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22 arrested and fined for not taking part in Sanitation Day

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  • PRINCEWILLY@YMAIL.COM 8 years ago

    The dockyard men's room was always filthy because the workers never peed accurately to the drain. Every day the man who was in charge of sanitation at the dockyard would have to call in the cleaners to wipe off the mess insid ...
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  • Frank Agyena-Karikari 8 years ago

    The fine is damn nonsense. I wish a lawyer can stand for them. Saturday is also the day of worship of some people like me and cannot be forced to work. Clean up is voluntary. People have to be convinced and not forced. Do the ...
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  • insight to the bone 8 years ago

    Oyiwa, so Forbes too confirms we shall go to war as we are 100% sure NDC will rig the elections with election engineering , propaganda , corruption , bloated register , hegemony mixed with northern tribalism. Now that the dum ...
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  • Ali 8 years ago

    Filthy people who refuse to keep the environment clean is an insult to God.

  • Palmwine Tapper 8 years ago

    Shut the FUCK up you lazy passive citizen using Church as an excuse. You want the Gov't or "akwasibroni" to come in and clean up your stinky FILTH for you and also do every freaking thing for you ……… right; than taking ...
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  • Concerned Citizen 8 years ago

    This man's excuse, whether religious or not is beside the point. Nobody under our present constitution can be forced to do any work that he or she refuses to do. There is no legal basis for this. If this cleanup work is not v ...
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  • Concerned Citizen 8 years ago

    If there is any sense in forcing people to clean gutters etc on National Sanitation Day then why don't the police go through the whole country and arrest anyone Ghana, rich and poor, who is found not cleaning the environment ...
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  • AONTOIN 8 years ago

    THESE PETTY TRADERS PAY "LAMPOOS" ON A FUCKING DAILY BASIS. WHY FINE A DEFENCELESS CITIZEN FOR REFUSING TO PARTAKE IN A VOLUNTARY CLEAN-UP EXERCISE.

    I CAN'T SEE ANYBODY IMPOSING SUCH A STUPID SELECTIVE FINE ON MAHAMA'S OR ...
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  • kofi quram 8 years ago

    Fool,go and tell your landlord to come and clean your room for you because you pay rent.

  • kofi quram 8 years ago

    Fool,go and tell your landlord to come and clean your room for you because you pay rent.

  • Bam 8 years ago

    Good

  • Son of sons 8 years ago

    Has it got to this, where in the constitution says that if you don't go for clean up services you should be arrested and fined... I am really into this sanitation thing and all that that but masa let's not allow some people t ...
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  • Obed Adore 8 years ago

    This could be a Local Government Bylaw

  • obour 8 years ago

    This is mad things this sad were is zoomlions ha it do not make any sense Ghana be wise and this sensiles !

  • inusah labi 8 years ago

    good move ,if the whole country were to be abiding my the this bi-laws .the country would have been the heaven we 're all expecting

  • obour 8 years ago

    U don't no what u re saying come to Europe and see sanitation is past even 2008 sanitation re not there because we have some workers called zoomlions, were re they ha, when some ones is going to fund something to eat or some ...
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  • NANAÖ MOTHER !!! 8 years ago

    After stealing tax payers Money and sharing it with zooomloins.In what country will this happen.Just wait 2016 coming.

  • Frank Ben 8 years ago

    Under what law were the people fined? The clean up exercise is a voluntary one. The fines were illegal and MPS & GBA must fight for them. As happened in the Anas &judges case, we must not wait till it affects us. MPs in this ...
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  • Boss(Amansie Ba) 8 years ago

    Is absolutely nonsense, the government is misplacing our tax and we should clean why paying tax. Corrupt mahama government. He is incompetent.

  • Nii Lartey Nartey 8 years ago

    Arresting and fine of individual who could not partake in a voluntary call make a huge mockery of our laws, freedoms and democracy.

    Ghana government pay huge sums of money to a private owned organization whose responsibili ...
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  • Kofi 8 years ago

    Good

  • Frank Agyena-Karikari 8 years ago

    What about paying taxes? You need some rudimentary education in the constitution of Ghana.

  • Concerned Citizen 8 years ago

    Ghana is rated the 7th most dirtiest country in the world which I am not surprised. It's all about attitude which reflects in everything we do. The Only way Ghana and Africa can move forward is through change of attitude. The ...
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  • mr amin 8 years ago

    Untill govt ban plastics i will not take part.

  • Sam 8 years ago

    arrest who, u people are not serious. den arrest wayome n maama

  • 4Real 8 years ago

    it means we are in good direction, presently i am in Nigeria,with d sanitation day they don't joke with that day in fact they arrest.... in fact on their day of sanitation no car move untill 10:00am

  • Duke 8 years ago

    This is unlawful arrest, when didn't became a crime in Ghana that if u don't clean on sanitation day u should be arrested, if I were one of those arrested I would sue the state for unlawfully arresting me, because if I pay my ...
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  • Lydia Jones 8 years ago

    Good comments by Nii Lartey and a few others.

    When I was a child growing up in Ghana, local authorities took responsibilities for waste collection and disposal,waste management, street cleaning, environmental protection an ...
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  • Palmwine Tapper 8 years ago

    What the HECK are you talking about? If the GOV't is unable to clean the FILTH you created in your community due to their corrupt, selfish actions; you want the community to sit on the sorryASSES and DO absolutely NOTHING and ...
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  • ADWEN 8 years ago

    Public Cleaning is voluntary. Because people are paid on daily basis as their responsibility to do this sanitation and cleaning work. Any member of the community who contributes to this is purely altruistic and voluntarily. W ...
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  • PROFESSOR ==THOMAS KUBI 8 years ago

    THE CHANCE FOR NEW LEADERSHIP
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    THE WAY OF LIFE IS CLEANINESS
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    I AM VERY SORRY FOR GHANA GOV
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    PROFESS ...
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  • GPS 8 years ago

    So government do not have money to hire cleaners to clean our cities and towns? Oh useless leaders, our leaders are good for nothing. Thank God I live in America.

  • OwuraG 8 years ago

    SO WHERE WILL THIS MONEY GO?

  • Palmwine Tapper 8 years ago

    Challenge the Toll Collectors afterwards and after cleaning the neighborhood .....sweekycleen! Right NOW getting rid of the FILTH is the main focus of those affected communities to avoid the spread of diseases to the little o ...
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  • mohammed salley sinare 8 years ago

    i wish am in ghana now to take this task force to court, the arrest was illegal and stupid

  • Palmwine Tapper 8 years ago

    Atinga Grushi, please do us ALL a fovor. Stay in your little Zongo HUT with palm tree leaf roof top. Whilst you're at; SHUT the FUCK up as slave "dishwasher" and "atinkon" toilet cleaner in "obronikrom". You could have served ...
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  • Ernie 8 years ago

    Zongo mentality. You are filthy and dirty and a disgrace to Allah

  • Richard Lakpleku 8 years ago

    Apply de law

  • Adekunle 8 years ago

    One day people will revolt. Forced labour and everyone is quiet about it.

  • mas 8 years ago

    Black man mentality. Lazy thinking.
    Everywhere in the world where black people live is filthy. Ghetos, malaria, cholera, and all kind of bacteria. He even question why he should keep his enviroment clean if government is not ...
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