Kayayei training programme will only deepen North to Accra migration – KNUST Professor tells Bawumia

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Kilogram 1 year ago

Bravo! Why did it take the NPP so long to see that the TV3 New Day panelling is skewed against the NPP? You usually have an NDC member + the host (who is always pro-NDC) + one of the Jantuahs/Bernard Monah (who are anti NPP) ...
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Bravo! Why did it take the NPP so long to see that the TV3 New Day panelling is skewed against the NPP? You usually have an NDC member + the host (who is always pro-NDC) + one of the Jantuahs/Bernard Monah (who are anti NPP) and an NPP person... 3 NDC against 1NPP. I am happy that nobody from the NPP attends the Big Issues any longer.
Pounds 1 year ago

STUPIDITY! CANT YOU SEE THE SENSE IN THE PROFESSOR'S SUBMISSION? ANYWAYS NPP PEOPLE ARE IDIOTS AND YOU ARE ONE OF THEM

STUPIDITY! CANT YOU SEE THE SENSE IN THE PROFESSOR'S SUBMISSION? ANYWAYS NPP PEOPLE ARE IDIOTS AND YOU ARE ONE OF THEM
FRANKIE 1 year ago

I say eh......... The number of people who will vote for Bawumia will determine the number of lunatics we have in Ghana. Anyone who falls for this vote buying gimmick and does not see the sense in what the Prof is saying is a ...
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I say eh......... The number of people who will vote for Bawumia will determine the number of lunatics we have in Ghana. Anyone who falls for this vote buying gimmick and does not see the sense in what the Prof is saying is a nation wrecker.
DENNIS "MILACLES" ABOAGYE 1 year ago

This was the way they deceitfully manipulated the minds of those vulnerable NABCO youth into believing that they care for them, only for them to genuinely work for over a year without being paid A SHIT...!!!!!!! I say... "Fea ...
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This was the way they deceitfully manipulated the minds of those vulnerable NABCO youth into believing that they care for them, only for them to genuinely work for over a year without being paid A SHIT...!!!!!!! I say... "Fear these NPP venomous and satanic serpents, and your lifespan will be long!"
Prophet Mohammed was a sick dog 1 year ago

Quran is toilet paper.

Quran is toilet paper.
Macgordon Akosenaba 1 year ago

TV 3 was sold out under PNDC. ZTHEIR LOYALTY IS TO NDC. I KNEW THIS YEARS AGO. BENEFACTOR MUST BE OBEYED. ARTS STUDIO WHERE I WAS HARRISON FORD FUGITIVE OR IS IT WITNESS BESIDE AFRIKIKO IS NDC.

TV 3 was sold out under PNDC. ZTHEIR LOYALTY IS TO NDC. I KNEW THIS YEARS AGO. BENEFACTOR MUST BE OBEYED. ARTS STUDIO WHERE I WAS HARRISON FORD FUGITIVE OR IS IT WITNESS BESIDE AFRIKIKO IS NDC.
Edem 1 year ago

Ghanaian academicians keep disappointing in their analysis as critical thinkers...otherwise he should have known that FSHS has minimized drastically kayaye migration to the south!

Ghanaian academicians keep disappointing in their analysis as critical thinkers...otherwise he should have known that FSHS has minimized drastically kayaye migration to the south!
Kojo Sromani 1 year ago

Another of the NPP idiots who have flooded social media with their nonsensical sycophantic comments.

Another of the NPP idiots who have flooded social media with their nonsensical sycophantic comments.
ELL JAY 1 year ago

Do you know how long free education has been in the North?if the program had no cheap political gains attached why was it not built in the North since the problem starts from there?

Do you know how long free education has been in the North?if the program had no cheap political gains attached why was it not built in the North since the problem starts from there?
Augustina Quayson 1 year ago

Please Edem, when Dr Nkrumah came to power in February 1951, there was no secondary school in the North and there was only one university graduate, Edmund Alhassan Gbanzaba from the North. Dr Nkrumah introduced ...
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Please Edem, when Dr Nkrumah came to power in February 1951, there was no secondary school in the North and there was only one university graduate, Edmund Alhassan Gbanzaba from the North. Dr Nkrumah introduced the Accelerated Development Plan of Education in 1951 and introduced fee- free primary school education throughout the country for the first time.. Dr Nkrumah then established the first secondary school, the Government secondary school, now Tamale Senior High School in the North. Dr Nkrumah then introduced free secondary school education in the North. Please Dr Nkrumah gave the North free tuition, free boarding, free textbooks and free uniforms. Technical schools, training colleges, higher institutions etc in the North were all free..please Edem the North has enjoyed free education introduced by Dr Nkrumah in 1951 and yet girls from the North are in Accra as kayayei
Kofimensah 1 year ago

This is a. book professor who
can only propounded theories. but cannot
deal with realities on the
ground.

This is a. book professor who
can only propounded theories. but cannot
deal with realities on the
ground.
Nana 1 year ago

I quite remember that during the inauguration of these training centers I heard clearly Dr Bawumia promising that 2more centers will be built in each of these regions Ashanti & North.I also know that these centers are tempor ...
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I quite remember that during the inauguration of these training centers I heard clearly Dr Bawumia promising that 2more centers will be built in each of these regions Ashanti & North.I also know that these centers are temporary measures to solve an immediate problem with the idea that on the next 7 or 8yrs Kayayei activity will be ban.Kayayei can be modernised,regulated and done by registered companies
Kojo Sromani 1 year ago

Eiiiii, so these idiots are everywhere exhibiting their usual NPP foolishness which has seen this country's economy destroyed by their clueless leaders!!! Just imagine the senseless comments they always make when brainy peopl ...
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Eiiiii, so these idiots are everywhere exhibiting their usual NPP foolishness which has seen this country's economy destroyed by their clueless leaders!!! Just imagine the senseless comments they always make when brainy people of knowledge and character give scientific opinions on raging issues. What will a 3-weak training of semiliterate and illiterate Kaayayos do when experienced and well-grounded people who have been in those business areas for years are now finding it difficult to survive, with majority of them closing down their businesses? I can bet my last pesewa that over 90 percent of them will return to the Kaayayo business in 2 to 3 months. The best would have been for them to be relocated to their hometowns, and given startups for farming or other small businesses that would be useful in their communities. Ghana is now so doomed that when people of knowledge, wisdom and charater speak, we have riff raffs, idiots and empty head zombies come out in ther NPP fashion to counter and condemn them. It's such a shame.
Prof Gyau 1 year ago

SO when would you stop f00ling and reason like a human being for once. Share your thoughts if you have any than the insult.

SO when would you stop f00ling and reason like a human being for once. Share your thoughts if you have any than the insult.
Donatus 1 year ago

Development must be equally distributed.

Development must be equally distributed.
John k 1 year ago

This is not a professor for development but greediness Can Ashanti region alone makes or let NPP win election He is an enemy to some sector of people and this very bad He should change

This is not a professor for development but greediness Can Ashanti region alone makes or let NPP win election He is an enemy to some sector of people and this very bad He should change
Matey 1 year ago

A vote buying scheme with no utility to the beneficiaries and the state. An apprenticeship for a month is questionable.

A vote buying scheme with no utility to the beneficiaries and the state. An apprenticeship for a month is questionable.
Kofi Boahen in Paris. 1 year ago

Stupid professional explanation. They acquire profession and goes back home to help with their trade. SIMPLICITA. Stupid prof.

Stupid professional explanation. They acquire profession and goes back home to help with their trade. SIMPLICITA. Stupid prof.
Chris 1 year ago

Program must be in the north. Good.

Program must be in the north. Good.
Phd in Ghana is worthless 1 year ago

No wonder PhD holders are fleeing Ghana to bath 90 year old angry British women abroad. If all the girls in the north flee to Accra to do Kayeyei are they not Ghanaians? Do they need visas to travel to Accra? So Bawumai shoul ...
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No wonder PhD holders are fleeing Ghana to bath 90 year old angry British women abroad. If all the girls in the north flee to Accra to do Kayeyei are they not Ghanaians? Do they need visas to travel to Accra? So Bawumai should go and build kayayei hostels in all the towns up north? What for? How many people do kayayei in the little town Totobi? The intellectuals in Ghana have really failed this country. The hostel thing is an intervention to help some of those poor girls who come to Accra. It is not a substitute for other policies. And even if one girl is successful through the program, it is a successful. Go to advanced countries and see food banks, pantries and drug rehabilitation hostels at city centres. We need our PhD holders to speak with facts and empirical research findings. Enough of the nonsense!
Martin Kreisler 1 year ago

What the Professor has said makes very good sense. Building free hostels and organising free training programs for the Kayayie in Accra, will certainly encourage young girls to move to the city, instead of trying to make it i ...
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What the Professor has said makes very good sense. Building free hostels and organising free training programs for the Kayayie in Accra, will certainly encourage young girls to move to the city, instead of trying to make it in their Home areas. It is a big surprise that the "Economic Wizard" did not see it fit to use this money (plus more even) to invest in rural based economic ventures (such as small scale agro-industries), and set up technical training programes for these youth in the rural areas. With programs like what is being run for the Kayayies, Accra will become more and more chocked (with its attendent social problems), and the rural economies will not develop fast enough to provide economic opportunities for the youth. Besides, these 'trained' Kayayies will struggle to find employment opportunities in Accra, just like is happening to the othe youth.
Abena 1 year ago

As for Bawumia, Nana Addo and his cohorts, they act before they think .All their actions are for votes and nothing else, short of that how on earth will a whole vice president organise a one month training and graduate them ...
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As for Bawumia, Nana Addo and his cohorts, they act before they think .All their actions are for votes and nothing else, short of that how on earth will a whole vice president organise a one month training and graduate them.
FirstThingsFirst 1 year ago

You have capsuled the causes of Ghana's problems. ACTING BEFORE THINKING. Our bane for the past almost eight years.

You have capsuled the causes of Ghana's problems. ACTING BEFORE THINKING. Our bane for the past almost eight years.
Mubi 1 year ago

Is this professor aware that the free SHS policy has solved the problem of rural to urban migration? Only a professor who is always in the classroom will reason this way. People are already complaining of not getting house he ...
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Is this professor aware that the free SHS policy has solved the problem of rural to urban migration? Only a professor who is always in the classroom will reason this way. People are already complaining of not getting house helps because of the free SHS.
Bazz 1 year ago

Building such edifice in the north would have provided the best results than in Accra.

Building such edifice in the north would have provided the best results than in Accra.
Bahumia is a puppet for the akyem mafias 1 year ago

Bahumia doesn't have foresight, all these is for political gimmick

Bahumia doesn't have foresight, all these is for political gimmick
Nii Mensah Ayittey 1 year ago

You call this shameless vice president Bawumiar a strategist? Strategist my foot. So now it's glorifying to be kayayo in Accra and Kumasi per NPP strategists. I want to know the kind of phantasmagorical stuff you these squar ...
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You call this shameless vice president Bawumiar a strategist? Strategist my foot. So now it's glorifying to be kayayo in Accra and Kumasi per NPP strategists. I want to know the kind of phantasmagorical stuff you these squareheads have been inhaling.
Me - Me 1 year ago

Bawumia seem like an emotional actor who lack the ability of a depth thinker. He motes an idea and without deep thinking and analysis of impact, rushes to implement. No wonder we are where we are now. Free SHS implementation, ...
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Bawumia seem like an emotional actor who lack the ability of a depth thinker. He motes an idea and without deep thinking and analysis of impact, rushes to implement. No wonder we are where we are now. Free SHS implementation, very poor; exchange rate bassaaaa; gold purchase to control exchange rate yaamutu; who will remind me of others? This man is wasteful. He likes to tow the lines of winning political scores and hence following such projects. Let's becareful of this man.
Patriotic Ghanaian 1 year ago

I EXPECTED NORTHERNERS TO FEEL INSULTED AND BACKSTABBED BY BAWUMIA
I’m sure if a Southerner had done what Bawumia has done, Northerners would have gone wild, accusing it as a calculated design to perpetually undermine the ...
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I EXPECTED NORTHERNERS TO FEEL INSULTED AND BACKSTABBED BY BAWUMIA
I’m sure if a Southerner had done what Bawumia has done, Northerners would have gone wild, accusing it as a calculated design to perpetually undermine the development of the North.
This is certainly a devastating blow to North. The bizarre thing is that over 90% of the Kayayei are from Bawumia’s tribe and the vast majority are from Walewale ( Bawumia’s hometown) and the adjoining Mamprusi towns!!!
Macgordon Akosenaba 1 year ago

The rains are failing us in the North. What do you want us to do. Nana an idea that we need dams. JDM a fellow northerner never as a historian remember Col Felli ICOUR project that I personally benefitted from farming tomato ...
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The rains are failing us in the North. What do you want us to do. Nana an idea that we need dams. JDM a fellow northerner never as a historian remember Col Felli ICOUR project that I personally benefitted from farming tomatoes. An Akyem knows we need dams. Imagine that.
Herby 1 year ago

Totally agree with his view

Totally agree with his view
El 1 year ago

I think the initiative should be than at the north to prevent them from coming to the south.
They're going through a lot here.

I think the initiative should be than at the north to prevent them from coming to the south.
They're going through a lot here.
Kojo poku 1 year ago

Most useless project i hv seen a govt engage in. Akuffo- Addo Bawumia government never again.. instead of ending rural urban migration by providing jobs n skills training for the youth up north, Bawumia is rather building ho ...
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Most useless project i hv seen a govt engage in. Akuffo- Addo Bawumia government never again.. instead of ending rural urban migration by providing jobs n skills training for the youth up north, Bawumia is rather building hostels for kayaye's.. Economic messiah indeed
Mensah 1 year ago

Because he wanted to become a president at all cost, Bawumia is desperately encouraging this project which definitely will negatively affect the budget. Nana and Bawumia have already made unfulfilled promise to the Kayayei in ...
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Because he wanted to become a president at all cost, Bawumia is desperately encouraging this project which definitely will negatively affect the budget. Nana and Bawumia have already made unfulfilled promise to the Kayayei in opposition. Fear the NPP!
Kilogram 1 year ago

Yes, Prof, but for a brief period. The girls would acquire employable skills and return to their communities to work. Those who would migrate for other reasons than unemployment would quit head-portying, stay down south and m ...
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Yes, Prof, but for a brief period. The girls would acquire employable skills and return to their communities to work. Those who would migrate for other reasons than unemployment would quit head-portying, stay down south and make a living.
gh.citizen 1 year ago

It is another NABCo for election purposes.

It is another NABCo for election purposes.
Rivers 1 year ago

This government is the most useless and senseless of akuffo addo and his vice Bawumia. Accra is already chocked of people. Why Bawumia is trying to migrate all his northerners people to come to Accra? Isn't because of their k ...
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This government is the most useless and senseless of akuffo addo and his vice Bawumia. Accra is already chocked of people. Why Bawumia is trying to migrate all his northerners people to come to Accra? Isn't because of their kayayei business or what?.
Is time for GA people to wake up to stop this unnecessary migration of northerners to Accra here
How much tax those kayayei people are paying in this country?.
Joe 1 year ago

That's exactly my point. Why set up Kayayei centre in Accra instead doing same at the north if really it is intended to eradicate the problem? So after some weeks of training, do they have a habitable place until such a time ...
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That's exactly my point. Why set up Kayayei centre in Accra instead doing same at the north if really it is intended to eradicate the problem? So after some weeks of training, do they have a habitable place until such a time that they are able to get themselves employed?
It appears it's not well thought through.
EMIL 1 year ago

A very wise counsel

A very wise counsel
Okada boy 1 year ago

Let them come in droves like I saw them in groups under the Circle bridge and Mokorla. We the okada boys will impregnate them at the Black Star Square beach and run away. The way they liked to be embraced to swim with in the ...
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Let them come in droves like I saw them in groups under the Circle bridge and Mokorla. We the okada boys will impregnate them at the Black Star Square beach and run away. The way they liked to be embraced to swim with in the sea surf. The bobby stand breasts among them. Freeeee
Alex B 1 year ago

Ghana's politics is in new threshold and paradigm. Politicians just wake up sleep with the wives and begin to implement anything with critically looking at the consequences of their actions. The thought process is they will d ...
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Ghana's politics is in new threshold and paradigm. Politicians just wake up sleep with the wives and begin to implement anything with critically looking at the consequences of their actions. The thought process is they will do everything to win power without having the country and taxpayers at heart. What a tragedy!
Critical 1 year ago

This is excellent from the prof but he should know it is a deliberate policy to take Accra like it is happening elsewhere
However with free shs everyone will be educated and can further their education
Rather the money sho ...
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This is excellent from the prof but he should know it is a deliberate policy to take Accra like it is happening elsewhere
However with free shs everyone will be educated and can further their education
Rather the money should have been used to operate community farms and processes up north
Badwenba 1 year ago

To me it doesnt even make sense, there are ghanaians already working with poor working conditions and these days salary to living demands is very poor, why dont u better their lots so they can work better? U now decide to tra ...
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To me it doesnt even make sense, there are ghanaians already working with poor working conditions and these days salary to living demands is very poor, why dont u better their lots so they can work better? U now decide to train someone who decided to come to accra to hustle? Because u want votes? If u really want to help them why not do this training in their hometown so they wouldn't have to come here ? Polytricktians
Augustina Quayson 1 year ago

Please Edem, according to Mumuni Bawumia, Dr Bawumia 's father, Dr Nkrumah granted special scholarships for students from the North to study as Secretaries, lawyers and other technical subjects etc in the UK ...
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Please Edem, according to Mumuni Bawumia, Dr Bawumia 's father, Dr Nkrumah granted special scholarships for students from the North to study as Secretaries, lawyers and other technical subjects etc in the UK. Dr Nkrumah also introduced a special Northern Scholarship Scheme where with no secondary school education, but after an entrance examination, those who passed were admitted to Form 4 at the Tamale Senior High school for free education up to the university level all at our expense. Please see pages 61-62 and 71 of Memoirs of Alhaji Mumuni Bawumia. A life in the Political history òf Ghana by Alhaji Mumuni Bawumia. Please Edem the North has enjoyed free education introduced by Dr Nkrumah in 1951 and yet girls from the North are in Accra as kayayei
Rivers 1 year ago

There are more northerners men who are getting angry now about Bawumia. Because their wives are running away from them coming to do this kayayei jobs in Accra. Some even left their infant babies and run away to Accra without ...
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There are more northerners men who are getting angry now about Bawumia. Because their wives are running away from them coming to do this kayayei jobs in Accra. Some even left their infant babies and run away to Accra without the knowledge of the husbands
Augustina Quayson 1 year ago

Please Edem there was another scheme introduced by Dr Nkrumah whereby on passing the Common Entrance Examinations, 20 scholarships were granted to students from the North to attend Senior High schools in the ...
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Please Edem there was another scheme introduced by Dr Nkrumah whereby on passing the Common Entrance Examinations, 20 scholarships were granted to students from the North to attend Senior High schools in the South free all at our expense. Please see page 207 of A History of Education in Northern Ghana by Professor R Bagulo Bening. Please at the universities all university students received " 16 million " free allowance. Students from the North received extra free Northern students allowance. Please Edem the North has enjoyed free education introduced by Dr Nkrumah in 1951 and yet girls from the North are in Accra as kayayei
Nana 1 year ago

Prof tell Ghanaians your solution for kayayie in Accra. We talk too much with no practical solutions. God bless you VP

Prof tell Ghanaians your solution for kayayie in Accra. We talk too much with no practical solutions. God bless you VP
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M.T 1 year ago

Even if it does, they're not coming to do Kayaye anymore but to learn skill and go out there to create jobs. If you consider everything altogether, the policy will benefit society irrespective of the negative side of it. At ...
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Even if it does, they're not coming to do Kayaye anymore but to learn skill and go out there to create jobs. If you consider everything altogether, the policy will benefit society irrespective of the negative side of it. At least Bawumia is providing skills training, but the other man provided them headpans to continue doing Kayaye. The difference is clear!
Erik 1 year ago

Common sense is sometimes not common to some people

Common sense is sometimes not common to some people
Ex-Pope 1 year ago

Incompetent Aplanke Bawumia has no vision. That programme is nothing but an election year timed deception to garner votes. All Bawumia has done is pour a bucket of honey on the street and not having the sense to know that suc ...
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Incompetent Aplanke Bawumia has no vision. That programme is nothing but an election year timed deception to garner votes. All Bawumia has done is pour a bucket of honey on the street and not having the sense to know that such an act only attracts more ants. Bawumia knows exactly why many of these kayayei troop to Accra: blind adherence to a culture practice condones men having as many wives as they please, resulting in children with parents in an area of low employment opportunities having to result to seeking menial work in other regions. The same goes for a religion that sanctions the marrying of four wives, and this too often sees many men who can barely afford to care adequately for one wife and two children ending up with households of many children, and these children grow to have little education or none at all, and with hardly any skills. If the kayayei problem is the be solved, the leaders will have swallow a bitter pill and start letting the people from the affected areas understand what practices are leading to their children becoming kayayei. The root cause of kayayei must first be addressed, and programmes established in their regional communities to assist young girls with job skills. Following certain cultural and religious practices without considering the repercussions is a contributing factor to the ever production of potential kayayei in certain communities. practices
Ama 1 year ago

So will Bawuliar encourage his family members to take up such profession?

Desperado Bawuliar.

So will Bawuliar encourage his family members to take up such profession?

Desperado Bawuliar.
Kimi 1 year ago

This is a government whose policies are driven purely for partisan gains.

This is a government whose policies are driven purely for partisan gains.

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