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Another fire at Kumasi Central market flatens dozens of shops

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  • Yaw Danquah 10 years ago

    Good work by the police. Well done. Hope this is not another NPP effort to make the country ungovernable by JDM. May God help us.

  • OSEI TAWIAH 10 years ago

    You call this good work? I have a lot of sympathy for you. Yeah right, NPP is burning market to stop NDC from ruling Ghana, like NDC will ever compensate the traders with their chop chop money.

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  • HASSAN RASTA GERMANY 10 years ago

    YOU ARE A DEVIL LIKE NANA SATANIC DWARF ADDO

  • SHAMO 10 years ago

    NANA ADDO ASK US TO DO SO TO MAKE UR NDC UNGOVERNABLE THIS IS JUST THE BEGINNING

  • GHFUO, LOVE/DOR YOURSELF! 10 years ago

    Deputy Regional Minister Samuel Yaw Adusei added there is soon going to be a reconstruction of the market which will take into account all recommendations given by stakeholders.

    FIRE ESCAPE ROUTES, TAXES N ACCOUNTABILITY/N ...
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  • DAN 10 years ago

    ndc=Nigger dicksucking company

  • bless 10 years ago

    owusu
    bempa said it but Ghanaian wouldn't allow him to say now see a whole
    lot of calamities fire here fire there .God shld come to our rescue.

  • DAN 10 years ago

    God bless america!

  • SGT ANANI FIADZOE 10 years ago

    So long as it is not the UP tradition ruling they must make the country ungovernable. They did it to Nkrumah and are doing it now to JM.

    Do you remember that when Kufuor came to power the Ghana Union of Trader (composed la ...
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  • DAN 10 years ago

    go back to your work sucking white mens penis for a career! Ndc has been stealing Ghana blind for 4.6 years, Now God is giving a preview of HELL...So drink cold water now you NDC members

  • MOOROH 10 years ago

    EH! ANOTHER BIG MOUSE EATING CABLES CAUSING FIRE HMMMMM

  • GHFUO, LOVE/DOR YOURSELF! 10 years ago

    AH CHALE, THIS IS TOO MUCH.

  • MOOROH 10 years ago

    EVEN AT THEIR OWN BACKYARD TOO.HMMMMMM."KURO BEHU AMANSEI BEHU"
    HE WHO BEHIND THIS WILL BE SMOKED OUT SOONER THAN LATER.THEY CAN RUN BUT THEY CANT HIDE.
    THE SAME FIRE WILL SMOKE THEM OUT OF THEIR HIDEOUT.I SWELL ALLAH.
    MAK ...
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  • Ewusi 10 years ago

    Anything and everything that connects Rawlings would end up in disgrace.The ghost of Mills has just been disgraced by Martin Amidu.You would see the end of your President if he continues to wear corruption tag.The soul of thi ...
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  • Kwame Sankofa 10 years ago

    The soul of the is not sick, rather your soul, is sick. WAA look, it was Afrifa and ACHEAMPONG who started with corruption, not MAHAMA. KOUFOUR was the most corrupt president GHANA ever had.

  • Ofori 10 years ago

    Fire the igp and the interior minister for a better Ghana. Foolish old fools looting the nation with their selfish interests.

  • ********** 10 years ago

    Idiot stop the nonense and be real. Tell your John Mahama s
    To sort out the chaotic electrical wiring, educate people these illegal wiring and put systems in placebto punish people who breach these rules. Above all, the dums ...
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  • OSEI TAWIAH 10 years ago

    Your name really suits you. You and your NDC are all dumb illiterates. You don't know how to solve even the simplest problems in Ghana without messing up first.

  • Concerned 10 years ago

    The rate of power failure is a possibility. If the findings of the Americans is going to be handed to the government for them to edit it before giving it to the public, it will not make us any wiser. What happened to the oth ...
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  • DAN 10 years ago

    does destroy fridges and air cond.. not to mention computers....Not to mention people that forgot to cut off electric stoves and iron when lites when off, for them to resume heating when lites on!

  • Edem 10 years ago

    Those who think these fire outbreaks are done by somebody to make Ghana ungovernable should begin thinking in another way.
    I blame it poor or old wiring system, the use of substandard electirical gadgets and frequent power o ...
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  • JOMO KENYATTA 10 years ago

    INDEED GHANA MUST GET VERY SERIOUS. THIS NONSENSICAL THEORIES ABOUT THE FIRE OUTBREAKS ARE GETTING ON MY NERVES. ALL OF A SUDDEN MICE AND RATS IN GHANA DECIDED TO CHEW CABLES IN VARIOUS MARKETS IN GHANA. THE COINCIDENCE IS KI ...
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  • sankariwa 10 years ago

    This is no mice and rats business. The government must be serious on this. It is strange that a reasonable per centage of the fire is in the markets. Gorvernment must act now. Something strange is going on. This is not the wo ...
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  • PKA 10 years ago

    Can you explain why all the market fires start in the early hours of the morning? Doesn't that sound suspicious? Since the authorities have not established anything yet, we cannot rule out sabotage.

  • Frimpong, USA 10 years ago

    NPP at work to destroy.

  • Big Daddy London 10 years ago

    Frimpong, may I say that you are being silly and stupid. The reason being that the President has ordered the security services to protect such places 24/7 so if u come out to say this, then I know u are a Nation wrecker. Alwa ...
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  • azar 10 years ago

    yes rats can chew old wires.old wire shld be renewed at least every max 20yrs.i walk into govt offices and see old hanging loose wires and adivce occupants poor workers becarful.i myself have caution land dept staff at elwalk ...
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  • Klovi 10 years ago

    You are 100% right,the same thing happened in the 60s when they were throwing bombs,its their tradition no one can stop them.

  • DAN 10 years ago

    tell all of ghana how you spent every dollar you and your family had to come to america and wash old white people's anus! Go back to Ghana you Nigger while the ndc has power for 2 months!

  • Kassim Ben Ahmed 10 years ago

    the assemblies shd seriously check cooking in the markets,left over unquenched fires can cause this.

  • OSEI TAWIAH 10 years ago

    A 2011 fire outbreak at the Kumasi Central Market was caused by a coal pot fire left overnight.

  • kweku don 10 years ago

    I am wondering why the president blame some people for this fires. Has he ever realize the cheap electrical goods shipped into the country by these Chinese and the so called Ghana Standard board giving no checks into goods fl ...
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  • Ddddd 10 years ago

    NPP at work

  • Kwasi 10 years ago

    Since their thief mahama came to power, today tomorrow yesterday why? he should confess to Ghanaians that yes they bribed Afari Gyan b4 they were able to come to power steallies.

  • nana agyemang 10 years ago

    everything has it expiring date,so the electricity company must make renovation of the power lines,if not fire will contnue burn and damage our properties and even our live.I think the central market,kantomanto,and other mark ...
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  • oppong london 10 years ago

    ndc fools ,juju president and his cursed pursue habits,the whole country will burn in the hands of cursed ndc b4 the party dies,where are ur americans to catch the npp suspects? useless ndc with idiot president.

  • NANA IS USING BAWUMIA 10 years ago

    GHANAIANS NOW KNOW WHO BEHIND ALL THESE FIRES IN RECENT MONTHS. THE NPP IS RESPONSIBLE. NOW THE MARKET WOMEN ALSO KNOW THAT IT IS THE NPP SUPPORTERS. SO HOW CAN SUCH A PARTY PRETEND THAT IT WOULD REPRESENT THE INTEREST OF GHA ...
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  • Asempa Beba Dabi 10 years ago

    "Deputy Regional Minister Samuel Yaw Adusei added there is soon going to be a reconstruction of the market.." Really?

  • NANA IS USING BAWUMIA 10 years ago

    POWER FAILURE IS NOT THE CAUSE OF THESE FIRES. THE CAUSE IS ARSON. HOW LONG HAVE WE HAD POWER FAILURES IN GHANA. SINCE BUSIA'S TIME WE ALWAYS HAD POWER FAILURES RIGHT THROUGH JJ'S ERA, KUFUOR'S ERA INTO ATTA MILLS. THE NPP AR ...
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  • ********** 10 years ago

    And why did NPP not burn markets then? This is the thinking of a typical idiot.

  • DAN 10 years ago

    Accra mayor and Kma is selling the market land to China and their freinds you dumb ass NIGGER

  • nketia-mahama 10 years ago

    This time NDC will bring fire expect from Irak to cone and determined the Mahama fire. God save Ghans

  • kennedy 10 years ago

    What fellow Ghanaian needs to know is that these wires are not life long,it needs checks from time to time,all these imported uncheck items can easily cause fire, i can understand the hardship we are all going through, howeve ...
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  • GHANAS TERMINAL CANCER=ASHANTIS 10 years ago

    U CAN BURN EVEN THE CHURCHES,SCHOOLS, HOSPITAL,NPP WILL NEVER RULE GHANA AGAIN

  • DAN 10 years ago

    sleep with 1 eye open i have new rope for your neck, the KKK (evil white people) are looking for Niggers(idiot blacks) to hang

  • GHANAS TERMINAL CANCER=ASHANTIS 10 years ago

    POLITICAL VIOLENCE WILL NOT WIN NPP THE PRESIDENCY FACT!

  • BBC NEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 10 years ago

    The concern citizens of Ghanaians abroad such as America, Canada, London, Germany, Italy, Australia and Holland, is appealing to the highest court of our country to throw the petitioners foolish and diabolical case that is ha ...
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  • Atsu 10 years ago

    what is happening at all in my country is this a year of fire out break or the work of arsonist

  • abby 10 years ago

    there is surely someone behind all these fireoutbreaks at market..has it happen before...l dont think so folks

  • adu bonsu enock 10 years ago

    ei ghana what have done wrong? God please come to our aid

  • Seth,knust graduate 10 years ago

    Hmmmm,,,,,fire outbrks clearly tell concerned ghanaians dat our institutions are not up to d task, engineers,planners,safety officers n resourced persons needs to be consulted,

  • Nantwi,BSEd,MSEd(ece),MSEd(sas) 10 years ago

    The Kumasi market needs rebuilding.It was not well planned.I believe this is a time where it should be planned in a way that Emergency Vehicles could pass through easily.I have personally seen some electrical wiring in the m ...
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  • Musah Osman 10 years ago

    Burning markets would not change Mahama's presidency.NPP DEVIL MEN can go on and on with their market burning sprey.Why is the fire only concentrated in the markets? Why now, and not before the 2012 elections? Ghanaians are w ...
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  • Musah Osman 10 years ago

    I urged gov't to provide maximum security at our ports and also our oil installations.After finishing the markets,the next probale place to target by these DEVILS AND NATION WRECKERS(NPP)will be these vital places.These fires ...
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  • DAN 10 years ago

    ndc= national devils committee or national dicksuckers company take your pick NIGGER

  • ODIKRO 10 years ago

    FROM A SECREATE RELIABLE SOURCE A GROUP CALL FRIENDS OF NANA, LET MY VOTE COUNT ARE BEHIND THIS AND EVEN GOING TO DO MORE THAN THIS UNLESS SC DECISSION RULE INFAVOUR OF NANA, TILL THEN EXPECT STRANGE THINGS, " INVISIBLE TROUP ...
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  • tonny 10 years ago

    start putting down some of the stalls,the place is too congested.is difficult to conduct bussiness.relocate some to other market.

  • wendy, london 10 years ago

    Why do some ndc people always have to talk trash. What do the npp stand to achieve by burning markets? are they also the ones burning peoples homes? Instead of the authorities finding the cause of this fire outbreaks, they la ...
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  • Efua 10 years ago

    Arrest Vanderpuije he is behind this fire in Kumasi.he want to divert our attention from his evil agenda.

  • TAMBRO 10 years ago

    I BELIEVE THAT SOME CULPRITS ARE BEHIND THESE RAMPANT FIRE BURNINGS AND I PRAY THAT GOD WOULD EXPOSE THESE CRIMINALS VERY SOON.WHY IS IT THAT THE BURNINGS OCCUR ONLY AT NIGHT AND AT DOWN?

  • TerriblY Spe cifiC 10 years ago

    People are joking with the devil.NDC employed the devil to win the 2012 election. This is the consequences of that.The devil never gives anything for free.this is just the beginning

  • Dinah Amankwah 10 years ago

    These market fires, accident or arson? I just wish the fire occurrences would be dispassionately discussed rather than be trivialized through the usual irritating politicization. People's livelihoods are at stake here. This ...
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