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Photos: Pong Tamale SHS boys sleep in toilet cubicles

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  • Private Mensah 8 years ago

    look at this I am NDC but this is not acceptable at all- what is going on in Ghana

  • PRINCE KWASI ADADE (OFIE P33) 8 years ago

    AUTHOR: CLOSE OBSERVER-------- Stupid people are dominating our leadership positions. NDC does not believe that Ghanaians are suffering. Ghanaians will therefore not see the end of their problems until the USELESS NDC governm ...
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  • zaku 8 years ago

    John bole av heard dis

  • OLD SOLDIER 8 years ago

    This Pratt has sold his conscience
    Author: Efo Kwaawaaku Canada.....


    If that is the case MPS are not special, then I'll like to ask Pratt is John Mahama special? as well as the ministries who have 24 hours protection by ...
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  • Bfire 8 years ago

    Don't blame gov't blame school authorities because they know the capacity of the school and should have admitted more than that. We shouldn't blame gov't for everything when people are paid to manage the various facilities an ...
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  • OLD SOLDIER 8 years ago

    Author:-ADANKO...
    Don't go far to punish an innocent person. Mahama is the brain behind it.Asiedu Nketia brought the idea and supported byNDC national council. It is a way to get money for their party.

  • Baba Musah 8 years ago

    If the computer selected 850 students to the school, can the headmistress reject the 350 students? Even if she should, how will the rejected students feel? Think wise.

  • Adu Boah 8 years ago

    We cant put everything on the shoulders of the government; the government has its own role to play as the citizen has its own role. Maybe to Ghanaian, they want Ghana to be like Dubai where money making is not difficult to co ...
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  • OLD SOLDIER 8 years ago

    Author:-BBC NEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WHERE DID GHANAIANS GO WRONG TO SUFFER LIKE THIS? YOU MAHAMA BUILDING YOUR HOTELS ABROAD, AFRIYIE ANKRA BUYING MANSIONS AT EAST LEGON, OKUDJETO ACQUIRING FILLING STATIONS ALL OVER, T ...
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  • Johannes B Awotwe 8 years ago

    If we have known this problem since the days of Nkrumah and still haven't got an answer to it then we are behaving like vultures whose motto is: "Okyena mesi me dan! "

    That is a the peak of every dry season, we promise to ...
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  • Martin 8 years ago

    Ghanaians for political reasons, are quick to blame the government for their failings. Rains don't fall, blame the government, you have a headache, blame the government. Blaming the government won't solve the country's proble ...
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  • inercycl 8 years ago

    We stop blaming government when it is true they are doing the best they can and not stealing from the people

  • KOFFI 8 years ago

    Why should we not blame Government when it is the responsibility of government to exact taxes and contract loans on behalf of the good people of Ghana for the provision of such infrastructure. The prudent thing to do is for
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  • NPP SENIOR CITIZEN 8 years ago

    Even an animal will clearly see that this a set up, where are the students lying on the mattresses? Curses be on false and wayward journalists

  • YF 8 years ago

    May it return to you and your ndc in JESUS NAME AMEN....... You can't steal from the people and curse them for your negligence. Government is voted to power to see to the well being of the people but not to steal, intimidate ...
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  • They Say They Say 8 years ago

    This is what chicken noodle story looks like heheheeeee.

  • Nii THOMPSON 8 years ago

    Stop fooling yourself that you are ndc

  • E. T. Mensah 8 years ago

    They promised a "BETTER GHANA AGENDA" and yes they provide "BITTER GHANA AGENDA". The results of failed policies of an incompetent NDC clowns!

  • Private Mensah 8 years ago

    The true state of the nation is yewokrum- no chairs for pupils and students sleeping in the toilets oh and teachers who cannot be paid- what a shame

  • Adu Boah 8 years ago

    Somethings we speak out of ignorance but the school knew the blame should be given to the NDC or the government, he house master could have said that in the article. Better Ghana Agenda doesn't mean development must take plac ...
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  • Private Mensah 8 years ago

    Then you are the one speaking out of ignorance i am afraid- why shud a student sleep in the school toilets under Mahama if he says he is a good leader? Please the presidency is not by force -if u cant leave and let the compe ...
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  • United Ghana 8 years ago

    True, and these unfunny clowns are building new schools, for electoral propoganda, whilst existing ones are collapsing. Where's the progress? Ghana is doomed under useless Mahama.

  • Awuku 8 years ago

    It is because of situations like this that Prez Mahama is building more schools. These problems will be over in due course. The NPP cocaine sniffer does not care. All he says is free education whether there are structures or ...
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  • ISAKKA 8 years ago

    This is the problem when you vote for a talkative who does not know his right hand from left hand. Promising and promising and nothing gets done. November is coming they should use the back of their brains and vote for him ag ...
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  • Adu Boah 8 years ago

    We shouldn't be hypocrite but be realistic, We shouldnt blame the government for everything. This is the same reason why the NDC is building more schools to curtail the problems facing the education sector. Government is work ...
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  • Kwabena worae 8 years ago

    MAHAMA YOUR STATE OF THE NATION PROPAGANDA IS NOW TATTERED FOR EVERYONE TO SEE. SHAME ON YOU, WE WILL VOTE YOU OUT. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. TO WHOM MUCH IS GIVEN, MUCH IS DEMANDED, YOU CANT BORROW $37BILLION AND ONLY SHOW WORK FOR ...
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  • Adu Boah 8 years ago

    The president started by saying despite the numerous challenges facing the nation, this is how far we have endured. Mahama never claimed the achievement to himself but attributed it to the Ghanaian. $37 Billion that Mahama bo ...
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  • watchoo 8 years ago

    Better Ghana Agenda

  • John Xexemeku 8 years ago

    This is the result of recklessness and mediocrity. Where did we go wrong?

  • SEAMAN 8 years ago

    I attended Navrongo Secondary School in the mid 70s at a time when many Middle Schools were being converted into Secondary Schools. Infact we converted the toilets into study cubicles while the School authorities made efforts ...
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  • Angie 8 years ago

    Seaman, say something sensible please. Are you aware that these are STUDENTS & not HOMELESS PEOPLE? This is so embarrassing and inhumane. They're donating cars freely to notable people while children still schooling in a depl ...
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  • Adu Boah 8 years ago

    That is the fact, Seaman is trying to bring on board, He was a teacher as i guess. The government is not suppose to walk to the school and ask them what do they want. The school authority should have prompted the government o ...
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  • Atoapoma Abransamadu 8 years ago

    Seamam are you normal at all? You sound too stupid!

  • SEAMAN 8 years ago

    I guess NPP time was the golden era of Ghana. I laugh off my jaws. Because pictures were not put in the press, does not mean it did not exist. I can tell you Navrongo Secondary School deteriorated beyond repair in the NPP era ...
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  • Amonoo 8 years ago

    Then advise NDC to stop saying they have eliminated schools under trees. If this is happening in Wa the regional capital, imagine what is happening the remote places in Upper West.

  • YF 8 years ago

    Which regions is your government developing don't ? Don't tell me eastern or Ashanti, central or Western so where? Shameful and shameless lot, who are desperate than ndc thieves? Ghanaians have no accountability with the npp ...
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  • Ashitey A 8 years ago

    So it happened in the north in the 70s, so it is ok it happens again in the north in 2016.

  • Adu Boah 8 years ago

    You has asked a good question, this is the right time the NDC has put mechanism in place to ensure that these schools have a conducive atmosphere to study and sleep. The President community SHS will not give the opportunity t ...
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  • Kwaku. 8 years ago

    See Bawumia for remedy

  • Gina 8 years ago

    Omg is this true? I can't even fathom seeing anybody sleeping inside a restroom. Why continue to admit students in dorms if you don't have anymore rooms to accommodate them? Is this illegal and won't the government fine the s ...
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  • Gina 8 years ago

    Meant 'is this legal

  • GHANA 8 years ago

    ALL THIS IS THE FAULT OF KUFOUR AS THE SCHOOL WAS ESTABLISHED DURING HIS ERA AND WHAT DID HE DO?

  • Private Mensah 8 years ago

    r u having a laugh? please don't comment if u haven't got anything better to say- please

  • DDT 8 years ago

    It's better than some of you your houses. If such a toilet can be found in North now, then Ghana is growing. I am not ndc but npp is behind all this nonsense. They are not damaging ndc but Ghana. Foolish people.

  • Kwame 8 years ago

    Self contain bedrooms have baths and toilets in them. I hope that NPP people do not live in self contained bedroom, but rather prefer detached bedrooms from toilets and baths. The students are supposed to come out during the ...
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  • Visio 8 years ago

    You're not making any sense. I have no clue what you're trying to say.

  • Nublanuinya 8 years ago

    A toilet can be as a beautiful as anything but the hygiene and sanitation challenges are the same. No one sleeps in toilets, just imagine the bacteria in the toilet itself, the different footsteps coming in and going out, oth ...
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  • Private Mensah 8 years ago

    it is fine for you to put on ur propaganda hat- if u r not a hypocrite try sleeping in that toilet for a day and see if ur mind will not change--idiot

  • DDD 8 years ago

    OK then you to you part of them because you are a Ghanaian

  • MOVE ON MAHAMA 8 years ago

    WOW...WHAT A NEAT TOILET FOR A SCHOOL...BRAVO TO GOVERNMENT...WE CAN EVEN PARTY THER...GOOD WORH DONE ...DRAMANI MAHAMA

  • Norbert 8 years ago

    If they are using the toilet as dormitories where are they shitting then? You NDC people are very very very foolish indeed. So if it is still being used a s a toilet, you will be sleeping there and someone with diarrhea will ...
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  • Hani 8 years ago

    I think there has been a great improvement in toilet facilities for public schools......

  • Hani 8 years ago

    The school is full, no extra room for boarders is it by force to be admitted...Where are their parents? They should find another school....

  • Akos 8 years ago

    Wow, what a joke of a country and some people on this forum are actually fascinated about seeing a 'neat' toilet? A toilet is a toilet, a place you go to eliminate waste product within you, not a place to sleep. Shame on the ...
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  • 2020 8 years ago

    HEY FOOLIS THIS BETTER GHANA

  • Zubi 8 years ago

    Ask those who were boarders in the SHS, it is more comfortable to stay in bath and toilet hses than the dormitory which is not even congested. U may only fool the innocent ones NPP. now we knw tad U want to go at all lenth to ...
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  • palwine seller 8 years ago

    North

  • Odikro 8 years ago

    The corrupt John Mahama and his team of advisers should have invited some of those students to the so-called State of the Nation address.

  • truth 8 years ago

    Must be SACKED.

  • Ganyo 8 years ago

    Between 1974 and 1976, some of us 6th form students in the Nsien sec sch in Axim elected to sleep in the toilet cubicles which was never used for it's intended purpose because it gave us privacy. It wasn't news then and so wh ...
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  • Martin 8 years ago

    In light of the fact that the school lacks enough dormitory to accommodate all the students, what prevents the headmistress from placing an embargo on admitting students? Alternately, the school could admit more day students ...
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  • MR. EL-DEENI 8 years ago

    This is really bad. from the report, the skul said it was given more students than it can accommodate and sumtym ago i heard the GES say skuls hv no ryt to reject any students, and dat each skul was allocated with students ...
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  • OBINNA 8 years ago

    IN THIS DAY AND AGE IN GHANA STUDENTS SLEEP IN TOILET ROOMS DUE TO OVERCROWDING? WHAT A SHAME.

  • JM 8 years ago

    You believe that? OBINNA.

  • Doobia 8 years ago

    Interesting! Is it that boarding schools admit every student and give boarding status? Are they not students attending Pong Tamale SHS who are day students? Is it possible to quickly conclude that the administration of the S ...
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  • inercycl 8 years ago

    Asiedu Nketia should be arrested first.Then the rest should follow. What another shame!

  • JM 8 years ago

    NPP trying to insult northerners that they are poor, Bawomia propagandist 50Gh thief from the north showing untruthful pictures thinking that can heat NDc hard. Well my advise to NPP Bawomia is that evils that men do lives af ...
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  • iriti 8 years ago

    We slept in them at Legon till they became official rooms: go see!

  • Ernest mensah 8 years ago

    Why did they do that

  • PEPENI 8 years ago

    HOW COME ALL SUCH THINGS ARE NOW COMING OUT? THESE ARE POSSIBLY COOKED UP.

  • STEPHEN OSEI,NORWAY 8 years ago

    THE LEADERS DOES NOT BELIEVE THAT MOST GHANIANS ARE SUFFERING IN THE COUNTRY,WHY WE VOTE

  • Abeiku SW2 London 8 years ago

    Is this for Real

  • Iddres abdul hakeem(visionwan) 7 years ago

    Also pongtamale shs school authorities should go and look those who will be sweeping their campus because is difficulty for the student to sweep.i iddres abdulai hakeem from gurugu attending potass senior high

  • By Alhassan Iddrisu 7 years ago

    what Pong Tamale students have dane is not good