Ghana loses over $500m annually on imported sugary juice concentrates - Experts warn

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  • Dr Mumbi Seraki 2 weeks ago

    Hello people of Ghana. You can take your own life with medicine ......... For instance 15 paracetamol at once. Or combine medicine and akpeteshie or weedicide.

  • Benji 2 weeks ago

    How is Ghana losing? Does Ghana pay the money and never receive the sugary juice concentrates? Just say Ghana imports over $500m worth on imported sugary juice concentrates annually.

  • Kojo Yankee 2 weeks ago

    More than half a billion dollars to buy POISON when people in abrokyire are running away from these toxins. When will Africa wake up? This same Americans will tell you that these drinks are chemical garbage!. And when you no ...
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  • Kwame 2 weeks ago

    We are a people who have lust for foreign things. Can you imagine that even our chiefs and traditional priests ban Ghanaian brewed alcohol from their palaces and shrines.

  • FunnyGhana 2 weeks ago

    All sugary drinks should come with high tax whether local or imported. The damage to public health is just too much. Huge profits are being made at the expense of the NHIS system

  • Moh 2 weeks ago

    More education on this drink

  • Opk fast money 2 weeks ago

    What Ghana is loosing all the money is with the politicians through talk. Why is that Ministers don't go to jail.

  • Samy 2 weeks ago

    We are aware of this and have been. Tying tell governments to stop importing a ny thing that can be produced here but because the importers are politicians friends and families this has been going on . You can see them being ...
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  • Ewvevi 2 weeks ago

    Who doesn't know all these facts? In the midst of plenty, the African is such a dumb ass, infact, a big fool. Let a Ghanaian set up a natural fruit juice company and see how it will run: All the wives of the male workers ther ...
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  • Samy 2 weeks ago

    It’s not sugary concentrate but satchirine used for blaming dead bodies . They are killing the youth

  • Okyere Kay 2 weeks ago

    I can't believe this.This country is sick.What are our leaders doing 68years after independence. Our independence hasn't helped is.Our leaders must bow down their heads in shame.

  • Accranie 2 weeks ago

    @Domestication/Export Substitution/

  • Agbeli Kumordziì 2 weeks ago

    All those sugary juices in the Ghana marke are the roots cause of diabetic