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'Sodom & Gomorrah' Riots: 26 persons arrested

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  • Cha 8 years ago

    Is about time the officials enforce the laws

  • DR TRUTH 8 years ago

    TOP NDC GOVT MINISTER NII LANTEY VANDERPUYE AKA OKPO LATSE, NII AFOTEY AGBO AKA LION & NDC GURU NII AYBONTE AKA TOMMY OKINE WILL SECURE THIER RELEASE

  • PRINCE KWASI ADADE (OFIE P33) 8 years ago

    GHANA HAS BEEN RAPED BY NDC IDIOTS. WE DO NOT NEED ANY NATIONAL ECONOMIC FORUM, WE NEED A NATIONAL COURT OF JURISDICTION TO PUT MAHAMA AND HIS CABINET ON TRIAL. GHANA'S HOPELESS ECONOMIC SITUATION, TODAY, IS TOTALLY UNACCEPTA ...
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  • SGT ANANI FIADZOE 8 years ago

    This senseless demolition is the final nail into NDC's coffin. NDC's ineptitude is unimpaginable - intentionally scoring an own-goal!

    Mark it, NDC will pay dearly for this foolishness.

  • Nii Nortey (New York) 8 years ago

    Anani, what is the bases of your prediction. Don't you have eyes to see the state in which the area is, don't you have sense to think how we can progress and develop, people like you. still live in the 15th century world.

  • NO NONSENSE TAKER 8 years ago

    I'm not surprise of hearing Sodom and Gommorah because, I knew the occupants were no other civilised group than zongos. This Zongo thing is crazy because of its slum charataristic and even them trying another name as Sodom an ...
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  • Ezonor 8 years ago

    How can a country progress when we have places Sodom and Gomorrah? Just gather the will to clear them and posterity will be grateful to you. As for the pelting, it is occupational hazard so don't worry

  • Inusah Buipe 8 years ago

    There should be a human face to the demolition exercise . Much as we desire to see a clean city, it is not human to eject these poor folks in this rainy season. Where do we want them to lay their heads? The very politicians w ...
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  • kweku trouble 8 years ago

    Massa what has the season got to do with anything? So we should let the rains kill people till after the rainy season? This is the best time and it's got nothing to do with politics. Politics is supposed to bring development ...
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  • David Donkor 8 years ago

    I think AMA should stand on their feet on the sodom and Gomorrah demolishing once and for all.

  • mensa 8 years ago

    MAKING PEOPLE HOMELESS IN A RAINY SESSON IS CRUL,MEAN AND HEARTLESS
    NDC TROWING OUT THIS PEOPLE WITH NO
    PLAN TO RESSETLE THEM ELSEWHERE AND WITH OUT CARING AT ALL

  • kweku trouble 8 years ago

    You simply don't get it. Do you? The same rains took people lives and you are talking about homelessness. every Ghanaian has a hoe somewhere.

  • Dangote 8 years ago

    you should also get it KWEKU TROUBLE that place has never flooded before so there is no need for them to demolish that place the left over of that rubbish they gathered last year is still lying down there,so how sure are you ...
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  • kweku trouble 8 years ago

    Massa the place is not being demolished because it gets flooded; it is being demolished because it causes floods. read this: "Today we have hundreds of structures that have been constructed on the Korle Lagoon. The lagoon has ...
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  • KWASI 8 years ago

    ndc is not right by cusing homlesness

  • Jake 8 years ago

    Stay away from this forum.

  • daladam 8 years ago

    we love truth not stupid talk

  • kweku trouble 8 years ago

    It is like saying an armed robber has little kids at home so the judge should have mercy and free him. What is truth and what is stupid talk? We are talking national development and problem solving and kwasi is being sentimen ...
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  • kweku trouble 8 years ago

    So people should die so others can sleep.

  • still hope 8 years ago

    Why do you have to worry about where they will lay their heads, but try to think for the how they will live in hygienic.

  • Patriot 8 years ago

    For once let's put away politics or votes and ensure the right thing is done. If the residents of S & G and other parts of the country (like those in Kumasi resisting the re-construction of the market) decide to vote against ...
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  • HK Sea. 8 years ago

    The law must take its course

  • A. A. GAFARU 8 years ago

    its pathetic to children men and woman pass the night on these cold weather. no human face was showned as they even went ahead of demolition mosques. please they belong to these country and must be treated with respect and di ...
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  • Afua 8 years ago

    I support the AMA. They musn't be cowed into submission.Accra needs some breathing space

  • SAM 8 years ago

    WOULD YOU NOT PROTEST IF SOMEONE IS AABOUT TO DESTROY YOUR HOME AND MAKE YOU HOMELESS OVERNIGHT?

  • PRINCEWILLY@YMAIL.COM 8 years ago

    IF SO I WILL BUILD ON ANYWHERE YOU LIVE AND CALL IT MY OWN HOME.DO THEY HAVE PERMIT TO BUILD ON THOSE LANDS.
    DO YOU KNOW THE FILTH THAT IS THERE?

  • Afua 8 years ago

    Did these people legally acquire this land? Let's be sincere with ourselves. They are a nuisance to Accra.

  • Dangote 8 years ago

    Afua go fork your ass ,you taught this is going to affect those who live there alone, foolish fool were you even born before this people settle there.

  • danny 8 years ago

    Your language shows how primitive you are.

  • Mensah 8 years ago

    motherfucker, when was that Sodom & Gomorrah created? Was it there before 1982 fool?

  • c guy 8 years ago

    you are danda head person no wonder ur religious does nt speak good to strangers, like you would nt ve speak this nonsense i dont blame u i rather blame ur useless parents for giving birth to u with unknown source or do u kn ...
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  • Fredsaid 8 years ago

    Did the minister for a moment think about what was going to happen to the poor people whose houses were being destroyed? How come there was no consideration or provision to allay the tragic consequences of homelessness? This ...
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  • Stoway 8 years ago

    I would have pardon you if you said homes. You will one day than the mayor, minister and Mahama for that bravery and will.

  • Alovor 8 years ago

    Great job, its a normal reaction by the residents of this largest slum in Africa called Sodom and Gomorrah. Keep it up and do the job once and for all.

  • Mensah 8 years ago

    Not only should they pull the place down, douse aviation fuel on the trash and burn them to ashes

  • CROSSFIRE 8 years ago

    these are pure evil dwarfs wanting to destroy our peace and harmony, police should crack the whip and put the fear of God into them, we can't sacrifice law and order to satisfy few old devils doing the bidding for that far ri ...
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  • SEIDU 8 years ago

    YOUR COMMENT IS MORE EVIL THAN THE DWARFS.WHO PUT THEM THERE?.WASN'T NDC? WHERE DID THEIR VOTES GO?.NOT NDC?.THEIR SECRETARY HAS SPOKEN THIS EVENING SO YOU BETTER KEEP MUTE.TELL VANDERPUIJE TO CLEAN THE GUTTERS AND STOP POLIT ...
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  • LONTO-BOY 8 years ago

    'Sodom & Gomorrah' had to be demolished. I believe moving back to any part of Ghana will not take more than 12hrs. Such indiscipline and violent mob attacks cannot and should not be supported. The Police should clamp down har ...
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  • kwabena Owusu texas, u.s.a 8 years ago

    the real issue is if they were told to relocate before hand and if provisions were made to accommodate them somewhere within this period of time or compensation were made so they can get a place of their own. either than tha ...
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  • Nii Nortey (New York) 8 years ago

    Kwabena, The supreme court made a ruling more than 5years ago that they should be removed from there, when the squaters took AMA to court.
    They have been told many times, why haven't they make any move to relocate, rather th ...
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  • Wizkalida Kwame Okrah Wilberforce 8 years ago

    The government should provide a temporary place for Sodom and Gomorrah people

  • Nii Nortey (New York) 8 years ago

    why not invite some of them to your town and give them a shelter.

  • Breaking, Breaking 8 years ago

    This lady looks good and pretty.

  • David Donkor 8 years ago

    I think AMA should stand on their feet on sodom and Gomorrah once and for all.

  • Akwei, canada 8 years ago

    Sodom and gomorrah,they should settle themself when they came to Accra was Sodom and Gomorrah in their mind ?

  • NASH KINTAMPO 8 years ago

    SODOM N GOMORA

  • Kwame 8 years ago

    Yes the police and the authorities must enforce the law at this point of time to remove this Sodom and Gomorrah and do the dreghing to free the future flooding and the smells in the city.Long live Ghana

  • GOWAN 8 years ago

    Its time for John Mahama and his family and friends looting brigade to hang it up. It's over.
    The settlement of people at Sodom and Gomorrah was initiated under PNDC and NDC 1.
    When Prez. Kufuor of the NPP came into power, ...
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  • BOY KOFI 8 years ago

    Sodom and Gomorrah is the Old Fadama where govt had once relocated the squatters to New Fadama near Darkoman because of floods and poor sanitation.New people came to resettle at Old Fadama in the 80s and the population is gro ...
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  • spyky 8 years ago

    why do we have soldiers? why can't you bring them into the picture?

  • j.k. Atta 8 years ago

    Don't give them a break, once started, the whole Sodom and Gomorha must be torn down.

  • saint Gideon 8 years ago

    it is hundred % true that nothing good comes from NDC governance

  • Adroba 8 years ago

    For fear of losing votes politicians are not acting. NPP, NDC, CPP etc please fix Ghana if it should mean serving just one term. You have been condoning with the destroyers for far too long.

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  • Thomas form kumasi 8 years ago

    This is NDC government allways do same thing force

  • Yao Afayidey 8 years ago

    "the gov't is not sensitive" these were words used by Mill's ndc. What are we seeing now ?

  • Emma 8 years ago

    Nii, this is not the way it should be done at least the affected people due to the development should be informed and also resettled before the exercise can take place

  • Kwabena Nyarko 8 years ago

    It wud hve been sensible 2 have an exit plan 4 the people of old fadama , instead of electing these poor people during the rainy season. It speaks volumes of the sort of leadership that we have a nation, another man's pain ce ...
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  • observer 8 years ago

    All the occupants of Sodom and Gomorrah should be smoked out of it. They can go back to the North and do farming. But what do they do? Destroying peoples properties. Criminals!!

  • giboy 8 years ago

    We always compare Ghana to Singapore or Malaysia forgetting that they're not lawless people like Ghanaians. Singapore and Malaysia think beyond not only today. We're quick to blame government when thin ...
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  • BEN 8 years ago

    ONLY GOD CAN SAVE US FROM NDC INCOMPETENCE