Why are they bent on having Mahama relinquish power when 2016 is just at the corner? Use what you saying about him as your weapon to convince voters and stop spewing trash all the time. Just advise Mahama to demolish Kuffour' ... read full comment
Why are they bent on having Mahama relinquish power when 2016 is just at the corner? Use what you saying about him as your weapon to convince voters and stop spewing trash all the time. Just advise Mahama to demolish Kuffour's house built on water way or else he loses power.
BBC NEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 8 years ago
This disasters is problem to the country and solutions is needed at this time. Former President Rawlings has spoken with his little solution , so is Mr. Nduom and President Mahama, they all suggested that, the structures arou ... read full comment
This disasters is problem to the country and solutions is needed at this time. Former President Rawlings has spoken with his little solution , so is Mr. Nduom and President Mahama, they all suggested that, the structures around the waterways must be demolish . So , my question is, where is Nana Akanfuo Binaddo Buhari? When is he coming out with his ideas? is the demolishing going to affect Nana and his Ashanti/Akyem tribal Npp party's vote in 2016? is Nana Binaddo scaring that the demolishing is going to affect his tribes men and women more so he Nana intentionally quiet over this serious matter bedeviled the Nations that he Nana wanted to rule? when NANA BINADDO will open his mouth and talk? we live to see 2016.
Close Observer 8 years ago
WHAT DID THE USELESS NDC DO ABOUT THIS SITUATION AFTER 26 YEARS OF USELESS RULE?
HON. PETER ALA ADJETEY WILL NOT STOOP THIS LOW. VOTE AMASA NAMOALE OUT OF PARLIAMENT, AND GET SOMEONE WHO BEFITS THE POSITION.
People of Ghana ... read full comment
WHAT DID THE USELESS NDC DO ABOUT THIS SITUATION AFTER 26 YEARS OF USELESS RULE?
HON. PETER ALA ADJETEY WILL NOT STOOP THIS LOW. VOTE AMASA NAMOALE OUT OF PARLIAMENT, AND GET SOMEONE WHO BEFITS THE POSITION.
People of Ghana, Dangerous politicians like Amasa Namoale who have no idea that democracy involves divergent views, but all aimed at one goal; making Ghana better must not be entertain in our country's politics. Amasa Namoale does not know this because he doesn't think about Ghana. For him, it is all about SELFISH AMBITION. Hence, his unpatriotic comments on issues bothering on Wayome and his incessant perpetuation of tribal discrimination. I know the people of La dadekotopon electoral area can do better. The people of La in General have offered one of the best politicians Ghana has ever had in the person of PETER ALA ADJETEY, and I believe they can do it again. Amasa Namoale is far below the standard one expect from a politician from La. I therefore appeal to the people of La dadekotopon to kick this sub-standard parliamentarian out, come 2016, and give us someone who will reflect what they stand for and believe in. May God bless all of you at La dadekotopon, and La in general. NY3 YIWALA DON MINY3MIM3I.
Nii Nortey (New York) 8 years ago
Mathew Opoku, is another fool.I dont know what is wrong with these bunch of fools. Lets talk about finding solutions. On what basis is he calling for people to be sacked?
Mathew Opoku, is another fool.I dont know what is wrong with these bunch of fools. Lets talk about finding solutions. On what basis is he calling for people to be sacked?
jay 8 years ago
You are very stupid to say this.if tax payer money is used to pay an officer to do his job and the job is not done without any meaningful explanation then the officer has to resign or be sacked.this nonsense can't happen in A ... read full comment
You are very stupid to say this.if tax payer money is used to pay an officer to do his job and the job is not done without any meaningful explanation then the officer has to resign or be sacked.this nonsense can't happen in America.the solution is sacking the incompetent people so that competent people will come and do the job.mahama is not doing his job because as a leader you don't have to sit down for a problem to come before you try to solve it.if your mother was part of the victims I hope you will side with Mathew opoku.if they can't solve our problems then they should resign.
Zab 8 years ago
Look at that stupid run away fool
Look at that stupid run away fool
Zab 8 years ago
If you say you are in New York then you don't know what you are saying
If you say you are in New York then you don't know what you are saying
vigour 8 years ago
Hon. Napo should know Parliament failed in their mandate to come out with Health and Safety Laws to deal with situations like this. There are a lot of hazardous filling stations across the country and you ask yourself why tha ... read full comment
Hon. Napo should know Parliament failed in their mandate to come out with Health and Safety Laws to deal with situations like this. There are a lot of hazardous filling stations across the country and you ask yourself why that should happen. Parliament should resign first as they have failed the people.
Zab 8 years ago
I wish you were burnt too ,,fool
I wish you were burnt too ,,fool
Create,loot and share 8 years ago
The dead goat and corrupt president always protect his corrupt officials that is why Afriyie Ankrah ,after looting sports money was given a new appointment at the president's office.It is only in Ghana and Africa where foolis ... read full comment
The dead goat and corrupt president always protect his corrupt officials that is why Afriyie Ankrah ,after looting sports money was given a new appointment at the president's office.It is only in Ghana and Africa where foolish people rule.
agbesi francis 8 years ago
God Bless & Have Mercy upon Mayor Alfred Oko Vanderpuiye for his admission , acceptance, acknowledgement of failure & remorse shown as he stood by the countless dead in the aftermath of the calamity that happened. He then ap ... read full comment
God Bless & Have Mercy upon Mayor Alfred Oko Vanderpuiye for his admission , acceptance, acknowledgement of failure & remorse shown as he stood by the countless dead in the aftermath of the calamity that happened. He then appealed to the Minster of Finance, Seth Terkpeh to release 500
MILLION DOLLARS - monies contracted from Exim Bank of America since 2012 and was meant for the entire Accra Drainage Systems.
Rev. Charles P. Bonsu 8 years ago
Mahama and Oko Vanderpuye must resign forthwith! From now on, all mayors must be elected not appointed by the president!
Mahama and Oko Vanderpuye must resign forthwith! From now on, all mayors must be elected not appointed by the president!
gretchy 8 years ago
Ghana is a democratic country so why dont the citizens demonstrate against all this shit.Only the people in Accra itself can vote to have a mayor who ever she/he maybe NOT the fuckn President geeze wakw up fellow ghanaians
Ghana is a democratic country so why dont the citizens demonstrate against all this shit.Only the people in Accra itself can vote to have a mayor who ever she/he maybe NOT the fuckn President geeze wakw up fellow ghanaians
Shamrock 8 years ago
Floods occurred in Texas, USA, and Obama was blamed and asked to step down. Incredible.!!
Floods occurred in Texas, USA, and Obama was blamed and asked to step down. Incredible.!!
Create,loot and share 8 years ago
Obama is not corrupt like Mahama.The world bank loaned Ghana $500 million to solve the drainage in Accra 2014.What happened to the money.All money authorized by US congress are used wisely.
Obama is not corrupt like Mahama.The world bank loaned Ghana $500 million to solve the drainage in Accra 2014.What happened to the money.All money authorized by US congress are used wisely.
DusTY-FooT-pHiloSophER 8 years ago
The amount is in fact, some $660 million and not coming from the world bank, but instead a duly approved loan by parliament coming straight from the Export Import Bank in the USA and the Standard Chartered Bank. Now, if parli ... read full comment
The amount is in fact, some $660 million and not coming from the world bank, but instead a duly approved loan by parliament coming straight from the Export Import Bank in the USA and the Standard Chartered Bank. Now, if parliament approved loan, then that said loan is utilized appropriately always. If not, then we have to hold the whole parliamentarians to account and not only the government of the day.
SAY IT AS IT IS 8 years ago
Never said anything that a human being will sit down and say , " i think this makes sense".
What has his end end done to save us .
It is reported almost all our big cities where the rain fell were flooded.
FOOL! Talk se ... read full comment
Never said anything that a human being will sit down and say , " i think this makes sense".
What has his end end done to save us .
It is reported almost all our big cities where the rain fell were flooded.
FOOL! Talk sense, not talking for talking sake.
agbesi francis 8 years ago
God Bless & Have Mercy upon Mayor Alfred Oko Vanderpuiye for his admission , acceptance, acknowledgement of failure & remorse shown as he stood by the countless dead in the aftermath of the calamity that happened. He then app ... read full comment
God Bless & Have Mercy upon Mayor Alfred Oko Vanderpuiye for his admission , acceptance, acknowledgement of failure & remorse shown as he stood by the countless dead in the aftermath of the calamity that happened. He then appealed to the Minster of Finance, Seth Terkpeh to release 500
MILLION DOLLARS - monies contracted from Exim Bank of America since 2012 and was meant for the entire Accra Drainage Systems.The Big Question Is Where Is This Money?The President obviously knows EVERYTHING about those monies and the good people of Ghana will never forgive him!
Akorabs 8 years ago
They are all the same so far as an electorate is concerned. Seeking power to make money, no matter what they say. They have forgotten their contract with us and we perish as a consequence. Oko going is not enough. We need a n ... read full comment
They are all the same so far as an electorate is concerned. Seeking power to make money, no matter what they say. They have forgotten their contract with us and we perish as a consequence. Oko going is not enough. We need a new political landscape. We must start letting all such clowns know that they are not getting our votes come Dec. 2016. We should vote out the current goverment and MP's of all parties presently sitting in parliament. We need a fresh social contract with a new lot. We have to start discussing the details of our contract now spelling out our civic, executive and legislative obligations. This lot can not help us.
Dagbandow 8 years ago
Did I Kufour sack anybody after the 2001 stadium disaster?. Did I Kufour sack anybody under his watch a'war' was fought in Yendi and over forty people including the overlord of Dagbong were killed?
Did I Kufour sack anybody after the 2001 stadium disaster?. Did I Kufour sack anybody under his watch a'war' was fought in Yendi and over forty people including the overlord of Dagbong were killed?
Bernard 8 years ago
Why on earth has NPP got people who don't think properly? Is it to do with the food they eat or are they all on drugs? If President Mahama has to resign because floods, then I'm afraid what the hell President Bush didn't res ... read full comment
Why on earth has NPP got people who don't think properly? Is it to do with the food they eat or are they all on drugs? If President Mahama has to resign because floods, then I'm afraid what the hell President Bush didn't resign over Katrina. Even Japanese PM didn't resign over the fukotsima nuclear disaster let alone the PM of Nepal in the recent earthquake. Common sense is failing Ghanaians in every sphere of our society.
Bernard 8 years ago
Kiki Kiki, the Chief charlatan is hiding. Soon, he will be out faking that he foresaw and warned Ghana about this tragedy.
Kiki Kiki, the Chief charlatan is hiding. Soon, he will be out faking that he foresaw and warned Ghana about this tragedy.
DANNI 8 years ago
WHICH WAS GIVEN BY THE WHITE MAN TO BUILD DRAINAGE SYSTEM IN THE BLACK AFRICAN COUNTRY CALLED GHANA IN 2012?
I WILL TELL YOU WHERE THE MONIES HAVE GONE - INTO THE POCKETS OF THE PRESIDENT AND THE LOOTING BRIGADES OF NDC
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WHICH WAS GIVEN BY THE WHITE MAN TO BUILD DRAINAGE SYSTEM IN THE BLACK AFRICAN COUNTRY CALLED GHANA IN 2012?
I WILL TELL YOU WHERE THE MONIES HAVE GONE - INTO THE POCKETS OF THE PRESIDENT AND THE LOOTING BRIGADES OF NDC
In the end it is all money for old rope The looting brigade of politicians family and friends continue
Twenty Richest People In Ghana For 2013
1. Ibrahim Mahama -$1.9 billion /Businessman , Brother of the current President of Ghana. Only Ghanaian to own a private jet.
2. Alfred Mahama -$1.3 billion./ Businessman, brother of the current President of Ghana.
3. Roland Agambire – $1.1billion/ RLG (eBay type of business) (Business man )
4. Joseph Agyepong – $1.05billion/Businessman (Zoomlion waste management company and other businesses)…Company banned by World Bank in Liberia”
5. John Mahama – $900 million/President of the Republic of Ghana, Politician.
6. Alhaji Azuma Banda – $724 million./Businessman, owner of antrak air.
7. Ato Ahwoi – $684 million/ Politician, Businessman.
8. Dr. Sam Jonah – $430 Million/Businessman (Executive Director of Jonah Capital, Equity in Johannesberg, south Africa)
9. Haruna Iddrisu – $300million/Politician, Minister of Trade.
10. Alex Mould – $282 million/GMPC
11. Dr. Kwame Addo Kufuor – $250million./ Physician, Politician.
12. Tsatsu Tsikata – $245million/Lawyer, Businessman and Politician
13. Elvis Afriyie Ankrah -$112 million./ Minister of Youth and Sports, Politician.
14. Dr. Kwesi Nduom – $110 million./ Businessman and Politician.
15. Ken Agyapong – $104 million/Politician/Businessman
16. Prince Kofi Amoabeng – $98million/ CEO, UT Bank He has an ongoing fraud case against him”
17. Asiedu Nketiah – $89million/Politician, Secretary of the ruling NDC Party.
18. Alfred Woyome – $75million/Politically connected Businessman.
19. Tony Lithur – 30million/ Lawyer
20. Baba Kamara – $ 11million/ Politician (Commissioner to Nigeria)
Source: Forbes Ghana
The full list of the 20 Richest in Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa, Ghana, Cote d’ivoire and Morocco would be published in the December 2013 Edition of Forbes Africa
Namacy 8 years ago
When they start receiving award know there is a problem. He bought the award from equally corrupt cohorts.
When they start receiving award know there is a problem. He bought the award from equally corrupt cohorts.
Ali mahama 8 years ago
Stoway,u are one of those being fed fat from the Flagstaff House for no work done otherwise u will not talk like a Bull. The fact is if u give up yourself as Presedent u take responsibility to serve the people's saftey and no ... read full comment
Stoway,u are one of those being fed fat from the Flagstaff House for no work done otherwise u will not talk like a Bull. The fact is if u give up yourself as Presedent u take responsibility to serve the people's saftey and not to wait for people to die before sharing crocodile tears.Did MAHAMA entered Politics only to Win Elections and neglect the citizens to suffer? Come again my brother.
KOK 8 years ago
president mahama will not sack anybody this promble was there in npp time did your president sack somebody
president mahama will not sack anybody this promble was there in npp time did your president sack somebody
kkk 8 years ago
folished napo the presidenft should hand over to who you did not mentioned anybodys name that the president should hand over to fool tell us the person you want the president should hand over to fooool in 2001 stadium problem ... read full comment
folished napo the presidenft should hand over to who you did not mentioned anybodys name that the president should hand over to fool tell us the person you want the president should hand over to fooool in 2001 stadium problem did your president hand over
Cosmos virginia 8 years ago
In Ghana anybody could be president or hold a ministerial position because most people are not objective. This failure can not be tolerate anywhere in developed world. Unqualified will always rule.
In Ghana anybody could be president or hold a ministerial position because most people are not objective. This failure can not be tolerate anywhere in developed world. Unqualified will always rule.
Paakow 8 years ago
Upon all the calls to desist from politizing the flood and fire disaster, this is what an educated and a supposed elite has to say. Did the accra floods start just yesterday? Why did the previous governments didn't do anythin ... read full comment
Upon all the calls to desist from politizing the flood and fire disaster, this is what an educated and a supposed elite has to say. Did the accra floods start just yesterday? Why did the previous governments didn't do anything about it? If Kuffour had resigned during the stadium disaster would have had a point here
Brian Williams 8 years ago
A president who calls himself a dead goat is as useless as they come. He has no respect for the ordinary citizen, he has a mind set of I will do whatever I want. Mahama is a curse to the country.
A president who calls himself a dead goat is as useless as they come. He has no respect for the ordinary citizen, he has a mind set of I will do whatever I want. Mahama is a curse to the country.
Cecil Kubolo 8 years ago
stupid mp.
stupid mp.
Abotsi 8 years ago
Foolish and useless comments. It is only fools that will blame Mahama without mentioning Kufour. What did he do to solve d problem when he was a president? And what nonsense was Mathew Prempeh talking about. He should resign ... read full comment
Foolish and useless comments. It is only fools that will blame Mahama without mentioning Kufour. What did he do to solve d problem when he was a president? And what nonsense was Mathew Prempeh talking about. He should resign first. It is all the time the same people who blame Mahama about something they couldn't solve when they had the chance. Shut up if you have no meaningful solution to the problem at hand.
Kay, NY 8 years ago
Crazy MP who have nothing good for his constituents and Ghana. He's wasting resources of Ghanaians
Crazy MP who have nothing good for his constituents and Ghana. He's wasting resources of Ghanaians
John 8 years ago
kwasi go and advise Akuffo Addo should rather step down as he cant control the small animals of his party
kwasi go and advise Akuffo Addo should rather step down as he cant control the small animals of his party
JDM 8 years ago
somewhere in the gungles of the ashanti region a fool is missing
somewhere in the gungles of the ashanti region a fool is missing
Dr Boom 8 years ago
EVEN IN AMERICA IT HAPPENED WHEN THERE IS TOO MUCH RAIN,PLEASE IF YO HAVE NOTHING TO DO LEAVE THE PARLIAMENT OFOUE
EVEN IN AMERICA IT HAPPENED WHEN THERE IS TOO MUCH RAIN,PLEASE IF YO HAVE NOTHING TO DO LEAVE THE PARLIAMENT OFOUE
Nii Kpakpa Quartey 8 years ago
All these so-called MPs are doing now is reacting and doing it so poorly. Where were they before this disaster happened ? Weren't there floods in Accra when Kufour was President ?
All these so-called MPs are doing now is reacting and doing it so poorly. Where were they before this disaster happened ? Weren't there floods in Accra when Kufour was President ?
james 8 years ago
U r a big fool and without fears of God
U r a big fool and without fears of God
p m wa 8 years ago
Look at big nose opoku your foolish npp leaders is killing each other did your gods grandpa resign foolish man like you
Look at big nose opoku your foolish npp leaders is killing each other did your gods grandpa resign foolish man like you
Alhaji 8 years ago
Kwasia, did Kufour sack any of his appointees or resign when May 9th incident occurred? .Idiot, always talking trash.
Kwasia, did Kufour sack any of his appointees or resign when May 9th incident occurred? .Idiot, always talking trash.
senior Citizens 8 years ago
When will this stupid guy talk like a Ghanaian but not a tribalistic Ashanti. Oh my God. Is this guy really a learned Lawyer? What you are calling the president to step down because God allows the rain we have been praying f ... read full comment
When will this stupid guy talk like a Ghanaian but not a tribalistic Ashanti. Oh my God. Is this guy really a learned Lawyer? What you are calling the president to step down because God allows the rain we have been praying for to fall in to Akosombo Dam but in the wrong place in Accra. You are really a useless Ghanaians. Remain a self centered Ashanti and NPP. Stupid man. Did you complain of the killing in your NPP. Did you complain of your militants in NPP. Stupid and useless NPP MP. People are mourning you are still talk about politics.
nana kwame 8 years ago
Oh brothers n sisters is that how our Bible n Quran teaches us abt our leaders. Insults comes from senseless ppl n u shdnt be part.if Mahana,Kuffour ,Napo n co r ur relatives wouldn't u hv supported them. Bow ur head in shame ... read full comment
Oh brothers n sisters is that how our Bible n Quran teaches us abt our leaders. Insults comes from senseless ppl n u shdnt be part.if Mahana,Kuffour ,Napo n co r ur relatives wouldn't u hv supported them. Bow ur head in shame if u insult here.
PRINCEWILLY@YMAIL.COM 8 years ago
THERE WERE MANY FLOODS IN TEXAS,OKLAHOMA,KANSAS,MOSSOURI AND KANSAS WHY DID N'T THE AMERICANS ASK THE GOVERNOR OF THOSE STATES OR OBAMA TO STEP DOWN?
NATURAL DISASTER CAN HAPPEN ANY WHERE.
THE MISTAKES HAVE HAPPEN THE ONLY ... read full comment
THERE WERE MANY FLOODS IN TEXAS,OKLAHOMA,KANSAS,MOSSOURI AND KANSAS WHY DID N'T THE AMERICANS ASK THE GOVERNOR OF THOSE STATES OR OBAMA TO STEP DOWN?
NATURAL DISASTER CAN HAPPEN ANY WHERE.
THE MISTAKES HAVE HAPPEN THE ONLY THING THE GOVERNMENT CAN DO NOW IS TO CORRECT THE MISTAKES SO THAT IT NEVER HAPPENS AGAIN.
jay 8 years ago
Where in the cities you mentioned in America are houses built in waterways?.Check the causes of the flood in those cities in America and compare it to the cause of the flood in accra.
Where in the cities you mentioned in America are houses built in waterways?.Check the causes of the flood in those cities in America and compare it to the cause of the flood in accra.
Awo 8 years ago
Alfred "mayor"of Africa if I were d most honourable thing Iwould do is to resign and have some respect after ur total admission of guilt perhap
Alfred "mayor"of Africa if I were d most honourable thing Iwould do is to resign and have some respect after ur total admission of guilt perhap
Maxpee 8 years ago
How about you take the first sack your "Honor" Napo? You have residence in the capital I suppose, when have you raised this particular lack of drainage concern before this recent event? Playing "Monday quarter back" is easy. ... read full comment
How about you take the first sack your "Honor" Napo? You have residence in the capital I suppose, when have you raised this particular lack of drainage concern before this recent event? Playing "Monday quarter back" is easy. Hind side is also 20/20. You are also in parliament and can, and should have contributed to find a preventive solution so share the blame and stop pointing fingers. Heed advise and stop politicizing this tragedy. Be sensitive to lives lost.
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THIS MAN TALKS FROM HIS BUM.
THIS MAN TALKS FROM HIS BUM.
yao johnson 8 years ago
STUPID MP. WHAT HAVE YOU DONE SO FAR AS AN MP IN GHANA? YOU FAILED TO HELP THE GOVERNMENT AND YOUR PEOPLE.YOU MUST BE THE FIRST PERSON TO BE SACKED. YOU HAVE SADLY FAILED THE NATION AS AN MP.YOU HAVE OUTLIVED YOUR USEFULNESS ... read full comment
STUPID MP. WHAT HAVE YOU DONE SO FAR AS AN MP IN GHANA? YOU FAILED TO HELP THE GOVERNMENT AND YOUR PEOPLE.YOU MUST BE THE FIRST PERSON TO BE SACKED. YOU HAVE SADLY FAILED THE NATION AS AN MP.YOU HAVE OUTLIVED YOUR USEFULNESS AS AN MP. SO JUST KEEP QUIET.
STONER KOBYLYNTON 8 years ago
If majority fools who are insulting the comments made by the MP - Opoku Prempeh have a deceased among the dead, most of you would have confined with the MP's. The true fact of this issue is that in March 2012, late Egya Atta ... read full comment
If majority fools who are insulting the comments made by the MP - Opoku Prempeh have a deceased among the dead, most of you would have confined with the MP's. The true fact of this issue is that in March 2012, late Egya Atta Mills was honored with a dinner in Washington DC by the Business Council for International Understanding an umbrella body for American Businesses when a loan of $795 Million Dollars had sought for, with $595 Million Dollars going to the rehabilitation of the Western Rail Lines and $200 Million Dollars going to the Accra Drainage System.
The then Minister of Finance, Mr. Duffour and Deputy Minister of Transportation, Ms. Dzifa Attivor signed for Ghana Government. The contractors for the project were Conti Engineering and General Electric whose Managing Directors signed for their respective Companies.
Now the big question is if the loan money was secured, what was done with the money? As usual it is resting in some individuals foreign accounts elsewhere? African governments will go free of this issue and not civilized countries and fools who do not think outside the box will always side with corrupt officials and not thinking about the well being of the weaker links in the society.
paa 8 years ago
KO ni onye aba ye WOR nor aloo bye kwuaa
KO ni onye aba ye WOR nor aloo bye kwuaa
Canadasheabutter( GhUWR ) 8 years ago
DID YOU RESIGN WHEN PARLIAMENTARIANS ORDERED BROKEN DOWN FURNITURE FROM CHINA ?
DOES HE WORK IN ACCRA CITY COUNCIL , OR DOES HE ISSUE BUILDING PERMITS ?
IS HE CHARGE OF SAFETY PROCEDURES WITH GOIL OIL COMPANY ?
OR ... read full comment
DID YOU RESIGN WHEN PARLIAMENTARIANS ORDERED BROKEN DOWN FURNITURE FROM CHINA ?
DOES HE WORK IN ACCRA CITY COUNCIL , OR DOES HE ISSUE BUILDING PERMITS ?
IS HE CHARGE OF SAFETY PROCEDURES WITH GOIL OIL COMPANY ?
OR IS HE GOD THAT MADE THE RAIN TO FALL ?
ANSWER ALL OF THE ABOVE & HE WILL RESIGN
Sick Politician 8 years ago
Prempeh for hitting below the belt and capitalizing on natural disaster. This is not time for useless politics.
Prempeh for hitting below the belt and capitalizing on natural disaster. This is not time for useless politics.
Akufool Addue 8 years ago
Calling on MAHAMA to resign is outrageous. Beat him in an election if you can. But I can assure you that MAHAMA will nail Nana to is coffin.
Calling on MAHAMA to resign is outrageous. Beat him in an election if you can. But I can assure you that MAHAMA will nail Nana to is coffin.
KWADOW A 8 years ago
This years rains has caused a lot of havoc world wide and not only in Ghana. I am surprised to read some of the statements being made by people who have traveled around the world and have seen first hand natural disasters an ... read full comment
This years rains has caused a lot of havoc world wide and not only in Ghana. I am surprised to read some of the statements being made by people who have traveled around the world and have seen first hand natural disasters and still talk nonsense.
Read below some of the disasters around the US this year.
U.S.
At Least 5 Are Killed and 12 Are Missing as Storms Ravage Texas and Oklahoma
By MELISSA GASKILL and MICHAEL WINESMAY 25, 2015
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Violent weather in Oklahoma and Texas left at least five people dead and more than a dozen missing over the long weekend. In Dallas, above, the Trinity River overflowed its banks. Credit Louis Deluca/The Dallas Morning News, via Associated Press
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AUSTIN, Tex. — Louie Bond called it a tsunami, a surge of water that began late Saturday night with torrential rains in Texas’ Hill Country and raced down the bluff-lined valley carved out by the Blanco River.
By the time it reached the vacation getaways and retiree cabins overlooking the river at Wimberley, some 30 miles southwest of here, the surge was 40 feet high, sweeping away bridges and homes and ancient stands of cypresses as if they were bath toys.
One of the homes held 36-year-old Jonathan McComb, his wife and two children and two other families from their Corpus Christi hometown — nine in all, including at least three children. On Monday, Mr. McComb was in a San Antonio hospital with a collapsed lung and broken bones.
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Residents at an apartment complex in Houston.Rain Spreads Destruction in Houston, Killing FourMAY 26, 2015
The other eight were missing, along with four others from the area, apparently lost in the torrent that capped weeks of rain and violent weather across Texas and Oklahoma. The weekend’s weather left at least five people dead in the two states, and more heavy rain and tornadoes pummeled Texas on Monday.
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At least 13 people were reported killed in Ciudad Acuña, a Mexican border town west of San Antonio, after a tornado struck. Credit Ramiro Gomez/Reuters
“It had been raining here for weeks, a lovely wet spring after years of drought. The ground was saturated,” said Ms. Bond, a magazine editor and former editor of Wimberley’s newspaper. “The cypress trees along the river are stripped down to bare toothpicks.”
Wimberley and nearby San Marcos, a pair of Blanco River towns off the Interstate 35 corridor linking Austin and San Antonio, appear to have been the hardest-hit towns in the United States. But in Ciudad Acuña, a Mexican city of about 140,000 on the border due west of San Antonio, a tornado that leveled blocks of buildings at sunrise Monday killed at least 13 people.
In Oklahoma, weekend storms killed two people: a firefighter in Claremore, near Tulsa, who was swept into a storm drain Sunday, and a Tulsa woman who died Saturday after her automobile hydroplaned on a highway.
In Texas, Gov. Greg Abbott added 24 counties on Monday to at least a dozen that were declared disaster areas earlier this month because of weather. Forecasters predicted more rain and severe weather across the state the rest of this week.
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Debi Welsh cleaned up the remains of her family home in Wimberley, Tex., on Monday. Credit Jerry Lara/The San Antonio Express-News, via Associated Press
On one level, this spring’s rains have been a blessing, all but obliterating an acute drought that had gripped part of the state for five years. But the weather has also been punishing. Officials recommended on Monday that outside Houston, families leave about 400 homes below Louis Creek Dam, which was said to have been weakened by steady rain and at risk of failing.
Mr. Abbott, who flew across the Blanco River valley on Monday, said at a news conference that the damage there was “absolutely devastating.”
In Hays County, which includes San Marcos and Wimberley, an overnight curfew imposed Sunday was renewed Monday as residents and workers began assessing the damage to at least 1,200 homes, including at least 350 in Wimberley that were destroyed. San Marcos authorities said one unidentified man had been killed Sunday.
“I’ve been here for 20 years and I’ve never seen anything like this,” said Will Conley, a Hays County commissioner. “Bridges that have never seen water flow over them had 20 feet of water over them.”
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A flooded section of East Jefferson Street on Sunday in Grand Prairie, Tex. Credit Smiley N. Pool/The Dallas Morning News, via Associated Press
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“We’ve had worse flooding in the general area,” he said, “but we have not seen a surge of the river to this degree in recorded history.”
In the picturesque country around Wimberley, the Blanco River’s banks are sprinkled with bed-and-breakfasts and rental cottages. Last weekend, Mr. McComb, his 33-year-old wife, Laura, and their sons, Leighton, 4, and Andrew, 6, were staying in one home with two other Corpus Christi families, Ralph and Sue Carey and Randy and Michelle Charba.
To their west, a cloudburst in the Blanco River’s upper reaches dumped at least 10 inches of rain late Saturday, unleashing a flash flood.
Not long ago, said Ms. Bond, the magazine editor, local officials initiated a so-called reverse-911 system, intended to make mass telephone calls to local residents in the event of an emergency. “Everyone’s phone went crazy,” Ms. Bond said. “It was a massive effort to call people, to wake people up and get people out.”
Whether Mr. McComb and the other guests got a call is not known. Bert Cobb, a Hays County judge, told The Associated Press that floodwaters peaked about 4 a.m. Sunday at more than 40 feet. He said witnesses saw the McComb house slip from its foundation into the river, then smash into a bridge.
Mr. McComb’s father, Joe McComb, told The Corpus Christi Caller-Times that his son managed to reach the river’s banks despite being hit in the head by debris. Mr. Cobb, the county judge, said that only pieces of the house had been recovered.
landlord 8 years ago
Anytime these people speak, even we the illiterates in common sense are better. No wonder Gabby O. Darko described them in the manner he did, and really one is left with nothing done to go by Gabby.
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Anytime these people speak, even we the illiterates in common sense are better. No wonder Gabby O. Darko described them in the manner he did, and really one is left with nothing done to go by Gabby.
It is very clear that there is no shroud of shyness and responsibleness in these people and one also wonders how our country is becoming with them as leaders, law makers with this kind of irresponsible talks.
If one may ask; who and who was sacked or resigned during the May 09 disaster and why can't we be responsible in the way we talk ?
As leaders, we should be responsible when and where it is possible. I know Napo can do better and should have been responsible here as well.
landlord 8 years ago
Napo has confirmed Kwesi Pratt Jnr saying that, "our educated illiterates are our country's problem" and I believed my great grandfather who could not read and write wouldn't have been so irresponsible in this and would have ... read full comment
Napo has confirmed Kwesi Pratt Jnr saying that, "our educated illiterates are our country's problem" and I believed my great grandfather who could not read and write wouldn't have been so irresponsible in this and would have suggested we come out with hoes to create some small waterways and possible remove humps along the waterways for free flows.
No one can hold God for the rains but can hold people when acids are poured on others, when threatened to kill others, when invincible forces illegally prevent legal officials from doing their work, when you're living with murderers ( Kuffour, Mpianim, etc), yet you don't want to hand them over, and on and on.
These are things at hand we handle, Napo you have more to talk of. My great grandfather would have said he can't read or write, but will not speak without at least a little "common sense".
Futurama 8 years ago
Another idiotic rant. Fools like you should stay away from the web.
Another idiotic rant. Fools like you should stay away from the web.
Futurama 8 years ago
The Accra mayor must resign as a matter of principle. I don't know which fools conferred the best mayor award on him. God has revealed their sycophancy. Even the gutters leading to The AMA offices are chocked and smelly.
The Accra mayor must resign as a matter of principle. I don't know which fools conferred the best mayor award on him. God has revealed their sycophancy. Even the gutters leading to The AMA offices are chocked and smelly.
kutsii 8 years ago
Napo, u are very jealous of President Mahama. U will never be President and u can't be. Continue talking from ur blocked cleft nose full of plegmhs. Fool
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Napo, u are very jealous of President Mahama. U will never be President and u can't be. Continue talking from ur blocked cleft nose full of plegmhs. Fool
Mahama will win 2016 elections but ur cleft nose will be the same. Fool
ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN 8 years ago
NONSENSE TALK, NAPO MUST RESIGN FIRST AS MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT BEFORE CALLING ON THE PRESIDENT TO RESIGN BECAUSE YOU HAD ALSO FAILED YOUR PEOPLE THOUSAND TIMES THAN THE PRESIDENT. NAPO MUST THINK BEFORE HE TALK. U MUST COME AG ... read full comment
NONSENSE TALK, NAPO MUST RESIGN FIRST AS MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT BEFORE CALLING ON THE PRESIDENT TO RESIGN BECAUSE YOU HAD ALSO FAILED YOUR PEOPLE THOUSAND TIMES THAN THE PRESIDENT. NAPO MUST THINK BEFORE HE TALK. U MUST COME AGAIN
jay 8 years ago
Check your facts very well before you comment.the flood in Texas was not as a result of choaked gutters that was not distilled by the state mayor.
Check your facts very well before you comment.the flood in Texas was not as a result of choaked gutters that was not distilled by the state mayor.
kwame 8 years ago
I think NPP has to show an example by asking Nana Addo to resign as the flag bearer. If he cannot manage only two of his party executives, what's the guarantee that he can manage the Nation's problem
I think NPP has to show an example by asking Nana Addo to resign as the flag bearer. If he cannot manage only two of his party executives, what's the guarantee that he can manage the Nation's problem
ABU 8 years ago
Did this dude called for the resignation of Kuffuor when rampant floodings occured under his rule ?
Did this dude called for the resignation of Kuffuor when rampant floodings occured under his rule ?
Adu Boat 8 years ago
when Vanderpuye was doing his work by demolishing building you called for his sack and played politics with it. Now you are the same people calling for his head for not doing his work, if we don't stop this hypocrisy and play ... read full comment
when Vanderpuye was doing his work by demolishing building you called for his sack and played politics with it. Now you are the same people calling for his head for not doing his work, if we don't stop this hypocrisy and playing politics with vital issues Ghana will continue to fail irrespective of the government in power.
Why are they bent on having Mahama relinquish power when 2016 is just at the corner? Use what you saying about him as your weapon to convince voters and stop spewing trash all the time. Just advise Mahama to demolish Kuffour' ...
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This disasters is problem to the country and solutions is needed at this time. Former President Rawlings has spoken with his little solution , so is Mr. Nduom and President Mahama, they all suggested that, the structures arou ...
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WHAT DID THE USELESS NDC DO ABOUT THIS SITUATION AFTER 26 YEARS OF USELESS RULE?
HON. PETER ALA ADJETEY WILL NOT STOOP THIS LOW. VOTE AMASA NAMOALE OUT OF PARLIAMENT, AND GET SOMEONE WHO BEFITS THE POSITION.
People of Ghana ...
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Mathew Opoku, is another fool.I dont know what is wrong with these bunch of fools. Lets talk about finding solutions. On what basis is he calling for people to be sacked?
You are very stupid to say this.if tax payer money is used to pay an officer to do his job and the job is not done without any meaningful explanation then the officer has to resign or be sacked.this nonsense can't happen in A ...
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Look at that stupid run away fool
If you say you are in New York then you don't know what you are saying
Hon. Napo should know Parliament failed in their mandate to come out with Health and Safety Laws to deal with situations like this. There are a lot of hazardous filling stations across the country and you ask yourself why tha ...
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I wish you were burnt too ,,fool
The dead goat and corrupt president always protect his corrupt officials that is why Afriyie Ankrah ,after looting sports money was given a new appointment at the president's office.It is only in Ghana and Africa where foolis ...
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God Bless & Have Mercy upon Mayor Alfred Oko Vanderpuiye for his admission , acceptance, acknowledgement of failure & remorse shown as he stood by the countless dead in the aftermath of the calamity that happened. He then ap ...
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Mahama and Oko Vanderpuye must resign forthwith! From now on, all mayors must be elected not appointed by the president!
Ghana is a democratic country so why dont the citizens demonstrate against all this shit.Only the people in Accra itself can vote to have a mayor who ever she/he maybe NOT the fuckn President geeze wakw up fellow ghanaians
Floods occurred in Texas, USA, and Obama was blamed and asked to step down. Incredible.!!
Obama is not corrupt like Mahama.The world bank loaned Ghana $500 million to solve the drainage in Accra 2014.What happened to the money.All money authorized by US congress are used wisely.
The amount is in fact, some $660 million and not coming from the world bank, but instead a duly approved loan by parliament coming straight from the Export Import Bank in the USA and the Standard Chartered Bank. Now, if parli ...
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Never said anything that a human being will sit down and say , " i think this makes sense".
What has his end end done to save us .
It is reported almost all our big cities where the rain fell were flooded.
FOOL! Talk se ...
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God Bless & Have Mercy upon Mayor Alfred Oko Vanderpuiye for his admission , acceptance, acknowledgement of failure & remorse shown as he stood by the countless dead in the aftermath of the calamity that happened. He then app ...
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They are all the same so far as an electorate is concerned. Seeking power to make money, no matter what they say. They have forgotten their contract with us and we perish as a consequence. Oko going is not enough. We need a n ...
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Did I Kufour sack anybody after the 2001 stadium disaster?. Did I Kufour sack anybody under his watch a'war' was fought in Yendi and over forty people including the overlord of Dagbong were killed?
Why on earth has NPP got people who don't think properly? Is it to do with the food they eat or are they all on drugs? If President Mahama has to resign because floods, then I'm afraid what the hell President Bush didn't res ...
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Kiki Kiki, the Chief charlatan is hiding. Soon, he will be out faking that he foresaw and warned Ghana about this tragedy.
WHICH WAS GIVEN BY THE WHITE MAN TO BUILD DRAINAGE SYSTEM IN THE BLACK AFRICAN COUNTRY CALLED GHANA IN 2012?
I WILL TELL YOU WHERE THE MONIES HAVE GONE - INTO THE POCKETS OF THE PRESIDENT AND THE LOOTING BRIGADES OF NDC
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When they start receiving award know there is a problem. He bought the award from equally corrupt cohorts.
Stoway,u are one of those being fed fat from the Flagstaff House for no work done otherwise u will not talk like a Bull. The fact is if u give up yourself as Presedent u take responsibility to serve the people's saftey and no ...
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president mahama will not sack anybody this promble was there in npp time did your president sack somebody
folished napo the presidenft should hand over to who you did not mentioned anybodys name that the president should hand over to fool tell us the person you want the president should hand over to fooool in 2001 stadium problem ...
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In Ghana anybody could be president or hold a ministerial position because most people are not objective. This failure can not be tolerate anywhere in developed world. Unqualified will always rule.
Upon all the calls to desist from politizing the flood and fire disaster, this is what an educated and a supposed elite has to say. Did the accra floods start just yesterday? Why did the previous governments didn't do anythin ...
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A president who calls himself a dead goat is as useless as they come. He has no respect for the ordinary citizen, he has a mind set of I will do whatever I want. Mahama is a curse to the country.
stupid mp.
Foolish and useless comments. It is only fools that will blame Mahama without mentioning Kufour. What did he do to solve d problem when he was a president? And what nonsense was Mathew Prempeh talking about. He should resign ...
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Crazy MP who have nothing good for his constituents and Ghana. He's wasting resources of Ghanaians
kwasi go and advise Akuffo Addo should rather step down as he cant control the small animals of his party
somewhere in the gungles of the ashanti region a fool is missing
EVEN IN AMERICA IT HAPPENED WHEN THERE IS TOO MUCH RAIN,PLEASE IF YO HAVE NOTHING TO DO LEAVE THE PARLIAMENT OFOUE
All these so-called MPs are doing now is reacting and doing it so poorly. Where were they before this disaster happened ? Weren't there floods in Accra when Kufour was President ?
U r a big fool and without fears of God
Look at big nose opoku your foolish npp leaders is killing each other did your gods grandpa resign foolish man like you
Kwasia, did Kufour sack any of his appointees or resign when May 9th incident occurred? .Idiot, always talking trash.
When will this stupid guy talk like a Ghanaian but not a tribalistic Ashanti. Oh my God. Is this guy really a learned Lawyer? What you are calling the president to step down because God allows the rain we have been praying f ...
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Oh brothers n sisters is that how our Bible n Quran teaches us abt our leaders. Insults comes from senseless ppl n u shdnt be part.if Mahana,Kuffour ,Napo n co r ur relatives wouldn't u hv supported them. Bow ur head in shame ...
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THERE WERE MANY FLOODS IN TEXAS,OKLAHOMA,KANSAS,MOSSOURI AND KANSAS WHY DID N'T THE AMERICANS ASK THE GOVERNOR OF THOSE STATES OR OBAMA TO STEP DOWN?
NATURAL DISASTER CAN HAPPEN ANY WHERE.
THE MISTAKES HAVE HAPPEN THE ONLY ...
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Where in the cities you mentioned in America are houses built in waterways?.Check the causes of the flood in those cities in America and compare it to the cause of the flood in accra.
Alfred "mayor"of Africa if I were d most honourable thing Iwould do is to resign and have some respect after ur total admission of guilt perhap
How about you take the first sack your "Honor" Napo? You have residence in the capital I suppose, when have you raised this particular lack of drainage concern before this recent event? Playing "Monday quarter back" is easy. ...
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THIS MAN TALKS FROM HIS BUM.
STUPID MP. WHAT HAVE YOU DONE SO FAR AS AN MP IN GHANA? YOU FAILED TO HELP THE GOVERNMENT AND YOUR PEOPLE.YOU MUST BE THE FIRST PERSON TO BE SACKED. YOU HAVE SADLY FAILED THE NATION AS AN MP.YOU HAVE OUTLIVED YOUR USEFULNESS ...
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If majority fools who are insulting the comments made by the MP - Opoku Prempeh have a deceased among the dead, most of you would have confined with the MP's. The true fact of this issue is that in March 2012, late Egya Atta ...
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KO ni onye aba ye WOR nor aloo bye kwuaa
DID YOU RESIGN WHEN PARLIAMENTARIANS ORDERED BROKEN DOWN FURNITURE FROM CHINA ?
DOES HE WORK IN ACCRA CITY COUNCIL , OR DOES HE ISSUE BUILDING PERMITS ?
IS HE CHARGE OF SAFETY PROCEDURES WITH GOIL OIL COMPANY ?
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Prempeh for hitting below the belt and capitalizing on natural disaster. This is not time for useless politics.
Calling on MAHAMA to resign is outrageous. Beat him in an election if you can. But I can assure you that MAHAMA will nail Nana to is coffin.
This years rains has caused a lot of havoc world wide and not only in Ghana. I am surprised to read some of the statements being made by people who have traveled around the world and have seen first hand natural disasters an ...
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Anytime these people speak, even we the illiterates in common sense are better. No wonder Gabby O. Darko described them in the manner he did, and really one is left with nothing done to go by Gabby.
It is very clear that the ...
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Napo has confirmed Kwesi Pratt Jnr saying that, "our educated illiterates are our country's problem" and I believed my great grandfather who could not read and write wouldn't have been so irresponsible in this and would have ...
read full comment
Another idiotic rant. Fools like you should stay away from the web.
The Accra mayor must resign as a matter of principle. I don't know which fools conferred the best mayor award on him. God has revealed their sycophancy. Even the gutters leading to The AMA offices are chocked and smelly.
Napo, u are very jealous of President Mahama. U will never be President and u can't be. Continue talking from ur blocked cleft nose full of plegmhs. Fool
Mahama will win 2016 elections but ur cleft nose will be the same. ...
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NONSENSE TALK, NAPO MUST RESIGN FIRST AS MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT BEFORE CALLING ON THE PRESIDENT TO RESIGN BECAUSE YOU HAD ALSO FAILED YOUR PEOPLE THOUSAND TIMES THAN THE PRESIDENT. NAPO MUST THINK BEFORE HE TALK. U MUST COME AG ...
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Check your facts very well before you comment.the flood in Texas was not as a result of choaked gutters that was not distilled by the state mayor.
I think NPP has to show an example by asking Nana Addo to resign as the flag bearer. If he cannot manage only two of his party executives, what's the guarantee that he can manage the Nation's problem
Did this dude called for the resignation of Kuffuor when rampant floodings occured under his rule ?
when Vanderpuye was doing his work by demolishing building you called for his sack and played politics with it. Now you are the same people calling for his head for not doing his work, if we don't stop this hypocrisy and play ...
read full comment