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You will pay if you are named after a street

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  • Jim kelly(New York). 10 years ago

    IT SHOULD SAY...." IF A STREET IS NAMED AFTER YOU", NOT THE OTHER WAY AROUND.PITIFUL JOURNALISTS!

  • JOHN PAUL 10 years ago

    A ONE TIME PAYMENT IS BETTER THAN YEARLY PAYMENT, WHAT IF U STOP PAYING AFTER ONE YEAR, WILL THE NAME OF THE STREET BE CHANGED?

  • OSBON 10 years ago

    Foolish Doctor, If as country we can't afford to name a street. Yet the Assembly collect property rate every year.
    What happen to a street after the person named after die?.
    Street are named for various reasons other than ...
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  • aponkye kokoo 10 years ago

    I don't how u managed had ur doctorate degree.streets are named after hero's like(1)Osagyefuo,(2)okyehene Nana Ofori Atta,(3)Nana Yaa Asantewaa,(2)J B Dankwa (4)and many more,Dr. my question is who will go to the grave yard o ...
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  • Victor Damanka 10 years ago

    OH! Mother Ghana, so we cant even name streets after our heros and philanthropists who have served their cause in supporting the frail and the needy. This policy means the streets will be named after the government cronies wh ...
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  • liz 10 years ago

    if he says he is going to charge, let him charge, people don't have money to buy food so who care about street naming. nkwaseasem!!!!

  • Paa Joe (UK) 10 years ago

    Well spotted Sir. I was thinking the same and wondering who would pay to name their baby "Sunset Boulevard"

  • M25 Ringroad 10 years ago

    But the Honorable Doctor stated it categorically. His new policy is that henceforth every newborn baby will be called Logistical Constraint. This will result in a massive influx of revenue for the Guinea Fowl project, and ena ...
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  • william 10 years ago

    Why? Do we want to promote street naming for the rich and wealthy only? I HOPE NOT!

  • ELINAM 10 years ago

    That street is named after me.
    Ghana English a direct result of laziness and lack of reading from north to south,east to west and center.

  • COS 90 10 years ago

    Instead of the doctor mention vital issues like education, health, good drinkable water, sanitation, housing, etc, he thinks of charging naming of streets, yet he is a doctor. this quak doctor, a doctor of visionless. A real ...
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  • amoah wadee 10 years ago

    and what if the person dies ?

    stupidity will never ends in our country

    the best solution is to sell the street by auction.
    1 time payment
    we need money to develope out shanty towns and there many rich people waiting ...
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  • nicman@atl 10 years ago

    is this the only way you can raise revenue. i always said most of our market women have more brains than our PHD's MSCs KVIPS degree holders running the country

  • So So & So 10 years ago

    It is only in Ghana where street naming is being sold to the highest bidder - an exercise that had always been preserved for people who had contributed to his/her people and society at large.

    As a country we have lost our ...
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  • Kwesi 10 years ago

    re people named after streets or streets named after people?

  • Unumi Bununya a.k.a Teteman Boy 10 years ago

    Street names are not sold to the highest bidder. Rather streets are named after persons whose service to society is notable. The Minister for Local Government needs to stop this shameful plan. Looks like everyone is now confu ...
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  • Ekow Nyantakyi 10 years ago

    streets should be name after people who have done something good for the community not for people who have money in their pocket.

  • MIZZY 10 years ago

    nonesence ,look for better way to mark money.how can you be changing street name like the shirt you wear.people will get lost.

  • KWAME OFORI 10 years ago

    You can't charge people for naming streets after them. It's a wrong move ,it never happens anywhere.Else where streets are named after people who have significantly contributed immensely in one way or the other to the village ...
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