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'We were 31 people but only 10 of us got out while the rest burnt' - STC driver speaks

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  • Debi 16 hours ago

    Write your comment - oh what a said problem

  • TWEAA DC 15 hours ago

    WAIT...MAHAMA'S ACCRA - KUMASI EXPRESS WAY WILL BE COMPLETED VERY SOON...TWEAA

  • Monkey see, Monkey do 13 hours ago

    Ghana is a backwards nation filled with dumb leaders. Leave all road construction to the regional ministers and their regional govt..let them deal with the contacts and finances concerning road construction. Why can't the reg ...
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  • Blue Pen 13 hours ago

    Eeeii Mr Monkey, is everything okay deɛ? You sound like you are bringing new philosophy from Monkey Suazo (Monkey Town). You mean, central government should handle major projects such as rail tracks across the country but no ...
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  • Nolan. 9 hours ago

    The moment you mention this road, Mahama the idiot and his party, the NDC, ask you what did you do for the past eight years. Is anyone here in the NDC or the NPP? Frankly, the NDC is trying to convince Ghanaians that Ghana be ...
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  • Blaze Word Assem. 6 hours ago

    May those who lost their lives in this tragic accident find peace in the afterlife, may the Lord God JEHOVAH heal all grieving hearts.

  • Talk Is Cheap 2 hours ago

    Ghanaians have to go for driving course again our driving on the road is bad

  • Blue Pen 13 hours ago

    Eeeii Ghana. Everything is politicized. Even such a tragedy is politicized. What breed of creatures are Ghanaians koraaa?


    By the way, the Fire Service PR has disputed this gentleman's account. He says they (the Fire Serv ...
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  • Dennis K. 8 hours ago

    What should we talk about, isn't the polticians ruling the country. How can a government concentrate on building markets when bad roads are killing the people.

  • Blue Pen 7 hours ago

    @Dennis, reason like an adult human being. Why are some NPP followers so painfully idiotic? Politicians are ruling the country so every disaster and every thing has to be the fault of politicians and a political issue. Are yo ...
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  • Konnect 5 hours ago

    You and Dennis, who isn't intelligent, engage in intellectual discussions and stop flooding the website with your childish behavior.

  • Talk Is Cheap 2 hours ago

    All Ghanaian drivers has to go to driving school again our driving on the road is bad

  • Bosco 13 hours ago

    There is so much accidents in Africa especially Ghana because of the lawlessness and corruption in the country. DVLA takes bribe and gives license to people freely, police takes bribe and allow careless, overtaking and overlo ...
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  • Our roads are death traps 6 hours ago

    I agree with you. What about the condition of our roads? The solution is simple dualize our highways. It's too dangerous to drive on our roads.

  • sotrue 12 hours ago

    STC the safest means of transportation ??? the careless overtaking on the highway is too much . innocent lives lost . God help us

  • Nana 8 hours ago

    God will never forgive John mahama and his qnet government!

  • Ike 6 hours ago

    Nana wuni twasidi wa'te

  • NMG 2 hours ago

    GOD WILL NEVER FORGIVE ALL POLITICIANS PERIOD NOT JUST MAHAMA THEY ARE ALL THE SAME

  • HMMM GHANAAA!!!CARELESS/RECKLESS DRIVING 15 hours ago

    HMMM GHANAAA!!!THIS IS NOT ABOUT BAD ROADS BUT CARELESS AND RECKLESS DRIVING.EVERY DRIVER ON THE ROAD IS IN A RUSH DOING HIGH RISK OVERTAKING!!!

  • Samurai 5 hours ago

    ....as if they get a bonus for overtaking every vehicle in front of them.

  • Ndc thieves 15 hours ago

    GOD WILL PUNISH JOHN MAHAMA AND NDC .GOD WILL DEAL WITH YOU PEOPLE. BECAUSE OF YOUR NCHOBO MONEY YOU DECIDE TO IGNORE THE NPP AKUFFO ADDO ACCRA TO KUMASI BY PASS .THOSE WHO LOST THEIR LIFES WILL NEVER FORGIVE YOU THIEVES

  • Joe 14 hours ago

    What must God do to Nana Addo and NPP for diverting and pilfering the 700 million Dollars that they were supposed to use to complete the Kumasi -açcra road? Wake up people and see things for what they really are. Both the n ...
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  • Kwaku 15 hours ago

    I left Ghana when I was 13, I am now 31 and you telling me the road that connects our 2 biggest cities is still under construction smh. What sort of backwards country is this. God save us all and God keep the souls of our los ...
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  • TWEAA DC 14 hours ago

    THEY EVEN PRIOTISE BUILDING MARKETS OVER CONSTRUCTING RAILWAYS...AND THEY ARE PULLING DOWN SCHOOLS TO GIVE WAY TO MARKETS...TWEAA.

  • elton 14 hours ago

    @ TWEA DC! How much million dollar was pumped into digging the most expensive hole in the world in the name of a cathedral?

  • KB2 15 hours ago

    How much will it cost to build a good railway between Accra and Kumasi , All we know is to buy land cruisers for people. Iam so sad about the future of this country.Others are now building high speed trains but cannot still m ...
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  • Dramani Mahama 15 hours ago

    PLEASE CALL JOHN DRAMANI MAHAMATO COMMENT ON THIS, HE SHOULD TELL GHANAIANS WHY SHOULD THIS HAPPEN

  • JANKROMAH 15 hours ago

    @Dramani Mahama
    WABODAM
    What has Dramani Mahama got to do with this?
    Your Akuffo Addo ruled for EIGHT SOLID YEARS.......he is the one you should call.

  • Are we animals? 15 hours ago

    So you are telling this government is building a new expressway which will take about 5 years to complete instead of completing the remaining 20% of the Kumasi- Accra highway? When we know the next government will stop the pr ...
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  • Soilder 15 hours ago

    Our independence, was the biggest mistake..very very true..the blacks can hardly manage themselves. Very self centred, all they know is religion but are the baddest and....liars, wicked people....

    Things will not work, the ...
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  • JANKROMAH 15 hours ago

    @Are we animals?
    TYPICAL NPP ASANTENI....can't think outside the kokonut. Aren't you surprised and grateful that a non-ASANTENI is building such lovely project whilst your NPP .....after EIGHT YEARS couldn't even complete on ...
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  • Bombaata 15 hours ago

    Oh God! My people lack wisdom on the road. May the lost souls rest in peace!

  • Ghabay NY. 15 hours ago

    Feeii Ghana,calamities upon calamities. What the hell is going on?Everything is basaa, why?NDC why?

  • JANKROMAH 15 hours ago

    BURN THIS DRIVER!
    That he was the one that got the people into this mess...and ESCAPED UNHURT!
    Coward. He should have been the last to leave the bus.......These drivers have been sacrificing lives for too long....without pu ...
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  • Akajatayogogo 15 hours ago

    For 8 years doing dual carriage road you could not do, and you're telling someone with 1 1/2 year to complete it. NPP Kwasiafuo

  • Yao 15 hours ago

    There us no sensible reason not to try and complete the current highway. Everything is about politics for foolish Ghanaians. I cannot live permanently in Ghana !!!

  • Kofi123 15 hours ago

    May their souls rest in peace. I think the families of the 21 parished should sue STC for a 5 billion compensation. This the only way givernment transport services like STC will put the lives of Ghanaians above all other oper ...
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  • Monkey see, Monkey do 13 hours ago

    How did this accident occur. I was in Ghana earlier this year people drive like maniacs..no one follows any road signs, street lights don't work amd the roads are terrible so expect to see more deaths like this. People don't ...
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  • Prayer 15 hours ago

    May the souls of the departed rest in perfect ✌️ We need dual carriages in our major highways speedily

  • Joe 15 hours ago

    This was 100 preventable. This wasn't an accident - it was vehicles crashing into each other due to lack of patience, keeping ample driving distance between two vehicles, road harassment, driver indifference, driver insanity ...
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  • Sammy Gyimifo 14 hours ago

    MAHAMMAH HAS SACRIFICED THE NATION TO WIN POWER -PERIOD
    COUNT THE HAPPENINGS SINCE HE CAME TO OFFICE

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  • Andrew - Shameless Country! 14 hours ago

    These fools were out crying when ministers died but hundreds of Ghanaians die each year on this roads that has been under construction for decades yet nothing has been done. How many more lives do we have to lose? why cant we ...
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  • King 14 hours ago

    Hmmmm... So sad may their soul rest in peace. Eiiii gh

  • KS 14 hours ago

    Road Accidents in Ghana has claimed a lot of innocent lives . This has been happening since time immemorial yet our government has no clue about what to do to minimize the road accidents. Where traffic laws have to be enforce ...
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  • Ike 13 hours ago

    I suggested similar solution when a certain occured as yours but no body heard me, heavy duty vehicles should have their own time to operate say 11: 00am to 3:00pm by that time workers will have reached their work place and p ...
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  • Twe 11 hours ago

    SOMEONE FOOLISHLY IS PROPOSING FUEL TANKERS RUN IN THE NIGHTS AS PART OF THE 24 HOUR ECONOMY , THE NPP COULD NOT FINISH THE ACCRA -KUMASI HWY FOR EIGHT YEARS SO THE NDC SHOULD START ITS OWN NEW PROJECT. ARE WE SERIOUS AS A ...
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  • Pelicles 13 hours ago

    Why are some of us too emotional? The question we should ask is, how many vehicles plied that particular spot that day without any accident but. Most accident on our roads are "Human error" because a stupid driver will drive ...
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  • Kofi123 4 hours ago

    You are a narcissist. If your family member or breadwinner got burnt in this accident will you say people are emotional?
    May three of your family members die in horrific accidents in the next three months to teach you emphat ...
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  • Kofi123 4 hours ago

    You are a narcissist. If your family member or breadwinner got burnt in this accident will you say people are emotional?
    May three of your family members die in horrific accidents in the next three months to teach you emphat ...
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  • Pelicles 3 hours ago

    Is this the first accident you have seen or heard of?

  • Sick leaders!! 13 hours ago

    Both parties come and loot whiles important projects stalls!! Tax payers are dying but they still don't care!!!

  • Jimmy Kwaateng 13 hours ago

    When thieves are at the helm of affairs, security as related to safe transportation system is relegated to the background. Monies meant for such developments are openly stolen by politicians. Surprisingly and interestingly ho ...
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  • Maame Abenah 13 hours ago

    How long, and how many must die before the N6 receives attention from the government of Ghana? A nation's Transportation systems are of neccessity. Ghana lacks rail system and our roads are nothing to write home about. Presid ...
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  • NANA TRUMU TRUMU ADDO 12 hours ago

    WE NEED A DUAL CARRIAGE ROAD

  • NANA TRUMU TRUMU ADDO 12 hours ago

    MAAME ABENAA, YOUR PARTY NPP WAS IN POWER FOR 8 SOLID YEARS AND COULD NOT COMPLETE THIS KUMASI- ACCRA ROAD. THEY COULD NOT EVEN COMPLETE SUAME INTERCHANGE YET THEY GOT MONEY TO BUY A BIG STONE FOR A 95 MILLION DOLLARS CATHEDR ...
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  • Free Radical 11 hours ago

    Our president John Dramani Mahama will soon invite his partners the false prophets and priests and pastors for second round of thanksgiving and prayer celebrations services for the lost souls.

  • Yaw Manu 11 hours ago

    Since I was a kid to the present, I am always scared to death whenever I am on that road which constantly claim the lives of my people.

  • Nii 11 hours ago

    this driver should have kept quiet for an official statement to be released by the STC

  • FIELD MARSHALL 5 hours ago

    THE DRIVER SHOULD BE ARRESTED FOR CAUSING FEAR AND PANIC ... SO SO LIES

  • Sam Fante warriort 10 hours ago

    Who Ghana why always innocent souls have to be perish just for traveling. Everyday accident is killing a lot of Ghanaians but the police don't care. So who care for Ghanaians. Very sad. May their souls rest in peace.

  • Sam Fante warriort 10 hours ago

    Who Ghana why always innocent souls have to be perish just for traveling. Everyday accident is killing a lot of Ghanaians but the police don't care. So who care for Ghanaians. Very sad. May their souls rest in peace.

  • Kofi 9 hours ago

    Its one of the saddest things of our development.None of our past governments could construct the barest minimum a double lane road on both sides from accra to Kumasi and from accra to Takoradi. Even after our debts were canc ...
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  • Concern Citizen 9 hours ago

    Innocent lifes are been perished due to indicipline and bad roads while our leaders are thinking about how to win the next election.The youth must wake up otherwise there is no future for them.

  • Concern Citizen 9 hours ago

    Innocent lifes are been perished due to indicipline and bad roads while our leaders are thinking about how to win the next election.The youth must wake up otherwise there is no future for them.

  • Kweku 9 hours ago

    When is this carnage going to stop on our roads? Do we really need expressway at this time, when Accra Kumasi highway is not safe for travellers?

  • Papasi 9 hours ago

    JOHN MAHAMA IS A HUGE CURSE ON GHANA.

  • Aconitase 9 hours ago

    Heavenly father please curse all our leaders both past and present under whose watch innocent and able Ghanaians continue to die AVOIDABLE deaths on the Accra Kumasi highway.
    I'm not in Ghana at the moment but monitors even ...
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  • KB 8 hours ago

    It's NPP/NDC Sole sourcing and dubious procurement arrangements. This is the only reason why successive governments will abandon projects started by their predecessors and award new contracts for similar projects. Not too sur ...
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  • Garuba 8 hours ago

    This unfortunate situations are entirely man made and avoidable. It cannot be blamed on bad roads and so on. Ghanaian drivers drive like animals and these drivers are actually animals. Only animals behave this way and the gov ...
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  • BLACK MOSES (USA) 8 hours ago

    HMM TO BE HONEST A DEMONIC RITUAL IS COMPLETED AMD SOMEBODY HAS BECOME POWERFUL AND RICH OVERNIGHT. THESE ARE SOME OF THE REASONS WHY OUR LEADERS DONT WANT OUR ROADS TO BE WELL PLANNED AND CONSTRUCTED

  • Forlifive 8 hours ago

    The way these buses are built, I don't like it mostly with one scape way or door. Also with small spaces for movement and sometimes the walk ways are packed with other items that one cannot scape in times of tragedy like t ...
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  • Kojo 8 hours ago

    The drivers needs more traning expercialy rhe V.I.P

  • Susubiribi 8 hours ago

    Very Very sad

  • START JAILING PEOPLE FOR NEGLIGENCE 7 hours ago

    When the cuprits go to jail, this recklessness will stop.

  • Son of sons 7 hours ago

    I think the road and highway minister and transport minister if there are any in Ghana should resign with immediate effect due to all the accidents happening on our roads. This is becoming like a normal thing now but it is no ...
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  • Mr no nonsense 7 hours ago

    Insted of this useless goverment to tackle the Accra, kumasi road,they are thinking of building some express road,twiaaa

  • Peter 6 hours ago

    Sad but bad overtakens is the norm

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  • Bakogone Tiblisi Honest VIEWS undualized intercity roads 6 hours ago

    No dual carriage between major towns and cities means head on collision.
    This is what to government is indirectly telling everyone.

    This accidents should be blamed on government.

  • Most Ghanaian Drivers Are Simply Useless. 6 hours ago

    It's open knowledge that most Ghanaians drivers become fools when they get on the roads. Wrong and dangerous overtaking, over speeding, driving on the wrong lane and general indiscipline coupled with bad roads are normal on o ...
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  • St. John Rivers 5 hours ago

    It is more human error than anything else. I am sad to admit that some Ghanaians have been to school but are not educated or refined in their minds regarding virtues like kindness, empathy, thoughtfulness, treating others wit ...
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  • GH Patriotic 5 hours ago

    People do not know the circumstances of the accident and are here writing nonsense and insulting leaders. If a driver carelessly overtake another vehicle and gets involved in an accident, is it the president's doings or any l ...
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  • Andrew 2 hours ago

    It is time now we invested in rail transportation system to reduce number of cars on our road. The express way should have a land for this big trucks and fuel tankers to avoid colliding with cars through overtaken as witness ...
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  • TAN 2 hours ago

    RIP to the lost souls. Make 2 drivers mandatory for such trips. Tiredness kills. Carelessness kills, drug driving kills. For Christ’s sake, pleaseeeeee

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