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Mahama Shuts down Flagstaff House central air conditioner

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  • joe sumane 10 years ago

    Very sensible

  • THOMPSON 10 years ago

    Surely this young prez. is just like NKROMAH let help him to build the nation, he is on the good curse.

  • OLD SOLDIER 10 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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  • PROUD GHANAIAN 10 years ago

    YOU'RE A PATHETIC MAN WHO IS UNWILLING TO HELP YOUR COUNTRY. IRRESPECTIVE OF YOUR POLITICAL AFFILIATIONS, YOU'RE JUST A BLOCK HEAD WHO IS ALWAYS POINTING FINGERS. THE SAD THING IS THERE ARE A MILLION OF BLOCK HEAD, FINGER POI ...
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  • william 10 years ago

    For now 'old soldier' is in a different world and apparently can't be helped. Only GOD can, one day, one day!!!

  • Kondua 10 years ago

    If Mahama is serious about the economy he should focus on retrieving all the monies that were fraudulently paid in the name of judgement debts, GYEEDA, Akomfem, Subah, etc. This move is only a vain attempt to salvage his alre ...
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  • oba nyansani baako Pe in Ghana! 10 years ago

    I am really disappointed to be a Ghanaian due to propaganda of So called NDC Party. Are they really human beings at all? Oh! No mother Ghana.

  • They Say They Say 10 years ago

    What's your point? Are you loosing it?

  • Shabi 10 years ago

    Thompson I hope the 'Nkromah' you are referring to is not the same person as the illustrious Osagyefo Osee adieyie Dr Kwame Nkrumah of blessed memory, the African of the milliennium.

  • Ghana ba 10 years ago

    Next move is the SUV's, ministers should use their prsonal cars to work as everyone does. All SUV's, Luxury and cross country cars are to be kept in the chief of staff or any other division deem fit. Ministers should write to ...
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  • DONBOLI 10 years ago

    We are saying govt should pay for what they use not turning off air conditions. We are tell the govt to put meters (not prepay) in all govt building so the govt can pay for what they use.
    John Mahama is today he thinks about ...
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  • ASIEDU NKETIA 10 years ago

    Mr. President,do you really sleep on a pillow? Look at accidents on our roads. low educational system. Rot in the govt.ministers, ports, Geeda, etc,and you sit,drink,and celebrate your birthday. Get out and solve them all.

  • Proud Pepeman. 10 years ago

    IT IS NOT JUST THE PRESIDENT WHO SHOULD BE UP AND DOING. MY BROTHER WAS TELLING ME ABOUT A BUS DRIVER WHO WAS GOING TOO FAST. WHEN SOME PASSENGERS COMPLAINED, THEY WERE SHOUTED DOWN. IN MOST CASES THAT WE HAVE ACCIDENTS IN TH ...
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  • Mr. Figure-Out 10 years ago

    Mahama is desperate and confused. The stagnation of the economy is all about the free bicycles, cars and laptops and what nots but not the usage or consumption of power at the ministries whose effect is just a microcosm of th ...
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  • Repugnant. 10 years ago

    Does prepaid metering mean that part of their bill is already covered by the government and only additional use is to be paid by the various ministries or what? Further explication please. As for this government the least sai ...
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  • Shabi 10 years ago

    OK so its a good move but did the President or govt take into consideration how these Ministries and MDAs will pay for their electricity without fail??

    What I fear may happen is that on the excuse of no money and therefore ...
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  • NAKED 10 years ago

    Good one there at least I have seen a sensible person who can reason and think, first and foremost, what is education at all? In a country where I come from, they defined education as anyone who can read and write English lan ...
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  • Joe 10 years ago

    It is true,bro.If you can only speak English fluently, but cannot think properly you are considered. they go to parliament with dictionries and encyclopedias to mark, sentences,to proof who made mistake while expressing his v ...
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  • WHO CARES 10 years ago

    THIS IS JUST BAND-AID FIX TO THE REAL ECONOMIC PROBLEMS. WE NEED LONG-TERM STRATEGIC ENERGY AND ECONOMIC FIXES NOT THESE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SOLUTIONS.

  • maggie 10 years ago

    NDC GAVE CP 84 million euros AND NOW THIS STUPIIID MOVE TO ACHIEVE WHAT?......NPP BUILT SIX CLASSROOM BLOCK FOR 80 million GHC only for NDC TO BUILD SAME FOR 350 million GHC..........NDC WASTEFULLY BOUGHT V8 VEHICLES FOR MINI ...
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  • yaanom 10 years ago

    the president and his comrades are jokers

  • DONBOLI 10 years ago

    Govt building should have meters not prepay. What happens if the lights goes off in offices? What will happen to the computers and how will anybody be able to work when it hot.
    Stupid idea turning air conditions off. Flagsta ...
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  • steve 10 years ago

    A very hot country as Ghana whereby generating of electricity from solar energy will be 100% possible and do away with all these ECG and VRA charging exorbitant prices. I hope my President Mahama will think about this solar ...
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  • Energy 10 years ago

    Well Steve, You could talk about how bad this government is ruling the country but I would like you to be more careful when talking about renewable energy resources. First, we have experts in Ghana but the government is not w ...
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  • Nana Boat 10 years ago

    We are lucky to have a long coastal line. We can add wind power in the mix of energy resources. By the way, Ghana gets more sunshine days than Germany, yet Germany invests heavily in solar power. Ghana sits almost on the Equa ...
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  • Agyeman. 10 years ago

    This president is in the same league as king Solomon in terms of wisdom and his focus is sharply aimed at leaving Ghana a better place.Wish we could keep him for the next 20yrs to elevate Ghana to the level of Singapore.Well ...
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  • Kondua 10 years ago

    Stop the blasphemy. How can you compare Mahama to King Solomon? hy should anybody praise Mahama for this elementary solution after he himself has caused this economic hardship? He used our resources for vote buying during the ...
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  • xhlemiso 10 years ago

    Good show but I think a small peck like central air for the Head of State cannot be begrudged. Certainly it must be a type that provides maximum efficiency at lowest cost. A general who joins his troops at the front is always ...
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  • Mark 10 years ago

    I think it will be hard for Mahama to tell anybody to cut their use of electricity if he does not cut his own use. However, there are lots of other things that a president can do to help a country's situation. Crack dwon on c ...
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  • Akans Prophecies 10 years ago

    Cross country race! The winner is never at his best, a chance, short-cuts even frauding and one has his trophy. After stealing Ghana's covers, ruining us to debts by hyper borrowing to bribe for his final in the shadows of a ...
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  • ZOOM 10 years ago

    the surest way to go

  • Eagle eye 10 years ago

    NOW I CAN SEE THE PRESIDENT IS WORKING TO FIX THE ROT IN THE SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT WHERE GOVERNMENT MINISTRY ENJOY ALMOST EVERYTHING WITHOUT PAYING, LETS SUPPORT THE PRESIDENT
    GOD BLESS FORMER PRESIDENT JJ, KUFFUOUR, AND PROT ...
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  • Togbui 10 years ago

    Mahama promised 200 SHS in 4 years (50 SHS every year) for us to vote for him!!! WHERE ARE WE?? NOT EVEN 1 SHS HAS BEEN BUILT!! And you think we are fools?? Come again for campaign in 2016 ok? KWASIA!!!!!!!!!!

  • Jack Toronto 10 years ago

    This is not a big deal. After all Bole is hot. Please folks in Ghana are hungry and unemployed. Problem should be resolved.

  • SAMMY 10 years ago

    MR PRESIDENT PLEASE NOTE THAT WHETHER PRE PAID OR POST PAID THERE WILL BE PAYMENT TO SETTLE.THE MOST IMPORTANT THING IS TO FINANACE THE NCCE DEPARTMENT TO ENABLE THEM EDUCATE GHANAIANS ON THE USE OF ELECTRICITY WISELY.FOOD ...
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  • Citizen 10 years ago

    Good move, this really puts money into ECG pockets, no money no power. Use power wisely. no more 'AC on all night long' or 'AC on all doors open' n charge ur phones at home!! hahaha

  • Alfred Doku 10 years ago

    This is a good move. I think we should move it to the district level, government schools and universities as well as other government institutions. The same modalities should be extended the use of water, telephone, internet, ...
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  • kb 10 years ago

    They use a lot of Electricity...!!

  • Nii Oshiki 10 years ago

    Mahama is still in first gear. He has to cut the number of useless appointees who take home millions every year.

  • Abongolaputa 10 years ago

    Shutting down air condition at the Flagstaff house is not significant at all. How is this going to affect my mother in the village? But the high cost of fuel, increasing school fees, lack of drugs in our hospitals, road accid ...
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  • PROUD GHANAIAN 10 years ago

    I THINK MOST OF U REGULAR GHANAIANS HERE ARE VERY VERY VERY STUPID. OH WAIT LET ME RETRACT MY WORDS...YALL ARE TO THE MOST EXTREME STUPID. DO YOU PEOPLE NOT WANT YOUR COUNTRY TO MOVE FORWARD? SOLUTIONS AND SAVINGS MUST START ...
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  • TEE 10 years ago

    ELECTRICITY METERS, ARE WE IN COMMUNIST COUNTRY. WHERE IS MAHAMA TAKING US TO. AND LOOK IT LOOK LIKE WE HAVE NO LEADERS WHO CAN OPEN THEIR MOUYH. WE LEAVING LIKE PRIMITIVE LAND

  • PROUD GHANAIAN 10 years ago

    ARE YOU A LEADER, WHAT HAVE YOU DONE LATELY IN YOUR LIFE OR YOUR COMMUNITY TO BETTER THEM? IF YOU'RE IRRESPONSIBLE AND SPEND LIKE MANIAC, YOU NEED TO BE SHOWN THE RESPONSIBLE WAY. CURB THAT ATTITUDE AND YOU WILL ALSO BE ABLE ...
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  • Cheap Observer 10 years ago

    Are we all that broke and cheap to shut down the central air-condition in Flagstaff House? This is not done anywhere in the world, unless may be poor cheap eastern Europe. Please let's have some dignity in the seat of govenme ...
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  • mama 10 years ago

    good move, but what are the long term effects of using standing fans in rooms that have no good ventilation systems. Fans are used when one can open windows for good circulation. well fire harzard, and rebreathing CO2 are som ...
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  • MR LONDON 10 years ago

    THIS PRESIDENT HAS A VISION. HE IS DOING GREAT JOB AND THE ONLY PEOPLE THEY CRITICISE HIM ARE THE GREEDY BASTARDS THEY ALWAYS WANT EASY LIFE

  • kojo 10 years ago

    populist action but this is reckless. How do you expect people to work in all that heat? Moreover this central may be needed to cool some critical instruments such as computers and servers and you are shutting it down. This w ...
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