pox Vaccines also .

  • Dogah Sebastian.Accra. 8 years ago

    No! it should not happened in Ghana before People of Volta Region. Why? Is there any Ebola case reported in Ghana.Even Liberia pupils are runing away from school anytime they are to take the vacine,why Midwifery student?? Yes ...
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  • Selasi 8 years ago

    The so called writers of this article have no knowledge whatsoever about what a drug trial is and to be more specific, what this ebola vaccine trial is about. You should really make some meaningful and reasonable research in ...
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  • Say It Loud 8 years ago

    Why is the Ghana Govt spearheading the trial of drug for a genetically modified disease which is notENDEMIC in Ghana. Gyimiiiiiiii.

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  • yeboah 8 years ago

    Check this out and youll see what the risk of all this nonesense!!!!!edition.cnn.com/2006/HEALTH/03/15/uk.clinical/

  • yeboah 8 years ago

    LONDON, England -- Two men are in critical condition in a London hospital and four others are in serious condition after taking part in a clinical trial for a new drug.

    One victim, whose head and neck were reported to have ...
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  • Yakubu Aziz 8 years ago

    Yeboah, nobody says there can not be risk associated with drug or substance trails, nevertheless trials of drugs are ongoing and such incidences are always taken care of. What do say about the cancer vaccine trials ongoing in ...
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  • kwaku 8 years ago

    Ebola trial test in ghana should conducted on the prez, his vice, ministers of state, speaker of parliament, all parliamentarians, mces and dces, to show leadership.

  • OYIKO 8 years ago

    I BEGG GHANAIANS NOT TO GO FOR THE EBOLA VACCINE, WHITE PEOPLE CAN DO EVERYTHING TO MAKE THEMSELVES RICH AT THE ESPENSE OF AFRICANS. THEY WANT TO IMPLANT THE DISEASE IN GHANA AND MAKES US CONTRACTS THE DISEASES AND BECOME WEA ...
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  • Hassan 8 years ago

    Vaccines are main for prevention so de group should know what to fight for next time round.

  • ghanamam 8 years ago

    it s very myopic on the part of Gorvernment to consider such an idea,y do the manufactures not testing it on the guinea pig?

  • tb 8 years ago

    which people shd b used? how we contribute in eliminating dis menace as africans? pls get life ok n stop dese primitive behaviour.

  • NANA 8 years ago

    mahama is out of mind

  • MTL 8 years ago

    mahama and his appointees should volunteer and we'll gladly follow suit

  • tb 8 years ago

    can

  • back door director 8 years ago

    Attention seeking illiterates. Trying to divert attention from Npp crisis

  • Akyemafia 8 years ago

    By the way drug trials are based on tacit agreement with people involved. It's not by force. Ignorant people. Vaccines are made up of part of dead virus not live ones. How did herbalists know their treatment can cure people ...
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  • consent Ghanaian 8 years ago

    The president and his family shod be tested first.what kind of wickedness is this

  • kk 8 years ago

    First the MPs and co should take it b4 the masses oh GH

  • JDM KILLED MILLS 4 FREE 8 years ago

    MAHAMA BLOOD SOCKER,JUJU MAFIA,MAHAMA KILLED MILLS,NOW HE IS KILLING GHANIANS,OOOH AS3M NIE,GHANIANS EEEEI 2016 WE MUST DROP THAT YAM PERIOD

  • Igp 8 years ago

    Manama is anti-Ghana an agent of a foreign country. Mahatma is not fit for a second term. He is a punk. Ghana needs a wide Akita.

  • Igp 8 years ago

    The Chiefs and people of Bolta, ask yourselves why not the northern region but Volta? Mahatma must go.

  • Jenny 8 years ago

    This statement:
    “healthy people would have to be infected with the Ebola virus before the said vaccine is administered to them for a gamble" is completely false and designed to scare people. thousands of people have died a ...
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