‘We'll implement pragmatic measures to end disasters’

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KK 8 years ago

This president talks too much. You cannot even solve 'dumsor' which is man made. And you are talking about ending natural disasters? Are you aright Mr. president?

This president talks too much. You cannot even solve 'dumsor' which is man made. And you are talking about ending natural disasters? Are you aright Mr. president?
BBC NEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 8 years ago

This disaster will never put Nana "Y3 AKANFOU" Binaddo in the high office. Npp and their terrorist INVISIBLE FORCES must continue their usual fasting and prayers for their "antoa" , No wonder Ghana is have all this problems j ...
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This disaster will never put Nana "Y3 AKANFOU" Binaddo in the high office. Npp and their terrorist INVISIBLE FORCES must continue their usual fasting and prayers for their "antoa" , No wonder Ghana is have all this problems just after they stated that juju prayer camp.
NANA BONSU 8 years ago

NONSENSE!!!!!

NONSENSE!!!!!
Close Observer 8 years ago

People of La, PETER ALA ADJETEY WILL NOT STOOP THIS LOW. VOTE AMASA NAMOALE OUT OF PARLIAMENT, AND GET SOMEONE WHO BEFITS THE POSITION.
People of Ghana, Dangerous politicians like Amasa Namoale who have no idea that democrac ...
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People of La, PETER ALA ADJETEY WILL NOT STOOP THIS LOW. VOTE AMASA NAMOALE OUT OF PARLIAMENT, AND GET SOMEONE WHO BEFITS THE POSITION.
People of Ghana, Dangerous politicians like Amasa Namoale who have no idea that democracy involves divergent views, but all aimed at one goal; making Ghana better must not be entertain in our country's politics. Amasa Namoale does not know this because he doesn't think about Ghana. For him, it is all about SELFISH AMBITION. Hence, his unpatriotic comments on issues bothering on Wayome and his incessant perpetuation of tribal discrimination. I know the people of La dadekotopon electoral area can do better. The people of La in General have offered one of the best politicians Ghana has ever had in the person of PETER ALA ADJETEY, and I believe they can do it again. Amasa Namoale is far below the standard one expect from a politician from La. I therefore appeal to the people of La dadekotopon to kick this sub-standard parliamentarian out, come 2016, and give us someone who will reflect what they stand for and believe in. May God bless all of you at La dadekotopon, and La in general. NY3 YIWALA DON MINY3MIM3I.
Citizen One 8 years ago

Many times and over many years, I had predicted that the only way to decongest Accra would be through natural and man made disasters. Matter of fact I have often prayed for it, because I do not trust any of our politicians to ...
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Many times and over many years, I had predicted that the only way to decongest Accra would be through natural and man made disasters. Matter of fact I have often prayed for it, because I do not trust any of our politicians to be able to solve this perennial problem. Coupled with the influx of some incredibly uncivilized elements from across the nation. Primitive and uncouth people from the northern and Ashanti regions converging on Accra to turn it into a "District 9". The abjectly poor, ignorant and lazy Ga indigenes who have settled along the coast line, and vowed never to change their backward ways have intensified are retrogressive state of existence.

I now declare Marshall law to enforce every law on the books to rid this city of all these unscrupulous elements. Life is never free, not even in communist china, these non-tax paying elements are the noisiest and most demanding on government to do things that they don,t deserve, and worst of all either they destroy these investments by government or in numbers hinder any progressive projects. Opposition parties, whichever happens to be at any given time encourage and empower these hooligans to hold an entire nation hostage to their whims and caprices.

Again I say, our only solution to become children of the sane and clean GODS is to purge all the inhabitants of "District 9"...the useless and degenerate in our society. They are an incorrigible class of misfits!
GBEWAA 8 years ago

WHICH PRAGMATIC MEASURES IS THIS "PRESIDENT" TALKING ABOUT? HE SHOULD NAME OR OUTLINE THOSE "PRAGMATIC" MEASURES.

GHANA LEADERS ARE ONLY GOOD AT PAYING FOR FRIVOLOUS AWARDS.

KUFUOR AND LORDINA MAHAMA HAVE JUST BAGGED P ...
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WHICH PRAGMATIC MEASURES IS THIS "PRESIDENT" TALKING ABOUT? HE SHOULD NAME OR OUTLINE THOSE "PRAGMATIC" MEASURES.

GHANA LEADERS ARE ONLY GOOD AT PAYING FOR FRIVOLOUS AWARDS.

KUFUOR AND LORDINA MAHAMA HAVE JUST BAGGED PAID-FOR AWARDS.

IS THIS THE FIRST TIME ACCRA OR GHANA HAS BEEN DELUGED BY FLOOD WATERS?

TALK IS CHEAP AMONG GHANA LEADERS!!!
insight to the bone 8 years ago

. They say we are being spiteful and have no patience or understanding for this useless pepeni / ayigbe devil God forsaken govt. See the misfortunes and disasters we face due to this tribal pepeni hopeless govt . Pestilence a ...
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. They say we are being spiteful and have no patience or understanding for this useless pepeni / ayigbe devil God forsaken govt. See the misfortunes and disasters we face due to this tribal pepeni hopeless govt . Pestilence after pestilence will befall us until we stand up and do God's will by removing with blood this idiotic govt.People dying horrible deaths just because of corruption . They buy below standard firefighting equipment from America which cant do the job just because someone wanted to chop money , ambulances that have below standard equipment and can do the job right , sewage and drainage systems that dont exist or function due to the fact that some needed to chop money and the list is endless. When things go bad and people begin to die nobody is accountable or can be held responsible . My people arise and remove this fool govt from there quick
The mask 8 years ago

KNUST failed to rusticate and report to the police a female student who beat up her roommate; the lecturers have been bought. It has been said that many lecturers lack teaching methodologies. What should be the minimum requir ...
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KNUST failed to rusticate and report to the police a female student who beat up her roommate; the lecturers have been bought. It has been said that many lecturers lack teaching methodologies. What should be the minimum requirement in recruiting lecturers into a tertiary institution? Is it a masters degree or a PhD with a course in education??

Professors in tertiary institutions must read GES directives. There are many important and useful GES directives which would help them.

GES banned all forms of corporal punishment in Educational institutions but there are reports that some tertiary institutions are still carrying out this practice. Asking students to kneel down and so on.

Lecturers in tertiary institutions must recognize the fact that students in these institution are adults.
Rashid kaaklo 8 years ago

We are tired of talk without action

We are tired of talk without action
JATO KWASHIVI RAWLINGS 8 years ago

JOHN MAHAMA ALWAYS PROMISES, MORE PROMISES AND NO ACHIEVEMENTS. VOTE THESE DEAD GOATS OUT AND SAVE GHANA FROM DESTRUCTION AND SUFFERING.

JOHN MAHAMA ALWAYS PROMISES, MORE PROMISES AND NO ACHIEVEMENTS. VOTE THESE DEAD GOATS OUT AND SAVE GHANA FROM DESTRUCTION AND SUFFERING.
VERDICT 8 years ago

The Mahama NDC govt has failed and has to go.
We were in this country last year when a similar flooding incident saw John Mahama saying he had instructed Seth Terkper to release funds for the construction of drains. Are Gha ...
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The Mahama NDC govt has failed and has to go.
We were in this country last year when a similar flooding incident saw John Mahama saying he had instructed Seth Terkper to release funds for the construction of drains. Are Ghanaians to take it that the instruction, the order that was issued was not pragmatic and could not be implemented? If it was not pragmatic why was it issued?
The issue of flooding is known to Ghanaians and it has been with us for a long time, but in the past couple of years it has become increasingly catastrophic. The question we need to ask ourselves is why the local governance structures which should be addressing these issues in a consistent and persistent manner have not been able to execute their mandate?
When a govt sees stealing and thievery as the main thrust of governance instead of resourcing the required institutional structures to deliver on their mandate, the consequences become very costly.
What happened to the desilting of the Korle lagoon by the AMA? Why do we have open drains? Who ensures the town and country planning dept of the AMA is Making sure the right things are done according to plan and is there even a plan for urban development involving experts such as Quantity surveyors, Urban planners, Engineers to guarantee an intelligently built society?
And in responding to such perennial flooding what effective emergency response systems have been put in place over the years to address the loss of lives and prosperity?
The rapid urbanization of Accra has not kept up with the kind of visionary leadership required to prevent such increasing mayhem and carnage in the country with it getting worse every year.
Is it also prudent planning to site filling and LPG stations in enclosed spaces and residential communities as it has become so common in recent times?
We state it as a matter of fact that, the Mahama-led NDC govt has failed the governance test. It has failed on that so called better Ghana agenda and they need to go. The Mahama-led NDC govt must go.
VERDICT 8 years ago

Correction....the loss of lives and properity?

Correction....the loss of lives and properity?
Rocky 8 years ago

Town planning in is not God's responsibility but that of man. Poor town planning is the cause of this Catastrophe. We as Ghanaian are to be educated that failure to plan results in planning to fail.

We now reaping the resu ...
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Town planning in is not God's responsibility but that of man. Poor town planning is the cause of this Catastrophe. We as Ghanaian are to be educated that failure to plan results in planning to fail.

We now reaping the results of our failure to plan.

Please go back to the drawing board and start proper town planning to avoid future re-occurrence or else next time a whole town will be in shambles and “had we know” will be the thing of the past with lost of lives and resources.
What do you expect Mr. President.
This is not Rocket Science. Garbage in garbage out is a basics principle in Process and Systems Engineering. This is not rocket science abi…..
jon 8 years ago

At longlast someone has said something with sense "He observed that only a scientific and strategic approach to solving the infrastructural design of Accra would see an end to the seasonal catastrophes". Instead saying such s ...
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At longlast someone has said something with sense "He observed that only a scientific and strategic approach to solving the infrastructural design of Accra would see an end to the seasonal catastrophes". Instead saying such stupid and illiterate foolish phrases like "let's pray for Ghana " furthermore ghanains have to stop cementing every square meter of the land to a low water to sink into the ground. This also scientific. Water doesn't only need flow but must have the chance to sink. Cemenented lands increase the spead of flow which is disastrous.
Rocky 8 years ago

Good point raised Jon.
Hope point is taken by all.

Good point raised Jon.
Hope point is taken by all.
GBEWAA 8 years ago

WHICH PRAGMATIC MEASURES IF THIS MAN TALKING ABOUT?

GHANA LEADERS ARE ONLY GOOD AT PAYING FOR FRIVOLOUS AWARDS.

IS THIS THE FIRST TIME ACCRA OR GHANA HAS BEEN DELUGED BY FLOOD WATERS?

TALK IS CHEAP AMONG GHANA LEADER ...
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WHICH PRAGMATIC MEASURES IF THIS MAN TALKING ABOUT?

GHANA LEADERS ARE ONLY GOOD AT PAYING FOR FRIVOLOUS AWARDS.

IS THIS THE FIRST TIME ACCRA OR GHANA HAS BEEN DELUGED BY FLOOD WATERS?

TALK IS CHEAP AMONG GHANA LEADERS!!!
Nana Effah 8 years ago

How soon, Mr President? Fine sermons are of no use to hungry men.

How soon, Mr President? Fine sermons are of no use to hungry men.
penbook 8 years ago

Thanks for you sympathy Mr. Presdo. The residents in the waterway did not raid those places and capture the lands. It was definitely allocated to them by people, if not government officials the chiefs. Are we going to leave t ...
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Thanks for you sympathy Mr. Presdo. The residents in the waterway did not raid those places and capture the lands. It was definitely allocated to them by people, if not government officials the chiefs. Are we going to leave these people to go unpunished?
Nii Lartey Nartey 8 years ago

Why is this government always fast to result to baseless statement after calamity upon calamity has happen?

Why do we have to wait till such disheartening crisis occurred before we know we have to implement pragmatic measu ...
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Why is this government always fast to result to baseless statement after calamity upon calamity has happen?

Why do we have to wait till such disheartening crisis occurred before we know we have to implement pragmatic measures?

I hope the government and his do about nothing Mayor are not going to use this national disaster to witch hunt and victimize perceived opposition sympathizers as often seen by demolishing innocent people's houses.

What we need is modern technological underground drainage system to stop the flooding.

Who took the thinking cup of the President away?
Brofo 8 years ago

Show me one successful pragmatic measure you and your brainless ministers have implemented since coming into power?

Show me one successful pragmatic measure you and your brainless ministers have implemented since coming into power?
John mensah 8 years ago

Mr president did you see garters open in any part you visit in the world or you don't study when you visit those countries all this poor people blood where writen for people off cause you people all in massive rich but God sh ...
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Mr president did you see garters open in any part you visit in the world or you don't study when you visit those countries all this poor people blood where writen for people off cause you people all in massive rich but God show you people what money for people are use for

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