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Asantehemaa Funeral: Manhyia Palace orders closure of schools, banks, and markets

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  • Dr Mumbi Seraki 3 months ago

    Hello youth of Ghana. You can take your own life with medicine......for instance 15 paracetamol at once.........or combine medicine and akpeteshie or weedicide.

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  • FRANKIE 3 months ago

    Are we running a parallel government of chieftaincy and democracy? I keep saying that we must systematically and gradually undermine this antiquated and anachronistic chieftaincy institution and eventually dismantle and aboli ...
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  • Hunter 3 months ago

    FRANKIE FOOL!!! COME OUT OF YOUR HOLE AND ASK YOUR STUPID QUESTIONS ON THE STREETS OF MANHYIA AND SEE WHERE YOU WILL WAKE UP NEXT.

    OR YOU ARE NOT A MAN???

    FOR YOUR INFORMATION ASANTEMAN WILL HOLD ONTO ITS CUSTOMS CULTU ...
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  • Hunter 3 months ago

    THE IDIOTS COMMENTING BELOW WHO THINK AND DISAGREE WITH MANHYIA CAN GO TO SUPREME COURT!!! AFTER ALL ANAY IDIOT CAN GO TO COURT.

    BEFORE GHANA THERE WAS ASANTEMAN WITH ITS CUSTOMS AND TRADITIONS. THE MERE BIRTH OF GHANA DOE ...
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  • The Motherland 3 months ago

    This national idiot aka MUMBI SERAKI continues to terrorise this platform with his nonsense whiles refusing to take a dose of his own poisons

  • Yaw Amankwaah 3 months ago

    @Hunter
    The Gas placed a ban on noise making, not closing of scools and businesses like banks, etc and these hypocrites were all over the place. This is what leads to insults and hatred. You can't use one hand to say no and ...
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  • A hole is not a cathedral 3 months ago

    During tis time Afenyo Markin was making useless noise in parliament

  • Babangida Casagrande 3 months ago

    @fake Yaa Asantewaa, you can’t compare the gas homowos kingship to the mighty Asantehemaa, I beg shift

  • Kia 3 months ago

    A very silly directive from this Ashanti sector of Ghana. What is the economic loss to the city? Calculate that and tell Ghanaians if it’s worth it. You send your child to US to learn and then tell students in your city not ...
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  • ghana 3 months ago

    this is totally insane. Do we have a separate Republic in Ghana. Total backwardness which must be condemned by all .

  • Owan Yaw aka Teteman Ubi 3 months ago

    This order to close businesses, including banks must be challenged in court. The authority to declare emergencies, public holidays, and sectional businesses lies with the Interior Minister in consultation with National Securi ...
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  • Owan Yaw aka Teteman Ubi 3 months ago

    *and shutter regional businesses, not sectional businesses*

  • Yaw Amankwaah 3 months ago

    Assuming this directive came from the Volta Regional House of Chiefs, Yaanom will flood this comments section with their insults and unprintable words.

  • AYIBGE NII ABOA 3 months ago

    TROKOSI FOOLS ALWAYS WANT TO BE RELEVANT BY ATTTACKNG
    ALMIGHTY ASHANTES

  • Frank Agyena-Karikari 3 months ago

    This directive is totally unnecessary and nonsensical. Should the hospitals be also closed? What about Banks and Fuel Filling Stations? Let us try to become matured and civilized. Then, they should stupidly direct that the Fi ...
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  • Truth teller 3 months ago

    Will this happen in a CIVILIZED SOCIETIES ? NO WAY. SOME OF THE THINGS LIKE THIS SET US APART FROM THE CIVILIZED SOCIETIES.

  • Bk 3 months ago

    The problem is other chiefs in different regions of the country are taking note. These same toilet munching monkeys started calling their chief a king and now every chief in the country is referred to as a king as well

  • Hunter 3 months ago

    ASANTEHENE IS NEVER A KING!!! HE IS OTUMFUO! GREATER THAN ALL SOS CALLED KINGS.

  • Frank Agyena-Karikari 3 months ago

    Steer away from such nonsense. The Asantehene doesn’t feed or clothe anybody in Ghana. Let all our Traditional Leaders please live civilized lives. Will they need Water, electricity, Ambulance Services during this time? A b ...
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  • Coconut 3 months ago

    And when the GAs place a band on drumming and noise making in Accra for the HOMOWO festival Akan people complain. Why should to shut business because funeral of an old lady? Backward people

  • Hunter 3 months ago

    ACCRA IS THE CAPITAL OF GHANA AND KUMASI IS NOT. THAT IS THE PRICE THEY PAY FOR BEING THE CAPITAL. GOVERNMENT BUSINESS AND SIT OF GOVERNMENT CANNOT STOP. GET IT ONCE AND FOR ALL.

  • Bk 3 months ago

    Stupidity at it’s best.,Are there no government agencies and officials in that barbaric bush

  • Hunter 3 months ago

    GO TO KEJETIA AND ASK. OR YOU ARE NOT A MAN BORN OF A WOMAN???

    THAT BARBARIC BUSH PROVIDES THE RESOURCES YOU AND YOUR KINSMEN DEPEND ON TO SURVIVE. ODWAN

  • Efo Juju 3 months ago

    Bush is not barbaric. Bush is environmentally good. The air is clean, hygienic and healthy.

  • Efo Juju 3 months ago

    Go to Burma Camp and tell them mot to make noise.

  • Kumepreko 3 months ago

    is Ghana a kingdom? or Asante is a reservation? we must stop all this nonsense before it swallows us all

  • Ananse System 3 months ago

    What sort of nonsense is this?

  • GH8 3 months ago

    Me my biggest issue with this directive is the fact, that there is an ongoing WASSCE and on Thursday there are papers to be written. They have Physics Practicals, Clothing and Textiles, so what happens to DAY STUDENTS and INV ...
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  • Yaw Amankwaah 3 months ago

    @GH8
    This is not a problem at all. Let them choose one. The funeral or their exams, which will in the long run, define their future. They shouldn't postpone the exams, not at all.

  • Hunter 3 months ago

    YAW AMANKWAH MOO!!! GO AND READ THE DIRECTIVE AGAIN. IN ANY CASE WHERE HAS EXAMS TAKEN GHANA??? TO THE MOON??? OR U EMPLOYMENT VAGABONDS MINING GALAMSEY SITES?? IF YOU ARE A MAN WITH BALLS STEP OUT AND SAY YOU HAVE EXAMS!!

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  • Frank Agyena-Karikari 3 months ago

    Tell your tribespeople not to let their Children go to the Exam Centers on those days and see what their future will be. Let us get civilized and eschew ourselves from such stupid and nonsensical directives. This is a foolish ...
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  • Mandela 3 months ago

    OMG! Where in the universe will this be conceived. SHITHOLE country indeed. What purpose will this serve? Oh King Solomon.

  • Kponvi Gyata 3 months ago

    This is very bad precedent.

    So, any chief in Ghana can order schools, banks and businesses to close because of a funeral in his town?

    Whst sort of government are we practicing? Traditional and tribal government or con ...
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  • KWAO 3 months ago

    They know what they are doing is wrong, yet they can't say it. Let it be some other tribe,,,hell will break loose for them.

    Ghana!!!

  • SUCH FOOLISHNESS! 3 months ago

    She is dead, so everyone else is ordered to put their lives on hold, right?!. Nkwaseasɛm wɔ Ghana, too much!!

  • Hmmm 3 months ago

    What nonsense is that ?

  • Oklemekuku 3 months ago

    Waa that the case during Otumfour Opoku Ware's funeral in 1999?

  • Akajatayogogo 3 months ago

    This is useless comment,to close schools, Banks, Markets for what? What authority did Kweku Dua AKA Osei Tutu 11 have to say we should close these things.Is useless statement.The government should put a stop to that order. W ...
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  • Kofi Akwetey 3 months ago

    Only the GES can close schools in Ghana. Manhyia can only request GES to close the schools. It cannot order the closure of schools itself.

  • Adjoa Aidoo Esq. 3 months ago

    I am an ardent proponent of cultural preservation and more.
    But this is crossing the line. All well meaning Ghanaians including Ashantis must condemn this obnoxious arbitrariness.
    Otumfour must review this order.
    Maintain ...
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  • Hunter 3 months ago

    WHAT LINE IS THAT??? DRAWN BY WHO??? WHEN YOU GO TO SCHOOL PLENTY YOU THINK YOU HAVE SENSE!!!

  • Maco 3 months ago

    This is where the competency of Mahama is brought to question again. This can never happen under Rawlings. Allowing things like this to occur is what took the NDC to opposition in the first place. Even Akufo Addo will not cou ...
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  • Nanaba1 3 months ago

    Master don't say what you don't know. It happened in 1999 and who president at that time?

  • Kwame Angel 3 months ago

    Somebody stop this nonsense!

  • Hunter 3 months ago

    ARE YOU NOT SOMEBODY??? GO AND STOP IT. OR TELL YOUR FATHER TO. OR HE IS ALSO NOBODY??? SIA

  • Nanaba1 3 months ago

    Oh Ghana!!
    So we are people who hate ourselves.
    We said we believe in three main religions in Ghana but we do give respect to the other two which is not from here but reject our own one.
    We accept someone birthday and fu ...
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  • THE WATCHMAN 3 months ago

    Give to Ceasar things that are Ceasar's and to God the things that are God’s. Christianity is a lifestyle of humility and also respect for others. We walk in wisdom. We need to respect authority. They are not asking or dema ...
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  • Hmm 3 months ago

    Can you imagine?

  • JACK TORONTO 3 months ago

    Ghana is a secular state.

  • JULOR CAESAR 3 months ago

    Just imagine if chiefs had a hand in running the country as they've always cried for, the country would be faced with these directives and orders that make no sense in today's Ghana. It would make sense to ask for the closure ...
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  • WE CAN LEARN A LOT FROM SINGAPORE,A MULTI ETHNIC, MULTI RELIGIOUS AND MULTILINGUAL COUNTRY. 3 months ago

    Everybody is doing as they see fit in Ghana. We have a lot to learn from countries like Singapore, a country made up of people from different races, different cultures,different religions and different languages yet with a ve ...
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  • Hunter 3 months ago

    YOU CAN MOVE TO SINGAPORE!!! OR YOU DONT HAVE PASSPORT AND VISA MONEY????

    WE ARE BLACKS AND AKANS FIRST!!! OUR TRADITIONS AND CUSTOMS COME FIRST!! THAT IS OUR IDENTITY. WE CANNOT HAVE THE SAME IDENTITY WITH BACKBITING PEOP ...
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  • KofSam 3 months ago

    Why should the economic wheel of a commercial hub like the Kumasi metropolis be grounded over the burial of a native . This will not happen in any developed country.If the dead is to be honored, at least all flags in the metr ...
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  • Egya Kofi 3 months ago

    Funerals should not be disorganising of state affairs.Well,Ashanti/Akyem funerals are money generating moments for their paramount chiefs.Its good tradition is ever in state of evaporation

  • By their fruits 3 months ago

    May i know what the Minister of Interior, the Mational Security boss, and Jubilee House say tp this rubbish.

    Has the Asantehene any right to issue such directive?
    And no one in Ghana is challenging it?