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Sanitation Day: You could be punished for not taking part

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  • Edmund 9 years ago

    Thank you mr president my almighty God bless you and your gov't and people of Ghana

  • Ken Ntiamoa 9 years ago

    It is foolish to ask every Ghanaian to stop whatever they are doing once a month to go clean the rest of Ghana. Apart from my house and my compound, I am not obliged to clean no other person's filth. The town or city council ...
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  • MANTSE 9 years ago

    The following is my PLAN and STRATEGY in dealing with SANITATION ISSUES if I were to be Appointed SANITATION CZAR by the GOVT:

    In most Developed Countries, National Service is about Service to Humanity and Less-Endowed Com ...
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  • pkirks 9 years ago

    You are as idiot and unpatriotic as your family. This is required if every citizen to help clean up the environment . You are the same people who go about littering and urinatung in every corner of the street. Now you are tal ...
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  • Ken Ntiamoa 9 years ago

    I am inclined to believe that there is something wrong with you upstairs

  • Aikins 9 years ago

    All jokers in the picture, fools

  • BBC NEWS! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 9 years ago

    Is NANA BINLADDO a Ghanaian at all ? Why he never participates in nation building ? Shame on him, he will never ever be a President in my country Ghana.

  • NDC 9 years ago

    What are the prisoners doing at all,the government should use them effectively for this job as they are also living on our taxes

  • KB 9 years ago

    What I so difficult about hiring people to do the clean up.

  • CORNEY 9 years ago

    The day will always have a low patronage because Saturday especially the first one is when people have all activities including funerals,you don't expect people to leave the bodies of their love ones and go out to do cleaning ...
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  • Nii Lante Okunka 9 years ago

    Isn't it a shame,as a very religious people,we descend to the abysmal depths of outrageousness by setting a day in our life to clean our own mess?Shouldn't cleanliness be part of our living?Why should we be "forced" to clean ...
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  • Toffey 9 years ago

    Many thanks, dear friend. Isn't it a folly to wait for a day in a month to clean up mess that you create. Instead of encouraging people and coaching them to make cleaning and cleanliness a daily stuff we hail a useless concep ...
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  • Concerned 9 years ago

    The last clean up they did totally exposed their foolishness as they gathered the rubbish and just left it to spread again. I can bet anything that the idiotic minister would not have learnt his lesson. Adults have things to ...
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  • Campo are Blaise 9 years ago

    What is the law backing this forced labor? Bring back town councils to ensure cleanliness all the time, not just once a month.

  • Contrarian 9 years ago

    Working without pay under the threat of punishment is slavery. Laws should prevent rubbish from accumulating not force people to clean up the mess someone else made

  • Samuel Asante 9 years ago

    If this exercise is not made into a law whereby people are punished for not taking part, it would not be effective.

  • Samuel Asante 9 years ago

    If this exercise is not made into a law whereby people are punished for not taking part, it would not be effective.people should be fined for it to work.

  • CORNEY 9 years ago

    Even if they make it a law it is not going to work,sometimes we need to think very well before we talk and before we make laws.
    The first Saturday of every month is when most funerals are held the reason being that people ju ...
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  • pkirks 9 years ago

    Just go to Nigeria, they have dedicated every first Thursday of the month as their clean up day, and it starts from 12.00am to 10:00am. No one opens shop and no cars drive on the main road. Everyone is to take part of it and ...
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  • Sasu 9 years ago

    Gentleman we have all witnesed the Nigerian one before. Yes, Stores don't open but people are not forced to participate. It's that simple. I witnessed in Ogun State, Agbara to be precise. But that the why they call themselves ...
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  • Dee 9 years ago

    Go back to Nigeria n see how dirty Lagos is... I'll take Ghana without Sanitation day anyday. A step in the right direction to have Sanitation day but to turn it into LAW....Jokers

  • Sigma 9 years ago

    Communism, communism! This shows where Ghana is heading to.

  • Yankee 9 years ago

    Low patronage again? Enact the law and enforce it mercilessly ,else the whole idea will die a natural death. The sad thing is that most people do read political meanings into it. When there is an outbreak of disease, it does ...
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  • Kodjo 9 years ago

    Bullshit, fine people who keep their environment filthy. Have they worked out the cost to GDP of everyone Downing their tools once a month to clean, something we should do as matter of everyday living? Julius I am a fan of yo ...
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  • Kwame 9 years ago

    Wa Bo dam?
    Who should chop the money for who to clean .clean your mess , corruption etc. Then you can have the moral high ground to tell suffering Ghanaians to clean the dirt !

  • Ugly Akufo Addo 9 years ago

    You are too old , Akufo Addo is not for

  • APUU ETAA 9 years ago

    How can you enforced this law?Are they going to issue ticket to them or arrest them and where the police to do that.Govt should educate Ghanaians about cleanness.

  • Hp 9 years ago

    Lawlessness everywhere.

  • MANTSE 9 years ago

    In most Developed Countries, National Service is about Service to Humanity and Less-Endowed Communities.

    Students waiting to enter the workforce become a source of Inexpensive and Abundant labor for Civil Issues such as S ...
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  • Kanawu 9 years ago

    Admit that these government has stolen all the country money hence there is no money to manage the sanitary workers.. Npp improved zoomlion to keep protection on sanitation... Go and punish ur mother and father if they don't ...
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  • Kwesi 9 years ago

    Did madam Lordina and the dozen Mahama children take part in the clean up exercise?

  • ... 9 years ago

    Who told you Mahama has 12 kids? The atopa man 24 or more! That's why he keeps stealing so much of our money (so many mouths to feed).

  • Frank 9 years ago

    Who told u there can be such law in Ghana. There must rather be a law that prevent people from litering around and it must be enforced. After people have scattered rubbish around no law can force innocent to clean the mess. I ...
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  • Kofi 9 years ago

    We should punish the Govt for failing to provide adequate sanitary amenities.On that note,can we sue the Govt for gross negligence of duty in paying humongous judgement debt to our disadvantage?

  • ... 9 years ago

    Julius Debrah is reportedly the best of Mahama's ministers. I wish he (Julius) was president, instead of that oaf and thief John MAHAMA. Julius Debrah should re-introduce the old sanitary inspectors system that was dubbed 'ta ...
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  • Amadu 9 years ago

    First promulgate a law that will punish people who throw filth in our gutters and on the street. If this mumu president sees the need to clean the streets rather than encouraging his cronies who have been given power to enfor ...
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  • ISSA ABONGO 9 years ago

    THE LYING NDC PROMISED A CLEAN UP IN 100 DAYS, IT IS NOW 6 YEARS AND THEY ARE NOW TRYING TO FORCE PEOPLE LIKE IN NORTH KOREA, TO HELP THEM DO THE JOB THEY WERE ELECTED TO DO. SO JOHN MAHAMA IS NOW THE KIM JONG IL OF GHANA, BR ...
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  • RUDY MAHAMA COCAINE 9 years ago

    THE LYING NDC PROMISED A CLEAN UP IN 100 DAYS, IT IS NOW 6 YEARS AND THEY ARE NOW TRYING TO FORCE PEOPLE LIKE IN NORTH KOREA, TO HELP THEM DO THE JOB THEY WERE ELECTED TO DO. SO JOHN MAHAMA IS NOW THE KIM JONG IL OF GHANA, BR ...
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  • Jordan Doucoure 9 years ago

    Ghanians should be happy to clean their environments and make it better place to live.At leasy some of us who are jobless get use to dirty jobs that they could take one day,if 2morrow govt decide to give contract to clearing ...
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  • Toffey 9 years ago

    Foolish talk. Do you think we are still in the military era. Nonsensical stuff.

  • Concerned 9 years ago

    If he brings in that stupid byelaw, it would be challenged in court.

  • Salu 9 years ago

    Low-thinking minister. Do you think everybody thinks like you to wait for a so-called Sanitation Day before cleaning. For positive-thinking people, cleaning is a daily activity and won't wait for filth to build and dedicate o ...
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  • apostra 9 years ago

    Yes it is tru. He has a child with my school mate

  • ex Cpl ENYONAM 9 years ago

    Punish absentees my foot.Don't the assemblies have paid workers for such daily routine work.Nonsense!get to Manshyia and punish Otumfour for being absent this second round.A incapable govt always formulate useless laws to for ...
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  • kutsii 9 years ago

    Nonsense. Come and punish me. Instead of employing people to clean Ghana, u use tax payer's money to sponsor idiots to the world cup .Do u know how much 12 million dollars can do in sanitation. ? :Nkwaseasem

  • Jo 9 years ago

    why wouldn't they make a law that if you don't join the corrupt government, you could face sanctions, nansins, when they told us they were going to clear rubbish in 100 days, where were their brains, thinking the rubbish will ...
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  • PAPSON 9 years ago

    You can not force Ghanaians to engage in what the government has provided money for a ministry to do. After steeling all our money , you now want Ghanaians to cover your shame. NDC, you have failed Ghanaians and I promise yo ...
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  • mr amin 9 years ago

    Ban plastics or forget about clean envaroment.i will not patispate untill I
    u ban plastics

  • BBC 9 years ago

    Stop corruption at the harbour,among MPs ,ministers and there will be money to pay people to do it.You waste billions paying judgement,hotel accommodation for CHRAJ BOSS and you wants to punish people for not taking up clean ...
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  • VOICE OF REASON 9 years ago

    A natural death on 1st Jan 1997 when Dumb Mahama will be booted out with his daft and stupid ideas.....dissipate $5 billion dollars on an irresponsible,reckless and feckless pre-election free giveaway spree and ask Ghanaians ...
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  • Modibo Keita 9 years ago

    And what about those who are paid to do the cleaning? I rest my case

  • VOICE OF REASON 9 years ago

    President.Why do we pay taxes? What are institutions there for? What are municipal and district councils there for?Why are their Common Funds not paid to them l?So for how long will this dumb and president descend to the gutt ...
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  • Lori 9 years ago

    This the most stupid and nonsense statement. People are looking for work why not employ them. Or you want freebie to pocket the money bunch of corrupt bastards.

  • Mensah 9 years ago

    there is no sensible person in that idiotic mafia gang; Ghana is a democracy, and you can't force anyone to do anything, buffoons; just pay the numerous sanitation companies to do the job they are supposed to do; you don't pa ...
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  • country lover 9 years ago

    If memory serves me right there wasn't there a promise to make Accra squeaky clean within the first 100 days of this administration? I could be wrong ,although i reckon the lies are so much now my head spins everytime they sp ...
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  • ktaw 9 years ago

    Distribute ''PLOTS" as was those days in the primary and JSS time.

  • John G. 9 years ago

    - Cleaning ourselves and the environment should be a daily thing.

    - Concerning the environment, I believe sanitation Law be enacted and to be enforced, for our good.

    -Citizenry should plan and adjust their activities (s ...
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  • bone shasha 9 years ago

    The clueless president confused every where $40million mansion in Dubai and now selling our only properties left m our children future in serious trouble with we

  • ANIM LAZARUS 9 years ago

    Why not a monthly public awareness on debt management,use of the taxpayers money ? How could a hungry person work.Charity usually begins at home,the sanitation should start from the financies. Before it gets to the streets.Ap ...
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