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From Tradition to Trouble: The hidden dangers of fufu machines

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  • NANA TRUMU TRUMU ADDO 1 month ago

    ITS UNHYGIENIC

  • FRANKIE 1 month ago

    What the hell and heck and fvck is this armchair researcher talking about! He offered no solution, no proper diagnosis of the exact innate defect of the equipment etc......but just a complete total rundown of local ingenuity. ...
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  • Bakogone Tiblisi Honest VIEWS undualized intercity roads 1 month ago

    Even Standards Authority doesn't have proper standards for all sectors, coded and published.
    Especially equipment manufacturers, etc.
    The big and rich countries don't joke with this.

  • Akufo Bawumia 1 month ago

    This is a serious issue. Ghana Standards Board must take it up.

  • Kuzkuz 1 month ago

    Every culture has found a way to make their traditional food simple to prepare at home but not ghana, after many centuries we are still using this outmoded way of pounding fufu,that you cant even prepare at home

  • Hik 1 month ago

    There is fufu mix please

  • Agya Yaw 1 month ago

    This is a serious issue facing the Nation all because of laziness it is going to kill us all

  • ANA 1 month ago

    @ Agya Yaw , the simple answer is prepare your Fufu at home and if you can't do that, eat something else for that day.

  • Say It As It Is 1 month ago

    Ghana Food And Drug Authority is good for nothing institution. It only serves the "Drug" functions' leaving the "Food" to its fate

  • Kofi 1 month ago

    I think this is under Standards Authority instead

  • Mr. Smith 1 month ago

    It's simple. Both organizations should be up and doing.

  • Frank Agyena -Karikari. 1 month ago

    What about the sweating, sneezing and dirty clothes used to wipe the sweat? Which of them is nastier and more dangerous? Ask Mahama. His folks do most of the Fufu Pounding at the South. Only very few of Asante and Akyem peopl ...
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  • Odikro 1 month ago

    Stay off the weed, it's not good for you.

  • JJ RAWLINGS 6 - 0 @FRANK AGYENA-KWASIA-KWASIA 1 month ago

    NAANIEMA....!!!! NOW EVERYBODY KNOWS THAT THE TORTURING YOU RECEIVED FROM THE RAWLINGS' ABONGO BOYS WAS DEEP. IF ANY HUMAN BEING CAN WAIL & MOURN OVER THEIR EMOTIONAL PAIN FOR WELL OVER 40 YEARS, THEN YOU KNOW ITS A SCAR ON T ...
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  • Kwabena Lims 1 month ago

    These fufuo pounding machine has rendered may "Atinga Frafra" unemployed. Ban the machines and re-employ our friends from the North. It could help the government so sustain the agenda 1-3-3.

  • Kofi Banza 1 month ago

    You are behind the times, Mr dinosaur. Many of today's fufu pounders are akans wai. Ignorance is bliss.

  • Kolos 1 month ago

    BROKEN GEAR PARTICLES

  • Name 1 month ago

    10/10 points.

    This is very slow but definite death.

  • Pelicles 1 month ago

    This Fufu pounding whatever and galamsey, which is more deadly?

  • Agboglimate Wolefiatem Zuborborm 1 month ago

    If you know the method and the technical know how, why didn't you produce the right one but relax for an illiterates to come out with their knowledgeable skills before criticising. If you can't produce the right one then keep ...
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  • Let peace reign 1 month ago

    I know right?Kumi or whatever his name is criticizing and meanwhile he hasn't produced nothing yet..if you can't beat them join them

  • Odikro 1 month ago

    He will tell you that he is an academic and researcher wai lol

  • Sasabronsam 1 month ago

    He is a researcher. I am not a fan of these hands on deficient highly educated guys but their theories have gone a long way to help humanity.

  • Adwoa 1 month ago

    Grounded or pounded does not make a difference.

  • Kwaseato 1 month ago

    These are the idiots who worship the white man and shun their own. Give advice as to how the local manufacturers can improve their work rather than being negative about them. To him everything made in China is good despite th ...
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  • Smallaxe 1 month ago

    Baseless

  • AI INVESTIGATOR 1 month ago

    This man should be arrested for raising false alarm. Is he telling us that the corn mill our parents had used all this time to grind all mighty hard maize is good and healthier compared to the cooked soft cassava/ yam grindin ...
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  • Richard 1 month ago

    Are there no authorities mandated to oversee the production of such machines? Why are they not doing their work? Which ministry bear the responsibility to ensure that the authorities do their work. We have to be serious in Gh ...
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  • Neutralman 1 month ago

    These booklong people are destroying our country. They have a chain of degrees and yet can not manufacture anything. A high school graduate in China is far far far ahead of them. The only thing they can do best is to criticiz ...
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  • Sasabronsam 1 month ago

    I suspect you are just a Mr. and are jealous of their chain of degrees. Sarcasm aside, I can confirm what you said is true.

  • Asem Wura 1 month ago

    Since Monday till today, we have been suffering from diarrhea. It started after we went to pound fufu at the machine.

    I can't say the machine is the cause, only Allah knows.

    As I am writing this, me, my wife, and our 10 ...
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  • Jj 1 month ago

    You have cholera!

  • Sasabronsam 1 month ago

    Treat what Jj mentioned. What is happening to you happened to my family on Monday too. A doctor treated it.

  • Azure 1 month ago

    It is not the fufu machine but your dirty Zongo environment

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  • AJOKO 1 month ago

    NPP CAN ONLY COME BACK TO POWER ONLY IF GHANA IS CURSED. I MAY NOT BE HAPPY THAT THE NDC POLITICIANS HAVE NOT DONE ANYTHING FOR ME TO BENEFIT AS AN INDIVIDUAL BUT NDC IS FAR FAR BETTER THAN NPP. THE FUTURE GENERATION CAN ONLY ...
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  • Sasabronsam 1 month ago

    What has this story got to do with politics? Ghanaians will always grow tired of one party and vote them out. We are stuck with the two corrupt parties for eternity.

  • Fii 1 month ago

    Where is my friend,
    askramatoga?

  • Yaa 1 month ago

    So the grinding machine that grinds our maize for banku, tombrown, kenkey, kokonte, tuo zafi etc are all poisonous?
    Prof, pls invent yours and save us this long talk.

  • Dr. Spider 1 month ago

    Mr. Whom you are, criticism here can not be wholly accepted. Universities plenty in the country, yet the government pay enough for others to study abroad. They all come to meet the same bracket. Nothing. The only Industry bla ...
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  • GH 1 month ago

    Prof Kumi, instead of highlighting the wrongs, as head of engineering what corrective measures can you come up with, so that these fabricators can be guided to do the right thing. We want solutions not telling us what we alre ...
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  • Great one 1 month ago

    Thanks man for your sensible response, what Africa needs are solutions not professors specializing in pointing out problems without proffering solutions

  • kwame Ohene 1 month ago

    THANK YOU SIR .OUR. HEALTH IS IMPORTANT. POUND OR GO FOR HEALTHY MACHINE.

  • Stev 1 month ago

    What is your contribution towards the production of the machine once you have the intelligence of world standard ? Education is not limited to only big English language and radio and TV platforms contributions. Please find th ...
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  • Kwakuvi 1 month ago

    It's unhygienic, as if a shit is coming from an anus apart from causing cancer related diseases

  • Kwakuvi 1 month ago

    It's unhygienic, as if a shit is coming from an anus apart from causing cancer related diseases

  • A whole Useless UST is watching 1 month ago

    Steel is corrosive and harmful. Yet ignorant Ghanaians are on fufu machine made out of cheap steel which corrodes. I think even some Doctors have zhe machine in their houses. What a shame.

  • SURVIVAL. 1 month ago

    Ghanaians like criticism too much. We ground maize to prepare maize product yet nobody complains. Who in Ghana doesn't eat Kenkey, Akple or Banku?Are these food substances not made from grounded maize products?Prof. gives us ...
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  • Koti 1 month ago

    We talk more but do very little. Our education system is only about speaking good English and titles dasoor! In Ghana, we know all our problems and their solutions, what we do know is WHEN to implement them! Mr Engineer, why ...
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  • OZYMANDIAS 1 month ago

    YUCK! Killing machines on the loose. Expect more gastrointestinal problems in our hospitals.

  • Good Citizen 1 month ago

    Master let us have our peace. All you guys are interested in is criticising innovations. You don't make any invention but you will always criticise. No tear and wear of any metal will kill anybody. Corn mills have been with ...
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  • VERY BANKRUPT PROF. 1 month ago

    VERY BANKRUPT PROF. INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS INDEED, UR WHOLE STUDY OF ENGINEERING HAS TO DO WITH MEETING INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS, PROF WHERE HAS IT TAKEN YOU APART FROM TEACHING IN CLASS. ( TALKING AND FINDING FAULTS). FOR L ...
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  • Evans 1 month ago

    The criticism is not entirely fair. The issue is not about running down local ingenuity; it is about the absence of clear standards for the materials and manufacturing of locally made milling plates.

    In fact, I am currentl ...
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  • TAN 1 month ago

    What alternative have you provided. Talk talk talk saaaa keke. Even common tomatoes can’t be grown and preserved. Hmmmm.

  • Auntie Love 1 month ago

    Fufu can be pounded in the mouth. Eating both the cassava/plantains with the soup. Hehehe! There are advantages and disadvantages with machines and even the traditional way of pounding fufu. So what can we do? Personally, I d ...
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