Begging is a Ghanaian culture not economic hardship – Dr Gariba

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Jeff, UK 10 years ago

What are the challenges , if I may ask? Most at times when these programmes are being rolled we should envisage some of these challenges. Many a time, programmes of the like might have be tested in other parts of the would an ...
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What are the challenges , if I may ask? Most at times when these programmes are being rolled we should envisage some of these challenges. Many a time, programmes of the like might have be tested in other parts of the would and they might have experienced similar problems for which they might have found antidotes so why do they still become challenges for us
blueprint 10 years ago

It is the culture of you people of the north not the entire nation. Dont inflict it on us

It is the culture of you people of the north not the entire nation. Dont inflict it on us
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solo 10 years ago

You make me laugh my heart out! Just look at your stinky and poverty-stricken Kumasi where 11-year old girls fuck for 1 Ghana cedi to buy plantains. If not poverty, what has pushed you guys to run to Europe and America to cle ...
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You make me laugh my heart out! Just look at your stinky and poverty-stricken Kumasi where 11-year old girls fuck for 1 Ghana cedi to buy plantains. If not poverty, what has pushed you guys to run to Europe and America to clean toilets and sweep floors? Your poverty is worst than those of others~!
Daasedre 10 years ago

We have people of this caliber with PHD's advising the president and making stupid statements as such. People in Kumasi do not carry their wards from the house to the street to beg or to Masarachi sit for 8hours or more to ...
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We have people of this caliber with PHD's advising the president and making stupid statements as such. People in Kumasi do not carry their wards from the house to the street to beg or to Masarachi sit for 8hours or more to beg for alms. SOLO, be reasonable human and just insult for the sake of insulting. This gov't is in a mess politically and ideologically. Accept the fact that they don't have the experience and the knowhow to implement policies. In Ghana and Africa, when one has PHD he is revered as GOD and that is wrong my friend because in North America most inventions are from experienced folks. People that clean toilets and floors might sometimes better the SOLO who is envious of them with his PhD and not a penny in the pocket. Henry Ford was a mechanic, Bill Gates a dropout, Zuckerberg(Facebook fame) a dropout etc. Then you have this DINGDONG with PhD making irresponsible statements like you.
ghartey 10 years ago

stupid comment from SOLO the northener

stupid comment from SOLO the northener
K.Y. 10 years ago

Begging in the Ghanaian society shouldn't be limited to a section of an ethnic group. It cuts across all section of the society, be it a northner,southner eastner or westner, but in different forms. Imaging the immigration of ...
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Begging in the Ghanaian society shouldn't be limited to a section of an ethnic group. It cuts across all section of the society, be it a northner,southner eastner or westner, but in different forms. Imaging the immigration officers at the border post and Kia, custom officers, police officers and other gov't workers do all beg for money, regardless of their ethnic background. What needs to be done is to make a law santioning begging in the ghanain society.Pastening of post all-over the country indicating that receiving gift is unsocial, is one of the measures to curb the rot in the society, but this is very uneffective and has never resolved this dread social cancer. A law has to be enacted.
Aka boogaloo 10 years ago

I disagree with sir. This is not Ghanaian culture, please!

I disagree with sir. This is not Ghanaian culture, please!
zz 10 years ago

Fools are now in control of the country so there is nothing they can do to sustain and improve the economy.

Fools are now in control of the country so there is nothing they can do to sustain and improve the economy.
PRINCE KWASI ADADE 10 years ago

WHO WAS BORN A PAUPER?? SOCIETY CREATES PAUPERS. WHO WAS BORN A BEGGAR? MANY OF YOU CAME TO POLITICS SO POOR AND HAVE DEPRIVED THE MASSES WHAT BELONG TO THEM TO ENRICH YOURSELVES AND YOU TURN ROUND TO CALL THEM PAUPERS. WERE ...
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WHO WAS BORN A PAUPER?? SOCIETY CREATES PAUPERS. WHO WAS BORN A BEGGAR? MANY OF YOU CAME TO POLITICS SO POOR AND HAVE DEPRIVED THE MASSES WHAT BELONG TO THEM TO ENRICH YOURSELVES AND YOU TURN ROUND TO CALL THEM PAUPERS. WERE SOME OF YOU NDC CROOKISH MONSTERS NOT WORSE THAN THESE PEOPLE YOU CALL PAUPERS BEFORE YOU CAME TO POWER?---- WHO CAN PROVE KWASI ADADE WRONG? I AM SAYING, THAT, GHANAIANS VOTED FOOLISHLY!! IS THIS NDC'S BETTER GHANA? THEN WHAT WILL THEIR BITTER GHANA BE?--IF THIS IS NDC'S PRAISE THE LORD, THEN, WHAT WILL THEIR CRUCIFY HIM BE? GHANA'S PROBLEM, TODAY, IS NOTHING BUT THE RESULT OF CRIMINAL NDC'S ALLIANCE TO CREATE, LOOT AND SHARE POLICY***---------------*** "IT IS ONLY A FOOL, WHO ALLOWS HIS TESTICLES TO BE STEPPED ON, TWICE"-------GO OUT THERE AND RECEIVE YOUR REWARD, ALL GHANAIANS. GO AND PAY THE PRICE FOR YOUR FOOLISHNESS. YOU DON'T GIVE A SECOND MANDATE TO AN INCOMPETENT AND CORRUPT GOVERNMENT, NO!! NOT AT ALL, THAT IS ABOMINATION IN DEMOCRACY, VERY SUICIDAL. HAD NDC MANAGED THE ECONOMY WELL, THESE ECONOMIC PROBLEMS WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN THE SITUATION. NDC HAS PRESIDED OVER THE BIGGEST RESOURCES GHANA HAS EVER HAD. THEY HAVE ALSO CONTRACTED MORE LOANS THAN ANY OTHER GOVERNMENT IN OUR HISTORY, BUT THEY HAVE NOTHING TO SHOW FOR THIS. GHANAIANS SHOULD HAVE ENJOYED SOME ECONOMIC PROGRESS AT THIS TIME IN OUR HISTORY. THE ECONOMY IS COLLAPSING BECAUSE THE GOVERNMENT IS SO CORRUPT. TO RESCUE THE SITUATION, THE POOR IS NOW BEING FORCED TO PAY. THIS IS INJUSTICE. THIS IS NOT THE GHANA KUFFOUR HANDED OVER TO NDC, HE EVEN ADDED FRESH CRUDE OIL WELLS. NPP TRANFORMED GHANA TO A MIDDLE INCOME ECONOMY WITH LIMITED RESOURCES BUT GOOD POLICIES. NDC IS WOEFULLY REVERSING THESE NPP ACHIEVEMENTS. GHANA'S CURRENT SITUATION IS VERY DISTURBING. WHEN THE HISTORY IS TOLD, IT WILL BE SAID THAT GHANAIANS WERE OFFERED FREE SECONDARY EDUCATION, IMPROVED UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE, SOCIAL HOUSING FOR THE POOR AND AN EGALITARIAN SOCIETY BUT 50% SAID NO THANK YOU. THEY PREFERRED ECONOMIC "WOYOMISATION" , PHANTOM DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS, PHILANDERERS FOR LEADERS, MACHIAVELLIAN DISRESPECTFUL CORRUPT LOUTS AND A VISIONLESS EVIL GOVERNMENT. I AM SO PROUD I VOTED FOR NANA AKUFFO ADDO.
OGYATANAA, LONDON 10 years ago

Who said begging is Ghanaian culture. probably it is the norm just like kaya yei at the place this buffoon of a doctor hails from;but certainly it is not a culture in Brong Ahafo where I come from

Who said begging is Ghanaian culture. probably it is the norm just like kaya yei at the place this buffoon of a doctor hails from;but certainly it is not a culture in Brong Ahafo where I come from
j gian 10 years ago

what can people like this offer to this generation, if his mentality is that begging is a ghanaian culture why is he not begging himself, if we don't remove these wicked people in leadership then we have no future.

what can people like this offer to this generation, if his mentality is that begging is a ghanaian culture why is he not begging himself, if we don't remove these wicked people in leadership then we have no future.
mohammed 10 years ago

You cannot remove him until after four year term. why do you worry, you are not a beggar anyway! why the insult? He was poor and worked hard in Canada to earn his PHD that helped him acquire his wealth. He never steal from go ...
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You cannot remove him until after four year term. why do you worry, you are not a beggar anyway! why the insult? He was poor and worked hard in Canada to earn his PHD that helped him acquire his wealth. He never steal from government. He is contributing his part. I do not agree with his assertion, but I have no reason to insult him.
Nii-Bi 10 years ago

Where did this gariba man, get this nonsense from. Has he ever begged - may be his family did. Certainly not my culture. Can the few sensible people left in the ndc, pump some sense into this knuckle head?

Where did this gariba man, get this nonsense from. Has he ever begged - may be his family did. Certainly not my culture. Can the few sensible people left in the ndc, pump some sense into this knuckle head?
Yaw 10 years ago

what shallow thinking, why do people beg?it's because they are poor and we have to lift them up out of that state. Don't institutionalize begging to glorify your government's incompetence.

what shallow thinking, why do people beg?it's because they are poor and we have to lift them up out of that state. Don't institutionalize begging to glorify your government's incompetence.
MAXIMUS 10 years ago

Mahama if you really care about the poor in Ghana, you will do the right thing and sack this Sulley Gariba from the office of the President of Ghana for his above statement.
We Ghanaians are not paupers/beggers but it the ec ...
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Mahama if you really care about the poor in Ghana, you will do the right thing and sack this Sulley Gariba from the office of the President of Ghana for his above statement.
We Ghanaians are not paupers/beggers but it the economic realities facing most people in Ghana that has reduced most to become beggers.
Where are the jobs this government promised the people?
People today committing suicide for lack of hope.
President Mahama do the right thing and sack Dr. Sulley Gariba for statement is not only stupid it is also reckless and shames all Ghanaians for which he is included.
DONBOLI 10 years ago

Begging is the culture of john mahama govt not Ghanaians. The government keep begging and borrowing money from China IMF and other countries we cant pay back.
Sully is very right we dont pay back if given as beggers, but pay ...
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Begging is the culture of john mahama govt not Ghanaians. The government keep begging and borrowing money from China IMF and other countries we cant pay back.
Sully is very right we dont pay back if given as beggers, but pay back when we beg foreign countries and org.
Ghanaians are not poor it the government that is poor in managing the economy. Gariba, your old secondary still look the same as you were learning there. Proud to have those building build in 1960s stil standing.
Education is still like it was in the 60s and the government thinks it a good thing. Its not. The government is failing our children, no improvement since 1960s and think our children will get jobs.
KOO 10 years ago

They are just repeating their master's voice.Challenges,challenges and challenges every where.Where in the coastal areas are those so called improvements to be seen that this man Gariba talks about?.It is simply not true.

They are just repeating their master's voice.Challenges,challenges and challenges every where.Where in the coastal areas are those so called improvements to be seen that this man Gariba talks about?.It is simply not true.
Majele Gbeke Kofie Mawuko 10 years ago

U see the Ndc their campaign everywhere .thats why educated people like Kariba turn so stupid when they join Ndc. The poorest in society are the NDC not the NPP. The NPP work ,no matter what but its the reverse for the Fuckin ...
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U see the Ndc their campaign everywhere .thats why educated people like Kariba turn so stupid when they join Ndc. The poorest in society are the NDC not the NPP. The NPP work ,no matter what but its the reverse for the Fucking NDC.They beg and will continue to beg. An happy the NDc guys suffer. hurray
CAPT PLANET 10 years ago

There is no dignity in begging. Ghanaians are people of dignity so certainly begging can never be a Ghanaian culture. If you cannot fix our problems get the hell out of office and spare us the insults. Am so so pissed.

There is no dignity in begging. Ghanaians are people of dignity so certainly begging can never be a Ghanaian culture. If you cannot fix our problems get the hell out of office and spare us the insults. Am so so pissed.
solo 10 years ago

kufuor used his 8 yrs as president to beg from everywhere; from Europe, America, arab countries, india, and china.

kufuor used his 8 yrs as president to beg from everywhere; from Europe, America, arab countries, india, and china.
mka Ltd 10 years ago

so so disappointed in this man. since when did begging become Ghanaian culture? I now understand Abeiku sataana n others. you urself do u beg? does d president beg? JDM n NDC cant better Ghana with dis ppl thinking for the pr ...
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so so disappointed in this man. since when did begging become Ghanaian culture? I now understand Abeiku sataana n others. you urself do u beg? does d president beg? JDM n NDC cant better Ghana with dis ppl thinking for the prez. old, spoiled n rotten brain. prez sit up
SELFLESS 10 years ago

Yes it is part of the culture of some tribes in the Northern part of Ghana and a particular religious sect whose members predominantly come from the Northern part of Ghana. It is nothing to be pro ...
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Yes it is part of the culture of some tribes in the Northern part of Ghana and a particular religious sect whose members predominantly come from the Northern part of Ghana. It is nothing to be proud of so please dont assiciate it with ALL Ghanaians. I see why the country is now getting dirtier because that is also part of the culture or way of life of a group of people who are predominant in the current government so we should live with it. This line of thinking or imposition of some bad practises taking place in Northern Ghana on all of us must stop or be mitigated!!!
mohammed 10 years ago

Please which religion and tribe in the north culture is begging? It is Lewis's Model of development in the early 70s when a West Indies economist of the World Bank by name Arthur Lewis made a lot of warped argument that the m ...
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Please which religion and tribe in the north culture is begging? It is Lewis's Model of development in the early 70s when a West Indies economist of the World Bank by name Arthur Lewis made a lot of warped argument that the marginal productivity of labor (MPL) in the north was zero and hence justified the concentration of the industry in the South to attract the flow of labor from the North to South to feed up the industries and its multiplier effect will generate growth and poverty reduction. However, in practice, it was discovered that there is never a zero MPL in the North. And capital flight and substitution of capital intensive to labor intensive rendered the Development model un-practicable that led to this current rural urban migration. I dare any one to insult Northerners for the ills and shortcoming of previous government Policies that render this Kayaye trend by ignorant southern government drivers.
GANABA 10 years ago

IT IS AS IF THE LEANED DOCTOR GARIBA HAS NEVER SAT BEHIND A BLACKBOARD AND A TEACHER BEFORE. ISLAM PERMITS BEGGING FOR ALMS DURING RHAMADAN, WHICH IS DICTATED BY THE PROPHET MUHAMMAD [PRAISE BE HIS NAME]. THIS IS A STRICTLY M ...
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IT IS AS IF THE LEANED DOCTOR GARIBA HAS NEVER SAT BEHIND A BLACKBOARD AND A TEACHER BEFORE. ISLAM PERMITS BEGGING FOR ALMS DURING RHAMADAN, WHICH IS DICTATED BY THE PROPHET MUHAMMAD [PRAISE BE HIS NAME]. THIS IS A STRICTLY MUSLIM TRADITION AND INDEED, ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT PILLARS OF ISLAM IS FOR THE FAITHFUL TO GIVE ALMS. THIS CONSTITUTES ONLY A SMALL PORTION OF BEGGING IN GHANA. 90% OF BEGGING IN GHANA IS THE RESULT 0F POVERTY, ABSOLUTE POVERTY. NOW PEOPLE DECENTLY DRESSEDIN SUITS SOLICIT FOR MONEY NOT AS 419 BUT BECAUSE OF PAINFUL HUNGER. SOMEONE LOOKING REALLY DECENT WROTE ON A PAPER STUCK TO HIS CHEST: I AM WILLING TO WORK FOR FOOD! HOW WILL DR GARIBA EXPLAIN THIS ONE? WHAT HE SAID IS A DISGRACE SHOWING HOW HOPELESS THE NDC ECONOMY IS. COME AGAIN, GARIBA, OR YOU ARE TOTALLY IGNORANT OF THE STATE OF AFFAIRS IN GHANA.
Pelicles 10 years ago

Trust me, I hate to put stigma on people but this man is pushing me to do that. How foolish can he be? A Doctor? Helloo. It is only a Northerner who will make such reckless comment. I think he drank too much (Pito). Kwase ...
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Trust me, I hate to put stigma on people but this man is pushing me to do that. How foolish can he be? A Doctor? Helloo. It is only a Northerner who will make such reckless comment. I think he drank too much (Pito). Kwasea.
dawuni 10 years ago

Can you name any 'chimp' who is smarter than Dr. Sulley Gariba? If they put all your best minds together, their accumulative brains cannot match that of Dr. Sulley!

Can you name any 'chimp' who is smarter than Dr. Sulley Gariba? If they put all your best minds together, their accumulative brains cannot match that of Dr. Sulley!
Akadu Mensema 10 years ago

Duh!

Duh!
dawuni 10 years ago

.. the worst and most ignorable trade ever....

.. the worst and most ignorable trade ever....
Akua AU 10 years ago

What a bush man. His statement tells it all. Greedy bustards in government reaping it big and not caring for the needy because it the culture of Ghana. Listen to such an opinion from a person voted into power by the needy w ...
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What a bush man. His statement tells it all. Greedy bustards in government reaping it big and not caring for the needy because it the culture of Ghana. Listen to such an opinion from a person voted into power by the needy whose hope is to be helped out of porverty. What an idiot!!!!
RastafaraI 10 years ago

he should live on the street for one day and see

he should live on the street for one day and see
Whatever 10 years ago

Sometimes you shake your head and wonder what Mahama wants to achieve with such poor policy coordinator? MDG is an imposition from outside, a foreign imposed objective. Is this guy telling us that we can't set our own longter ...
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Sometimes you shake your head and wonder what Mahama wants to achieve with such poor policy coordinator? MDG is an imposition from outside, a foreign imposed objective. Is this guy telling us that we can't set our own longterm, medium term goals that we own and believed in as a country. If you can't come up with your own goals to manifest your belief in your medium term objective and you continue to tell us someone's objective as your objective, do you expect us to believe you? Do you think we fools?
Kofi 10 years ago

If you don't want anyone to impose anything on you, you need to be your own man. Ever heard of the saying "he who pays the piper calls the tune?" If someone has to pay for your budget, don't you expect that someone to set tar ...
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If you don't want anyone to impose anything on you, you need to be your own man. Ever heard of the saying "he who pays the piper calls the tune?" If someone has to pay for your budget, don't you expect that someone to set targets for you? No one, with the exception of Ghana government, would want to throw away hard-earned money. So keep on shaking your head till it breaks while defending incompetence!
Kofi 10 years ago

Do Dr. Gariba and his family beg since they are Ghanaians? Apart from the government of Ghana that begs amidst great wealth, I do not think, as proud as Ghanaians are, anyone would want to be a beggar. Dr. Gariba is another d ...
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Do Dr. Gariba and his family beg since they are Ghanaians? Apart from the government of Ghana that begs amidst great wealth, I do not think, as proud as Ghanaians are, anyone would want to be a beggar. Dr. Gariba is another disappointment in the government.
hamed 10 years ago

IN A TIME THAT GHANA FALKS ARE GOING TRU SUCH HARDSHIP OF HIGH TAXES NO JOBS AND DESTROY ECONOMY THIS MAN COME HERE AND INSULT US? THAT IS SHAMFULL REKLESS REMARKS

IN A TIME THAT GHANA FALKS ARE GOING TRU SUCH HARDSHIP OF HIGH TAXES NO JOBS AND DESTROY ECONOMY THIS MAN COME HERE AND INSULT US? THAT IS SHAMFULL REKLESS REMARKS
Master Kwaku 10 years ago

Begging, Ghanaian culture? IDIOT!!! With people like this in charge of Policy and running the country, how can this country ever progress? God help Ghana.

Begging, Ghanaian culture? IDIOT!!! With people like this in charge of Policy and running the country, how can this country ever progress? God help Ghana.
Akadu Mensema 10 years ago

Why oo why NDC?

Why oo why NDC?
princewilly@ymail.com 10 years ago

A man walks past a beggar every day and gives him 10 Cedis and that Continues for a year. Then suddenly the daily donation changes to 7.50 Cedis

"Well," the beggar thinks, "it's still better than nothing."

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A man walks past a beggar every day and gives him 10 Cedis and that Continues for a year. Then suddenly the daily donation changes to 7.50 Cedis

"Well," the beggar thinks, "it's still better than nothing."

A year passes in this way until the man's daily donation suddenly becomes 5 Cedis

"What's going on now?" the beggar asks his donor.

"First you give me Rs. 10 every day, then 7,50 cedis and now only 5 cedis What's the problem?"

"Well," the man says, "last year my eldest son went to university. It's very expensive, so I had to cut costs. This year my eldest daughter also went to university, so I had to cut my expenses even further."

"And how many children do you have?" the beggar asks.

"Four," the man replies.

"Well," says the beggar, "I hope you don't plan to educate them all at my expense.
Egya 10 years ago

Sule too is gone - supposed to be objective now feeling the heat and talking nonsense?

Sule too is gone - supposed to be objective now feeling the heat and talking nonsense?
mohammed 10 years ago

I don't accept this lie. If begging is our culture how many Mp's and government officials in the looting list are begging? why are ghanaians of such class not begging Dr Gariba? I tell you in the face point to me which cultur ...
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I don't accept this lie. If begging is our culture how many Mp's and government officials in the looting list are begging? why are ghanaians of such class not begging Dr Gariba? I tell you in the face point to me which culture? you see your so called African democracy? when they inflict undue hardships on the people and loot the people wealth to maintain a lifestyle, they concoct stories about the plight of the poor. look at fuel prices, electricity, healthcare, rent and you see the reality for a family of three not to talk of seven to ten
Ben, U.S. 10 years ago

What a stupid public statement from a Senior Policy Coordinator at the Office of the President. No wonder we are lost. We have ignorant, naive, and corrupt-minded, people running the affairs of Ghana. What a shame!

What a stupid public statement from a Senior Policy Coordinator at the Office of the President. No wonder we are lost. We have ignorant, naive, and corrupt-minded, people running the affairs of Ghana. What a shame!
Ben, U.S. 10 years ago

Correction: The title should have read "In Gariba's culture and NOT Ghana's!

Correction: The title should have read "In Gariba's culture and NOT Ghana's!
NII LARTEY NARTEY 10 years ago

Can't beleive Ghana has so low with all these riffraff baboons appointed to governmental positions destroying the image of the country.

Since when did begging became a culture of our hard working people and in our once di ...
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Can't beleive Ghana has so low with all these riffraff baboons appointed to governmental positions destroying the image of the country.

Since when did begging became a culture of our hard working people and in our once dignified Ghanaian society? This Gariba man must be made to apologize for such an insult on our national pride.

How come a whole government policy coordinator make such an unpardonable mistake to say begging is a Ghanaian culture?

May be in the stinky confused mind of this dimwit person from far north, begging is a culture in his primitively remote village which is far from civilization and where school classrooms are taken over and turned into toilets. Daniamah!

What is going wrong with such derogatory shameful statements in Ghana today?
Tamale Man 10 years ago

This man's origin is not from Tamale. He is yoruba from Nigeria born in Tamale. May be it's a yoruba culture.

This man's origin is not from Tamale. He is yoruba from Nigeria born in Tamale. May be it's a yoruba culture.
nana 10 years ago

What were you thinking, begging a culture? what were you thinking

What were you thinking, begging a culture? what were you thinking
Tamale Man 10 years ago

I can't believe this man with a Canadian education is making such a misplaced statement. This is hypocrisy and stupidity at its best.
Begging not a factor of adverse economic condition? If such people are advising Ghana's p ...
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I can't believe this man with a Canadian education is making such a misplaced statement. This is hypocrisy and stupidity at its best.
Begging not a factor of adverse economic condition? If such people are advising Ghana's president then the country is in big trouble.
I would like to see Sule's brothers and sisters begging on the street of Tamale since it is our culture.
Oh my God , I just can't believe reading this. This man ought to resign and resort to getting his dialysis treatment because it is obviously clouding his judgement. Sule you are plain ignorant.
Yaw Poku,USA 10 years ago

Some of them, not all of despite all the Phds are still have the inferiority complex thing in them that cloud their judgement.

Some of them, not all of despite all the Phds are still have the inferiority complex thing in them that cloud their judgement.
Yaw Poku, USA 10 years ago

Some of them, but not all despite all the Phds they have still have the inferiority complex thing in them that cloud most of their judgement. Oh Dr. Slley Gariba a Phd holder indeed.

Some of them, but not all despite all the Phds they have still have the inferiority complex thing in them that cloud most of their judgement. Oh Dr. Slley Gariba a Phd holder indeed.
LARYEAH 10 years ago

BEGGING IS A MIDDLE CULTURE FOR BOTH ISLAMIC AND THE THE JEWISH, AND NOT A GHANAIAN CULTURE. FOOLISH AND RETARDED GARIBA SHOULD BURIED HIS HEAD IN SHAME. THE NORTHERNERS, EWES THE EWES TOGOLESE COME TO KUMASI AND ACCRA TO BEG ...
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BEGGING IS A MIDDLE CULTURE FOR BOTH ISLAMIC AND THE THE JEWISH, AND NOT A GHANAIAN CULTURE. FOOLISH AND RETARDED GARIBA SHOULD BURIED HIS HEAD IN SHAME. THE NORTHERNERS, EWES THE EWES TOGOLESE COME TO KUMASI AND ACCRA TO BEG. THE AKANS WILL SHINE SHOES OR SELL NECKLACE THAN TO BEG; WHILES WE THE GAS WILL TAKE TO THE SEA OR SELL ANYTHING THAN TO STEALING AND BEGGING.
mohammed 10 years ago

Stop your nonsense and show me where you get these facts. you are a shame to the word truth. I cannot say more.

Stop your nonsense and show me where you get these facts. you are a shame to the word truth. I cannot say more.
Osei Yao 10 years ago

What does this ignorant dr talking about? what does he know about Ghana Culture? BEGGING IS NOT GHAHAIAN. Foreign Islamic religion requires giving alms to the poor in order to go to heaven. So it created a begger mentality. I ...
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What does this ignorant dr talking about? what does he know about Ghana Culture? BEGGING IS NOT GHAHAIAN. Foreign Islamic religion requires giving alms to the poor in order to go to heaven. So it created a begger mentality. In the past only muslims were begging. Akan culture frowns on begging-it is shameful.
clarence 10 years ago

I beg to defer with this man who thinks otherwise about poverty levels in Ghana and why people beg. I will also like to ask him where is he coming from? I think because he is well paid and so he cant see that people are strug ...
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I beg to defer with this man who thinks otherwise about poverty levels in Ghana and why people beg. I will also like to ask him where is he coming from? I think because he is well paid and so he cant see that people are struggling to survive. He must come again. He is living in comfort and cant see the bigger picture.
Papa Yaw 10 years ago

Oh ho

Oh ho
princewilly@ymail.com 10 years ago

Yaw and Kwamina are beggars. They beg in different areas of wall street in America...

Kwamina begs just as long as Yaw but only collects 2 dollars to 3 dollars every day.

Yaw brings home a suitcase full of 10 cedi notes ...
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Yaw and Kwamina are beggars. They beg in different areas of wall street in America...

Kwamina begs just as long as Yaw but only collects 2 dollars to 3 dollars every day.

Yaw brings home a suitcase full of 10 cedi notes, drives a Mercedes, lives in a mortgage-free house and has a lot of money to spend.

Kwamina says to Yaw, "I work just as long and hard as you do but how do you bring home a suitcase full of 10 dollar notes every day?"

Yaw says, "Look at your sign, what does it say'?

Kwamina sign reads: I have no work, a wife and 6 kids to support.
Yaw says, "No wonder you only get 2 dollars- 3 dollars." Kwamina says, "So what does your sign say"?
Yaw's sign reads: I only need another 10 dollars to move back to Ghana !
AWUDU 10 years ago

What is this thing about beggars on the coastal belt? I'm northerner; we need poverty to end there. Every person believing that he's rich in the north is a pauper down south somewhere. It's we average northerners that need th ...
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What is this thing about beggars on the coastal belt? I'm northerner; we need poverty to end there. Every person believing that he's rich in the north is a pauper down south somewhere. It's we average northerners that need the MDGs. So Sulley please look back northwards.
Panhandlers are everyhere. 10 years ago

Prince Willy, you have the right mindset. Please read the response to "NOT AKANS" and "STUPID NORTHERNER." We need to reverse this negativism and put downs in our society. "Y3n nyinaa y3 Nyankopong Twiediampong ne Ghana mma."

Prince Willy, you have the right mindset. Please read the response to "NOT AKANS" and "STUPID NORTHERNER." We need to reverse this negativism and put downs in our society. "Y3n nyinaa y3 Nyankopong Twiediampong ne Ghana mma."
NOT AKANS 10 years ago

ANOTHER STUPID NORTHERNER,JUST LIKE MAHAMA

ANOTHER STUPID NORTHERNER,JUST LIKE MAHAMA
Panhandlers are everywhere. 10 years ago

Don't blame panhandling on a particular tribe or region. Even in the Western world, in the so called land of "milk and honey"...there are panhandlers. Maybe you are OK but sometimes in life, some people through no fault of th ...
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Don't blame panhandling on a particular tribe or region. Even in the Western world, in the so called land of "milk and honey"...there are panhandlers. Maybe you are OK but sometimes in life, some people through no fault of theirs reach the end of their rope and have no choice but to trade their dignity for something to eat by begging.
What would you rather have: people begging to survive or people stealing to survive? Think about that next time you go to church.
STUPID NORTHERNER 10 years ago

PEEPEENI WILL ALWAYS BE PEEPEENI-A FOOL

PEEPEENI WILL ALWAYS BE PEEPEENI-A FOOL
Panhandlers are everywhere. 10 years ago

STUPID NORTHERNER, (not my words but yours), kindly read the response to NOT AKANS. Signed: "Nkabomu na ehia!"

STUPID NORTHERNER, (not my words but yours), kindly read the response to NOT AKANS. Signed: "Nkabomu na ehia!"
MARCUS AMPADU 10 years ago

Dr. Sulley Gariba is getting off scot-free. He needs to be challenged to define what he means by Ghanaian culture. At least, he needs to tell us the characteristics of the "Ghanaian culture". Do Ewes, Gas, Kwahus, Fantes, and ...
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Dr. Sulley Gariba is getting off scot-free. He needs to be challenged to define what he means by Ghanaian culture. At least, he needs to tell us the characteristics of the "Ghanaian culture". Do Ewes, Gas, Kwahus, Fantes, and Kokombas share the same characteristics - being that the above-listed ethnic groups are all Ghanaians?
francis 10 years ago

Stupid stupid stupid, pure simple stupid.
How can mother Ghana progress if we have such stupid people at higher office, my GOD !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! save mother Ghana.

Stupid stupid stupid, pure simple stupid.
How can mother Ghana progress if we have such stupid people at higher office, my GOD !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! save mother Ghana.
Asoreba 10 years ago

When are we going to learn to tell the truth?

When are we going to learn to tell the truth?
VICKY LEE BENTON 10 years ago

IT IS ONLY YOUR STATE WHERE YOU COME FROM THAT BEGGING IS YOUR CULTURE.
THE REST OF THE COUNTRY IS NOT SO. WE ARE A VERY HARD WORKING PEOPLE AND WE TAKE PRIDE OF OUR ACHIEVEMENTS.
YOU JERK!

IT IS ONLY YOUR STATE WHERE YOU COME FROM THAT BEGGING IS YOUR CULTURE.
THE REST OF THE COUNTRY IS NOT SO. WE ARE A VERY HARD WORKING PEOPLE AND WE TAKE PRIDE OF OUR ACHIEVEMENTS.
YOU JERK!

Begging is a Ghanaian culture not economic hardship – Dr Gariba

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