We can't provide accommodation for you - Accra Mayor to aggrieved residents

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Isaac Okoreeh-Baah 9 years ago

Great action by the mayor. Ghanaians must understand what "LIFE SAFETY " is all about. A lot more buildings will have to be mitigated to provide a safe living environment for the citizens of Ghana. I am very PROUD of the mayo ...
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Great action by the mayor. Ghanaians must understand what "LIFE SAFETY " is all about. A lot more buildings will have to be mitigated to provide a safe living environment for the citizens of Ghana. I am very PROUD of the mayor. KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK AND DO NOT ALLOW ACCRA TO EXPERIENCE THE SAME DILEMMA AS NIGERIA. Thanks from a 38years experienced Architect and a seasoned building professional from Nashville, Tennessee.
OMANBA 9 years ago

Let them wait for Akuffo-Addo's government to give them accommodation.

Let them wait for Akuffo-Addo's government to give them accommodation.
Odikro 9 years ago

Was the building marked for evacuation or demolition?

Was the building marked for evacuation or demolition?
Wahalla 9 years ago

The mayor wants to save their life. So the people are holding their hand out and saying what do you have for me.
Let them stay inside until the building collapses and kills them all!

The mayor wants to save their life. So the people are holding their hand out and saying what do you have for me.
Let them stay inside until the building collapses and kills them all!
Arthur 9 years ago

Okoe should have said this before the elections. If he's got the right to save a life, do the helpless occupants have the right to die? I bet if the owners pay the right sum of money the facility would be declared habitable o ...
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Okoe should have said this before the elections. If he's got the right to save a life, do the helpless occupants have the right to die? I bet if the owners pay the right sum of money the facility would be declared habitable overnight.
Mc Truth 9 years ago

I wonder what some Ghanaians consider as good leadership. In advance countries such situations are considered crises situation , hence the council would do everything possible to find them temporary shelter until the crisis i ...
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I wonder what some Ghanaians consider as good leadership. In advance countries such situations are considered crises situation , hence the council would do everything possible to find them temporary shelter until the crisis is resolved.
I am pretty sure AMA has a budgetary allocation for emergencies like this.
For the Mayor to dismiss the plight outright and tell them to find their own accommodations is total crass.
When will we learn at all? When will our leadership learn from others and put the education to proper use and improve the welfare of the citizenry.
What's Accra stadium there for? The council should build temporary tents there to accommodate them until their environment is made safe for them to go back . If they are thinking of cost, I can assure you that will be a fraction of the cost of V8 cars they have been wasting tax payers money on.
Please put your thinking caps on, let the government show concern for the people.
anokwale 9 years ago

Mr. Mayor was in the USA for years and he knows that there are companies in the USA that have used containers to construct very nice looking and functional stores and homes. This could be arranged but he refuses to think out ...
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Mr. Mayor was in the USA for years and he knows that there are companies in the USA that have used containers to construct very nice looking and functional stores and homes. This could be arranged but he refuses to think outside the box. Same old story.
Nii 9 years ago

Quit lying to those living outside the USA.
In emergency situations like this, the typical response will be for the Red Cross and other charitable organizations to step into the breach. No government, even a seemingly unlove ...
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Quit lying to those living outside the USA.
In emergency situations like this, the typical response will be for the Red Cross and other charitable organizations to step into the breach. No government, even a seemingly unloved one like this one, can continue to spend at will without budgeting for unusual expenditures like what has been presented here.
J0eY l0nD0n 9 years ago

Property Tax?

Property Tax?
POW@ R. DWAMENA 4 B/STARS 9 years ago

I suspects the Mc Truth wrote and his twin brother Anokwale seconded but the real truth is that you guys have no clue what you're talking about. Situations of this magnitude is not handled by the federal government. When a b ...
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I suspects the Mc Truth wrote and his twin brother Anokwale seconded but the real truth is that you guys have no clue what you're talking about. Situations of this magnitude is not handled by the federal government. When a building is declared unsafe, anyone living there finds his or her own way. In cases where somebody has no money to rent a place you go straight to public shelter. Ghanaians rely on government for everything. When will this end?

Bb 9 years ago

What a horrible things to say! Shame on you....

What a horrible things to say! Shame on you....
Alostingbine 9 years ago

The demolition man is back. Obaanye le. Ogboo nana. You should have contested the Ablekuma south constituency seat. Being a mayor is bigger than an MP. Go back to the post demolition man.

The demolition man is back. Obaanye le. Ogboo nana. You should have contested the Ablekuma south constituency seat. Being a mayor is bigger than an MP. Go back to the post demolition man.
BaabaUS 9 years ago

Demolish them

Demolish them
his 9 years ago

Stupid drunkard. The state can help them than buying SUVs.

Stupid drunkard. The state can help them than buying SUVs.
Prof Lungu 9 years ago

Talking a lot, and not saying anything, except being mean, and absent-minded.

So, when is the AMA going to complete engineering analysis, and when is the AMA going to demolish that building, if in deed the building is dang ...
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Talking a lot, and not saying anything, except being mean, and absent-minded.

So, when is the AMA going to complete engineering analysis, and when is the AMA going to demolish that building, if in deed the building is dangerous, and the owner is unwilling/unable to do same?

That, we submit, is what the Mayor of Accra ought to be addressing, without all that mean-spiritedness.

That, we submit, is the responsibility of "the government".
KUMASI 9 years ago

OH GHANA ????????????????????????????????

OH GHANA ????????????????????????????????
Ekow Samuel. 9 years ago

Very good and well done of the the Accra MAYOR you have to very good there ,either renovation or to put anther intresting at the place and again the raod streets like where you are is the need to be tiein all areas in and Acc ...
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Very good and well done of the the Accra MAYOR you have to very good there ,either renovation or to put anther intresting at the place and again the raod streets like where you are is the need to be tiein all areas in and Accra and some of the country 's need things like that to tied weather the foot street or the comercial streets have to bee in good atraction with tie and clean so the people will be very intresting of that ,very well done of you Mr. Mayor,God bless you and oman ghana.

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