Buildings are in ruin and are in need of serious rejuvenation. Night life and areas of decent entertainment are speeding towards extinction.

Aside the conspiratorial agenda of the recent NDC government to sideline the city, Kumasi’s decline can also be attributed to the citizens disregard to simple by-laws and misplaced sense of entitlement. The monarchy, the local assemblies and the city’s elite have failed to capitalise on the extreme goodwill they enjoy to lead the modernisation drive. I call on Manhyia Palace to live up to its role and be the catalyst for Kumasi and Ashanti’s industrialisation agenda.

Strong manufacturing base drives the growth of a city and it is pathetic that the overlords of the city and the region haven’t prioritise this.

Manufacturing is where decent jobs are created and taxes generated for local governments. It must be a matter of great concern that a city of this population size does not have an aggressive agenda to attract factories and industries. Foreign goods have a near monopoly of our cities’ markets.

Asantehene must realise that he risks superintending over a precipitous decline of the capital city he inherited. Every reign has its own battles to fight and there’s a new war upon us. It threatens the continued relevance of this once formidable kingdom. We are at war against extreme economic decline, unemployment, poverty and ignorance.

Otumfuor Osei Tutu II, Nana, put on your armour, get your generals in line. Your city and your Kingdom must win this war.By David A.

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By David A. Masterwille

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The sirens are usually used to warn of extreme weather events such as tornadoes.

“All 156 sirens in the city were activated last night – it does appear at this time that it was a hack,” a spokeswoman for the city told reporters.

The noise “woke up a lot of people”, she added.

The sirens were activated at 23:42 local time (04:42 GMT) on Friday and lasted for about 90 minutes.

Some posted footage online in which the sirens can clearly be heard.

Technicians for the Office of Emergency Management were eventually able to shut the warning system down and find what they said was evidence that the siren system had been hacked.

“We do believe that the hack came from the Dallas area,” a city statement said.

Last year, someone hacked into a number of traffic signs in Dallas and used them to publish jokes. There has been no suggestion that the same people were involved in the sirens incident.

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Source: BBC

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