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Ace Ankomah calls on government to take action as pupils wade through water to school

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  • Just-ice 6 years ago

    In this day and age? Something has to be done

  • Nana Malik 6 years ago

    U see our country's leadership is disconnected from the people and this where the whole problem is.Do this people have a member of Parliament at all?If yes, how come he or she hasn't brought this problem to the fore for atten ...
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  • Bawumia 6 years ago

    This does not look real to me. Very neat uniforms. For how long have these pupils been wading through this river to school? Or they have just acquired new uniforms? May God help our leaders to fix these problems instead of bu ...
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  • OYOKOBA 6 years ago

    The resilience of the people is even more astonishing, that they would cross this dangerous and treacherous river with smiles on their faces, just to go get education.

    Our people do not know how to riot else they would ha ...
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  • BIG BOSS 6 years ago

    All what these Volta NDC like Kofi Adams and Ablawkwah know is to steal and loot. That wasn't too much transparent to Ablawkwah and his notorious NDC.

    Notrious NDC has been in power for more than thirty five years. What di ...
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  • Sankofa 6 years ago

    Who is in power now?

    Is it not the responsibility of the government of the day to address problems in the country?

  • BIG BOSS 6 years ago

    You must accept that notorious NDC is do nothing party. All what NDC does is to steal and loot. For more than thirty five years in power, if you have such problems in your region, then what have you been doing. And this same ...
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  • APPIAH KUBI DESMOND 6 years ago

    Akufo Addo is nowhere to be found. Wicked man as President. Come to Dunkwa, Twifo Prasso, Agona Nyankrom and Atebubu. They are under water for the past ten days. No support from government

  • NDC IS SATANIC 6 years ago

    You are a fool for you to expect Akufo Addo to correct your mess of 8 stupid years,nkwaseafuo,you think Akufo Addo is accountable to you idiots,lowlife,nonentities in the ndc? If we talking of wicked, callous and useless ...
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  • K K KONADU London UNITED KINGDOM 6 years ago

    No comment. Well spoken. Thanks.

  • BJ 6 years ago

    Please allow sensible people to talk Appiah Kubi Desmond.

  • D -Volk J K 6 years ago

    Do you reason if for 8 yrs ,Mahama couldn't do it , how do you expect somebody to do it in 7 months. Imantipate yourself from mental slavery

  • K K KONADU London UNITED KINGDOM 6 years ago

    You voted for NDC therefore go there for help. The lnsult you are raining on Akofo Addo will not bring food on your table. Where is your stealing King John Daft Mahama , that is the best place to go.

  • JKT LONDON. 6 years ago

    Appiah kubi Desmond you are Pig, Dog Bull and a Vulture.

  • Momone 6 years ago

    Appiah Kubi, it looks like are an idiot from the way people are describing you. If you are under water, you want the president to come to live with you under water?

  • Mike 6 years ago

    Do their parents vote in elections ,and which party do they vote forv

  • Agbeli Kumordizi. 6 years ago

    All sounds stupid
    Which party their parents voted for
    What about thousands of akans stranded out that the government of Ghana have to bring them back to Ghana
    This kind of mentality made Chinese walking into Ghana takes ...
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  • soon 6 years ago

    who made these thousands of akans stranded? useless mahama did that and he allowed these chinese in too. we will let them out. ndc a visionless party.

  • K. A. Mensah 6 years ago

    Do something about only this "one". Very typical of Ghanaians. There are hundreds if not thousands of equally pressing and depressing situations around the country. Just because this "one" has been reported does not make it t ...
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  • Sankofa 6 years ago

    Govt must provide for all such communities in trouble. They are also Ghanaians.

  • hat 6 years ago

    What are the local authorities doing in the first place?

  • NKF 6 years ago

    This is just the beginning of the challenges to be faced by government. In spite of anticipated free SHS there's looming problems ininfrascture at basic schools across the country, Ghana has a long way to go....

  • Kanawu 6 years ago

    They keep voting for NDC

  • Kofi 6 years ago

    Lack of empathy and greed has lead to us not to be even concerned about the next generation who will help pay our pension. In small communities if the kids exceed 20 a school should be created with combined classes and each ...
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  • NDC IS SATANIC 6 years ago

    I believe they come from a constituency right? And that constituency has an mp right? So what is the use of the mp,if he couldn't lobby for his constituents to get a bridge when his party was in power then what business ...
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  • Abongo Boy 6 years ago

    Educated elites without pure organic wisdom

  • Kwabena Nkurmah 6 years ago

    Appose kubi Desmond, you are such a stupid idiot one. I don't know how old you are and whether your parents are alive, they should talk to you how to address an Elder person in our society Ghana.
    Your party NDC has ruled Gha ...
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  • BJ 6 years ago

    IT LOOKS LIKE THE ENTIRE AREA IS FLOODED AND THE ARE TRYING TO WALK ALONG THE SUBMERGED PATHWAY. SO ITS NOT LIKE THEY ARE CROSSING A STREAM FROM ONE BANK TO THE OTHER. THIS ONE THEY COULD BE WALKING IN THE WATER FOR MILES ONL ...
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  • Abongo Boy 6 years ago

    Basic education is very important. And the environment where children study is even more important. There is no point providing free higher education for both rich and poor while poor children study in deadly dangerous buildi ...
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  • boka 6 years ago

    shame on you politicians

  • KANAWU KASABA 6 years ago

    THE BLACKMAN IS JUST INCAPABLE OF MANAGING ANYTHING FOR HIS OWN GOOD.

    GIVE IT UP.


    THIS SHOULD NOT HAPPEN IN THIS AGE WHEN OTHER ARE SENDING SPACE SHIPS MILLIONS OF MILES TO OTHER PLANETARY OBJECTS

  • yaw 6 years ago

    This is the way they try to stop free JHS

  • D -Volk J K 6 years ago

    I seconded govtv comment, do their parents vote. Last year is it the same. The former DCE for Ho not aware of this problem before 2016.

  • Adika 6 years ago

    Building of bridges on many of our rivers like U.K and did on river Thames or in France is what we need in Ghana.

  • ghanaba 6 years ago

    Where is fifi akweete ? Where is kwakye ofosu? Where is o.ablakwa babies with sharp teeth

  • Zillipippi 6 years ago

    Mr Ankomah you can call on the Military Engineers in Accra or Takoradi and they can erect temporary bridge for their use. Very sad situation. I hope the District Assembly is watching!

  • apuuuu 6 years ago

    Common sense will tell you to used canoe everything government what is wrong with the Chiefs in the area or the town by time they need to take care of their responsibility of their people for government to come in and help t ...
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  • Mawutor Adetor, Azumah 6 years ago

    Common sense will tell you too that is not every community that's a fishing community for them to use canoe to cross that river.
    I don't know why some you Ghanaians talk as if they gave birth to you through the mouth.
    Is ...
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  • Kwaku Nyame 6 years ago

    Ace Ankomah, however you slice it, Ghana is sub-Third World nation. Unfocused, ill planned & corrupt to the marrow.

  • Kwame Joe 6 years ago

    Wading through water on the way to school, with mobile phone & no bags of books. Was this staged?

  • James Naru 6 years ago

    Even if the river crossing was staged, it does not matter.
    The important message is that this is what the people have been doing on daily basis.
    Our elected parliamentarians have ignored their plight and this is the only wa ...
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  • naa sei 6 years ago

    Because you asante people nkurasefour have not seen anything good before, you believe this nonsense created by Asante NPP fulls. where in Ghana is this happening and for how long. who on this earth will cross a river on it le ...
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  • Sankofa 6 years ago

    This is absolutely disgraceful!!

    NADMO must do something about this now!!

    Provide the kids and residents of this water-logged community with a canoe or boat to ferry them to school and back.

    Is this all we have got t ...
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  • Uncle Pee 6 years ago

    Kwaku Anyidaho and Asiedu Nketia must tell us what happened to Mahama's "unprecedented infrastructure" development, which left this poor community behind. NDC deception is being reviled each day.

  • kofi Apetor 6 years ago

    This is a shame ghana of today , kuffour JJ Rawlings , Mahama why?

  • Zebila donkey Rider 6 years ago

    This is mother nature at work.In Canada , US and Europe some children dig through feets of snow and sometimes wade through same floods to school. Ghanaians like complaining too much,even about nature.

  • No Mercy 6 years ago

    A lot to do.So many Schools Pupils are under Trees learning at this age

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  • Pk 6 years ago

    This needs urgent action. We don't need a disaster to kickstart such action. The district assembly must act now. In the short-term a 'school' boat; in the long-term a school within their community or a bridge, please. The sig ...
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  • Joe Tsatsu 6 years ago

    Government, government, government....everything is government.
    Individuals like Ace Ankoma and thieves like JJ Rawlings, Kofi Adams, Okudzeto Ablakwa, Dzifa Ativor, Koku Anyidaho, Tsatsu Tsikata, Nyaho Tamakloe, Woyome etc ...
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  • Sam Koffie 6 years ago

    Tsatsu, you've said it all and you can say that again. All these individuals have the spirit of, ME, MYSELF and I. They are fixing themselves by bringing people down but they've forgotten that AFTER ALL, DEATH will catch up w ...
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  • Kwasi Ajin 6 years ago

    A time is coming where Ghanaians will stop voting for these certified criminals, I mean NPP / NDC parties, they are soo wicked and greedy to the point that,they don't even care for school children, Ken Agyapong is right, Ken ...
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  • Kwame 6 years ago

    It looks like washing yourself with your cloths on. The person who made this video has never forged a river in his life before.
    He is making these children forge a river like lunatics. Let us not feed our youth with lunacy. ...
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  • Mawutor Adetor, Azumah 6 years ago

    These are the main reasons, I will support the Homeland study group foundation (HSGF ) of Western togoland to seperate from Ghana.
    For how long will people be suffering like this in this country call Ghana we claim we have ...
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  • Torgbui Zakli 6 years ago

    Western Togoland need to be separate from Ghana to develop their country, every youth in Ghana can also work there so FREE WESTERN TOGOLAND FOR BETTER DEVELOPMENT,

  • Prince 6 years ago

    Why should we still live in this condition despite all the taxes we pay for infrastructure development. I support HLSGF for independence of Western Togoland...

  • Dave 6 years ago

    It's heart aching for us to be witnessing this in 60yr old Ghana. If Nkrumah were alive, I don't think this would be happening or better still I would quote from him
    "independence of Ghana is meaningless".
    Why am I saying ...
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  • Western Togoland 6 years ago

    I support HLSG TO DIVORCE VOLTA REGION CALL WESTERN TOGOLAND FROM GHANA WICKED PEOPLE.
    61 good year this people will be suffering volta region you are right. fight for your right and get your independence. and separat f ...
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  • Bidahor Alornyo 6 years ago

    We're all aware that the Voltaeians or Western Togolanders do not need the help of the government of Ghana. They need only one thing, and that is, TOTAL INDEPENDENCE FROM GHANA. They can take care if themselves by rulling the ...
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  • SOLOMON BANZY 6 years ago

    Ghana can treat us anyhow they like cos what they have done by abandoning us for 61yrs can't be compared to what they cab do to us for withing these short period as we get closer to attaining our independence... It won't be l ...
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  • Francis Triumph Gbedemah 6 years ago

    this is the way Ghana is treating the Voltarians
    they say we are not Ghanaian therefore we should be killed. How long shall we suffer the imperialism under Ghana?
    I AM FOR FREEDOM. WTL

  • Francis Triumph Gbedemah 6 years ago

    This is how Ghana treats Voltarians
    they say we are not Ghanaians and should be killed for that matter.
    FREEDOM WESTERN TOGOLAND

  • Good man 6 years ago

    Have you watched the Chinese landslide that ran on the main street of the city? Flooding can take any form depending on the force and the quantity of water available.

  • Brown,Osu 6 years ago

    Why the President? Can't the Regional Minister or the Assembly handle this issue and leave bigger issues to the President to handle.

  • JOHN KOBLA AMEDIKPON 6 years ago

    GHANA GOVERMENT OWN A LOT TO VOLTA REGION COMPARE TO OTHER REGIONS IN GHANA LET'S US DO SOMETHING BEFORE WESTERN TOGO LAND MOUVEMENT BECOME UNSTOPABLE FREEDOM TSUNAMI.VOLTERIANS PAYS TAX LIKE EVERY GHANIANS .

  • Western Togoland 6 years ago

    Volta region is calling for Divorce in Ghana

  • CRONY 6 years ago

    After 61 years of being in this unestablished union this is outside of the story looked like!! When they call for end of union you start chasing people!!!
    We must end this relationship with Ghana now!!!!

  • CRONY 6 years ago

    Western Togoland independence now!!!!

  • SIR DOSTY 6 years ago

    And when we complain, they said we're being tribalism.... the country I think is too big for our leaders to manage so why don't you give the way for their independence..... I blame the government not, because freedom they sai ...
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