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Poor sanitation mainly an attitudinal problem

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  • Kof 11 years ago

    Pass legislation for sanitation as the first order of parliament to make it a national priority. It cost the nation to have a filty environment on the economic, health, tourism and social front. What is preventing the governm ...
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  • Atuguba Atinga SC. 11 years ago

    Why worry you voted for NDC latrine boys and carpenters sons and daughters to become justices, and president, and BNI security capos. Now you wonder who's going to clean your toilets and streets ? I agree Ghanaians attitudes ...
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  • TerriblY Spe cifiC Dog Breed. 11 years ago

    I cant't believe you will say something like this Atuguba. Do you think NDC wants to turn Ghana into zongo ? On that note Ghana really looks like zongo though !

  • Ghana citizen of integrity. 11 years ago

    Waht ever is good for Airport residential area is also good for the Zongos of Ghana make no mistake.

  • OBENG RAGO 11 years ago

    YOU CAN JUDGE NDC GOVERNMENT BY THE DIRT, SQUALOR, POOR SANITATION, UNHYGIENIC CONDITIONS EXISTING THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY.

    NDC PEOPLE TALK A LOT BUT THEIR INACTION IN GOVERNMENT IS CLEARLY SEEN BY THE STATE OF POOR UNHEALT ...
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  • princewilly@ymail.com 11 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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  • EZEKIEL 11 years ago

    THEORY THEORY THEORY....that's ALL we know!! Mr.Kof made the ONLY SENSIBLE SUGGESTION.......MAKE SANITATION A NATIONAL PRIORITY and STOP the Lecturing!!!!
    Blackman LIKES the GOOD THINGS IN LIFE but TOO LAZY to LIFT even his ...
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  • kwame 11 years ago

    this is ghana culture, along with lights off and bribes,we will always be a third world country

  • HON. NII TETTEVI! 11 years ago

    I LEARNT THIS BEHAViours from my parents. its passed down. if u are not dirty u are not a real ga or ewe. its part of our dna...

  • amankwaatia 11 years ago

    So how come Keta and Ho areas are not such dirty?? Bulls....

  • Pelicles 11 years ago

    In the good old days when "tankase" will come and inspect our surroundings, these stinking cites do not exist.

    We are now "civilized" yet, we love to live so close to garbage then blame "witches" when we get sick.

  • Akos Connecticut 11 years ago

    It is refreshing to read articles as this We need to tackle this individually/ and enforce the law. As an individual i have every right to ask my fellow to pick up some rubbish he left on the street..what if he does not there ...
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  • kwadwo totobii 11 years ago

    REINTRODUCE HEALTH -INSPECTORS-FORMERLY CALLED TOWN-COUNSELORS.
    Let everybody be responsible for the gutter surrounding his house. If the gutter is filthy the landowner should be charged heavily. The reintroduction of " TOWN ...
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  • EZEKIEL 11 years ago

    DE-CENTRALISATION and let the DISTRICTS look after SANITATION !!!!! divide and rule!!
    One President sitting in Accra and APPOINTING ALL THESE, MOSTLY USELESS, INDIVIDUALS doesn't make SENSE!!!
    When you are hungry and sit at ...
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  • wallanyo 11 years ago

    We find nothing wrong with Filth and Dirth. We only come to talk about it when very few people among us, who are more hygiene conscious,find there's something wrong with our environment.There's nothing wrong if some one, who ...
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  • A Richard. 11 years ago

    Ewes are ok check with the Ga people if they will stop going to toilets along our beaches.

  • Joe 11 years ago

    I totally agree with you. If we Ghanaians are not ready to change their attitude towards keeping our environment clean, even if we use all our oil and gas plus the Gold and Cocoa money we would still be in poor sanitation as ...
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  • princewilly@ymail.com 11 years ago

    We have become like Baboons where the monkey work and we enjoy.

  • Gawuga 11 years ago

    Mahama cannot turn zongos to Paris in 8 years but he can change the mindset of his brothers and their environment would be great as Paris.

  • Gawuga 11 years ago

    Tell them straight. Shit mindset shit environment.

  • Gawuga 11 years ago

    Community service

  • MARFO 11 years ago

    WEAK LEADERSHIP NOT ATTITUDINAL.

  • Obiba 11 years ago

    The root cause of poor sanitation is lack of developmental planning, legislation or the will to enforce legislation and who to blame? No other, but our local governments

  • Kwesi 11 years ago

    Some serious restructuring need to be done.
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  • KWABENA DANSOMAN 11 years ago

    WHERE ARE THE DUSTBINS AT VANTAGE AREAS?

  • Abeeku Mensah 11 years ago

    It is not attitudinal but cultural and lack of effective institutions in Ghana that creates and perpetuates living in filth.
    The very rich Ghanaians who have bought and built expensive homes in their so-called gated communit ...
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  • princewilly@ymail.com 11 years ago

    Attitudinal problem is shitting at a beach and all of a sudden a pig yank the feces near your ass and you think is a dog.
    You start looking for Pavlov

  • Kwesi 11 years ago

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  • Nii Okyne 11 years ago

    Sanitation is a basic right for every human been but in our country. Sanitation is good for only the upper class. Example, In the ministry you will see chief director and senior staff having bathroom or toilet to themselves w ...
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  • Kwesi 11 years ago

    Complete restructuring is needed. Read
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