Poor Sanitation threatens Ghana’s Development

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• Agyeman. 12 years ago

  Ghana is just one huge garbage dump with occassional spots of clean areas.When you see obroni coming they're just there to take pics of our filthy culture to post on flickr.com just to show the world how backward we are.

  Ghana is just one huge garbage dump with occassional spots of clean areas.When you see obroni coming they're just there to take pics of our filthy culture to post on flickr.com just to show the world how backward we are.

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• Don Blunt 12 years ago

  YEAH!!!!
  It is the inability of our incompetent leaders to create a clean environment and provide adequate sanitation in our towns and cities being talked about.
  
  But some of them live happily in plush mansions surrounded ...
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  YEAH!!!!
  It is the inability of our incompetent leaders to create a clean environment and provide adequate sanitation in our towns and cities being talked about.
  
  But some of them live happily in plush mansions surrounded by filthy, stinking gutters

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• Nicholas J Bedzo 12 years ago

  This is a big shame having big Manslon
  around,its selfish.The Mayor is talking from his nose,nothing he can do than political Languages. I will do
  this and that,but empty talk,the main
  factor surounding the issue is NO MON ...
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  This is a big shame having big Manslon
  around,its selfish.The Mayor is talking from his nose,nothing he can do than political Languages. I will do
  this and that,but empty talk,the main
  factor surounding the issue is NO MONEY is he going to make magic?

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• GHFUO, be serious & change ur thinkin 12 years ago

  ACCRA TO BE EXACT IS A VERY STINKY, DIRTY, DUSTY,DARK, UNPLANNED CITY.

  ACCRA TO BE EXACT IS A VERY STINKY, DIRTY, DUSTY,DARK, UNPLANNED CITY.

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• Ken Boemah 12 years ago

  Kudos. That is the way to go.

  Kudos. That is the way to go.

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• BAAKO 12 years ago

  Tamale has always been the cleanest place in the Ghana. what needs to be done to solve the sanitation problem is to introduce sanitation as a subject in all levels of education in Ghana. that way, children can learn sanitatio ...
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  Tamale has always been the cleanest place in the Ghana. what needs to be done to solve the sanitation problem is to introduce sanitation as a subject in all levels of education in Ghana. that way, children can learn sanitation at school and implement it at home.

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• princewilly@ymail.com 12 years ago

  The dockyard men's room was always filthy because the workers never peed accurately to the drain. Every day the man who was in charge of sanitation at the dockyard would have to call in the cleaners to wipe off the mess insid ...
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  The dockyard men's room was always filthy because the workers never peed accurately to the drain. Every day the man who was in charge of sanitation at the dockyard would have to call in the cleaners to wipe off the mess inside the men's room.
  After few months of bringing the toilet cleaners in, the budget was exceeding, bills piling up and the sanitation guy had to think of an alternative way to solve this daily problem in the men's room. So what he did was he called in a famous economist and explained to him the problem in the men's room.
  The economist went away with this and after a couple of weeks came up with a possible solution to end this problem. He told the sanitation guy to paste little flies randomly into the drain and guaranteed this would work. The sanitation guy was surprised at his solution and he started to argue with the economist.
  The next day, the sanitation guy came into the men's room only to find a clean healthy environment inside and that no one had peed outside the drain because everyone had been aiming at the flies in the drain!

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• MENSAH 12 years ago

  Abdul-Rahman is talking about total development in Ghana,BUT NOT BURNING OF MARKETS.
  I will also add this:
  BUT NOT LOOTING TO MILK GHANA DRY,IN WHICH HIS NDC's,ARE SPECIALISTS.
  Tell MAHAMA & YOU "GUINEA FOWL POLITICIANS"TO ...
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  Abdul-Rahman is talking about total development in Ghana,BUT NOT BURNING OF MARKETS.
  I will also add this:
  BUT NOT LOOTING TO MILK GHANA DRY,IN WHICH HIS NDC's,ARE SPECIALISTS.
  Tell MAHAMA & YOU "GUINEA FOWL POLITICIANS"TO STOP RECKLESS BORROWING AND HILARIOUS SPENDING,NOT KNOWING, WHAT MATTER THE MOST,TO GHANAIANS.
  Your total,ignorance in recognizing difference in the environment(circumstances/plans of our neighbouring countries) around us,time to act,moments,people,has caused us a lot,as a nation.
  Mahama should know,respect,celebrate,harness the common idea that,one's ability to discern the divine distinctive difference in everything around him/her decides one's success.
  YOU CAN'T WIN BY ALWAYS SELLING RAW MATERIALS,WHILST YOUR CITIZENRY NEEDS JOBS TO DO.CHANGE IT,FOR IT NEVER WORKS THAT WAY.
  Just imagine,GOLD HAS BEEN AN ECONOMIC POWER/BACKBONE FOR GHANA,for a long time,but its price has currently fallen ,therefore affecting our economy.
  If GHANA had been led by wiser,progressive,innovative thinkers/ leaders,we might have been reaping BILLIONS OF DOLLARS,now.
  HOW?
  Just by processing the VALUABLE METAL AND STORING IT,to wait for better price.THIS IS SIMPLE ECONOMIC PRINCIPLE.
  But it's now that we are training SKILLED LABOUR FORCE FOR THIS TRICK,after thousands of years GOD CREATED GHANA FOR US.
  Aren't our so-called leaders short-sighted fools?
  Abdul-Rahman,please,it's about time ,you guys started to use your brains, to do something worthwhile for Ghana,because you've been left with so huge fortune,to have done far more than what you have so far done.
  STOP THE BRIBERY & CORRUPTION,VAIN PROMISES AND DOING NOTHING.
  GO TO WORK.

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• Me Too 12 years ago

  That man should not reason through his backside. Why "not burning markets"?. Propaganda don't develope a nation.

  That man should not reason through his backside. Why "not burning markets"?. Propaganda don't develope a nation.

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• Roboo 12 years ago

  Where are the "TECHNICAL HEALTH OFFICERS"
  I know of only three SCHOOLS OF HYGIENE (town counsel -TANKAS) in Ghana who are trained for this sanitation issues. Why are we not employing them and provide them with the necessary ...
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  Where are the "TECHNICAL HEALTH OFFICERS"
  I know of only three SCHOOLS OF HYGIENE (town counsel -TANKAS) in Ghana who are trained for this sanitation issues. Why are we not employing them and provide them with the necessary facilities to solve this issues ? The products are trained but not employed. WHY... ???

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• Kwame 12 years ago

  When the issue of sanitation comes to the fore I remember my late comrade visiting Pyonyang with a deputy minister in the early 1980s. The deputy minister decided to smoke on the pavement and he was warned that he should not ...
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  When the issue of sanitation comes to the fore I remember my late comrade visiting Pyonyang with a deputy minister in the early 1980s. The deputy minister decided to smoke on the pavement and he was warned that he should not do it because hie will have to clean his trail.
  That also remind me of the appearance of Solidarity on the political scene in Poland in the early 1980s. After traveling through all of Eastern Europe without seeing a single litter, one enters Poland and is hit on the fact by litter right on the rail tract. It was like saying that welcome to capitalism and rubbish. One finds himself in the poor districts of cities in Britain and again you are hit on the face by rubbish all around.
  To the capitalist anything that is rubbish is money and people must see and smell it.
  Accra and other towns in Ghana use to have sanity cleaners as well as sanity inspectors, which do their work and the citizen is charged indirectly, meaning their services were free and perfect. In the mid 1980s our government decided to follow the step of the capitalist countries by worshiping rubbish as was done anywhere in the capitalist world.
  Sanitary inspectors were send home and the President Flt. Lt. John Jerry Rawlings decided to descend into the gutters to clean them. That was the moment sanitation got out of its hand.
  Now we have a private sanitary company called ZOOMLION which want everybody to praise it for the work that it is not doing properly. ZOOMLION could not clean the gutter and police the cities and towns against flirt.
  Our people whiles going to church say cleanliness is next to Godliness, but you see their homes and church surrounded by rubbish and stench.
  Thus it is not every cash and carry is gold, though a ruse that shines.
  Sanitary that is not policed runs out of control as a bush dog on the savanna.

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• Hazor 12 years ago

  Somebody should kindly tell President Mahama to read this sensible article and to take a lesson out of it.

  Somebody should kindly tell President Mahama to read this sensible article and to take a lesson out of it.

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• Ceeboy Dangerman 12 years ago

  Is not sanitation but complain, complain wich is too much

  Is not sanitation but complain, complain wich is too much

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• Mufaru 12 years ago

  It appears many people have accepted filth as a way of life in Ghana.Talk to even some of the highly educated including university professors and you will hear such comments as "you cannot compare Ghana with "Aburokyiri".The ...
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  It appears many people have accepted filth as a way of life in Ghana.Talk to even some of the highly educated including university professors and you will hear such comments as "you cannot compare Ghana with "Aburokyiri".The sooner the decision makers realise we are sitting on a time bomb, the better, because when the filth unleashes the ultimate results (deadly and uncontrollable infectious diseases), we shall all pay the price.

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• HABLUTA SENYO 12 years ago

  21ST CENTURY BUILDING GHETO
  GHANA HAVE A SERIOUS PROBLEM

  21ST CENTURY BUILDING GHETO
  GHANA HAVE A SERIOUS PROBLEM

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• Obibini 12 years ago

  If you are able to turn Tamale around when it comes to sanitation Ghana will be given to you to handle the rest of the country. This is an excellent goal therefore go for it.

  If you are able to turn Tamale around when it comes to sanitation Ghana will be given to you to handle the rest of the country. This is an excellent goal therefore go for it.

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