Pratt wants to know: Why not produce energy from human excreta

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SHAKAMORA 12 years ago

hw3 kwasea no nso nothing aboafu pratt pig teeth shut it up 37teeths instead of 32teeths kwasea kawa no tum

hw3 kwasea no nso nothing aboafu pratt pig teeth shut it up 37teeths instead of 32teeths kwasea kawa no tum
PRINCE KWASI ADADE 12 years ago

SOURCE : JOY FM ONLINE -------- --Dr. Sekou Nkrumah, son of Ghana's first president, says the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) lacks organizational ability to accelerate Ghana’s development.

He intimated that th ...
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SOURCE : JOY FM ONLINE -------- --Dr. Sekou Nkrumah, son of Ghana's first president, says the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) lacks organizational ability to accelerate Ghana’s development.

He intimated that the ruling party in recent years has proven to have the campaign machinery to effectively win an election but it has been abysmal when it comes to governance.
Hoho 12 years ago

you always talk big,,,, give the technology and sponsor it with your stinky shit in your anus and they will make the bio fuel out of it

you always talk big,,,, give the technology and sponsor it with your stinky shit in your anus and they will make the bio fuel out of it
OLD SOLDIER 12 years ago

Author:..OBAA YAA---

...So, the people around the president including his wife and those Team “B” staffers were aware of the president failing health. Therefore, who were they kidding when they ruin insults on whoever ...
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Author:..OBAA YAA---

...So, the people around the president including his wife and those Team “B” staffers were aware of the president failing health. Therefore, who were they kidding when they ruin insults on whoever questions the former president health?
As much as I hate to admit Rawlings was right with his statement. If they have had listen to those who were concern with the president health, he might be alive today.
Kofi 12 years ago

Pratt, use your own shit to power your house.

Pratt, use your own shit to power your house.
Lori 12 years ago

Light poo, eeeeeewww!

Light poo, eeeeeewww!
OLD SOLDIER 12 years ago

The NDC would have to explain to Ghanaians how a dead man came to author and sign a letter!

The opening paragraph states, “I came to serve; I have finished my time here on earth and have moved on to everlasting rest and ...
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The NDC would have to explain to Ghanaians how a dead man came to author and sign a letter!

The opening paragraph states, “I came to serve; I have finished my time here on earth and have moved on to everlasting rest and celestial duties with my heavenly father.”

The immediate question is; how did the dead man come to sign his own personal tribute, since he is already in heaven?

The letter then goes on melodramatically, “As you leaf through these pages of my life’s story, I pray to God that it touches your heart in many positive ways. Weep not, I am not dead. I am alive and awake in the Lord. Ghana will not die; Ghana will live to declare the works of the Lord. As I rest in perfect peace in the celestial realms with my maker, I pledge to always uphold and defend the good name of Ghana. Remember the Lord in all your ways and He will protect you. Stay well my brothers and sisters, I will always be with you. Signed (with actual signature) John Evans Atta Mills...
Vodoo Xebieso 12 years ago

Good answer to a braggart.

Good answer to a braggart.
kasapreko usa 12 years ago

you voted for greedy bastards.Ghanaians you are going to
smell fire.thi is just the beginning
no water.gas.power

you voted for greedy bastards.Ghanaians you are going to
smell fire.thi is just the beginning
no water.gas.power
China Mafia 12 years ago

The problem is not about using human faeces. It is about effective and efficient management. The system is so corrupt to the extend that we will still go bankrupt even if it is possible to use free sea water to power energy. ...
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The problem is not about using human faeces. It is about effective and efficient management. The system is so corrupt to the extend that we will still go bankrupt even if it is possible to use free sea water to power energy. Our institutions and government have terribly failed us.

Kwakusei 12 years ago

I AGREE WITH YOU, if we can't provide effective and efficient management for the existing simple and orthodox method of several megawatts Power generation, what can we do with the expensive and complicated this prat man is ta ...
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I AGREE WITH YOU, if we can't provide effective and efficient management for the existing simple and orthodox method of several megawatts Power generation, what can we do with the expensive and complicated this prat man is talking of.
Pratt is dangerous, prat, fictitious and Ghanaians should stop listening to him. He has been hired and paid heavily to distract ATTENTION.
BONSO 12 years ago

THE SHIT THAT IS PROVING DIFFICULT TO BE CONTROLLED IN GHANA WILL ALL BE CONVERTED BY KWESI PRAT INTO ENERGY...SO WE DONT HAVE TOILETS SCATTERED ALL OVER THE PLACE WHILES LOAD SHEDDING OR POWER CUTS ARE RESOLVED

INGENEOUS ...
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THE SHIT THAT IS PROVING DIFFICULT TO BE CONTROLLED IN GHANA WILL ALL BE CONVERTED BY KWESI PRAT INTO ENERGY...SO WE DONT HAVE TOILETS SCATTERED ALL OVER THE PLACE WHILES LOAD SHEDDING OR POWER CUTS ARE RESOLVED

INGENEOUS - KWESI PRATTLE PRAT SOLVES PERENIAL PROBLEM OF POWER CUTS AND SHIT PROBLEMS IN A SINGLE GO FROM HIS PERFORATED BRAIN BURNING IN A HOLLOW SKULL ON THE HOT CLIME EQUATOR

HAHAHAHAAAAAHA...WHAT A PRAT
Navorogoman 12 years ago

The all-knowing and so-called smart people. Stop barking and offer concrete solutions. It first should starts with you generating enough electricity to surply you home. I am sure if it is as easy as you make it appear, the co ...
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The all-knowing and so-called smart people. Stop barking and offer concrete solutions. It first should starts with you generating enough electricity to surply you home. I am sure if it is as easy as you make it appear, the country would follow suit. The problem with Ghana is we have too many self proclaimed genuse.
Espineli 12 years ago

As a concern ciitezn of India, I supported and still support the anti-corruption movement of Annaji & BabaRamdev. I will support all the movement in this nation as long as they are for country's benefit and anti-Congress, as ...
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As a concern ciitezn of India, I supported and still support the anti-corruption movement of Annaji & BabaRamdev. I will support all the movement in this nation as long as they are for country's benefit and anti-Congress, as I hold Congress responsible for all the ills of India, simply by the fact that they have ruled India 85% of its independence and they had the golden chance of making India a developed nation inspite its all challenges but Congress chose to look into other direction just to keep one family in power and they ignored and kept whole nation as second priority. I don’t think Congress has done anything to make the country what it could have been. Inspite of 65 years of independence if 60% of population doesn’t have sanitation facilities, 70% doesn’t have access to clean drinking water, 95% doesn’t have round the clock electricity (excluding the lucky ones who live in Gujarat) and still suffer power outage for 2 days, no government primary school functions as it supposed to, higher education is in total mess in majority of cases, very few public servants including officials and politicians are honest and don’t indulge in corruption, only few major politicians got convicted and jailed in corruption case since independence, still the roads at many places feel like it’s the small patches of road in all holes, and Congress ruled this country 85% of its independence so blame belongs to Congress as they could have taken country on the path of all inclusive development but they chose to promote the castism, communalism and regionalism to overcome the difficulty of not fighting elections on development plank. I know the opposition parties like BJP is not all pure, but unfortunately we have to choose a lesser thief among all thieves and in my opinion BJP is lesser thief while Congress rules the chart.I don’t like to support the regional parties as they promote narrow regionalism over larger nationalism but I understand that they give voices to regional concerns which the national party like Congress failed to do but still I would prefer to vote for a national party rather than a regional one. That’s why I support all movements which are for making India a better place to live and remove a blot named Congress from face of this nation’s soul. I supported AnnaJi's movement and was on Ramleela grounds when he broke the fast last year. So I have a stake in success of this movement. I was also of opinion that continuous fasting is not the way to achieve the JanLokpal. AnnaJi had the Golden chance like the way India had in 65, 71 wars to settle the Kashmir dispute, for bringing JanLokpal last year. He let it go under pressure from well-wishers and called off the fast. Nationalists like me ( I am a RSS supporter) will support all such movements. The members of team Anna misunderstood the support that they got for Anti corruption movement for themselves as individuals. Off course AnnaJi has got respect of millions including me but his team members started abusing patriotic organizations like RSS just to pander to needs of so called secular Media and thugs like Digvijay & Kapil Sibal. Once they start abusing the organizations like RSS people like me will definitely give the support you take for granted a second look. That’s why the second agitation in Mumbai failed because the supporters of nationalistic causes were hurt by these outbursts. Now this time I was not convinced that a fast will achieve something but was really inspired by Arvind's slogan that it’s fast unto death. Please don’t get me wrong I am not the one who wishes Arvind some ill thing and I know that a alive and healthy Arvind is much more dangerous for corrupts than a dead Arvind. I am sorry if my language sounds brutal but there were other ways in which they should have called off this fast. AnnaJi and Kejriwal did the fast by telling that they are here to die for the noble cause. It would have been a good face saving grace for them if they would have been forcibly removed by Delhi Police and force fed. I am OK with Arvind Kejriwal breaking his fast and live for another day to fight out the battle as he is diabetic and we need people like him to live and fight our war. Loss of his life is what anti national parties like Congress wants and we should be careful and pragmatic but the way so called whole Anna Team called off their fast is not good. I think Manish Sisodiya could have continued the fast and would have become the rallying point.Arvind Kejriwal & others did the first mistake by calling for the fast again, they did another mistake by calling it off without any gain. They are now doing third mistake by launching a political party. I again thought that lets support by all possible means to Annaji so that something positive will come out of it but I never thought that it would be a foray into politics. I don’t support the idea of AnnaJi's team coming to politics on India against corruption platform, they can join it as individuals but I am never going to support a politician who harbors the idea of Kashmir as free country like Prashant Bhushan or a communist like Medha Patkar who is against all development. By launching a political party they are simply dividing the anti-congress vote. I still support their cause but I think they did call off this fast to not allow big presence in Baba Ramdev's rally in Delhi on 9 August. The common public won’t believe in anyone's Anshan to such a great level again. I completely agree that they are fighting my war but by forming political party they are going to harm anti Congress parties and Narendra ModiJi, which is not acceptable to me. I want ModiJi to be PM of India and if Annaji & Kejriwal think of cutting his votes than I am not going to support these individuals anymore. Annaji & the team's main appeal was that they are not political people. They will lose the same as their political ideas are not so great. I am practical enough to know that Anna's party will eat away Anti-Congress votes and Congress will win again inspite of all corruptions, anti-national activities, communalism and non-governance. By doing the mistake of forming a political party, Team Anna is falling into Congress trap of dividing the educated middle class vote. In India we have illiterate people going for the voting majority of the times. The educated ones treat the voting day as picnic day and most of them have migrated to new places where they are not registered for giving votes so they can’t travel to their constituency for casting votes. AnnaJi's team is doing right thing by creating awareness about corruption in daily life. I don’t think Anna & his team should form a political party to achieve what they need. Their strategy should be to give support to those candidates who believe in their JanLokpal as I feel the nationalist intelligent votes are already less and by forming a different political party Anna will reduce the chances of winning of Non-Congress candidates.. As Congress's main vote bank are illiterates and minorities, who dont understand the issues at depth and are more vulnerable to Charisma of a corrupt family and appeasement by doing lip service and imaginary fear of RSS. Congress managers like Digvijay and Khurshid know that if congress has to survive they just need to talk some rubbish on election time like Sonia crying for slain muslim terrorists of Indian Mujahidin, communal reservation, RSS is going to kill all minorities if BJP comes to power, to keep this vote bank happy. I don’t support formation of a different political party either by BabaRamdev or Annaji. I think they should support politicians like NarendraModi Ji as atleast Modiji does what he promises and result available for all to see in Gujarat. My love is my country and I will support even an animal that stands up to fight against corruption and wellbeing of this whole nation. I think Anna & Kejriwal are doing good job of awakening people and helping them in realizing how this nation has suffered through all the years. Many people probably may not know but long before Anna became active in social work and anti-corruption ways, organizations like RSS have been functioning silently all these years for upliftment of whole motherland. So my advice for members of team Anna would be tactically support candidates of major political party who takes pledge to support their version of JanLokpal and don’t abuse patriotic organizations like RSS. It will do much good to them and country rather than forming a political party which helps in sustaining the mother of all corruption in India that is Congress. By forming the political party by team Anna only one party will gain for sure- Congress. If that's what members of Anna's team want then they don't deserve my support. I hope they will listen to common people like me as Team Anna like me is nothing but common committed ciitezns of India. Vande Mataram..
Ghanaman 12 years ago

shut up pratt. when you join stupid and wicked ndc to kill atta mills and steal elections this is the result of curses. no water, no electricity, no fuel, no gas, everything has collaspse

shut up pratt. when you join stupid and wicked ndc to kill atta mills and steal elections this is the result of curses. no water, no electricity, no fuel, no gas, everything has collaspse
malaam Salifu 12 years ago

The 3 wise men that your president the goja boy mahama appointed should have all the answers. Better yet the councel of elders.

The 3 wise men that your president the goja boy mahama appointed should have all the answers. Better yet the councel of elders.
Chief amankwa 12 years ago

They stupid fool running affairs.
I know respect govt of that country called.
They only engaged in securing useless loan to buy cars

They stupid fool running affairs.
I know respect govt of that country called.
They only engaged in securing useless loan to buy cars
Rosalyn 12 years ago

They can use the by product as lotion and pure drops as green tea.

They can use the by product as lotion and pure drops as green tea.
Kwesi Ackon 12 years ago

Drafting a budget for all their utilities yearly,get the money and fail to buy. Why?.

Drafting a budget for all their utilities yearly,get the money and fail to buy. Why?.
MARCUS AMPADU 12 years ago

Our nation's downfall is our lack of organizational management. Which ever way you look at it, we lack organizational management. At a time in our history, when organization has become an integral and a vital part of our life ...
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Our nation's downfall is our lack of organizational management. Which ever way you look at it, we lack organizational management. At a time in our history, when organization has become an integral and a vital part of our life.

To quote my former Prof. at the George Wasington University, Amitai Etzioni, "Without well-run organization, our standard of living, our level of culture and our democratic life can not be maintained. We are born in organizations, educated by organizations and most of us spend much of our time working for organizations."
Then you set about learning to manage these organizations using the five primary functions of management: Planning, Organizing, Staffing, Directing, and Controlling. It is imperative that we master how to do this.

We haven't successfully applied organizational management to most of our organizations and institutions - be it VRA, our education system, our Ministries, our Chieftaincy institution, GRIDO, TOR, ECG, Businesses, AMA, Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital, etc. So how on earth are we going to run energy companies that use bio-gas, wind-power, geothermal power, and solar panels, without a modicum of organizational management?

Nana Adwoa, Dome 12 years ago

Give us a break, Kwesi. Why don't you go construct one shit-power generating system for your own use in your house to demonstrate what you are proposing? You are too known and too arrogant.

Give us a break, Kwesi. Why don't you go construct one shit-power generating system for your own use in your house to demonstrate what you are proposing? You are too known and too arrogant.
XaxagbeTeam 12 years ago

Ecg should collect debt from gbc

Ecg should collect debt from gbc
K.K 12 years ago

THIS PRATT TALKS AS IF HE KNOWS EVERYTHING. WHY DIDN'T HE SUGGESTS HOW AGENCIES AND MINISTRIES SHOULD GO ABOUT SOURCING THE ALTERNATIVE ENERGY FOR THE COUNTRY. THIS IS GHANA'S JOURNALISM, THEY JUST TALK BOOLSHIT, NO INVESTIGA ...
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THIS PRATT TALKS AS IF HE KNOWS EVERYTHING. WHY DIDN'T HE SUGGESTS HOW AGENCIES AND MINISTRIES SHOULD GO ABOUT SOURCING THE ALTERNATIVE ENERGY FOR THE COUNTRY. THIS IS GHANA'S JOURNALISM, THEY JUST TALK BOOLSHIT, NO INVESTIGATION INTO THE SUBJECT MATTER TO PROVIDE OVERVIEW AND PRACTICAL SOLUTIONS. IT'S CHEAP TO TALK TALK
Nyame Ekuma 12 years ago

Kwesi, convert ur WC to 'Atonko' and with ur family use ur own shit as biogas to power ur house. Nonsense.

Have u finished insulting Rawlings ? U damn mother fucker vampire with sharp teeth. Now that u are exporing, u have ...
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Kwesi, convert ur WC to 'Atonko' and with ur family use ur own shit as biogas to power ur house. Nonsense.

Have u finished insulting Rawlings ? U damn mother fucker vampire with sharp teeth. Now that u are exporing, u have nothing to say than to talk abt shit when others were having breakfast. Nonsense.

Damn hypocrite. We know u 'three' much. Nonsense
Kwame 12 years ago

The Ghanaian is enterprising, but it seems the issue is with the civil service that is tuned to work in the interest of the imperialist. We wrote the other day that the state did not increased the means of transportation and ...
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The Ghanaian is enterprising, but it seems the issue is with the civil service that is tuned to work in the interest of the imperialist. We wrote the other day that the state did not increased the means of transportation and also making transportation cheap before increasing the cost of fuel.
To those who are writing insult to Comrade Kwesi Pratt on this issue I want to say that they must not seem to be ignorant, because ignorance is the greatest disease that destroy human society.
To the Doubting Thomases, the Accra Psychiatric Hospital has for over ten years now been using biogas to cook food and do other things which need heat energy to perform. It means that the human waste that is dumped at the Lavender Peach in Korle Gorno everyday can be used to generate electricity to serve the energy needs of Korle Bu Teaching Hospital (and why is it that that hospital itself does not generate gas from human waste to satisfy its energy needs), residents of Korle Gorno and Mamprobi. We wrote that during the reign of Col. Murmur Ghadafi even peasants in Libya generate biogas to satisfy their heat energy needs.
Kwesi did not only talk about biogas, he as well talk about wind power and solar power, and the raw material for manufacturing solar panels and semiconductors is silicon (sand). In the main, sand extracted from the river bed which does not have too much foreign matter.
We also wrote sometime ago that a Ghanaian electrical engineer has produced a solar panel which is fixed to 70 capacity bus and it performs better than those being driven with fuel. Some young men came out with producing electrolite from sea water and that will reduce the use of electric generators and importation of changing lighting systems.
Students who studied physics and electronics know how semiconductors are manufactured at least in theory.
I am well aware that we have the human resource armed with the knowledge to implement all that project. My wife told me yesterday after I told her how biogas is generated that a friend has got one installed for her at the cost of two thousand Ghana Cedis. The cost of a biogas plant however depend on the size. It is also a fact that common cooking oil is used to power and drive buses, when we have palm kennel wasting away in the forest.
A person who is bereft of ideas to improve his own condition should not insult another who is a wizard full of ideas.
Amega 12 years ago

Not until all Ministers/deputies, hangers-on and paraasites are stopped from drawing free fuel and consuming free electricity, we shall never ever be able to have constant and cheap energy. Party functionaries occupying gover ...
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Not until all Ministers/deputies, hangers-on and paraasites are stopped from drawing free fuel and consuming free electricity, we shall never ever be able to have constant and cheap energy. Party functionaries occupying government premises use electricity for cooking because electricity is free; they don't use gas because they have to buy it. So fellow Ghanaians, you see how we are being fooled by these headless politicians.
7B 12 years ago

most foolsih man, if u have won a contract on that, won't u use the money on poly girls... idiot man

most foolsih man, if u have won a contract on that, won't u use the money on poly girls... idiot man
wiseman 12 years ago

thanks to mr pratt.lnfact our leaders hve failed us tototally, only they know is money chop chop.nation wreckers and bogus npp and ndc.

thanks to mr pratt.lnfact our leaders hve failed us tototally, only they know is money chop chop.nation wreckers and bogus npp and ndc.
Gawuga 12 years ago

Berk! If shit has a value there will be no stink or eye sore in Accra.

Berk! If shit has a value there will be no stink or eye sore in Accra.
Gawuga 12 years ago

Vile. Prat is alway prat

Vile. Prat is alway prat

ZION AYARIGA 12 years ago

Our universities are just theoritical institutions this days,and not research based in order to bring out creative research on refuge management,and development and excreter into bio gas. Filt is killing us and we can gain al ...
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Our universities are just theoritical institutions this days,and not research based in order to bring out creative research on refuge management,and development and excreter into bio gas. Filt is killing us and we can gain alot from that..
iPad 12 years ago

Just privitise all the utility companies and you will start seeing wonders. This is not rocket science.
What appended when the government privitsed Ghana telecom? All the FOOLS in the government please privitise and let us b ...
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Just privitise all the utility companies and you will start seeing wonders. This is not rocket science.
What appended when the government privitsed Ghana telecom? All the FOOLS in the government please privitise and let us be free and able to get the basics in life. No more time waisting please
olowa 12 years ago

Why the insults? I thought Kwasi Pratt has said something very sensible.

Why the insults? I thought Kwasi Pratt has said something very sensible.
Kwaku 12 years ago

Did you suggest it to Kufuor? Let us start with your excreta first dam idiot

Did you suggest it to Kufuor? Let us start with your excreta first dam idiot
Kwame 12 years ago

Our universities have played their part to produce people who are inventive, but it is those who claim that they are rich who do not want to buy those technology and put them into use. For instance Akuffo Addo imports chicken ...
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Our universities have played their part to produce people who are inventive, but it is those who claim that they are rich who do not want to buy those technology and put them into use. For instance Akuffo Addo imports chicken whiles Ghana currently has the best chicken incubator in the world.
oldtimo 12 years ago

Mr. Pratt, developed nations have enough food for citizens to eat before human excreta can be obtained for energy production. Our chiefs have given lands to the Chinese and other foreigners for surface mining and do not resp ...
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Mr. Pratt, developed nations have enough food for citizens to eat before human excreta can be obtained for energy production. Our chiefs have given lands to the Chinese and other foreigners for surface mining and do not respect our rich land for growing food. Think of how to feed Ghanaians before energy production from them. Stop writing to make name.
Tess 12 years ago

Thuoght it wouldn't to give it a shot. I was right.

Thuoght it wouldn't to give it a shot. I was right.
wjcgklwfh 12 years ago

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