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niinoo 11 years ago

I will the authorities wont burn this textiles, there's more to do with it, why do you have to waste them , the needy are there.the children homes, the government needs to think , the mad people are there , they need clothing ...
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I will the authorities wont burn this textiles, there's more to do with it, why do you have to waste them , the needy are there.the children homes, the government needs to think , the mad people are there , they need clothing, I beg the authorities to stop burning and donate to these people, these what I think God bless you, thanks
Tolobeefi 11 years ago

If you continue giving pirated clothes to the "needy", it would be an encouragement for the "needy" not to help themselves.

Better help the needy to get out of their needy state to earn their own income and be able to clot ...
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If you continue giving pirated clothes to the "needy", it would be an encouragement for the "needy" not to help themselves.

Better help the needy to get out of their needy state to earn their own income and be able to cloth themselves with genuine African Prints and not a life of being clthed with fake pirated Prints.
Kweku 11 years ago

Tolobeefi, tell us how to get the needy out of their state in especially the system and structures we have in Ghana. Do you know that many people are becoming needy today than 30-50years before? You should also know, that no ...
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Tolobeefi, tell us how to get the needy out of their state in especially the system and structures we have in Ghana. Do you know that many people are becoming needy today than 30-50years before? You should also know, that no matter how good the system may become there will still be some people who for some reasons be needy?

Anyway, I think the government's 'wholesale' strategy of dealing with these clothes designs piracy is completely unlawful, in that, the local textile manufacturers could hardly proof ownership of the patent right of some of those designs. Those 'adinkra' and 'gye nyame' designs do neither belong to the government nor the textile manufacturing firms. If the designs are claim to be state property, does the government has patent evidence? Even the local firms may somehow be violating the patent right laws of the actual patent owners.

Bottom line;
1. Only the patent right owners can lawfully take action if the govt's problem is piracy of design rather than quality standards.
2. Sellers would unlawfully be victimised because they did not copy or imitate those designs by themseles. The proper way must be taking legal action against the manufacturers who actually committed the piracy crime than sellers, tailors, wearers, etc of the clothes. Example, how can Apple or Samsung go to retailers worldwide, seize and burn all phones or electronic gadgets that have copied without permission features of their products?

If so, then everything that has design imitation in the country including pens, vehicle parts, houses, news paper sizes, etc must be seized and burned. However, the responsibility is on the rightful patent owners to sue for injuries and not government. More so, they must sue the manufacturers who copied the design and not retailers plus consumers of the design.

The textile retailers can sue the government for economic sabotage for any seizure of their goods because they have not committed any design piracy crime themselves.
EXPORT THEM 11 years ago

Why not export to the neighboring countries like Benin Republic or Cameroon. rather than burning which does don't make sense to me.

Why not export to the neighboring countries like Benin Republic or Cameroon. rather than burning which does don't make sense to me.
DAN 11 years ago

just because you work(having anal sex) don't worry about the needy

just because you work(having anal sex) don't worry about the needy
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Inusah Al-furqan 11 years ago

Oh Mother Ghana! What do we gain from burning these items? The seizure is already a loss to these importers. Therefore why don't we donate the items to the Weija Leprosarium believing the Father will surely distribute them to ...
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Oh Mother Ghana! What do we gain from burning these items? The seizure is already a loss to these importers. Therefore why don't we donate the items to the Weija Leprosarium believing the Father will surely distribute them to the inmates. Don't we have enough needy people in our society? No wonder our leaders look on as our water bodies are being polluted by galamsey . If the decision makers in this outfit really have an iota humane conscience, they would not be taking such decisions. It smacks of pettiness , vindictiveness and settling of a personal score than pursuing a national geared towards discouraging illegal importations. We should act according to logical reasoning.
Tolobeefi 11 years ago

You people are not thinking. If you keep donating these thousands of Prints to the poor as you claim, who do you expect to buy clothes from Akosombo and elsewhere.

And Ghana as you know soon these so-called poor people wou ...
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You people are not thinking. If you keep donating these thousands of Prints to the poor as you claim, who do you expect to buy clothes from Akosombo and elsewhere.

And Ghana as you know soon these so-called poor people would turn around and sell these donated clothes to the same market people.

Encourage people to buy the genuine ones and help create jobs in the economy so that these poor people and orphans can be recruited to work in these families to earn their own income rather to be clothed with illegal stuff!
kwame(volta region 11 years ago

THIS IS NONSENSE,YOU ARE GIVING NDC PARTY BAD NAME SIMPLE BECAUSE SO CALLED TASK FORCE CAN NOT IDENTIFIED FAKE OR GOOD ITEMS.ALSO THEY TARGET BIG SHOPS AND SEND THEIR OWN GANGS TO TIP OFF THEM WHEN AND WHERE IS THE NEXT OPERA ...
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THIS IS NONSENSE,YOU ARE GIVING NDC PARTY BAD NAME SIMPLE BECAUSE SO CALLED TASK FORCE CAN NOT IDENTIFIED FAKE OR GOOD ITEMS.ALSO THEY TARGET BIG SHOPS AND SEND THEIR OWN GANGS TO TIP OFF THEM WHEN AND WHERE IS THE NEXT OPERATION OF EXCHANGE OF HUGE AMOUNT. I AM ASKING NDC GOVERNMENT TO THINK TWICE ABOUT THIS ISSUES.WHO WITNESS THIS DESTROYING AND HOW THEY COUNT IT BEFORE DESTROYING THEM.THIS GANGS NEEDS TO BE CHECK AND OBSERVE IN EVERY MOVEMENT.THEY ARE CRIMINALS AND MAKING MONEY IN THE NAME OF CURRENT GOVERNMENT.STOP THEM BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE.
DAN 11 years ago

why burn them? Ghana is a ignorant bankrupt country

why burn them? Ghana is a ignorant bankrupt country

Pumpuni 11 years ago

Senseless. Burning textiles and house demolitions!

Senseless. Burning textiles and house demolitions!
Lord Tennison 11 years ago

Why burn them?Why not donate them to the hardworking farmers,the orphans,the homeless,the poor?
I am sure the idea came from nobody but John Mahama.

Why burn them?Why not donate them to the hardworking farmers,the orphans,the homeless,the poor?
I am sure the idea came from nobody but John Mahama.
Tolobeefi 11 years ago

If you donate pirated criminal Prints to farmers, orphans and the poor who do you expect to buy the real genuine ones from Akosombo Textiles to create jobs for the workers.

Allowing pirated Prints to enter the market in t ...
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If you donate pirated criminal Prints to farmers, orphans and the poor who do you expect to buy the real genuine ones from Akosombo Textiles to create jobs for the workers.

Allowing pirated Prints to enter the market in the name of donations indirectly would help put the genuine Prints out of business and make workers at factories like Akosombo and Juapong poor.

So what sense is there in supporting poor people only to make others also poor.

If government wants to help orphans or the poor it should buy genuine Prints and Materials to cloth them not illegal stuff.

By doing so it would keep genuine workers in jobs. The companies might even recruit some of these orphans and poor people for them to earn money to buy more genuine clothes for themselves.

I say burn the fake materials.!
DAN 11 years ago

STUPID DICK SUCKING MOUTHER FUCKER! NOBODY CAN FIND REAL JOBS IN GHANA BECAUSE DICK SUCKER LIKE YOU HAVE GOV. JOBS. AND REST CAN'T WORK BECAUSE THEY ARE NO ELECTRIC FOR FACTORYS/COMPUTERS/LIGHTS AND REFRIGERATORS!

STUPID DICK SUCKING MOUTHER FUCKER! NOBODY CAN FIND REAL JOBS IN GHANA BECAUSE DICK SUCKER LIKE YOU HAVE GOV. JOBS. AND REST CAN'T WORK BECAUSE THEY ARE NO ELECTRIC FOR FACTORYS/COMPUTERS/LIGHTS AND REFRIGERATORS!
... ... 11 years ago

Mr. you don't make sense; so please shut up. Your analysis and reasoning are flawed.

Mr. you don't make sense; so please shut up. Your analysis and reasoning are flawed.
Patrick 11 years ago

Instead of destroying the print , it should be rather be giving to orphanage homes and the needy as well as psychiatric patients in the country

Instead of destroying the print , it should be rather be giving to orphanage homes and the needy as well as psychiatric patients in the country
Concerned Patriot 11 years ago

Burning them! This is unbelievable! People are suffering in Ghana and you want to destroy these prints just because they are fake. Sorry but we don't have people with Brains' at all. Please donate them to the needy or orphana ...
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Burning them! This is unbelievable! People are suffering in Ghana and you want to destroy these prints just because they are fake. Sorry but we don't have people with Brains' at all. Please donate them to the needy or orphanage.
Tolobeefi 11 years ago

Would you be buying the ones being produced by Juapong textiles and Akosombo textiles to keep workers in their jobs.

Orphanages are the responsible of government to cloth them with genuine clothes not to use orphanages and ...
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Would you be buying the ones being produced by Juapong textiles and Akosombo textiles to keep workers in their jobs.

Orphanages are the responsible of government to cloth them with genuine clothes not to use orphanages and empathy to patronise crime and its proceeds.

If government wants to clothe orphanges there is nothing wrong in buying genuine materials from Juapong or Akosombo to clothe them. The orphanages would be helping workers keep their jobs by patronising their genuine products.

Burn them!
IKE 11 years ago

Instead of burning them why NOT send them to the orphanages? Sew them into shirts etc for them!! Except those hazardous to health!!

Instead of burning them why NOT send them to the orphanages? Sew them into shirts etc for them!! Except those hazardous to health!!
emmanuel addo. 11 years ago

strongly support idea of distributing those seized clothing items to orphanages and other needy children around the country.

strongly support idea of distributing those seized clothing items to orphanages and other needy children around the country.

oscar 11 years ago

If they import them who clears them from the harbour? Who process the clearance documents? Thieves.

If they import them who clears them from the harbour? Who process the clearance documents? Thieves.
GOD IS GOOD ALWAYS 11 years ago

Don't burn them. Use your head, fools. Give them to the poor and the so-called witches in the north and other handicaps in the society: (f.o.c) free of charge, thank you.

Don't burn them. Use your head, fools. Give them to the poor and the so-called witches in the north and other handicaps in the society: (f.o.c) free of charge, thank you.
makama 11 years ago

you let them into ya country they mess up your economy

you let them into ya country they mess up your economy

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