22 arrested and fined for not taking part in Sanitation Day

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PRINCEWILLY@YMAIL.COM 10 years ago

The dockyard men's room was always filthy because the workers never peed accurately to the drain. Every day the man who was in charge of sanitation at the dockyard would have to call in the cleaners to wipe off the mess insid ...
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The dockyard men's room was always filthy because the workers never peed accurately to the drain. Every day the man who was in charge of sanitation at the dockyard would have to call in the cleaners to wipe off the mess inside the men's room.
After few months of bringing the toilet cleaners in, the budget was exceeding, bills piling up and the sanitation guy had to think of an alternative way to solve this daily problem in the men's room. So what he did was he called in a famous economist and explained to him the problem in the men's room.
The economist went away with this and after a couple of weeks came up with a possible solution to end this problem. He told the sanitation guy to paste little flies randomly into the drain and guaranteed this would work. The sanitation guy was surprised at his solution and he started to argue with the economist.
The next day, the sanitation guy came into the men's room only to find a clean healthy environment inside and that no one had peed outside the drain because everyone had been aiming at the flies in the drain!
Frank Agyena-Karikari 10 years ago

The fine is damn nonsense. I wish a lawyer can stand for them. Saturday is also the day of worship of some people like me and cannot be forced to work. Clean up is voluntary. People have to be convinced and not forced. Do the ...
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The fine is damn nonsense. I wish a lawyer can stand for them. Saturday is also the day of worship of some people like me and cannot be forced to work. Clean up is voluntary. People have to be convinced and not forced. Do the arrested traders pay taxes? How can they pay taxes when forced to work on their busiest day?
insight to the bone 10 years ago

Oyiwa, so Forbes too confirms we shall go to war as we are 100% sure NDC will rig the elections with election engineering , propaganda , corruption , bloated register , hegemony mixed with northern tribalism. Now that the dum ...
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Oyiwa, so Forbes too confirms we shall go to war as we are 100% sure NDC will rig the elections with election engineering , propaganda , corruption , bloated register , hegemony mixed with northern tribalism. Now that the dumsor barge fiasco has backfired and exploded in your face you present another half baked solution? Dumsor barge was meant to enable Ibrahim Mahama to own the majority of the independent power producing capabilities , increase unnecessarily the rates on electricity so our home start getting bills 3 to 5 times what they are now. We may be already refugees and second class citizens in our own country but that does not make deaf and blind to the truth. We know the root cause of dumsor is your Anti Akan hate agenda and because Akosombo is on Akan territory you have allowed mismanagement and neglect to practically put out of function one turbine after another. You spread propaganda and lies about some water level mixed with bullshit about the whole thing being old or obsolete forgetting that most hydro generators in the world are older than ours but still functioning. No talk of the possibility that its still possible to send these defunct turbines to Europe , North America , Japan or even Russia (NEVER TURKEY)and have them re-calibrated . Due to lack of timely maintenance from neglect and corruption blessed by the hate of the Akans politics mixed with Muslim caliphate destruction ,the turbines have all slowly spun out of axis and need to be dismantled to calibrate them , with the availability of new technology its even possible to increase the original 1000 megawatts to 1500 or even double if reverse turbines and other changes are made. Yes the undeclared WAR against the Akans continue, they already declare territories of the Akans such as Akosombo , Osu all the way to Kasoa and other areas as belonging to the Ewes , Gas or whoever, very soon we shall hear how the cities Kumasi , Koforidua , Takoradi and Cape Coast belong to the Zongo pepeni.Their vicious propaganda onslaught , brainwashing and subliminal message has left some Akans especially Fantis with no recollection of their proud history or even able to speak Fanti but now parade around as if they are Gas or ayigbe. Just like Al Capone was able to turn Chicago into a fortress for the mafia ,so have these sakawa mafia criminal NDC pepeni/ayigbe unholy alliance turned our country into a place whereby only corrupt criminals can prosper and decent silent majority marginalized. Their propaganda and grassroots network together with the security agencies are advertising an atmosphere of hopeless with the message that ALL are corrupt just like them. No worthy project can see the light of day due to their greedy corrupt demands and larceny. No progress can be achieved due to this rotten system placed there by the perverse , intellectually handicapped morons of the security agencies and NDC. Ironically enough this sakawa ndc govt has turned into their victims due to the massive Stockholm syndrome their own supporters , sympathizers and foot soldiers. In any sakawa situation we notice the victims when you try and enlighten them they resort to passionately hating you because they think in their delusion you are envious of their great opportunity . The end result is them loosing their life energy, misery and abysmal despair but God also punishes eventually the perpetrators and they too face death under very horrible circumstances. NDC is now desparate for a success story they can use to decieve Ghanaians of their benevolent intent but just like Al Capone they resort to creating an atmosphere/climate of destroying anyone who dares to raise their voice and speak the truth. We must continue our quiet whisper campaign to remove them from as just as outsiders and quiet majority of Chicago succeeded so will we. Fifi Kwetey says that the Volta region is the source and world bank of the NDC , and the lands /people of the Akans the bread basket to be exploited by them. My brothers keep your cutlasses sharpened and ready as just as when the European nations tried to enslave Germany into their breadbasket so must we soon teach them a lesson so that never again will they even dream of such a crime just like in Europe today. Freedom is not gained with a peaceful transition but with blood , we didn't start it but know how to end it . Very soon hopefully we shall meet in the front-lines of the battlefield
Ali 10 years ago

Filthy people who refuse to keep the environment clean is an insult to God.

Filthy people who refuse to keep the environment clean is an insult to God.
Palmwine Tapper 10 years ago

Shut the FUCK up you lazy passive citizen using Church as an excuse. You want the Gov't or "akwasibroni" to come in and clean up your stinky FILTH for you and also do every freaking thing for you ……… right; than taking ...
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Shut the FUCK up you lazy passive citizen using Church as an excuse. You want the Gov't or "akwasibroni" to come in and clean up your stinky FILTH for you and also do every freaking thing for you ……… right; than taking the time to contribute to the society you live in. You really ought to be ashamed of yourself than exposing your sorryASS as village krakyi with pea size brain. Did you even study basic hygiene in your village primary school or you were only thought to go church on Saturday a whiteman created to mislead you and serve him as your slave master. Missing church on ONE Saturday doesn't close the doors to the fake god your church worships which teaches you NOT to VOTE or partake in ANY community service yet, you selfishly enjoy ALL the benefits of the toils of those who had contributed to them and still call yourself Saturday Christian? Heck who's this God you worship though? Beats me!
Concerned Citizen 10 years ago

This man's excuse, whether religious or not is beside the point. Nobody under our present constitution can be forced to do any work that he or she refuses to do. There is no legal basis for this. If this cleanup work is not v ...
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This man's excuse, whether religious or not is beside the point. Nobody under our present constitution can be forced to do any work that he or she refuses to do. There is no legal basis for this. If this cleanup work is not voluntary, then it is illegal. It is not about whether we want to live in filth or not. Even if I am ill, I don't need to have to tell you that because I am ill, SO I cannot participate. I have the right to refuse to participate just because I choose not to. I don't need to give anyone a reason. It is fine if people want to participate but this thing is just a lame excuse for a government that collects taxes, mismanages these funds and then wants to shirk its responsibility of keeping the environment clean, provoding facilities like litter bins etc and enforcing laws on waste disposal and littering and then pushing these responsibilities to the ordinary man in the name of National Sanitation Day. Foolishness!
Concerned Citizen 10 years ago

If there is any sense in forcing people to clean gutters etc on National Sanitation Day then why don't the police go through the whole country and arrest anyone Ghana, rich and poor, who is found not cleaning the environment ...
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If there is any sense in forcing people to clean gutters etc on National Sanitation Day then why don't the police go through the whole country and arrest anyone Ghana, rich and poor, who is found not cleaning the environment. If you did that, you would arrest over 20 million people. May God deliver Ghanaian lawmakers from stupidity.
AONTOIN 10 years ago

THESE PETTY TRADERS PAY "LAMPOOS" ON A FUCKING DAILY BASIS. WHY FINE A DEFENCELESS CITIZEN FOR REFUSING TO PARTAKE IN A VOLUNTARY CLEAN-UP EXERCISE.

I CAN'T SEE ANYBODY IMPOSING SUCH A STUPID SELECTIVE FINE ON MAHAMA'S OR ...
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THESE PETTY TRADERS PAY "LAMPOOS" ON A FUCKING DAILY BASIS. WHY FINE A DEFENCELESS CITIZEN FOR REFUSING TO PARTAKE IN A VOLUNTARY CLEAN-UP EXERCISE.

I CAN'T SEE ANYBODY IMPOSING SUCH A STUPID SELECTIVE FINE ON MAHAMA'S OR AKUFFO-ADDO'S CHILDREN OR RELATIVES.

GHANA HAS BECOME AN ANARCHY, WITH EVERY FOOL IMPOSING LAWS ON THE DEFENCELESS, WHILE MPs AND OTHERS LOOK ON UNCONCERNED BECAUSE IT DOES NOT AFFECT THEIR FAMILIES.

WHAT ARE ZOOMLION AND OTHERS PAID TO DO?
kofi quram 10 years ago

Fool,go and tell your landlord to come and clean your room for you because you pay rent.

Fool,go and tell your landlord to come and clean your room for you because you pay rent.
kofi quram 10 years ago

Fool,go and tell your landlord to come and clean your room for you because you pay rent.

Fool,go and tell your landlord to come and clean your room for you because you pay rent.

Bam 10 years ago

Good

Good
Son of sons 10 years ago

Has it got to this, where in the constitution says that if you don't go for clean up services you should be arrested and fined... I am really into this sanitation thing and all that that but masa let's not allow some people t ...
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Has it got to this, where in the constitution says that if you don't go for clean up services you should be arrested and fined... I am really into this sanitation thing and all that that but masa let's not allow some people to use this as a away of taking money from people esp the police....
Obed Adore 10 years ago

This could be a Local Government Bylaw

This could be a Local Government Bylaw
obour 10 years ago

This is mad things this sad were is zoomlions ha it do not make any sense Ghana be wise and this sensiles !

This is mad things this sad were is zoomlions ha it do not make any sense Ghana be wise and this sensiles !
inusah labi 10 years ago

good move ,if the whole country were to be abiding my the this bi-laws .the country would have been the heaven we 're all expecting

good move ,if the whole country were to be abiding my the this bi-laws .the country would have been the heaven we 're all expecting
obour 10 years ago

U don't no what u re saying come to Europe and see sanitation is past even 2008 sanitation re not there because we have some workers called zoomlions, were re they ha, when some ones is going to fund something to eat or some ...
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U don't no what u re saying come to Europe and see sanitation is past even 2008 sanitation re not there because we have some workers called zoomlions, were re they ha, when some ones is going to fund something to eat or some one is going to look for a job and she or he is coming to sanitation, then she is coming to sanitation ha, please Ghana what time u people will be wise!wakeup ! Please it do not make sense!
NANAÖ MOTHER !!! 10 years ago

After stealing tax payers Money and sharing it with zooomloins.In what country will this happen.Just wait 2016 coming.

After stealing tax payers Money and sharing it with zooomloins.In what country will this happen.Just wait 2016 coming.
Frank Ben 10 years ago

Under what law were the people fined? The clean up exercise is a voluntary one. The fines were illegal and MPS & GBA must fight for them. As happened in the Anas &judges case, we must not wait till it affects us. MPs in this ...
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Under what law were the people fined? The clean up exercise is a voluntary one. The fines were illegal and MPS & GBA must fight for them. As happened in the Anas &judges case, we must not wait till it affects us. MPs in this case must show that they are not only interested in their ex gratia.
Boss(Amansie Ba) 10 years ago

Is absolutely nonsense, the government is misplacing our tax and we should clean why paying tax. Corrupt mahama government. He is incompetent.

Is absolutely nonsense, the government is misplacing our tax and we should clean why paying tax. Corrupt mahama government. He is incompetent.
Nii Lartey Nartey 10 years ago

Arresting and fine of individual who could not partake in a voluntary call make a huge mockery of our laws, freedoms and democracy.

Ghana government pay huge sums of money to a private owned organization whose responsibili ...
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Arresting and fine of individual who could not partake in a voluntary call make a huge mockery of our laws, freedoms and democracy.

Ghana government pay huge sums of money to a private owned organization whose responsibility is to clean our environment. The ignore such responsibility and our communities are horribly filthy, stinky with gutters choked so why not charge the organization for negligent but target individual citizens going about their daily work peacefully?

The sanitation problem can never be sorted-out by such nonsense of finning but through holistic public education on sanitation and behaviour change of individual Ghanaians on environmental cleanliness.

Kofi 10 years ago

Good

Good
Frank Agyena-Karikari 10 years ago

What about paying taxes? You need some rudimentary education in the constitution of Ghana.

What about paying taxes? You need some rudimentary education in the constitution of Ghana.
Concerned Citizen 10 years ago

Ghana is rated the 7th most dirtiest country in the world which I am not surprised. It's all about attitude which reflects in everything we do. The Only way Ghana and Africa can move forward is through change of attitude. The ...
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Ghana is rated the 7th most dirtiest country in the world which I am not surprised. It's all about attitude which reflects in everything we do. The Only way Ghana and Africa can move forward is through change of attitude. There are houses without toilets so what do you expect. Also government is not tackling the problem using a preventive approach and fining people using a sanitation court by sending sanitation inspectors around using cctv cameras on the streets. Also it has to be constitutionally embedded that offenders would be arrested and sent to court and pay a fine or do six months in prison. That fine would be used to pay sanitation workers, inspectors and purchase equipment. Also advertising and awareness will reduce the amount of filth. I have seen educated people litter the streets too and when ask them to pick up the litter they reply why do we have zoom lion. We name to shame anyone who litters the street by shouting at the person saying keep Ghana clean and take pictures of the person uploading it to the Internet. With all these measures we don't need sanitation day if the people are not educated and fined the problem will keep occurring no matter the number of sanitation days in a month. It's about you and I doing the right thing.
mr amin 10 years ago

Untill govt ban plastics i will not take part.

Untill govt ban plastics i will not take part.
Sam 10 years ago

arrest who, u people are not serious. den arrest wayome n maama

arrest who, u people are not serious. den arrest wayome n maama
4Real 10 years ago

it means we are in good direction, presently i am in Nigeria,with d sanitation day they don't joke with that day in fact they arrest.... in fact on their day of sanitation no car move untill 10:00am

it means we are in good direction, presently i am in Nigeria,with d sanitation day they don't joke with that day in fact they arrest.... in fact on their day of sanitation no car move untill 10:00am
Duke 10 years ago

This is unlawful arrest, when didn't became a crime in Ghana that if u don't clean on sanitation day u should be arrested, if I were one of those arrested I would sue the state for unlawfully arresting me, because if I pay my ...
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This is unlawful arrest, when didn't became a crime in Ghana that if u don't clean on sanitation day u should be arrested, if I were one of those arrested I would sue the state for unlawfully arresting me, because if I pay my taxese to the govenment it's the responsibily of the govenment to see to it that my environment is clean. People are been arrested for not cleaning, what is the govenment doing with our tax money,
Lydia Jones 10 years ago

Good comments by Nii Lartey and a few others.

When I was a child growing up in Ghana, local authorities took responsibilities for waste collection and disposal,waste management, street cleaning, environmental protection an ...
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Good comments by Nii Lartey and a few others.

When I was a child growing up in Ghana, local authorities took responsibilities for waste collection and disposal,waste management, street cleaning, environmental protection and improvement, and the provision and care of public toilets.

Most local authorities had their own workers. In those days Local authorities did not contract out their responsibilities to private companies. The situation now is changed. Local authorities have out-sourced their responsibilities to the so-called private sector, and are now paying them huge amounts of money. They get paid without doing the work. No body holds them to account. As a result Ghana is very filthy.

To cover up the failure of local government, and to a large extent the national government, we have sanitation day. Individuals are expected to volunteer to do the work which local authorities are mandated to do, and for which the LAs pay huge amounts of money. How sad that poor innocent people would be prosecuted for not taking part in this exercise.

It is shameful that this should happen. It is actually unfair. It is only in Ghana that local authorities can abdicate or neglect their responsibilities, and prosecute others for their (LAs) failure.
And get away with it.
Palmwine Tapper 10 years ago

What the HECK are you talking about? If the GOV't is unable to clean the FILTH you created in your community due to their corrupt, selfish actions; you want the community to sit on the sorryASSES and DO absolutely NOTHING and ...
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What the HECK are you talking about? If the GOV't is unable to clean the FILTH you created in your community due to their corrupt, selfish actions; you want the community to sit on the sorryASSES and DO absolutely NOTHING and especially for a woman of your lazy kind? In your village don't you always see grannies and old ladies team up weeping and cleaning up the neighborhood all day from mourning till sunset for FILTH they didn't EVEN create whilst you walk around in your little behind in little red “obroni” high heel shoes thinking you are all that. FACT: these grannies and old ladies are mostly illiterate and didn't have the chance education we had; YET they knew exactly what to do when it comes to accumulated FILTH in the community which leads to all kinds of diseases taking the lives of new born babies and innocent children in the communities whilst you show up in your black "Ayeyi" cloth at their funeral services and with crocodile tears deceitfully pretending that you're in mourning as well with the family. And what was the ROOT CAUSE? The STINKY filth just feet away from your "obroni" high heels shoes. Goosh! Don’t you have the mindset to give these little ones in your village or community the CHANCE to live? That’s what my parent thought me a child and reinforced in my FIRST grade of Class-1 hygiene class. Did your village school had water basin in the classroom with soap and water sitting just feet from your class-1 teacher and being thought to clean after yourself ? The same concept is thought in every boarding and secondary schools around the world at large. Cleaning of dorms for inspection EVERY freaking Saturday is MANDATORY irrespective of who you are ……. Period! And what happened to those weedheads and boneheads who violate these cleaning exercises in boarding or secondary schools? Cain lashes or suspension BACK to your silly, backward village they came from to knock some sense into their stupid skulls.
It’s a shame a woman or female of your lazy have this of stone-age mind-set wanting someone else to pick after you though. You’re displaying your intellectual stupidity thinking you have some peanut size brain over your shoulders you want to boast off. The last time I checked, mothers and women set the tone when it comes to hygiene.
ADWEN 10 years ago

Public Cleaning is voluntary. Because people are paid on daily basis as their responsibility to do this sanitation and cleaning work. Any member of the community who contributes to this is purely altruistic and voluntarily. W ...
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Public Cleaning is voluntary. Because people are paid on daily basis as their responsibility to do this sanitation and cleaning work. Any member of the community who contributes to this is purely altruistic and voluntarily. Where are the taxes we pay going? Given to John Dramani Mahama and his family to live their luxurious lives at the expense of the weak and poor Ghanaians? To Asiedu Nketsia and his NDC to campaign, etc.
Ghanaians are fed up with this INCOMPETENT, CORRUPT AND A-LEVEL REASOING JOHN DRAMANI MAHAMA AND HIS RUBBISH "LEADERSHIP".

PROFESSOR ==THOMAS KUBI 10 years ago

THE CHANCE FOR NEW LEADERSHIP
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THE WAY OF LIFE IS CLEANINESS
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I AM VERY SORRY FOR GHANA GOV
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PROFESS ...
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THE CHANCE FOR NEW LEADERSHIP
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THE WAY OF LIFE IS CLEANINESS
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I AM VERY SORRY FOR GHANA GOV
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PROFESSOR THOMAS KUBI ( FOUNDER )
GHANA MARKETING COUNCIL
GPS 10 years ago

So government do not have money to hire cleaners to clean our cities and towns? Oh useless leaders, our leaders are good for nothing. Thank God I live in America.

So government do not have money to hire cleaners to clean our cities and towns? Oh useless leaders, our leaders are good for nothing. Thank God I live in America.
OwuraG 10 years ago

SO WHERE WILL THIS MONEY GO?

SO WHERE WILL THIS MONEY GO?
Palmwine Tapper 10 years ago

Challenge the Toll Collectors afterwards and after cleaning the neighborhood .....sweekycleen! Right NOW getting rid of the FILTH is the main focus of those affected communities to avoid the spread of diseases to the little o ...
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Challenge the Toll Collectors afterwards and after cleaning the neighborhood .....sweekycleen! Right NOW getting rid of the FILTH is the main focus of those affected communities to avoid the spread of diseases to the little ones; so that they might have a chance to live and sip some palm wine once in awhile to boast their brain cells and thinking power or maximize their thinking power. We hear ya!
mohammed salley sinare 10 years ago

i wish am in ghana now to take this task force to court, the arrest was illegal and stupid

i wish am in ghana now to take this task force to court, the arrest was illegal and stupid
Palmwine Tapper 10 years ago

Atinga Grushi, please do us ALL a fovor. Stay in your little Zongo HUT with palm tree leaf roof top. Whilst you're at; SHUT the FUCK up as slave "dishwasher" and "atinkon" toilet cleaner in "obronikrom". You could have served ...
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Atinga Grushi, please do us ALL a fovor. Stay in your little Zongo HUT with palm tree leaf roof top. Whilst you're at; SHUT the FUCK up as slave "dishwasher" and "atinkon" toilet cleaner in "obronikrom". You could have served your country GH better by being "latrine carrier” than being one for the whiteman. Get that? How do you smell after work? Whew!
Ernie 10 years ago

Zongo mentality. You are filthy and dirty and a disgrace to Allah

Zongo mentality. You are filthy and dirty and a disgrace to Allah
Richard Lakpleku 10 years ago

Apply de law

Apply de law
Adekunle 10 years ago

One day people will revolt. Forced labour and everyone is quiet about it.

One day people will revolt. Forced labour and everyone is quiet about it.
mas 10 years ago

Black man mentality. Lazy thinking.
Everywhere in the world where black people live is filthy. Ghetos, malaria, cholera, and all kind of bacteria. He even question why he should keep his enviroment clean if government is not ...
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Black man mentality. Lazy thinking.
Everywhere in the world where black people live is filthy. Ghetos, malaria, cholera, and all kind of bacteria. He even question why he should keep his enviroment clean if government is not doing it for him. He eat and drink but build his house without toilet waiting for gorvenment to come and build it for him because he pay taxes. But black man. dont forget you are the one living in that filth with your children. And you are the one fighting with the mosquitos.Soo black man wake up.organize your community and spend at least some few uhrs a month to keep your enviroment clean. God loves beauty. Look at nature. There is no reason to go and spend many uhrs in church or mosque for prayers if you allow filth and mosquitos to kill your children which you can avoid.
He knows all kind of insults in the world, he blame everyone who tells him to think for the future of their next generation. He will rather collect 1million€ for his stomach alone than to manage billion € resources for benefit his people.
He knows everything better and still he is at bottom of human race.
Soo Black man wake up your children deserves better.

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