Farmers cry out over Bagre Dam spillage

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HONESTY 7 years ago

Do we need white people to always come and tell our leaders what is excepted of them.
Why should farmers leAve the farmers when digging common dams can retain the spillage and protect farmers, lives and stocks. The water ca ...
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Do we need white people to always come and tell our leaders what is excepted of them.
Why should farmers leAve the farmers when digging common dams can retain the spillage and protect farmers, lives and stocks. The water can be used in the dry season and I don't have to hear about drought in November from the same farmers.
Mike from Ho. 7 years ago

I am confused here. This dam is always spill every year. So why continue farming on its path and later blame somebody for it. Are we serious as a people? Well.

I am confused here. This dam is always spill every year. So why continue farming on its path and later blame somebody for it. Are we serious as a people? Well.
HONESTY 7 years ago

The problem was created in the late 1990s when Burkina built those dams.
The farmers have to chop, don't forget, so farming the land is not the problem, it is about land management.
Just built dams to retain the spillage an ...
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The problem was created in the late 1990s when Burkina built those dams.
The farmers have to chop, don't forget, so farming the land is not the problem, it is about land management.
Just built dams to retain the spillage and divert the rest sensibly.
This is something I expect the govt to do and not the farmers.

Or are you telling the farmers to stop farming and migrate to the south to search for new jobs?
Truth 7 years ago

Gig this is the real politics that the JM governments must deal with. Create more smaller dams on enervate power and irrigation.

Gig this is the real politics that the JM governments must deal with. Create more smaller dams on enervate power and irrigation.
Nyatefetor 7 years ago

Who approved the stakeholders consultation for the project and it's environmental and social impact before this project took off. Those technocrats must be investigated and charged for ill-advising government to give a No Obj ...
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Who approved the stakeholders consultation for the project and it's environmental and social impact before this project took off. Those technocrats must be investigated and charged for ill-advising government to give a No Objection for the project. The negative consequences of this particular heaped on the people of Ghana is unjustified.
KWAKU SEI 7 years ago

Indeed Ghana should get compensated for such Harzard yearly. NANA ADDO and BAWUMIA will not remain unconcerned. Burkina Faso will be delt with accordingly for the careless destruction.

Indeed Ghana should get compensated for such Harzard yearly. NANA ADDO and BAWUMIA will not remain unconcerned. Burkina Faso will be delt with accordingly for the careless destruction.
fairplay 7 years ago

They.are worse. When Ghanaian were slaughtered in Gambia what did Nana Addo as foreign minister do?
Nana is worse in such matters.

They.are worse. When Ghanaian were slaughtered in Gambia what did Nana Addo as foreign minister do?
Nana is worse in such matters.
Ghanaba 7 years ago

Ethiopia is in the process of building a massive dam over the Nile using coffee based economy and common sense.If you want to sit and wait for the white man to come and channel the water away from it's natural course then sit ...
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Ethiopia is in the process of building a massive dam over the Nile using coffee based economy and common sense.If you want to sit and wait for the white man to come and channel the water away from it's natural course then sit and drown.Why must Burkina pay you to be stupid?
Kofi 7 years ago

Why else do we subject ourselves to the brunt of very easily controlled events such as this?We can easily chart the natural path of the spill and build levies to control and guide the water away from farms and poplated area. ...
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Why else do we subject ourselves to the brunt of very easily controlled events such as this?We can easily chart the natural path of the spill and build levies to control and guide the water away from farms and poplated area.I guess we have to wait for our owners and masters to come and do it for us.
DOG BEATER 7 years ago

MEANS AKOSOMBO WILL BE REVIVED AND NO MORE DUMSOR. SORRY POOR FARMERS BUT WHAT SHOULD BE WILL BE

MEANS AKOSOMBO WILL BE REVIVED AND NO MORE DUMSOR. SORRY POOR FARMERS BUT WHAT SHOULD BE WILL BE
LAWRENCE 7 years ago

Ghana, and for that matter Africa , are all joke. Here we are crying for electricity and paying very high for the little available, mostly due to the water level in the Akosombo dam. Couldn't there be any means by which thos ...
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Ghana, and for that matter Africa , are all joke. Here we are crying for electricity and paying very high for the little available, mostly due to the water level in the Akosombo dam. Couldn't there be any means by which those trillions of tons of water that goes waste be harnessed to fill the dam? Even look at the amount of water that enters the sea at Ada ? Pity. No sensible politician in mother Ghana.
HONESTLY 7 years ago

Wake up Africans

Wake up Africans
Ghanaba 7 years ago

Keep on voting for stupid politicians and corrupt ministers and we are going to drown in water or rotten garbage.

Keep on voting for stupid politicians and corrupt ministers and we are going to drown in water or rotten garbage.
Danso 7 years ago

Vote for the political party that will gie us a solution to this

Vote for the political party that will gie us a solution to this
jomens 7 years ago

Lets constructs dams down stream to hold the water that goes waste every year. The water in the dams could then be released gradually to feed the white and red volta rivers to flow to the Akosombo dam. Planners, where are you ...
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Lets constructs dams down stream to hold the water that goes waste every year. The water in the dams could then be released gradually to feed the white and red volta rivers to flow to the Akosombo dam. Planners, where are your thinking caps all these years? We shouldn't allow all the fresh waters in our various rivers to flow into the sea. Lets build dams as many as possible
Tom 7 years ago

Every year, the dam spillage problem repeats itself. Simply put, the problem is cyclical. On this platform, every year, we suggest pragmatic solutions of the problem to the government including the current NDC administration ...
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Every year, the dam spillage problem repeats itself. Simply put, the problem is cyclical. On this platform, every year, we suggest pragmatic solutions of the problem to the government including the current NDC administration. But nothing is done. The authorities do not bother or just don't care. So, I will not bother to repeat what I suggested last year round.
Toffey 7 years ago

My brother, do you think the Authorities think about? Don't live in delusion. They simply do no care a hoot about you and me. It is all about their pockets, cars of luxury and many mansions.

My brother, do you think the Authorities think about? Don't live in delusion. They simply do no care a hoot about you and me. It is all about their pockets, cars of luxury and many mansions.
Michael K. Tettevi. 7 years ago

Sorry for the damages. However, will the spillage give us enough water to keep our turbines moving at Akosombo Dam for a long time ? Could we recycle the water at the dam by pumping water from downstream to upstream to mainta ...
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Sorry for the damages. However, will the spillage give us enough water to keep our turbines moving at Akosombo Dam for a long time ? Could we recycle the water at the dam by pumping water from downstream to upstream to maintain a good level at the dam ?
ODJAH 7 years ago

Technically it is possible but the energy needed to pump the waster na stream is prohibitive and it is not worth trying

Technically it is possible but the energy needed to pump the waster na stream is prohibitive and it is not worth trying
Koojam 7 years ago

The huge amount of SADA money used for nonexisting ' Nkonfem' project could build a reservoir dam to catch water down stream and used later for dry season farming.Does this Gvt really think of the North? Shame unto JDM and hi ...
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The huge amount of SADA money used for nonexisting ' Nkonfem' project could build a reservoir dam to catch water down stream and used later for dry season farming.Does this Gvt really think of the North? Shame unto JDM and his bunch of thieves. Change is surely coming and people with brains will develop the north for us. We don't have to wait for NADMO to give us rubber plates instead of food.
naknaa 7 years ago

Why should people still farm close to the river. When you know this spillage is an annual thing. It is even these farms that cause the rivers to be filled with sand causing low water level in akosombo.

Why should people still farm close to the river. When you know this spillage is an annual thing. It is even these farms that cause the rivers to be filled with sand causing low water level in akosombo.
naknaa 7 years ago

Why

Why
Ghanabiya 7 years ago

This spill is an annual thing happening. Why do these communities do not learn the pattern of events but continue to do the same thing every year and expect different results?

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This spill is an annual thing happening. Why do these communities do not learn the pattern of events but continue to do the same thing every year and expect different results?

Why does NADMO not learn the pattern of events, come out with solutions and advice the communities on how to stay safe?

Farmers cry out over Bagre Dam spillage

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