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Russian CJ's crash leaves a bad image for Ghana - K.B. Asante

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  • Joe Turkey 10 years ago

    Does everybody have to comment on this accident? I am tired of getting tired of hearing all these analysis

  • william 10 years ago

    Our image is at stake, that is why!!!!And that is why there wil be a thorough investigation!

  • ATSU, HO 10 years ago

    WE SIMPLY MISUSE THE DISPATCH SYSTEM IN THIS COUNTRY, IT HAS BECOME SO COMMON THAT NO ONE TAKES IT SERIOUS ANY MORE HENCE THE DRIVER'S ATTITTUDE.
    WE NEED A NATIONAL ORIENTATION THIS IS EMBARRASING

  • Kwaku Manu 10 years ago

    Worse for our image that even the actions of a reckless driver is not condemned, but justified. Have some people come into our country to destroy every good thing in it and run to their country?If this is the only country we ...
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  • DAN 10 years ago

    All truck drivers must learn the CDL test book like is required in USA to obtain your truck driving papers..If they know the test and remember that would be better drivers (or no excuse) And also require them to pass the medi ...
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  • KojoNelly 10 years ago

    Is this arm robbering or what? Accident is an accident. Afterall we live in developing world and what is it? The guy got scared and speed off but later turned himself in? Is that bad? How many Russians would have turned thems ...
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  • Lafia 10 years ago

    no matter and whatever they think, it is round tennis ball. they attack blacks in their animal country and call us monkeys.he has been crashed to death and so what? what does he need in Africa if we are monkeys? he should go ...
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  • mimimimimimi 10 years ago

    Ghana has a lot of idiots, fools and animals how can a country grow with her citizens with this mentality? Uh!! I weep for the future of this great nation our forefathers shared their blood to restore for us but being misuse ...
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  • Lafia 10 years ago

    why who has been outside will know i is bad image? what kind of nonsense this doggy old animal ha in mind/ when they are beating and calling us money do they care about their bad images? idiots.

  • King James 10 years ago

    What about many innocent Africans being killed publicly by racist extreme-right wings in Russia without claims of any action by our missions in Russia?
    Accidents occur everywhere on earth, this is also one of such whi ...
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  • GHFUO, change ur thinking 10 years ago

    His escorts were unprofessional in maintaining his security. It seems our escorts are mainly for show,” he declared. WHERE WERE THE GH POLICE/SECRET SERVICE ESCORTS TO ATTEND TO HIM IN GH. WE ARE HOSTING HIN, SO WE SHOULD H ...
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  • kofi yesu 10 years ago

    Put the full blame on the police in particular and the ghanaian government in general. Why?

    1.If the police will stop the bribery and check these drivers seriously, it will go a long way to reduce these sort of accident, h ...
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  • Ticle-Me-Elmo 10 years ago

    Ghana just needs a comprehensive traffic education just as it is in the U.S and other advance countries. One needs to pass traffic test before getting a license. That is the prescription for all these unwarranted
    traffic co ...
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  • EKOW MUNKO 10 years ago

    Bad image?We have worn the clothes and the face of bad image for decades! Everything we do leaves us with a bad image.There is no truth,given the chance, most (if not all)Ghanaians will rip off the country in the full glare o ...
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  • Nicholas J Bedzo 10 years ago

    K B Asante can you define the word an
    accident in your Dictionary? So no
    accident in Russia l believe. A fool
    is a fool.

  • DAN 10 years ago

    They just had tanker truck fire this week reported on the Guardian website..All truck drivers must be safe but Haz Mat (fuel and dangerous chemicals) must be extra careful and have the Haz Mat training and endorsement added ...
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  • Iwan 10 years ago

    KBA should not talk as if this man was shot with an unlincenced shot gun. It was an accident which can happen in Russia. We should not exaggerate things.

  • CITIZEN ONE 10 years ago

    I just don't understand these useless old men of Ghana, called intellectuals. They seriously are not thinkers, and they are certainly not smart. Just products of forced British-education and the acquisition of a degree or cer ...
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  • John,Tema 10 years ago

    Why insult such an elderly man do you have his type in your family?Smashing ones car to a CJ of no more a nation like Russia is a serious issue which the man is talking.Can we do that to that of USA or UK?

  • Dr. med.William Acquah,Germany 10 years ago

    Very serious car accidents happen daily all over this world.What have these to do with the image of a country?Do we already have a good one?

  • mr Tina 10 years ago

    What about ghanaians dieing on the road everyday. The lanes on the road has it purpose. The first lane on high ways are for big trucks but in ghana,it is not so. The big trucks rather use the last lane which is meant for smal ...
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  • Kwaku 10 years ago

    The fact that you live in a dirty environment doesn't mean you should receive your important guest into that same environment.No wonder when the Americans are coming to visit us they cease the whole Accra.

  • Tibaa 10 years ago

    Oh, the Russian Chief Justice "grabbed my hand firmly.." when he visited him at the hospital. This is a disgrace and immaturity on at the highest level. For the first time in my adult life, I ashamed to a a Ghanaian.

  • Daakye Kwabre MP. 10 years ago

    Please sir could you give me your reasons of thinking that way? Accident happens and that Russian man is indifferent of that.I have gotten into multiple no fault accidents, does that mean each of them is going to damage the i ...
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  • Pity Ghana 10 years ago

    then it could be image damaging,
    no matter what if you'd be a spy on other soil,
    do you know what was his mission to Ghana?
    private onl for the sunshine?
    national for his nat ...
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  • Kwaku 10 years ago

    A whole CJ of Russia being a spy Ghanafuo why?We've been brain washed by the West such that we can't use our brains anymore.Why do we go back to Russia to increase our scholarship placings?Are they that wicked?

  • kofi mensah 10 years ago

    Motor accidents happen every time. let us stop this if you have travelled outside before you will know... Accidents happen everywhere. I am disappointed in KB

  • Dooni 10 years ago

    Thank You old Asante for the plain truth. Shame to the security

  • ISSA ABONGO 10 years ago

    IT IS A CORRUPT, INCOMPTENT GOVERNMENT WHICH ALLOWS FOREIGN DIGNITAIRIES TO BE EXPOSED TO DANGERS LIKE ACCIDENTS, WHERE THE POLICE FAIL TO GUARD THE ROAD BLOCKS AND ALLOW TRUCKS TO WEIGHT INTO WHAT SHOULD BE A SECURE CONVOY. ...
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  • BUSINESS DEVELOPER 10 years ago

    Mr Asante i disagree with you on this issue, security & safety in any country is relative and not absolate,one can have all the security&safety apparatus but can still be a victim of an accident,we have had both ghanaians ...
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  • Ceeboy Dangerman 10 years ago

    Shit this guy do not trust the Lord as his controller.

  • Joe Turkey 10 years ago

    If only Ghanaian politicians, party activists, honorable, cadres of all colors and shades will stop using motorcades, police escorts and sirens to take their wives and girlfriends to the market, driver will pay more attention ...
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  • OKATAKYIE 10 years ago

    k b asante should burry his head between his legs. Has Ghana any reputation left to protect after these ndc bofoons came to power? Just shut up and dont disturb our peace. You are part of this non sense going on in Ghana. Tha ...
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  • appiah 10 years ago

    Because of indiscipline on Ghana's roads, thousands of innocent ghanaians have been killed in avoidable motor accidents within the past year; and the incompetent government and its praise-singers like K B Asante cannot show a ...
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  • FOYOOSIS 10 years ago

    Guess what they do before and in the course of waiting to escort dignitaries safely to their respective places? They go to drink local gin(apio), top it with a bottle of beer, eat fufuo or banku and start displaying their ign ...
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  • truth 10 years ago

    do u know the racism ghanaians are going thru in russia. ? this was an accident .

    ghanaian get beaten and killed every year in russia NOT ACCIDENTALLY

  • truth 10 years ago

    KB ASANTE . PLEASE , IF U DONT HAVE ANYTHING INTELLIGENT TO SAY ...DONT SPEAK. it was an accident. it was unfortunate so shut up.

  • Felix Tetteh 10 years ago

    Please no offence to a Russian Chief Justice,but why should we wait after a so-called VIP is involved in an accident before we wake-up? Thousands of Ghanaians perish in road accident every year; and noone cares to enforce the ...
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  • Erek Johson 10 years ago

    There are supporting to killing inosent People in Syria. That the rewards. God give signs

  • Molle 10 years ago

    Look let's be frank and accept that Corruption in Ghana Police Service especially the MTTU unit is alarming and having severe effects on everyone including visitors. Anyone can drive on our roads once you are willing to pay b ...
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  • Ghana International Victim 10 years ago

    Mahama's NDC Government mustn't get the impression that Ghana International Airways'(GIA) refund can be swept under the carpet. It is as live as May 2010 when the GIA was suspended by Atta Mills Govt. Most transport authorit ...
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  • Donkor 10 years ago

    Not even Late Atta Mills let alone Mahama had shame. The NDC govts don't have SHAME and they wont even met their legal obligation

  • CS 10 years ago

    Even ex-president K-4 was hit in an accident while PRESIDENT!

  • Mrs Brown. 10 years ago

    Some Observers abroad were asking, where is the Chief Justice of Ghana.

    In any country, Ghana's Chief Justice would have arranged with Government to Air lift the Injured Russian Chief Justice to Ghana's top most Hospital ...
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