Dutch gov't supports suame magazine model car

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Cynthia 12 years ago

You'll be better served without bereaucratic interferance. Amen.

You'll be better served without bereaucratic interferance. Amen.
OSBON 12 years ago

All this is lies, lies. Can any body tell me where the common fan belt or the wiper blade and motor came from.
How can any country build a vehicle without sub industrial base to make manufacture things like Bearings, Hub car ...
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All this is lies, lies. Can any body tell me where the common fan belt or the wiper blade and motor came from.
How can any country build a vehicle without sub industrial base to make manufacture things like Bearings, Hub carriers, Radiators, Hose, Pipes, Meters and Gauges, Dash boards seat covers, seat belts, door hinges and locks, Bonnet lock and cable, Brake callipers and disc, Wiring looms, Headlamps and tail lamps, Springs and Absorbers, Steering Racks' or Box. common Engine Seat, Wind Screen and Door Glass,
What about, Axles, Gear Box, Engines, within the Engines alone Fuel jet, inlet and exhaust manifold, Cylinder head, Piston and Rings, Crankshafts and pullers, fly wheels and prop shaft or universal Joints wishbone and mounts Tyres and Rims.
We are such fools people always throw dust into our eye.
We need to start with simple manufacturing items to replace the importation of spare parts and from there hopeful we will grow to manufacture a bicycle, then Motor Bike, and later a vehicle
ELINAM 12 years ago

You're just right my brother. The profound understanding of the little things first of all have to be incorporated in the technical school culture, and onto the little shops who can manufacture some of these things with ...
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You're just right my brother. The profound understanding of the little things first of all have to be incorporated in the technical school culture, and onto the little shops who can manufacture some of these things with technical standard and precision.
Kwamina Brew 12 years ago

packaging is very important. It is what creates the first impression. The design of the car is simply awful.

packaging is very important. It is what creates the first impression. The design of the car is simply awful.
Tekonline.org 12 years ago

Excellent!

Excellent!
NON-ALIGNED 12 years ago

You are such a hypocrite sir, em.... please don't take it offensively. It is because I had no other choice of word to describe you......sorry. (I mean it).

You seem to have forgotten the different views we both exchange ...
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You are such a hypocrite sir, em.... please don't take it offensively. It is because I had no other choice of word to describe you......sorry. (I mean it).

You seem to have forgotten the different views we both exchanged some years back...
But your views on this subject? Wow!

And now, here you are exclaiming..."Excellent"? Wow! For what? Is it because foreigners have come to the fore?

Did we need foreign intervention before we claim its excellence? Or the excellence of OUR OWN citizens?
Tekonline.....or whatever you call yourself. We could have done it ourselves, with the help of our government and folks like you with thesis laid idle at KNUST, gathering dust.

Instead, you are away slaving your life away for another nation.

Anyway, for your information, I am contributing my quota for my beloved nation and you will get to hear of it one day. Yes! in exactly the same way I have located you.....after all these years and will inform you of what I have achieved and will continue to achieve for our beloved nation. Please let me know, if you have any plans on turning your thesis into reality. God Bless you!

GOD BLESS GHANA!
AFRICAN FOREVER!
Conventional Youth. 12 years ago

Need More Regulated STEMIC Hubs In Ghana now!

Need More Regulated STEMIC Hubs In Ghana now!
Conventional Youth. 12 years ago

The upward surge in trends of Ghanaian intellectuals, trained in Ghana who migrates to other countries to get better conditions of services, such as, financial remunerations, accommodation, cars, computers etc incurs huge soc ...
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The upward surge in trends of Ghanaian intellectuals, trained in Ghana who migrates to other countries to get better conditions of services, such as, financial remunerations, accommodation, cars, computers etc incurs huge socio-economic challenges to the Ghanaian government. Stacked choices and decisions have to be made by human beings in lifestyle, Quality Education, Employment, Empowerment, Enterprise, Enlightenment, Entertainment, Electability and Equity etc what I bonded as (8Es), my core community organising components.
MotherLove 12 years ago

Osbon, almost all cars built in the US have parts from all corners of the world. None of the parts are made in the US so chill out.

Osbon, almost all cars built in the US have parts from all corners of the world. None of the parts are made in the US so chill out.
Zegbete 12 years ago

Our leaders are all "clueless". In the 70's a car called "Adom" was manufactured in Ghana and hitherto no one knows the whereabouts of that project.

Our leaders are all "clueless". In the 70's a car called "Adom" was manufactured in Ghana and hitherto no one knows the whereabouts of that project.

James B. Otafregya 12 years ago

Zegbete,

Not only Adom but there was also Boafo, both of which I personally saw at Accra-Tudu.

Apart from the local ones, we had Neoplan and Willowbrook assembly plants, but ask me where they are all now!

Zegbete,

Not only Adom but there was also Boafo, both of which I personally saw at Accra-Tudu.

Apart from the local ones, we had Neoplan and Willowbrook assembly plants, but ask me where they are all now!
Nana Yaw 12 years ago

Political parties can raise billions for useless campaigns but when voted into power, they go globetrotting to beg for food, medicine, water, maternity care and wosre of all, we can not even assemble a simple bicycle without ...
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Political parties can raise billions for useless campaigns but when voted into power, they go globetrotting to beg for food, medicine, water, maternity care and wosre of all, we can not even assemble a simple bicycle without the white man's support. This is a country that built nuclear reasearch institute long before Pakistan, India and maybe Israel. We built Tema and her harbour including all her industries from scratch. What is going on? Indeed, Dr Osagyefo Kwame Nkrumah's OmanGhana is slipping backward, contrary to his inspring and patriotic slogan, FORWARD EVER!!!!
Jason 12 years ago

But we complain to much, big question is what can we do about it?

But we complain to much, big question is what can we do about it?
Nana Yaw 12 years ago

I visited many countries in southern Africa not long ago and witnessed the life of hopelessness that majority of Black people in those countries face on the daily basis. I know Brazil very well and the situation is no differe ...
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I visited many countries in southern Africa not long ago and witnessed the life of hopelessness that majority of Black people in those countries face on the daily basis. I know Brazil very well and the situation is no different. My African American brothers and sisters also do not cease to disappoint. I believe with all my heart, if every living human being in Nigerian or Angolan is shipped to the US or Europe and replace them with White people, these countries would not be recognized in a very positive way within one or two decades. What is wrong with us? If we know the problems, why is it taking us that long to find the right solutions? My heart aches for my people!!!!
USMAN 12 years ago

If the prototype car was indeed designed and constructed by Ghanaians,why did they choose the orange colour which is the traditional colour of the Netherlands. Are Ghanaians wise at all?

If the prototype car was indeed designed and constructed by Ghanaians,why did they choose the orange colour which is the traditional colour of the Netherlands. Are Ghanaians wise at all?
Michael 12 years ago

'He who pays the piper calls the tune'

'He who pays the piper calls the tune'
Tekonline.org 12 years ago

or the Golden Rule:
"He who has the Gold makes the Rule"

or the Golden Rule:
"He who has the Gold makes the Rule"
MotherLove 12 years ago

Usman, you are crazy, people spent time to build a car and you are going to base everything on colour asking if Ghanaians are wise you are the one who has lost your marbles.

Usman, you are crazy, people spent time to build a car and you are going to base everything on colour asking if Ghanaians are wise you are the one who has lost your marbles.
Jason 12 years ago

Where people in the west are almost there to build cars that can fly..in Africa people are building car that perhaps one day can run faster than a donkey!

We are really backward and not thinking forward at all. Don't we ha ...
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Where people in the west are almost there to build cars that can fly..in Africa people are building car that perhaps one day can run faster than a donkey!

We are really backward and not thinking forward at all. Don't we have good engineers, science people, designers and etc?

Common, step out of this mental bondage institutions and look forward. I long to Nkrumah..a visionary..Ghana nowadays lack this and seem the country is happy with every single thing that does not bring anything.

You can argue, this is a first step, but let me tell you, this step would only mean something if your competitors were not moving forward. However, they are..because some countries (read citizens of these countries) are building and developing stuff that will astonish even your wildest dream. Really, almost everyhing in Ghana seems to be old and if they try to make it..they lack design, technological improvement or advancement and huge lack of marketing issues..

common..time to step the game up..we should work harder..if not for ourselves, for our children after us..
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Kwesi Atta Sakyi 12 years ago

What has happened to the great inventions of Apostle Osafo? Ghana can waste talent! What about the solar stove invented at Tech or KNUST about 20 years ago? We have people with engineering talent but they get no support. True ...
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What has happened to the great inventions of Apostle Osafo? Ghana can waste talent! What about the solar stove invented at Tech or KNUST about 20 years ago? We have people with engineering talent but they get no support. True, forget about government support which is bogged down by bureaucracy.
Conventional Youth. 12 years ago

The current Government should take advantage of the pillars in *8Es* to manage GHANA’s SEVERE YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT, UNENTERPRISE, together with it’s MANPOWER AND BRAIN DRAIN (GSYUU & MABDS) SYNDROMES * Ghana’s anti ...
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The current Government should take advantage of the pillars in *8Es* to manage GHANA’s SEVERE YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT, UNENTERPRISE, together with it’s MANPOWER AND BRAIN DRAIN (GSYUU & MABDS) SYNDROMES * Ghana’s anti social mess does not justify social justice. Ghana is endowed with enormous natural resources. Ghana should have CRIDed it’s Deliberate Sustainable Socio-Economic Structure s by now. Why can’t Ghana Boldly forecast any ‘Effective Community Development Structuring’ as at now? I overheard a Legon H/R personnel struggling with admission process a week ago, barely two weeks to their matriculation ceremony. Why are all economic administrative decisions centralised in Accra and DCE’s still being appointed today? 8)
USMAN 12 years ago

We should know that the orange colour on the SMATI prototype car is the traditional colour of the Netherlands. Do you remember the Orange Free State of South Africa and the Apartheid Regime? Hmmm!

We should know that the orange colour on the SMATI prototype car is the traditional colour of the Netherlands. Do you remember the Orange Free State of South Africa and the Apartheid Regime? Hmmm!
william 12 years ago

THE JSS SYSTEM YET TO EFFECTIVELY BRIDGE GAP BETWEEN THE 'SUAMES' OF GHANA AND EDUCATION SYSTEM, IE, JSS, SSSS , POLYTECHNICS, ENGINEERING SCHOOLS IN OUR UNIVERSITIES, NATIONAL SERVICE/ INTERNSHIPS!

THE JSS SYSTEM YET TO EFFECTIVELY BRIDGE GAP BETWEEN THE 'SUAMES' OF GHANA AND EDUCATION SYSTEM, IE, JSS, SSSS , POLYTECHNICS, ENGINEERING SCHOOLS IN OUR UNIVERSITIES, NATIONAL SERVICE/ INTERNSHIPS!
Kwame Asirifi 12 years ago

You see you people have been sitting on history and you don't share them, no wonder why we accept whatever the white man say we are, impoverished, malnourished state.

My name is Kwame Asirifi and God willing i am star ...
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You see you people have been sitting on history and you don't share them, no wonder why we accept whatever the white man say we are, impoverished, malnourished state.

My name is Kwame Asirifi and God willing i am starting an industrial revolution by coming back to Ghana to build an automotive plant. i would love to hear folks who have knowledge of the Ghana that once was. bonyos16@hotmail.com
Omanbapa Osei Oyeadieyie 12 years ago

Theres was this richman at Abolowe - Okaishie, who had the same name as you: Opanyin Kwame Asirifi.

If you are related, I'd believe your vision !!

Theres was this richman at Abolowe - Okaishie, who had the same name as you: Opanyin Kwame Asirifi.

If you are related, I'd believe your vision !!
pro jk obeng .u .s.a 12 years ago

good idea welcome to ghana

good idea welcome to ghana
NON-ALIGNED 12 years ago

Oh! Ghana! so, we couldn't even support our own to create jobs for our locals?

I wrote on this subject years ago - that our government should encourage and create a relationship between the Suame Magazine and KNUST enginee ...
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Oh! Ghana! so, we couldn't even support our own to create jobs for our locals?

I wrote on this subject years ago - that our government should encourage and create a relationship between the Suame Magazine and KNUST engineering faculty to help build something of OUR OWN!!!!!

Why do we always allow foreigners to come in and do things for us??? Even think for us? What on earth is wrong with us?????
When are we citizens of Ghana going to learn to be self-less and get off our lazy asses and make decisions that will benefit our own citizens???

A nation that imports tooth-picks and toilet rolls is a nation going down- hill.

These intelligent folks at Suame Magazine have been noticed.....not by us (book-long edicated illiterates) but by foreigners who can recognize their potential to serve our dear nation. That is, if there are no uterior motives to their actions?

These our folks can be used to fix all damaged or broken-down state institutions' vehicles.....instead of continually importing expensive cars for our ministries and the police etc. They can be sensibly utilized to maintain our vehicles...to save us money that can used in our health services etc.

What is wrong with OUR so-called decision makers???????? What is wrong with GHANA? OH! MY BELOVED NATION!

GOD BLESS GHANA!
AFRICAN FOREVER!
Conventional Youth. 12 years ago

Let inspire and motivate interprofessional collaborations. Our Deliberate objectives and Appraisals would Encourage and Commit many Brains to contribute diligently toward Ghana’s National Development. Government should int ...
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Let inspire and motivate interprofessional collaborations. Our Deliberate objectives and Appraisals would Encourage and Commit many Brains to contribute diligently toward Ghana’s National Development. Government should introduce little incentives for the time and efforts spent for skills Transfer & Impartation. Let us Overturn THE CULTURE OF BRAIN DRAIN TO THE MODEL OF CRITICAL BRAIN EXCHANGE. IT IS STEMICs TIME (OTCOBD
MKZ 12 years ago

Shame to Ghana, so from independent to date this is what we were able to achieve in terms of technology, we are fun of saying we speak and write good English than Nigerians but for nothing.

Shame to Ghana, so from independent to date this is what we were able to achieve in terms of technology, we are fun of saying we speak and write good English than Nigerians but for nothing.

Facts 12 years ago

That we try to manufacture a vehicle in Ghana is long overdue. I recall the days of the golf-cart Boafo. Truth be told,we lost the boat when KOWUS' volkswagen assembly plant and UTC motors etc were seized and sold to cronies ...
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That we try to manufacture a vehicle in Ghana is long overdue. I recall the days of the golf-cart Boafo. Truth be told,we lost the boat when KOWUS' volkswagen assembly plant and UTC motors etc were seized and sold to cronies by the PNDC ( VODI Technik ( old KOWUS) and UTC motors where the boafo was conceived were divested to cronies... You see without a veicle assembly plant e.g. Peugeout in Nigeria, VW, in Brasil/Spain, Toyota in Thailand, Merc, BMW, VW etc in South Africa.. YOU CAN NEVER PERFECT the art of vehicle manufacturing and to be frank you will be wasting your time.. This 'exhibit' ofa vehicle is generally based on the whiteman's perception of our low standards and therefore in an NGOish approach patronise us with this nonsense..

At this stage, our focus should be on manufacturing farming equipment. These are practical and not based on beauty and aesthetics.. NO GHANAIAN WILL EVER BUY A GHANAIAN CAR.. But we will buy a Ghanaian tractor to plough and till our land.. Sorry to put sand in your gari but I beg to differ..
Dr. med.William Acquah,Germany 12 years ago

Why isn`t any Ghanaian around?

Why isn`t any Ghanaian around?

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