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Kumasi: 300 structures pulled down in Ashtown

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  • SHAMU 10 years ago

    What is wrong with Kumasi? We all need to come to the aid of that region. The people over there seems to be in a situation of serious dilemma. Kumasi have really produced all kind of evil creature. Is time to go into serious ...
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  • Remove Indemnity Clause 10 years ago

    Do you really live in Ghana?

  • Ghanani, 10 years ago

    Yes a Nigerian.

  • samo jewellery 10 years ago

    let samo jewellery design n customise yr wedding n engagement ring for u......we are located in kumasi asafo two buildings away from glo office opposite snnit building....we use latest tools n equipment to design these rings ...
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  • AAA 10 years ago

    Remove Indemnity Clause, your question to shamu should be; 'Do you really have a head' but not live in Ghana.

  • Kano Kware Naye Free!! 10 years ago

    Kwaku Duah is among of everything that is going on in Kumasi. Why Ghanaians are so coward like that? So, are they telling me that they cannot stand for their rights at all?

  • Akos 10 years ago

    Ignorant & tribal bigot Shamu. The entire country is lawless & not limited only to the Ashanti region. Grow up.

  • NAA DEDEI 10 years ago

    LORD HAVE MERCY!!!

  • AKADU MENSAMA 10 years ago

    The voice of popular preacher Nicholas Duncan Williams booms through a church in the capital Accra as he offers up a prayer for the recovery of the Ghanaian currency.

    "I hold up the cedi - and I command the cedi to recover ...
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  • AAA 10 years ago

    Can someone please post the audio.

  • kwabena kusi, London. 10 years ago

    From K O.The next should be the railway station.Don't blame NDC.Look at Kumasi there are kiosks all over the main streets.When Nana Akwasi was chairman this was not happening.Mr Kojo Bonsu put your feet down.Anything you do t ...
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  • Don Blunt 10 years ago

    It was your Nana Akwasi Agyeman who started the nonsense. He took their money, and permitted them to sell shoes on the pavement. The structures came later, though. But the 'foundation' was laid by that "obedient Rawlings' sla ...
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  • Sumanguru Kante 10 years ago

    The rot actually started underKwasi Agyemang. Yes, he and Agyekum pulled down some structures at a certain point but eventually he allowed his friends and cronies to put up structures at the Old Playground (adehyeman Gardens) ...
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  • Mensah 10 years ago

    I couldn't believe when I went to Kumasi in 1999, the mechanics and traders have taken over school compounds and road widening areas and put up shops with all the accompanying pollution. In 2013, those structures were still t ...
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  • YAW 10 years ago

    Are you having a laugh?Akwasi Agyemang was dreadful!

  • Frank Agyena-Karikari 10 years ago

    You are talking of congratulations? Congratulations indeed. Why don't you talk about corruption and inefficiency. How long did it take for the people to put up all those structures? Who provided them with Electricity and wate ...
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  • Farmer Addai 10 years ago

    Frank your attempts to justify and encourage criminal activities is very reprehensible.I do sympathize with people loosing their livelihood but using that as an excuse to turn to crime is not acceptable and must be condemned ...
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  • Frank Agyena-Karikari 10 years ago

    Farmer, What is illegal does not necessarily mean criminal. The authorities sat on theeir butts and allow all these structures to be put up. It did not take just a day to put them out. But for political expediency, they allow ...
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  • SETH 10 years ago

    I live in kumasi, things are not esay at all. in thes time of the days think KMA should consider the state in which the country in thank you.

  • JZ ,PHILADELPHIA 10 years ago

    This was not ordered by Mr. kojo Bonsu because he just denied at 6pm news on Adom fm that he did not order that but it was otumfuo's demolition.

  • Mark Osei 10 years ago

    How can you knowingly and willfully occupy a place illegally and expect to be given NOTICE before your property is demolished?

  • Togbe 10 years ago

    This is your punishment for not voting for Competence .NDC is confused and they have to resort to this "communist Inferior Tactics" in order to punish constituencies that did not vote for them. .KMA should demolish unauthori ...
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  • SGT ANANI FIADZOE 10 years ago

    Shamu, why are you surprised that all the evil things are happening in Kumasi? Did you not hear Prophet Mensah Otabil's revelation that God hates all-die-be-die, and that anyone who says that phrase is a bad company?

    Well ...
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  • Emma 10 years ago

    Volta-Ho?

  • ASUNNYJOH 10 years ago

    THE HEAD OF THIS TROKOSI IS FULL OF SHIT INSTEAD OF FINDING SOLUTION TO PREVENT KETA FROM WASHING AWAY BY THE SEA YOU ARE JUST HERE TO SPILL ALL THESE NONSENSE.ALL DIE BE DIE IS NOW IN KETA YOU AND KOJO T MUST RAISE FUNDS TO ...
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  • DAN 10 years ago

    A MONKEY PRETENDING TO BE A BOY!

  • DAN 10 years ago

    YOUR ARE SUFFERING TOO THE HUGE PETRO INCREASE WHICH INCREASE THE PRICE OF FOOD,RATE, TRANSPORT..EVERYTHING YOU TOUCH IS TAXED BECAUSE THEY ARE NO JOBS TO GET INCOME TAX ON...EVEN THO WE ARE TAXED HEAVY IN USA...THEY ARE MONE ...
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  • TKN 10 years ago

    YOU FORGOT TO TALK ABOUT THE 2 DRIVERS GUNNED DOWN BY POLICE FOR A MERE DEMONSTRATION.

  • DAN 10 years ago

    they have absolute no respect for people of ghana..they think they live just to remove tax money from their pocket..Tax payers must revolt like even Venezuela is doing now

  • Alhaji Baba 10 years ago

    Useless soldiers and police who take instructions from NDC bunch of criminals to fight unarmed civilians and destroy their property. Is this a war zone? Are soldiers not paid to protect Ghanaians from external aggression? Are ...
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  • mameadjoa 10 years ago

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  • Mekhi 10 years ago

    Law and order should prevail....do you think they can just sell shoe and things on the streets of London or New York?
    Nonsense.

  • Mary 10 years ago

    Law and order should prevail not for some people but for all, including the president and his cronies. Wayome, SCJs, politians et all.

  • Pontius Pilate 10 years ago

    why all this dawn swoops and demolition? if they are to vacate the premises why don't you allow them to sort out their little personal and business effects. must we be behaving as if we are in the jungle.

  • jijk 10 years ago

    AS A PAST RESIDENT OF KUMASI AND ASHTOWN, I SUPPORT THIS MOVE 100%. WE NEED TO RESTORE THE OLD GLORY OF KUMASI AS THE GARDEN CITY OF WEST AFRICA. I AM SICK OF OUR OWN PEOPLE WHO PUT STRUCTURES RANDOMLY ANYWHERE JUST TO MAKE S ...
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  • Saint James 10 years ago

    My people are always violating the laws of the land with impunity.They will rather obey the primitive,senseless and unconstititunal laws of Manyhia palace.Good job,soldiers and police!

  • Mensah 10 years ago

    Ghana would have been a much better place if we mixed our own traditional rules and regulations with the "booklawn" rules. If our rules were followed, the insurbonation and lawlessness won't be happening, ofui.

  • EZEKIEL 10 years ago

    There's too much LAWLESSNESS in Ghana!!
    Please, bring some SANITY in the way we do things in the country......this is the BASIS for DEVELOPMENT!!
    We have to know who has a REGISTERED DOMICILE so that we can collect PROPERTY ...
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  • DESSY,toronto 10 years ago

    anytime such exercise is carried out,the victims always find excuses..while they knew it is illigal to occupy a state land or property..the state of ghana is becoming lawless and something need to be done

  • Alex London 10 years ago

    Why are soldiers involved? In a civilised world soldiers will never, I repeat never be used in such operations.

  • Mensah 10 years ago

    ask yourself

  • Nana HIGH 10 years ago

    I dont understand why structures are always pulled down without the notice of their owners .After all the've been there with notice of respective owners of the land they occupy .Does it also mean that if somebody dwell on you ...
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  • JZ ,PHILADELPHIA 10 years ago

    This was not ordered by Mr. kojo Bonsu because he just denied at the 6pm news on Adom fm that he did not order that but it was otumfuo's demolition.

  • Johnny USA 10 years ago

    KATABILA WORBA.!!!!!

  • ASUNNYJOH 10 years ago

    IT IS A GOOD IDEA THE NORTHNERS AND TROKOSIS ARE TURNING THE WHOLE KUMASI INTO AYIGWE TOWNS AND ZONGOS.THESE TROKOSIS HAVE SPREAD DIRTY STREACHING FROM ANLOGA TO AMAKOM ALL THE DRAINAGES ARE FULL OF SAWDUST.THEY CAN'T EVEN IN ...
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  • Asuo-Amponsah 10 years ago

    The demolition to take place. And I believe it is about time somebody explained, in plain language,to these street vendors that payment of a daily market levy,does not entitle them to continue their illegal occupation of thes ...
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  • Watch 10 years ago

    we have no leaders. in Kumasi who are to protect their people so sad ,what happen at kejetia ,soldiers invade in city central beating drivers and women.kenyase gun down two drivers,infact Asanti has problem