It’ll take Ghana 500 years to stop open defecation - Unicef

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EZEKIEL 7 years ago

WHY can't we tackle the BASIC REQUIREMENTS FIRST.....W E F T ....Water, Electricity....Food and Toilet.....in our endeavour to develop ???

WHY can't we tackle the BASIC REQUIREMENTS FIRST.....W E F T ....Water, Electricity....Food and Toilet.....in our endeavour to develop ???
TELL THE TRUTH 7 years ago

STOP MAKING IT A GHANAIAN PROBLEM.THIS TYPE OF FILTHY BEHAVIOR OCCURS ALMOST EXCLUSIVELY IN ACCRA.NOT VOLTA,CENTRAL,ASHANTI,NORTHERN OR EASTERN REGIONS.ONLY IN ACCRA.AND THIS HAS BEEN GOING ON FOR A VERY LONG TIME,EVEN GA PEO ...
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STOP MAKING IT A GHANAIAN PROBLEM.THIS TYPE OF FILTHY BEHAVIOR OCCURS ALMOST EXCLUSIVELY IN ACCRA.NOT VOLTA,CENTRAL,ASHANTI,NORTHERN OR EASTERN REGIONS.ONLY IN ACCRA.AND THIS HAS BEEN GOING ON FOR A VERY LONG TIME,EVEN GA PEOPLE WITH PLUMBING AND TOILET IN THEIR HOUSES ARE KNOWN TO EASE THEMSELVES OUTSIDE BEHIND THEIR OWN HOUSES OR SOMEONE ELSE'S HOUSE.I HAVE BEEN TO VILLAGES IN ASHANTI,VOLTA AND NORTHERN REGIONS AND I CAN REPORT THAT PEOPLE THERE DO NOT USE BACKYARDS,RIVERS BANKS AND GUTTERS AS TOILET.IF WE REALLY WANT TO HELP THEN WE MUST STOP PRETENDING IT IS A NATIONAL PROBLEM BECAUSE IT IS NOT.
Symon Schumacher 7 years ago

This is a very dishonest and malicious comment by an ignorant person I could have ignored the comment but sometimes this is the only thing that makes me sad

This is a very dishonest and malicious comment by an ignorant person I could have ignored the comment but sometimes this is the only thing that makes me sad
SCHEMER 7 years ago

This is especially prevallent in the coastal areas but Accra is worse followed by Cape Coast. In Cape Coast years back Rawlings had the nerve to indirectly insult them. When he saw how people had defecated openly at the beach ...
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This is especially prevallent in the coastal areas but Accra is worse followed by Cape Coast. In Cape Coast years back Rawlings had the nerve to indirectly insult them. When he saw how people had defecated openly at the beaches he told them "even cats are sensible enough to cover their feces after the act." This was taken in bad taste causing chiefs to lambast him. However, during the revolution of 1979, this same Rawlings brutalized people with two or more toilets in their house calling it luxury. The trouble we brewed last time we are drinking it this time.
unniiceff 7 years ago

They should have provided a few photographs of some of the bombs at the beach... Ghanaians, filty people. Not an insult to point to the truth. Then complaining why tourists dont come...its not government, it is attitude and e ...
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They should have provided a few photographs of some of the bombs at the beach... Ghanaians, filty people. Not an insult to point to the truth. Then complaining why tourists dont come...its not government, it is attitude and even a cat is more clean than the average Ghanaian.
unniiceff 7 years ago

Try a thousand years lol

Try a thousand years lol
Mr. Green 7 years ago

May be we will never stop open defecation since nobody is there to stop the people and they it will never stop by itself.

May be we will never stop open defecation since nobody is there to stop the people and they it will never stop by itself.
PASTOR !!!OGOGLO QUARTER !!! 7 years ago

SOME TIMES YOU SET YOUR EYES ON SOME "DUMPS" AND YOU ASK YOURSELF WHETHER IT'S A MAN OR A WOMAN'S DUMP,,JUST TOO MUCH LIKE ELEPHANT'S POOP,,

SOME TIMES YOU SET YOUR EYES ON SOME "DUMPS" AND YOU ASK YOURSELF WHETHER IT'S A MAN OR A WOMAN'S DUMP,,JUST TOO MUCH LIKE ELEPHANT'S POOP,,
Plaintruth 7 years ago

If the habit of defecating in public places does not stop immediately, no tourist will come to Ghana in the future. The practice is alarming and disgraceful to Ghanaians. The problem does not stem only from people's attitude, ...
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If the habit of defecating in public places does not stop immediately, no tourist will come to Ghana in the future. The practice is alarming and disgraceful to Ghanaians. The problem does not stem only from people's attitude, but also the government has failed to build enough public toilets. The few that are built are not maintained daily resulting in them giving out obnoxious smell and sprawling shit all over the place.
Ka na Wu 7 years ago

Ghana stinks to the high heavens

Ghana stinks to the high heavens
GhanaBi 7 years ago

UNICEF DOES NOT DECIDE FOR GHANA.

UNICEF DOES NOT DECIDE FOR GHANA.
Sumaila Atolai. 7 years ago

Where are those deciding for Ghana? We still take money from UNICEF so they have the right to criticize our filthy habits .

Where are those deciding for Ghana? We still take money from UNICEF so they have the right to criticize our filthy habits .
kofi 7 years ago

Do we have a law in Ghana that makes it an offense?,do we also have a law that makes it an offense to build a house with no toilet. We need to make sure toilet facilities are at homes, work places, markets,beaches, churches, ...
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Do we have a law in Ghana that makes it an offense?,do we also have a law that makes it an offense to build a house with no toilet. We need to make sure toilet facilities are at homes, work places, markets,beaches, churches, farms and all other places we go daily then we will have the moral right to arrest and prosecute all persons doing it in open.
????? ????? 7 years ago

And the ndc make propander with prez.kuffour using hipc money for toilet building,..everything peopagander,the world knows better...

And the ndc make propander with prez.kuffour using hipc money for toilet building,..everything peopagander,the world knows better...
ghanaba 7 years ago

This is an INSULT to ALL Ghanaian politician after our first Republic.

This is an INSULT to ALL Ghanaian politician after our first Republic.
Yaw Seth 7 years ago

Nobody with the head properly banced on his or her shoulders will squat in the open to defeacate while other people look at him/her if he/she has access to a decent place of convenience. Government is not doing anything about ...
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Nobody with the head properly banced on his or her shoulders will squat in the open to defeacate while other people look at him/her if he/she has access to a decent place of convenience. Government is not doing anything about it. Government is to blame for open defeacation.
Abigi 7 years ago

All we know to do is talk loud, lie about everything, but stink and filthy. Arrive in Ghana and you are first greeted by the mosquitoes on the tarmac. Get to immigration the heat and the stench. By thr time you get to customs ...
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All we know to do is talk loud, lie about everything, but stink and filthy. Arrive in Ghana and you are first greeted by the mosquitoes on the tarmac. Get to immigration the heat and the stench. By thr time you get to customs the smell has overpowered you. Ghanaians stink but think they know if all. They open their mouths to talk and the odour from lack of flossing. Get to town and see the open, drinking sewers, alongside the burning garbage. What a backward people, with little knowledge of cleaning and hygiene. The women spent the day bleaching and the men drinking in hard in the evenings. This country I'd a disgrace to the human race. Filthy, smelly country.
ko 7 years ago

This is a BIG problem in Ghana. However for the UNICEF rep to spew this 500 years garbage is simply not acceptable. This is an insult, and not meant in anyway to address the issue ...gross disrespect for the country. He shoul ...
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This is a BIG problem in Ghana. However for the UNICEF rep to spew this 500 years garbage is simply not acceptable. This is an insult, and not meant in anyway to address the issue ...gross disrespect for the country. He should apologise or be replaced & leave the country
Abigi 7 years ago

Blaming someone instead of looking at your stinking self. Ok killed people for having more toilets in their homes. Mahama is accusing Kuffuor for building public places of convenience. You idiot is blaming UNICEF and calling ...
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Blaming someone instead of looking at your stinking self. Ok killed people for having more toilets in their homes. Mahama is accusing Kuffuor for building public places of convenience. You idiot is blaming UNICEF and calling facts insults. You stink and dirty it is a fact. INSULT or what you still throw your stuff in black polyethylene in the streets. Above all you cannot flushwithout water of electricity. Ghanaians are THROWBACKS period.
Sumaila Atolai. 7 years ago

Respect yourself and people will respect you.PERIOD!

Respect yourself and people will respect you.PERIOD!
Isaac Kusi, Bronx, NY. 7 years ago

Enact laws and enforce them to have toilets in new and old housing. These should be WC with tanks. Architects should have these in their plans and District assemblies should make sure this is done before approval is given for ...
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Enact laws and enforce them to have toilets in new and old housing. These should be WC with tanks. Architects should have these in their plans and District assemblies should make sure this is done before approval is given for habitation. But with colonial mentalities, successive governments are still building "bomber latrines", in modern day Ghana and charging for its use. Bono of U2 fame says Ghana is the only country in the world where you pay to go to toilet.
DI ASEM PA. 7 years ago

I thought, the most educated people in Ghana are the Gan's and the Fanties. Gan's are the most deities people in Ghana. Come on, all Ghanaians should have their own private toilets in their homes. Expecially, the house owner ...
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I thought, the most educated people in Ghana are the Gan's and the Fanties. Gan's are the most deities people in Ghana. Come on, all Ghanaians should have their own private toilets in their homes. Expecially, the house owner should provide toilets to their tenants.
Sumaila Atolai. 7 years ago

Instead of building stadiums, that's what is needed to improve the living conditions and prevent preventable diseases.Build more toilets and improve basic sanitation.but it's also TRUE! Ghanaians are very DIRTY!!!

Instead of building stadiums, that's what is needed to improve the living conditions and prevent preventable diseases.Build more toilets and improve basic sanitation.but it's also TRUE! Ghanaians are very DIRTY!!!
Loway 7 years ago

Big trouble

Big trouble
Kobinadu 7 years ago

WHAT UTTER NONSENSE!

WHAT UTTER NONSENSE!
collins anim 7 years ago

backward country! very uncivlized!!! with a very idiotic president and cabinet!kwasiafo!!

backward country! very uncivlized!!! with a very idiotic president and cabinet!kwasiafo!!
Paa Joe 7 years ago

UNICEF YOU SHOULD HAVE PREDICTED THE NEXT TAUSAND YEARS.

WITH ALL THE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL DIFFICULTIES AND CHALLENGES FACING THE COUNTRY,CRUDE POLITICS HAS BECOME THE ONLY PREOOCUPATION IN THE COUNTRY:

AN ACCCESS TO MAN ...
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UNICEF YOU SHOULD HAVE PREDICTED THE NEXT TAUSAND YEARS.

WITH ALL THE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL DIFFICULTIES AND CHALLENGES FACING THE COUNTRY,CRUDE POLITICS HAS BECOME THE ONLY PREOOCUPATION IN THE COUNTRY:

AN ACCCESS TO MANIPULATION,EMBEZZLEMENT,CORRUPTION,
STEALING AND MPS COMMON FUND.

OH LORD,LET THEM KEEP ON DESTROYING THE LAND OF OUR BIRTH.

ITS A PITY THEY DO NOT STILL UNDERSTRAND WHAT POLITICS PLAYS IN THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF A COUNTRY.

VERY SAD INDEED.
SAMMY 7 years ago

VERY SHAMEFUL! TALK TO THE COASTAL BELT

VERY SHAMEFUL! TALK TO THE COASTAL BELT
Alex 7 years ago

Come to Central region and see if people eases themselves on the beach.That is an Accra thing.Talk properly.

Come to Central region and see if people eases themselves on the beach.That is an Accra thing.Talk properly.
Kwaku A. Danso 7 years ago

This shows how useless and hopeless our government leadership has been in the last few decades in creating and endrocing SANITATION LAWS and ENFORCING THEM!

This shows how useless and hopeless our government leadership has been in the last few decades in creating and endrocing SANITATION LAWS and ENFORCING THEM!
Symon Schumacher 7 years ago

The wrong approach is being adopted the UNICEF country director is very diplomatic because 500years is too short if we continue building public toilets when may be unaffordable to the people

The wrong approach is being adopted the UNICEF country director is very diplomatic because 500years is too short if we continue building public toilets when may be unaffordable to the people

It’ll take Ghana 500 years to stop open defecation - Unicef

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