‘Ghanaian Engineers are lazy’

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Komla 8 years ago

Shut up Alhaji! People like you are the problems we have in Ghana. Are you not the contract on the middle portion of the Adidome- Ho Road? Have stopped the Shoddy work you are doing over there? Consider your work with that ...
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Shut up Alhaji! People like you are the problems we have in Ghana. Are you not the contract on the middle portion of the Adidome- Ho Road? Have stopped the Shoddy work you are doing over there? Consider your work with that contractor on Ho-Adaklu portion of the same Road. You don't deserve that contract. You are wasting the nation's funds and disgracing the Party and President in the Region.
Shabi 8 years ago

....they are also damned useless.

They are always complaining about foreign contractors replacing them at the work-place with small-small unqualified boys from Europe and China. But the stark truth is that our trained arch ...
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....they are also damned useless.

They are always complaining about foreign contractors replacing them at the work-place with small-small unqualified boys from Europe and China. But the stark truth is that our trained architects, engineers, doctors, accountants, lawyers etc are no match for the more experienced but perhaps less qualified or untrained counterparts from Europe or China.

Our technocrats are obviously badly trained by badly trained lecturers in our universities.
kofi 8 years ago

THE TRUTH IS THAT GHANAIAN CONTRACTOR FIND IT VERY VERY DIFFICULT TO HIRE QUALIFIED ENGINEERS TRAINED FORM KNUST BECAUSE THEY ALWAYS WANT TO UNDER PAY THEIR WORKERS WHILST THEIR FOREIGN COUNTERPARTS GO FOR THE BEST. A GOOD EX ...
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THE TRUTH IS THAT GHANAIAN CONTRACTOR FIND IT VERY VERY DIFFICULT TO HIRE QUALIFIED ENGINEERS TRAINED FORM KNUST BECAUSE THEY ALWAYS WANT TO UNDER PAY THEIR WORKERS WHILST THEIR FOREIGN COUNTERPARTS GO FOR THE BEST. A GOOD EXAMPLE IS THAT GHANAIAN ENGINEERS WERE PART OF THE DOMPOASE TO ADANSI PRASO ROAD AND IT'S FANTASTIC
salinsa 8 years ago

it's like it rivals @ each other. the employer always want to point out to the professional with all your book work, i have to employ you and so i am paying you more than you are worth and of course in some cases some profess ...
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it's like it rivals @ each other. the employer always want to point out to the professional with all your book work, i have to employ you and so i am paying you more than you are worth and of course in some cases some professionals may be guilty of contemptuous attitudes.
kofi 8 years ago

YOU SEE, EMPTY VESSELS MAKE THE MOST NOISE.

YOU SEE, EMPTY VESSELS MAKE THE MOST NOISE.
Komla 8 years ago

Shut up Alhaji! People like you are the problems we have in Ghana. Are you not the contractor on the middle portion of the Adidome- Ho Road? Have u stopped the Shoddy work you are doing over there? Compare your work with th ...
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Shut up Alhaji! People like you are the problems we have in Ghana. Are you not the contractor on the middle portion of the Adidome- Ho Road? Have u stopped the Shoddy work you are doing over there? Compare your work with that contractor on Ho-Adaklu portion of the same Road. You don't deserve that contract. You are wasting the nation's funds and disgracing the Party and President in the Region.
Chief Kumbaya 8 years ago

Maybe the time has arrived for delinquent professionals to be sued for negligence and have their degrees cancelled, also made to pay millions in damages.

Maybe the time has arrived for delinquent professionals to be sued for negligence and have their degrees cancelled, also made to pay millions in damages.
Osei 8 years ago

THANK YOU CHIEF. THERE ARE BAD PEOPLE EVERYWHERE. WE SHOULD NOT BEG PEOPLE TO BE GOOD FOR US TO SURVIVE. THEY SHOULD BE SUED FOR NEGLIGENCE AND THEY ARE GUILTY, THEY SHOULD BE FINED AND/OR JAILED. THERE ARE BAD POLITICIANS IN ...
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THANK YOU CHIEF. THERE ARE BAD PEOPLE EVERYWHERE. WE SHOULD NOT BEG PEOPLE TO BE GOOD FOR US TO SURVIVE. THEY SHOULD BE SUED FOR NEGLIGENCE AND THEY ARE GUILTY, THEY SHOULD BE FINED AND/OR JAILED. THERE ARE BAD POLITICIANS IN ANY COUNTRY. WHEN THE CORRUPT ONES ARE CAUGHT, THEY SHOULD BE FINED AND/OR JAILED IN PRISON.
CITIZEN ONE 8 years ago

...nobody engages Project Management Skills to accomplish anything in Ghana. But it is amazingly impressive to watch these two timing, loudmouthed local language local knowledge professionals. You'd think Ghanaians are the mo ...
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...nobody engages Project Management Skills to accomplish anything in Ghana. But it is amazingly impressive to watch these two timing, loudmouthed local language local knowledge professionals. You'd think Ghanaians are the most intelligent species on mother earth, conclusively, we are the most dumb. I just can't get over this phenomenon where you see a stretch of road construction taking a haphazard comletion schedule, then just when you smile and say bravo, you see about an 1/8 of a mile of unfinished terrain, and I swear to God, that is it, it will never get fixed. The most recent such irresponsible road construction project I have been plying is the IPSA to East Legon Boulevard roundabout. At times I like to rationalize the fact that perhaps they didn't get paid the balance of the projects budget, cos these ministers are thieves plain common thieves. They will sit on the money till you turn grey, then they will start buying cars and building mansions, or engaging in illegal proliferation of commerce (Taxi, Trotro, Hair Salon, Street Hawking investments). Sorry for the innocent who perished in that blaze, but quite frankly, half the residents of modern day Accra do not deserve to be here. and how they leave I don't give a rats ass!!!
VICTOR CARRILLACE 8 years ago

BRO, WHY DON'T WE FORM A FRATERNITY OF CONCERNED CITIZENS? THE WAY YOU REASON, AND THE CONCERNS CRYING OUT FROM YOUR PIECE, WE'LL MAKE A WORTHY BULLDOZING PAIR. GUESS WHAT, WE HAD BARELY SETTLED ON SOME FORM OF REGULAR OIL DR ...
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BRO, WHY DON'T WE FORM A FRATERNITY OF CONCERNED CITIZENS? THE WAY YOU REASON, AND THE CONCERNS CRYING OUT FROM YOUR PIECE, WE'LL MAKE A WORTHY BULLDOZING PAIR. GUESS WHAT, WE HAD BARELY SETTLED ON SOME FORM OF REGULAR OIL DRILLING THAN OUR MINISTERS AND OTHER GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS START ERECTING PETROL AND GAS STATIONS ALL OVER THE PLACE. BEATS ME HOLLOW WHERE ALL THAT MONEY IS COMING FROM. IN NIGERIA, SOMETHING CALLED BUNKERING IS THE IN-THING. AGGRIEVED NATIONALS FROM THE OIL-PRODUCING STATES GET THEMSELVES VESSELS AND TAKE THEIR SHARE OF THE BLACK GOLD TO GO SELL. IN GHANA, GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS DIVERT CONTRACT MONEY INTO RETAIL STRUCTURES AND HAUL TANKER LOADS OF PETROL AND GAS INTO BURIED RECEPTACLES FOR SALE TO PASSIVE GHANAIANS - INCLUDING YOURS TRULY. PITY RAWLINGS IS NOW HUFFING ABOUT FROM THE RAVAGES OF AGE, SOME OF US WOULD HAVE LOVED TO SEE SOME OF THESE NOUVEAU RICHE POLITICIANS SWEAT IN THE DOCK EXPLAINING HOW THEY CAME BY THEIR RICHES. BUT FEAR NOT, THE DAY OF RECKONING IS NOT TOO FAR AWAY.
Mike 8 years ago

If our engineers are lazy, we need to find a way of making them competitive.No nation has advanced without engineering and technological advances. Castigating professions will not solve Ghana's problems.the same Engineers lea ...
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If our engineers are lazy, we need to find a way of making them competitive.No nation has advanced without engineering and technological advances. Castigating professions will not solve Ghana's problems.the same Engineers leave Ghana and perform wonders.If we cannot build and manufacture things in Ghana then we have problems.The Oil and Gas industry,mining Industry, Factories are run by engineers and artisans and other manufacturing entitities.Road construction alone cannot be used as aexcuse to blast them.The same mines provide the gold that is exported. If the education system is not doing well do we catigate teachers. Our % of enginers in Ghana is very small.
Ben 8 years ago

Lambasting professions that make the country move is very swallow.We have different tyoes of Engineers: Civil, Mechanical,Mining, Chemical, Quantity Surveyors etc. How can they all be lazy. If korle Bu is not working does it ...
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Lambasting professions that make the country move is very swallow.We have different tyoes of Engineers: Civil, Mechanical,Mining, Chemical, Quantity Surveyors etc. How can they all be lazy. If korle Bu is not working does it mean doctors are lazy.
Maonyo Prosper 8 years ago

Don't blame them,blame the system which disallows competent people to deliver their contributions to the good people of Ghana.
The system operates basically on tribal , ethnocentric grounds!It's every where in all the Govern ...
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Don't blame them,blame the system which disallows competent people to deliver their contributions to the good people of Ghana.
The system operates basically on tribal , ethnocentric grounds!It's every where in all the Government institutions!!!!
Maonyo Prosper 8 years ago

Don't blame them,blame the system which disallows competent people to deliver their contributions to the good people of Ghana.
The system operates basically on tribal , ethnocentric grounds!It's every where in all the Govern ...
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Don't blame them,blame the system which disallows competent people to deliver their contributions to the good people of Ghana.
The system operates basically on tribal , ethnocentric grounds!It's every where in all the Government institutions!!!!contributions to the good people of Ghana.
The system operates basically on tribal , ethnocentric grounds!It's every where in all the Government institutions!!!!
Maonyo P. 8 years ago

Don't blame them,blame the system which disallows competent people to deliver their contributions to the good people of Ghana.
The system operates basically on tribal , ethnocentric grounds by denying the most qualified Engi ...
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Don't blame them,blame the system which disallows competent people to deliver their contributions to the good people of Ghana.
The system operates basically on tribal , ethnocentric grounds by denying the most qualified Engineers the opportunity to practice!
It's every where in all the Government institutions!!!!
If something can be done about this canker,Ghana will be the best place for her citizens to live and work.
Anwona Kanjaga 8 years ago

Contrary to what the Alhaji is saying, Ghanaian Road Engineers are not lazy but if you are awarded a contract and immediately 25% of the contract sum is weaned off by job owners what do you expect to happen. Therefore shoddy ...
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Contrary to what the Alhaji is saying, Ghanaian Road Engineers are not lazy but if you are awarded a contract and immediately 25% of the contract sum is weaned off by job owners what do you expect to happen. Therefore shoddy jobs can only stop when the 25% kickbacks are stopped. Period.
K.B 8 years ago

ALHAJI YOU ARE RIGHT, OUR ENGINEERS BOTH CIVIL, ELECTRICALS AND MECHANICS ARE ALL LAZY

ALHAJI YOU ARE RIGHT, OUR ENGINEERS BOTH CIVIL, ELECTRICALS AND MECHANICS ARE ALL LAZY
G. K. Berko 8 years ago

This is mostly true of our Engineers. But it is not unique to the Engineers. It is a general canker in Ghana among our Field Professionals. From Forestry to Agriculture to Civil Engineering, most of our Personnel prefer cladd ...
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This is mostly true of our Engineers. But it is not unique to the Engineers. It is a general canker in Ghana among our Field Professionals. From Forestry to Agriculture to Civil Engineering, most of our Personnel prefer cladding themselves in suits or casual home apparel to stay in Offices and homes to give instructions to subordinate field staff who may not be all that proficient in carrying out the instructions.

More, these top-level field staff hardly go to the field to check if the work they assigned have been done right. In the end, they cook the books and reports to meet requirements, thereby hiding any structural defects and shoddy work in the field.

It is ironic that these very Engineers and other field Personnel are the first to object to any move by the Government to import the services they undermine from overseas. They wouldn't even calmly accept their own Ghanaians in diaspora coming home to help on their work teams, let alone tolerate expatriate Personnel. Some may even sabotage the Projects to cast doubts on the wisdom to contract the expatriate Personnel. While local content deserves high priority, it is the diligence it brings to the table that justifies any such prioritization of labor by the Government.

Such is the Culture of Labor in Ghana and it is about time the Professional Associations and NGOs got on the case of these Personnel to work for their money.

Meanwhile, we should amend our Laws to accommodate slapping lazy Engineers and their counterparts in other fields with hefty penalties like paying for any ensuing repairs to their shoddy work, and for any legal suits incurred from harm to individuals attributable to such work.

No Country develops with shoddy execution of projects. And it is time we delved deeper into the causes of our Economic plight to capture all culprits of any devious activity, beyond Government Officials, that sets us back. That strict adherence- to-quality expectation must be tightly woven into the curbing of contract award malpractices.

Our workforce must be vigilant and whistleblowers must be encouraged to tip authorities of any shady behavior by their work mates and superiors at work that they know would cost us a great deal.

Most of our losses in poor Construction and overpayments for projects are only possible with the connivance of the Engineers and other field Personnel. They all eventually turn into Political stooges to take their share in the 'create, loot and share' Economy.

They have to change. We all have to change. While we are descending heavily on the Engineers, we must also check our own behavior like dumping trash into open drainage arteries to block the flow of running water.

In fact, all our drainage system must conform with what prevails in all modern Cities elsewhere around the World. The culverts must all be rebuilt subterranean. That requirement must be part of any new Development everywhere in the Country.

Long Live Ghana!!!

Long Live Ghana!!!
SIMION 8 years ago

LACK OF ENFORCEMENT, BAD LEADERSHIP CORRUPT SYSTEM IS THE ISSUE. MANY DECADES IN MAKING BUT NOTHING GET DONE EXCEPT TALK

LACK OF ENFORCEMENT, BAD LEADERSHIP CORRUPT SYSTEM IS THE ISSUE. MANY DECADES IN MAKING BUT NOTHING GET DONE EXCEPT TALK
ben 8 years ago

I thank God that samone has fianaly seen this iwish u could talk about this on kokrokoo.common rescue boats we cnt get some to rescue people then what arevthey studying in KNUST

I thank God that samone has fianaly seen this iwish u could talk about this on kokrokoo.common rescue boats we cnt get some to rescue people then what arevthey studying in KNUST
NANA USA 8 years ago

I DON't think there are engineers in ghana ,holding a piece of paper from a bogus university in ghana does not make one engineer.what have they invented

I DON't think there are engineers in ghana ,holding a piece of paper from a bogus university in ghana does not make one engineer.what have they invented
Enyo 8 years ago

Such silly comment and ludicrous conclusion. Granted the said encounter with the engineer ensued and granted the engineer was wrong, which I very much doubt, does that make all Engineers in Ghana lazy? Party "Bellyfull" contr ...
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Such silly comment and ludicrous conclusion. Granted the said encounter with the engineer ensued and granted the engineer was wrong, which I very much doubt, does that make all Engineers in Ghana lazy? Party "Bellyfull" contractor
Squash 8 years ago

They are not lazy they just dont know their job.in short not qualified.

They are not lazy they just dont know their job.in short not qualified.
Truth 8 years ago

When common policemen and diploma nurses are paid almost twice wat de engineer earns, do u think they will do de job well? All Ghana knows is increasing salary of health workers n teachers...hv u ever heard salary increase fo ...
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When common policemen and diploma nurses are paid almost twice wat de engineer earns, do u think they will do de job well? All Ghana knows is increasing salary of health workers n teachers...hv u ever heard salary increase for engineers? Let us be
EMPRA MEDA 8 years ago

Why is it dat NDC people always insult technocrats,pastors,etc.does the NDC have the nation at heart ?a party which sees itself as more important than the nation but want others to have the nation at heart.HYPOCRISY at the hi ...
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Why is it dat NDC people always insult technocrats,pastors,etc.does the NDC have the nation at heart ?a party which sees itself as more important than the nation but want others to have the nation at heart.HYPOCRISY at the highest level.
jojo 8 years ago

when there is no police the thieve has all year to steal, kill and destroy and so are the construction engineers. no one is enforcing the regulations, or there is none to follow, or engineers are taking bribes and turning a b ...
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when there is no police the thieve has all year to steal, kill and destroy and so are the construction engineers. no one is enforcing the regulations, or there is none to follow, or engineers are taking bribes and turning a blind eye all to the detriment of our own people. what a disgrace but I blame no one but the corrupt nature of the countries leadership both past and present.
penbook 8 years ago

You are right, but are you donig your part as a contractor? You should remove the speck of dust from your eyes so that you can remove clearly the plank of dust from the eyes of your colleages.

You are right, but are you donig your part as a contractor? You should remove the speck of dust from your eyes so that you can remove clearly the plank of dust from the eyes of your colleages.
Man of Character 8 years ago

They are not only last but are also corrupt and greedy bustards. We have to stop celebrating the Annual Independence Day because we are not independent. We are dependent on foreigners. Without them, we can't survive. We look ...
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They are not only last but are also corrupt and greedy bustards. We have to stop celebrating the Annual Independence Day because we are not independent. We are dependent on foreigners. Without them, we can't survive. We look on foreign aid in virtually everything we do. Be it road construction, building construction, money, food, water, clothing, cutlasses, hoes, sanitation you can help me to name them. Yet, we called Ghana independent country. Unless, we go back to learn how to love our country, be disciplined and obedience, honesty and morality love for work and what have you, the country will even go back 200 years. Sit up and learn from your donors. Thank you.
ghana fo agymiii 8 years ago

Engine what lol

Engine what lol
psula 8 years ago

Dansoman still having severe dumsor what is the problem.24hrs off 12hrs light

Dansoman still having severe dumsor what is the problem.24hrs off 12hrs light
COOl man 8 years ago

do we have engineers?

do we have engineers?
NUKOMEKO 8 years ago

THEY ARE NOT LAZY.THEY ARE A BUNCH OF ACADEMIC BLOCKHEADS.THEY CAN'T EVEN CHANGE ELECTRIC BULB.

THEY ARE NOT LAZY.THEY ARE A BUNCH OF ACADEMIC BLOCKHEADS.THEY CAN'T EVEN CHANGE ELECTRIC BULB.
HARDER@-'89 8 years ago

alhaji u are right ooo. the mother body, ghana institution of engineers are always busying itself organising annual ball, winning and dinning unlike their counterparts in civil society who advocated fiercely against public ad ...
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alhaji u are right ooo. the mother body, ghana institution of engineers are always busying itself organising annual ball, winning and dinning unlike their counterparts in civil society who advocated fiercely against public advertising and smoking of cigarettes and lately banning the use of celebrities in public advertising of alcoholic beverages. there is alot to which our engineer's body could do to accelerate our speedy and qualitative progress like doing strong advocacy, pushing for private bills in parliament and more importantly ensuring that their members deliver excellent and high quality finish projects to the people and also severely sanction those who fall out of line.
again, the engineering body could help government and our traditional authorities to ensure that our villages, towns and cities develop and conform to a certain prescribed layouts and a comprehensive plans so that right from the word go this knowledge become imbibed in our people encourage every one to help ensure that our communities do not grow haphazardly..they should therefore stop their pedestrian and perennial and reckless habit of winning and dining in their socalled annual buffet to help fashion out not only safe and secure but aesthetically pleasurable communities for us all to live in and enjoy. that is their mandate and nothing else. they cannot fail the nation on that simply on the altar of their parochial interest. they should wake up boldly to their charge and be counted as true change makers of our land...
Plasma Kote 8 years ago

This is the problem

This is the problem
king deed 8 years ago

the whole educational system needs a complete overhaul. there's no link/integration between the classroom/lectures and real modern life issues. Our lecturers are lazy and still use the same old grandpa. our libraries are full ...
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the whole educational system needs a complete overhaul. there's no link/integration between the classroom/lectures and real modern life issues. Our lecturers are lazy and still use the same old grandpa. our libraries are full of 1970 books. How many researchers make references using 2010-2015 authors? There's no use of going to a tertiary in Ghana
Komla 8 years ago

As a Party contractor in the. Volta Region have u stopped your Shoddy work u are doing on the Adidome-Ho road? U are a disgrace as Party Man. Your LAZINESS on that Road Will reduce the Vote for the Party.

As a Party contractor in the. Volta Region have u stopped your Shoddy work u are doing on the Adidome-Ho road? U are a disgrace as Party Man. Your LAZINESS on that Road Will reduce the Vote for the Party.
EDUARDO DOMINGO 8 years ago

THE PRETENDERS CALLING THEMSELVES ENGINEERS IN GHANA GOT THEIR COME UPPANCE AT LAST!! JUST ;LOOK AT THE WAY THEY ALLOW ROADS TO BE BUILT WITH NO OVER HEAD BRIDGES? NOW THEY COULD NOT EVEN ENGINEER THE CONTROL OF WATER MOVEME ...
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THE PRETENDERS CALLING THEMSELVES ENGINEERS IN GHANA GOT THEIR COME UPPANCE AT LAST!! JUST ;LOOK AT THE WAY THEY ALLOW ROADS TO BE BUILT WITH NO OVER HEAD BRIDGES? NOW THEY COULD NOT EVEN ENGINEER THE CONTROL OF WATER MOVEMENTS? THEY SHOULD ASK THE GALAMSEY PEOPLE TO TEACH THEM HOW A WHOLE RIVER CAN BE DIVERTED TO ACCEPT A TOTALLY NEW COURSE!AND RUNNING WITH OUT DISTURBING ANY ONE, ALL THEY KNOW IS DEMOLITION OF BUILDINGS WHICH THEY AND THEIR COHORTS AT AMA , TMA, LANDS COMMISSION OR LANDS COMMOTION? ALWAYS TAKE BRIBES TO GIVE PERMIT FOR CONSTRUCTIONS TO CARRY ON, NOW THEY HAVE THE AUDACITY TO DEMOLISH THOSE BUILDINGS? WHO WILL NOW PAY, SURELY IT MUST BE THE GOVERNMENT WHO SADDLED THE NATION WITH THESE CRIMINALS!!NOW THEY WANT US TO DO THE RIGHT THING, WHICH IS A GOOD CALL,ALL THEIR PROTEGES DOING THE WRONGS ARE STILL AT POST CAUSING MORE DAMAGES! NOW LET US ALL BE NORMAL, THEY KEEP ON SHOUTING THAT PEOPLE LITTER THE GUTTERS AND WATER WAYS, RIDICULOUS AGAIN! WHERE ARE THE DUST BINS ? WHERE ARE THE PLACES PROVIDED BY THEM TO DEPOSIT WASTES? ARE THESE PEOPLE MENTALLY DERANGED? JUST BECAUSE THE ORDINARY MAN HAS NO VOICE, THEY CONTINUE TO BLAME HIM OF CAUSING THESE FLOODS, IS HE SUPPOSED TO DUMP THE REFUSE IN HIS OWN ROOOOOOM!!!!!WAKE UP YOU WHO ARE IN CHARGE!!
veronica 8 years ago

Treasurer not treasure

Treasurer not treasure

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