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27 illegal miners buried alive by National Security rescued

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  • TerriblY Spe cifiC 11 years ago

    THESE NTAFO ARE TRULY NATION-WRECKERS.

  • princewilly@ymail.com 11 years ago

    How big is the Hole?Is it Norway sardines, Morocco Sardines or Ghana Sardines.It may be Jerusalem sardines because Jesus rose from the dead.

  • TerriblY Spe cifiC 11 years ago

    lol

  • WISE-TALK, UK 11 years ago

    Father God pls reclean our brains and let us do the right things,chines and europeans are takeing aways resources due to our mentallity and we are puting anger on each,i pray in ur name Father God,amen.

  • ROMANO 11 years ago

    PRAY FOR UR ANAGO PARENTS AND STAY THE FUCK OUT OF GHANAWEB.LOW LIFE ANAGO LIKE U. I DON'T KNOW U BUT I HATE U.UR MOTHER SHOULD HAVE ABORTED U COS U ARE OF OF NO VALUE ON THIS PLANET AND ONE LESS CRIMINAL LIKE U.

  • OLD SOLDIER 11 years ago

    When Kwaku Baako informed us about the atrocities of Kwesi Pratt during PNDC Regime, some of us did not believe until the truth was confirmed during the NRC. Kwesi Pratt is the most dangerous Journalist Ghana had ever have, h ...
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  • bex 11 years ago

    Chinese have been mentioned a lot in regard to illegal mining, but there does not seem to any Chinese at the neck of the hole struggling to break free.

    Now if they are Ghanaians, why wickedly entomb them? I thought Mahama ...
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  • kolo 11 years ago

    expel criminal and stinky poor chinese and close all death traps

  • OZA 11 years ago

    They are everywhere and destroying our rivers and lands. Go to Abomosu in the Akim Abuakwa area. The Birim river is no longer drinkable, and all the fish are dead.

  • Dr. med.William Acquah,Germany 11 years ago

    These illegal miners are breaking the laws of the land!Why should one do something illegal?They must be lucky to be alive!

  • Brainy Guy 11 years ago

    Please read my article. I am writing out of experience as a citizen of Obuasi.

  • Egya Nda 11 years ago

    I am not the PRO for the military currently in Obuasi, but as someone who has stayed and work in Obuasi for the past 22years, and continue to work I think the truth must be told. To be brief like Col Atintande said 'if you fi ...
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  • OSEI TAWIAH 11 years ago

    The illegal miners are Ghanaians who should have their daily bread. Who are they trying to thieve? As Ghanaians, the land belongs to them. So they are not thieves, they are only doing things the wrong way and must be correcte ...
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  • princewilly@ymail.com 11 years ago

    This is allegedly based on a true story. Guy and Will leave the final decision to you:

    Mr Arnold, a businessman from Tulsa, Oklahoma, went on a business trip to Amarillo, Texas. He immediately sent an e-mail back home to ...
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  • SAM MURDOCK 11 years ago

    Why Ghana? The NDC is slowly making Ghana a failed state.
    The national security buries miners alive, only in Ghana.
    Mahama will destroy Ghana.

  • BE FAIR 11 years ago

    @ SAM MURDOCK
    How can you relate such an act to political issue.
    Can u reason beyond your nose. Dont u know wat they are doing is wrong. I think wat is illegal is illegal. whether NDC or NPP
    I see you rather want to destr ...
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  • its me 11 years ago

    So they must be buried alive? What kindof insensitive beings have we bred in this Ghana?

  • Brainy Guy 11 years ago

    So you mean to say that the punishment in Ghana for engaging in illegal activities is being buried alive? Where does this law come from. Come on, be reasonable for once!

  • Yaa 11 years ago

    DEAR LORD, what is happening , are we becoming a nation of barbaric murders. Burying people alive, what next, criminals they might be but that does not justify that sort of punishment,

  • JH-New York City 11 years ago

    Whoever planned this diabolic operation should be put before the Court.How could the so called national security misbehave to that extend.It doesn't matter whom it was aimed at warning should've been given.So they N/security ...
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  • JH-New York City 11 years ago

    Whoever planned this diabolic operation should be put before the Court.How could the so called national security misbehave to that extend.It doesn't matter whom it was aimed at warning should've been given.So they N/security ...
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  • Joe Pasasa 11 years ago

    Small scale miners should find their own concession and live AGA alone. Moreso they should tell the truth.If you are to married buy your own plate.

  • ZATARA 11 years ago

    if you do not know anything jxt shut up.small scale mining otherwise called Galamsey was there before Anglogold. if your leaders through their corrupt ways have failed to make make sure mining changes the life of locals this ...
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  • Nana Akwasi Amankwah 11 years ago

    Chase the chines out off town because no ghanian citizen can even sell free in china.You can buy as much as you want but can`t sell without permit.What kind of decument do they have. POOR GHANA

  • Brainy Guy 11 years ago

    Obuasi and its indegenous people have been raped by the authorities since the 1800s till now. The Gold mining companies have not even build a public toilet for the citizenry. They mine millions of dollars of Gold every year a ...
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  • ADABRAKA 11 years ago

    I hv lived in kumasi for years and two years ago I went obuasi for the first time. I was amazed, no Gold monument did I find in the town. It is like Western region, Sefwi, how many farmers can boast of drinking a tin of choco ...
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  • marshall 11 years ago

    how can you say the company has done nothing for the town? who built the edwin cade hospital you and some of your friends visit when you are sick?the company pays royalties and corporate tax to the nation and adansi tradinal ...
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  • ZATARA 11 years ago

    so you think that after 120 years of mining in obuasi, its ok to build a hospital, pay royalties and employ people? go and see what they have used our gold to do in their countries.
    just go to south Africa and see. i wonder ...
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  • Brainy Guy 11 years ago

    I wish you would provide a list of facilities apart from one lousy hospital for mining activities spanning 100 years. Do me a favor, tell me how much royalties have been paid in 100 years and to whom. Always people talk about ...
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  • AGYA KOW 11 years ago

    Yeah Ghana is being raped but she is stupidly smiling instead of kicking out against her attackers...very sad indeed!

  • ADABRAKA 11 years ago

    The current 'bits and bites' in Ghana is too much and the oppisition has to address themselves. If they arent in power does not mean Gh is dead, rotten and Gone. There is still Ghana.

    Who invited the chinese? K4 and Npp. G ...
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  • insight to the bone 11 years ago

    check the name out i figured out only a northerner or ewe would be that recklessly trigger happy in an Akan area.Instead of chasing out the chinese they use this as an excuse to further persecute the local Akan . There is onl ...
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  • NII LARTEY NARTEY 11 years ago

    Unbelievable! The security pathetically kill our own and strangely protect the foreign Chinese miners whilst they bury the indigenous Ghanaians alive.

    What a country!

  • conscience 11 years ago

    This is an animalistic act.

  • Steve, Barcelona 11 years ago

    This is nonesence,are those said ilegal miners not ghanaians,since there are no jobs in country don't they have the right to fight for their daily bread for them and their their families? nonesence

  • princewilly@ymail.com 11 years ago

    Obuasi Sardines trying to discredit the National Security.
    Next time they will be canned Tilapia and cat fish.

  • KWAME 11 years ago

    This country like many in Africa is good and appropriate to be administered by the military organization. We are generally very difficult people and will not agree with those who think that we are quiet. We best describes us ...
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  • Rita efua Shellshear 11 years ago

    We need more jobs for men in Ghana and I knw The Lord will saved them

  • ZATARA 11 years ago

    If this act was done during the colonial era i would not have been surprised. foreigners started mining Gold in Obuasi 100 years ago. Can government tell us what mining has done for the people of Obuasi and Ghana as a whole? ...
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  • HASSAN RASTA GERMANY 11 years ago

    THE ANSWER IS KNOW AND BIG NO. WHY DO WE ALWAYS CHEAT OURSELVES TO THE GOVERNMENT? THE ASHANTI HENE HAVE CHEATED THIS PEOPLE FOR SO LONG AND WHEN THE CIVILIZATION COMES TOO THE COLONIAL GOVERNMENT TOO TOOK OVER AND CONTINUE T ...
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  • Brainy Guy 11 years ago

    I have no respect for this Asnstehene who has connived with Sam Jonah to sell the birthrights of Adansis for their own selfish gains. No local serves on the board of directors for the mine. It is always party favorites from ...
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  • HASSAN RASTA GERMANY 11 years ago

    NON OF THE GOVERNMENT IN GHANAIAN HISTORY HAS EVER FIGHT FOR THE CITIZENS IN TERMS OF MINING. THEY ARE ALL CORRUPT.

  • kwaku 11 years ago

    today,at this hour,the army burned more than 25 million u.s dollars worth of assets and machines .

    DON'T THEY KNOW THAT THOSE MACHINES BELONGS TO CHINESE AND GHANAIANS?????

    If u want to screw the Chinese,Screw them,But ...
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  • mimi 11 years ago

    This is a very painful way of dieing.
    All those alive today must learn from it and stop! Amenooooo.

  • Grace 11 years ago

    Someone help me answer these questions; When did this illegal mining start? What were these so called national security personnel doing all that while? Now that they have their votes they have decended on them. This is just t ...
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  • ohenenana 11 years ago

    The government must put end end to this savage practice

  • mallam obuasi 11 years ago

    These illegal mines think they are clever, anytime time there is a plan to stop their activity they used the same story of buring people alive to win public sympathy, no one can be alive in a pit for 2hours without oxygen no ...
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  • cool 11 years ago

    I always weep for the BLACKMAN.

  • whatever 11 years ago

    Content yourself with weeping for the fool only. That is a big enough burden to carry.

  • KOJO BUHARI 11 years ago

    EXACTLY 2 WEEKS AGO, YOU SAME GHANAIANS WERE CONDEMNING OUR EXELLENT PRESIDENT ON THE GALAMSSAYERS.REMEMBER?? I WARNED YOU ALL TO GIVE PREZ MAHAMA 2-3 MONTHS. NOW YOU ARE COMPLAINING AGAINST 27 MINERS!! I TOLD YOU, I KNOW PRE ...
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  • Kwawu Agbemenu 11 years ago

    Headline suggests they were buried By National Security. Were they? Or were they rescued by National Security? English syntax!!

  • Irene Newcombe 11 years ago

    Dear God, what is happening to Ghana....JDM has turned it into a living hell for those still alive!!!! He won't stop until only his equally corrupt lackeys are the only ones left standing....I think it is time for USA or UK t ...
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  • Yaw osankidey taifa. 11 years ago

    It's absolutely wrong on the part of the national security to kill people because they are doing illegal mining. No one have the right to take someone live,those people must face the law.

  • Paul, Germany 11 years ago

    This is barbaric and cruel way of dealing with national issue. When will the forces be mature and deal with issues by high wisdom? How could you say that you did not mean to kill but you buried human beings?