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Photos: Tema Motorway light poles, grass burnt indiscriminately

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  • SETH YEBOAH 9 years ago

    HOW CAN THIS BE POSSIBLE IF WE HAVE RESPONSIBLE LEADERS

  • Joe Danquah Sydney 9 years ago

    Lazy people.
    Someone needs to be arrested

  • Amissah 9 years ago

    Where is the mayor

  • United Ghana 9 years ago

    Having people shot

  • KOJO 9 years ago

    DONT ASK FOR THE MAJOR.
    ASK FOR THE WHERE ABOUT OF THE BRAIN OF THE PEOPLE WHO DID THIS.
    WE CAN NOT DEVELOP GHANA UN LESS THE COMMON MAN CHANGES HIS OR HER ATTITUDES.

  • zac 9 years ago

    thank you mojo

  • Oba Nyansani Baako Pe In Ghana! 9 years ago

    We have a minister who suppose to take care of this. He gets pay every month and he had already collected 4x4 car from the state yet he does not care about it and no one will tell him nothing.

  • ELINAM 9 years ago

    Ghanaians are lazy,backward with no sense of aesthetic. Money does not do everything but Ghanaians believe in order to make things look beautiful you have throw big money at it.
    The whole stretch of the motorway needs to be ...
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  • SARFO(ACCRA) 9 years ago

    MR.ELINAM,HOW LONG DID IT TAKE YOU TO ARRIVE AT THIS VERY GLARINGLY OBVIOUS GHANAIAN TRAIT.WHEN I MOVED BACK TO GHANA AND PROCEEDED TO "TIDY"UP THE HOUSE I HAD SPENT A LOT OF MONEY TO BUILD,MY OWN FAMILY MEMBERS RIICULED ME.W ...
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  • KOJO 9 years ago

    WE SHOULD STOP PUTTING BLAME ON LEADERSHIP FOR EVERYTHING THAT GOES WRONG.
    OUR REAL PROBLEM IS THE BAD ATTITUDES OF CIVIL SOCIETY.

  • Sallie 9 years ago

    YOU nailed it. Ghanaians lack the sense of maintenance ,neatness and beautiful environment. Even look at the so called up scale residential areas like EAST LEGON, AIR PORT Is a pity to look at when you drive through.GHANA is ...
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  • Kay 9 years ago

    The workers who are to weed the grass also set them ablaze.

  • MELON 9 years ago

    tell that APARK to see to this, before his MOTOWAY RULES & TAXES.

  • KWAME 9 years ago

    The contractor and his boys don't have any right to burn what have been given to them to weed. The question is : Are the light poles Alluminium, Iron or just Plastic poles? If they are Plastic Poles then the contractor and th ...
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  • Visinary 9 years ago

    The MATEMEHO BOMB Throwers don't have that means anymore so all they can do is to hire thugs to burn our national properties into ashes. Then hire unscrupulus stomach journalist to report it what a shame.
    SHAME ON YOU NPP P ...
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  • Matemeho truth 9 years ago

    When your mama got pregnant with you, your sibling cried all day saying your mama stole and ate his gari and drunk all of his papa's pito that's why you think the way you think now.

  • Possi 9 years ago

    Sir,this is Ghana property ,come out with good solution , Not politic .

  • Ahhmed 9 years ago

    As country if we don't start dismissing departmental heads for non supervision, maintenance culture can never be sustained. Target should be set for all Government departments and crack whip on non performance then we would b ...
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  • Agyei Mensah 9 years ago

    Ghanaians we are own enemies. How can he President this behaviour. This is disgraceful.

  • princewilly@ymail.com 9 years ago

    There were three soccer players, one from Cape Coast University, KNUST, and University of Ghana Legon, standing on a burning buildings roof in Tema Motor way. The fire department came with a blanket and yelled to the Cape Co ...
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  • what 9 years ago

    And you guys sit down unconcerned for things to go down the drain

  • tundele 9 years ago

    Landscaping is the answer to all this nonsense.

  • Asiedu Nketia 9 years ago

    That's the quality of dedication we have created. Such smart students!

  • Bature 9 years ago

    The poles were cut down on a long stretched of the motorway where the lamp fixtures were stolen (or harvested) by thieves barely a week ago. I'm sure because the authorities were going to be questioned like the missing MMT sa ...
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  • Good Samaritan 9 years ago

    I use the motorway daily and can testify to the fact that the street light on the motorway were not burnt but were deliberately cut down and the lamps stolen. Where is the so called dreaded NATIONAL SECURITY?

  • BA 9 years ago

    Who is now careing for our dear nation Ghana ?

  • truth 9 years ago

    There's nothing shocking in Ghana anymore. Everything's gone to the dogs

  • Nii Laertey Nartey 9 years ago

    I won't be surprise at all if they are rather promoted by the NDC government for job well done.

    Do we have trusted people using their heads at work in Ghana today under the Mahama led corrupt government?

  • Asiedu Nketia 9 years ago

    As if you know already. NPP is responsible for all this. I saw them!

  • Possi 9 years ago

    Nii ,if we keep on to blame leaders, what about Ghanaian society?

  • Joe 9 years ago

    Yet we turn around and complain about leadership. It is almost impossible for Ghanaians to be led. We are designed to be ruled with an iron fist.

  • Ghana 9 years ago

    Yes! I agree with you because we are animals.

  • Kojo 9 years ago

    You and Whois are animals? Take me out!

  • ugly akufo addo 9 years ago

    he is a son of a bitch

  • Anyidoho Koku A 9 years ago

    these are the issues that the authorities should address...sad sad sad

  • From Atlanta Ga 9 years ago

    Well said please you have elderly person at your home?

  • Asiedu Nketia 9 years ago

    I saw Akufo Addo with a gallon of petrol and a box of matches standing on the motorway last nite! Arrest him!

  • gloria usa 9 years ago

    OMG!Where do all the taxes and IMF loans go?If the government continues to be irrisponsible two things are sure to happen:coup d`etat or governernment takeover by foreign merchants like the Lebanese or Chinese.Somebody pleas ...
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  • amoah 9 years ago

    we know how to feast at
    parties and funerals

    but it will take another 1000 years to develop our mind

  • Kweku Boateng Jnr 9 years ago

    Thank you for this patriotic piece. Hope the Office of President and minister in charge would act by the close of the week.

  • daasebre 9 years ago

    Former president Kuffour mounted those pole without lights
    Former president Attached Mills powered some of them
    And now Mr disaster the worst of them all is burning down the poles,
    And yet ghanaians still praise these w ...
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  • daasebre 9 years ago

    Former president Kuffour mounted those pole without lights
    Former president Attached Mills powered some of them
    And now Mr disaster the worst of them all is burning down the poles,
    And yet ghanaians still praise these w ...
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  • Asiedu Nketia 9 years ago

    I swear Mahama has nothing to do with this. He was in Dubai all this time. Ask Akufo Addo.

  • Ataa 9 years ago

    Yes ohhh ask Akufo Addo - that is exactly what Gen Mosquito will say!

  • Abeeku Mensah 9 years ago

    Irrespective of how, when and who set the fires, is the Ghana police and or fire departments not tasked with investigating fires and smoke anywhere in our cities/communities? These fires I am darn sure sent billows of smoke i ...
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  • ShineYourEyes 9 years ago

    Work of scrap metal dealers. This has got nothing with the burnt grass. The journalist I believe was blind when he/she got there and was told what to write.

  • Barima odeneho 9 years ago

    Folks. Let's open our eyes. The light poles appear to have been cut rather than burnt. Can someone spot the sharp edges of both the whole pole and the stumps with two iron rods in them? Please don't link the burning to the cu ...
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  • george sympoa 9 years ago

    Nonsense, I use the motorway every day. These poles were damaged long before the fires. As you can tell from the pictures the poles snapped from blunt force not from fire

  • Asiedu Nketia 9 years ago

    well, I needed these poles for my contract Bui Dam business...... so I let my Azorko boys cut them down. I didn't have any cash around since all are in Swiss Bank.

    And u all better shut up before I release my Ashiaman boys ...
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  • Habeas 9 years ago

    Hmmmm mother Ghana,very pathetic,when at all would we learn.

  • me 9 years ago

    Education

  • Ataa 9 years ago

    And yet we complain...that we don't have street lights! IS it education or the lack of it which will make someone burn gabbage close to these poles! If their bosses do not trust that they will do the job assigned them, why di ...
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  • Mary Yeboah 9 years ago

    I saw a fire last Friday as I was driving to Tema around 4pm in the middle right beneath the light poles. I couldn't believe it no one was around. I wondered what was going on.

  • Comfort Hoffman 9 years ago

    This is a disgrace to our nation and if the authorities think they can just ignore it, "kudos" then because their irresponsibility and ignorance are very well on display. This is the 21st century and Ghana is leading the way ...
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  • Agyeman. 9 years ago

    Must be foolish ashanti bosses with their backward village mentality of how they used to clear forests for agriculture.This ashanti boss must have got his position bcoz of his tribal connections not bcoz of merit,experience o ...
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  • Nii 9 years ago

    Very sad! Oh mother Ghana

  • jt 9 years ago

    Politics seek Ghanians have become something else like an animal people translated or attached politics to tribal line so high that some are ready to die for the course. Wake up the time of Ghana belongs to a particular tribe ...
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  • John Kwasie Great 9 years ago

    I happened to drive past on portion of the motorway, last week end and the fire was burning and indeed burning some of the fiberglass poles. Calls to 191 and 18555 to report the fire went unanswered. It is very obvious to see ...
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  • Sankofa 9 years ago

    This nonsense must stop at once!

  • zavu 9 years ago

    The contractor who erected the poles must also take the blame for a shoddy work done.burning grass alone cannot bring down those poles

  • zavu 9 years ago

    So the numerous police patrol on the motorway could not deter these criminals.i think the police is more interested in arresting offending drivers than any body else. It is time we create something called environmental safety ...
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