President Mahama backs crackdown on airport workers begging for tips

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  • Dr....Mumbi..Seraki 6 hours ago

    Hello youth of Ghana. .......you can take your own .life or someone's .life with medicine. For instance 15 tramadol at once.....or combine medicine and akpeteshie or weedicide.

  • STGHFUO: Monkey see, Monkey do 2 hours ago

    They are.notmprpfessional at all go to any airport in Amsterdam, Britain, new york Toronto Airport workers don't do this. So why Ghana? We live in a global community. Why don't you start shitting anyhow onnthr asphalt and pis ...
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  • Ideology London. 5 hours ago

    Good Mr .President just too bad and appalling.

  • Koppong 5 hours ago

    Clear all workers from baggage claim area, it’s too much hustle

  • Nyankpala 3 hours ago

    Yes ckear all of them from the baggage claim area. Are their jobs to assist arriving passengers and to be hustlers? Why can't we bring international standards to bear on airport operations? Fly into Washington DC and you will ...
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  • Naa 2 hours ago

    But there is no airport in Washington DC be it a regional, national or international.

  • COOLBLUE 4 hours ago

    They are all there to beg for money and if possible steal something from passengers bags.

    Shameless people!

  • STGHFUO: Monkey see, Monkey do 2 hours ago

    .y luggae was raped from.gh airport. Raped from my hotel in east legon angehill hotel, family too rape my luggae. Soon I was left with 4 shirts my shoes and 3 pants I left everything.

  • Emmanuel Osei Boakye 4 hours ago

    Immigration Officers also ask for tips. They ask 3d3n na wodebr3 yen. Please crack down on them also. It's a disgrace.

  • Gbemi 3 hours ago

    Begging at the airport by staffs sends a bad image of the country to foreign visitors and must be addressed. Thanks president JDM, for speaking on this issue

  • Obibini 3 hours ago

    Beggars are found everywhere on the streets in major cities and towns across Ghana. Clear them all.

  • Ad 3 hours ago

    The people of Ghana should be able to eat what Mahama, parliamentarians, others eat or I will say they shouldn’t stop. The system must be such that one can buy KFC at least once a week. Zoomlion pays it worker 300 gh a mont ...
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  • Samuel Anafo 2 hours ago

    @Ad,you hit the nail right on the head. The private companies that provide support services at the airport do not pay their workers well at all. That is not to say that solicitation is right, but their conditions of service a ...
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  • Safari 2 hours ago

    Fascination for visitors, what about we the citizens. This prejudice for visitors is killing us, the gold standard for such matters is how citizens treat their own citizens not how citizens treat visitors. A lot of people esp ...
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  • Wise up 2 hours ago

    Ooh bibini always begging begging saa gyimi saa

  • Capt Adabuga 1 hour ago

    Do the president know what damages Ghana's image abroad? Airbus deal, AKSA deals involving GO1

  • Kwaku 1 hour ago

    The whole ghana is begging for tips

  • Pp 1 hour ago

    Airbus gift receiver oooooh

  • FACTS ARE SACRED 49 minutes ago

    PROSECUTE THEM, DON'T JUST FIRE...
    YES.
    It should be in their hiring documents that, they will be jailed if they are caught soliciting from passengers.

    Some of them have built houses through begging, so just letting the ...
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