See the plush mansion used as the final resting place for the owner of Jeoun VIP Transport’s wife

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  • WHAT IS HAPPENING NOW IN GHANA WITH ALL THIS WASTE ON GRAVES THAT LOOK LIKE PALACES 2 years ago

    The Ghanan is still primitive minded. Why waste so much money

  • Togbe Agorkorli 2 years ago

    But it's their own money....you can do whatever with yours.... poverty mentality.

  • Capricorn 2 years ago

    No wonder a fool like you will always support despicable. Does VIP boss have money more than Iranian President? The answer is No. Yet the Iranian president had modest burial. That VIP boss may have come from poor background a ...
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  • Kotibrim 2 years ago

    And your point is....?

  • Rex 2 years ago

    This is the new craze in Ghana, many many more will be built accross country, even much more expensive ones, and in a century, when the then generation, watches the dilapidated government school structures and portholes roads ...
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  • ALLAH IS SIMPLY THE ARABIC NAME FOR GOD. YOUR IGNORANCE IS SCARY! 2 years ago

    Allah is arabic for God just like Dieu is the french language for God. Hausa and many other African laguages use the same word for God. For example in Hausa Bibles the word used for God is Allah
    Genesis 1 vs 1-3 reads: Allah ...
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  • KNOCK THEM 2 years ago

    Waoo! my brother do you understand the word Allah at all. So you can can have the effontery to call God evil. Please if you are not school well about the various names of God in other tribes and societies kindly go back.

  • Ansu Brian 2 years ago

    I'm not a Muslim but I like the way to talk. Thank you for the way you responded to his comment

  • Grace 2 years ago

    Don't mind these fools. Wasteful land and resources. That's why the black man never progresses

  • KNOCK THEM 2 years ago

    Hmm, it is only poverty that will make people cut down on what they want. Give them more and they will over do what they are complaining today. CONCERT PEOPLE. NA POVERTY THEY MAKE Dem TALK LIKE THAT.

  • Bobo 2 years ago

    Wait ooo, even if you have money more than God, is that how to spend it? This is not poverty matter but pure nonsense.

  • maame 2 years ago

    Not your money. It is theirs. We all have aspirations - what we strive to achieve. He worked for what he has and is entitled to spend as he wishes.

  • Kofi 2 years ago

    Foolish thinking

  • Kubut3 2 years ago

    Capricorn gyae gyimii no . It's his money. What did you say about Iran? FYI .Iran also spend billions of dollars on weapons of mass destruction while most of her citizens live in poverty. Massa if you're broke you bette ...
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  • Afia 2 years ago

    What sort of comparison is that?.

  • Sam Fante warrior. 2 years ago

    @Capricorn even if government banned them from doing that, the monies won't be given to you so stop crying, look for yours and use it wisely.

  • Samus 2 years ago

    Nice comment, my friend

  • ABDUL-AZIZ MUNIRU 2 years ago

    Am humbled

  • MIRACLES ABOAGYE 2 years ago

    Vanity!

    If it's about wealth why not bury her in space so that the body will be close to heaven?

    ... and look at that idiot faking a cry; all he can remember his mum by are funerals and food?

    What an idiot?!

  • KNOCK THEM 2 years ago

    SKIN PAIN, YOU WISH IT IS YOUR FAMILY. GO AND WORK HARD AND YOURS WILL BE DOUBLED. THE.MAN HAS EMPLOYED OVER 100, 000 PEOPLE. WHAT HAVE YOU DONE FOR YOU TO WANT TO DECIDE FOR HIM. GO AND SLEEP.

  • Helen Sam 2 years ago

    Lol the coolest comment ever ... space it is lol .

  • Aboa 2 years ago

    This is not poverty mentality but rather foolishness. Very big foolishness. The person going to be buried in the extravaganza cemetery will weep perpetually in Hades or on Pluto .

  • maame 2 years ago

    They worked for their money, and are entitled to use their money as they wish.

  • francis 2 years ago

    Engaging in such despicable acts of burial in the midst on deprivation,poverty, poor surroundings, poor roads, poor health care, poor schools is rather poverty mentality. doing this does not make you rich. A poor man with som ...
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  • Bobby Stones 2 years ago

    The copycate farde of mausoleum is getting outrageous. The money used could be put to a better use, Togbe Afede did it for his mum and it's has since become the new thing in town.

  • CRAP DETECTOR 2 years ago

    WHY NOT? INJUSTICE IN LIFE AND IN DEATH. AMEN.

  • Nana 2 years ago

    There is the need for a ministry to be created to take charge of funerals,weddings,naming ceremonies,birthdays etc.That ministry shd monitor all these social activities,value them and give it GRA to tax them.It will be a sour ...
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  • Muftawu 2 years ago

    Hmmm thank you God for being a Muslim and lord may I also died being a Muslim I pray.

  • ABDUL-AZIZ MUNIRU 2 years ago

    Aamen summa aamen.

  • Nana 2 years ago

    Moslems also waste monies during weddings and outdooring.They shd also be taxed by GRA.The only solution to curb human foolish behaviour is thru taxation.That what they do in advanced countries.

  • James 2 years ago

    Ogyakrom people and concert

  • Kwaku Tee 2 years ago

    Soon other tribes will copy,trust me Ewes will be the 1st.They pretend to be enemies but they have the same character.When I was young one week funeral gathering was only for Ashanti royals but these days every tribe is copyi ...
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  • Agbelimor Paris 2 years ago

    Idiot,I have never seen one week funeral post observation in my hometown before.Take the Ewes out of your stinky bastard mouth.

  • Kubut3 2 years ago

    That's his own money, he worked had for it. This is very beautiful. Not all of cultural practices are bad. THIS nothing compared to what some super rich people spend their money on when they die. They spend millions to p ...
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  • Nana 2 years ago

    Yes it is his own monies he can even create a sea in Kumasi buy a yacht and put it on the sea and bury his mother in it but GRA shd tax them with exorbitant rate.The govt needs more revenue to develop the state.

  • OSABARIMA MENSA 2 years ago

    Kwame Nkrumah mausoleum should be pulled down. What a waste of our resources. Gyimii saa!

  • Togbe Agorkorli 2 years ago

    Why more tax....on a funeral? You crazy.... everything he purchased for the funeral was already taxed...a a citizen you advocate for less taxes not more.

  • Ghanaba kwaku 2 years ago

    Useless, Blacks are fools. We will continue to be fools forever. Thank you God.
    Listen to another fool, saying its his own money. Gyimii nkoaa. Was he the richest person in the world?

  • Kubut3 2 years ago

    You call the rich owner of VIP BUSES IN GHANA GYIMII ? BECAUSE HE SPEND A LITTLE BIT OF HIS (EMPHASIS ON "HIS").MONEY ON TOMB FOR HIS WIFE ? MASSA DO YOU LIVE IN THE ALMIGHTY USA ? FIND OUT WHAT SOME RICH PEOPLE DO WIT ...
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  • Ruthan 2 years ago

    Tell the "rich" owner of VIP to improve his bus terminal at Kwame Nkrumah Circle.Passengers waiting to travel cannot get anywhere to sit.Russia which is regarded as negative would pull down that building and build a 30 storey ...
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  • Ruthan 2 years ago

    The sad thing compared to advanced countries is our cemeteries are the DIRTIEST in the world.You cant even pay occasional visit to your dear ones without a snake bite.

  • Tsidzada 2 years ago

    GRA should them for gift tax. You can give such a gift to the dead and expect to go tax free? Ankara the living are gyimigyimi anaaa??? Enough of the bometsitsi. Gra go do your job. Go tax 5 percent of the total cost of t ...
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  • Sator 2 years ago

    Wasteful culture

  • Stitches 2 years ago

    Blackman and foolishness. Soke stupid people will come and say it's their money. Bill Gate with his wealth is doing charity all over the world. Blackman is selfish and foolish. Will that tomb bring back his wife to life or wi ...
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  • Dondon 2 years ago

    society helps these people to become rich by purchase their products but at the end of the day they refused to give back to society, very wicked.

  • Awudu 2 years ago

    When the living can't find the place to sleep, the dead have mansions

  • NDC,NPP, The value is the same. 2 years ago

    Stupid black people, if she is dead she is dead

  • Joe Mens 2 years ago

    Africans are stupid.

  • All die be die 2 years ago

    One day jubilee house will be use for such stupid purpose.what the is going on in ghana.firvall you know there are people in that family that needed small capital to start business but as usual . money no dey. Stupid stuffs ...
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  • Dr Bob, Bawku 2 years ago

    This world is not fair

  • Japhet 2 years ago

    vanity

  • Citizen 2 years ago

    And who deceives you that she is resting, jokers.

  • OSABARIMA MENSA 2 years ago

    Losers criticising a Winner for what he does with his own money? Gyimii saa!

  • Akut 2 years ago

    I pray he took very good care of the mother whiles she was alive and doing the same for at least his close family.

  • Kululu 2 years ago

    This is wasteful
    People are dying of hunger and this is the way you can use your money
    Surely you will account for it in the hereafter

  • Vincent 2 years ago

    Make your own money then feed those dying of hunger.You have no right over someones money.

  • Dondon 2 years ago

    @vincent, I think you are a retarded creature. Do you know that the same people made this man rich by patronizing his transport business? Do you know how many who entered into this transport business but couldn't succeed beca ...
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  • Vincent 2 years ago

    @Dondon I believe you are a comatose cretin that fell from the tree.If someone sweats and works hard to set up a business and it becomes successful you have no right to dictate what they should do with their money.It is their ...
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  • Raincoat 2 years ago

    Hmm these animals called black people.

  • Isaac 2 years ago

    Eiii so ghanaweb is this too a mansion?

  • Konfo 2 years ago

    Stupidity of Ghanaians. She is dead and gone. Use that money to feed the poor.

  • Musa 2 years ago

    Stupidity of Ghanaians is legendary. The dead are indeed dead. What are all these waste about????

  • USA 2 years ago

    This third world stupid and needs to be banned. Where do they draw the line? At this rate in future people will be building a complete full live-in-able mansions with rooms left to waste. Utterly stupid! In a country where ...
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  • Kofi Virginia 2 years ago

    Misplaced values

  • Nkwaseas3m kwa!! 2 years ago

    Hubris and nkwaseas3m!! A more enduring testimonial would have been to use that money to build a shelter for your townfolks who are struggling with housing. .

    Waste money to build "castle" to put in a rotting corpse. Nons ...
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  • Ishmael Dayess 2 years ago

    I don't know what's wrong with our thinking these days. You mean deaconess was buried in this trap. Jesus will turn away such people on the day of resurrection,trust me.

  • Nii Akwei 2 years ago

    You can't take it with you.

  • Theo Kuma Theo Theo 2 years ago

    May she rest well in the Lord.

  • Donatus 2 years ago

    Are these people paying property tax?

  • Donatus 2 years ago

    No wonder blacks are where we are. Whites would have used the money to research into things for all humanity.

  • Obour 2 years ago

    Many westerners live behind trusts for the benefit of future generations. Sensible people in Europe waste no time and money building such useless edifices for the dead. The Blackman continues to display his foolishness by was ...
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  • Donatus 2 years ago

    Is he going to build same for each dead family member?

  • Dan 2 years ago

    The honest truth is that our Ashanti brothers behave like Igbos in Nigeria. They do everything in excess of human rationale. It's as if in his family everyone is rich; why sprinkle so much money on the death?
    Burial must be ...
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  • ISAAC KANKAM-BOADU 2 years ago

    Let's be honest: That is NOT a mansion in the proper sense of the English language. Its a MAUSOLEUM. Ghanaweb, much as you are giving information you're also educating us. Could you be a bit responsible?

  • Bazz 2 years ago

    Don't worry friends,it's even in the Bible. Go and see how both the Egyptians and the people of Israel organized the funeral of Joseph. If u don't have money just admire those who have wai

  • Code 9 2 years ago

    Time to come Ashanti region will be full of memorial monument.

  • Koonti 2 years ago

    Vanity upon vanity, go and open the coffin and you'll see the dead rotten. What is becoming of us?

  • KWABENA KASAPREKO. 2 years ago

    THE GHANA GOVERNMENT SHOULD NOT ENTERTAIN SOMETHING SUCH AS THIS. WHAT IS THIS ? DISTRICTS AND TRADITIONAL AREAS SHOULD STAND UP AND PUT A STOP TO THIS EMERGING PRACTICE WITHOUT DELAY ! STOP IT !!!!!!!!

  • Radheshyam 1 year ago

    I travelled from Jodhpur to Kota by bus, and I asked the bus driver to stop the vehicle as I had to go to the toilet, but the driver did not stop the bus and spoke rudely and used abusive language and I sat in the bus driver' ...
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  • Radheshyam 1 year ago

    Today I travelled by bus from Jodhpur to Kota. On the way I told the bus driver that I need to go to the toilet and asked him to stop. The bus driver did not stop the bus and spoke very rudely and said that now wait for an ho ...
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  • Radheshyam 1 year ago

    Today I travelled by bus from Jodhpur to Kota. On the way I told the bus driver that I need to go to the toilet and asked him to stop. The bus driver did not stop the bus and spoke very rudely and said that now wait for an ho ...
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