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'Is he a fire officer or a doctor?' - Kwame Nkrumah Tikese slams Ashanti Regional Minister

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  • Atsu 8 months ago

    Kwame Mo

  • FRANKIE 8 months ago

    These pseudo journos have nothing of substance to discuss on their shows. Always waiting for trivialities to latch onto and flog unendingly on their useless programmes. Especially the local language stations.

  • I piss on sick dog prophet mohammed 8 months ago

    qur'an is toilet paper. Burn all mosques in Africa. allah is scum

  • I PISS ON SICK DOG JESUS CHRIST THE GOD OF CHRISTIANS 8 months ago

    BIBLE IS WEE AND TOILET PAPER. SUICIDE BOMB ALL CHURCHES IN GHANA. KILL EVERY CHRISTIAN IN GHANA.

  • HAJIA 8 months ago

    Please don't follow him/her and blaspheme. Just leave him/her alone. His/her days are numbered.

  • New York 8 months ago

    Hajia I do ask my myself if Ghanaweb has editors.

  • Metrumu kankaen 8 months ago

    Do you think Islam accepts the insult on Jesus, his mother and family? If you're a muslim then let me remind you that you've committed a grievous sin.

  • Asara 8 months ago

    I believe this is the right advise from the season journalist to the young minister. Leadership is not about shouting and embarrassing your subordinates. When people put their lives on line fire dangerous ragging fire they mu ...
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  • Gomido 8 months ago

    Mr. Tikese, you said the Regional Minister is not a Fire Officer to interfere with their work, but you asked the Minister to concentrate and stop galamsey. Is the Minister a Mining Engineer?

  • Banta 8 months ago

    Mining engineer s do not control Galamsey but the minister is the head of the security council of the Ashanti region and therefore has the oversight responsibility to ensure that the institutions mandated to fight Galamsey a ...
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  • Emma 8 months ago

    So the journalist doesn't know that the minister is head of all the security services in the region

  • Onyansanii 8 months ago

    So the fire service is not part of the security service

  • Athena- US 8 months ago

    Fools abound in Ghana else what's the sense in what Tikese said for empty head @Asara to support.
    Birds of the same feathers fly together.

  • Norts 8 months ago

    Surely, they're useless and can't think beyond their noses. He is a trotro driver

  • Athena- US 8 months ago

    @Atsu, run for your medication. You're terribly sick.

  • Nana Kwame 8 months ago

    He's not a fire officer but when the officers aren't able to bring the fire under control, a lay person might be better than them

  • Martin Kreisler 8 months ago

    A lay person with an over bloated ego, who does not understand the dynamics of the situation on the ground will just rant for publicity, which was what happened in the case of the Ashanti Regional Minister. A clear case of in ...
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  • NART 8 months ago

    NONSENSE TALK, NPP WILL DIE PREMATURE DEATH
    ADDO KUFFOUR IS A MEDICAL DOCTOR BUT WAS MADE A DEFENCE MINISTER. HAVE YOU GUYS FORGOTTEN? ( HYPOCRISY WILL KILL YOU GUYS)

  • Kwame Charles 8 months ago

    Since when did a medical doctor become a fire officer? – Kwame Nkrumah Tikese blasts Ashanti Regional Minister

    Kwame Nkrumah Tikese,
    This time you got it all wrong.
    As a Regional Minister, all sectors of the economy ...
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  • Okro 8 months ago

    But you don't go to the scene and direct professionals on how to do their job.You can only call to their attention on anything you see wrong for immediate action.

  • Akpor 8 months ago

    Can the regional minister go and do that if the police were doing their job?

    Amoakohene is too loud for gods sake.

  • Kwame Charles 8 months ago

    Since when did a medical doctor become a fire officer? – Kwame Nkrumah Tikese blasts Ashanti Regional Minister

    Kwame Nkrumah Tikese,
    This time you got it all wrong.
    As a Regional Minister, all sectors of the economy ...
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  • Grandpa 8 months ago

    Since when a medical doctor become fire officer really?

    Ok in your own words since when a medical doctor become galamsey fighter that you're direct him to go fight? Shallow mind people

  • KWAME NKRUMAH NOA NA OMPER YASEM NO 8 months ago

    Your parents named you Tikese wasn't by mistake and really your head is too big to understand issues Dr. Amoako-hene will want things to be tackled in Kumasi which has become every government problem,why can't a medical Docto ...
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  • Mono 8 months ago

    Some journalists or broadcasters just spew nonsense because they have access to microphones. If not for "coincidence how can a medical Dr. Be made Ashanti reg. Minister " who in your empty skull do you think are most suited ...
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  • Jerry 8 months ago

    My friend gerrout! What do you mean, you illiterate. When a fire is burning everybody knows fire is burning. When fire officers are standing at the scene doing nothing everybody knows they are doing nothing. The minister is t ...
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  • Pompey 8 months ago

    Jerry I believe the general public must take education in how to fight fire. How many of you do pay attention to fire officers routine education to tackle fire when it starts, breaks out and becomes inferno.

  • Observer 8 months ago

    Kwame Nkruma Tikese, wo ti gonoo, adwene nim. A minister is a manager who can function regardless of profession. Did Addo Kuffour, a medical manager not manage the national security of NPP1 under JAK successfully? You mean a ...
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  • Wkatim 8 months ago

    When Kwame Nkrumah Tikesi constantly blasted Akuffo Addo government of handling of economy NPP people tagged him as NDC person. Because he granted interviews mostly to NDC politicians like Asiedu Nketia, Sammy Gyamfi, Brogya ...
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  • Gambo 8 months ago

    But Tikese was happy when an accountant was a health minister under Akuffo Addo

  • Abu D 8 months ago

    Kwame Nkrumah Tekese, don’t display your ignorance. The two jobs are related. Don’t you know that doctors are trained on burns and safety ?

  • Concern 8 months ago

    Keame you are just a fooling person to have gotten that opportunity to speak on radio so u are talking nonsense. Foolishly these firemen sit there everyday without doing anything. Common sense should inform the to be also wat ...
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  • Bawuliar 8 months ago

    Kwame, I adore you but here, you are making a big mistake. You mean one can't also be professional apart from his main profession? Don't you also criticize some people and some issues on air? let's consider our lovely spectat ...
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  • Donatus 8 months ago

    So, we don't have medical officers in the fire service? Who gives first aid? Which law forbids a medical officer from becoming a fire officer?

  • Slow 8 months ago

    Another fool of a journalist. Obviously they don't even understand who a regional minister is. Some of these fools practicing as journalists in Ghana are part of the problems of the nation

  • Kwame Nkrumah 8 months ago

    Kwame this time u got it all wrong, Kindly ask Ghana web to pull down this head line because the insults will be too many on you.
    Thanks

  • Face 8 months ago

    It is because of stupid people like this journalist that’s why Ghana is struggling to stand on it feet. Is he saying that he doesn’t have any basic ideas in his tikese on how to put out fire? At least the medical doctor k ...
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  • Zargon 8 months ago

    Idiot were they able to stop the shops from burning? Do you need a fcuking phd to know that water is needed to fight fire and not an empty fire truck.

  • Kofi Kumasi 8 months ago

    Even a dentist turn a education minister n later a energy minister. So think well.

  • Kwadwo 8 months ago

    You journalists must reason as human beings. He is in charge RESEC and for that matter he has the authority to address any security issue in his region. Stop the foolishness Tikese.

  • Sammy 8 months ago

    An old man behave well and advice your younger brother and not insult him, i would do same because every one was agitated.Think the best is for the governmenmt to stop recruitment on fire services

  • data 8 months ago

    Journalism in Ghana need resetting.
    Is the so called journalist telling the world that trained fire officer can move a fire tender without water to fight fire?Did Tikese really listened to the ministers ranting .Is that how ...
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  • Ohene Gyamfi 8 months ago

    He’s your big head

  • No problem 8 months ago

    Tikese, you're right

  • Korbla 8 months ago

    This nonsense should not find space on ghanaweb. I'm beginning to blv some NPP folks have bought and hijacked ghanaweb

  • Kwabena 8 months ago

    Another political journalist. Ghana is dead with this characters

  • Osei mensah bonsu 8 months ago

    It's pure common sense. It's not about being a fire man oor what.

  • ObuasiMan 8 months ago

    Kwame Tikeses - did you see any action by the Fire depart when the fire started with the 3 story building? The man is the Regional Minister, who happens to have been a doctor.

  • Amanoquestion 8 months ago

    What a stupid

  • Jk 8 months ago

    Only Ashanti fool will think that.

  • Issac 8 months ago

    No he's the regional minister and he cares about anything good or bad happening to his region

  • Man 8 months ago

    Then he should go to the forest reserves in the region where Galamsey is destroying the cocoa farms and water bodies and direct them people involve out.

  • Moshosho1 8 months ago

    Gormless creature!!! You had a criminal government so none of you could talk. Now you have a government with a human face and suddenly everybody thinks the problems of the country must be solved in the twinkle of an eye. Hypo ...
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  • Martin Kreisler 8 months ago

    An inexperienced 'leader' with a bloated ego, who does not understand the dynamics of the situation on the ground will just rant for publicity, which was what happened in the case of the Ashanti Regional Minister.

  • Kojo 8 months ago

    Why do you talk as if you don't have sense

  • Qwarshie 8 months ago

    In Ghana every person becomes an instant expert on every topic the minute he is giving a political appointment.
    Leave the professionals to do their Job. when you show up at a raging fire scene with your entourage of bloggers ...
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  • Kwame 8 months ago

    The Minister was wrong and should be relieved of his post immediately.
    When the Black Stars are playing a match, the President of the Nation does not rush to the park and start issuing instructions to the players. The Presid ...
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  • Santa 8 months ago

    You have said it.At we have people who looks beyond the political lenses.

  • DONGOBE 8 months ago

    another stupid journalist. Look at how he is twisting the issue.

  • Sam 8 months ago

    Thank you. You are one if the few people who share the Same idea with me.

    That was pure interference and I wonder why the acting chief fire officer apoligesd on behalf of GNFS.

    This rubbish must not be encouraged from a ...
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  • owura Adu 8 months ago

    I'm highly disappointed a journalist of such will be making such comment,if any of his family member was a victim,he wouldn't have made such comment,people items are being burnt-out, & firefighters you drove to the seen with ...
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  • Kally 8 months ago

    hydrant stands should have easy access for such occurrences. This attacks will not give solutions to fire out brakes.

  • ADU BOATENG 8 months ago

    Why is the monetary policy rate in Ghana 27% instead of around 2.65% in Europe and 4.5% in US? What at all do we learn from the western world after years of interactions? What at all is wrong with the blacman? How do we exper ...
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  • Steven Asare 8 months ago

    See this animal of a Journalist?

  • Joe 8 months ago

    Kwame, you've said it all

  • Nonsense 8 months ago

    Even though the lack of quick access prevented the Fire truck to reach there in time, some of the fire officers didn't know how to operate the fire quenching line. It was a soldier who took over the operation to bring down th ...
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  • Jkm 8 months ago

    U don't need to be a fire officer to know if someone is not acting in his right senses.

  • Ell jay 8 months ago

    So what were you expecting him to do?stand there quietly whiles the fire officers lie to him?

    Massa lets be serious in this Country.

  • Accra is dirty.com 8 months ago

    Kwame, wo ti koonoo adwenennim enti na nkwasea kekano,wo ti sododo kwa

  • Ghana_boy 8 months ago

    kwame nkrumah tikese is lacking something in the head needed to be checked openly speaking anyhow shows

  • Kweku FRIMPONG 8 months ago

    Sometimes our so called respected journalists need to think deep before speaking so that the profession is accorded the needed respect.

    1) Is the gentleman not the Regional Minster?
    2) Is the Mins not the Chair of REGSE ...
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  • EKA 8 months ago

    It’s such a stupid comment from you tikese3. don’t let me believe that your head is empty.

  • Quickone 8 months ago

    Nkrumah Tikese you are a born-one child of a street mother hence you stupid outburst on the honourable minister. There are many older people than your overlord the Otumfour but when he errs, as any human being, they don't u ...
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  • Kwaku 8 months ago

    Kwame am seriously disappointed in ur statement what do mean by asking is he a fire officer or doctor what do u mean,as a regional minister he has every right to ask questions pls

  • Agboglimate Wolefiatem Zuborborm 8 months ago

    More than a layman parading as a journalist. Tweaaaa. Tikese must bound down his head in shame. Was Addo Kufuor a military man before he was appointed minister of defence. Poor journalism. It is just hatred

  • Sul 8 months ago

    STUPID KWAME......ORDER SOME COMMON SENSE AND I WILL PAY

  • HE IS YOUR MAMA ASSHOLE KWASIA MAN 8 months ago

    Just wait idiots like you shall be dealt with very soon. Kwane Eti kakraka gimi gimi.

  • DC 8 months ago

    True, it’s not the fault of the GNFS. All past governments have failed to well equip and educate the markets on fire prevention and access to structures and buildings. Hydrants are lacking everywhere. Fines must be imposed ...
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  • Sycamore 8 months ago

    Pure and undiluted hatred from this village journalists called Kwame Nkrumah Tikese towards the affable hard working young Regional Minister.

  • Asonaba asiedu 8 months ago

    What's your beef? The fire service themselves have apologised. If you care to know, at the moment, he's not practising medicine but he happens to be the regional minister and his duties encompass all that!!

  • Appiah Danquah Kufuor 8 months ago

    What stupidity? These "so called" journalists, some of them are so shallow minded and ignorant that it beggars belief!

    The logic and reasoning of Kwame Tikese is full of contradictions, lazy thinking and outright stupidity ...
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  • Steve 8 months ago

    When the regional minister was fixing the street lights in Kumasi , Mr. Journalist you didn't ask him stop because he wasn't a electrical engineer. Foolish talk

  • Bankye Dada Dankasa 8 months ago

    This Tekese guy is throwing dust in our eyes and gaslighting us. He needs to be objective and nonpersonal with his criticisms of the hard working passionate young man, who is determined to give his best to the people.

  • Don G 8 months ago

    Tikese is setting an agender.Amoakohene has our support so Tikese should be ready for us.That Despite firm is full of nonsensical guys who talks shit.They are not getting free monies so all they do is to insight people agains ...
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  • Voiceless 8 months ago

    In Ghana, we undermine everything including those who fight for the truth. He is a young man Ashanti Regional Minister and so you can rest

  • Nkum 8 months ago

    He is chairman of the regional security Council. He coordinates the security situation in the region. The fire service is part of the security architecture in the region,

  • Ampa 8 months ago

    OK then we also want to see him in the forest directing the security agencies on how to clear the Galamsey boys from the water bodies.

  • Taker 8 months ago

    He had no right to talk to the fire officer like that. Did he employ him. Regional minister my ass. Regional ministers have come and gone. We think when we are ministers we can talk anyhow to anybody. Such ministers won't las ...
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  • Agyekum 8 months ago

    Kwame Nkrumah Tikese has always been an NPP paid presenter. Can someone sdk hom which recognized school of journalism he attended? Yet this good for nothing stomach radio presenter is holding himself up as a journalist spewin ...
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  • Patrick 8 months ago

    Kwame Nkrumah Tikese's attack on the Ashanti Regional Minister is not only unwarranted but also a blatant display of disrespect and defiance toward the political authorities in the Region. Such behavior undermines the princip ...
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  • Patrick 8 months ago

    Mr. Kwame Nkrumah Tikese, your criticism directed at the Ashanti Regional Minister, Dr. Frank Amoakohene, seems to overlook the broader context of his actions and the responsibilities he carries as a leader. While it is true ...
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