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Demolish all buildings in water ways - Agyin-Asare

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  • PRINCE KWASI ADADE (OFIE P33) 8 years ago

    AUTHOR: BILLY BILLY---------
    IMAGINE BUILDING INTERNATIONAL AIRPORTS IS NDC PRIORITY SO THAT THEY CAN OVERBLOAT THE CONTRACT SUM AND POCKET STOLEN MONIES....Does NDC Know That Woyome Money Could Have Built Good Drainage Syst ...
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  • ELINAM 8 years ago

    In a democracy as we practice it in Ghana, it is a human right abuse to jail even if we steal state money.
    Mahama says we have to show sympathy and therefore what ever is bad, we lack the courage to turn it right. "Godly" Gh ...
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  • facts 8 years ago

    People in authority should check where and from whom owners of those lands bought them. Rev. Agyin Asare is not the commander he is speaking out of pain I think. otherwise that will bring problems.

  • kwame Nti 8 years ago

    IF THE GOVERMENT START PULLING BUILDINGS IN WATER WAY DOWN; BELIEVE NPP WILL GO TO DEFEND THE OWNERS

  • JOHN 8 years ago

    LET THEM GO ON BUT WE KNOW WHAT IS RIGHT AND WRONG

  • insight tblo the bone 8 years ago

    The blood of the innocent will never be washed away so these feeble bullshit attempts to shift the blame will never fly. Bull shit will kill you one day Mr Finance minister, that's what happens when you surround yourself with ...
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  • Senior Wisdom 8 years ago

    You can pull down all the house and structure in Accra and have no impact. The problem in that there are no proper drainage systems in Accra and a terrible road network. Pulling filling stations where huge open gutters predom ...
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  • POP 8 years ago

    MAHAMA HAS A BIG TASK; WORK AND LOOSE VOTES BE THIS

  • BEN 8 years ago

    TRUE TALK

  • BBC NEWS! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 8 years ago

    This disasters is problem to the country and solutions is needed at this time. Former President Rawlings has spoken with his little solution , so is Mr. Nduom and President Mahama, they all suggested that, the structures arou ...
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  • Close Observer 8 years ago

    I'm sure this is not what the people of La Dadekotopon want their member of parliament to be. For most of them, I believe they feel ashamed to identify him as their MP, and rightly so, because they have seen better days befor ...
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  • Dr.William Acquah 8 years ago

    We have to improve our drainage systems and not demolish houses! Haven `t you heard about Palm Islands? These are houses built on lands retrieved from the sea.There is no overflooding due to very good drainage .Floods occur o ...
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  • JH. New York 8 years ago

    Dubious amount paid to CP alone was
    90,000,000 Euros. You forgot African-Automobile. Ghana is never ever poor.
    The fact is that,the Nation Wreckers (blue-collar Thieves are in the majority). Eg. Between 12-14 yrs ago the t ...
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  • Yaw Ghana.... 8 years ago

    Where is your proof? What about Ghana at 50, Flagstaff House, Ghana Telecom, Ghana Airways, State lands and bungalows, Hotel De Wawa, selling land on waterways etc. ALL DIE BE DIE ? Npp chopped nyafu, nyafu

  • Yaw Ghana.... 8 years ago

    NPP swore to make Ghana ungovernable. Now their party, is ungovernabl e, falling apart, and sinking fast in shame, disgrace and confusion. They are tasting their own medicine.. ALL-DIE-BE-DIE

  • ahimadu 8 years ago

    demolition must be based on scientific understanding of how the watershed works. STOP THIS LOOSE TALK THAT CREATES LAWLESSNESS

  • anna 8 years ago

    pastor ask ndc bout 750million dollars for drainage as far back 2o12 and let be prosecuted first pastors be bold and say the truth

  • Joseph 8 years ago

    An other NDC sympathizer

  • Barnes 8 years ago

    You are 1000% right. This are people who are objective to problems not like that opportunist Franklin Cudjoe.

  • YEBOPOWER 8 years ago

    your church is on the water ways too. The whole country is corrupt including the clergy. All you guys stood aloof whilst NDC messed up Ghana. You will all have a price to pay.

  • Me 8 years ago

    Good one circle branch.

  • Kofi 8 years ago

    Pastor, please stick to preaching the gospel. You built a big church recently. Did you include drainage system? No. You have a church near a railway line with huge paved parking which creates floods. How would u feel if it wa ...
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  • Paul siaw 8 years ago

    pastors are not humans, they always live in heaven. whatever happens in the country doesn't affect them so they shouldn't talk. You see how stupid you are?

  • Kwame Sarpong 8 years ago

    Who gave the builders the lincence to build in water ways. Let's stop punishing people for the mistakes and negligence on the part of managements and authorities.

  • frankilo 8 years ago

    So kwame who will u blame for this, ndc?
    Most of these buildings do not have permits and some aquired their permits during npp regime

  • kwame Nti 8 years ago

    NPP JUST WAITING TO MAKE POLITICS OF SUCH ACTIONS

  • Ekow Samuel- Paris. 8 years ago

    Yes we have some unassasery buildings at the ban areas and they should,after hoping they will replace their shelter for them.

  • s.acheampong, London 8 years ago

    Hi,
    May I say that the problem is not to do with people building in water ways.It is to do with lack of proper drainage system. The AMA must embark on projects of constructing the drainage system and conserving the water wit ...
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  • Yaw 8 years ago

    Look at this stupid so called bishop joining this cliché where city and central governments run to anytime there is flooding. How many houses in Accra have been built on waterways? The problem is simply authorities failure ...
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  • Kwesi 8 years ago

    There is no need to insult men of God. They are also Ghanaians and have the right to express their views.

  • Paul siaw 8 years ago

    Who is more stupid than your parents? they never taught you any sense because they don't have any. Kwaseaba!

  • KAB-UK 8 years ago

    Demolishing buildings will not solve the problem,sir. The government needs to take a serious and careful look at our drainage system which is nonexistent. Do you think we would have a problem of this magnitude with flood if o ...
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  • EDEM 8 years ago

    This is not about buildings on waterways. It is about a drainage system. It doesn't have anything to do with waterways at all.
    Are we suggesting that, by demolishing buildings on waterways, there will be no drains to carry t ...
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  • PRINCEWILLY@YMAIL.COM 8 years ago

    ADGYIN ASARE SHOULD TALK TO SYDNEY CASELY HAYFORD ABOUT IT.
    HE SHOULD PRAY FOR RAWLINGS TO HAVE A BULLDOZER.

  • Kweku troubke 8 years ago

    The man has proffered a solution instead of behaving like some pastors and catholic bishops conference who just blamed the president and stopped short of adding anything constructive. The suggestions he made must be considere ...
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  • Nana Effah 8 years ago

    Pastor, you profess to have divine power of prophecy. I wonder why the Divine Spirit did not reveal this disaster to you. Have you sinned in any way to block the Lord's light to you? Pray hard.

  • Kweku troubke 8 years ago

    Simplistic. Did God reveal it to your Pastor??

  • Annan 8 years ago

    Your comment shows, firatly that you are not a christian, so you don't understand spiritual things. I pray that God will open your spiritual eyes and ears to be saved so that your comments about such issues will be sound.

  • Judcrislam 8 years ago

    This I an engineering problem and has to be looked at from scientific point of view.

    As a matter of fact Accra is not a designed city. The city needs to be redesigned. There should be storm drains, water catch ponds whic ...
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  • PRINCEWILLY@YMAIL.COM 8 years ago

    Agyin Asare was completing a temperance sermon: with great expression he said, "If I had all the Flood in the world, I'd take it and throw it into the river." With even greater emphasis he said, "And if I had all the Garbage ...
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  • Agonaba 8 years ago

    Don't allow the flood emotion to alter your decision,concentrate on God's word.

  • Ghanaba 8 years ago

    He has forgotten that his church at circle was on a waterway. And his new church building is on a waterway as well

  • Schadenfreude 8 years ago

    Accra is located on the plains which are all waterways. Move the capital to Aburi mountains and get Rawlings to start bulldozing the entire city down. When he is tired give him the airforce to bomb out the rest. No need to bu ...
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  • Frank 8 years ago

    Oh really,is schadenfreunde your name?Do you take delight in someone's plight?

  • GPS 8 years ago

    I agree with you 100 percent pastor but are you going to pay for these houses? pay for the houses and demolish them that is ok

  • SANKOFA 8 years ago

    THIS IS NOT PULLING DOWN BUILDINGS.BE FAIR,LET AMA WORKS.YOU MUST FIRST TALK ABOUT CLEANING AND ENLARGING THE DRAINAGES AND SEWERAGES PUTING DUST BINS AROUND,MAKING LAWS THAT WILL PREVENT PEOPLE FROM DUMPING REFUSES AND SHITI ...
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  • Joe Turkey 8 years ago

    Would that be a reason for me to go church on Sunday and listen to these unscrupulous, semi-literate and ambitious modern-day prophets of the gods? Hasn't Ghana heard more than enough of these late calls?

  • SANKOFA 8 years ago

    YES IT MIGHT BE PROPHESY BECAUSE ADAM THE PHOPHET VISITED HIM YESTER-NIGHT.THEY ALL LACK COMMON SENSE,WHEN ANANSE WAS SHARING COMMON SENSE THEY WERE FAST ASLEEP AND SNORING LIKE A SICK DONKEY.

  • truth 8 years ago

    HOUSES & CHURCHES NEAR AIRPORT TOO MUCH BE TANGLED. THOSE PASTORS OWING CHURCHES NEAR AIRPORT WHEN THEY TRAVEL OVERSEAS DO THEY SEE HOUSES & CHURCHES NEAR AIRPORT ZONES?

  • Koo Baah 8 years ago

    Mr Pastor or Reverend, the problem is not buildings in waterways only so please reserve your comments

  • Odikro Eyuoh Munumkum 8 years ago

    Blame the government and the government must accept the blame.
    To put up a building in Accra one must go through approval process by paying several fees to different departments inclusively, Lands, Town & Country Planning, ...
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  • African Eagle 8 years ago

    THANK YOU FOR SAYING SUCH A POSITIVE WORDS WITH COURAGE AND AS A MAN OF GOD. PLEASE KEEP IT UP. GOD BLESS YOU.

  • joe 8 years ago

    was it unavailability of larger drains at circle or what?

  • Dr 8 years ago

    Who granted the building permit in the first place. Who sold the land??
    Look at Kpeshie Lagoon. Where is it now.

  • odeneho 8 years ago

    NDC pastor tell them the truth preach onnnnnn

  • Bernard-Bole. 8 years ago

    I feel sad with all the engineers we have in our country, the only solution to the annual flood we have been experiencing in Accra most is demolition. to me that's lazy mans engineering advice. yes people might have made mist ...
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  • Poshman 8 years ago

    Easier siad than done. Why do pepple discard their rubbish then when the so called all the stool lands have been sold without planning and allocating places for refuse dump

  • ADWOA 8 years ago

    SOLUTION IS GOOD AND MASSIVE DRAINAGE, NOT DEMOLITIONS.

  • Fred 8 years ago

    I get so angry when people try to link what has happened to us as a punishment from God. God is a good God. What happened is because of our dirty, greedy,indisciplined and hypocritical attitudes as a people. We all need to ch ...
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  • Mr Pee 8 years ago

    This is not only government but we all have to do the right thing to save our self from this to happen again

  • Baba Agyass 8 years ago

    When I red this piece 4rm d Bishop?, I ask myself did he know what he's talking about? cos before he started building his church, for most of us we knew how that place was & now asking his people in authority to destroy other ...
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  • london Ba 8 years ago

    I blamed former president Rawlings for all this disaster he Demolished houses from accra rex cross that it's horse place mean while he didn't notice building's on the path of water ways

  • london Ba 8 years ago

    Its time all ghanaian land supposed to own by the government of ghana like western world so that we can control it properly.all our chiefs n kings has filled us they sell it any how

  • kwesi 8 years ago

    I want to see if anyone has the balls to demolish villagio since its also on a water way

  • sansan 8 years ago

    Thanks for not calling for the head of Ako vanderpoi, how many times did this bearded non ISIS man gone down the drains to help clean Accra even to the extend of directing traffic in center of Accra.it's only fools who don't ...
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  • SAY IT AS IT IS 8 years ago

    What is the meaning of the church in Africa now ?
    Some may say to win souks to the Lord , but was not the same word preached to fool our forefathers to to accpet porverty so that they can be rich after death?
    Fools as Afric ...
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  • /KOFI ADU DENVER USA 8 years ago

    yes.is so stupid for our elected officials to allow people to built structures anywhere they want.And not only in Accra but Kumasi,Takoradi,Tema and all the municipalities

  • Agyemang 8 years ago

    Hei Mr Osofo why are u guys takking nonsense. Have u visited the place or even set up a fund raising from all what people have been giving to u all in the name of donations to help the victims? Why not give one of your numero ...
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  • ERNEST 8 years ago

    We sympathise with all those affected by the flooding, but I personally feel the problem is largely to planning authorities and the departments dealing with that office given planning rights and permission for people to build ...
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  • Yussif Fuseini 8 years ago

    I agree with the pastor,Mahama has to be talked to.His mentality about governance is bad, why should we sympathize with law breakers? If so them we should do same for arm robbers and rapeist,Dan Abodakpi was paddon for steali ...
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  • Frederick Tawiah 8 years ago

    where did you start yours

  • Victor Hugo 8 years ago

    I respected you but no more; how on earth can you advocate for demolition? Japan is reclaiming land from the sea!I thought you've been travelling round the world!

  • JH. New York 8 years ago

    Typical Ghanaian attitude.Just demolish without any plans in place to accommodate affected households, to put them in the Streets.A 4th World Country indeed!

  • london Ba 8 years ago

    And also its time ghanaians turn to God there is too much sinning in the country man marry man women marry women .

  • Frank Bobie 8 years ago

    This is not insulting each other over pastors and the clergy but rather we should find solutions to the problem.my heart goes out to those who lost their dearest ones,may God keep them safe for us.1)where is the monies earmar ...
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  • FRANCIS 8 years ago

    I SINCERELY EXPRESS M CONDOLENCE TO THE VICTIMS AND FAMILIES. I STRONGLY BELIEVE THAT WHAT PAST GOVERNMENT FAILED T DO IS IGNITING RSESULT. DISATER COME WEN THE GOVERNMENT IS UNPREPARED. MY QUESTION IS, IS GHANA PREPARED TO H ...
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  • senyo 8 years ago

    Pastor ask NDC to show $600 million drainage money before demolition.

  • kwame 8 years ago

    people who have money always raise their buildings which makes water flow difficult.