'Do you think we're joking here?' - Watch as residents clash with military over dredging machines

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  • Kweku Tsin 21 hours ago

    Dude, whether your intentions are good or not. You have no right to trespass on PUBLIC PROPERTY without permission. The soldiers are just follwing orders. Your opinion is irrelevant since you are trespassing.

  • YES DREDGING NEEDED BUT WHY CHANFAN MACHINE 19 hours ago

    Hmmm Ghanaaa!!!The Densu river definitely needs dredging but why use Changfan machines???We all know these machines are used in the rivers for Galamsey related activities.Is the Weija Municipality authority saying it is only ...
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  • JAYZEE 18 hours ago

    Aah! Aah! Aah! Ghana paaa !! So individuals can now get up and start dredging rivers on their own because we have been admonished to keep our environment clean. And to add insult to injury the MCE was on TV justifying the ill ...
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  • Truth 7 hours ago

    Who will start using it before you follow suit? You can initiate something for others to follow but not always be a follower.

  • KOFI 2 hours ago

    Mt thoughts. Any rational human being know that
    Shangphai machines CANNOT be used to dredge a waterway anywhere in the world.

    This guy is fronting for galamsay paa. Ha ha ha ha ha.

  • BLAIR IS BAWUIMIA'S MENTOR 17 hours ago

    NEVER KNEW GHANAIANS COULD BE THIS INVENTIVE FOR A GOOD CAUSE.

    Sent this thieving foolish to the Odawna where we actually need dredging.

    Another Wontumi in the making where galamsey turn to land reclamation in court.

  • Bango1 20 hours ago

    Where did they got thechangfan???? Where is their drip machines??

  • Slow 20 hours ago

    Nonsense. This is how it starts. Don't allow any changfan on the river under the guise of any dredging. One changfan today and before u realise they have started gala

  • PIUS ENAM HADZIDE ~ THE AUSTRALIA VISA CRIMINAL 17 hours ago

    He's clearly doing galamsey. He's a bold criminal. They should have beaten him up. Is he a Father Christmas to be undertaking such costly dredging from his own pocket...?? He's a criminal.

  • Animals Kingdom 20 hours ago

    Who’s ruling this country ? Because dredging the river is some of the best way to stop the flooding. So why stopping them. The main galamsay is still going on our villages that it can’t be stopped.

  • Jimi X 19 hours ago

    There is more to this story.

  • KOFI 2 hours ago

    @Animals Kingdom. Your name will never betray your thinking.

    Anywhere schangfai machines are found, it will be destroyed.

    SERIOUSLY? So your pea brain has this view that this machine should not be destroyed heh? So t ...
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  • ASEMPA 20 hours ago

    Since there's this perennial flooding it means the area is not suitable for human habitation, relocation though difficult will be the best option in order to save lives and properties.

  • POURFENDEUR DE LA CORRUPTION/ANTI CORRUPTION 20 hours ago

    Ghana has become a shithole country. If Ghanaians do not vote out the NDC, we will continue to suffer till thy kingdom come. The worst from the NDC is yet to come. We warned the youth but they never listened

  • Final year student 19 hours ago

    It is you and your dirty father who will suffer till thy kingdom come not me. Kwasea. Your mouth is like Hippopotamus mouth

  • Jones B 19 hours ago

    Stop this nonsense! Get more facts. NPP thanks criticizing everything the Government does will you power: wrong!!! Ghanaians are fully awake and understand BS when they see it

  • KD 18 hours ago

    What have we as a country gain from npp and ndc criminal leadership, apart from power and stealing from left, right and centre
    With no iota of shame.

  • PIUS ENAM HADZIDE ~ THE AUSTRALIA VISA CRIMINAL 17 hours ago

    @Pourfendeur osansani gyimifuor ba! We have already told you that we shall annihilate & exterminate your NPP party, but you are here with your smelly mouth talking and hoping for the NDC to be voted out.

    WO MAAME TW3 ASE K ...
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  • Mansare 16 hours ago

    Hw3 no

  • One more 20 hours ago

    What is chanbfan doing on river. Foolish man, that's the way they will turn that area to galamsey site. Foolish idiots

  • POURFENDEUR DE LA CORRUPTION/ANTI CORRUPTION 20 hours ago

    Ghana has become a shithole country. If Ghanaians do not vote out the NDC, we will continue to suffer till thy kingdom come. The worst from the NDC is yet to come. We warned the youth but they never listened. You see your liv ...
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  • PIUS ENAM HADZIDE ~ THE AUSTRALIA VISA CRIMINAL 17 hours ago

    @Pourfendeur osansani gyimifuor ba! We have already told you that we shall annihilate & exterminate your NPP party, but you are here with your smelly mouth talking and hoping for the NDC to be voted out.

    WO MAAME TW3 ASE K ...
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  • Cooli0 20 hours ago

    Real galamsey sight are there and u stupid soldiers flex Yr muscles on weja land that has no gold. Foolish fools

  • Felicia 19 hours ago

    It is called State of Emergency kakraaaaaa bi. Nkwaseafour People's Party

  • Kweku Tsin 18 hours ago

    @Cooli0 You are obviously an idiot. Don't know the difference between "sight" and "site"...You cannot dredge on a land that does not belong to you without permission.

  • Percy 19 hours ago

    Citizens have to follow the right process before undertaking such a project on government property.

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  • Nonsense 19 hours ago

    What do you think the soldiers will assume if the see chang fan when that equipment is associated with galamsey? That Sowah should be ashamed of himself

  • F. Agyena-Karikari 19 hours ago

    NO DOUBT HE IS JUST ACTING, PRETENDING
    He’s just a full time Galamseyer. Then to deceive the public he will demonstrate how the machine can do dredging - all a scam but the real activity is galamseying.

  • Frank Agyena -Karikari. 18 hours ago

    Hahahaha. For once you have used my name to say something sensible. Hahahahahaha. Are you scared to use your own name? You are a coward.

  • Baga 19 hours ago

    They sell the river sand around 3800 cedis to 4000 cedis. It's a money making venture, they can contaminate the water.

  • Ashantis 18 hours ago

    Clearly those machines here are galamsey machines

  • Hard 18 hours ago

    Let me understand this! They are doing Illegal thing and wants the President to come and do what? Is chan fa a derrigijg machine??

  • Ivory Mensah 17 hours ago

    Proper investigations should happen. Most people do galamsey under the guise of dredging. Is nadmo aware of that so called dredging? Tingamabobs

  • Efo 17 hours ago

    Aban papa aba, lawlessness in party colours.

  • Ayoma 16 hours ago

    Wo maame tw3 asé kankaen s3 momoni.

    Under your chimpanzee's regime, we had rabid monkeys like you @Efo smoking your wee and invading our law courts.

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  • Joey 16 hours ago

    You guys are very senseless. Did you seek permission before doing what you are saying? If you did the DCE 's office would have let the military know. I am not sure the military are that senseless to be burning machines meant ...
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  • Gary Houston 16 hours ago

    Nonsense MCE! Follow orders period! All power to you military officers.

  • Thief of Staff - Akosua Frema 16 hours ago

    Is the water body for you? Even your own land, you need to be granted a permit before you can develop it. Who granted you permit to be doing that? Even the Municipal Assembly can't just grant you permit if the regional minist ...
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  • Test2 15 hours ago

    USELESS NDC
    THEY FOLLED THE PEOPLE TO VOTE FOR THEN NOW.DEMOLISHING THEIR EVERTHING LIKE THEIR FOUNDER WHO FOOLED GHANAIAN WORKERS TO SUPPORT HIS PNDC AND LATER ARRESTED SOME OF THEM AND MURDERED SOME WHO SPOKE AGAINST HIS ...
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  • JUSTICE NAPARI 15 hours ago

    THIS IS ABSOLUTE NONSENSE. NDC HAS GIVEN TOO MUCH FREEDOM TO GHANAIANS. COULD THIS HAVE HAPPENED UNDER THE NPP? HON. HENRY QUAYE ( REGIONAL MINISTER) WOULD HAVE ARRESTED THE WHOLE COMMUNITY.

  • Aboozigi 15 hours ago

    You are wearing a mining uniform, using a mining equipment and you want us to believe your bull crab? Because you can shout?
    That boy should be picked up by the military asap.

  • Wofa 15 hours ago

    Criminals

  • Kofi 15 hours ago

    OH GHANA, EVERYTHING MAKE BASAAAA, THE WHOLE COUNTRY IS CONFUSED

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  • NDC NPP SAME DEVILy 15 hours ago

    These koti sojamen who couldn't achieve any tertiary education how do u think they will always act? Don't blame them ,blame the stupid politicians who recruited them on party lines

  • Kofi 6 hours ago

    Very pathetic of you to think the Armed Forces is made of dropouts. I am very sure you are one of the disappointed persons who tried but couldn't join any of the services. Let your temperament be cool when you see them else y ...
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  • Asaad 13 hours ago

    Prevention is always better than cure, this is how they start with Galamsey. Kudos to the security team.

  • Kwame Ampofo 11 hours ago

    They should have arrested him for illegal mining.

  • Yaw 10 hours ago

    Years ago in a foreign country, a Ghanaian walked into a two guys who were fighting. One of them was white and the other black. There were several bystanders but none made an attempt to separate them. The Ghanaian quickly wen ...
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  • Equity 8 hours ago

    I can see many people here don't really know the purpose of this machine. The soldiers shd be abreast with how a galamsey machine operate on the rivers and the same machine operate when doing dredging or desilting our rivers. ...
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  • BATA 6 hours ago

    WHAT ABOUT THE CHANFANG????

  • Global Boss 3 hours ago

    Your well done

  • Papa 1 3 hours ago

    AN EMBOLDENED CRIMINAL. YOU SHOULD HAVE BEEN BRAVE ENOUGH TO FACE THE MILITARY AND YOU WOULD HAVE SEEN YOUR SMOOTHNESS LEVEL.