Urbanisation could cripple Africa’s growth – Mahama

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  • CTZ 12 years ago

    GOD BLESS AFRICA!!!!

  • SHAMO 12 years ago

    WHY DID HE HIDE? OR HE CAME TO SELL GUINEA FOWLS? HAHAHAHAHA! MANY GHANAIANS IN LONDON NOBODY HEARD HIS ARRIVAL, ! HE IS LUCKY WE WOULD HAVE THROW HIM STONES FOR SPOILING GHANA

  • THOMSON 12 years ago

    only VIP ppl like we can wellcome him not fools like you, well done handsom president in africa, you make ghana pround we love you . good job

  • Kay 12 years ago

    VERY LAUGHABLE

  • GHFUO, BE SERIOUS NOT PRIDEFUL! 12 years ago

    OR IS HE JUST PLAIN STUPID?
    IF ITS COLD, U WEAR HEAVY CLOTHING, ABI? EVEN A TREE BOWS ITS HEAD WHEN IT GETS WINDY. WAT DOES HE MEAN BY "URBANIZAION WILL CRIPPLE GH'S GROWTH"? DID HE EVEN PONDER OVER HIS ESSAY BEFORE READING ...
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  • son-of-a-bitch 12 years ago

    fuck you mahama, stupid son of a whore. fuck you, worthless bastard.

  • Asantehene 12 years ago

    GO AND TELL YOUR UNCIRCUMSIZED FATHER, FUCK YOU. YOU ARE A MOTHER FUCKER TO CALL OUR PRESIDENT STUPID. I HOPE I CAN YOU ABD BREAK YOUR NECK. ASK HOW SHE GOT PREGNANT WITH YOUR FATHER. YOU ARE ASHAWO SON. DANDURUN WA.

  • Kofi Adjaho Mahama 12 years ago

    My Brother I agree with you. Let me add that another way to address the urbanization problem for Mahama to tell norther elite to return to the north to help address the poverty that has taken them hostage for all these years. ...
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  • SHAMO 12 years ago

    NO QUEEN DOESNT RECIEVE THIEVES! SO UNLIKE PREZ K4 JOHN MAHAMA HAD NO CHOICE THAN TO MEET NDC STUDENTS LIKE YOU! KWASEA YOU VOTE BECAUSE SOMEBODY IS HANDSOME HAHAHAHAHA AND YOU CALL YOURSELF VIP! AKONFEM BA

  • DusTY-FooT-pHiloSophER 12 years ago

    Nice speech indeed. But, popping-up Champaign copses and shouting hurrah every time a great elocution is delivered by any of our African leaders is not the answer to our mountain problems. Instead, “action now” should and ...
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  • ELINAM 12 years ago

    and not O'JAYS. Mahama get your 70's and 80's disco facts right, and thanx for trying to be cool.

  • insight to the bone 12 years ago

    the fantis did not vote for ndc rather they put their faith in atta mills who was undermined and later brutally murdered by the ewes. he hoped that the unity of the nation would be the basic platform to ensure a better standa ...
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  • Appletus 12 years ago

    That is dangerous talk. A friendly brotherly advice: much as you may air your views , just becareful you do not box yourself in in terms of your words. What do you mean when you say ewe klilled Prof. Atta Mills? That is a ser ...
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  • Fii 12 years ago

    You're pathetic

  • John 12 years ago

    Yes, the observation is too obvious. What is critical are measures and policies to deal with it

  • Nana Akomea 12 years ago

    Pepeni Mahama should talk about corruption, and his part in it.

  • Kwaku 12 years ago

    It is urbanisation which brought you into the city,probably you would have been leading the cattle to the bush by now.Look at him how many rural people have you provided borne water to drink or enjoying electricity.Everybody ...
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  • Nhyiraba 12 years ago

    I'm tired of this complaining president. Even my little sister knows the effect of massive urbanization. Tell the world how you are solving the problems with urbanization in Ghana.

  • The Onipaba of Akyem Maase 12 years ago

    It is never suprising at all to identify urbanisation as a problem to our development. You and your retrogressive background ideology attest to this unfortunate argument you just made. You do not understand what urbinisation ...
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  • Who do you think so? 12 years ago

    You kill to gain position. Your school days you killed to gain school leadership. Again, you have killed Prez. Mills to be able rise to the Presidency . The last but the least you brided the EC to steal results for you to win ...
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  • Kofi 12 years ago

    Once everything is in or done in the urban areas, everyone will move to the urban areas.

  • Dee 12 years ago

    The whole world is moving to more and more urban locations, yet our president thinks that in Africa we should remain in the villages where our presidents will not need to deal with mass transit problems, water and electric su ...
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  • Busia Is Great! 12 years ago

    I am so sick and tired of hearing about how it is an exciting time for Africa. With the useless, thieving leadership most African countries have no it is not an exciting time. It is a sad time!

  • PREZZO 12 years ago

    MAHAMA YOU RUN AWAY FROM THE MAY DAY CELEBRATIONS COS YOU FEAR THE NASTY PLY CARDS THAT WILL SHOW UP . THIEF, ROUGUE, RASCAL, A GOAT SUCK YOUR BEAST WITH SNAKES

  • ohene 12 years ago

    Very disappointing and uninspiring speech

  • Accra Resident 12 years ago

    Good speech but does not reflect situation on the gound. Class, gender and ethnic equality? MP's took lion's share of the money because they think of themselves as higher class instead of as public servants.

  • Pontius Pilate 12 years ago

    mr. prez so what is the point. people should stay in less developed areas because you don't want congestion?

    i think you can lead by example by relocating to any village. at least the urban center will be less by one perso ...
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  • AKASI MARTHA ARIZONA UAS. 12 years ago

    "THE ENERGY OF WHAT WILL COME NEST IS ALMOST PALPABLE" CHILDREN OF MOTHER AFRICA LET US HAVE THE SAME FEELING TO BUILD OUR CONTINENT.

  • DAN 12 years ago

    we don't need niggers like you to clean our toilets or wash our grandparents anus...Mexican girls look much better

  • African Star 12 years ago

    Our President speaks sense and all most of us can do is respond with nonsense. Do we not see the fact that our cities are choking. Drive around our villages and see the potential of what can happen if we shift emphasis in t ...
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  • Busia Is Great! 12 years ago

    So why does government center everything in the urban areas? They must start to branch out activities and people will follow.

  • Kwaku Mensah 12 years ago

    Zombie mahama, you know this and you want to build another international airport in Accra? You speak as if you are still in the primary school.always talking and talking without any substance. GROW UP BOY YOU ARE NOW THE PRES ...
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  • OBAAYAA 12 years ago

    How on earth can urbanization cripple Africa's growth? Lets all go back and remind ourselves of what our Kwame Nkrumah did to improve our lives. He set up factories and industries in every region so people will stay and work ...
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  • Appletus 12 years ago

    That is dangerous talk. A friendly brotherly advice: much as you may air your views , just becareful you do not box yourself in in terms of your words. What do you mean when you say ewe klilled Prof. Atta Mills? That is a s ...
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  • Agyeman. 12 years ago

    President of a country full of cities with smelly gulleys,trash everywhere and probably the worst looking capital city is giving the keynote address?
    Its like a fox guarding the henhouse.

  • African Star 12 years ago

    Don't hot air if you are not part of the solution. Come on 1000 words on what can be done and you will be taken seriously.

  • Busia Is Great! 12 years ago

    Oh please let government come up with the solution. They have harnessed all the resources and stolen all the cash so let them put it to good use for once. Do not ask forummers for the solution.

  • Akans Prophecies 12 years ago

    OK , get yourself and your family to BOL WALE(your village).Advice your thieves and parasites to follow. Stop throwing dust into the eyes of the fools and bring back the stolen booty to ghanaians, instead of hanging around ...
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  • kofi 12 years ago

    growing population, how many children do you have

  • Kofi Adjaho Mahama 12 years ago

    Mhama is right on target with this. Urbanization has and continues to erode Ghana's gains of economic growth because the educated elite have migrated to the urban areas in their numbers. Unfortunately, the person making this ...
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  • ghanaba 12 years ago

    mr monkey do you understand urbanization. african urbanization brought you to power. you are doomed, resign as you dont control even guinea fowls. you go and hide for others to bring in salsa cuban dancers as doctors. how m ...
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  • Hazor 12 years ago

    Folks to frank Mahama is a disgrace to Ghana and Africa in general.Where did he get the idear from that urbanisation or developing Africa including could cripple Africa growth.How could Mahama make such a stupid statement to ...
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  • Kk3 12 years ago

    So what are his plans....actionable plan, if any, for GH? E hard ohhhh.....backwards ever, forward never!

  • DAN 12 years ago

    Kumansi and Accra are worse than Washington DC traffic!

  • ghana boy 12 years ago

    If the president suggested that urbanization cld cripple Africa's growth then i suggest he first move the flag staff hs, bank of Ghana, MFEP,KIA and the ministry of defense to Bole,Sandema,Tumu,Yendi and Bawku respectively.. ...
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