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Neglect of Northern Ghana Exposed

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Comment: On second thought

Author:
Tuf. Osei
Date:
2012-07-23 09:06:06
Comment to:
id ont think u know tamale


Are you expecting the government to put up free brick houses for the locals? Man, if northerners like you do really care, you would go home and build houses and businesses in your villages to modernize the place. I can bet when you visit Ghana, you spend practically all your days in the south. No region in Ghana had anything on a silver plater. Show your love and start developing, and the government will follow suit.It's not the government that has neglected the north, but their elite, well educated and power brokers, who prefer the sweet fast lives in the south.

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07-23 03:02
 
 
 
NO ID REGISTRATION FOR NR,UER, UWR NDC should take note and ensure the 3 northern regions are also registered for the national identification card. They are also Ghanaians. All regions have been registered except the 3 northern regions. Its a shame to treat th

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Godmann
07-23 03:02
 
 
 
 
WE LEANT A LESSON FROM MAHAMA ALIU! JUST SEE THE WAY THEY TREATED ALIU MAHAMA IT WAS ABSOLUT ANCEPTABLE:

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Atawah
07-23 03:14
 
 
 
 
 
ALIU IS A BIG EXAMPLE NPP HAS NOTHING TO OFFER THE NORTH: NOT TODAY AND NOT TOMORROW

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JEFF
07-23 03:16
 
 
 
 
 
 
HOME IS WHERE THE HATRED IS The cultural and political leaders of the country could not even censure the makers of that most insulting of songs, Atia. Instead, they had a good time with the song, which suggests that they shared the tribal hate espoused

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CONTROVERSY
07-23 06:17
 
 
 
 
NORTHERNERS SHOULD BLAME THEMSELVES Nonsense of the highest order, whose fault is it that the Northern Ghana is still mired in poverty? Go to Accra, Kumasi, Takoradi, Tema, Obuasi and some cities in the South, you will see some of the biggest mansions and indus

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CARDINAL
07-23 10:04
 
 
 
 
 
???????/ Is that your barometer of affluence?You still think of Northeners as in the Colonial days. Poor you.

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GHANABA
07-23 13:01
 
 
 
 
 
 
Re: ???????/ My friend, what he said is the truth. Northerners are their own worst enemies. We have rich Northerners who refuse to invest in the North.

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Asaga
07-23 14:21
 
 
 
 
 
EXACTLY MY POSITION Your text is what i have been thinking all along. It actually sums up the tragedy of the northern regions. Look at the expenditure on the security as a result of the fact that the chieftains cannot resolve issues pertaining t

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ERIC DEDJOE
07-24 06:14
 
 
 
 
 
Re: NORTHERNERS SHOULD BLAME THEMSELVES I should be heading this contribution the Failure of the Northern Elite but chose to follow your lead, as it addressed the issue. This failure is comparable to the failure of the Volta Region elite too, as the regions vies wi

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C.Y. ANDY-K
07-24 08:09
 
 
 
Re: Neglect of Northern Ghana Exposed HOW ABOUT NOW?, HAS THE NDC MADE THE SITUATION DIFFERENT?

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GASTUZ
07-23 03:20
 
 
 
Very good article, over to Kweku Baako A good article. Many have made these observations. The NPP is a very wicked bunch of greedy and tribal individuals. They intentionally starve the people of the three northern regions of development in order to use them as

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Mallam Yusuf
07-23 04:03
 
 
 
 
Re: Very good article, over to Kweku Baako This is not a good article but rather an incitement of voters against the NPP. A village in the north is no different from a village in the western, central, eastern or the ashanti region. Under development is not limited to

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mensah abrampah
07-23 05:59
 
 
 
 
NORTHERNERS ABANDON THE NORTH So are you telling me Rawlings P/NDC twenty years rule made the North a better place and the NPP came and destroyed all what NDC did for the North? NDC has come back in power for almost four years, don't we still have the

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CARDINAL
07-23 10:13
 
 
 
POOR NORTHERNERS THINK how far has the northerners helped themselves,n you vote for ndc with rawlings 19 years in power,how did he assist you? if ndc helped you with 22 years in power,how n why are u still poor,THINK.NORTHERNERS ,THINK.

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oppong london
07-23 04:14
 
 
 
 
Na who causam That unfortunately is the problem of northerners. I schooled in Sakasaka wey back then. And even in those days Northerners wouldn't go to school and had to be bribed with freebies. Seidu, tell us what the north produces to me

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Capt. Katongo
07-23 05:50
 
 
 
remove the capital to the north anyway my help for the northerners is the capital city of ghana should or must be changed to one of the northern cities,tamale,daboya,walewale or yendi for rapid development n more jobs for u.Also northern region needs to be

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oppong london
07-23 04:22
 
 
 
 
Neglect of Northern Ghana exposed. It is not enough pointing out failures, of any gov't to change conditions in the northern regions. As an individual, what are your plans for changes? Are there not enough educated men up there who can start a movement to the

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Martin
07-23 05:31
 
 
 
 
 
Educated Northerners Leave The North The North have had a lot of educated people thanks to free education Northerners have had. However, not that many of them go back to help their people.

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Kofi Yankey
07-23 06:29
 
 
 
DAGOMBAS ARE NORTH PROBLEMS THEY SHOULD STOP TRIBALISM AND SILLY CHIEFTAINCY FIGHTS N THINK OF DEVELOPEMENT.

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HARUNA
07-23 04:54
 
 
 
Why Is Only NPPs Fault? The thinking that NPP is against the North is the undiscerning thinking of Northerners that NDC has expoited. Rawlings was in power under PNDC and NDC for 19 years. Mills has gotten 3 years under NDC. Kuffour had 8 years unde

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Kofi Yankey
07-23 06:16
 
 
 
 
Don't blame the NPP. Put your thinking cap on, Mister! Is NPP the cause of the problems in the North of Ghana? NPP was in power for only eight years. Dr. Busia's Progress Party was in power for 27 months. This adds up to 10 years and 3 mont

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Pumpuni
07-23 06:24
 
 
 
 
 
Re: Don't blame the NPP. You people would want us to believe that Ghana was a paradise under the NPP...Ghana is bigger than Accra, Kumasi etc....

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kwame
07-23 09:01
 
 
 
Neglect of Northern Ghana Whose Fault? How many times have Northerners been in the rulling Governments of Ghana.They always settle in the South after winning their seats in the elections to Parliaments they woefully abandon their root and get married to a southern

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RCH
07-23 06:27
 
 
 
DISGRACE THIS IS A CLEAR EVIDENCE THAT THE WRITER IS AN NDC SUPORTER, HE IS JUST INN TO CAMPAIGN FOR THEM. TAKE INTO CONSIDERATION HOW MANY YEARS DID THE NPP RULE GHANA AND HOW MANY YEAR DID THE NDC RULE GHANA. COMPARE THE TWO AND ANS

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JUSTICE MAN
07-23 06:38
 
 
 
 
Re: DISGRACE So the BBC reporter is also an NDC? You people would want us to believe that Ghana was a paradise under the NPP...So I believe what the writer is exposing is the hypocrisy in our politics.

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kwame
07-23 08:56
 
 
 
id ont think u know tamale going through the article has given me the firm believe theat neithe the author or u the one doing the publication has step your foot to tamale. why, from Kamina baracks to Tamale central is 5 miles which is in sharp contrast

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don sway
07-23 07:49
 
 
 
 
Re: id ont think u know tamale Continue to delude yourself because the writer has made an error in your estimation.

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kwame
07-23 08:59
 
 
 
 
On second thought
Tuf. Osei
07-23 09:06
 
 
 
 
 
the women are whores good dick suckers WHAT KIND OF SWEET FAST LIFE.ACCRA AND KUMASI ARE THE MOST DIRTY PLACES IN GHANA.The women are whores that is the only good thing about the south

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KWAME WANGARA
07-23 20:24
 
 
 
northern region is not poor i don't the writer of the article has made a good observation in accra, kumasi, and others before coming to tamale. if he did, he would have noticed that there is poverty everywhere ghana and not just tamale. the richest and

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Tijani
07-23 09:37
 
 
 
They ask K4 to go Wa n he said is far But the next day he was at Malysia

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Cabo
07-23 10:05
 
 
 
Aliu was a liability to Northeners He was also a liability to MUSLIM

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Cabo
07-23 10:09
 
 
 
comment Don't disgrace yourself as if you are a semi- literate. The whole Ghana is poor and NDC is continuing sidestepping into more mess. so come over and reason again as a journalese but this one you have failed.

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Duut Daniel
07-23 12:34
 
 
 
Intellectual Dishonesty! Seidu Kpebu, I sincerely beleive that you know the truth about the develpoment situation in the north. However, you have selectively chosen to go back to an article written during the NPP era because you are trying to use tha

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Titugri
07-23 17:08
 
 
 
 
Re: Intellectual Dishonesty! Titugri and Kpebu,all of you may be wrong,during the NPP regime northern was really neglected,it's like second class citizens in ghana,tamale was put under curfew for good over 3yrs,never happened anywhere,even in afghanistan

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akwesi
07-24 00:51
 
 
 
Ghanaians are decerning what cheap points u are trying to achieve. Much as i cannot deny the fact that there is poverty in the north, it was not NPP govt that made the northerners poor. I think all the past and present govts have not done enough fo

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Mat
07-23 18:05
 
 
 
WE HAVE STUPID NORTHERN POLITICIANS I do blame our Northern politicians.They act and play the second role as Ghanaians.They have no vision.The south never wanted to see any development in the north.They want to keep the north with abject poverty for cheap labou

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KWAME WANGARA
07-23 20:17