Ghana’s problems: Nduom blames it on leadership

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Kwaku Asante. 9 years ago

I vehemently disagree with Dr. Nduom on sanitation. Is he telling me that the government must come an clean his house and around his house for him. Just last week,my Landlord was given a summons (ticket) in Brooklyn for fai ...
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I vehemently disagree with Dr. Nduom on sanitation. Is he telling me that the government must come an clean his house and around his house for him. Just last week,my Landlord was given a summons (ticket) in Brooklyn for failing to sweep away leaves that had fallen on the curb in front of his houe fro a tree standing in front of the house. The government or city clean streets and not peoples' houses. Ghanaians need to learn how to clean after themselves and please do not blame the government.
Egya 9 years ago

Was it not the "government" authorities in Brooklyn who gave the summons? Was it a communal affair? Why can't Mahama's administration ensure that they enforce our sanitation by-laws? Nobody is asking government to come and ...
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Was it not the "government" authorities in Brooklyn who gave the summons? Was it a communal affair? Why can't Mahama's administration ensure that they enforce our sanitation by-laws? Nobody is asking government to come and clean their house so stop your nonsensical noise.
eugene 9 years ago

and code enforcement in most USA cities will...But it is not the residents job to clean the gutters..even if they filled them with leaves or trash they will get billed..By way yahoo news says that NEW York and New Jersey are ...
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and code enforcement in most USA cities will...But it is not the residents job to clean the gutters..even if they filled them with leaves or trash they will get billed..By way yahoo news says that NEW York and New Jersey are the worst states in USA when it comes to tax's...makes you feel right at home..And the freeway i saw in new york was trash covered grass
think 9 years ago

you are a big foooollll....think before you talk.

you are a big foooollll....think before you talk.
Chief amankwa 9 years ago

Sack the man who cleaning up comes under his jurisdiction ....or job.
Sack mayor ,dce and zoom lion

Sack the man who cleaning up comes under his jurisdiction ....or job.
Sack mayor ,dce and zoom lion
EG Koomson 9 years ago

Mr. kwaku Asante, i do no think you understood Dr.Nduom's sense on sanitation very well. He is saying the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development, Metropolitan, Municipal and the DCEs are giving money to work on s ...
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Mr. kwaku Asante, i do no think you understood Dr.Nduom's sense on sanitation very well. He is saying the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development, Metropolitan, Municipal and the DCEs are giving money to work on sanitation, they are no doing it.Please Kwaku, Dr.Nduom is not saying that they should go to homes and houses to clean .The man is not wrong as you are saying.Again to fix the real problem of incompetence we have to elect our own leaders.
Photosy 9 years ago

As far back as I can recollect in 1975, UK had pre paid electricity meters almost everywhere. Was it that the British Government introduced this cause of bad leadership ? As far as I can recollect he NDUOM was the Minister f ...
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As far back as I can recollect in 1975, UK had pre paid electricity meters almost everywhere. Was it that the British Government introduced this cause of bad leadership ? As far as I can recollect he NDUOM was the Minister for energy during Kuffours era when the issue of prepaid meters was introduced with the chunk of the supply going to Kuffours son. Was it a bad leadership of President Kuffour. Such ingenuous and loose political talk shows the caliber of the people fighting to come power. Am not surprised that NDUOM has never ever won any serious elections. God is watching these fork tongues .
Rastafara"I" 9 years ago

He just likes to be in the news....I do not think he is a serious politician....The politics promotes the brand awareness of his businesses...

He just likes to be in the news....I do not think he is a serious politician....The politics promotes the brand awareness of his businesses...
Kofi 9 years ago

We have a bad culture to clean and clear up. We should not stand vague and watch it. The extension of how we keep our homes and environment is a spillover of the bad culture of our standards on cleanliness. I bet it is not on ...
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We have a bad culture to clean and clear up. We should not stand vague and watch it. The extension of how we keep our homes and environment is a spillover of the bad culture of our standards on cleanliness. I bet it is not only poverty.
eugene 9 years ago

you can go 1-2 or even more months if your business and not pay..And they will send collection agency or court to get money

you can go 1-2 or even more months if your business and not pay..And they will send collection agency or court to get money
Rastafara"I" 9 years ago

The guy does not even have what it takes to lead a political party...He has opinions about leading a whole country...Is it ironic?

The guy does not even have what it takes to lead a political party...He has opinions about leading a whole country...Is it ironic?
Landiz 9 years ago

The first action was to dissolved these institution before calling for national sanitation day. Taxing me to pay these people to clean and later asking me to join in cleaning is thievery. Whatever mahama has initiated is a s ...
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The first action was to dissolved these institution before calling for national sanitation day. Taxing me to pay these people to clean and later asking me to join in cleaning is thievery. Whatever mahama has initiated is a suspect. Yes,suber, merchant bank,Dada,gyeeda, etc
USMAN 9 years ago

This is how far our useless university education has brought us.

This is how far our useless university education has brought us.
eugene 9 years ago

never heard of un-acredited schools that take your money and give fake certificates or the let stupid people enrolled

never heard of un-acredited schools that take your money and give fake certificates or the let stupid people enrolled
Egya 9 years ago

I agree with PPP and Nduom. We are getting exactly what we voted for. Clueless incompetent leaders who like to blame the victims of their errors. And we have people who will blindly defend them who keep perpetuating injust ...
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I agree with PPP and Nduom. We are getting exactly what we voted for. Clueless incompetent leaders who like to blame the victims of their errors. And we have people who will blindly defend them who keep perpetuating injustice on the people. O Ghana!
HAN 9 years ago

GOOD AFRICAN LEADERS ARE ASSASSINATED OR FORCEFULLY REMOVED FROM OFFICE AND REPLACED WITH STOOGES.

GOOD AFRICAN LEADERS ARE ASSASSINATED OR FORCEFULLY REMOVED FROM OFFICE AND REPLACED WITH STOOGES.
Jomo Kenyatta 9 years ago

Egya, pls stop being a hypocrite, read Mark Ampah's comment below. Nduom your paymaster has got it wrong. Stop following Nduom blindly if you love the country. Nduom, likes the publicity stunts and that is where he spends his ...
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Egya, pls stop being a hypocrite, read Mark Ampah's comment below. Nduom your paymaster has got it wrong. Stop following Nduom blindly if you love the country. Nduom, likes the publicity stunts and that is where he spends his monies; to get his opinionated views published.
Mark Ampah 9 years ago

I have worked with Dr. Ndoum and we have collaborated on several projects to improve the lot of SME's in Ghana when I managed a project called the Enterprise Support Services for Africa (ESSA). We held several very useful mee ...
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I have worked with Dr. Ndoum and we have collaborated on several projects to improve the lot of SME's in Ghana when I managed a project called the Enterprise Support Services for Africa (ESSA). We held several very useful meetings and training sessions for SME's at his place in Elimina where he contributed immensely to our program's success. I respect Dr. Ndoum a lot, but take grave exception to his comments about pre-paid meters. In a developing country like Ghana where thee system for collecting and tabulating and billing electricity usage by workers going from house to house is fraught with corruption, difficulty (imagine walking in the hot African sun, with no better means of transportation, day-in and day-out going into peoples houses, sometimes meeting no-one home and having to go back several times, just to read their meters.) I would like Dr. Ndoum to try that for a day. The process is inherently inefficient, time wasting inaccurate corrupt. Meter readers collude with home owners to re-gig the meters to read slower thus resulting in lower payments. Ther are lots of people who don;t pay their rates resulting in huge accounts payable for ECG that cost more money to collect. Prepaid meters are the best solution and best practice under our situation in Ghana. People buy their cards, insert into their prepaid meters and monitor their usage. They buy more if they notice that they are running short. This not only helps them to budget how much electricity they can use, but also helps to control how people use electricity so that they are not wasteful conserve a limited resource. Prepaid meters also save the ECG a lot of headache in managing a workforce of electricity meter readers whose performance one cannot easily monitor. ECG also get access to cash before even the electricity is used, thus giving it a constant and reliable flow of cash that helps it to plan and manage its affairs efficiently. Only problem is that ECG is overstaffed, management is not up to scratch and there are a lot of illegal connections. If I am not wrong ECG losses about 27% of its transmission through distribution losses. Left to me alone, all old meters would be converted into pre-paid for the few reasons that I have listed above. Unfortunately, it seems Dr. Ndoum is playing politics with this particular system of electricity suply and taariff collection which I am sure he knows deep within himself is probably the most effective and efficient process, given our circumstances. The clean-up exercise, that is another issue. It is true that the government collects taxes and that there are people who should be held responsible for keeping our surroundings clean. But where in the developing world has this been successful? First, how many people who should be paying taxes actually pay their taxes? Our tax collectors actually collude with the few who pay taxes so that they would pay as little as possible without taking into consideration the harm that they are doing to the country as a whole, because they get kick-backs. Why does the government always have to go begging or loans? If we collect enough taxes and all those who are supposed to pay taxes are paying up, there would be less need for the GoG to go begging for loans. Now back to the monthly clean-up exercise. yes, the municipalities, towns and cities are responsible for cleaning the environment, but what is the harm if the government encourages ordinary citizens to also play their part in helping keep our environment clean. Where the line should be drawn is to not make it a criminal offence as that would be tantamount to a dictatorship. But Ghanaians, in general, should be proud enough about their environments to keep them clean. But alas that is not the norm. I visited Ghana with my family in December 2013 and as usual we took a trip to Elmina and stayed at Coconut Grove, Dr. Ndoums's resort. We visited Kakum and did the canopy walkway and also visited the Elmina Castle. Now Ghana is supposed to be encouraging tourism and these two sites re supposed to be two of our premier tourist attractions. But what did we see. The canopy walkway is poorly maintained since the Canadians left. The stings holding the walkways together are in disrepair and falling apart. One of these days, we may have an accident. The Elmina Castle is an eyesore. It needs a coat of paint. Entrance cgarges are exorbitant. What do they use the money for? GHC 40 to take a camera into the castle, no receipt given. There was a huge puddle of dirty water at the front gate that greets visitors. The gateman seems oblivious of the mess he is sitting in. He does not greet visitors, but wants to be tipped. People come onto the grounds near the parking and piss all over the place. There is no proper parking lot, just a dirt patch. There are hooligans harassing and trying to extort money from visitors for a "football club". There is an old rusty bridge that could fall over any day that is the main connection and throrughfare between the town and the market, another filthy area where no-one should buy food that is spread on the street.One can see people defecating on the beach where the fishermen land their catch. Talk about an incubator for cholera and all the other diseases that Ndoum was belaboring. All this is right in his backyard. So why does he not clean up his act?Lastly, with regards to South Africa, which was one of the example given by Ndoum,I can assure you that some of the biggest problems in the townships and municipalities are related to service delivery, including keeping the environment clean, lack of regular and reliable supply of electricity, water, etc. The country is presently going through a load shedding exercise where electricity is cut off almost daily. I am sorry Dr. Ndoum, I am apolitical. I don't give a damn which political party is running the country, so long as they do a good job. There are a lot of things going on that need to be addressed. But I think we should look at the bigger picture and find ways in which we can all pull together for a better Ghana. In these particular cases, I think you are a bit off base. You can contact me at mampah@gmail.com if you wish to discuss my observations further.
kofi Adu New York,New York 9 years ago

Nduom and hipic was in bed. by initiating it to pres. Kufour their payoff was 200,000 dollars a year(weakleaks). Be polite and talk wisely. You are very corrupt your uterances must rather refund of these money and heading to ...
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Nduom and hipic was in bed. by initiating it to pres. Kufour their payoff was 200,000 dollars a year(weakleaks). Be polite and talk wisely. You are very corrupt your uterances must rather refund of these money and heading to court. The fact remains that you hide the truth in a book. The lazy will nevet read.
Abdul Majeed from Spain 9 years ago

what is the use of metropolitan in the country?are they not paying to clean envoroments,are they not collecting a taxes?

what is the use of metropolitan in the country?are they not paying to clean envoroments,are they not collecting a taxes?
MARCUS AMPADU 9 years ago

In my opinion, the cause of the numerous problems we have socio-politically, socio-economically, as well as socio-ecologically is due basically to decades of poor education, couched in uncritical thinking, which is now refle ...
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In my opinion, the cause of the numerous problems we have socio-politically, socio-economically, as well as socio-ecologically is due basically to decades of poor education, couched in uncritical thinking, which is now reflected in poor leadership in practically most sectors.
ACCOUNT 9 years ago

Where is the DACF mandated by law to be transferred to the MMDA's to ensure the efficient running of these departments under the Ministry of Local Gov't and Rural Development? Where are the taxes collected for the DACF? Where ...
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Where is the DACF mandated by law to be transferred to the MMDA's to ensure the efficient running of these departments under the Ministry of Local Gov't and Rural Development? Where are the taxes collected for the DACF? Where is the DACF money? Has the DACF been transferred by the Mahama NDC gov't? If not, why?
Dr. Nduom is excellently correct in his assertion. There's no leadership, however, the most important question is where is the DACF which amongst other things serve to ensure waste management and sanitation in the metropolitan, municipal and district assemblies?
san 9 years ago

nduom was afraid of wireko brobey during VRA demonstration,he couldn'talk during NPP REGIME

nduom was afraid of wireko brobey during VRA demonstration,he couldn'talk during NPP REGIME
eugene 9 years ago

lazy blackman

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