Dr. Bawumia unveils Ghana's first electric bus fleet, promising 40-50% transport cost reduction

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  • Kwadwo 3 months ago

    If you like go and unveil the Sea and the sky you will still lose. Useless man

  • GOD BLESS THE NPP GOVERNMENT! 3 months ago

    WELL DONE YOUR EXCELLENCY DOCTOR DIGITAL BAWUMIA THE ANOINTED ONE! WITH DOCTOR BAWUMIA GHANAIANS WILL NEVER GO BACK FOR 419 NKOKO NKETE NKETE! IF AKONFEM COULD FLY TO BURKINA THEN NKOKO NKETE NKETE WILL TO UKRAINE.

  • Rex 3 months ago

    Why now? Even an idiot wouldn't be wrong to say it's only meant for vote solicitation, why didn't you unveil electric buses to help the people all these yrs but have chosen to do so at a time that you are desperately looking ...
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  • FRANKIE 3 months ago

    How many buses? Culture of mediocrity galore. Isn't this, if true, the job of the minister of transport? I say eh..... The number of people who will vote for Bawumia will determine the number of lunatics we have in Ghana.

  • Unpredictable Oye Onye Kwasi Atta 3 months ago

    Bawumia's campaign must focus on the economic stupid he made us to believe he's the only remaining crèmè de la crèmè in Ghana

  • PRINCE KWASI ADADE (OFIE P33) 3 months ago

    AUTHOR: Unknown—————
    MAHAMA!! MAHAMA!! WHAT PROJECT DID YOU FINISH IN YOUR FIRST TERM AFTER CHOPING $24 BILLION IN LOANS?
    You added $24Billion to our national debt and did very little with it but just chopped it b ...
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  • Atsu, Ho 3 months ago

    We need to do more on this sector. This can be a good starting point. Depoliticise such Important things

  • Bili 3 months ago

    Please if you believe that we should not do politics with this, I will like to know what happened to the AYALOLO BUSES that JDM brought. Just take a look at our roads, A government that implemented a YEAR OF ROADS but our roa ...
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  • Kweku Tsin 3 months ago

    The problem is, it is not a starting point. This proposed show-off project will be abandoned once elected.

  • Stephen Donkor, New York! 3 months ago

    @ FRANKIE:
    WAO! BAWUMIA KEEPS ADDING MORE TO HIS THRONG OF ACHIEVEMENTS!

    THE TALE OF THE TAPES BETWEEN BAWUMIA AND JOHN MAHAMA

    BAWUMIA’S ACHIEVEMENTS AND INVENTIONS
    1. National Identification Card — Bawumia
    2. ...
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  • Enyo 3 months ago

    Name one thing Mahama or anything other president has commissioned that was not understand one ministry or the other? How many buses? Did you see the word PILOT in the article?

  • IN THE ERA OF THE KYEBI BABOON 3 months ago

    Anytime I see an animal like @Stephen Donkey talking, I get no illusions at all why he'd be brainlessly following Akuffo Addo, that certificateless baboon from the Kyebi forest. That lunatic octogenarian will always have some ...
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  • Boris Bukari 3 months ago

    @ in the era of the kyebi baboon, u haven't learnt lessons yet, u use to say these things during the 2008, 2012, 2016, 2020, n nothing happened yet u still continue with these which doesn’t move the discerning Ghanaian. Pl ...
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  • Nagasaki 3 months ago

    NPP akromfuor nkwasiafuor amanbofuor! You are certainly out of government!! You only have two weeks for your fate to be made clear to you. Wicked, evil, and diabolic regime

  • Nii 3 months ago

    Give John Mahama this opportunity and he would ask Ato Forson & Richard Jakpa to import home used Electric Buses.Wicked Criminals

  • Stephen Donkor, New York! 3 months ago

    @ Nii:
    DID BAWUMIA BRAND THESE BUSES FOR $ 3 MILLION?

    Ooo! Nii you are too charitable to John Nketenkete Mahama. If you give him the opportunity he will import buses that on Adwengo ( Palm Kennel oil) and brand them with ...
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  • Enyo 3 months ago

    Why should it be yesterday? It's good things that win votes and not the timing!!

  • ST Ghfuo: OKRAKU AND OTO MUST GO, NOW!!!!!! 3 months ago

    Electronic bused over boneshaker pothole roads = owuo. Gh leaders thieves n fools

  • Kilogram 3 months ago

    @Rex, don't think like that. You you sound unintelligent. It took more than 2 years to finalise the concept, negotiate with relevant stakeholders, place orders etc. Most of the projects being commissioned now were started 4 ...
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  • Joe 3 months ago

    I would say better late than never. Did mahama ever dream of introducing electric buses?

  • Boris Bukari 3 months ago

    To ease transport cist when else did u expect this to happen?

  • Osaberima manesah 3 months ago

    God is not to be mocked, what have they done in the wasted eight years that JDM didn't do in his only three and half years as president?

    FELLOW GHANAIANS, VOTE NUMBER 8 FOR DEVELOPMENT AND BETTER LIVING STANDARD.

  • Ama 3 months ago

    Under John Dramani Mahama he brought in inflated high cost Ayallolo buses.The cost of the buses were so expensive that the business collapsed the very day they set it up.

  • Kote kese3 3 months ago

    This man is so desperate for the seat. More buses on the road, meanwhile major accidents in Ghana is causing by poor roads. Have u guys even thought of the heavy traffic? Mmoa

  • Stephen Donkor, New York! 3 months ago

    @ Gyimii Kesie:
    AKUFFO-ADDO IS DEVELOPING THE RAILROAD SECTOR AND PUTTING MORE BIGGER ENERGY EFFICIENT BUSES ON ROAD, AND THAT’S THE BEST WAY TO CURB TRAFFIC!

    Do you know about the ( DRIP)? The District Roads Improveme ...
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  • Djata Ba 3 months ago

    Haha skin pain Akwaaba

  • 8 YEARS KUFFUOR DID NOTHING FOR ASHANTIS 8 YEARS FOR NANA ADDO NOTHING 3 months ago

    DUMSOR AND NOT ELECTRIC. WHERE CAN IT EVEN WORK. THIS MAN IS MENTALLY UNWELL

  • Enyo 3 months ago

    You vex oh you no vex he go unveil/commission things. You said he has done nothing and so he is showing you something!!

  • world 3 months ago

    like yourself animal

  • world 3 months ago

    to kwadwo like yourself animal.

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    God needs your cooperation through the engagement of your skill towards meaningful enterprises - teach your hands to make you rich. Your options are, get a job or setup a business. A business needs CASH capital. If you have n ...
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  • Little by little 3 months ago

    Many traffic lights are not working in Accra ooohh!!

  • Kwaku Tee 3 months ago

    These buses can only do well in our cities if Trotro is taken out of the system. I know GPRTU will fight heaven and earth against these e.veh buses .They have to bring GPRTU on board let them form a company or a cooperative s ...
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  • Akut 3 months ago

    What make are the buses?

  • K mainoo 3 months ago

    Propaganda. This is not the first EV service in Accra. A private firm is already running one from Oyarifa to Accra. Always wanting to take credit for everything.

  • Kwaku Tee 3 months ago

    Good idea but we want more.If all Trotros are banned with about 15 companies. Each company having at least 500 buses all in Accra,cost of transport will drastically go down.We need Bawumia to carry out this exercise.

  • Michael 3 months ago

    If people are complaining about their electricity bills how expensive it' is how can they pay electric bus fare is also going to be expensive so please Ghanaians don't fall for this is not worthy

  • Nii 3 months ago

    @ Michael
    As for NDC Followers No no no they are so empty headed.Even though they are electric buses they run on batteries. They will only use electricity to charge the battery.

  • BRAVO 3 months ago

    some people have bad belly syndrome. Anything good, they don't like it. Just extreme partisanship and hatred. May you win to finish the transformation of our development. God stands for the good Dr.

  • Asonaba asiedu 3 months ago

    3mfa!! Our eyes are now wide opened. You guys have fooled us for far too long.

  • Kay 3 months ago

    @ Asonaba asiedu
    Your eyes may be wide open but bcoz you've drunk gallons of Akatamanso Bitters you won't see Foooko.

  • Kk 3 months ago

    Anyone with thier eyes opened will not vote for a guy who plunged this country unto dumsor for 4 years. You are still blind.

  • Wise Man. 3 months ago

    This is stupid idea and waste of state money.Even advanced countries have lots of problems on this Electric cars and Ghana a country that still struggle with it's Electricity supply for the country.Waste of money.

  • Isaac Amoah-Korang 3 months ago

    Ghana not only Accra. Why is it that every thing is in Accra. The electrical system in Ghana is not good. Bawumia is throwing dust into Ghanaians eyes. When will northern Ghana get such bus.

  • John,Tema 3 months ago

    @ Isaac Amoah-Korang
    My friend if you don't have an idea about a topic don't comment.GOIL,Total Energies etc have already put in plans to import Charging plants.Already there are testing joints in Accra & Kumasi.

  • NY 3 months ago

    The private transport is now the target to kill.

    Please pay ECG for the power being used to charge the buses. Why is the poor person paying for the power use at home and yet these buses are to be powered by ECG for free s ...
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  • Thief of Staff - Akosua Frema 3 months ago

    Another waste of resources which will collapse within 12 months. Corruption galore!!!

  • Emma osew 3 months ago

    Write your comment why some ghanians are ungratful to this gorvment every thing they will kick against it why.

  • Mr Smith 3 months ago

    Emma Osew, if the timing is wrong why shouldn't Ghanaians talk about it. We don't complain for the sake of it but our of concern. How long have we been boarding mini buses by bending down all the way to your seat? Do you call ...
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  • Nana 3 months ago

    Bloody liar bawumia off with Al your fake smile

  • Sam 3 months ago

    Commissioned for the election. I dare you to employ all the Doctors and nurses sitting at home before the election. I dare you.

  • Kobby 3 months ago

    It's like casting your pearls before the swine!

  • Donatus 3 months ago

    Another debt?

  • Proszy 3 months ago

    The NPP thinks there are Smart

  • James 3 months ago

    Now a days you can't even take common tea with your family. The most useless government ever. Only illiterates will vote for NPP

  • Maame Abenah 3 months ago

    Dr. Bawumia, may God sustain you and your family. The little things that you are doing will allow our people to live long. The introduction of electric buses in Ghana will reduce pollution. These electric buses are only the b ...
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  • Atopa 3 months ago

    This Bawumia guy has some autistic features in him.
    Have you ever seen the western world commissioning any development as an achievement of the government? Joker's

  • Stephen Donkor, New York! 3 months ago

    @ Atopa:
    And where in the West have you lived before? Western countries tout their advanced technological achievements more than any other countries. IS ELON MURSK not the newly tapped Trump’s energy efficiency Czar? You b ...
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  • La Pleasure man 3 months ago

    Stephen Donkey, professional asscleaner..

  • Kk 3 months ago

    Infact anyone who votes for the ndc is a nation wrecker. The gap btn DMB and JM is super wide. If you indeed love Ghana then vote DMB.

  • Zakarakis 3 months ago

    The PARADOX of Ghanaians is that, we admire nice things, we love nice things BUT we don't like to maintain them. Take the Circle Interchange for example. It looked fantastic and was dubbed the DUBAI. Go there now and YOU WILL ...
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  • Jay 3 months ago

    It is possible!

  • What!!!!!! 3 months ago

    Ghana cannot even supply electricity to homes and now this! Do you know problems with electric cars? How much batteries cost? What a waste of tax payers money. What are you going to do when this buses break down.

  • Nene O.K 3 months ago

    He can even digitize human being into God-like, we will still vote him out. He's NOT fit to lead this country.

  • How many buses 3 months ago

    How many buses . No reporter seems to mention the total number of buses

  • Agyeman Bonsu 3 months ago

    Bawuliar uses new technologies to fool Ghanaians to think he's bringing novel ideas to show he's modern and advanced and thus sophisticated in his ways and far advanced in his system which can result in sophisticated but simp ...
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  • Francis Nsiah 3 months ago

    I am pleading and appealing that let factor in now the training of mechanical engineers the people who will manage these cars before bring them down

  • EN 3 months ago

    Exactly, rather than seeing new job opportunities with some of the developments coming onstream, many doubters are simply broadcasting their impossibility mentality. Yet, this is how many of the advanced societies have create ...
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  • Joe Tetteh 3 months ago

    Why Adenta? Adenta is a middle class area and this services will be better for lower class communities. It is however, it is brilliant to include the district assembly.

  • Kwame Angel 3 months ago

    We wait to see how long these buses will survive on the road. Too early to pick up a white handkerchief.

  • Kweku Tsin 3 months ago

    Dont hold your breath. The buses were made in china.

  • Kilogram 3 months ago

    @Rex, don't think like that. You you sound unintelligent. It took more than 2 years to finalise the concept, negotiate with relevant stakeholders, place orders etc. Most of the projects being commissioned now were started 4 y ...
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  • Ambijoe Kulbogo 3 months ago

    Gud move de world is moving in de ryt direction. though i dnt support u n ur party retaining power having done so much damage to de economic bt we mst move away fr spending so much on fueling our cars. de electric cars r de ...
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  • Tahiru Fulani 3 months ago

    Ghana here 49℅ reduction in what? Crucify me if that happens.we will not stop being ghanains.

  • Yakubu Fulani. 3 months ago

    Brothers this electric buses , won't solve our problems right now. We need them when the economy is back on its feet where we have money to maintain them. Currently the economy is hard and Bawuliar isn't saying an about resto ...
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  • Ambijoe Kulbogo 3 months ago

    oh yes i agree wid u here bro. ever since he Bawumia started his campaign he hasn't said or mentioned anytin abt de economy. all his talks centered on digitize n i am even wondering someone who once campaign on de economy som ...
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  • Sam Fante warrior. 3 months ago

    If you're Fulani living in Ghana better shut up your smelling mouth and don't open it and talk about Ghanaians loyal matter. If you finish selling your cows just return back to your desert, even if your pregnant came to Ghana ...
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  • Kumbaya 3 months ago

    what happened to the old STC buses that are broken down?
    what of the Ayalolo buses that are waiting to be repaired?

  • Sam Fante warrior. 3 months ago

    I thought Bawumia is just a driver mate and he can't do nothing by himself, and what is boss the drive is doing, now the mate want to drive the whole nation ? Nothing can help this illiterate economy manager this time.

  • pin 3 months ago

    Does he make the buses?

  • Atsu, Ho 3 months ago

    Great initiative. But who classified BEBs as unconventional means of transportation. How can this reduce transport fares. If the buses are going to be charged with electricity from the grid that relies on thermal plants then ...
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  • EN 3 months ago

    With the rate at which DMB is thinking ahead of a lot of Ghanaians, i wont be surprised that these thermal plants will be a thing of the past and solar energy sources will dominate our source of energy into the future.

  • Forest Commander 3 months ago

    This will not tickle anybody. Bawumia can bring angel horse from heaven to fly with people free of charge, it won't change our minds. We are voting him and his gang of thieves out for looting this country all this while. The ...
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  • Super 3 months ago

    Idiotic move, you'll still lose the elections.

  • K.K 3 months ago

    You can even promise heaven still you'll lose.

  • Kwesi 3 months ago

    It's possible ampa!!

  • God 1st 3 months ago

    How many did he bring?

  • Mad dog 3 months ago

    Someone I know has also promised legalising okada ...shallow minded!!!

  • Sul 3 months ago

    WE REASON PAAAA BAWUMIA......WE ARE ALL NOT STUPID

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  • Manni 3 months ago

    9billion debt left for ndc and was 122billion when left. Do the maths. That's 13 times what they met. NPP is currently on 760billion right? Multiply 13 times by the 122billion ndc left. It will be trillions if Mahama was stil ...
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  • Chris 3 months ago

    It’s possible

  • Apuuuuuuu!!! 3 months ago

    Bawumia, I am surprise still you don't have shame. Ghanaians know you to be a liar so if you have something to do, then do it now. We don't have time for your nonsense lies. Why, still you are taking covid tax? Are you and N ...
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  • Naa Adorkor 3 months ago

    Eeeiiii… As driver or driver’s mate?

  • True Ghanaian 3 months ago

    Cost of transport is not only fuel. The EV buses are way more expensive than the fuel ones. How is the govt going to recoup the initial investment if fares are reduced by 40-50%?

  • AGATAPORE (SANDEMA) 3 months ago

    These Busses are borrowed from Tanzania for an election show. They will evaporate like a mirage after elections. Do not fall for it. Tell him to fix the ECONOMY.

  • BAWULAIR THE FOOLISH VICE PRESIDENT OF GHANA 3 months ago

    You cannot fool Ghanaians this time with your foolishness just to win votes. You have failed as the vice president and the head of the economic management team, so how do you expect Ghanaians to entrust their destiny into the ...
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  • OSAFO KANTANKA 3 months ago

    These guy will do anything to win votes to continue to damage the country. Useless and pathetic politicians.

  • Ghana baa 3 months ago

    Sometimes I feel sad talking about this government... Is as if they don't read or care to know what is going on the country though they are at the lead position of the country where direction policies are put in place to serv ...
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  • Papa 3 months ago

    He is a liar. He did that during Covid. He just wants to be president like Nana Addo. And his wife wants to be First Lady.

  • Edzrekese 3 months ago

    Hahaha it is porkssible. Ajeeii !!

  • Chinchinga 3 months ago

    Electric buses and cars cannot travel far distances so it is not cost efficient. Come again.

  • ChrisDag 3 months ago

    As we suffer 'dumsor, you want to take away some more power for charging Buses?

  • Ibrahimfusssni@gmail.com 3 months ago

    You can't change our mind

  • John B 3 months ago

    My fellow Ghanaians, please do not fall into it.For long are we going to think about knowing to solved problems, we have some busses that are abandoned and we even don't know how to fix them.Let us focus on economy that is mo ...
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  • John B 3 months ago

    My fellow Ghanaians, please do not fall into it.For how long are we going to think about knowing to solved problems, we have some busses that are abandoned and we even don't know how to fix them.Let us focus on economy that i ...
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