Black Wednesday: Why samples of victims was flown to South Africa for DNA test – Akandoh

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  • Alex 4 months ago

    Just say we cannot do it. Stop playing around with words. Accept failures in our health sector so that we can look at the way forward. It is not your making. It is a result of years of neglect by all previous government. This ...
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  • Cole 4 months ago

    No. We can do it at police hospital and they have been doing it.

  • Stops looting 4 months ago

    Much more things we must addressed it if these type of DNA can't be done in Ghana

  • Former Dining Hall Prefect 4 months ago

    What does Akando know about DNA? He is a little boy. Even in his family, when someone dies, he wouldn't be included in any decision making.

  • WHY SOUTH AFRICA? FORENSIC PATHOLOGY INVESTIGATION INVOLVES, AMONG OTHERS, THE DNA COLLECTION,TEST AND REPORT FINDINGS ON THE CHARRED REMAINS OF THE VITAL ORGANS OF THE 8 CHARRED CADAVERS, FOR GOODNESS SAKE. 4 months ago

    ANOTHER KWASIA. THE CHARRED REMAINS WERE FLOWN TO SOUTH AFRICA, NOT SAMPLES!

    I'VE ALWAYS INDICATED HERE THAT GHANA IS A HOPELESS NATION OF THIEVING FREELOADING LEADERS WHO ONLY KNOW HOW TO APPLY FOR IMF AND OTHER LOANS TO ...
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  • Jonas 4 months ago

    Does it really matter to find out whose ashes is who? All of them are going to be given a state burial and should be interned at the same place with a fitting memorial erected at the site in their memory. What we really need ...
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  • Kweku Yeboah 4 months ago

    You talk a lot of sense, but the problem is that, the divisive nature of religion does not make thus possible. As all the religions have their burial traditions.

  • So common DNA test can't be done here 4 months ago

    Then we are still at nkrumah era,what are a disgrace

  • God's judgement awaits 4 months ago

    We don't need an epistle on why. We know we can't do it ourselves because you dishonourable and dishonest gang keep looting our assets and coffers. How much of our money has already ended up in the pockets of Government Offic ...
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  • Kwaku Ananse 4 months ago

    I remember the Ghana Police Forensic Science lab is fully equipped and has trained scientists to do all manner of DNa Analyses. The DNA lab was set up many years ago by the European Union and is fully functional.

  • Ozymandias 4 months ago

    Is there any government DNA testing centre in Ghana at all? Again, is there any private DNA testing facility in Ghana? When will this never-employed, ex-dining hall prefect of a secondary school stop throwing dust into people ...
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  • Kwaku Ananse 4 months ago

    Yea, there is a government DNA testing center that is fully equipped and has European-trained DNA analysts. There is also a private DNA testing center in Ghana.

  • mmd 4 months ago

    Pls, you guys should read the article. It's a confirmatory test. Meaning the DNA test was already conducted in Ghana, but needs to be confirmed as per forensic investigation standard. It doesn't mean Ghana doesn't have the ca ...
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  • Lydia 4 months ago

    Say it again ooo. People don't want to read and understand why DNA test in south Africa is need.

  • Former Dining Hall Prefect 4 months ago

    He did not say, it has been done in Ghana and that they are sending it to South Africa for a second opinion. He said even if it can be done in Ghana, they will need a second opinion. That does not mean it has been done in G ...
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  • Honorary President 4 months ago

    If not sure a mass grave at the airforce base

  • FK 4 months ago

    Why not do it in 10 different places in Ghana then, we should promote our own. This was not a smart decision!!

  • Larry/Nippon 4 months ago

    Who came up with the term black Wednesday? Black people black box and black market
    Since we call or describe ourselves as black we should refrain from describing bad or negative
    Things as black. Because it has huge psycho ...
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  • Kwaku 4 months ago

    Exactly. Our people are so stupid that we negate anything with black as evil. Black sheep,black Wednesday, blacklist, black tax.
    Let's stop being this stupid.

  • Dr. R O 4 months ago

    Mr. Akandoh, this is nonsense. Isn't it time that you politicians stop thinking that Ghanaians are idiots and therefore you can tell them anything and they will believe you. The real reason is simple. Look, Mr. Akandoh, let ...
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