Lampedusa disaster: A Ghanaian feared dead

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• GHFUO, change ur thinking 12 years ago

  WE NEED ACCOUNTABILITY N TRANSPARENCY IN GOVT!
  WE NEED CORRUPTION COURTS IN GH NOW!
  MAHAMA PAID TO APPEAR ON CNN!!! CNN DIDNT INVITE HIM. HE USED GH MONIES TO PAY FOR THE AIR TIME TO "GO N MARKET GHANA"...LOL
  WHY DID MAHAM ...
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  WE NEED ACCOUNTABILITY N TRANSPARENCY IN GOVT!
  WE NEED CORRUPTION COURTS IN GH NOW!
  MAHAMA PAID TO APPEAR ON CNN!!! CNN DIDNT INVITE HIM. HE USED GH MONIES TO PAY FOR THE AIR TIME TO "GO N MARKET GHANA"...LOL
  WHY DID MAHAMA GIVE AGGUDEY A PRESIDENTIAL PARDON? FOR WHAT? FOR HIM TO SAVE FACE AND NOT BE DISGRACED?
  THIS FOOL WAS SPENDING MONEY THAT WASNT HIS AND WOMANIZING WITH YOUNG LEGON FEMALES. WHERE IS THE MORALITY HERE?
  THESE GIRLS COULD HAVE BEEN YOUR SISTERS, DAUGHTER OR NIECE...YOU KNOW...
  ALL THESE THINGS ARE HAPPENENING IN GH, AND YOU EXPECT ME TO SUPPORT GH TO GO TO BRASIL? CMON NOW...LOOK AT OUR STADIUMS?
  NO SCOREBOARD, DIRTY, SMELLY BATHROOMS. WE AREA COMPLETE JOKE! MINN OF SPORTS, U DONT EVEN HAVE THE SENSE TO BUILD BETTER STADIAS WITH BETTER PITCHES, TRACKFIELDS ETC AND YOU THINK YOU
  DESERVE TO BANG WOTH THOSE WHO ARE DOING IT RIGHT?
  MAHAMA SAYS: LET THEM EAT CAKE....
  ...TARRIFS ARE GOING UP ALL ACROSS THE BOARD IN GH. YET, WE DONT SEE AN IOTA OF AN IMPROVEMENT IN PUBLIC SERVICES OR QUALITY INFRATSRUCTURE. WHERE R THE NDC VOTERS?
  ILLITERACY/LACK OF BASIC EDUCATION HAS CAUSED THE PPL TO VOTE OUT OF SHEER EMOTIONS AND ETHNIC JUDGEMENTS.
  PUMPING MONEY INTO PUBLIC SERVICE ISNT THE WAY TO GO. ESP IN TODAY'S CASH STRAPPED, TECHNOLOGY INSPIRED WORLD. GOVT MUST STREAMLINE THE PUBLIC SECTOR.
  WE HAVE DISTRICT, MUNICIPAL/CITY, REGIONAL AND FEDERAL GOVT . STREAMLINE THE GOVT N REMOVE THESE QUACK/QUASI, USELESS GOVT INSTITUTIONS WHICH EXIST BUT DONT DO ANYTHING TO RENDER EFFICIENT SERVICE OR COLLECT REVENUE.
  1.CHECK PUBLIC SECTOR CORRUPTION. INSTITUTE CORRUPTION COURTS!
  2.REDUCE PUBLIC SECTOR WAGES.
  It is for this reason that all governments, especially their finance ministers and their teams, always make it a priority to stop the ghost names phenomenon that has bloated the payroll in
  the public service. Regrettably, the phenomenon is still alive in the public service at this stage when we are told that about 70 per cent of our revenue is used to service the public wage bill.
  3.HIRE LESS PPL TO PROVIDE EFFICIENT SERVICE. WE NEED DISCIPLINE, CLEAR OVERSIGHT, CHECK N BALANCES N PATRIOTIC HARDWORKERS IN THE SYSTEM.
  4. FACTORIES
  GH REVENUE SOURCE: TAXES. INTEREST ON LOANS, GRANTS FROM OUTSIDE FOR REVENUE GENERATING INFRAS VENTURES IN GH. STREAMLINE INDUSTRIES, GOVT MUST CUT DOWN SPENDING,
  WIDEN TAX BASE, EXPORT MORE.
  WE DONT NEED A BUNCH OF THIEVES WHO COME TO STEAL N COLLECT BRIBES! WHO ARE YOU MAKING A MOCKERY OF?...
  5.BRING IN FOREIGN INVESTORS TO BUILD SOPHISTICATED supply chains in operations Like autos and auto parts, electronics, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, chemicals, petrochemicals.
  WE HAVE SO MANY MIDDLE AND HIGH SKILLED WORKERS, UNEMPLOYED GRADUATES IN GH WHO DONT KNOW HOW TO THINK. THEY WANT MUNDANE JOBS.
  IN MY BOOK, YOU EITHER DO IT RIGHT. OR YOU GET ELIMINATED.
  TOO MANY GH PPL LACK SELF CONFIDENCE AND DONT BELIEVE IN WHO THEY ARE. THEN AGAIN, U CANT BLAME THEM. LOOK AT THEIR SURROUNDINGS..OPEN GUTTERS, MALARIA, FILTH, DIRT EVERYWHERE!
  6.I AM 37 YRS OLD. WE HAVE BEEN DEALING WITH MALARIA SINCE THE DAY I WAS BORN. STILL HAVNT FOUND AN ANTIDOTE. WHY?
  THE SOLUTION: BUILD BETTER DRAINAGE SYSTEMS AND COVER THE OPEN GUTTERS! IS THIS ROCKET SCIENCE?
  WE HAVE NO BASIC PLANNING IN GH TO AID TAXATION, NO ADDRESS SYSTEM TO CHECK CRIMINAL ACITIVITY. TOO MANY UNLICENSED BUSINESSPPL SELLING FOOD NEXT TO FILTH, I MEAN ITS A SHAME...ITS A SHAME.
  SINCE THE DAYS OF METHUSELAH, WE HAVE BEEN WASTING MILLIONS ON MALARIA, WHY?
  WAT WILL IT TAKE TO DEVELOP MODERN DRAINAGE SYSTEMS, CLOSED GUTTERS?
  7.LOOK AT BRASIL? THEY HAVE CLAIMED THE MOST WCUPS IN HISTORY BCOS THEY INVESTED IN QUALITY SOCCER INFRSTRUCTURE, STADIUMS ETC.
  GO TO ALL OUR GOVT STADIUMS N SEE GARGANTUAN INFRASTRACTURAL DEGRADATION. YOUR SCOREBOARD DOSENT EVEN WORK, BUT U WANT TO GO TO WORLDCUP?
  LOOK AT GH. YOU WANT TO GO TO WCUP, BUT LOOK AT YOUR SOCCER INFRSATRUCTURE? IS IT FAIR TO THE OTHER NATIONS IN AFRICA WHO HAVE INVESTED IN
  BETTER SOCCER INFRASTRUCTURE, STADIUMS, LEAGUES ETC. TO STAY HOME FOR GH TO QUALIFY AND GO TO BRASIL? BISA WOHO...
  HE WHO CLIMBS A GOOD TREE DESERVES SUPPORT....NOT VICE VERSA.
  8.Now, if you were to open a textbook from years ago, you would have found that natural resources in abundance are a source of growth and wealth for
  developing countries, or so it was supposed.
  If you have oil, if you have diamonds, if you have gold and copper, can't these be used to help develop the country?
  But if you turn to contemporary textbooks, the first chapter is liable to be about the resource curse, meaning that the revenues from foreign
  investment in oil and gas and coal and copper, GOLD, DIAMONDS, COCOA ETC get siphoned off in corruption. billions of dollars are siphoned off every year into THE private SWISS ACCTS
  of these so called DEMOCRATIC LEADERS. WHAT A SHAME! There is a lack of transparency. There is a lack of accountability.
  if you look at Chile, Peru, Indonesia, Malaysia, these are countries that have been very successful in using their rich resources TO DEVELOP THEIR NATION. WHY CANT GHANAIAN GOVTS LEARN FROM THEM?
  9.So the question is, how can resources be used to benefit broad economic and social development and avoid the corruption and authoritarian rule?
  The key issue is always going to be the LOCAL POPULATION, THE LOCAL LEADERSHIP, THE PRESS, NGOs, AND non-governmental authorities, STAKEHOLDERS that try
  to promote openness and transparency. In 2010-2011, Ghana started to export significant quantities of oil.
  Is this going to be the best thing that ever happened to Ghana or the worst thing that ever happened to Ghana?
  10.The phenomenon called "Dutch Disease" is also part of the resource curse. THIS means that the exchange rate for the currency of
  resource-rich countries becomes overvalued, and this hurts the exports of other industries.
  WHAT THIS NDC GOVT IS DOING IS THIS. THEY HAVE DEVALUED THE CURRENCY, SO FOREIGNERS CAN BUY MORE OIL FOR EXPORT, RESOURCES. GH GOVT THEN STEAL THE MONIES INTO THEIR PRIVATE, FOREIGN
  BANK ACCOUNTS. REALLY? IM READY TO START KILLING SOME OF THESE MINISTERS, MPS ETC ASAP!......
  11.Ghana is NOW like Haiti!!! There was only one airport in Haiti and when the disaster strucked,aid donors HAD it so hard to send humanitarian reliefs because the only one international airport
  was destroyed. just imaginING if Ghana is not the same as Haiti??!! Building one international airport in TAMALE/Kumasi has turnED into tribal politics!!#
  12.President John Dramani Mahama has added a whopping GHc15.6 BILLION DOLLARS to Ghana’s total public debt stock since being sworn into office as caretaker and substantive president within the period from July 2012 to August 2013.
  This implies that President John Mahama has contracted a total of GHc15.6 BILLION DOLLARS of debt for Ghanaians since becoming the President of Ghana.
  WHAT DO WE HAVE TO SHOW FOR ALL THIS DEBT? LOOK AT GH? SMELLY, DUSTY...OPEN GUTTERS I MEAN WHY? HOW? WHO VOTED FOR NDC? GO N CLAIM YOUR SHARE....NDC AND NPP ARE BOTH CORRUPT, BUT YOU DONT NEED
  A PHD TO TELL THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE 2 MAIN POLITICAL PARTIES IN GH. NPP AT VERY LEAST WILL INNOVATE AND INSTITIUTE PUBLIC SECTOR REFORM, RULE OF LAW, POLICIES FOR ALL...LIKE NHIS, SCH FEEDING ETC.
  THE NDC IS JUST WORSE. THEY R SIMPLY GOOD FOR NOTHING SO WHY PPL QUEUE FOR HOURS TO VOTE FOR SUCH A PARTY BEATS ME.
  13.WHEN RICH WESTERN NATIONS ARE PAYING DOWN THEIR DEBTS/NATIONAL DEFICITS. WAT IS GH DOING, U ASK? DOING THE OPPOSITE AND BORROWING MORE MONEY. WAA LOOK?
  IF YOUR CURRENT STANDARD OF LIVING IS THIS BAD. HOW BAD WILL THE STANDARD OF LIVING FOR YOUR CHILDEREN AND GRANDCHILDREN BE? THINK ABOUT THIS PPL?.....
  IT WONT BE BETTER, BUT WORSE. IN OTHER PARTS OF THE WORLD, THE STANDARD OF LIVING IS ALWAYS IMPROVING.
  THIS IS NOT ABOUT NPP OR NDC. ghana is under the most useless leadership of all time,nurses are unpaid for six months ,children are dying of heart failures and asiedu nketia is feasting in streatham/CROYDON IN THE UK
  with ghanas money.i pity for those who voted ndc.
  A CLASSIC CASE OF FRENCH QUEEN CATHERINE'S "LET THEM EAT CAKE"...WELL, GUESS WHAT TRIGGERED THE FRENCH REVOLUTION? THIS FOOLISH STATEMENT IS WHAT TRIGGERED THE FRENCH REVOLUTION.
  GHPPL, RISE UP AND CLAIM YOUR SHARE!
  14.Mr Paul Victor Obeng, has made a strong case for the need to ensure that increasing access to the Internet does not lead to the importation of alien cultures.
  “While increasing access to the Internet would improve the socio-economic circumstances, its negative influences call for a concerted effort to counter the bad influence.
  Increasing access should not lead us to the importation of attitudes that are incompatible with our social norms,” he said.
  WAT IS PV'S PROBLEM? WESTERN NATIONS LIKE CANADA, AMERICA, BRITAIN, GERMANY ETC ALL HAVE INTERNET TECHNOLOGY READILY AVAILABLE FOR THEIR CITIZENS. HAS IT IMPACTED THEIR CULTURE NEGATIVELY?
  EVEN BEFORE INTERNET, WE WERE SELLING/THROWING AWAY OUR CULTURE. WAT HAPPENS AT INDEPENDENCE MARCHES IN GH, 6 MARCH. DO WE EVEN POUR LIBATION ANYMORE?
  WE PUT OUR KIDS IN THE BURNING SUN TO BLACKEN N FAINT. KIDS WE CANT EVEN GIVE FREE BASIC EDUCATION TO. WHILES, WE WALLOW IN THE ABJECTIVITY OF THE BIBLE N KORAN..
  GAMBIA, CONGRATULATION FOR TAKING A BOLD STEP ON YOUR DECISION TO LEAVE THE COMMONWEALTH. I SALUTE YOU! GH GOVT, DO YOU HAVE THE BALLS TO DO SO?
  SHAME ON OUR USELESS, TOOTHLESS SO CALLED LEADERS, ELDERS, MINISTERS, PRESIDENTS. SHAME ON YOU AND TO YOU ALL WHO HAVE EMBARKED ON STEALING.
  I WISH EARLY DEATH AND A LIFE RIDDLED WITH PAINFUL DISEASES ON ALL OF YOU. YOU KNOW WHO ARE....
  STUPID GOVT LEADERS. BCOS OF YOUR STUPID CORRUPT HABITS, AFRICANS ARE HAVING TO TRAVEL ILLEGALLY TO RACIST NATIONS. MANY HAVING TO DIE OR DROWN IN THE SEA. IS THIS RIGHT?
  WHY ARE YOU SOO FUCKING WICKED, HUH? WHY?....
  THIS IS BROWN BROWN BROTHERS, AND I APPROVE THIS MESSAGE!

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• Abongo 12 years ago

  Do you know you are a stupid ass hole, have you ever passed an exam when at school, I don't think so. You are an idiot. What has you comment got to do with the topic in discussion? You are fool

  Do you know you are a stupid ass hole, have you ever passed an exam when at school, I don't think so. You are an idiot. What has you comment got to do with the topic in discussion? You are fool

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• JB Ansong 12 years ago

  At least 75 Ghanaians were among the dead.
  
  How could the Ghanaian team identify GH-citizens from the others? By tribal marks? By skin colour? By facial appearance?
  
  The fact is that none of the victims had papers, so it ...
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  At least 75 Ghanaians were among the dead.
  
  How could the Ghanaian team identify GH-citizens from the others? By tribal marks? By skin colour? By facial appearance?
  
  The fact is that none of the victims had papers, so it was imposible to identiy them. That does not mean there were no Ghanaians.

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• Nicholas J Bedzo 12 years ago

  This shows the weakness of the Government to splash sand in our eyes
  dont trust Ghanains for one minute they will fail you.

  This shows the weakness of the Government to splash sand in our eyes
  dont trust Ghanains for one minute they will fail you.

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• Napoleon 12 years ago

  Ghanaians need to know that the government can not know until it receives confirmation on such deaths.It was not that the government denied but the fact was that the government was not aware of the relevant information.Now th ...
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  Ghanaians need to know that the government can not know until it receives confirmation on such deaths.It was not that the government denied but the fact was that the government was not aware of the relevant information.Now that the government is aware the Embassy in Rome needs to confirm.

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• Abongo 12 years ago

  At times I asked my self why some people are so desperate. How on earth can 500 people climb on a fishing boat built to carry 30 to 35 people and say they are embarking on such a journey across the mediterenian sea to Italy. ...
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  At times I asked my self why some people are so desperate. How on earth can 500 people climb on a fishing boat built to carry 30 to 35 people and say they are embarking on such a journey across the mediterenian sea to Italy. To me some people don't think at all

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• Kojo! 12 years ago

  Braindead hustlers.
  
  And they'll tell you they're so rich they're even feeding the whole Ghana.

  Braindead hustlers.
  
  And they'll tell you they're so rich they're even feeding the whole Ghana.

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• Eric NY 12 years ago

  May the good Lord bless their soul.
  This are people like us trying to struggle in life to make to make it.
  It really sad our politician need to help I was in Ghana last year and it really tough on some of the youth looking ...
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  May the good Lord bless their soul.
  This are people like us trying to struggle in life to make to make it.
  It really sad our politician need to help I was in Ghana last year and it really tough on some of the youth looking for jobs. Most of them are university graduates without jobs.
  My heart goes to these families.

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• Pontius Pilate 12 years ago

  it was the same after the tsunami.no Ghanaian died according to government

  it was the same after the tsunami.no Ghanaian died according to government

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• Zigi 12 years ago

  Joy News stop the jaundiced reporting. You strive too hard to put the government in a bad light. Look at what you wrote here:
  
  "The German international television network, Deutshe Welle reports death of one Ghanaian in th ...
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  Joy News stop the jaundiced reporting. You strive too hard to put the government in a bad light. Look at what you wrote here:
  
  "The German international television network, Deutshe Welle reports death of one Ghanaian in the Lampedusa tragedy, despite recent denial by Government."
  
  It is incorrect to allege a denial by the government that any Ghanaian lost his life. This is because the report by the German TV is in respect of the recent (second) disaster. There was an earlier disaster in respect of which the government said no Ghanaian lost his life. Government has not commented yet about the second disaster. And so very first paragraph is a total misrepresentation.
  
  It is not fair to cast that paragraph that way.

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• ZoRRo 12 years ago

  Whilst you are at it, why don't you tell the Government to try and fix the economy so that life will become a bit bearable for Ghanaians. That is the job for which they were elected, not to be travelling ambassadors collectin ...
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  Whilst you are at it, why don't you tell the Government to try and fix the economy so that life will become a bit bearable for Ghanaians. That is the job for which they were elected, not to be travelling ambassadors collecting toy planes !

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• Joe Turkey 12 years ago

  "My friend call me say your brother is die o", said Johnson. Martin himself could not have been better educated. Then he leaves a wife and 3 children in Ghana, little or no education and headed to Europe to work and send mone ...
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  "My friend call me say your brother is die o", said Johnson. Martin himself could not have been better educated. Then he leaves a wife and 3 children in Ghana, little or no education and headed to Europe to work and send money home. What kind of work was on his mind? Why can't our people get this into their "coconuts" - that 1. unemployment rate in most part of the EU is in double digits and increasing. 2. Discrimination is real and people of color - black color - like that of Ofori is not welcome in most parts of the EU. 3. There is no work for uneducated ones like these. 4. Home sweet home.

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• oppong london 12 years ago

  is ndc government doing enough to create jobs?so don,t blame the dead,blame fucking ndc government full of corruption and evil people like john mahama paying bribes to be president and promising huge bonuses to the black sta ...
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  is ndc government doing enough to create jobs?so don,t blame the dead,blame fucking ndc government full of corruption and evil people like john mahama paying bribes to be president and promising huge bonuses to the black stars whilst the citizens are suffering,may GOD Punish ndc members.useless party ndc of 24 years in ghana without achieving anything than bribery and corruption.

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• ZoRRo 12 years ago

  The NPP has no better record either that is our dilema. Look at the actions of Kuffuor, Jake Obetsebi Lamptey, Richard Anane, Sammy Awuku etc etc. A bunch of idiots and thieves. There is no hope in the current system.

  The NPP has no better record either that is our dilema. Look at the actions of Kuffuor, Jake Obetsebi Lamptey, Richard Anane, Sammy Awuku etc etc. A bunch of idiots and thieves. There is no hope in the current system.

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• KWAME, BELGIUM 12 years ago

  Please, what has the NDC to do with this sort of accident? Ghanaians are hustlers and they are everywhere in the world because they just want to get out of Ghana. Bear in mind that there is no government is this worl that can ...
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  Please, what has the NDC to do with this sort of accident? Ghanaians are hustlers and they are everywhere in the world because they just want to get out of Ghana. Bear in mind that there is no government is this worl that can solve the problem of jobs. Please, tell us something better than this your cheap talk.

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• Wenchi Moke 12 years ago

  Lampedusa geographically,was part of Libya which was annexed by ltaly.

  Lampedusa geographically,was part of Libya which was annexed by ltaly.

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• big Mouth 12 years ago

  so they still died in africa!!!!!!

  so they still died in africa!!!!!!

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• AGYAPONG ANDREWS (GERMANY) 12 years ago

  my brother may your soul rest in peace

  my brother may your soul rest in peace

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• Kojo! 12 years ago

  on those boats.
  
  No ghanaian would be that brainless to take such a perilous and senseless journey. So called rich people in Ghana.
  After they arrive in Europe, they'll sell their asses, their wives, sisters and even mothe ...
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  on those boats.
  
  No ghanaian would be that brainless to take such a perilous and senseless journey. So called rich people in Ghana.
  After they arrive in Europe, they'll sell their asses, their wives, sisters and even mothers to get rich quick and turn and call other tribes lazy people.

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