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Pay GHC200 or don’t use the road – Robbers warn commuters

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  • RastafaraI 9 years ago

    its simply a deathtrap

  • The Stallion 9 years ago

    Are they saying the armed robbers are holding the country to ransom? Come on!!!!
    Who are the armed robbers to give ultimatum to the people (meaning, the police)?
    Are the police being paid for nothing?

  • K. Boateng 9 years ago

    so who received the so-called letter from the armed robbers? was it delivered by mail or in person?

  • Pastor Killa/Ghfuo change ur mentalit 9 years ago

    They should pay more only a fool will use this road.

  • ODURO! 9 years ago

    The Arab spring is going to start from the Ashanti Region! The Otumfuo is a total failure! He spent five million dollars on a mansion he doesn't even use in the whitemans' backyard in London whilst his subjects wallow in abje ...
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  • Prince Ajibade 9 years ago

    These are things that happen in Nigeria. Ghanaians watch Nigerian movies and copy everything-hook line and sinker- that they see in those movies. For example, it's a common practice here in Nigeria for hoodlums and miscreants ...
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  • adwoa, UK 9 years ago

    Fake Nigerian man prince. You are not very clever.

  • APAN 9 years ago

    EYE ASEM

  • Sam 9 years ago

    Hey Stallion where have you been for the past four years? The country is descending rapidly into chaotic lawlessness.Criminals are giving warnings and ultimatums before they strike and yet the security services are more focus ...
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  • gretchy 9 years ago

    well who are these useless monkeys.are there no police in Ghana? oops sori they are too busy bribing law abiding citizens.I think i will open up an armoury shop selling guns or what ever thats needed to blow those bastards up

  • why all these silly thing? 9 years ago

    You have supported every stupid thing that goes on in our country, including criminals. It is really a shame.

  • why all these silly thing? 9 years ago

    Yet again as in all things the negro has taken Democracy, a system of Government others are using successful to propel themselves forward, fouled up it all up and finally turned into a money-making machine for the elitist co ...
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  • why all these silly thing? 9 years ago

    To those who are saying that Gbevloe Lartey has not been dismissed but rather this is just a routine rotational exercise being carried out by the President I ask them this simple question:

    What respect would Gbevloe Lartey ...
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  • why all these silly thing? 9 years ago

    what kind of nonsense article is this? Robbers have that power to instruct and demand? oh ghana nooooooooooo

  • why all these silly thing? 9 years ago

    what kind of nonsense article is this? Robbers have that power to instruct and demand? oh ghana nooooooooooo

  • APAN 9 years ago

    DONKOMI 'EYEFO GHANA FOR SALE \MAHANAH AND ATUKUBA ARE SELLING GHANA FOR 12CEDIS CHINESE.

  • why all these silly thing? 9 years ago

    what kind of nonsense article is this? Robbers have that power to instruct and demand? oh ghana nooooooooooo

  • HAZOR 9 years ago

    The headline was deliberate to trow people off from the reality of the main issue that this is the real president Mahama better Ghana Agenda he promise Ghanaians and that road is what our 23 billion dollars he borrowed was ab ...
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  • why all these silly thing? 9 years ago

    what kind of nonsense article is this? Robbers have that power to instruct and demand? oh ghana nooooooooooo

  • why all these silly thing? 9 years ago

    what kind of nonsense article is this? Robbers have that power to instruct and demand? oh ghana nooooooooooo

  • why all these silly thing? 9 years ago

    what kind of nonsense article is this? Robbers have that power to instruct and demand? oh ghana nooooooooooo

  • why all these silly thing? 9 years ago

    what kind of nonsense article is this? Robbers have that power to instruct and demand? oh ghana nooooooooooo

  • why all these silly thing? 9 years ago

    what kind of nonsense article is this? Robbers have that power to instruct and demand? oh ghana nooooooooooo

  • why all these silly thing? 9 years ago

    what kind of nonsense article is this? Robbers have that power to instruct and demand? oh ghana nooooooooooo

  • why all these silly thing? 9 years ago

    what kind of nonsense article is this? Robbers have that power to instruct and demand? oh ghana nooooooooooo

  • why all these silly thing? 9 years ago

    what kind of nonsense article is this? Robbers have that power to instruct and demand? oh ghana nooooooooooo

  • why all these silly thing? 9 years ago

    what kind of nonsense article is this? Robbers have that power to instruct and demand? oh ghana nooooooooooo

  • why all these silly thing? 9 years ago

    what kind of nonsense article is this? Robbers have that power to instruct and demand? oh ghana nooooooooooo

  • why all these silly thing? 9 years ago

    what kind of nonsense article is this? Robbers have that power to instruct and demand? oh ghana nooooooooooo

  • why all these silly thing? 9 years ago

    what kind of nonsense article is this? Robbers have that power to instruct and demand? oh ghana nooooooooooo

  • why all these silly thing? 9 years ago

    what kind of nonsense article is this? Robbers have that power to instruct and demand? oh ghana nooooooooooo

  • why all these silly thing? 9 years ago

    what kind of nonsense article is this? Robbers have that power to instruct and demand? oh ghana nooooooooooo

  • why all these silly thing? 9 years ago

    what kind of nonsense article is this? Robbers have that power to instruct and demand? oh ghana nooooooooooo

  • why all these silly thing? 9 years ago

    what kind of nonsense article is this? Robbers have that power to instruct and demand? oh ghana nooooooooooo

  • Mike NY 9 years ago

    how? Ghana paaaaaaaa !!!!!

  • DAN 9 years ago

    I'M NOT THE NBA CLIPPERS PRESIDENT SO GET YOUR NIGGER ASS OUT OF THE BRONX AND RETURN WHILE YOUR NDC IS IN POWER

  • Milionnaire 9 years ago

    THE IMAGE OF JJ'S INSURGENCE IS WHAT IS WHAT THE BOKO HARAMS ARE IMPLEMENTING IN NIGERIA....THAT IS, TO TERRORIZE INNOCENT PEOPLE.....AND YOU WANT THAT REPEATED IN GHANA? I DON'T THINK YOU MEANT IT, YOU PROBABLY HAD A BAD DRE ...
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  • Owen,New York. 9 years ago

    Everything in Ghana has turned into politics. Even America who is the icon of democracy does not play the game that way. In Ghana if a particular district voted for the party not a power,that particular area is declared no go ...
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  • Osei Bonsu 9 years ago

    OLD,STRONG,EXPERIENCED, INCORRUPTIBLE LEADER WITH VISIBLE COMMITMENTS FOR THE NATION AND NOT YOUTHFUL, INEXPERIENCED ,CORRUPT AND HUMBLE LEADER WHO WILL BE THERE 'KEKE' AND CHOP CHOP AS PARTY MEMBERS CHOP.

  • Joe Turkey 9 years ago

    And the corrupt police are on the safe roads checking papers. Gbevlo was busy pulling down toll booths. And our soldiers are either in the comfort of their Burma torture camp planning the next coup or keeping peace in some f ...
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  • Kofi Amoah 9 years ago

    The police are on this road with their speed check camera. Waooooo!!!!!!

  • PAUL 9 years ago

    This time , maybe not for over speed, but under speed.

  • Pelicles 9 years ago

    No civilize nation will accept this than Ghana where we have given the mandate to some disgruntled elements just to torture us. Armed robbers given ultimatum to law abiding citizen while our leaders looks helpless.

    Why ca ...
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  • Antiochus - London 9 years ago

    Ghana is now a lawless country under the NDC with useless DCE's. Over to you DCOP Kofi Boakye.

  • Ike 9 years ago

    Some few months ago i read on the same platform that somewhere in Accra, robber have asked residents top pay money, this time again it is the same case in another part of Ghana with already some deaths, so what is our governm ...
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  • Pastor Killa/Ghfuo change ur mentalit 9 years ago

    Even blind goats won't use this road. Who is the regional road minister? Fired!

  • Ayitey Muller 9 years ago

    If you want your bad road to be fixed, please appeal to the relevant authorities. Don't create your own armed gang. Liar

  • CHAKA ZULU JUSTICE 9 years ago

    Ask motorists and residents along Suhum/Nsawam Road. How many times have they written or sounded on radios and microphones about the deplorable condition of the road. There is no responsible person inn this administration who ...
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  • Akadu Mensema 9 years ago

    Woyome!

  • BIG IS BIG 9 years ago

    70 percentage GDP as wage bill ,what is left for infrastructural development ,nothing,we must condem high salaries with low productivity in public sector.all hands on deck ,yes we can.

  • OKOROMANSA 9 years ago

    PAY 200 CEDIS TO WHO AND FOR WHAT? EVEN THOUGH PREZ. MAHAMA WOULD READ THIS STORY, BUT HW WOULD NOT CARE A HOOT.

  • EMMAN 9 years ago

    IT SEEMS THERE IS NO KING IN GHANA SO EVERY ONE DOES WHAT HE WANTS.ROBBERS HAVE AUDACITY TO TELL INNOCENT GHANAIANS TO PAY AN AMOUNT BEFORE USING A ROAD? OH GHANA WHERE ARE WE NOW? IS THE GOVERMENT AWARE OF THIS TYPE OF NONSE ...
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  • KING LOMOTEY 9 years ago

    Train and arm the Asafo who live in the area.

  • Sam 9 years ago

    stop the threat and talk like a chief of your community.what is the advise about vote? not that the results will be based on number of valid vote cast.lean to lean.

  • DAN 9 years ago

    LET REAL POLICE GO UNDERCOVER AS DRIVERS AND SHOOT THEM DEAD WHEN FORCED TO PAY 200 CEDI!

  • Tweaaa Families 9 years ago

    What sort of country and officials are these who take delight in ROT and INEFFICIENCIES ? You call yourself DCEs in Districts with this EYESORE impassable road. Were you appointed to preside over ROTS ? Why this shirk of Resp ...
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  • Betty Wayome Iso Fortiz Sada Geeda 9 years ago

    Is the Hungry Man the Robber ?

  • slikah 9 years ago

    the issue of assemblies making such comments is too bad for de country when are they going to stop this issue

  • Faculty 9 years ago

    People Think. You Can't Blame Robbers For Their Attacks On People. Rather Blame It On The Politicians . They Only Play Mind Games With The People.

    Who Would Want His Fellow Man Dead If He Or She Had Something Doing.

    B ...
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  • Agyemang, Kwadwo 9 years ago

    Otumfour help save the lives of your subjects. This is due to the fact that the central government through the local government has indicated clearly that it has no immediate plans to construct the road.

  • A MOUSE GHANAIAN 9 years ago

    POOR NDC MISMANAGEMENT FOOLS VOTE FOR

  • FIIFI ATTA MILLS LEGACY 9 years ago

    NDC ARE ARMED MONEY ROBBERS

  • Alhaji Brutus Germany 9 years ago

    NANA PLEASE LEARN SOMETHING FROM THE DORMAA HENE NANA AGYEMAN BADU BECAUSE THE POLICE ARE HANDICAPED AND RECRUITMENT IS RESEVED FOR ONLY NDCS:

  • Dr. med.William Acquah,Germany 9 years ago

    This is what a failed country shows.Lawlessness everywhere!

  • Milionnaire 9 years ago

    IT IS ONLY IN GHANA ARMED ROBBERS HAVE SUCH AUDACITY TO IMPOSE THEIR TERMS OF CONDITIONS! POLICE MUST DETAIL ARMED SECURITY PERSONNEL IN CIVILIAN CLOTHS TO TAKE CARE OF SUCH MISFITS IN SOCIETY. THE GOVERNMENT IS PARTLY TO BE ...
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  • Milionnaire 9 years ago

    THIS IS A SMALL PROJECT FOR THE NEW POLICE COMMANDER IN CHARGE OF ASHANTI REGION, NATHAN KOFI BOAKYE. HE LOVES SUCH CHALLENGES.....STAY TUNED AND WATCH....

  • Kafui, Agbenyo 9 years ago

    No need to wait for a government action or directives. The people of Asamang and all those in their neighbourhood to Effiduase should wake up and mobilise themselves against these robbers. The traditional, police, church lead ...
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  • master 9 years ago

    There is an urgent need for the use of the Ghana Police Service helicopter to combat highway robbery.
    The helicopter will coordinate activities with patrol vehicles on the ground. under cover operational team should also be ...
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  • Monica 9 years ago

    What is the government and for that matter the security services doing about this matter?
    They should send the army there to combat the situation instead of using them for demolition exercises.

  • military man 9 years ago

    Smart woman!

    And Ghanaians think they have a government that can protect them.What a joke!!!

    Banana republic through and through.

  • Wofa Koo 9 years ago

    Very sad situation for these traders. The local leaders who received such threaten and warning should waist no time to appealing for a fully armed police or army patrol to shoot and kill all those perpetrators. But this my ti ...
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  • GHANA MAN 9 years ago

    I AM SURE THIS WILL BE A THING OF THE PAST. I DO NOT CARE WHAT YOU SAY ABOUT THE POLICE REG CDR K BOAKYE, THE ROBBERS WILL FLEE. KOFI OVER TO YOU.

  • coa 9 years ago

    Cant the police build a camp where the robbers has set?

  • HAZOR 9 years ago

    Is this road what we got out from 23 billion dollars the president has borrowed and incur debts for us to pay and the better Ghana Agenda?.Is this road another chalk success that the president Mahama is making noise about?

  • Concern Ghanaian 9 years ago

    God save Ghana

  • LAND 9 years ago

    dis is funny

  • KA 9 years ago

    Do not depend on the Govt. to do everything for you, if it is incapable of doing so.
    Get a loan from the Bank to develop the road and then set up a toll booth to collect fees to finance the road.
    Use the robbers as labor ...
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