Accra’s streetlights gobble up GH¢190million annually

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• MARCUS AMPADU 10 years ago

  Cities from from Los Angeles, Boston, Copenhagen, & Christchurch are all turning to smart LED streetlights, and we should do everything humanly possible to do likewise.
  
  Cheaper and long lasting, let's go for it.

  Cities from from Los Angeles, Boston, Copenhagen, & Christchurch are all turning to smart LED streetlights, and we should do everything humanly possible to do likewise.
  
  Cheaper and long lasting, let's go for it.

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• Jojo 10 years ago

  Have you people forgot that you have been charging every Ghanaian street lights on their light bills? Besides you are too lazy and weak to think and invest in civilized projects. These project should have been handle by the e ...
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  Have you people forgot that you have been charging every Ghanaian street lights on their light bills? Besides you are too lazy and weak to think and invest in civilized projects. These project should have been handle by the engineering students in the country's universities rather than focusing on cheap and useless bye elections and expensive primaries. Wait a dastardly revolution is awaiting for u.

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• Suhum Saman 10 years ago

  Our leaders from any of the political parties have responsibility to see to it that our roads are well lit at night to prevent accidents. The blood of all those who perished due to the unnecessary carnage lies squarely on the ...
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  Our leaders from any of the political parties have responsibility to see to it that our roads are well lit at night to prevent accidents. The blood of all those who perished due to the unnecessary carnage lies squarely on their already condemned souls.

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• Andy B 10 years ago

  For the moment if some of the street light in Ghana go off and we will be getting regular power so be it. It will be better than companies to close down and workers laid off because there is not power to work.

  For the moment if some of the street light in Ghana go off and we will be getting regular power so be it. It will be better than companies to close down and workers laid off because there is not power to work.

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• MARCUS AMPADU 10 years ago

  Why not use photovoltaic cells? Can be done by our unemployed university graduates after receiving training.

  Why not use photovoltaic cells? Can be done by our unemployed university graduates after receiving training.

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• VICTOR CARRILLACE 10 years ago

  THE HEADLINE SAYS IT ALL: PREPARE FOR HIGHER LEVY. THE QUESTION, HOWEVER, IS IF WHAT IS CURRENTLY BEING TAKEN IS WELL MANAGED.

  THE HEADLINE SAYS IT ALL: PREPARE FOR HIGHER LEVY. THE QUESTION, HOWEVER, IS IF WHAT IS CURRENTLY BEING TAKEN IS WELL MANAGED.

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• BlaGoDzi 10 years ago

  just add the solar panels and stop going on and on and on and on.

  just add the solar panels and stop going on and on and on and on.

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• RASTA BANGI 10 years ago

  WHY CANT WE THINK? SUN IS SHINING DAILY AND WE CANT INVEST IN SOLAR? HAABAA??

  WHY CANT WE THINK? SUN IS SHINING DAILY AND WE CANT INVEST IN SOLAR? HAABAA??

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• Ghanaman 10 years ago

  With dumsor all over there are no lights in Accra so how come street lights will consume as much as 16 million Ghana cedis every month? Where is this voodoo mathematics coming from? Oh, MOTHER GHANA!

  With dumsor all over there are no lights in Accra so how come street lights will consume as much as 16 million Ghana cedis every month? Where is this voodoo mathematics coming from? Oh, MOTHER GHANA!

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