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Volta 'oil' is leakage - EPA

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  • ADAMA 11 years ago

    NOTHING GOOD WILL COME OUT FROM CURSED EWE PEOPLE. IS IMPOSSIBLE

  • YES,THE FORM 4 PROF 11 years ago

    WE EWES BELIEVE THERE IS OIL IN OUR SEAS BUT ONLY TIME WILL TELL.MAY GOD BLESS OUR HOME LAND GHANA.

  • KOLA, INSIDE LONDON. 11 years ago

    At the end of the Day, it was a good try by the residents of Nkwanta to discover crude oil for the region.

    Volta region still has crude untapped crude oil.

  • NANA O!! MOTHER 11 years ago

    But Kola,Inside London you said bye ,bye to Ghana ,Voltal region has got it oil some days ago.So now what will you say?. Please Ghanaians let me come back and clean your toilets.

  • Hoho 11 years ago

    if Chinese reservoir is on higher elevation and there is a leakage from their tank,, then this is another environmental degradation and abuse from Chinese in addition to the illegal mining. you see how politicians in ghana ...
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  • ZoRRo 11 years ago

    The find is massive pollution by the Chinese companies that was not reported and will eventually leak into the rivers of Ghana and kill all the fish. Meanwhile our leaders will sit and watch without investigating and placing ...
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  • Don Blunt 11 years ago

    A Terribly Stupid person polutes our environment, and some Ghanaians (including clueless MP) jubilate.
    "ANLO PETROL" indeed! It sounds funny, but it makes me sad

  • TIMO THE LAW 11 years ago

    They conquer ghost they say they conquer Rasta...hahaha

  • Fonka 11 years ago

    It is extremely irresponsible for people to play the tribal card here. What crimes have Ewes committed to warrant all these hate comments. One thing we should always remember is that, we as Ghanains are forever stack together ...
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  • NATURALLY REFINED 11 years ago

    oneday oil will evolve in volta region and it will naturally refined, No more TOR.

  • benzi 11 years ago

    The EPA should investigate and if possible fine the culprits for pollution

  • bex 11 years ago

    If this has happened because of Exxon or Shell or BP or Gulf, American Liberals would have flown in already. Plans would be afoot for a huge demonstration in the capitals of all western countries to highlight their evilness. ...
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  • AMA 11 years ago

    Idiot, you were 'dissing' gold and telling your hated tribe Asantes that they should stay away. You were ready to secede, go ahead and secede, you worthless murderers and rapists. Ghana will be a better place without you Ewe ...
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  • Yo man 11 years ago

    It shows your background,cold blooded,i am sure your Family has no one who has higher education,mother not ,father also.Cheap shit.Go and do prostitution in Lagos or Ivory caost,then you can graduate to higher prostitution in ...
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  • OFF CASE 11 years ago

    You call this a good try,you must be rather uneducated,to my knowledge oil is found in deep sea not in home made wells.

  • SGT ANANI FIADZOE 11 years ago

    Why at all my people in the volta
    Region always think the majority people of Ghanaians are fools and think they can defeat the intelligence
    of civilized Ghanaian People?

    NDC are are foolish and buch of useless criminals ...
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  • SGT ANANI FIADZOE 11 years ago

    Ghanaian People are not fools.

  • JOHN MAWULI +233249665536 11 years ago

    THE BIBLE SAID THAT ESCATOLOGICALLY TRIBES SHALL STAND AGAINST TRIBES.THIS IS THE MANIFESTATION WE ARE WITNESSING ON THIS PAGE BY FACELESS PEOPLE WHO DO NOT KNOW GOD.MAY GOD HELP GHANA!

  • TerriblY Spe cifiC Dog Breed 11 years ago

    This carpenters' son ought to be shot for his folly, no oil ok keep your wood carving gig. Stop inward-looking.

  • JOHN BULL 11 years ago

    WHY NOT POMP THE OIL OUT AND SEE IF IT WILL RUN OUT SOON? IF IT IS CRUDE OR OTHER SUBSTANCE, IT WILL NOT RUN OUT EASILY.

  • GHANAian 11 years ago

    YES THAT'S GOOD IDEA. LETS POMP THE OIL OUT AND SEE IF IT WILL RUN OUT?

  • The Mask 11 years ago

    Now I ask you? What is POMP. Idiot it is spelled PUMP.
    God help Ghana please, they don't have a clue about a damn thing.
    Nothing works right. They don't maintain their equipment. It is more bad news day in an day out.

  • Babakuta 11 years ago

    Cursed by your cursed parents & cursed tribe. Clean your foul mouth on your cursed tribesmen. FOOLISH fellow born by accursed parents from a cursed & good-for-nothing tribe. God harmer you

  • gyan 11 years ago

    Look for your fathers pics and you know that you are part of Ewes. Iknow Ewes forms majority in Ghana.

  • Antwi 11 years ago

    This is another monkey. No doubt you talk like a monkey. No sense at all.

  • mba 11 years ago

    HOLD Y0UR FIRE AND LET HIS OWN DEED FIND HIM OUT. HE WILL NOT SURVIVE BY THE INSULTS. GOD WILL TAKE GOOD CARE OF ONLY THAT HE WILL NOT KNOW IT IS HIS UTTERANCES THAT ARE HUNTING HIM. TAKE CARE AND DO NOT GET WORKED UP HE DOES ...
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  • Yo man 11 years ago

    Lack of good education,one can see"419"education.

  • Ofosua 11 years ago

    why are you so bitter?...why do you hate everyone apart from yourself?...do you have a heart at all? i wonder what you see when you look in the mirror... May God forgive you for everyone you've insulted on this page.

  • CAN-NEVER-BE 11 years ago

    HOW CAN AWONAFO MURDER SO MANY INNOCENT PEOPLE AND EXPECT GOD TO REWARD THEM WITH OIL? HOW CAN A REGION WHERE KOJO TSIKATA COMES FROM GET OIL...IT CAN NEVER HAPPEN...WHAT EWES NEED IS A HARD KICK AT THEIR LOOSE BACKSIDE TO T ...
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  • Kwame Agorkoli 11 years ago

    Can-Never-Be, You are an ignorant , tribalistic fool. Your mother and father did not raise you well. you are not God so chew your heart out.
    Kwame

  • Olu 11 years ago

    You sound like the biggest fool in Ghana who is not an Ewe and can never be an Ewe. Know that oil was discovered first in the Keta basin and the dug wells are still there untapped.Foolish Adama. Curse be unto your tribe

  • Kweku Donsuro 11 years ago

    Adama, I am not an Ewe but I caution you not to spit words like this. Why do you even have to think like this? May the Ewes forgive you and not to take it serious.

  • JOHN BULL 11 years ago

    SINCE WHEN DID THE EPA BOSS IN THE VOLTA REGION BECOME AN EXPERT IN OIL EXPLORATION. HE SHOULD HAVE COME TO CONCLUSION ON THE MATTER BEFORE GOING PUBLIC.

  • avola lartey 11 years ago

    Wow!! EPA cannot even determine the nature of the substance. Ghana will forever remain a model colony

  • kofi 11 years ago

    Why are they worring themselves about this simple issue. GNPC should send the material to the lab or experiment should be conducted on the site.

  • AWUDU 11 years ago

    I will suggest that the entire village evacuate. Consider what's happening in the water wells from which these people drink. God!

  • Frank Mensah, Tikobo No. 2 11 years ago

    With absolutely no standards in the country, Chinese can dump oil anywhere and watch Ghanaians fight over it. The EPA and GNPC would also sit in their offices and release any statement from under the aircondition (if there is ...
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  • Be Bold 11 years ago

    Some of our brothers wanted so secede because they have found crude oil. You see what China can do? Some Voltarians were ready to go to war with Ghana over fuel waste. hehehehehe now look at your faces with egg.

  • Mr. Ganyo Amertepe 11 years ago

    For all this while(geneartions) NKwatah (Keta Basin)Volta Region is blessed with Crude oil, yet ignorant GNPC. cannot use Technology machinery to prove it. This is why we want North America Company to confirm the new discover ...
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  • Darfour 11 years ago

    Do u homework well EPA

  • Etweba 11 years ago

    Are these GNPC people accountants or chemical engineers? What a country.

  • GHANA FIRST 11 years ago

    It could be that this man and his gang want to dig it out secretly and sell
    This days i dont trust any government official not to talk of people from an area who are well known for stealing, Sorry to all descent people from ...
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  • MOST EVIL TRIBE ON EARTH 11 years ago

    THEY HAVE SALT THAT'S IT

  • Ofosua 11 years ago

    you are the evil being worshiped by the Ewes.... your mouth shall put u to shame watch it

  • JATO 11 years ago

    I said it. There is zero probability the substance could be crude oil.

  • Azonto 11 years ago

    There is more oil in Ashanti Region so go and drill it. Bulu dzibo.

  • ROCKY 11 years ago

    These Ewe trokosi murderers also want oil on their cursed land, TOFIAKWA!!! It will never come to past. Change your ways, stop the thievery and idol worshipping before God will have mercy on you. You are too evil, why?

  • Babakuta 11 years ago

    There is oil in the Keta basin if u are not aware. I wish you understand the TROKOSI system. It keeps evil doers like in check. Think & do no EVIL & you will not fear the TROKOSI system. EVILDOER from an EVIL family & EVIL tr ...
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  • SAM 11 years ago

    It rather allow the trokosi rapists to rape children and this is the reason why Ewes commit more than 80% of all rape cases in Ghana because trokosi legitimize rape. Trokosi allow Ewen daughters.

    Do you know it is against ...
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  • Togbui 11 years ago

    Ewes are proud to be trokosi or whatever you want to call them. Ungrateful people. Thieves and African cup. Odabo.Bushman, Avuvi, Gbemela, Fiafito. Wo Papa neye Apuuuuu. Avuvi.

  • TROUBLE-MAKER 11 years ago

    You primitive son of a PIG.

  • ROCKY 11 years ago

    These Ewe trokosi murderers also want oil on their cursed land, TOFIAKWA!!! It will never come to past. Change your ways, stop the thievery and idol worshipping before God will have mercy on you. You are too evil, why?

  • TROUBLE-MAKER 11 years ago

    Your Ashawo stinky mother didn`t teach you anything in your miserable life.
    You stinky fool.

  • FL 11 years ago

    STUPID ROCKY, EWES ARE BETTER THAN AKANS OR ASHANTIS.WHAT DID YOU WANT FROM EWES?ANY STORY ABOUT EWES,YOU ASHANTI PIGS ALWAYS WRITE INSULT AGAINST EWES.THERE IS OIL IN THE VOLTA REGION.FIND OUT.EWES ARE GOOD PEOPLE THAN YOU W ...
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  • ????? 11 years ago

    Keep dreaming. Ewes will work as slaves at Akan and Asante lands for the rest of their lives because they are wicked people and nothing good will come from that cursed desolate region. You smelly filthy fools will continue ...
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  • Abdul osei 11 years ago

    May God really help the people of region in the discovering of oil.

  • Abdul osei 11 years ago

    How could the NDC'S discover oil without the NPP'S . Tweaaaaa!!!

  • truth 11 years ago

    if the npp is asking the court to let ec for names, telephone numbers and house numbers for foreign voters, NDC should also ask the ec to provide the court with all names, house numbers and telephone numbers of the registered ...
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  • truth 11 years ago

    there is lots of oil in the volta region, around the 1800s oil traces was discovered by German missionaries in the volta region.all those saying volta is a cursed land means there is large quantity of oil in volta, many said ...
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  • Fuseini 11 years ago

    Go and dig it then. If oil is your secession ticket to Togo, then it is going to be a mirage. Hope you guys join the republic of trokosiland aka Togo.

  • Ebluvi fiafi 11 years ago

    You will face the same problem as the whiteman who came, recruite and train young women to pose like the 'fiashidis' We the are the keepers of the ancient wisdom.That's what your ancestor envied and feared.We will never compr ...
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  • MADZIA 11 years ago

    What was it ,shit water or oil . Why thhe reference to the kvip not far from there

  • GHA 11 years ago

    It was raw sewage from the kvip and the Ewes collected it in buckets ready to smuggle it to Togo.

  • ZoRRo 11 years ago

    Ewe sewage is like crude oil; they are really special.

  • Maha 11 years ago

    Now they can sell it to Togo to improve their sorry lives.

  • Hoho 11 years ago

    you see my words are real now???? i said it here the oil find in volta probably is an old broken pipe and it is confirmed now

  • Mr. Oushuuuuu 11 years ago

    Whats confirmed?an old broken pipe from your mums overflowing reservoir.If volta finds oil wont it benefit Ghana,Cockroaches!!!!!!!!!.

  • Mr. Oushuuuuu 11 years ago

    Does EPA have the capacity to interrogate this.The GNPC says 3 weeks so why are people soo dead set against discovery of oil in volta ,look its already there around the Keta area ,only the sulphur content is high sop those wh ...
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  • GHANA 11 years ago

    People are not against oil discovery in Volta region but they are responding to those tribalistic Ewes who before the confirmation of the oil were telling their hated tribe to stay away from Ewe oil as they called it. If thos ...
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  • Mr. Oushuuuuu 11 years ago

    What is the total population of ewes in Ghana and i don't believe more than 10 people came here to declare they would secede.One faceless person who may not be an ewe talks nonsense and it represents ewes.

  • Maha 11 years ago

    The same it might be one faceless person who might have been castigating Ewes under different names so stop your hyperventilation.

  • Mr. Oushuuuuu 11 years ago

    Why the are you crying''

    My response
    Where are the tears?

    hyperventilation???

    I thought i had not gotten to that level,hei!!!!! run away before i get there ,heheh!!!!!!!!!

  • BIG JAY 11 years ago

    God is not a fool. He knows where to put the oil for judicious use, not for smugglers.Volta region has nothing to contribute to the economy.The region can only serve as a parasite to the Ghanian economy.God will never put cru ...
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  • COMMANDO 11 years ago

    CLOSE SHAVE! HAHAHAHAHA

  • kkd 11 years ago

    nothing good come frm ewes land espect cat stolen

  • Osama 11 years ago

    Thank God not giving u Sea in ur region'like u will said that Ghana is for u,oooh foolish ashanti's

  • Theo 11 years ago

    There you go. Ashantis are foolish that is why you slave for them as cocoa labourers, watchmen and wash their cloths for a living.

  • Mr. Oushuuuuu 11 years ago

    I never served any Ashanti,no member of my family has served any so what is your beef.

    You know what?an Ashanti shoe shine boy polished my shoe this morning,what about that?

    Get a life,there are miserable Ashantis just ...
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  • CONCERNED NKWANTA CITIZEN 11 years ago

    WE NKWANTA PEOPLE ARE APPEALING TO EPA TO CONDUCT MORE TEST. WE BELIEVE THERE IS STILL OIL ON THE GROUND. WE NKWANTA PEOPLE HAVE BEEN DISCRIMINATED FOR FAR TOO LONG BY PEOPLE SOUTH OF NKWANTA -HO, SOGAKOFE, KETA ETC. PEOPLE S ...
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  • The true observer 11 years ago

    NO WONDER THESE CRAP COULD NOT FIND ANY OIL FOR ALL THE WASTEFUL YEARS TSATSU AND CO ENJOYED GHANA'S MONEY IN THE NAME OF LOOKING FOR OIL. THEY HAVE NO CLUE ABOUT ANYTHING. ONLY CHOP CHOP FINISH. USELESS SETUP.

  • Kuuku Akyeh 11 years ago

    The True Observer, You are rather uselss. GNPC has told the whole world that the oily found at NK. North was NOT Crude oil but rather diesel leakage!

  • Visionary 11 years ago

    WHAT? Are Ghanain leaders serious?
    OH MY GOD !!!!! What do you think Ghanains are in 2013?
    The leader of the EPA team which visited the site, Togbe Ahorni II, mentioned that the substance found in the hand-dug well in one K ...
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  • Kuuku Akyeh 11 years ago

    General News of Monday, 11 February 2013
    Source: Joy Online
    Oily substance in Volta well is not crude oil- GNPC.
    Daily Guide your news is dead news. Joy Fm had already told the whole world what GNPC said. Stop this childis ...
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  • Kilo 11 years ago

    Digging a well for water when there is a KVIP toilet a stone throw away!!

  • Kojovi 11 years ago

    I am saddened by this turn out of events.

    It means we Voltarians cannot break away from the rest of Ghana.

  • Mr. Oushuuuuu 11 years ago

    I know you are not a voltarian.People don't secede because they found oil.The westerners did not do it and neither would the voltarians.

  • princewilly@ymail.com 11 years ago

    Her GNPC husband had been slipping in and out of a coma for several months yet she stayed by his bedside every single day. When he came to, he motioned for her to come nearer. As she sat by him, he said, "You know what? You ...
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  • Kodzo 11 years ago

    Kpasa is not an Ewe land ignorant people

  • Kodzo 11 years ago

    Kpassa is not an Eweland ignorant people