Chaos erupts after taskforce storms church in Accra over noise-making allegations

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  • Diggy 7 months ago

    When u are living in someone's land but decides not to know or respect their culture, this will happen to u...u the reporter, try clapping loud in your home and u will see who will come to your aid.. since u are not intereste ...
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  • Facts 7 months ago

    stupid Ga's they r not many too o. because the capital is in their city always feeling pompous and rowdy, if u study any time they do something they always involve their women because they lack people. Too no and filthy words ...
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  • Karikakchar 7 months ago

    I don't think we need to go to this extent of insulting. Let's learn to live in harmony. I don't believe in noise making and don't also believe on the imposition of any religion. It's only inferior religion that's enforced.

  • Shit hole 7 months ago

    You are really a fool born by a fool.. even your stupid village observed this...by the way you have a choice to back.. what are you waiting for for

  • Babangida Casagrande 7 months ago

    Why don’t you task force come to Nima mosque to stop the Immam from making Sala announcement from the speaker? You guess it right ( da kowa yaakudu

  • Yaw Amankwaah 7 months ago

    @Facts
    You don't have to be many to have BRAINS. I bet if it's your fucking village and you shave your heads with primitive rules, you would expect people to respect that. If you are a man just use your real name. Idiot

  • Paa Nii 7 months ago

    A village rat shit eater calling himself Facts and all your likes.. your foolish father brought u from that shit hole where u drink water with frogs and goats is now enjoying hospitality from Ga people and u are insulting the ...
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  • Mr 7 months ago

    Who is this shit eating fool. Your mother and father are the stupid people to born you.

  • Kweku Tsin 7 months ago

    The shit eating people are Asanties... we all know.

  • Apuuuuuuu!!! 7 months ago

    Those who are not many contributions to Ghana is bigger than those who think they are many but full of empty people in the country.

  • Ras 7 months ago

    Talk sense next time.

  • Kweku Tsin 7 months ago

    @fact.. Kwasia, ashawonii ba, bastard.. Why did you choose to go live in Accra knowing you hate these customs? No one is forcing you to stay in Accra. You either shut the fvck up, or go back to your village. Odwan

  • Alan Gyimi Gyimi kyeremanteng 7 months ago

    I TOLD U NPP = NKWASIAFUO PEOPLE'S PARTY. UMOUFIA CARTOONS CONCERT CATHEDRAL

  • Facts 7 months ago

    stupid Ga's they r not many too o. because the capital is in their city always feeling pompous and rowdy, if u study any time they do something they always involve their women because they lack people. Too no and filthy words ...
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  • Kobi 7 months ago

    You are a fool and a coward

  • Kweku Tsin 7 months ago

    Few, but powerful enough to give you your independence. Kwasia... What has your numbers done for Ghana? nothing, except crime, fraud, and destruction. Gas are what you want to be.. Do you see any Gas in Kumasi? Kwasia, not ev ...
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  • sjbfdjnhkgf;nkgf 7 months ago

    don't worry yourself please if you think you're a man with balls just come out and make that useless noise and see. idiots, when the useless asantehene was performing his rites and asked that everyone should be indoors by 6pm ...
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  • moongod 7 months ago

    do we have ban on noise making in NY, DC, London, Tokyo etc ? this primitive behaviour has made us so backward. The churches are also part of the problem. Businesses must ignore this primitive ban and operate to boost the eco ...
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  • Mr 7 months ago

    Papa youe village sef has rules. Respect others rules and you live in peace. Can ypu go against rules in new yprk pr london. You now aee your small brain misled you. Sorry tbat you didnt think before you wrote

  • Kweku Tsin 7 months ago

    KURASINII THERE ARE 24HR NOISE POLUTION ORDINANCES IN MOST MAJOR CITIES, INCLUDING NY, DC, London, Tokyo. YOU CAN GET A WARNING, TICKET, OR JAIL TIME FOR LOUD MUSIC. Living in Accra is not by-force. Accra will maintain its id ...
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  • Jah Cure 7 months ago

    What a crazy question to ask?Ask anybody living in the UK if you can make as much noise as you like at night time.Have some fvcking respect for the culture of others.Does anybody object when a curfew is unilaterally declared ...
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  • ONLY USELESS COUNTRY LIKE GHANA YOU CAN SEE THIS THAT NO ONE SHOULD NOT MAKE A NOISE 7 months ago

    Useless stupid culture. Only in foolish country like Ghana you can tell the whole capital to be quite. They should go to the airport and ask the aircraft and planes to be quite or tell the president escorts sirens or the ambu ...
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  • Kweku Tsin 7 months ago

    No, you are the fool, because you don't know what activities constitute noise-making in this case, but you are ignorant enough to open your damn mouth to expose your stupidity.

  • Rick 7 months ago

    Isn't it more serene and civilised when the ban on noise is for the month begins...????


    Too much noise in Accra, I now understand why the Whites segregated blacks whenever the come around, you see sanity at regimanuel, ...
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  • Hospital Blanket 7 months ago

    Festivals are suppose to bring socio- economic benefits to communities or in other words progressive. This festival preparations is very primitive and anti socioeconomic development for you Gas if you don't know.

  • Paa Nii 7 months ago

    This is Lighthouse Qodesh, McKenzie it's the name of the church u are disgracing by this bias reportage, how could u not know that clapping is part of the banned activities ? No u won't know because when the Ga language u don ...
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  • Karikakchar 7 months ago

    Why impose your religion on people who don't believe what you believe. It's only an inferior religion that's imposed

  • Paa Nii 7 months ago

    Know the difference between culture and religion. U think no Ga is a Christian ? Is Bishop Dag not a Ga? Do u know the Jewish culture in the Bible that u read ? Get educated and stop displaying ignorance

  • Nana 7 months ago

    I totally support the ban on noise making by Ga Traditional Council. They shd however add banning of Shitting(going to toilet) @; the beaches. The beaches need to be Kept clean by Ga ppl.

  • Yaw Amankwaah 7 months ago

    Whether you like it or not, that's the culture and it didn't start today. But you expect other tribes to respect your culture, I don't think so. If you are a man and don't want to respect the laws of the GAS culture, go ahea ...
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  • Kweku Tsin 7 months ago

    @nana the shit was for your soup recipe. Go get it. Odwan.

  • Ben 7 months ago

    What benefits has this banning of drumming brought to the GA’s if not selling of Lands to multiple people and bringing discord.
    I am not too old but l know that from the 90s the ban was on drumming and not clapping of hand ...
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  • Myself 7 months ago

    The ban is on nose making and whether they derived any benefits from it or not is not up to you to judge.
    Just respect their customs, that's all. And be grateful that at least they've given you an opportunity to live and wo ...
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  • Karikakchar 7 months ago

    Is that a culture or religion. Are you talking about NOISE MAKING? Then look no further the engines of one of the Boeing 757 and 777 and Airbus A330s that takes of at the airport makes more noise than the noise made by all th ...
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  • Johnny 7 months ago

    Why can't we Africans worship God without making noise?Those who brought Christianity to Ghana were not noise makers.A congregation of 200 ppl don't need a Mic and Speakers if they are really worshiping God.

  • Cee 7 months ago

    Ask again

  • Emp 7 months ago

    It's truly unfortunate that someone living on GA land, benefiting from its hospitality and heritage, would speak so carelessly about a sacred tradition they clearly don't understand. The ban on drumming during this period isn ...
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  • Robert Afful 7 months ago

    The taskforce needs to be arrested. The ban is on drumming and playing on musical instruments, how did it extend to clapping? They must as well ban preaching.

  • JANKROMAH 7 months ago

    NO, the ban is on NOISE MAKING.
    Drumming at a very low decibel level SO THAT almost NOBODY HEARS will not attract attention
    ....and CLAPPING at a high decibel level CAN ALSO ATTRACT ATTENTION...


    We call this principle ...
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  • Macadevis 7 months ago

    Try to tune up your sound system at home then when they come , u arrest them ..idiot

  • Paa Nii 7 months ago

    For that benefit, u left your shit hole village where u would have been eating grass cutter shit, and now u are living modern life

  • Kweku Tsin 7 months ago

    These customs have been part of Ga tradition before you ever set foot in Accra, though the Gas will take the complement of being important. But wait.. What are the benefits of Akwasidae, killing people when a chief dies, or e ...
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  • Ama Ghana 7 months ago

    Why are the insults and rebuttals directed towards only one tribe outside Accra as if it's only them that lives in Accra.This is pure hate.

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  • Dunia 7 months ago

    So did the Task Force get any instruments to confiscate? Or did they seize the woman's clapping hands?

  • Ghana Money. 7 months ago

    Even Jesus Christ said: Give to Caesar what is Caesar.

  • Kk 7 months ago

    Don't misquote scripture.

  • Adom 7 months ago

    Good because they can't do this to Muslims except Christians, it is time the Christians rises. There is so much nonsense going on against the church. We have stupid stomach pastors and that is why people don't respect the chu ...
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  • Frank 7 months ago

    Muslims have stop the dawn announcement on speakers, do u hear Muslims shouting and clapping with loud speakers places outside their church room ?Muslims are not fools.

    U think Ga's fear anyone ? When u have stupid example ...
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  • Key 7 months ago

    The shd find some job and do

  • Jonald Drump 7 months ago

    That church including the joker congregants should be incinerated,pronto....

  • Kk 7 months ago

    If they are men they should go to mosques. Fools. In this day and age you stull worship idols. Nkwasiafo3. Instead of doing some more meaningful things with your energy you are fighyingvfor idols in the name of ban on drummi ...
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  • Apuuuuuuu!!! 7 months ago

    So still you don't know that the moslems worship quietly?

  • What About Mosques??? 7 months ago

    Next time the taskforce should try thus on Mosques that plastic their praying speaker. Sia, like they'll see Shege!. But the churches too just respect the tradition, it won't take anything away. Jesus's even asked we pray in ...
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  • Frank 7 months ago

    The maggot infested rat shit soup u take with fufu in your village has twisted your brains.. do u see Muslims clapping and playing drums ?

  • Shit hole 7 months ago

    You observed this in your inrealivant villages without questions but always want to dictate to us here as if someone is begging you to stay here

  • No nonsense 7 months ago

    Next is QUEEN G PUB, WEIJA, BOTIANOR, CONTAINER. USING UNDERAGE NIGERIANS FOR STRIPPING.

  • Atiah!!! 7 months ago

    This stupid bans will eventually have to stop. You serve your gods with silence. I serve mine with drums, clapping and dancing and you tell me not to do it my way? Where is the freedom of worship. Tell your gods to silence ou ...
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  • Edzitor Sevor 7 months ago

    I think it's time for the government to do something about this. If they (traditionalist) think their gods are powerful they should let gods go and stop the people from playing drums. This is injustice and something needs to ...
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  • Mega 7 months ago

    No religion or culture has the right to impose its believes on others.

  • Frankeisten 7 months ago

    No one is imposing any religion on anyone. Ban on noise making is not a religion, it's a culture of the people that own the land as it is anywhere, every land has a culture, religion lives in harmony with culture... Your chur ...
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  • Kay 7 months ago

    When the aeroplanes are landing and taking off don't they make noise? Please extend the ban to the airport as well. As people we make noise too much.

  • Frankeisten 7 months ago

    I blame you, if u go to your hometown, the witches and wizards will use u for light soup so all your life u have been enjoying the free hospitality of the Ga land so u don't know that every land has a culture including where ...
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  • Frankeisten 7 months ago

    *I don't blame you

  • Bj 7 months ago

    Where's the freedom of worship enshrined in the constitution of Ghana. This kind of reaction from tradionalists need to be challenged in the court of law.

  • Steve Kofi 7 months ago

    Ghana is a funny country.
    Aeroplanes don't make noise, lorries don't make noise, neither do trains make noise, industries don't make noise.
    But only churches make noise.
    That is our Ghana today

  • Freedom of worship , don’t invade church premises 7 months ago

    Per the constitution of Ghana , so stop breaking the law , we will drink nothing will happen , u better throw away your gods or you want us to help you throw them ? Next time come and stop us drumming it’ll over you. Abodam ...
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  • Frankeisten 7 months ago

    Repeat that nonsense and u will see if u can rise above the power of the Ga State...Ofui, a 15 year old in Bukom will beat u falaaaa..
    Gyimiii

  • Joseph 7 months ago

    One of the "DON'TS" in the communiqué was "Clapping"

  • Akos 7 months ago

    Why black people don't respect their rules, this ban of noise making should extend to the whole Ghana every year it's good for environment,these so call fake religious people have destroy everything in Ghana,back in the old d ...
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  • State Capture 7 months ago

    Send the capital to no man's land. How can a dynamic city like Accra be made to sleep and be subservient to an archaic tradition, degrading and unbeffitting of a Christian nation. Is the Church subservient to traditional laws ...
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  • Holy Sinner 7 months ago

    ReFACTS.....You think you living in heaven but honestly you living in he'll.You the most uncultured, UNCOUTH being I have ever come across on this platform. How do you attack Ga's.?.How do you attack a whole generation becau ...
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  • To GhanaWeb 7 months ago

    Please GhanaWeb, ensure that all those commenting on issues can easily be traced in one way or the other. This will ensure sanity, respect and sincerity on the platform. Imagine a national call like this, and someone is insul ...
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  • Kwame Peter 7 months ago

    The political authorities (AMA) in this case must liaise with the GA Traditional Council togtwith their Wulomei for the necessary rituals as the gods may demand to reduce the period from one month to say one week in view of t ...
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  • Joachim Amanor 7 months ago

    Next time shit bomb these uncircumcised fools with their excised clits women.We are the supreme landlords period!

  • Jonny 7 months ago

    Some of these churches shouldn't be allowed to chatting like pigs. Especially those tongue speakers often unashamedly making pig noises like bahba Ababa bababa....where these rubbish scones from? How can a matured man or woma ...
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  • Doc Bruce 7 months ago

    Don’t cars that drive through Accra make more noise than the churches?
    Why are cars being allowed to make noise to disturb the gods? Can someone explain?

  • Kwaku 7 months ago

    Practices steeped in deep ancient traditions of survival have become tools in the hands of some criminal Ga youth. They raid for money instead of teach traditions. Govt. must force all these gangs to register and state their ...
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  • How 7 months ago

    Your heading alone said it all you went on to say you don't know the exact reason

  • Kwaku 7 months ago

    Infact, I'm a Christian by religion but the noise that churches and drinking bars are making is very troublesome. Also, those with speakers in market places and lorry stations calling themselves
    evangelist. Parliament should ...
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  • GOD IS GOOD 7 months ago

    COMMON SENSE SHOULD TEACH YOU TO RESPECT AUTHORITIES.YOU MAKE NOISE FOR ELEVEN MONTHS NON-STOP.YOU FIND IT DIFFICULT TO JUST COOL DOWN FOR ONLY ONE MONTH

  • Ram 7 months ago

    There's too much noise in Ghana

  • GPS 7 months ago

    Why Ghanaians don't want to obey rules? These Pentecostal churches and Moslems always make noises to disturb others while sleeping. I my self hate noise making. Many people are complaining about these churches and mosques who ...
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