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Customs to destroy over 2,000 seized used mattresses

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  • OLD SOLDIER 9 years ago

    Author:-Close Observer...
    The NDC PARTY has NOTHING TO OFFER GHANAIANS, BUT DIVISION AND TRIBAL DISCRIMINATION. THIS IS WHAT WE HAVE SEEN IN GHANA FOR THE 26 YEARS THEY HAVE RULED.

    IF THEY CAN'T TELL THE DIFFERENCE BETWE ...
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  • OLD SOLDIER 9 years ago

    Author:-Nii Lartey Nartey...Now it is clear that the NDC government and his team of inexperience long teeth teenagers has must go out from power as their own Asiedua Nketia the mosquito general rightly sums it all up here tha ...
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  • KING OF NANA-NUM 9 years ago

    madan fuking theaves

  • Saint Ghfuo: Nyantakyi must go! 9 years ago

    Ghanaians are already dying becos our hospitals are death traps. Make.money form these mattresses snd don't spend money to.destroy them

  • KOGYAM 9 years ago

    BUT IS IMPORTED USED UNDERWEAR HEALTHY?
    STOP THIS DOUBLE STANDARDS

  • Ebo Kobena Africaba 9 years ago

    I am planning to return to Ghana by September this year for good after sojourning in America. I will bring my household items which will include the four mattresses which I have furnished my house with now plus another new ma ...
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  • IMA 9 years ago

    Please read the article properly!

  • Gordon Yeboah,USA 9 years ago

    These people are lying.it is just a formality to steal what expatriates have toiled in many years for.They cover up by seizing these items and send them to their girl friends in the universities, polytechnics etc.they even s ...
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  • MR CLEAN 9 years ago

    The tribalist and political bigot must be burned now with these mattresses. ok.

  • Ewe Nation 9 years ago

    Corrupt ashanti networks doing dirty business as is usual for this greedy tribe.Used mattresses some with piss on them is as dirty as ashantis are with their tricky get rich quick schemes.Ashantis always stink like those used ...
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  • Jato 9 years ago

    YOU Personally are SUB-HUMAN, and SUB-ANIMAL to insult

    You are (Less) than Human

    By Jato

    FRIENDS OF WISDOM

  • Ewe Nation 9 years ago

    You know i'm telling the truth you ugly ashanti monkey. Kwasea monkey tribe full of inward looking ugly invaders.Go back to desolate Mali where you came from.

  • the truth 9 years ago

    to the dirty scum bag that calls itself "ewe nation,"I guess you haven't evolved yet into a human being. I wont attack your tribe because you don't represent them, however, you are worth less than the shit from my anus. i pi ...
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  • Saint Ghfuo: Nyantakyi must go! 9 years ago

    Before you look or talk down on another human being of a different ethnic origin. Check your bank account and assets. Nkwasiafuo

  • Saint Ghfuo: Nyantakyi must go! 9 years ago

    Most ashantis are short. Malians on average are much taller..so where is the correlation and what makes you think that Ashantis hail from mali? Geez, you are very stupid!

  • Ewe Nation 9 years ago

    They are the pygmies of Mali that why they're short,greedy,ugly and backward.

  • Truth 9 years ago

    Why not select the quality ones out of them and send it to charity or one of the physically challenged schools. Ii mean the ones in the deprived areas not those in the big cities. I think it will be of help to them.

  • Onipanua 9 years ago

    It would be wise if these mattresses are carefully examined and the good ones sent to the most deprived government institutions like the prisons where the inmates sleep on bare floors if they ever find spaces at all.
    I would ...
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  • Ada Boy 9 years ago

    It's a national health issue,you cant make exclusions,that defeats purpose.What it the cost of investing in another bloated government agency for the purpose of clearing old infested mattresses for distribution to the poor? G ...
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  • eugene 9 years ago

    if your moving to the SHIT HOLE called ghana you can bring your old mattress along

  • eugene 9 years ago

    think about how many hotels you have visited ( if any poor boy) and think about how many whores have had sex on them or how many women have spilled their period blood or babys peed or shit on them! thats why cloth( sheet) cov ...
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  • Obed Adore 9 years ago

    Hey truth. if they are not healthy for the owner to use or sell, why should they be good for the 'deprived" to used? are the derived an vulnerable be given unhealthy stuff? Think again!

  • OSEI TAWIAH 9 years ago

    But I'm wondering why it would have to cost GHC 50,000 just to burn matresses.

  • eugene 9 years ago

    or macys best $500-$1000

  • asomdwe 9 years ago

    Do we manufacture mattresses in Ghana?
    I am not talking about foam

  • papa 9 years ago

    Hmmmmmm

  • eugene 9 years ago

    some places even rebuild them in USA..charity claim if you donate they will strip cloth and foam away repair the METAL springs and frame and recover with new foam and cloth

  • BB 9 years ago

    "Truth - send it to charity" exactly what I was thinking, can't the good ones be donated. People are sleeping on rubber mats and even the bare floor & on top of that we have to use money that we don't have to burn them. Hmmmm ...
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  • Obed Adore 9 years ago

    Hey if they are not healthy for the owner to use or sell, why should they be good for the 'deprived" to used? Are the derived and vulnerable in society be given unhealthy stuff? Think again!

  • Sam 9 years ago

    I was at the Tema Port just last week and I daresay that what this man is saying is not true.

    I saw many people talking delivery of used and soiled mattresses from abroad and taking them away out of the Tema harbor. Knowin ...
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  • THE CHOSEN ONE 9 years ago

    My people are confused. You said you saw people taking mattresses away and was also told about our number one sickness of cedis changing hands.
    Where's the lies that this man is saying.
    "You were even encouraged to go int ...
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  • Ako 9 years ago

    Truth, I'm a victim of these mattress seizures. I shipped 30 perfectly useable clean Macintosh covered water proof hospital mattresses donated by my hospital in UK to Ghana to donate my small town hospital. It is sad to see t ...
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  • YAW BRONX 9 years ago

    i will ship a whole container of mattresses just for ghana to waste money and destroy it..

  • penyarku 9 years ago

    If you are able to waste money and time to ship a container full of useless mattresses what is your beef if the nation spends money to destroy them to protect her citizens

  • Rawlings the MURDERER 9 years ago

    tweeaaaa

  • PRINCEWILLY@YMAIL.COM 9 years ago

    A salesman go out of town for business. After a couple of weeks he comes home and tells his wife about it. "Guess what dear, I earned 4000 dollars by selling 50 mattresses and 30 pairs of panties." The wife replies "Really, w ...
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  • PEE 9 years ago

    EVEN AM IN USA RIGHT NOW SLEEPING ON USED MATTRESS FOR YEARS NOTHING HAPPEN???????.BETTER HAVE MATTRESS WASHING EQUIPMENT WASH IT & TEST IT FOR ANY DEASEASE WHAT SO EVER, SO THAT ANY NEEDY PERSON CAN BUY AND ENJOY IT.

  • maxwell 9 years ago

    So there are still no people with brains in the Government? If the only reason why they the government is going to destroy the mattress is for fear for it being contaminated with diseases, what happened to what we call disinf ...
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  • Ben 9 years ago

    It's easier said than said Just as cars were seized and sold to their cronies, so will these mattresses be. The bust is just to create the headlines and the rest is history. How many cases are were still hoping they get to th ...
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  • Paul Jones jnr. 9 years ago

    I don't think any serious country will help a country like Ghana. Thinking that destroying such items are the only solution. I think these items can be cleaned and given to your prisons and other agencies in need. Why would ...
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  • Nana 1 9 years ago

    am angry ....and pissed off i cant even type well ...look at a country we a living in and see what the president we voted for is telling us and you guyz are making tribal issues ....you are serious ...fuck you...you take visa ...
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  • KWASI 9 years ago

    MAHAMA AND HIS EVIL GOVT WANTS ONE MORE TERM IN OFFICE SO THEY CAN KILL ALL GHANA BUSNISS

  • mensa 9 years ago

    GOD HELP GHANA AND THE GOVT STUPIDITY

  • Ako 9 years ago

    Please please don't destroy these matresses wholesale. Those Macintosh protected special matresses can be cleaned and disinfected for reuse.

  • eugene 9 years ago

    most people that have allergy to dust/etc put covers over their mattress and pillows anyway

  • Osofo 9 years ago

    You guys are stupid. You don't have any reason to believe that these items are dangerous. If you are smart you will also tear down ALL houses with asbestos roofs. Asbestos causes cancer. You bastards should know that yet they ...
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  • MR Wu tang 9 years ago

    I am sadden to read that it is going to cost the nation 50.000 ghs to destroy these mattresses. What going on in ghana you guy think we are more advance to this extend that we don't want our people to buy used items even here ...
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  • Plain Truth, USA 9 years ago

    What type of leaders do we have in Ghana? It is sickening to read such stupid decisions when Hospitals don't have beds nor mattresses and people sleep on the bare floor including maternity women. What a miserable country rule ...
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  • boka 9 years ago

    Can't you donate them to schools and hospitals?

  • APOSTLE ELIJAR 9 years ago

    Selfishness and greed is destroying Ghana FASTER than we know. I think we NEED another 79 or 81 so that we can get rid of those professors of thieves in the country.

  • Kwabena Adjei 9 years ago

    Many people in Ghana do not respect the laws because they are passed with out due recognition of facts on the ground.
    You hear destroying this and destroying that. In the end they do not get destroyed but given to the big sh ...
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  • truth 9 years ago

    Ghana prisons folks sleep on bare floor as in cement or concrete floors. Even some senior high school kids sleep on the floor. No wonder God smiles afterall the 31st all night serices Otabil and co do.How can these folks be t ...
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  • Kofi 9 years ago

    Give mattresses to the poor. Millions of people sleep on bare floor in this modern Ghana. Ghana must stop behaving like a rich country.

  • Kofi 9 years ago

    The govt must stop behaving like a rich country. Millions of poor Ghanaians need the mattresses to better their living. Just sanitized them and donate.

  • Nii Joromi 9 years ago

    The black man has to wake up. Mattresses are supposed to be changed after some years due to health reasons and that is why the intelligent white man throws them away. No wonder blacks have a shorter lifespan. We take everythi ...
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  • Henry 9 years ago

    Common sense would ve told this people to send the mattresses to the Ghana prison services for the prisoner since they sleep on the bare floor

  • John Mensah 9 years ago

    Old mattress health hazards:

    For those with impaired immune systems -- a problem more and more common -- there can be serious health ramifications.

    Symptoms may range from a common headache or joint ache, to unexplained ...
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  • John Mensah 9 years ago

    Many people who suffer with headaches, joint aches, and other physical ills on a daily basis reach for over-the counter remedies to quell their pain.

    Few, if any, would ever suspect their mattress is the cause of their pro ...
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  • Famu 9 years ago

    used clothes and mattresses are sold in rich nations like U.S.A, CANADA, AND EUROPE. Most of these mattresses are donations from hotels. Please give to the poor. Even rich people sleeps on used mattresses at hotels.

  • Red Santos 9 years ago

    The importers of these second handed mattresses should realize that if these socalled advanced countries cannot get rid of their bed bugs they encourage sending such infected bed bugs to Africa to spread infection to the hous ...
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  • ekow nyame 9 years ago

    To destroy the said mattresses will be the most stupid thing to do. Have the Customs destroyed seized vehicles before. The mattresses could be allocated to some of the orphanage homes. Think hard and think good. This will not ...
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  • Kofi Kofi Go. 9 years ago

    They should destroy the imported chair from China first. Nonsense.

  • Lord 9 years ago

    We cannot made this mattresses but we can destroyed them eii Ghana.

  • Constructivist 9 years ago

    Idiots, go and give those mattresses to orphanages and NADMO! We're experiencing a drought of wisdom in Ghana and unfortunately and shockingly, it's the idiots in the helm of affairs!

  • a.k, amsterdam 9 years ago

    I don't really understand the leaders in Ghana. Some orphanage home the children sleep on bear floor so why can't this mattresses be given to them instead of destroying them.

  • Kojovi 9 years ago

    The foam producing companies are behind this.

  • Amega 9 years ago

    I won't be surprised.

  • APUU LEGE 9 years ago

    What does this corn with EBOLA?

  • dkissi@anuc.edu.gh 9 years ago

    Is a good thing that the customs are impounding the banned goods but destroying them is bad.We can put it to good use by giving it to the NADMO to be used as a relief items for flood victims or better still sends it to the in ...
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