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Armed gang shoots and robs expats

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  • wise man 11 years ago

    our country in the hands of wrong poeple,we can not live freely in our own country,anGod what is going in ghana,infact ndc must band from ghana political parties,thier wicked and hatred party,they hate progress,MAY GOD bless ...
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  • Torgbigah 11 years ago

    Ghana has the weakest security in the whole world.what a fuck!!!! hey ghana government should listen.
    1. get police, army, immigration and ceps involved

    2. fix security camera at the interval of every 50 meters across the ...
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  • Nana,Legon 11 years ago

    "BASIC ENERGY N OTHER UTILITY SERVICES SEFFF" WE CAN EVEN AFFORD TO FIX THEM FOR THE PAST 56 YRS, HOW MUCH MORE AN ADVANCE NETWORK OF CAMS FOR SECURITY TO MONITOR WLD BE, N GANGSTERS IN GENERAL. AND TO TALK ANT IT ALL WHAT KI ...
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  • Zoobie-Zoobie 11 years ago

    corrupt, incompetent and visionless

  • TRUE TALK 11 years ago

    If we remove all motor bikes from our roads, half the crimes and accidents will not occur. They should then be re-licenced with approved badges displayed. Most of these riders are gangtsers!!

  • Big mouth 11 years ago

    We steals or kills to steal than NPP people,419 people.

  • Ligth 11 years ago

    Did you not remember the time of Kufuor when armed rubbery expanded all over the nation? Please suggest something sensibly to contribute and stop fooling.

  • bybi 11 years ago

    Blive me these are nigerians.They want to spoil our good name

  • Zoobie-Zoobie 11 years ago

    corrupt and incompetent

  • TRUE TALK 11 years ago

    Instead of the police doing the job they are paid to do, they are rather interested in extorting money from motorists, for minor offences like not wearing ones seat belts!!! IGP please HELP!!!

  • OBIBA-JUDAS 11 years ago

    INFACT THIS COUNTRY IS FINISHEDOUT

  • Kwaku 11 years ago

    You are a stinking fool

  • GHFUO, BE SERIOUS NOT PRIDEFUL! 11 years ago

    IM SURE ITS PPL IN THE GH POLICE OR ARMY DOING THIS. THE EXPATS ARE THIEVES. THEY DONT PAY TAXES. MISTREAT THE NATIVES. I WOULD ROB THEM ALL IF I WAS IN GH ALSO....GO TO THE HOTELS ON WEEKENDS N SEE HOW THEY U USING THE ASHAW ...
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  • RAX DOE,Amsterdam.Holland 11 years ago

    u are stupid to said this,IDIOT LOL

  • DESTINY 11 years ago

    The President SHOULD be reading the news, or article on Ghanaweb. The whole credibility of the country is at stake.
    Who will like to stay, invest, or spend some holidays in such a place that people call 'home'?

  • The Donn 11 years ago

    This is why I have stopped calling Ghana Mother Ghana. Infact, I now refer to the UK as mother UK.

  • Seth Bonsu 11 years ago

    Who cares?.

  • Bochoe 11 years ago

    What is happening hurts tourism, investment and every plan of development.

    Only a fool like you would not care. Your mother and father should be ashamend of you.

  • HON NII TETTEHVI 11 years ago

    DONT MIND THAT GA ILLITERATE USING THE NAME SETH BONSU. HE IS A FOOL BUT THINK HE IS CUNNING...

  • Onyame Nipa (Man Of God) USA 11 years ago

    GHANA UNDER NDC GOVT

  • CASTLE BOY 11 years ago

    Even the president of Ghana is a thief and how can a thief check armed robbery,about 90 percent of armed robbers are from his region

  • Onyame Nipa (Man Of God) USA 11 years ago

    OVER TO YOU AMERICA

  • Akwadaa Swiss. 11 years ago

    AND THE -IGP -IS WAITING FOR HIM OR DE PRESIDENT TO BE ROBBED AT GUN POINT BEFORE HE COMES OUT TO BRAGG. BELIEVE U ME,THEY WILL WAIT TILL IS TOO LATE TO ACT,TILL IT AFFECTS DE AREADY DOWN TRODDING ECONOMY.FEAR & PANIC is alre ...
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  • Abeiku- SW2 London 11 years ago

    Yep ban all motor bikes after certain hours and increase d Police patrol ... that's if there r any cars to take them to patrol ..

  • Nana Kasa 11 years ago

    This is the beginning of the NPP plan to make the country ungovernable. Mahammah should be weary and get rid of all NPP sympathizers holding public offices else he will never get any where. Water and electricity are being sab ...
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  • Kofi 11 years ago

    Do you mean Mahama should be "wary" or "weary". It pays to go to school sometime.

  • OSEI LOND 11 years ago

    You see ntafour have no understaing Ghana is becoming a lose state you are talking about npp.

  • joel 11 years ago

    I agree with you.

  • Hazor 11 years ago

    This situation we are in is what NDC Mahama calls it Better Ghana Agenda 2.Because does armed robbers were NDC members and do not rob them so they propagate better Ghana agenda whiles traders and expats are suffering from the ...
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  • American D 11 years ago

    Get a clue. Please in Ghana are suffering and they are robbing EXPATs who have MORE money and flaunt their money while treating the people living in Ghana like peasants.

    I do not condone robbing and stealing, but Ghana ne ...
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  • Jo 11 years ago

    I have to disagree, not all expats have more money, nor do we treat the people of Ghana like peasants. I have always given, and been given the utmost respect in Ghana. Do not tar all the people of Ghana with the same brush. ...
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  • kodjo 11 years ago

    Sorry Jo, let me apologise for the previous contribution, please enjoy our country, and take back some good memories of the time you spend with us.

  • Jo 11 years ago

    Thank you my friend, my heart will always belong to Ghana

  • Truth-Be-Told USA 11 years ago

    So is it safer to be in the US or Ghana...especially as a non-Africa-born foreigner?
    Criminals in Ghana seek out those living on more than $2 a day. So eventually tourism will die off! Then locals incomes will decrease to 5 ...
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  • kwasi aponkye 11 years ago

    What do you expect when we have FUCKING NIGERIANS in our midsT.
    Thunk twice if u think monkeyface OKEKE and Goatface KAYODE are your investors

  • Truth 11 years ago

    I am sure some of these armed robberies are being committed with the aid of the police and the soldiers. The government and the vigilantes must step up to protect the poor and unarmed people.

  • Kit Yawson 11 years ago

    Is it ECOWAS and AFRICAN UNION concession to free travelling into Ghana that has increased the incidence of Armed Robber?y.And can we hear the new Inspector General of Police's take on these crimes?.
    DUM SO is a Raw Mate ...
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  • Kwesi 11 years ago

    Car accidents, Fire incidents, Short of LPG, soaring of commodities prices, the seemingly over clouded with demonic powers from outer world, the stolen voters' choices coupled with armed robbery makes the country the Better G ...
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  • yd 11 years ago

    This is what you get when you denied the right person as president and put a thief in power.

  • JUSTICE 11 years ago

    During Rawlings administration, more guns went to the wrong people and are now using them to rob peolpe.

  • GYASI 11 years ago

    RAWLINGS residence is just around the corner where the recent incidents are in the "uprise".

  • appiah 11 years ago

    This cannot be part of the better Ghana agenda. If we retrieve the judgement debt money from Wayomey. We can resource our police and put surveillance
    camera at all strategic places in the major cities to check the shameless ...
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  • kodjo 11 years ago

    Ghanaians, armed robbery is a function of life in most cities, take life in London, where knife/gun crime is so common place now. One solution is to steer the youth away from the gangster life that is permeating youth culture ...
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  • anayomi 11 years ago

    WHY ARE THEY NOT DOING THEIR JOB APART FROM SHAKING PEOPLE FOR BRIBES

  • Concern Ghanian 11 years ago

    Waste GHANA n snd ur kids abroad

  • Concern Ghanian 11 years ago

    N d foolish poor fyt 4 politicians

  • CASTLE BOY 11 years ago

    You can find the Tema Habour Police at Tema community 9 govenment shool near the cemetory arresting wee smokers.They arrest and find on the sport.They chage not less than GHS 600
    Where does those moneys go to?

  • Naijaman 11 years ago

    NPP and Kuffour invited these Nigerians into Ghana and the result is what we are witnessig now.

  • Anita 11 years ago

    I am also a victim and the robber was a Ghanaian muslim.

  • JOHNSON 11 years ago

    BAD LEADER BAD CRIMINALS,WHAT WE REQUST,IS WHAT WE GET,SAUL PRESIDENT,NOT DAVID,NANA AKUFFO ADDO,

  • Nana Asare 11 years ago

    SHOOTING AND ROBBING ON BOTH GHANAIANS AND EXPATS WILL CONTINUE AS LONG AS THE OKADA BUSINESS EXITS.

  • Yaovi Michael 11 years ago

    If morons are in charge of a country, what do you expect from their output. We are yet to encounter excessive evil things. Those who come to this portal with no concrete contributions are just like the armed robbers. Idiots!! ...
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  • richard m. 11 years ago

    most of the western countrys were saying that ,election in ghana is free and fair.we haven't go far jet,now you people were smelling pepper in the hands of john mahama.he have nothing good to offer ghana ,only creating the jo ...
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  • buga 11 years ago

    i think we need reinforce police in Ghana, a better policing as soon as possible, before it becomes like Nigeria , president and IGP must act now.

  • Quaidoo 11 years ago

    The current situation in Ghana(post election) makes a lot to demande if it wouldn't have been better if for a better Ghana,the principle of "the end justifies the means" is not appllied to fuck Mahama and his gang of corrupt ...
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  • Bewise 11 years ago

    Please, people stop playing politics with these occurances,Ghana and safety of the people must be first. It is about time that the citizens, start to demand the government to do something about the robberies and drugs. Organi ...
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  • Owu 11 years ago

    Are we damn stupid or just ignorant. This is not politics. Is how we define good governance, gun violence is a major problem in our society and we shouldn't blame only NDC, however, blame all stakeholders and society at large ...
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  • Adama d'Gharty, 11 years ago

    What is the point in inviting foreign commercial investers into the country, if the Ghana government can not protect them from local armed robbers plying their trade on city corner streets and high-ways. Ghana proudly sells h ...
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  • Danny T. 11 years ago

    It is very unfortunate that arm robbers are causing panic to our nation at this moment. We are calling on the security to rise up and bring this situation under control.I believe that the security of Ghana can do it better. L ...
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  • Uncle Ebow 11 years ago

    Well to increase the police patrol team will involves cars, we don't have cars for the police but some one our leaders has 4 or 5 cars sitting in their home. so the question is, where did they get the money to buy all those c ...
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  • Truth 11 years ago

    When it is not your turn to steal from the people, then you cry foul. Every Ghanaian is corrupt, from the dead to the unborn. Wait till you get to the position to steal and you will know what it is like to steal.

  • Soso 11 years ago

    Ghana must seek international help in combating crime. Please take this advice before it too late. If care is not taken ghana stands to lose in all these.

  • Kwaku 11 years ago

    Armed robbery is every where in the world. The only solution to ours in Ghana is to train our security agents on information gathering.

  • Idris Deyji NIMA 441 Ambassador 11 years ago

    Mr President what a fuck are you sitting there doing, watch all these crimes taking place. The only way this can be stopped is simple all Ghanaians need be trained armed.It takes a good guy with a gun to stop a bad guy with a ...
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  • joe 11 years ago

    As at 2013 there si no IDCARD for the citizen to identify personels in a central computer.I do not know the use of the politicians in ghana,even they do not have idea about the basic things to be done.armed robber will be sus ...
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  • KUKRUDU 11 years ago

    EXECUTE THEM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    THIS IS GOING TO AFFECT TOURISM AND OUR FRIGILE ECONOMY.

  • samu uk 11 years ago

    all these national wreckers need to be given instant justice when caught.

  • alinko 11 years ago

    stop killing.............

  • Nana,Legon 11 years ago

    better economy be dat for de better ghana people

  • kay new york 11 years ago

    these things are happening because ghana is a lawless country. all these killings and stuff are not ghanaian style but because they cannot control the influx of these illegal aliens from the neighboring countries, the killing ...
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  • kay new york 11 years ago

    these things are happening because ghana is a lawless country. all these killings and stuff are not ghanaian style but because they cannot control the influx of these illegal aliens from the neighboring countries, the killing ...
    read full comment

  • kay new york 11 years ago

    these things are happening because ghana is a lawless country. all these killings and stuff are not ghanaian style but because they cannot control the influx of these illegal aliens from the neighboring countries, the killing ...
    read full comment

  • kay new york 11 years ago

    these things are happening because ghana is a lawless country. all these killings and stuff are not ghanaian style but because they cannot control the influx of these illegal aliens from the neighboring countries, the killing ...
    read full comment

  • kay new york 11 years ago

    these things are happening because ghana is a lawless country. all these killings and stuff are not ghanaian style but because they cannot control the influx of these illegal aliens from the neighboring countries, the killing ...
    read full comment

  • kay new york 11 years ago

    these things are happening because ghana is a lawless country. all these killings and stuff are not ghanaian style but because they cannot control the influx of these illegal aliens from the neighboring countries, the killing ...
    read full comment

  • kay new york 11 years ago

    these things are happening because ghana is a lawless country. all these killings and stuff are not ghanaian style but because they cannot control the influx of these illegal aliens from the neighboring countries, the killing ...
    read full comment

  • kay new york 11 years ago

    these things are happening because ghana is a lawless country. all these killings and stuff are not ghanaian style but because they cannot control the influx of these illegal aliens from the neighboring countries, the killing ...
    read full comment

  • Odine 11 years ago

    Ghana like any other african country has arm robbery cases, however with this all over a sudden indiscriminate large scale cases the reason why is not far fetched. The influx of all kind of fellow Africans into the country wi ...
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  • JKOADIS 11 years ago

    IS GHANA DEVELOPING TO BE COUNTRY OF ARMED ROBBERS, LIKE IN SOUTH AFRICA, AND NIGERIA .

  • asante anto kwaku 11 years ago

    ghanaians in holland are worried bcos the death of the nederlands girl can have so many inpact on the ghanaians in the nederlands.please they are lovely people dont kill them please.