'I will take a cleaning job abroad over GH¢15,000 salary in Ghana' – Ghanaian in UK

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  • Abdul Mumin 3 weeks ago

    Inferiority complex

  • Kwaku 3 weeks ago

    The wages gap between Mgt personnels and the lowest ranked worker is not that wide as in Ghana. It's even far better in the Scandinavian countries & Switzerland. For that reason I don't see it as demeaning being a cleaner in ...
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  • March - on - March of Jacinta the Zulu 3 weeks ago

    Kwasea
    Until they start beating you on the streets to go back to your country. Then you open your Negro mouth calling on government to come to your aide

  • OSABARIMA MENSA 3 weeks ago

    Ghana is a failed state.

  • Shogata 3 weeks ago

    Yes, a failed state as delivered by that MONSTROUS KYEBI BABOON.... NANA AKUFFO ADDO...!!!!!

    They totally ransacked this nation into bankruptcy. Then, when it was time to account to the people, they shamefully run away fro ...
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  • Yourabusebacktoyouindroves 3 weeks ago

    I agree with you intoto - apart from the baboon abuse. How the ndc gov is seating there not doing anything to bring him to face justice baffles the most. They were just con artists who just came to misrule and steal- low mora ...
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  • Ike 3 weeks ago

    I strongly disagree with you. The 24 hour economy is doing good in Ghana today. Do you know that sex workers are now doing 24 hours.

  • Abinziki 3 weeks ago

    Cheap thoughts. You couldn't imprisoned them after all the hell of noises. Cheap politicians

  • Peter 3 weeks ago

    That is to you wai

  • Xander wango 3 weeks ago

    Yes, it is.

  • BITTER TRUTH 3 weeks ago

    People earn far less than GHS 10,000 yet they don't steal. Cut your coat according to your cloth.

  • Tijani 3 weeks ago

    Who in Ghana doesn't steal unless you don't get the opportunity. Every worker tends to steal including the president

  • JESUS REIGNS FOREVER 3 weeks ago

    almost all unless they dont get the opportunity. you dey steal time take dey do your own thing?

  • Test2 3 weeks ago

    TELL YOUR CORRUPT WICKED POLITICIANS RATHER TO STOP STEALING GHANAS WEALTH
    OFORI ATTA
    CECILIA DAPAAH
    EDU BOAHENE
    GIFTY OWARE ETC
    GHANAIANS ABROAD ENJOYING
    GOOD HOSPITALS
    GOOD ROADS
    NICE PARKS AND GARDENS
    NICE C ...
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  • Nana 3 weeks ago

    Perfectly stated

  • Jason:Massachusets 3 weeks ago

    Kwaku the debate may rage on but the Question is cost!!!

    Everyone who lives in the Diaspora can't tell our kinsmen at home that rent payment at wherever he is making his submission from is the same he will pay back in his ...
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  • ST GHFUO: Kwame Nkrumah International Airport 3 weeks ago

    I don't blame.him. he is right..the benefits and quality of life in London is not the same as it is in Accra the dust alone will reduce your life expectancy

  • Fabulous is the hoooooooooooope 3 weeks ago

    Are you sure such a person can not kill his own mother for rituals to get money?

  • A 3 weeks ago

    That is your cup of tea. Who cares!

  • Xander wango 3 weeks ago

    You care very well. If you the opportunity you will run away from Ghana long time. Skin pain

  • A 3 weeks ago

    You say this because you don't know me. I have traveled extensively and even went for my masters in the US. Besides that I have visited a lot of countries in Europe and and Africa

  • JESUS REIGNS FOREVER 3 weeks ago

    masters in europe and usa. chai.....hmmmm. you are funny

  • Pelicles 3 weeks ago

    Did I understand this guy or what? In Ghana, our salary structure is mainly "A year base" if I am correct so, who is getting a 15,000 monthly salary in Ghana?

    If this guy is making 10,000 pounds year in UK, is that salary ...
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  • Ewvevi 3 weeks ago

    If I heard him right, he meant 15000 per month, not per year.

  • Pelicles 3 weeks ago

    In Ghana, 15,000 cedis a month is a whole lot, and only a fool cannot survive in Ghana with that kind of money.

  • How many people can make that amount? 3 weeks ago

    Few

  • Jason:Massachusets 3 weeks ago

    Pelicles Exact my point the problem with some of our kinsmen is noise if you are earning as much as Elon Musk earn your money and leave your kinsmen to enjoy their koobi.

    He should be bold to disclosed to the world how muc ...
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  • ZUMAN OF TOGOLAND 3 weeks ago

    You should consider yourself as the fool , if you have not visited someone's farms don't crown yourself the best farmer old.
    I had an in law who earn 20k gh cedis per month as an accountant , then myself my gross is around  ...
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  • Hik 3 weeks ago

    Zuman stop defending toilet cleaning buffoons in UK

  • TK 3 weeks ago

    Only a thief in Ghana like Ken Ofori Atta would go and steal again after earning 15,000 as salary.Give me job and pay me 15,000 in Ghana I would give my German passport back and go and settle down in Ghana.

  • Sam Fante warrior 3 weeks ago

    Man just say you're an illiterate you don't have no skills than to clean a toilet in McDonald's and Burga king. You can't save even 5000k cedis a month over there, can you save 400€ a month ? Everything is expensive over th ...
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  • Jay 3 weeks ago

    Pure nonsense

  • Just fool around. Abroad 3 weeks ago

    You can never pay your bills with 2 to 3 cleaning jobs in UK. You live a very obscure low life. You are perpertually on the cusp of poverty. Keep it up bro for reslity will catch up with you. You will be Papa Semo and no one ...
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  • Samwise 3 weeks ago

    I'm certain he's a jjc, before he will realise he has spent 20yrs in uk without a penny savings.

  • Let’s be serious 3 weeks ago

    15000 today can buy more than it could under Akufo Addo. Mahama and NDC are doing well

  • Bazz 3 weeks ago

    I can just know the home town of this inferior negga just from his mentality

  • Ernestine Sackey 3 weeks ago

    Bazz, buzz off. NDC HAS DESTROYED GHANA.

  • Jason:Massachusets 3 weeks ago

    Mr Man tell your country men the rent the utility etc that you foot and stop given the impression that the foreign land is flowing with milk and honey.

    Nobody disputes but compare cost especially Rent et al

  • Mystique 3 weeks ago

    Bam!!
    They don't reveal that.
    You may be earning more but more is taxed, absorbed in rent, utilities etc.

  • The Ghanaian Telegraph 3 weeks ago

    The Uncover Ghana Organisation Has As It's Aim Helping The Youth Achieve Their Potential/ &As It's Been Often Narrated On Several Occasions & At Different Times/ There Was A Reason The Organisation Adopted The Aim/Objective O ...
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  • Great one 3 weeks ago

    15K monthly salary in Ghana, 10K monthly will make many people in Ghana happy with a very decent life and self respect.

    That cleaner is at the bottom of the food chain in the UK meaning he is a wretched fellow

  • Ewvevi 3 weeks ago

    Well, if it serves your needs, why not. Every job is a job. Our leaders have failed us. They steal a lot to enrich themselves in order to create a class hierarchy which places them miles ahead of the struggling ordinary citiz ...
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  • COOLBLUE 3 weeks ago

    The irony of it is that, it's not the guy who is doing the cleaning job that made the statement. The cleaner was just asked a question to which he responded yes.Why present the story as if those words were from the cleaner's ...
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  • Citizen8 3 weeks ago

    What do you really want us to do about that? It's your choice and nobody can begrudge you, please. Do whatever makes you happy, Sir.

  • Ernestine Sackey 3 weeks ago

    With this NDC government, I don't blame him. You can go over 3 to 6 months without getting paid.

  • John mahama 3 weeks ago

    Most of the people who are against making life abroad are the thieves,murderous and scammers who get easy money in ghana and the second group of people are those that have been bounced a visa so they are angry.

    If truth be ...
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  • Pelicles 3 weeks ago

    Are there poor people in the UK?

  • Pelicles 3 weeks ago

    If you cannot live on 15,000 cedis a month in Ghana, what sort of human being are you?

  • Jason:Massachusets 3 weeks ago

    Hahahaaaaa 3noa no no how

  • John mahama 3 weeks ago

    Yes there are poor people in the uk but I can hit my chest and tell you they are poor by their own choice...so that's the difference

  • Hik 3 weeks ago

    Statistically all poor people are poor by choice.

  • Matha 3 weeks ago

    @john mahama
    Most of us lived in the UK and Europe and left. I advise yiu to ask those who lived in that country before yiu and take a clue. In10 years time you will regret liv9ng thete mark my words. Even the whites have no ...
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  • John mahama 3 weeks ago

    @matha anyone who says abroad is hard are people who finds it difficult to abide by law in any civilized countries...

    In ghana they can chase and rape small girls without any punishment because the laws are shit .

    I mea ...
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  • Hik 3 weeks ago

    Massa shut it.Did you see the Pakistani rape gangs and pedo UK culture? With their shitty laws that many people are released after 5 years or do not even go to jail. Heck their jails are full and sometimes release prisoners. ...
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  • John mahama 3 weeks ago

    Ok will go with the slightly better one then u fool

  • Koti 3 weeks ago

    You don't know what you are saying. Live there till you are 60 and you'll know your smoothness level. Take a note of what you are saying and keep it safe and open it after staying in the UK for 30 years. Not all that glitters ...
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  • Peterson 3 weeks ago

    Nonsense, who is forcing you to come and take job in Ghana ? Some of think UK/US is heaven. Apuuuuuu, we have People working in Ghana earning less then gh5,000 but what they have been able to do is far far better than so ...
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  • natti 3 weeks ago

    what they have built is probably from the thievery and corruption that others have written about

  • Matha 3 weeks ago

    Yiu think there are no corruption and bribery in the UK? Are yiu that stupid? Read the news and yiu see that uK is very corrupt

  • Peter 3 weeks ago

    Natti, you are not seriouse ooooo. Do you think every worker in Ghana is corrupt like you ? There are genuie ghanaian workers who are not corrupt , they know how to save from their little salariés to build.

  • Konkonsa 3 weeks ago

    You're such an idiot! To even think that a person earning less than Ghc5000 can put up projects at par or better than others earning in multiples of 100x reveals your lack of basic reasoning. You're just glorifying thievery b ...
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  • Akosat 3 weeks ago

    @Konkonsa, please tell us what you have benefited in your life, so we may learn, even flying to the UK during winter is like hell.... village champ...

  • Konkonsa Ba 3 weeks ago

    Spot on........
    You have nailed it right there.
    Gh>Gh5000 salary but plenty wealth
    .

  • Kwam 3 weeks ago

    That is your cup of tea. Who cases that is a choice you want to make.

  • jagadu 3 weeks ago

    Dont be deceived. How much money can you save from your cleaning job after paying all your bills. I bet you cannot even save $100 a month.

  • Hik 3 weeks ago

    They work 3 to 4 jobs. And are dropping dead due to stress

  • King 3 weeks ago

    Ignorance of the African child at display here again.
    I dare say you earn 15k pounds as a monthly salary from the cleaning job. But even if you do, how much do you save from that if that's the only job you do, which also I ...
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  • Sam 3 weeks ago

    Oxford street that....

  • Porso 3 weeks ago

    This is a man whose education and IQ is low.
    Life is how you make it not what it's made of,poor guy

  • King 3 weeks ago

    It's true paaaa... Gh is hard

  • Rabash 3 weeks ago

    I think what most people don’t understand is that stealing is part of us so if someone is paid 30,000ghc a month and had access to steal he will do so we are just corrupt and that’s it.

  • May 3 weeks ago

    Foolish idiot

  • Peter 3 weeks ago

    If you were educated you won't opt for that

  • I JOS 3 weeks ago

    Yes, cleaning job wages are still relatively low compared with the cost of living here in the UK. Out of that wage, you still have to pay rent, utilities, food, and all your other living expenses.
    So I beg to differ. I don†...
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  • Matete 3 weeks ago

    WHEN AGE CATCHES UP WITH YOU IN THE UK,YOU WILL COME BACK TO YOUR SENSES IDIOT.

  • The Devil's Advocate 3 weeks ago

    Who on earth let this uncouth uneducated uncultured village idiot without any self esteem out of Ghana? Where is your patriotism,the pride of who you are?I lived and worked in London 43yrs ago as a professional and I do not r ...
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  • No Pain No Gain 3 weeks ago

    Ashantis should rise up and tell people to speaking their native languages when making such narratives on social me. Because seriously every one wants to narrate in twi and it is making ashantis come across like they are idio ...
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  • Gbetia 3 weeks ago

    God curse and bring you back to suffer die

  • Akosat 3 weeks ago

    Please , to all Ghanaians, this guys are lying. They want to entice other people to join them in their suffering. Let them tell you what they have brought down to establish in Ghana. When you meet them on the streets ,they lo ...
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  • Akosat 3 weeks ago

    Some of them also get jobs through agencies, for that matter, they are like part time workers ( only given a temporal job if someone at a permanent job place is indisposed or the other. Even presently some of the professional ...
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  • MANSA 3 weeks ago

    I agree 100% with him.
    I am in the USA as a registered nurse and I would never trade it to work in Ghana. Even cashiers in USA makes OVER 10,000ghc a month, but in Ghana they make only 2000ghc/ month.
    Does a Ghanaian clin ...
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  • Hik 3 weeks ago

    Ofc they don't make 75,000 a year. Cause *news flash* Ghana doesn't use dollars.

  • Gha 3 weeks ago

    Small mind ?
    I was expecting you to convet into cedis. Next time use your brain !

  • Prekese 3 weeks ago

    Mansah, tell us about your expenditure, especially if you have your kids over there . How much balance do you get to save. We've all been there before, so even if I am given free accommodation plus free shopping, I won't get ...
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  • MANSA 3 weeks ago

    I have been in USA for 50yrs. I have over $150,000 saved. Not bragging, I have a house worth $400, 000. No kidding !

  • Unite Africa 3 weeks ago

    Ghana youth ignore these hopeless guys suffering in UK but pretending to be ok. Most Ghanaians in UK are suffering and can't even find jobs. The cost of living is quite high and even Ghanaian nurses living there are complaini ...
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  • Bondo 3 weeks ago

    Imagine the exchange rate was £1=1ghc , would he be saying this.. lol. The only difference here and there is the system apartment from that there is nothing extra ordinary

  • DDT 3 weeks ago

    Poor man mentality. Go and see where he is sleeping in that UK. Their room size is someone's bath room or kitchen in Ghana. I thought he will mention any better country but UK.

  • MANSA 3 weeks ago

    They don't have lights out, no water, stinky environments, mosquitoes while you trying to sleep, fighting for dilapidated trotros, your gutter are choked with trash.
    Do you want me to go on? We have peace !