Accra Sanitation and water project kicks-off

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YIKRA 9 years ago

So it has kicked off. Good. When will it end. Hope it never ends.

So it has kicked off. Good. When will it end. Hope it never ends.
Mahmoud 9 years ago

What tribalist trash! How old were you in 1969? Busia’s government in terms of structured and sustainable national development is still one of the best in the annals of Ghana’s troubled history. Of course people like you ...
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What tribalist trash! How old were you in 1969? Busia’s government in terms of structured and sustainable national development is still one of the best in the annals of Ghana’s troubled history. Of course people like you will never see any good thing in anything any Akan does in Ghana.

1. Busia’s Rural Development agenda has never been equaled and it will take someone with courage and foresight to come anywhere close to it. It was Busia’s government that extended pipe-borne water to most villages in Ghana, including some really wretched ones in the Volta Region. That is what led to the elimination of guinea worm (which was causing annual havoc in most parts of the country), in Ghana.

2. His government also wiped out cholera, which is now causing havoc in our national capital.

3. The construction of polyclinics, district hospitals and health posts was meant to free Korle Bu and Okomfo Anokye Hospitals for research, teaching and the treatment of more serious cases.

4. Mass-scale feeder road construction began with Busia, and I witnessed it at Akatsi, Sogakope, Hohoe, Ho Dome, Ho Banque, and many other places, even in the Volta Region.

5. Busia’s cottage industry programme would have created employment avenues in most rural districts in Ghana, to curtail the now unbearable and uncontrollable urbanisation with names like Sodom and Gomorah, Agege, etc, with the resultant “ghetoisation” in almost every town in Ghana.

6. Ever heard of Odorkor/Dansoman Housing Estate development, with replicas in all the regional capitals, Adeweso at Koforidua, Low Cost at Winneba, etc? It was Busia’s idea.

7. How about the major sewerage and drainage system in Accra, which would have connected all homes to a central sewerage system? The remnants of the abandoned trenches are still around.

8. Your reference to education is really dishonest and illiterate. Up until 1969, about 60% of the lecturers in the three original universities of Ghana were foreigners. Their emoluments were paid in dollars. Their families were entitled to at least one paid holiday a year. It was Busia who began the “Ghanainisation” of university lecturers. Everyone who graduated with a first class or second class upper was sent away through Ghana government, Commonwealth or specially arranged American scholarships, to pursue MScs and PhDs and return to Ghana, to lecture. Had the idiot Acheampong not derailed that policy, Ghana’s universities would have been among the leading universities of the world. Many of those who were trained under that scheme are now professors in major universities of the world. Quite a number of those who returned to Ghana have been vice chancellors and some are deans!

9. In 1970, all three universities together had an intake of less than 13,000 students, but the state was still struggling to give everyone free education. Can you imagine what the situation would be today, with 30 or 40,000, when 50% of the state’s treasury is looted and shared among a handful of families? Busia’s loan scheme opened the doors to people like you who were not so bright, but still could go to university, on a loan and pay later, which is what pertains everywhere in the world. What is wrong with that?

10. The JSS system that was botched by your murderer tribesman was meant to transform Ghana’s education policy and make it relevant to national development with vocational s and technical schools and more polytechnics. It began with pilot schools at Kinbu in Accra and others in Kumasi, Takoradi, Cape Coast, and other regional capitals. Their products were to be monitored over a seven year period as teachers were gradually upgraded or specialised, to take over the primary and middle schools. Can you think of any country in Africa that has such a system?

11. Did you ever hear of “two rabbits=equal to one cow in one year?” It was a programme of rabbit rearing, which took off in many parts of Ghana like a storm. It was meant to supplement our low protein intake as a nation. If your low life compatriot Newlove Mammatah had not mismanaged the programme as your lot usually does, it would be changing lives in Ghana today. It was under that programme that poultry farming ballooned in the Central and Ashanti Regions only to be destroyed by your armed tribesman.

12. The Aliens’ Compliance Order enabled many Ghanaians to go into trading in every corner of Ghana. See how the Chinese now control everything in Ghana, including the trade in “buronyi weewu.” The Nigerians are back with a vengeance, buying everything in sight, with cash! And so are the Lebanese. Under the programme, long-standing foreign resident were supposed to regularize their stay. Like the Asians in Uganda, because they used their status to smuggle diamonds and hard currencies out of Ghana, they did not bother. Do you really fault a leader of a bankrupt nation for trying to safeguard local commerce, in order to better the lot of his people?

13. Appollo 568? Hahaaa Have you heard about the rot in the NSS today? It is the same with the civil service. That was what Busia was trying to curb. After Kotoka and Harley filled the civil and public services with every middle school drop-out from the Volta Region, they were as over-bloated as the clueless Mahama has done today. Anybody who takes over in 2017 will have to trim down the public purse, if our overlords the IMF do not do it now.

Come on buddy, if you really hold a PhD in something worthwhile, there are records in the archives that you can research and educate yourself about Ghana, instead of just swallowing the socialist nonsense hook, line and sinker
Good day!
Pelicles 9 years ago

One thing that I love that leader was his "rural development agenda" which the foolish military prevented him to implement. That policy would have stopped the influx of rural folks into the urban centers. Accra is chocked d ...
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One thing that I love that leader was his "rural development agenda" which the foolish military prevented him to implement. That policy would have stopped the influx of rural folks into the urban centers. Accra is chocked due to rural migration and our leaders are clueless about how to deal with that. I have been saying that till we start developing the rural areas, the urban areas will keep on chocking and all measure being adopted are just temporary. We do not need a rocket scientist to tell us this.

I hate the military because they are the main impediment to our development. If Busia was allowed to finish even just his first term, Ghana would have been at this level. When he initiated the Accra sewage project, he was vilified and some were saying that he was trying to re-direct the sea to Kumasi. Can you just imagine this?
Das 9 years ago

Is just another Ashante tribalist moron

Is just another Ashante tribalist moron
MINOR CASE 9 years ago

Hey you baby in diapers. It was your tribesmen's short sightedness and stomach- directed reasoning that cut short the massive Israel/Ghana Acccra Sanitation Project initiated by Dr. Busia.Your tribesmen ridiculed Busia tellin ...
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Hey you baby in diapers. It was your tribesmen's short sightedness and stomach- directed reasoning that cut short the massive Israel/Ghana Acccra Sanitation Project initiated by Dr. Busia.Your tribesmen ridiculed Busia telling him " we eat before we shit" and to this day you eat your balls of kenkey have no place to shit other than to pollute the beaches with your stinking kenkey shit. Let us hope this time around you forget about your stomach for once and allow the gov't to reason for you.
MINOR CASE 9 years ago

God bless you Mahmoud. Tell them suckling socialist simpletons who have cotton wool for brains what the learned professor would have done for Ghana. The coastal people especially the Gas saw Dr. Busia's rural development agen ...
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God bless you Mahmoud. Tell them suckling socialist simpletons who have cotton wool for brains what the learned professor would have done for Ghana. The coastal people especially the Gas saw Dr. Busia's rural development agenda as threat to the hand outs they get from the gov't ,these people were the most vociferous critics of Dr. Busia. As you rightly said, the big cities would not have been congested as they are now.Now with the invasion of the "kooko ase nkurasefuo " the Gas are bleating likes sheep that their language and culture have been taken over. Now instead of their stomach they are fighting for the survival of their language
O'BOYE 9 years ago

If what you are saying is 1/2 baked, why is it that ex-Prez Kufour did not continued from where Busia left.

If what you are saying is 1/2 baked, why is it that ex-Prez Kufour did not continued from where Busia left.
Kate 9 years ago

Yawwwwwnnnnn

Yawwwwwnnnnn
sista clary 9 years ago

I hope this is not just another noise making to stir up hopes and sooth anger. Let actions speak now with louder results!... We are watching you.

I hope this is not just another noise making to stir up hopes and sooth anger. Let actions speak now with louder results!... We are watching you.
Pumpuni 9 years ago

Another Senchi Report? Eiii Ghana.

Another Senchi Report? Eiii Ghana.

JATO KWASHIVI RAWLINGS 9 years ago

SENCHI HAS BECOME A GOLD MINE FOR NDC CHOP CHOP.

SENCHI HAS BECOME A GOLD MINE FOR NDC CHOP CHOP.
United Ghana 9 years ago

You can say that again. Did this meeting have to take place in Senchi, considering that the matter relates to Accra only? what extra costs were incurred as a result of that decision to hold event in Senchi?

You can say that again. Did this meeting have to take place in Senchi, considering that the matter relates to Accra only? what extra costs were incurred as a result of that decision to hold event in Senchi?
Nana Thertuh 9 years ago

Master you can complete drilling 10 bore holes today . Just start it .

Master you can complete drilling 10 bore holes today . Just start it .
Ali Manama 9 years ago

Why wait for over the death of over 200 people before doing the right thing whic we pay taxes for. Visionless Government. Yabre mo.

Why wait for over the death of over 200 people before doing the right thing whic we pay taxes for. Visionless Government. Yabre mo.
Nii Akwei 9 years ago

According to Bukom Banku " Too much talk can not make a deaf man hear you"

According to Bukom Banku " Too much talk can not make a deaf man hear you"
Nii Joromi 9 years ago

That is all they know. Workshops, conferences and cheap talk. How many of these stupid meetings have produced anything productive?

That is all they know. Workshops, conferences and cheap talk. How many of these stupid meetings have produced anything productive?
Agbeli Kumordzi 9 years ago

Ghana government need to educate Accra residents about cleaning their Surroundings

Ghana government need to educate Accra residents about cleaning their Surroundings
Son of Jakpa 9 years ago

Bring back sanitation inspectors and forget about AMA and the foolish Mayor

Bring back sanitation inspectors and forget about AMA and the foolish Mayor
Kotoua Selira 9 years ago

what about the pipes are not running in people's homes? People pay water bills but no water comes from the pipes?

what about the pipes are not running in people's homes? People pay water bills but no water comes from the pipes?
Marcus Chris Lawson 9 years ago

" Stakeholders HAS held ..." The rather very poor grammar being put out on this platform is just becoming too ridiculous and disturbing. Why can't news items be better edited by real and educated journalists as news editors. ...
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" Stakeholders HAS held ..." The rather very poor grammar being put out on this platform is just becoming too ridiculous and disturbing. Why can't news items be better edited by real and educated journalists as news editors. Please stop this disgraceful conduct Now

bobby, Accra 9 years ago

Our MCEs are disgracing Mahama pans.

Our MCEs are disgracing Mahama pans.
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COEFFICIENT NYANTEKYI 9 years ago

QUOTE

"Mr Emmanuel Agyapong, Deputy Minister, MLGRD urged stakeholders to inculcate creativity in solving sanitation problems in the area.

“I challenge all of you to help, inspire and generate improvement ideas in dea ...
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QUOTE

"Mr Emmanuel Agyapong, Deputy Minister, MLGRD urged stakeholders to inculcate creativity in solving sanitation problems in the area.

“I challenge all of you to help, inspire and generate improvement ideas in dealing with sanitation and water problems,” he said.

UNQUOTE.

MY TAKE:

IF IN THIS DAY AND AGE, GHANA'S LEADERS DO NOT KNOW THAT THE BEST STRATEGY TO ADOPT IN MAINTAINING GOOD SANITATION IN GHANA ARE:

1. TO PUT IN PLACE FUNCTIONAL WASTE RECYCLING AND DISPOSAL PLANTS IN STRATEGIC AREAS/LOCATIONS ACROSS GHANA.

2. TO HAVE FUNCTIONAL MODERN UNDERGROUND DRAINAGE SYSTEMS AS OPPOSED TO THE DYSFUNCTIONAL MOSQUITO-BREEDING OPEN GUTTER DRAINAGE SYSTEM.

3. TO HAVE REFUSE COMPACTORS/CRUSHERS TO REDUCE THE VOLUME OF REFUSE AND DUMPING THE GARBAGE UNDER EASILY BIODEGRADABLE CONDITIONS

THEN I DO NOT KNOW WHAT ESLE GHANAIAN LEADERS KNOW IN THIS WORLD, PARTICULARLY ALFRED VANDERPUIJE, THE ACCRA MAYOR WHO HOLDS TENS OF FRIVOLOUS AWARDS.
environmental ambassador. 9 years ago

many thanks go to the world bank for awarding us a project of this nature. we need to really invest the resources in the implementation of the project devoid of filling our pockets first.

many thanks go to the world bank for awarding us a project of this nature. we need to really invest the resources in the implementation of the project devoid of filling our pockets first.

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