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AMA forces street hawkers out

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  • Rastee 11 years ago

    You know the deal ! They were waiting for the election to be over

  • Zoobie-Zoobie 11 years ago

    Visionless government

  • Exposure 11 years ago

    SO WHERE IS THE WOYOME'S GH MONEY?
    NDC LEADERS AND GOVT HAVE ROBBED GHANA OF THE NATION'S MONEY WHICH COULD HAVE BEEN USED TO BUILD SCHOOLS, ROADS, CLEAN WATER, HEALTH SUPPORT, WELFARE BENEFITS, HELP WOMEN AND CHILDREN.

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  • Bishop 11 years ago

    Accra stinks, smells, polluted with smoke, the Korle Lagoon smells like shit. Traffic is unbearable, lawlessness every where.

    Visionless Mayor has to go now !!!!!

  • Nana From Ghana 11 years ago

    Oko, forget it. There is no position for you in the Mahama government. Your time is up. Nobody will work with you on anything. You are greedy and a cheat and you will never be happy with the wealth you've acquired during ...
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  • Old Dirty Bastard 11 years ago

    Another hawker sadly mentioned “as for today it hasn’t been easy at all, I am from Kumasi so it looks like I will be going back to Kumasi.

  • Gawuga 11 years ago

    God help us. Below animal calling primitive. What is primitive? Do you wash yourself? Stinker born from stinking arse.

  • Old Dirty Bastard 11 years ago

    Did you not read what the Ashanti hawkers said? Idiot.

  • THE WARRIOR 11 years ago

    Why not go back to your dirty stinking yorubaland in Nigeria?I blame the akuapems for giving you lazy,dirty Gas land to live on.

  • Zoobie-Zoobie 11 years ago

    no vision, no plan, no jobs

  • KKB 11 years ago

    You all voted against the free SHS and took bribe from NDC people now that they are in power you see ...

  • Yaw 11 years ago

    The nuisance in the central district is an aye sore and these hawkers should find an alternative place rather than always blaming and blaming. Cant we for one time do something right. The law is saying you cannot hawk in a sp ...
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  • BREAD 11 years ago

    Street hawking can NEVER be eradicated, at least not in the next four generations, when hopefully the rate of literacy would reach about 80 - 90%. But more importantly we should not forget that some of the hawkers are wives ...
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  • mojingles 11 years ago

    It is all about law-abiding and prodcutive citizens of a nation that is striving to find its niche....these hawkers are a blight on our nation and the earlier they heed instructions to stay out of heavily congested areas of A ...
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  • Ras 11 years ago

    is hawking the only way to make a living? .. i think another solution is to arrest and fine those who buy from these people...if there are no buyers, there will be no sellers... MTTU can start by arresting drivers and their p ...
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  • Very Very Concerned 11 years ago

    Oko and Co, please sack and drag all the Ashantis and the Akyem especially the Ashantis all from Accra LET THEM GO TO Kumasi just leave the Akyems alone I plead for them. PLEASE, PLEASE PLEASE let all the Ashantis go back to ...
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  • KOFI DAGARTI 11 years ago

    Mr concerned man what is your beef?C hased all the Ashanti's out.That is a good idea.They will go with the Akyems & the Kwahus and you people will be jobless.As for me Kofi I will go with them and your people will suffer all ...
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  • Very Very Concerned 11 years ago

    Kofi start parking your cabbage and head to kumasi, leave the Kwahus, Akyems and shut up and go Kwahus, Akyems, Gas, Ewes, Northerners, Hausa and Dagatis are all together, including the Yorubas, we will kill you the Ashantis ...
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  • THE WARRIOR 11 years ago

    Dirty Gas no doubt you are from Nigeria.Go to Lagos and see how your ancestors the yorubas live.I blame tha akuapems for giving you Gas land to live on.Life in Chokor, James Town etc show how filthy you Gas are.In these place ...
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  • Abba 11 years ago

    Failure of the NDC Government to create jobs for the people has brought all this problems.

  • MUGU YARO 11 years ago

    They waited for the election, now that it is over.You hawkers are going to see (MOGYA)blood.Mr Mayor this advice to you is free why can't you allow one day in a week ie SATURDAY or SUNDAY or both days to be free for hawker ...
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  • jerry bustard 11 years ago

    look at this monkey talking about people to movie out off road of Accra,this man must think that the days of Mills

































    monkey chief is over so he should think o ...
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  • MARCUS AMPADU 11 years ago

    Provide an alternative for them at several designated spots throughout the city and impose a monthly fee on all the hawkers who take advantage of these hawkers markets or marts. All the hawkmarts should have distinct colors a ...
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  • Gawuga 11 years ago

    Where are the jobs for the youth? Mind you, some of the great business people in Ghana started of as hawkers. Stupid leaders who can't think organically.

  • ADABRAKA 11 years ago

    If govt chooses to award contracts to China to polish and furnish our parliament tables and chairs, where will our artisans turn to? Buy and sell t rolls on the streets.

  • BENJAMIN ASARE UK 11 years ago

    I THINK IS ABOUT TIME THE GOVERNMENT BUILT A SUITABLE PLACE FOR SELLERS TO STAY AND SELL THEIR GOODS.

  • sam (usa) 11 years ago

    every where is market in Ghana.Even the highways are now markets.Its a shame.

  • VAQ 11 years ago

    WE AS PEOPLE SHOULD GROW UP AND MAKE CHANGES IN OUR SOCIETY. STREET HAWKING SHOULD NOW BE A THING OF THE PAST. OUR AFRICAN CITIES ARE GGROWING AND WE HAVE TO LEARN TO DO THINGS DIFFERENTLY INSTEAD OF THE OLD WAYS OUR PARENTS ...
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  • kama 11 years ago

    GO BACK TO YOUR VILLAGES - HAWKERS !!

  • THE WARRIOR 11 years ago

    Go back to Nigeria.You Gas are not ghanaians.You are filthy and lazy.You do not belong to Ghana.

  • Ghana citizen of integrity. 11 years ago

    Unless we start educating these street hawks there would be no solution.

  • Yaw k 11 years ago

    Governments has come and gone and none of them is smart enough to understand the frustration in the eyes of d average Ghanian. We have tried d same short term solution before. Pres Mahama cannot hide behind d Accra ...
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  • NTAMKESE 11 years ago

    THAT'S THE GOVT YOU VOTED FOR SO DEAL WITH IT. FOOLS IT SERVES YOU RIGHT. MORE TROUBLES TO BEFALL YOU FROM THIS CRIMINAL INSESITIVE NDC FOOLS!