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If We Are Not Careful, Nima and Maamobi Will Collapse!

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  • KOFFI 9 years ago

    Is anybody in National Security and our Council of State listening ?

  • PAY VOUCHER OBENG 9 years ago

    Therefore the NDC government must help these troublesome dirty dangerous ignorant unskilled potential terrorists...These people think such unproductive bush life is the only one available to them...They are now at the verge o ...
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  • ABU 9 years ago

    It's normal they refused voting a political party that ignores them due to their ethnicities.A political party that practices segregation and aparteid,why condemn the former South Africa apartheid regime and voting for the sa ...
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  • CITIZEN ONE 9 years ago

    It is too late, they have built a massive mosque across the street, with the aid of the Turkish Embassy, I hear. They are too well intrenched for any politician to misfire. We can't even control Sodom & Gomorrah and we want t ...
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  • SENDERO 9 years ago

    Perhaps the government that ignores them should be a good reason for them to decide to sort themselves out instead of waiting for government handouts

  • Selena boateng 9 years ago

    It's unfortunate how some ppl wen given the little lead will try to faint the religion. Ovens or whatever u call yourself u are not more human than Moslems or northerns. The writer is only drawing our attention to an issue bu ...
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  • humanity 9 years ago

    Whatever you may named it or caaled it. Be it Nima, Zongo, Ghetto, Bronx, pauperd area or deprived communities.

    Who is benefitting from perpetuating pathology?. Those living in Nima are not born criminals, but they are bei ...
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  • Kanokware 9 years ago

    Ask Ibrahim Mahama, Agambire and all the other politically-made billionaires in Ghana to go to the aid of these deprived communities.

    All the Northern elites live in Accra and don't give a damn about what happens in their ...
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  • Humanity 9 years ago

    Ghetho is like a place in Nima, where Jews livede in Europe. Are they Muslims or from the Northern Region?.

    Bronx is like a place in Nima, where most American blacks, African,s and other migrants live. Are they Muslim or f ...
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  • Bona 9 years ago

    Well said bro. I used to live there before and what you said were the ultimate truth. I sometimes could not understand these whole mess but our politicians take pride on their campaigne train saying "the zongo boys" Akuffo Ad ...
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  • YUSIF BUSH 9 years ago

    You must recognize the need of structure and stability,but unfortunately you miss all this or do you think by writing this will give you the chance of getting awareness,I don't think so it will rather pull you back and all th ...
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  • Kwame VS Kofi 9 years ago

    My frind; the problem with our Zongos are not love making and Marihuana smoking teenagers! The real problem we have is a parallel society within the heart of our Capital.
    Sharia Law is openly implemented in theese Zongos, ig ...
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  • Bona 9 years ago

    Kwame Vs kofi
    Its unfortunate, your opinion has been skew that way, I think, everyone has the right for freedom of worship and so do our moslem brothers. I do not think and believe any religious sect promote social vices as ...
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  • Kwame VS Kofi 9 years ago

    Well, I agree that kidnappings even take playe all around the world. The difference here is that it takes place in the Name of Allah! Even today a bomb blast detonated in Nigeria again in the name of Allah. It`s in the Zongos ...
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  • ABU 9 years ago

    Bona,hatred,tribalism,sexism and political polarisation had clouded our thinkings so each national discourse is never treated to its concluding term,and will continue wrecking havocs in our body politics..

  • sheriff 9 years ago

    kwame u are an ignorant fool,what of the churches that warship none stop from eve to dawn,mother fukker are u living in in the middle of a jungle,pple r bringing ideas u are making fool of urself Asso

  • Kwame VS Kofi 9 years ago

    I think you are bush-meat!

  • ABU 9 years ago

    A half-baked and half educated human being always thinks imaturely,and i am ready to believe you if you pinpoint a single Ghanaian zongo where the sharia laws is practiced

  • Shakir 9 years ago

    the problem with nima maamobi is
    education..
    competition
    home.
    lack initiative.
    we like to enjoy but not ready to suffer for it.this piece is a serious issue. I also have been thinking about it. I always think of how ...
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  • ST. SIMON 9 years ago

    POLITICS HAS RENDERED EVERY GOVT TO ABANDON HARD DECISIONS. DEVOID OF POLITICS, A COL. MINYILA TRANSFORMED THE FACE OF THE ZONGO IN KOFORIDUA IN THE 70S.JUST TOUCH NIMA AND MAAMOBI IN THE NAME OF DEVELOPMENT AND YOU WILL SEE ...
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  • Kwame VS Kofi 9 years ago

    LAW-FREE-ZONE. Sharia is the only Law respected in a Zongo. The doubeling of a Zongo-Community, when it comes to it`s citizens takes place within 4 Years. Just look at Kasoa for example, here you see Mousa speaking Imams sell ...
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  • ABU 9 years ago

    IGNORANCE IS A DISEASE AND YOURS IS INCURABLE IAND I PRAY YOU DO NOT CONTAMINATE OTHERS INTO YOUR FRAY.WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN YOU AND THE BOKO HARAMISTS?

  • Life 9 years ago

    In the early 1980s l found out the late Prez. Kwame Nkrumah had a plan for Nima and Maamobi at city engineers. That location Nima and Maamobi is called South Kanda Estate.

  • ' and Jesus wept ' 9 years ago

    The original plan of Nkrumah was to relocate them to Madina and then build high risers coupled with amenities in those areas. But the destroyers did not let his plan see daylight.

  • SENDERO 9 years ago

    No! Nkrumah made th emistake of paying them the money BEFORE! effecting his Madina plan. They took the money and never moved. So many people from Nima have houses in Madina but the plans for Madina never took off because by 1 ...
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  • Mohammed Ali kausara 9 years ago

    You just hit the nail right on the head! am not saying our religious leaders shouln't preach spirituality but matters happening in the society is very disturbing! Besides, if their social lives are corrupt, how will their sp ...
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  • ADONGOBA AKOLOGU 9 years ago

    Very disturbing indeed when you think about the fact that these two suburbs are next door to the presidency and privileged parts of Accra

  • panther 9 years ago

    brother jajah keep on writing about it. i hope one day someone will help to bring this problems of nima and maamobi to order. most of we were from nima and maamobi thank you bro.

  • dahlin 9 years ago

    i grew up in nima but will surely thank the authorities to demolish that area

  • GLORIA 9 years ago

    where are the moslem leaders in the communities. its a real pity. like seriously .........................

  • GoatEater 9 years ago

    The problem with so-called ZONGOS is leadership. The filth, sex, drugs are all parts of a lager national problem, which will take national policies to resolve. Relocating these communities will be a national tragedy, and the ...
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  • ABU 9 years ago

    Chorr,Bukom,Sodom and Gomorah are all in Accra,and all eyesores

  • nsem pii 9 years ago

    Majority of them are those that when you go to bed u are afraid off? They will point gun at you and your family?

  • Jude M 9 years ago

    Thanks for something like this. You scratched the surface of Nima-Mamobi's problem. But there is more to that. Some of the inhabitants of this place at times delibrately distroy the life of their children. A good example is a ...
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