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NPP was so shortsighted in building Flagstaff House

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  • OH GHFUO, WHY SO PRIMITIVE? 11 years ago

    PUT SOME VEGETATION AROUND THE BUILDING. PUT A BLACK METAL FENCE AROUND THE BUILDING. SOME TREES AROUND THE BUILDING WILL BE NICE. ITS TOO BARE...OH GH...DABEN..NA OUR MINDS GO OPEN?

  • JIMMY 11 years ago

    THE CHOPPED HALF OF THE MONEY

  • ASARE 11 years ago

    TOO URGLY FOR TORIST

  • IVY 11 years ago

    really need to be hiden from the public

  • JERRY 11 years ago

    ACCRA IS TOO NICE FOR THIS PALACE

  • gina London 11 years ago

    insult to our beloved fine president mahama

  • OFF CASE 11 years ago

    This useless govt called NDC ruled for over 20yrs they could not even renovate the castle but they have the guts to talk about the Jubilee house,for over 20 yrs that they ruled could they address the water and electricity pro ...
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  • CITIZEN ONE 11 years ago

    At a very low cost this building can be encased in a modern architecture marble wall. Even if only the frontal view undergoes such remodeling. I can do it all for a few bucks.

    Like I said somewhere else, I have seen about ...
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  • OFF CASE 11 years ago

    You are the most ignorant and hallucinating soul citizen one Kuffour did not renovate the flagstaff house as his personal property of only for NPP,Mr ignorant citizen one he built it for subsequent Presidents after him to use

  • Goldcoastian 11 years ago

    You have answered your question 'who are you Voltarian to try to tame Ghana'. The Ndc who after 24 years reign cannot boost of anything will be disrespecting itself if moves to the Jubilee house.
    How many more years is it go ...
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  • PRINCE KWASI ADADE 11 years ago

    FORGET ABOUT THE SLAVERY CONNECTION. PEOPLE USED TO DREAD THE NAME OSU CASTLE, MANY GHANAIANS WERE TORTURED THERE BY THE AFRC, P/NDC REVOLUTIONARY DOGS. IT WAS THE PLACE WHERE OUR PRESIDENT, ATTA MILLS MET HIS DEATH, WHICH IS ...
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  • The African Patriot 11 years ago

    What has former president JJ Rawlings did during his overtime regime against humanity? PNDC and later NDC ruled this country more than any other government. What is the legacy till date for Ghanaians a part from destracting t ...
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  • BONSO 11 years ago

    ZILCH - FROM RAWLINGS AND CO TO THIS BLOATED GOON FROM GONJA...

    AREN'T THEY ASHAMED ALWAYS INAUGURATING PROJECTS BUILT BY NPP?

    WHAT DID THEY DO IN THEIR LAST 4 YEARS
    EXCEPT BRIBERY OF VOTERS WITH LAP TOPS AND OUTBOARD ...
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  • Nyameasem 11 years ago

    How many times or when we will agree that NDCs are doing blame game for votes. they normal say they devoid of ethnic politic but they are.

  • HUMBLE 11 years ago

    WHEN WILL GHANAIAN POLITICIANS & THEIR LAZY PARASITES CALLING THEMSELVES COMMUNICATION TEAM STOP USING THEIR SENSES TO SPEAK INSTEAD OF THEIR STOMACH. THIS SAM GEORGE MAN IS A SHAME TO HIS FAMILY & GHANA THAT HE CAN'T SEE NOR ...
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  • Samora 11 years ago

    Its true that Mahama is a fine man but unfortunately he is as corrupt, morally deficient and as dumb as an ox. It is therefore no wonder that hefinds it comfortable to be in the NDC with types like Okudjeto Ablakwa, Nii Lante ...
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  • GHANA FIRST 11 years ago

    why cant you do something a little for yourself?
    npp has built ndc plan trees simple and short

  • KKK 11 years ago

    WHICH GOVERNMENT BUILDING AROUND THE WORLD IS LIKE THIS?

  • GHANABA 11 years ago

    (1)WHAT HAS THE NDC DONE FOR GHANA SINCE THEY ASSUME POWER 5YEARS EGO?
    (2)WHY SHOULD THE PRESIDENT OF GHANA STAY IN A CASTLE BUILT BY FOR SLAVES?
    (3)THE NORTHERNERS AND THE VOLTAS WHO DON,T RESPECT THEMSELVES AND HAVE EQUAL ...
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  • Nii Armah 11 years ago

    What is it about trokosis that they always see Ashantis even in their dreams? Ashantis are not responsible for your sorry lives.

  • JERRY 11 years ago

    ACCCRA DESERVES BETTER PALACE THAN THIS

  • gina London 11 years ago

    insult to mahama

  • TADI GIRL 11 years ago

    say it loud

  • Goldcoastian 11 years ago

    The Palace has all the LERGER LINES similar to the 'Presidents' tribal pepe marks. So in actual fact they are synonym.

  • SGT ANANI FIADZOE 11 years ago

    Fellow country men and women, it is only an idiot, senseless cows and total monkeys will speak against such
    a tailor measured building put up by
    the most credible, dynamic and selfless Leader and politician in our
    country ...
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  • IVY 11 years ago

    JUST TO STEAL THE MONEY DONATED FOR THE PALACE WAS THEIR INTEREST NOT HOW NICE OR SECURE IT WILL BE:

  • VOLTA 11 years ago

    WHO MADE THIS DECISION TO BUILT SUCH A URGLY PALACE

  • NDC Homosexuality & Lesbian is our pr 11 years ago

    I DON'T WANT TO WASTE MY TIME ON YOU AT ALL.

  • Kojo 11 years ago

    The problem with Ghana is politics. Honestly, that building is completely insecure and inappropriate the office/home a prez. There is no way you can secure or defend the prez in case of an emergency. I simly have not come acr ...
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  • James Watatu 11 years ago

    Have you entered the Jubilee House before? Please be wise and stop stupid politics. Engineers, security experts and Planners were consulted.

  • Dr. Shem Agyei. 11 years ago

    kwasiato tintinto sua nyansa

  • SGT ANANI FIADZOE 11 years ago

    You should have added KWADONTO to it
    to make it KWASEATO, KWADONTO, TINTINTO.

    That person to me is not a human being
    but rather monkey with human skin
    covering his skeleton.

  • Bewise 11 years ago

    the contractors has no beauty in their eyes, that is why they did not do a good job

  • kad 11 years ago

    What was the design concept for this building?The first time I saw it I wondered what it was.I looked at it standing on the road side.I was told it is the new seat of government.Oh!I thought,that is why it has the grill-like ...
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  • OH GHFUO, WHY SO PRIMITIVE? 11 years ago

    PUT SOME VEGETATION AROUND THE BUILDING. PUT A BLACK METAL FENCE AROUND THE BUILDING. SOME TREES AROUND THE BUILDING WILL BE NICE. ITS TOO BARE...OH GH...DABEN..NA OUR MINDS GO OPEN? WE NEED AN ADDRESS SYSTEM IN GH

  • KOFI KOFI 11 years ago

    WHAT DO YOU WANT? GONJA STYLE? IS IT NOT ASHANTI GOLD THAT GAVE US THE NAME GOLD COAST. WHAT ABOUT GYE NYAME. DON,T YOU KNOW THAT KENTE REPRESENT US ALL IN OUR STATE HOUSE? TAKE AWAY ASHANTI AND GHANA WILL HAVE NO FACE.

  • PK 11 years ago

    Well, Kofi Kofi, it was Elmina (Fanti) gold that gave us Gold Coast. But does it really matter? Whether Fanti, Ashanti or Voltaland, it is still GHANA! Can we just stop the tribal nonsense on this forum, aba!

  • KOFI KOFI 11 years ago

    GOLD FROM ASHANTI SHIPPED FROM ELMINA THE WHITE MAN'S SANCTUARY. WHAT ABOUT THAT. CALL TO LINE THOSE WHO INSULT ASHANTIS INSTEAD OF LOVING THEM FOR WHAT THEY REPRESENT IN GHANA. AHANTI'S WERE THE FIRST TO STAND AGAINST I K AC ...
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  • SGT ANANI FIADZOE 11 years ago

    Koku Anyidoho, Alex Segbefia, Kwashiega, Koby Fiagbe, Michael Dokosi
    and Afede thought stealing cats, Akpeteshie and to dance to the tune of
    Agbadja can solve the hectic difficulties NDC administration has place on the head ...
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  • BONSO 11 years ago

    ASANTES HAVE BUILT GHANA...WITH THEIR OWN SWEAT AND NO WOYOME JUDGMENT DEBTS

    EWES ARE THIEVES AND MURDERERS

    PEPEFO ARE LATRINE MEN AND BOY BOY

    FANTES ARE LAZY AND POOR

    NZEMA DABBLE IN WITCHCRAFT AND UNDERMINE PEOP ...
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  • Atoapoma Abransamadu 11 years ago

    Such useless and fictional utterances make other tribes hate Asantes the more! Stay with your fables and live primitively within your so-called kingdom while other Ghanaians educate themselves into the 21st Century and beyond ...
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  • Meshack 11 years ago

    Agya, NDCfo) tumi ka nkwaseasem!!!

  • KK 11 years ago

    How come in a multi-tribal country like Ghana, govnt officials can make such utterances..Is not Asantes fault that some of you are so poor.Leave Asantes alone Fools.

  • Skains 11 years ago

    Ghana has lots of money; it's mismanagement that's killing the nation. And for me, a national edifice to serve as the seat of government is long overdue. That slavery structure, the castle, was a national disgrace on the bas ...
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  • Nick 11 years ago

    NDC is a useless party, nothing to show for. what have they done? Nothing is the answer.

  • GAY MAHAMA SOLOMON WIFE 11 years ago

    HOOOOOOOOOOO,NDC FOOLS SHAMELESS MUST BOW DOWN THEIR HEADS DOWN,ALL IS ABOUT SHAMELESS,CRIMINALS,CORROPTS YHEY JUST WONT TO SAY AND GET MONEY TO CHOP,CHOP CHOP EVERY WHERE,MAHAMA GAY,AMISSAH GAY,OYEE GAY,EII HMMMMM GHANA WILL ...
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  • EKOW KOOMSON 11 years ago

    That is why Kumasi is a big village.

  • WARD GDX - WE THE PEOPLE 11 years ago

    Kwasiato, go there and see

  • AZU NARH 11 years ago

    'LOWE BI'WHAT DID YOU SEE THERE,WHAT HAVE YOU DONE SO FAR.STUPID FOOL SODIERS.

  • nana 11 years ago

    Stop this nonsense,NDC is in power now,now,solve the water problems.you have been in power 4yrs now,you have got 4 more yrs to go,lets see your priorities.if,ur talking about priorities,then,we have to use all our resourses t ...
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  • Ackah Bangolame 11 years ago

    ...And is this NDC boy thinking he is sounding convincing? Stupid boy.

  • Dodoo 11 years ago

    Look I think we are all wasting precious time to discuss this topic. Let the man occupy that house and do his work so that we shall have time to discuss electricity, water, petrol and matters that can lift this country.

  • Adjoa 11 years ago

    I am humbly advicing all commentators on this forum to take a trip to the flagstaff house and access the building, construction, finishing, furniture, landscape etc before passing further comments. Unless you are not exposed ...
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  • AZU NARH 11 years ago

    IT'S ONLY THE STUPID GHANAIANS IN GHANA WHO HAS NO BRAIN AND DON'T KNOW NOTHING THAT'S GOING ON IN THE DEVELOPED WORLD THAT WILL BELIEVE IN THE NDC,JUST LOOK AT SOMEBODY LIKE JJ WHAT THE HELL DO YOU THINK TO BELIEVE IN A MUR ...
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  • KOMOO FRANCE. 11 years ago

    The ndc should use the huge sum of tax payers money they shared with woyome to provide water for ghanaians Get choked with your envy silly EWE.

  • Mohammed Dimbie 11 years ago

    Why will you blame Kufuor for constructing that edifice only to turn round to say that it wasn't abandone but used even under the late Atta Mills?

    If Kufuor had diverted funds and attention to solving those so-called "insu ...
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  • Critical 11 years ago

    Why cant these people shut up and just use the building! After all that is what is was built for.

    The NDC will always make noise about priorities when another government takes a decision to solve a problem and then as soo ...
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  • frankie 11 years ago

    How can a $70 million project end up being $140 mill? What happened to project management? especially cost budgeting, cost estimating and cost control. Are we still doing business the old fashion way? Hmmmm Ghana!

  • issaka 11 years ago

    Was there no water problem when the bofoons in NDC decided to give that gargantuan amount of the Tax payer's money to Alfred Woyome who in turn used it to finance the NDC led by the late St. Atta Mills? Nkwaseafuor sore a na ...
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  • King KofiOsei 11 years ago

    Animals talks like the way you are talking Ghana has a lot of problems not only water what is the NDC doing about our health care and roads

  • Mystic 11 years ago

    Isn't it funny that some people in NDC now have the effort to criticised the former president on this building. I thought only chicken will occupy this building or should we assume that human who occupy this building thinks l ...
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  • Kwame 11 years ago

    It means that the Ghanaian does not know the history of other countries. Does the Ashantihene go to the Buckingham Palace to greet the Queen of England, Scotland, Ireland, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. He does and that w ...
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  • PREZZO 11 years ago

    WHO IS THIS NDC MAN? LETS ALL REMIND HIM THAT GHANA NOW MINUS ME HAS A PRESIDENT WHO IS A CHICKEN. I CANNOT HAVE A PRESIDENT WHO IS A CHICKEN. CHICKEN LIVE IN PEN COOPS , NOT NOT IN PRESIDENTIAL HOUSES PUT UP BY OPPOSITION PA ...
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  • NANA KASA 11 years ago

    Anybody can throw a stone from the road into the president's abode. I have never seen or heard of anything like it. The location is just not right. Or traffic shoul be re routed.

  • PRESIDENT HU 11 years ago

    PRESIDENT WHO OF CHINA

  • Akyemaa. 11 years ago

    AT THEIR BACKS NEED A COMFORTABLE LACE TO UT THEIR HEADS AND THOSE AT SODDOM AND GORMARRAH LIVING IN THE FILTY ENVIRONMENT NEED THE PLACE TOO. NDC AND ITS GOVERNMENT MUST SAY WE WERE WRONG.

  • bright 11 years ago

    Ahh

  • kwaku-Moscow 11 years ago

    Ghana is too politicised!at least is just a better step from slave post!it was more disgraceful for our seat of government to inherit a slave post!

  • HAWA 11 years ago

    I THIS GUY ENTERS THAT BUILDING THUNDER WILL STRIKE HIM DEAD!

  • NANA NYANSA, GERMANY 11 years ago

    DOES THE NDC NO WHAT IS PRIORITY? NDC HAS STOLLEN GHANA MONEY TO BUILD A $20MILLION PARTY OFFICE AND PAID OVER 600MILLION CEDIS AS JUDGEMENT DEBT. WHAT A HECK SAM GEORGE ! NDC SOLD OVER 300 GOVERNMENT COMPANIES BUT DID NOT AC ...
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  • Nankani 11 years ago

    One of the nastiest and ugliest communicators in history.

    Those who know this guy claim he stinks to the high heavens; and this is reflected in his talk.

  • TWENEBOAH-KODUAH 11 years ago

    CONFUSED AND SHAMEFUL NDC THANK NPP FOR THEIR GOOD WORK.TALK ABOUT JUDGEMENT DEBT CHOP CHOP AND HUNGRY NDC GOVERNMENT.

  • Nana Yaa Kofi 11 years ago

    He slammed the opposition party saying “Today, if the NPP was so shortsighted not to know that solving our water problem in this country was more paramount than building an Ashanti-styled Presidential Palace for us as a nat ...
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  • Solow Mensah 11 years ago

    Why is that illiterate and semi-literate Ashantis have hatred for Ewes? Back at Legon, I used to have two of my coursemates from Kumasi. We were very good friends and they were always happy when we met. I think that those fan ...
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  • GOAHEAD 11 years ago

    NPP ARE SORE LOSERS.

  • Obiba 11 years ago

    NDC man, you are not the smartest person in Ghana. Just shut up about this building issue and give NDC ideas to move Ghana forward.

  • Frank Mensah, Tikobo No. 2 11 years ago

    I don't always agree with the murderous NDC, but this is an eyesore. Doesn't matter whether it is Ashanti or Dagomba architecture.

  • kuley 11 years ago

    President Mahama, is above this sort of narrow minded politics, and ought to condemn this kind of cheap shots!

  • Bewise 11 years ago

    stop this nonsense, about who did what.Are you doing it for a party or you are doing it for the country, wise up. "In the abuance of water the fool is thirsty"

  • Akyemkwaa 11 years ago

    nonesense article!

  • bigdaddy. 11 years ago

    npp was shortsighted in flagstaffhouse

  • NII LARTEY NARTEY 11 years ago

    What has the state building got to do with Ashante style building? Is the native stool style building not a national cultural symbol?

    We have no water, no electric power, no gas and no jobs, no Doctors and these corruptly ...
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  • ASANTE POWER 2 11 years ago

    Kuffour did well to build a chicken coop for these ungrateful ndc idiots to enjoy.If it took Kuffour only eight years, what the hell was the big mouth Ndc-shit doing in all their 23-years in power.

  • KOFI DAMESI. 11 years ago

    DO NDC PEOPLE COME FROM SPACE OR FROM WHERE ? THE JUBILEE HOUSE WAS NEGLECTED AND REJECTED BY THIS BOGUS NDC FOUR YEARS AGO, WHY THEN SHOULD THEY RUN TO OCCUPY THE PLACE NOW ? WE WILL SEE WHO GOES TO THE HOUSE COMPLETELY. THE ...
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  • KWAMI 11 years ago

    BUILDING A PRESIDENTIAL PALACE IS BETTER AND WISER THAN USING BILLIONS OF STATE FUNDS TO BUY VOTES

  • KENNEDY ADONGO 11 years ago

    Why not showing to be grateful to the Ashante cocoa and gold that gave some of us the advantage to have scholarships for our education to be where we are today.

    You see how ungrateful and hypocrite some of you guys are. Y ...
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  • joe 11 years ago

    I do not understand the thoughts of ghanaians both the ministers and the individuals,you are arguing about a building which has already finished contuction.think of the project to beging now,we are farrrrrrrrrrrrrrr behind, o ...
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  • Larry 11 years ago

    May be stealing the tax payers money in he name of judgement debt to enrich your individual pockets is priority to this man and the NDC government, NON-SENSE..At least the Kuffuor administration put up this 'ashanti edifice' ...
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  • Larry 11 years ago

    May be stealing the tax payers money in he name of judgement debt to enrich your individual pockets is priority to this man and the NDC government, NON-SENSE..At least the Kuffuor administration put up this 'ashanti edifice' ...
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  • kk 11 years ago

    this person is tribalistic. what if the palace looked like a calabash? lets think Ghana.

  • Mensah 11 years ago

    It is the act of the NDC to deceive the public. These numbers from somewhere in between 30 million to 120 million dollars are too significant. There are too many significant numbers in between. That is how these NDC liars pil ...
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  • Say the TRUTH 11 years ago

    THEN WHAT WILL SAY THE PAYMENT OF $54 MILLION TO WOYOME WAS?????


    MOST STUPID, CRIMINAL THING, MOST MOST MOST SHORT SIGHTED THING DONE IN THE HISTORY OF GHANA BY NDC GOVERNMENT!!!!


    SAMUEAL GEORGE - DONT BE THAT STUPI ...
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  • Berliner 11 years ago

    You are stupid. what do you say about the house allowances for MP`s and other huge benefits that go to Government officials. Lost

  • Ali 11 years ago

    NDC ARE FOOL, IDIOT,BUT MAHAMA BOUGHT PRIVATE JET FOR HIMSELF GOD WILL PUNISH

  • ASANTE POWER 2 11 years ago

    Instead of all these jealousy and nonsense towards the NPP,why don't you build a better one with Woyome's stolen money, and plant all the trees you want,brain dead animals.

  • N.D.D. Yaw, London 11 years ago

    Congratulations, President Mahama for relocating to the Flagstaff House. The Osu Castle has always been a symbol of slavery and colonialism.

  • JUSTMAN 11 years ago

    PEOPLE SHOULD NOT BE BLINDED BY HATRED EVEN THOUGH IT IS NOT A BEAUTIFUL ARCHITECTURE, PRAISE MUST BE GIVEN TO WHERE IT IS DUE.IT IS NOT THIS BUILDING THAT WILL MAKE WATER NOT TO FLOW IN OUR TAPS.BE TRUTHFUL.

  • NTAMKESE 11 years ago

    YOU FOOLS BETTER SHUT UP AND BOW YOUR DAMN HEADS IN SHAME FOR FINALLY OCCUPYING THE "ASHANTI STYLE PALACE!" WHETHER OR NOT IS ASHANTI PALACE STYLE BUILT, IT IS A NATIONAL PRIDE EVERY NATION CAN BOAST OF. SO SAY WHATEVER TO CO ...
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  • Pat, TX 11 years ago

    You haven't got vision for the nation. You will always live as you were born.Go to Haiti, A nation that lives on AID has a beautiful presidential palace, but Ghana a nation that lives in abundance of riches still operate from ...
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