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Just30:
They are but it hasn't solved it...
Tema does not have traffic...The motorway has....


The problem is, every year, car ownership increase by a massive number as young people join the middle class... But the roads can't widen up..

The demographic of people owning cars current are not the ones who are willing to park their cars and join public transport...

Moving around with public transport is super expensive..
An in and out journey from Kasoa to Tema cost 30 cedis. Meanwhile if I move my car, a journey like that is convenient and will only cost me less than 70 for fuel...
My young sis spend 25 cedis a day in and out to UPSA... So I will most definitely use my car to drop her off when ever I'm around because it is cost effective and convenient..

BRT, monorail, Sky train and etc will not solve that unless they are willing to drop fares below...
They won't be able to drop fares because transport unions will protest and sue on unfair practice grounds.


Now tell me which you prefer ....

Upsa should be thinking technological.


Your sis should be able to join the class thru zoom meeting with less than 3 cedis data.

popizaino:
No one is ridiculing Accra and I won't deny the city hasn't seen a lot of development in recent years but to say it is more developed than her counterparts in the sub region is disingenuous itself. The dust and general unorganised nature of the city itself will always give it away. Accra is only hyped as been developed by Ghanaians themselves or foreigners who haven't taken time to visit other African countries, but the moment they do, all this hype begin to fade away and I have seen this play out so many times on comment sections of most blogs and videos.Until Accra begin to flush those informal trading that is seen at every nook and cranny of the city and put measures on zoning, paving of inner roads it will always be playing catch up to Lagos and Abidjan.

informal sector is an anchor of development in west africa state and it is presence in every part of west africa including cape verde which might be considered most developed west africa state .

I will not say Accra is better than Lagos neither will I say Lagos is better than Accra but indeed at this time, private sector are actually doing well in Accra , and the real estate development is catching up comparable to many africa city. Per development, Accra has supercede Abidjan long time ago. By fitchratings, the construction and industry value of Ghana is currently worth 9billion and that of ivory coast is around 5 billion dollar. Per capital wise , Ghana even did well than both Nigeria and kenya which are 55 and 10 billion respectively.

Informal sector in Ghana has come to stay as it is seen as one of the most effective way to relax extreme hunger and poverty. Government should rather developed a framework that will help in developing informal market so that both employee and employer can be carry along in the development of the country and again , the kind of informal market established in Kumasi is also needed in Accra . Four of it in Accra and two in Kumasi can be very interesting.

Construction Industry and Value

Nigeria - $55 billion

Ghana - $9 billion

Ivory Coast - $5 billion

Kenya - $10 billion

Ethiopia - $26 billion

Source: @FitchRatings

This is kejetia market in Kumasi . It is purely informal. Likewise , I agree with you on the paving of inner roads .


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sod3tYI-fEM

popizaino:
What Accra has over this places is just PR or else Accra would struggle to meet up with Lome self,talk more of Lagos and Abidjan. Outside the tiny Airport area down to cantoment the majority of the whole accra is what one could easily described as a slumpolis. Accra that is like market centre, dust everywhere as if it's a mining town.

this is intended to redicule the city . Anyway it is not true, east legon, west legon , abelekmpe, roman ridge , tressaco and some I can't easily remember upfront are considerably to any developed City.( They are not cantonment or airport city) And I can tell you , you will have to be well loaded to live in those areas .

Abidjan and Lagos as you are trying to project as nothing over Accra apart from the vast presence of commerce in Lagos which was a result of population .

As for Togo, lome is not doing bad lately, until it cashed up with northern Ghana capital Tamali then I will consider your seriousness.

popizaino:
How on earth did I miss the emboldened, guess Lagos and Abidjan are both in Europe if Accra is the most developed city in west Africa .

I will always disagree with you... Abidjan is never develop than Accra and so is Lagos . But maybe more buildings which was a direct result of more population.

Ghana has gross international reserves of $11 billion. This is enough for about 5 months import.

— Bank of Ghana.


The yelutide season does not have any strength on the cedis ......

AfriqueDuZuid:
Mobile internet Ghana is behind several countries but still ahead of Kenya

based on some information available online, it is above that of south africa , on some table, it is just below south africa in entire 54 africa state .

AfriqueDuZuid:
2021

it supprised to see Ghana having the leading internet speed in africa just behind SA.

Mkenya2019:
All good except in Nairobi you do not need any heating or cooling in your house or car - so that is why Nairobi great weather is one of reason pulling many foreigners to live and invest in it. Nairobi has plenty of water around it including many streams flowing in it. The name itself mean a place of cold waters.

Accra has two problems weather-wise - trophical heat with humidity - mean it's tend to get very sweaty and nasty - you need cooling systems, tonnes of water in those polythene bags and name it to survive- and secondly it's flat - meaning you have to deal with flooding occasionally.

The worst part - Accra like west africa cities - are devoid of trees to provide some cover from all that heat and sun.

As for Nairobi and Accra - development wise - dont even compare the two. It's not even comparable.

To allow hawkers or informal traders to basically colonize streets like in west africa, set up in fronts of shops, and basically overrun the city - will mean killing formal sector or stunting it - leading to situations you find in west africa - with almost no private sector worth talking about.

In Europe and elsewhere - hawkers or informal traders are allowed to set up on specific days or times - they are not accepted as way of life.

This model Nairobi need to adopt - instead of banning hawking - they should be allowed to set up says in the evening on some streets - and on weekends.

Nairobi is as dry as hell. A city where the normal life style is to labour for water (the basic of life) will never be consider a developed City in any standard. In Nairobi people struggle daily for water, this in turn generate a new job for the average Nairobians who see hawking water in a yellow Jerry can as daily source of living. This is timid and dirty . I will never want to experience such a life. Despite Nairobi semi india colony,she still lacks the aroma of what will satisfy investors. Nothing there to explore apart from the tourism sector .

I suggest you shift your capital city to Mombasa, that city appeal to me as a land of hope. You can't be living in city you are consider third class. For instance, the best part of Nairobi are owned by the indians and your elite while the rest are left for you third class citizens to struggle within. Kenya in general is so dry, so rain will not be expected so much . And such a country is just like a living hell. I can't magine living in a country for four months without a rain . This is cursed . How will you not be poor or hungry, the condition of living is not sustainable.


And again,why is kenya seasonal rainy season keep falling? This is a serious question that begs government answer.

There is hawking presence in Nairobi and the reason much people are not embracing it as it in Accra is due to fund . Kenyans are broke , the only source of funds in kenya is thru the banking system and the former structure. Here. Even money can be obtain from the most vulnerable people . In Ghana, a roadside food vendor maybe able to live very comfortable than the guy in suits with a 8am to 5pm job. They have so many ways of raising funds among themselves . Susu money ( and informal money that depicts saving and loan, cooperative System , daily contribution and so on.


Nairobi must solved her problem with Nairobi solution. Even if she must borrowed , it must be tailored to the interest of his people . Just don't copy blindly.

Mkenya2019:
Cold= altitude - most East Africa cities are in hilly areas with many mountains like Mt Kenya, Kilimanjaro, Elgon, Ruwenzori, Meru and of course Ethiopia highlands.

Kenya has very varied climatic condition because it confluence of Sahara desert/congo trophic rainforest/coastal climate - so in a single day - you can move from Mombasa with Accra like climate to Nairobi that tends to get cold - to even cold places as Mt kenya has snow cap - tend you end up in very hot places - in northern kenya - some hotter than anything west africa - to deserts - to my place in Kericho where is rain hailstorms almost every week.

As regard homelessness/slums - Nairobi is planned formal city - where informal business is illegal - hawking/selling on streets - you get arrested or brutalized by police - the same with erecting any structure without proper approvals - this therefore creates pockets of poverty - slums with extremely poor people. You will see many street kids and families in Nairobi.

Rwanda is even worse - they basically deport any poor person or homeless at night to rural places - they totally disallow any informal business. Rwanda therefore has a "fake" city facade.

Kenya need to find a balance btw allowing West Africa like mess - for people to hawk or eke their living - while maintaining law and order.

while Accra is typically tropical, rain forest zone. Humid and hot . Somehow , this is part of the reason we produce a very considerable amount of Cocoa and lots of timber. Nairobi’s on the other hand is mild and dry due to high altitude . I will prefer to live in the former , I love rain forest zone . There is usually a lot of water available.This is not to say we don't have hills in the country as well, some place like aburi in Ghana is as cold as some enclave of italy. This is a montaineous area too..


Nairobi is not in anyway plan, the
aka development ( sky scraper ) started less than 21 years ago. And for the fact that Ghana is not allowing a apartheid style of such development doesn't mean she is not developing too , Ghana cannot allow some place to look like mahantan and another half as Soweto. It is a choice the framer of our constitution made .

Ghana is a complete package of uniform development not cosmetic. You can even see wealthy individual living in the ghetto. Our president has a house in Nima ( one of Ghana famous slum)..

And again, if you are doing little for the homeless then you are not developed. Some people cannot be living in skyscraper while majority are simply homeless....


You better find a way of carrying the less privilege along because the government cannot cater for everyone, Greece is an european city. well developed and plan since the days of plato yet they're so many hawkers and informal business going on.

Mkenya2019:
One more compulsory watch for JustMad at 30 and other Ghanians. Ghana is way below Kenya in many things. This true from all bloggers whove been to both countries.

As regard food - I think this very true for many foreigners coming to kenya - say the same - Kenya food is not spicy - definitely kenyans do not like chilli - and so they find kenya food plain. Kenya also after many years adopted mostly asian-indian food as their own.

You mean the black america who missed her geography class? Who never knew some part of africa are just exactly cold as it is in europe . morroco, Algeria are just exactly as spain and italy same as some asia country.

And when it comes to development,I am sure She is measuring skyscraper. The too much homeless people of Nairobi contradict the word development. She cannot be saying the same thing at a time .


What again does she mentioned?

vankelvin:
They never disappoint when it comes to matters of common sense

A dog reaching the age of marriage OR a dog giving consent? how f^^lish can a grown up man be?

Very soon a tree will give consent to marriage too

You can imagine such madness, I am sure he is among the idiot who will be willing to give his first daughter to scavenger � for marriage.

Saddamochieng00:
I already told you to stay out of people's businesses. Did you by any chance see the dog resisting marrying the woman. If not keep shut and carry on with your life.

I see the level of your madness. You keep on repeating gabbage, No one cares even if you sleep with your daughter or mother , but it will become a problem of society when it started affecting the fabric of society. Particularly when majority of the people frowned upon it.

At first, facebook is just a simply nobody business but now America senators (congress )is now investigating it when they realised it is now affecting american youth and their children. It is now everybody worries in the us.

Saddamochieng00:
If the dog has reached the age of consent and was willing to marry the lady then wheres the problem. You guys like to make such a big deal out of such things. Focus on your own life brother, let other people live theirs.

what a stupid injunction. ""If the dog reached the age of consent and was willing to marry the lady"" how do you measure this and arrive at this madness .

The real reason LGBT must be banned to exist.

This is a marriage between a dog and a woman. And one idiot say will should allowed them because it is based on consent.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_piS8r-zw5U

Mkenya2019:
Compare yourself to Togo and similar small countries. Kenya in many things apart from minerals is simply miles ahead. Your big zoo has no hope - how can little Ghana even compete.

You see the South Africans starting to catch feelings already.

apart from running race , you are not doing anything better than Ghana .

Mkenya2019:
When Nigeria start flying their sick to Accra talk. You have exported all your doctors. Best hospital ? You guys got small country jokes. Not even a Togolese will bring their sick to Accra.

Togolese ex leader gave up in Accra Ghana ( 37 millitary hospital) and one of Nigeria billionaire ""lulu briggs also give up here.

And when it comes to medical tourism, Ghana is a good host to many citizens of west africa .

Korle bu teaching hospital in Accra is the third biggest referral center in africa .

Mkenya2019:
Ghana Single Spine Salary Structure - you answers are all there.

stop being stupid, what I want Is fact not noise .

And mind you, the private doctors in Ghana too also enjoy brilliantly.

Medically, we are mecca of west africa, host to some of the best hospital on the continent , host to the second largest hopsital in africa in space and land ( the largest is in south africa), having some of the most beautiful hospital around, a well above the world health organization limit of nurses to patient ratio and our pharmaceutical industry is also doing well.much more bigger than kenya in terms of market size .

Mkenya2019:
There has been no significant change to warrant all that drama. Find credible data. Simply get me your single salary thing for medical doctor - and I can similarly get you credible gov salary structure.

Then we can move to private doctors.

Then we move to specialist/consultancy

Trust me I have studied enough of the data to know your mini zoos cannot match kenya salary scale.

The onus is on you, you claimed your doctor earned more than their Ghanaian counterpart and yet you can't substantiate it with enough evidence. The only evidence you can rely is an outdated and Ill prepared evidence of a Nigerian blogger who indicate senior doctors in Ghana earn less than their junior ones. Very abnormal like you.

I am expecting you to provide a very reliable evidence so that I can exposed the idiot that you are .

You are just a bingo

Mkenya2019:
When 2019 become old - then I know you're running on empty.
You gov doctors can barely make 1,000usd a month. That what our nurse entry point salary in gov payroll.
Our specialist earn as much as US.
Our kenya doctors salary are equivalent to South Africa.

This guy have done a good job - rather than your randomly picking some site. Nothing much has changed btw 2019 and now.

Conclusion - Kenya and South Africa doctors earn about 3,500. Ghana is less than 1,000usd.
https://nimedhealth.com.ng/2019/10/27/doctors-salary-scale-in-all-the-55-african-countries/

you are simply an idiot many thing as happen from 2019 to this period , for example , your shilling has plummeted against the dollar . You will have to make about 110 shilling to make a dollar , in 2019, it is less than 95 shillings . Cedis also fall but not on such contrast,

So by exchange rate , the compilations is wrong, the only fact we can used is your current exchange rate not the one provided by the Nigerian blogger you quoted , nonetheless, The blog even put your lowest rate at 400 dollar and that of Ghana at 635.

I also notice some caricature in the blog, it says senior doctor in Ghana earn less than juniour doctor. Very stupid like you.

Mkenya2019:
You a country is a joke. Never compare kenya salaries with Ghana. It simply not comparable. Kenya is far ahead of your zoos - that is why few kenya proffesional take jobs offer from abroad.

It quite simple - go to your Sphire thing - Single Salary Structure - and get me what your doctors earn. I do not want to go private doctors in kenya who earn as much if not more than US doctors.

https://nimedhealth.com.ng/2019/10/27/doctors-salary-scale-in-all-the-55-african-countries/

you are always a known professional idiot . Stop using outdated researched. That is 2019, I gave you 2020 to 2021 structure . And stop relying on falsified information.

Private doctors in Ghana surely earns bigger than kenya , I can as well point it out to your glaucoma eyes .


Your country is broke

Mkenya2019:
Dont ever compare any Ghana salary with Kenya. There is a reason why kenya proffesional do not emigrate abroad in such numbers as Ghana.

A medical intern in kenya earns more than any of your doctors. They start at 2,000usd in medical internationship per month - that is 24,000 per year

An internship license issued by the Kenya Medical Practitioners and Dentists Board is necessary to work as an intern doctor. As per the structure of doctors’ salaries, intern doctors salary in Kenya starts from KSH 207,000 per month inclusive of allowances.

Ghana joke

Avg. gross salary (USD) Avg. gross salary
Permanent US$ 16,394 GHS 66,703
Contract US$ 19,131 GHS 86,000
Self Employed US$ 2,644 GHS 12,000
Part Time US$ 3,919 GHS 9,950

stop the lying . Using salary export web report. The fact are screenshots below.

A little insert into Ghana exchange rate shows Ghana doctors is earning more than kenya doctors.

Mkenya2019:
Enough not to want to emigrate abroad.

shut up, your doctor are not earning better than their Ghanaian counterpart. i have already look upon it.

Mkenya2019:
What is huge salary Put it in cedis or dollars so we can laugh. Every Ghanian dream it to escape abroad because your salary are simply crap. Kenyan proffesional are paid almost equal if not more than countries abroad.

No self respecting kenya doctor will ever immigrate abroad. Or kenya lawyer. Simply IMPOSSIBLE.

How much does an average Doctor earns in kenya?

Mkenya2019:
I have watched two documentaries. One by Guardian and by ALjazeera. Your country is a ZOO

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohrrE1rjzLo&t=734s

kenya is a hell in this regard. Check what a fellow kenya say?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-5npo2csE8

Mkenya2019:
Kenya is miles ahead of Ghana. You're doing worse than Uganda in manufacturing.

you are poorer man. Industrialization, no significant record shows you are doing better than Ghana. Infact, suggestion shows Ghana might be doing well than kenya. For example, Ghana pharmaceutical industry is bigger than that of kenya.

And again, you country has become more poorer, you used to have a bigger GDP per capital than that of india and china way back, you have set another poverty record track. From 32 to 37 percent , inequality has also skyrocket , unemployment ,I don't want to even talk about it. Your country is in a mess .

Mkenya2019:
AID is free. Why would you be indebted. Is that why your named the road after George Bush. Ghana is darling of donors.

indebted in this case means gratitude zombie. You are kickball for both usa and China . You will forever remain indebted to them.

vankelvin:
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I will not go back and forth with a clown like you.

At least you can hit the Google and see for yourself how Ghanaian Politicians were the ones crying for their seized and burnt machines... Those Chinese guys were mute.

No foreigner can enter into another country and indulge in such illegal activity without the help of the locals....

The illegal Gold minig activities in Ghana is being led by Ghanaian Politicians, Chiefs and some rich Ghanaians..

They brought those Chinese guys into the country because they know how to mine the Gold faster..

if there is no break or crack on the wall, lizard will not penetrate .

Mkenya2019:
Quick Google search - Ghana imports mostly industrial supplies, capital and consumer goods and foodstuffs. - PRIMITIVE ECONOMY
Versus

Kenya
Kenya imports mostly machinery and transportation equipment, petroleum products, motor vehicles, iron and steel, resins and plastics. Kenya main import partners are India, China, UAE, South Africa, Saudi Arabia, United States and Japan.

idiot , but your economy is not advanced than that of Ghana. You are mainly agrarian not even the industrial one , and we are both agrarian and miners.

Mkenya2019:
This will certainly help you outgrow AID dependency - which you gov has identified as your major stratagem. Kenya had AID cuts in 90s for human rights violation and we outgrew AID dependancy. Rwanda recently got it AID cut and they are slowly building their country.

For Ghana it would be a chance to start growing your own taxes. I am not sure how you will tax your informal economy.

Yet the same kenya is still heavily indebted to AID. Kenya is the current highest receiver of foreign AID in sub saharan africa ...

Taxes is a just an aspect of growing economy, not the real deal. saudi arabia and united Arab Emirates are good example of what nations can do without taxing citizens to heaven, nevertheless , I am not saying Ghana should not tax his citizens but not to the neck.

Informal sector can be targeted thru value added tax as it is known and used in Ghana .

Mkenya2019:
Pass that law - and see how quickly you will transition to Ghana Beyond AID - 30yrs before your target 2050 year - all the aid will be cut pronto.

Aid has never really help any nation to develop in the actual sense . The law will be passed. That is certainly sure. Infact it will rather open Ghana to more prosperity.

South africa industrialization started when she was put under sanctioned by the West .

Sanctioning might really help.

Mkenya2019:
Larry actually had incredible patience to interview such a primitive idiot in 21st century. He should have simply told him that his an appalling uncivilized hateful mofo and ended the interview pronto.

He was primitive according to your dreary cerebrum, yet he was able to articulate his position on the bill very well and in the process educate the lame lazy larry on the bill he himself failed to understand. Something must be wrong with kenya educational system
.

If rejecting such a bill to you is primitive , then accepting it to me is a typical symptom of lunatic in a society that frowned upon it .

Mkenya2019:
Ghana Bonobos trying to pass Anti-LGBT bills; Pure primitives.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sPcTO2mv6o

You can see how feeble the Kenya journalist mind was? so poorly unprepared .


You don't ask emotional question, on this kind of topic, your question must be scientific and logical.