'You don't have the right here' - Watch as UEW student challenges Rent Commissioner

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  • @Godisking 4 weeks ago

    My son in UCC paid 4500ghc last year as hostel fee. The owner is demanding 6500ghc this coming academic year. This is bad.

  • The Motherland 4 weeks ago

    Wow!! Can't believe this. A student stoically defending illegal rent increases to his own detriment. Ghana is indeed a country of impossibilities, haba!!

  • Obroni 4 weeks ago

    More like imbecilities

  • SIGMA, LONDON 4 weeks ago

    Price control? The behaviour of the rent commissioner reminiscent of the days of Rawlings coup time when people took the law into their own hands and molested and killed businesses. This is exactly what the commissioner is do ...
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  • The Motherland 4 weeks ago

    Wow!! Can't believe this. A student stoically defending illegal rent increases to his own detriment. Ghana is indeed a country of impossibilities, haba!!

  • Bonney 4 weeks ago

    Are you aware of the increases in electricity bills?

  • Lord 4 weeks ago

    Get that foolish boy arrested

  • Joe 4 weeks ago

    No law permits his arrest but there is no doubt that he is a fool.

  • plo 4 weeks ago

    It could be that the owner is his/her relative and he might be staying in the hostel free of charge, so he's happy to defend that greedy owner

  • Mctwe 4 weeks ago

    Maybe his Father owns the hotel. Pure lunatic

  • WHAT AN ARROGANT STUDENT - Ghanani 4 weeks ago

    What arrogance is this? A student challenging the Rent Commissioner for entering a hostel to do his work? And the student was quoting the rule of law to defend his arrogance. Funny!!!

  • Prudhomme - Ghanaians are unintelligent 4 weeks ago

    Who the fucck is the commissioner to barge into someone apartment?

    The young man is right. In civilized countries the commissioner couild not do that.

  • Lololo 4 weeks ago

    kwasia. Everyday you people talk about civilized countries. I’m not sure if you’ve ever stepped foot in an airport talk of boarding a plane.

    Kwasia, if a law enforcement body is enforcing its laws, he should come and n ...
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  • Obroni 4 weeks ago

    I would slap the foolish boy around if he dared to talk to me in this manner. Shame on his parents who didn't teach him how to be respectful.

  • Aba Sam 4 weeks ago

    How on earth can anybody, be he a rent commissioner or not enter a facility without first informing the owner? That's lawlessness!!!

  • A faithful Ghanaian 4 weeks ago

    Pin brain

  • Star from the North 4 weeks ago

    That so called level 400 student is a stupid bastard in all honesty. The commissioner was there to verify from a number of students to determine the severity of the situation before approaching the owner. The radical landlord ...
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  • plo 4 weeks ago

    Do you know that the Rent Control Department, by law, is a regulator, an authority of a sort that has the power to enter any premises used, especially for public activities, without prior notification? Don't be naive. We're t ...
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  • Nana 4 weeks ago

    Mr commissioner my free advice to you is to build a house over there and give it to them for 10 gh a month that will be easy for you. The students are right if the owner is not around who are you going to talk to just move th ...
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  • plo 4 weeks ago

    You're stupid. Did the Rent Commissioner say the hostel owner shouldn't charge? The issue is the margin of increase in the rent being charged by some of these greedy landlords. Nobody is saying don't invest and make profit, b ...
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  • Speak the truth. 4 weeks ago

    The student is right. After the investigation who is going to reduce the rent. It's the owner of the hostel and if you don't get permission from him and you take action who is going to be responsible?

  • Lololo 4 weeks ago

    Another kwasiampanyin talking. Get outta here

  • HAPPY DAYS 4 weeks ago

    Mr Rent Commissioner,my advice is go your inspection in the company of official police guard to ensure you own safety.

  • OZYMANDIAS 4 weeks ago

    Legally, the student is right. They are tenants who cannot decide for the owner of the property. The Commissioner should first have made contact with the landlord before he is allowed to enter the property. His “ beef” is ...
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  • Sika mpe dede 4 weeks ago

    Oxymandias, what legality are you talking about?
    Listen to the foolish student statement, he said in his personal opinion the rent commissioner doesn't have right to be there. Do rule of law originate from personal opinion? ...
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  • plo 4 weeks ago

    Look at him, because you have money to afford this hostel you can talk in defense of those greedy raskals exploiting students. He doesn't need any permission to enter that private hostel and inspect. If he had preinformed the ...
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  • Banana 4 weeks ago

    Have u seen the owner of a hostel staying at the hostel before?
    Obviously if the commissioner wanted to meet the owner, he knows what to do.. He wanted first hand information on the grounds which is not a illegal..
    It is th ...
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  • Bonney 4 weeks ago

    Did the Rent Commisioner provide a cheap loan for the building of the facility and is he responsible for the sky high utility fees?Did the owner of the hostel doing charity?

  • plo 4 weeks ago

    @Bonney, shut up. You're a nation wrecker. You're one of those who support illegality in the country. There are laws that every entity must operate within. Just imagine if there were no laws in this country? The landlord can ...
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  • Daav 4 weeks ago

    Herrrr this student foool pass everything oh.
    This man is helping you, and you are here demonstrating your stupidity

  • What is this boy studying... 4 weeks ago

    Wee studies ...... he must be the owners relative. Maybe he is not even a student. What a moron

  • Wiseone 4 weeks ago

    From all indications ,95% these are owned by the money conscious greedy npp pigs. These property owning idiotic npp are always out to cheat Ghanians to make dirty money. They're never care for Ghanians. The e- levy and t ...
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  • Truth 4 weeks ago

    Lawlessness! This guy maybe on weed toffee

  • Egudie 4 weeks ago

    People are taking 2 year's rent advance in Accra and your at the up grade training college wasting your time masa

  • KBM 4 weeks ago

    What about government charging 5 years advance for the leasehold Krofrom market in Kumasi?

  • Prudhomme - Ghanaians are unintelligent 4 weeks ago

    Most of you here have validated my perspective about how unintelligent Ghanaians are.

    The young man is right. The commissioner cannot barge into a student's apartment. All he has to do is to communicate with the landlord f ...
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  • KBM 4 weeks ago

    Did the government think about citizens before increasing electricity tariff by 33percent? Did the government think about Ghanaians when it used nolle prose quai to free his appointees who chopped Saglemi affordable houses, d ...
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  • Kwame-USA 4 weeks ago

    Instead of government building hostels for students is using the money to buy nkoko nketeke and share among his party executives, now you want to control what?

  • CONCERNED CITIZEN 4 weeks ago

    THE COST OF BUILDING MATERIALS AND LABOR ARE SO ASTRONOMICALLY HIGH, IN ADDITION TO THE INTEREST RATE THAT THE OWNER HAS TO CHARGE MORE TO RECOUP HIS INVESTMENT
    LET THE GOVERNMENT BUILD MORE HOSTELS IF THEY CAN AFFORD TO.

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  • Klm 4 weeks ago

    Such a big fool flaunting his ignorance... He thinks he is making a legitimate point... When the rent control is rather protecting the interest of tenants, this useless thing without aim is ranting ... Stupid boy