CCTVs in Accra to monitor waste situation, bin theft

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  • Komla Agbeshie (Ho) 11 years ago

    Waste of tax payers money

  • THE PATRIOT 11 years ago

    I invite everyone to visit AMA office. What will shock you is that there is not a single bin in the forecourt! And he is blaming 'thieves' for the absence of bins in the city?

    Okoe is the very epitome of incompetence!

    H ...
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  • GHFUO: nyantakyi, 1/9aa must go ASAP! 11 years ago

    REALLY?! U NEED CAMERAS TO TELL YOU WHEN TO EMPTY TRASH ETC....LOOK, PPL WILL STEAL THESE BINS INFRONT OF THESE CAMERAS N THERE IS NOTHING U CAN DO ABOUT IT. AMA TRASH COLLECTORS WILL SEE TRASH PILE UP N THEY WONT PICK IT UP. ...
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  • GHFUO: nyantakyi, 1/9aa must go ASAP! 11 years ago

    I WAS HANGING OUT WITH A NIGERIAN FRIEND IN NIAGARA FALLS ABOUT A MONTH AGO. HE LITTERED AFTER EATING A SANDWICH. I TOLD HIM THAT WASCRASS, PICKED UP THE LITTER N PLACED IT IN A TRASH BIN. OUTHERE, U SEE A TRASH BIN EVERY 5/1 ...
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  • Nii 11 years ago

    Go and learn from other countries who have succeeded in collecting waste in practical ways

  • francis sam 11 years ago

    SURVEILLANCE CAMERAS WILL MAKE A DIFFERENCE BUT WHO WILL MONITOR THE
    CAMERAS AND WHAT WILL BE THE RESPONCE
    TIME I WILL LIKE SOME ANSWERS FROM THE MAYOR
    MR MAYOR WHAT ABOUT ACCESS TO WATER
    FOR WASHING HANDS IN THE C ...
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  • Pround pepeni. 11 years ago

    IT CERTAINLY WILL BE A WASTE IF MONITORING AND FOLLOW UP IS NOT ENFORCED. THE MAYOR HAS NO SHAME. HE SHOULD HAVE RESIGNED LONG AGO.

  • Agyeman 11 years ago

    Wasteful idea by foolish mayor.Technology can never take the place of diligence,hard work and integrity.How did old world cities keep so clean long ago without tech?You council is just corrupt and lazy.

  • WILD AND WISE 11 years ago

    In all things our national problems are due to lack of enforcement not monitoring. Bribery and corruption, added to absence of dedication and selflessness, have plunged our country into a state of wrecklessness and wanton dis ...
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  • S>L>Y> 11 years ago

    lets face the fact we are very dirty, the council is facing huge challenges and we need some public education on waste disposal. if i had my way first and foremost pure water sachets should be banned completely. it has worked ...
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  • Pumpuni 11 years ago

    Answer to the garbage problem: Scheduled garbage pick up days and times.

  • onetribe 11 years ago

    Incredible how daft the people leading us are. We have let the mad men run the asylum

  • TK 11 years ago

    Boss, do u think people will steal the waste bin and leave the cameras? In your dreams

  • Efo Kobla 11 years ago

    How feasible? Why don't you use the money to install the CCTV to buy more trucks? Where in the world is CCTV used to monitor rubbish? The idea is a waste and must be thrown into the waste bin.

  • pepi 11 years ago

    Mr Mayor please dont weaste your time and money. Ghanians will steal anything even if bolted down

  • atadwe-G 11 years ago

    ....they have started stealing the solar panels from the newly installed solar street lights.

  • TEE 11 years ago

    LOOK MAHAMA IS A NORTHERNER AND THESE PEOPLE NEVER SEE ANYTHING NEAT OR CLEAN BEFORE, THEY ONLY LIKE LEAVING ONLY IN DIRTH FILTH PERIOD

  • TEE 11 years ago

    MAHAMA IS GOOD IN STEALING

  • Unbelievable 11 years ago

    Do we need to waste money on cctvs to monitor waste, where bins are been stolen and when to pick the up, what the hek is all these stupid reasons. Who in this modern world uses cctvs to do such jobs. First fix the time and da ...
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  • Unbelievable 11 years ago

    Do we need to waste money on cctvs to monitor waste, where bins are been stolen and when to pick them up, what the hek is all these stupid reasons. Who in this modern world uses cctvs to do such jobs. First fix the time and d ...
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  • DR KUFFOUR 11 years ago

    What a waste of money on waste. How can these CCTVS keep Accra clean? We need foot soldiers to patrol the streets and deal with the public and also 1 or 2 more waste company apart from Zoomlion to deal with the large amount o ...
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  • Ras k 11 years ago

    Let us go for another loan to set up a plant that turns trash into power.The Japanese have the technology.We will be keeping Ghana clean and getting electricity too.Oh my people be smart.Jah bless

  • vee 11 years ago

    When cctv is use in other countries for crime and safty of the citizens, cctv is going to be installed in accra for waste bins... this is insane. God grant us wisdom.

  • B-WISE 11 years ago

    What are the AMA officers doing at the lorry stations and at the market places??? Always collecting money from shops, venders, kayayei, commercial vehicles and chasing sellers for their wares. Those so-call AMA task force emp ...
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  • liv 11 years ago

    If the residents of Nima can steal the Steel Fence on Kanda highway, what is waste bins. As long as we have Zongos, Agbobloshie, Makola etc. Accra will never be clean. Oh Mr. V. don't forget to install cameras at our beaches ...
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  • Adelaide guy(Shanton) 11 years ago

    What a useless and disgraceful act incompetent

  • Jojo Williams 11 years ago

    Stupid mayor! And what will you do when u see someone stealing a waste bin! Chase and catch him? and do what? You are exceedingly idiotic to waste money this way. And you are upset that people refuse to pay property tax in Ac ...
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  • Jojo Williams 11 years ago

    Does Mahama deliberately find idiots and appoint them? This is the most stupid guy I have ever heard about in my life!

  • ed 11 years ago

    The cameras themselves will be stolen

  • AME, USA 11 years ago

    Mr. Van, this is not very effective and a waste of tax payers money. Please divide accra into 4 or 5 zones.the trash should be collected twice a week in each zone or district. THERE SHOULD ALSO BE A MONTHLY CLEAN UP EXERCISE ...
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  • Lord Tennison 11 years ago

    You are so funny!Who told you that CCTVs are used to solve this kind of problem?
    You are a US Citizen.So throughout your stay in the US,you did not sight a waste truck picking up waste in the morning to be sent to a landfill ...
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  • KWAME-BELGIUM 11 years ago

    This is very worrying. How possible that the people of Accra behave this way? The instllations of cameras are going to cost still money. Why can't the people of Accra have respect for such items? This is a shame and aterall ...
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  • kwaku 11 years ago

    We cannot keep dustbin from getting stolen. You think cameras will not get stolen. More stupid ideas flowing. More contracts to waste more money for cameras. Enforce and keep the city clean. What are your people doing. People ...
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  • kk 11 years ago

    Abropakyie. You sit down for someone to push you do something.crazy

  • GHFUO: nyantakyi, 1/9aa must go ASAP! 11 years ago

    AMA GOES TO CHINA N IMPORT SHIPPING BARREL N REFER TO THEM AS TRASH BINS? MUAHAHAAAAAA. WHY WONT PPL STEAL THEM? THE SESAME AMA EMPLOYEES ARE THE ONES STEALING N RESELLING THEM ON THE OPEN MARKET. BRING IN HUGE, METAL CONTAIN ...
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  • Akyem Mafia 11 years ago

    Please Ataa Oko stop this nonsence and leave the work to the Health Inspectors and Accra will be clean. Just give them labourers as of old and things will work. Let Zoomlion only provide sanitation vehicles to support them. Y ...
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  • Abrokwa Gyampem 11 years ago

    U do not have electricity and u are talking about cctv.......so the thieves will wait for the lights to go off before going to steal the bins,.......simple!!!!!

  • Ghfuo, heaven is NOT for idiots! 11 years ago

    Dude, email me. Nana in Canada
    Tuxman06@yahoo.ca

  • Agya 11 years ago

    YOU NEED TO RESIGN NOW?

  • freddielivesinholland 11 years ago

    You did say right Jack