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CEPS recruit dies from ‘harsh’ training

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  • Araba Stamp 12 years ago

    Singled out and treatedto death because of his Akan name.

  • Martin Brew 12 years ago

    You are an irredeemable idiot. As an akan, you make me ashamed with your breathtaking stupidity.

  • KKK 12 years ago

    NOBODY IS HAPPY WITH CEPS, NOT EVEN THE GOVT.

  • MANTSE 12 years ago

    You may be right in saying that

    "NOBODY IS HAPPY WITH CEPS, NOT EVEN THE GOVT."

    But Govt Officials and Appointees are 'Causation Factors' of CEPS' woes.

    I am sure this 35 year old man was imposed on the CEPS. I am sa ...
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  • GHFUO, BE SERIOUS NOT PRIDEFUL! 12 years ago

    HOW IS ALL THIS TOM FOOLERY PART OF CUSTOMS EXCISE N PREVEVTION SERVS? WAA LOOK? NO WONDER THEY HARASS INNOCENT PPL FOR MOEY N STEAL ONCE THEY GET THEIR JOBS? WE R NOT SERIOUS IN GH AT ALL...CHILDISH MINDS....

    He explained ...
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  • Amegaxoxo 12 years ago

    Was it necessary to welcome the recruits with this barbaric exercise?
    As in the military,recruit training is supposed to be rigorous and follow acceptable medical standards.It is not meant to be some form of punishment just ...
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  • Vodoo Xebieso 12 years ago

    Please don't say that again.

  • why? 12 years ago

    why doubling loads with cement blocks has to do with training? what has endurance training to do with cement blocks? fire all their leaders and jail all the instructors and cancel recruitment for 10 years

  • NEVER MIND 12 years ago

    It,s unfortunate to hear people talk the way you do, Araba. Does the CEPS training school belong to all except those of Akan origin? Are all the instructors non-akans? Have you ever in your life known or heard about any CEPS ...
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  • Yaa 12 years ago

    Who gave the commandant the authority to drill the recruits? This cannot occur in any civilized county except in Ghana.
    Uncivilized man calling himself a commander torturing people in the name of training. He should be held ...
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  • KKK 12 years ago

    Let the universities introduce courses that can lead to work at ceps. There is no need for training from unprofessionals at this training center. Are they soldiers being prepared for war?

  • DAN 12 years ago

    this one is deserved! These people are not military anyway...unless they are gonna serve at border crossings...if drugs or weapons are found they should call the police or military!

  • SARP 12 years ago

    THIS IS NORMAL.10% CASUALTY DURING TRAINING IS PERMISSIBLE.I WENT THROUGH THE SAME PROCESS SOME YEARS AGO.HOWEVEVER,IF ONE IS NOT FIT,PHYSICAL TRAINING CAN BE FATAL.MY CONDOLENCE,THOUGH.

  • Kofi 12 years ago

    Your having gone through that does not make it right. This is what is killing Ghana. Those you expect to do something about problems ignore complaints on the grounds that 'it has always been so". That is bull crap!

  • SARP 12 years ago

    IT'S A PITY YOU DIDN'T UNDERSTAND THIS SIMPLE PIECE.10% CASUALITY DURING RECRUIT TRAINING IS PERMISSIBLE.WHAT THE RECRUITS WENT THROUGH IS NORMAL AND IS MEANT TO SEPARATE THE MEN FROM THE BOYS.

  • George Arthur 12 years ago

    As much as we all agree that there is the need for some kind of discipline into recruits it is very bad for such treatment to be melted out the new comers.Do the CEPS do this exercise before collecting taxes from people. What ...
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  • kofi-london 12 years ago

    It's supposed to be a 'light initiation'. Guess the gentleman might have a hidden medical condition.

  • Ex-serviceman. 12 years ago

    How can a 35 year oldman be recruited into the service? I joined the military in 1975 and had the same "welcome" treatment at the Armed Forces Recruits Training Center (AFRTC) in Tamale. What I know is that the recruitment ag ...
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  • KKK 12 years ago

    ITS AS SIMPLE AS THAT! SUE FOR DAMAGES!

  • Felix 12 years ago

    You are welcome that is what pertains here in Ghana. I believe he paid to enter now the reality has stared him right in the face.
    Now Ghana currently is churning out old men as security officers and its rather unfortunate th ...
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  • ACRI Mate 12 years ago

    Well said my brother. But are they soldiers to wear camouflage at all? And Nana Banyin should stop training them like soldiers. CEPS should answer why age 35.

  • KOO NIMO 12 years ago

    Why the harsh welcome training?. This job does not require any stamina. Sit at desk and collect bribes.

  • KKK 12 years ago

    GHANA IS INDEED A COUNTRY OF CRUEL PEOPLE AND STRANGE WORSHIP BEHAVIORS.

  • Jemy 12 years ago

    Atrocious recruitment

  • Felix 12 years ago

    Koo woa bodam papa. You think sitting does not require stamina. I beleive if we put inplace these type of training it would deter the thieves a little.

  • Kwesi Mends, Takoradi 12 years ago

    Funny indeed!

  • ATTA SEI 12 years ago

    Sorry you are acting out of ignorance. Customs don't only collects revenue. They protect it and also the borders as well, making it the first line of defense in case of external aggression. They are para-Military. Anybody who ...
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  • Paul 12 years ago

    This torture termed endurance exercise must cease. It is inhuman. This is also done by the Police. The military does it in a real training environment, not as a form of welcome. Fact is, the recruits have just been brought in ...
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  • ABOTSI 12 years ago

    THESE PEOPLE ARE ONLY DRIVERS SO I WONDER WHY THEY SOULD GO THROUGH ORDEAL.DO WE NEED MILITARY TRAINING BEFORE WE DRIVE? WHY NOT SEND THEM TO STC TRAINING SCHOOL? THE MANAGEMENT OF GRA IS CONFUSED!

  • Papa Yaw 12 years ago

    How

  • OSEI,LONDON 12 years ago

    The commandant and CEPS must be held accountable for the death of the recruit and charged with corporate homicide.How can they subject the recruits to inhuman and cruel treatment in the name of'conditioning' for the training ...
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  • JUSTICE 12 years ago

    Why does the CEPS always want to imitate the Military ?

  • km agyin 12 years ago

    He was too old to be a recruit.

  • GHANANI 12 years ago

    Leave CEPS for after the so-called harsh training they will go to the borders and help smugglers to'cross' cocoa and other items and collect bribes.They will go to the borders and help ruin the economy of the nation.

  • E .Kyei 12 years ago

    Training is not punishment that is why have majority of CEPS taking bribes etc

  • Dzidzorm 12 years ago

    Life lost cannot be retrieved. Condolences to the berieved family, R.I.P.

  • Kwabena, Lashibi 12 years ago

    The Government must institute an independent enquiry into this matter. It must be done to stop this kind of thing every where.

  • TTY 12 years ago

    man slaughter

  • JUY 12 years ago

    the evil

  • KK 12 years ago

    That is why customs officials are corrupt. In which developed or developing country does this happen??? We are indeed going backwards with such ideologies. Shame on Customs and shame on Ghana for allowing such practices that ...
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  • Napoleon 12 years ago

    My deepest condolences to the berieved families.There is the need to investigate what actually led to the death of the gentleman and measures be taken not to repeat it again.Ceps should also adhere strictly to the recruitment ...
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  • Napoleon 12 years ago

    My deepest condolences to the berieved families.There is the need to investigate what actually led to the death of the gentleman and measures be taken not to repeat it again.Ceps should also adhere strictly to the recruitment ...
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  • Nana Appiah Sikapa 12 years ago

    yes is true recruit refere as animal in depot, they maltreat u badly as if ur not a human being. The 1/c must b punish

  • MPATA MPATA. 12 years ago

    Yes encourage the family to sue CEPS.
    Let an outsider review this training these bosses are so cruel they would let you go through this beating and punishment although they did not go through that when they enlisted. I wond ...
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  • ernest 12 years ago

    try to minimize training

  • Ozie 12 years ago

    This is a shame. It must be investigated well. No coverups.

  • STEPHEN C.T.GYAN, ASAWASE, KUMASI 12 years ago

    Does the commandant want to tell us that all the eyewitnesses were not on the scene of the barbaric training exercise? This is a complete showmanship of power and ego. He should be sacked immediately and the instructor be pro ...
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  • JOHN KWESI 12 years ago

    THIS BARBARIC CRUEL TREATMENT IN THE NAME OF TRAINING MUST STOP. THIS NOT NOT TRAINING BUT IGNORANCE AND OUT MODED FORM OF TRAINING. YOU TRAIN HUMAN BEINGS FROM STAGE ONE TO STAGE TWO. YOU DONT TAKE IT ALL UP ON A FIRST DAY. ...
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  • Tommy 12 years ago

    Hypocritical Ghanaians, how come we still indulge in acts of barbarism and want the world to know how holy we are?
    His relatives should sue the CEPS.

  • Kofi 12 years ago

    Was this training ? Is nt good

  • Adom wo wim 12 years ago

    The commanding officer concern should be dismissed.

  • Dela 12 years ago

    Unprofessional CEPS and Ghana Police! They all behave like animals.

  • Abanglo 12 years ago

    the so called commandant is responsible

  • hhov 12 years ago

    My brother-inlaw paid 2000 ghana cedis to get the job when Atta Mess was alive

  • MARTIN 12 years ago

    THE COMMANDANT SHOULD BE PROSECUTED FOR MANSLAUGHTER. THOSE WHO CONDUCTED THE DRILL SHOULD ALSO BE PROSECUTED>

  • cynthia 12 years ago

    wow.....what a petty...only our belly go kill as

  • SANDY FORSTER, USA 12 years ago

    THIS SO-CALLED IDIOT COMMANDANT NEEDS TO BE JAILED. THE DEATH OF ALEX AIDOO IS VERY SAD. THIS KIND OF TRAINING SHOULD CEASE IMMEDIATELY. I AM APPEALING TO PRESIDENT MAHAMA TO TAKE IMMEDIATE ACTION AND MAKE SURE THAT THIS TYPE ...
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  • ACRI Mate 12 years ago

    Are soldiers also not human beings. Is military training not harder than that? Blame the enlistment team not the trainers or commandant.

  • pj 12 years ago

    Is ceps recruiting officers this year?

  • Kwame Kumi 12 years ago

    I wonder what all these drills have got to do with bribe-taking which in the end, is what they do best?

  • Kofi 12 years ago

    This is barbarism not training. The commandant is such a lying idiot.

  • Dodi Prince 12 years ago

    Needless loss of valuable life by stack illiterates. Complete idiots! Very corrupt institution as well!

  • TONY 12 years ago

    DEAL WITH THOSE RESPONSIBLE FOR HIS DEATH.REMEMBER THE TAWIAN CASE.

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  • Martin 12 years ago

    The recruit died as a result of hazing. His parents should sue the training center for wrongful death of their son.

  • Nana 12 years ago

    bring these people to justice

  • Nana 12 years ago

    this is wicked

  • We The People 12 years ago

    This should serve as a warning to CEPS and other institutions that gloat in this type of treatment to prospective hires. Logic would allow each recruit to settle in, be briefed, and undergo strenuous medical exams before any ...
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  • Korsi 12 years ago

    What a useless country!

  • J H New York 12 years ago

    Is CEPS Soldier?
    It's only in barbaric Ghana that such nonsensicals could go on.Wicked,brutal and jealous people.

  • sly 12 years ago

    Does money collection also demand hard traing. Are they security men or civil revenue collectors? Ah Ghana!!

  • pizzor 12 years ago

    wickedness,madness and stupidity

  • pizzor 12 years ago

    ceps wake up

  • ACRI Mate 12 years ago

    How strong was the training? Is it a military training? training to collect taxes too you are dying, aaba. It might been caused as a result of the age. 35years is too old to be recruit. Age must be considered next time. A ...
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  • ACRI Mate 12 years ago

    Then all soldiers would have died. Useless article, look for something else. Tax collectors training is about knowing how to collect taxes and nothing else. Again a decorated monkey is still a monkey. They should not compa ...
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  • otublohun 12 years ago

    Tofah must be arrested immediately. This is unacceptable in any civilsed society.All activities at the so - called CEPS training Academy must be investigated. This has been going on for ages and the authorities don't give a d ...
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  • dan 12 years ago

    pls wen will e forms be out
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  • ambush 12 years ago

    training should be normalised

  • vincent from upsa 11 years ago

    giving your self to serve your nation to must subjected your self to torture and evil punishment? this can only happen in an unemployment country like Ghana. the so called trainer live to see the end of their life. may the so ...
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  • Citizen Afiyo 11 years ago

    Does it mean custom recruited last year