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GHS1bn paid to ghost workers in 2012 - CEPA

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  • Susket 11 years ago

    Aye huhuuhu....e go bee keke

  • HON SHAMO 11 years ago

    FOOLSOLDIERS TOO DEY CHOP! JUST GO ON RADIO INSULT NPP AND COME FOR YOUR PAY AT NDC HQ

  • MOZATO 11 years ago

    Mahama and the NDC go kill Ghanaoo tonh!. Tune in your radio set to any radio station and u will hear some NDc idiots who call themselves 'serial callers' talking from their ass holes for daily bread. Why trokosi NDC why? Mah ...
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  • Evans 11 years ago

    They were paid to NDC foot soldiers ... I suspect !

  • OLD SOLDIER 11 years ago

    When Kwaku Baako informed us about the atrocities of Kwesi Pratt during PNDC Regime, some of us did not believe until the truth was confirmed during the NRC. Kwesi Pratt is the most dangerous Journalist Ghana had ever have, h ...
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  • TerriblY Spe cifiC 11 years ago

    WE THOUGHT THESE SHOESHINE BOYS SAID THEY HAD CLEANED UP THE SYSTEM. APPARENTLY, THEIR OWN SYMPATHISERS LOOTED THROUGH GHOST NAMES. ANYWHERE AN ASANTE IS, THERE IS KALABULE. LAZY PEOPLE.

  • don`t care !!! 11 years ago

    Hmmmm!over to our lovely prez...our prez said he fight corruption..

    Hmmmm!just give out the law and enforce it with persist & persistence[to try to do or continue doing something in a determined but often unreasonable way]

  • don`t care !!! 11 years ago

    Hmmmm!over to our lovely prez...our prez said he`ll fight corruption.

  • Shilo 11 years ago

    How does he fight corruption when he's surrounded himself with thieves?

  • Mahmoud 11 years ago

    Bring Back the Colonial Master. We have failed. The black-man in Ghana has failed. He could not manage his own affairs. What we have been reading, seeing and experiencing in the last 56 has proven beyond reasonable doubt that ...
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  • Jato Julor (J.J.) Rawlings 11 years ago

    Better Ghana in deeds and indeed !

    Hahahahahahahahahahahaahahahahahaaaa !

    Can the NDC stealers tell Ghanaians the truth why they asked Ghanaians to vote for them ?

    And how long will they continue stealing our scarce ...
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  • Oba Nyansani Baako Pe In Ghana! 11 years ago

    You had your share as well if not why are you still supporting NDC even when they are looting Ghana and everyone is dying hard yet you fools don't care at all.

  • TerriblY Spe cifiC 11 years ago

    WOFA USED OUR MONIES TO PLUCK HIS CHILDREN FROM POVERTY.

  • KOLA, LONDON PROPER 11 years ago

    Ex-president Kuffuor said Ghost names were there since creation so it was not feasible for there to be measures to curb it.

    Could you imagine how these NPP chin-Chin-Ga eating, chewing and finger licking NPP fo used the sy ...
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  • blueprint 11 years ago

    That is the only way to keep our guns silence or else JUNE 4 uprising is inevitable

  • Moses Abodzraku 11 years ago

    You are saaaaaaaahwe papa. do you popo?

  • Frank Agyena-Karikari 11 years ago

    Is it not a shame that this has been going on for far too long? That is why I favor privatization of almost everything in Ghana. Ghanaians have the stupid mentality that it is for government

  • kofi west haven 11 years ago

    Empty Talk Backed No Action.
    Find those involved & jail them.
    Start with auditor general office.

  • Atopahene John Mahama 11 years ago

    Ye be dii bi keke collapsing the country

  • Linda 11 years ago

    Our leaders has vindicated its assertion that it is full of a gang of thieves. Corruption has spread like cancer & so far, all has gotten away with it. Not a single corrupt officials faces charges by the law. What kind of exa ...
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  • Visio 11 years ago

    They're teaching that its OK to steal but, the average person get severe punishment for petty crime. Something is really wrong with this nation.

  • SASABONSAM 11 years ago

    A country that does not punish crime by people in positions of trust. In China such crimes are punishable by death.

  • Princess 11 years ago

    You can say that again! Stealing is now the order of the day. The indiscipline and lawlessness in this country is mind bogging.

  • maame 11 years ago

    ARE YOU SURE YOU ARE NOT A GHOST WORKER? WHY CALL NDC? BE INTELLIGENT!! THE GHOST WORKERS ARE NOT ONLY NDCs OO!! THEY ARE NDC, PPP, NPP, CPP AND WHAT HAVE YOU. THEY ARE THE CORRUPT GHANAIANS -SEEN EVERYWEHRE, LOOKING FOR ...
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  • NANA 11 years ago

    Ghost payment plus go to work do nothing minus hard work is equal to Ghana's serious problems.
    No single person to be blamed for.
    Our general attitude must change.
    Everybody have to change. Politians have always promised b ...
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  • maame 11 years ago

    I SUPPORT YOU 100%. EVERYTHING ABOUT THE GHANAIAN WORKER IS QUESTIONABLE. HE DOES NOT WORK BUT WANTS MONEY. WANTS TO GET RICH VERY QUICKLY. SOMEONE HAS A JOB TODAY AND DREAMS OF PUTTING UP A STOREY BUILDING THE NEXT DAY. ...
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  • The Vay 11 years ago

    How many Ghanaians think like you. The vast majority are looking for an easy way out. And with that mind set we would have these foreigners come in and take everything from us. Remember the old saying "a fool and his money is ...
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  • Kojo Billy Duncan 11 years ago

    We have identified the problem. Provide the solution and let heads roll.

  • Anomaboba 11 years ago

    Steal from government and call him incompetent? yes incompetent because he cpould not even see who gets what. With voter registrations, computerisations, what else do we need to get to arrest that situation?

  • anna 11 years ago

    shameless leaders all of bury yr heads in the sand shame!!!!!!!

  • Kwame 11 years ago

    oh, it's the OLD currency.

    dumb a$$....we are no longer using that OLD currency, get with the times...geez

  • OSEI WIAFE 11 years ago

    NO MY BROTHER, THE ABBREVIATION FOR THE OLD CURRENCY IS GHC. THIS IS GHS ( THE NEW GHANA CEDIS ) THAT ARE BEING PAID TO FOOT SOLDIERS LIKE COCOA LEAVES. WE STILL NEED THE FREE SHS. I DON'T CARE WHAT Y'ALL SAY. THE SAME CURREN ...
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  • ERICUS-ERICUS 11 years ago

    Ghost names on government pay roll always get worst when NDC in power? Just watch it.

  • Okyeame 11 years ago

    Please nobody knows who these ghost workers are they could be from any political party so ithink we should rather think of ways and means to curb trend.

  • Yaw 11 years ago

    This is NDC!!!!! For NDC foot soldiers.

  • GHANANI 11 years ago

    Dr Joe Abbey is absolutely right in his analysis.The public sector is where most of the activities leading to the loss of state monies take place.And the payment of salaries of non-existent workers populay known as'gost worke ...
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  • Wofa Yaw 11 years ago

    We should all bear in mind that ONE DAY all of us will appear before the ALMIGHTY GOD to give account

  • francis Asomaning 11 years ago

    I do agree with u but the point is, somebody is heading towards hell, he does not recognise your so-called heaven, hence he will make life unbearable for u on this earth and if you dont take care you follow suit. do u remembe ...
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  • KK 11 years ago

    ooooooooooo Francis Asomaning i really love your comment among all

  • Pelicles 11 years ago

    God has nothing to do with such blatant and well orchestrated plan to rip the nation. God do not interfere directly in human governance and it is up to us to arrest the situation and punish the culprits.

    Leave God out of ...
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  • Wiseman 11 years ago

    So if there exist ghost workers who received ,and still receiving salaries monthly,of what Government institutions are their checks being channeled? The Government should take this allegation seriously,investigate and bring ...
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  • Jeff 11 years ago

    This in fact is the tip of the iceberg of deep seated corruption in our society-that cut across all sectors - health, education, religion,transport, ports etc.All Ghanaians should sit up and make a personal commitment and ta ...
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  • KWABENA OHEMENG,LONDON 11 years ago

    Yes,Kuffuor's NPP government signed into law before it left office the single spine salary structure knowing very well that the country did not have the financial capacity to implement it.The single spine salary alone increas ...
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  • GLENN 11 years ago

    Please think before you talk....do you know how much was spent by NDC in the just ended elections only on adverts?Do you know how much was also spent in the castle for just 3 months last year?How many SUV cars were bought for ...
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  • KWABENA OHEMENG,LONDON. 11 years ago

    Glenn you fear to be told the truth.I will never be afraid of speaking the truth damn the consequences.

  • PRINCE KWASI ADADE 11 years ago

    I AM ASKING ALL MENTALLY MALADJUSTED NDC SYCOPHANTS A SIMPLE QUESTION. DO WE NEED SKYSCRAPERS AT THIS LEVEL OF OUR DEVELOPMENT OR MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES? DON'T SUPPORT NDC BLINDLY, THEY LACK VISION. WE WANT GHANA TO MOVE ON ...
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  • Patrick Boateng, Assin Foso. 11 years ago

    But you never spoke the truth anyway. Kufour never enacted any law to compel ndc to implement single spine.

  • Barfour 11 years ago

    Instead of people like you supporting this man for bringing this practice to the public domain, what did you do, blame it on Kuffour. Since when did Ghana Police investigated any corruption against the politicians? The amount ...
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  • KWABENA OHEMENG,LONDON. 11 years ago

    Total rubbish!!!Populist policies which were only meant to make the NPP popular and electable without taking into consideration whether the nation's financial capacity can support it.Just look at how such populst policies hav ...
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  • Barfour 11 years ago

    Firstly, I'm not blaming Mahama for this! The issue here is ghost names siphoning money from the people. Are you telling me The pay increment that has taking place in Ghana has brought the living standards of Ghanaians up? 'N ...
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  • Brains 11 years ago

    You are a nitwit, where in London do you live? wasn't this same single spine that the Government was touting as one of its unprecedented achievement?

  • MR. FIGURE - OUT 11 years ago

    I misjudged this Ohemeng guy thinking he is smart, little did I know he is one of the imbecilic trokosi idiots on the forum. How do u accuse Kuffour for the SSSS policy which the NDC boastfully used as a campaign tool to rig ...
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  • KWABENA OHEMENG,LONDON. 11 years ago

    Why are we always afraid of speaking and accepting the truth.I will praise where praise is due and i will criticise where it is due.I will gain nothing from being a puppet.Good policies can turn out to be bad policies dependi ...
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  • TROKOSIHENE 11 years ago

    But you are lying? Kuffour did not implement the SSS policy. NPP under Kuffour proposed the SSS policy without laying down how it was going to implement it before it was voted out. NDC implemented that policy with its own bra ...
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  • nana 11 years ago

    what is wrong with the schoolfeeding programme?MR KWABENA OHEMENG.LONDON do you know the origin of the school feeding programme.BY THE WAY HOW OLD ARE YOU?

  • KWABENA OHEMENG,LONDON. 11 years ago

    Nana,good policies can turn out to be bad policies depending on the rationale behind their introduction.Those policies were introduced without any due regard to the nation's ability to finance them.It is just like the Labour ...
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  • nana 11 years ago

    SO you admit that its good policy. Then tell your people to use the goverment money to finance good policies and stop buying cars as bribes just to win election.those poor children are also ghanaians.imagine you are one of th ...
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  • KWABENA OHEMENG,LONDON. 11 years ago

    Nana,thank you very much for your advice which i am not bound to accept.Anyway you asked for my age .All that i can tell you is that i saw Osagyefo and Busia,witnessed Ghana's independence and republic celebrations,witnessed ...
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  • nana 11 years ago

    I KNOW enough. Goodday

  • TROKOSIHENE 11 years ago

    You are an old man so tell the truth. SSSS was implemented by NDC and they chalked it as one of their gargantuan achievements. Don't blame NPP for your Mahama failures.

  • The Truth 11 years ago

    You are speaking like a Capitalist when you believe in Nkrumah's and NDC socialist policies. Are you on drugs? Ndc which you support brands itself as Social Democrats. Nkrumah whom you supported believe in society taking care ...
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  • Pelicles 11 years ago

    What has the implementation of the SSS got to do with "ghost names on national payroll"? The report is talking about 2012 and here you are blaming Kufuor. What exactly is your point.

    So, do you blame Kufuor for those ghos ...
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  • OBIBINI 11 years ago

    Who is blaming Kuffuor for ghost names?You better read what Abbey is saying before you jump such hasty conclusions.

  • Pelicles 11 years ago

    I am responding to Kwabena Ohemeng of London not Dr. Joe Abbey

  • KWABENA OHEMENG,LONDON. 11 years ago

    Thanks obibini.I have never blamed Kuffuor for the payment of 'ghost workers' in the public services. It is a problem which all governments in Ghana have faced but have never made any serious attempts to solve.I hope the prec ...
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  • HOUDINI 11 years ago

    Idiot, where were you when NDC was trumpeting single spine as its achievement? NPP initiated the Single Spine policy but it was voted out before it was rolled out. Npp would not have implemented it the way NDC did thereby des ...
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  • NDC IS A CURSE FOR GHANA 11 years ago

    NDC THIEVES

  • Nyame Ekuma 11 years ago

    Abbey report this to the police and not present it to the press as an 'Ananse' story. Nonsense.

    When JJ Rawlings talks about 'economic murder' which shd alsoi be punishable by death, some corrupt people and Dr. Abbey don' ...
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  • The same 11 years ago

    NPP you are destroying the nation give the president a break.

  • PRINCE KWASI ADADE 11 years ago

    GO OUT THERE AND RECEIVE YOUR REWARD, ALL GHANAIANS. GO AND PAY THE PRICE FOR YOUR FOOLISHNESS. YOU DON'T GIVE A SECOND MANDATE TO AN INCOMPETENT AND CORRUPT GOVERNMENT, NO!! NOT AT ALL, THAT IS ABOMINATION IN DEMOCRACY, VERY ...
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  • MR O.. canada 11 years ago

    our ghana has take way by fools,some one tell me where this money go

  • OSEI 11 years ago

    HMMMN !IS NDC A CURSE ON GHANAIANS OR WHAT? MAY THE RELIGIOUS AUTHORITIES CHECK INTO THIS FOR US, PLEASE ???

  • CLEJIMENS 11 years ago

    In such challenging times of our country we still spend huge amounts on ghost workers. God say our taxpayers.Government has to decentralized our institutions so that we have accurate measurement of our productions. How can a ...
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  • kingpasaasa 11 years ago

    dr.asemforoe got his owen ooooo,as for n.d.c yebedii kurkur.

  • Daavi 11 years ago

    "That behaviour is not tolerable at a time when there is so much suffering from unemployment and feeling of increasing poverty,” he said.

  • Concern Ghanian 11 years ago

    FOOLS TAKE IMPORTANT ISSUE TO POLITICS

  • Concern Ghanian 11 years ago

    Urs is to fyt 4 politician n their kids?

  • Big Jones 11 years ago

    When you hear things of this sort, it suddenly becomes clear why oil (Black Gold) is being discovered on a daily basis in Ghana, but has not translated to better lives for all Ghanaians. You also begin to wonder why we have G ...
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  • ADABRAKA 11 years ago

    This is happening every day, month and year in our country. Gh education service tops all. Controller Accountant Department is the Chief Con Priest

  • KING 11 years ago

    THAT\S WHY THEY STOLE THE ELECTION, THEY FEAR NANA ADDO, BUT TIME WILL CATCH UP WITH THEM. THEY CAN RUN BUT THEY CANT HIDE,STEELERS.

  • Nyansa 11 years ago

    It is not enough by just coming out with this in the press. If the research has been made, please name the organizations where these evil things are going on and those using pen to steal be made to face the law. Lets help thi ...
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  • kojo brenya 11 years ago

    Who says there are ghost workers in Ghana ? there are no ghost workers. the fact of the matter is that there are so many ndc foot soldiers who parade the so call corridors of power , peddling falsehood and half truths for fre ...
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  • John Kpeglo 11 years ago

    I left the GES as a teacher in 2004 on study leave without pay. I learnt my pay sleep continue to go to the office till 2010. Who was taking the money? Did they return the money to CHEST? I doubt!

  • Pelicles 11 years ago

    NDC government is behind this ghost workers shenanigan. They used such money for their campaign.

  • Ekow Jones 11 years ago

    Free education is possible if we can eliminate this chronic issue. To those who are committing this crime you should know that you are on a fast track to hell. God will never accept such a person in His presence. By their act ...
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  • oppoosinii 11 years ago

    There is no payment that can happen without the knowledge or approval of the accountant general or the audit department so this is absurd.

    They know where the money is going but are mute because of their share.

    Governme ...
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  • ADAM 11 years ago

    THAT'S WHY SETH TERKPER IS NOT THE RIGHT PERSON TO BE APPOINTED MINISTER OF FINANCE. HE WAS THERE AS A DEPUTY FROM 2009. HOW COME THEY DIDN'T SEE THIS SITUATION? IT APPEARS IN GHANA PEOPLE ARE PAID TO DO THE WRONG THINGS INST ...
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  • Abba 11 years ago

    NDC is a uselee Government.Under NDC there are more problems to come.

  • Concerned citizen 11 years ago

    Check the this ministry: where some even accounts assistants have houses all over the place. People must grow up and stop blaming a particular government, this happens all along through all past and present governments depart ...
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  • kwadwo totobii 11 years ago

    That this practice is still going on in the country is sad.Tracing those involved should not be a problem. The Heads of institutions involved in such practices should be given very serious punishment and be made to REFUND THE ...
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  • Kofie Bazuka 11 years ago

    The NDC government saids"ye be di ke ke" translating to we came to chop.
    That is what they did then, and that is what they are doing now.
    Remember some bozo called Wayome?
    As for the NDC she has absolutely no vision, and c ...
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  • truth 11 years ago

    Stop this talk you must know that ghost names are created by people who may be NDC or NPP so why the politics here. the NDC brought biometric registration of civil servants that has almost eradicated ghost names and this rese ...
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  • Proud Pepeman. 11 years ago

    The fact is that people do it and get away with it, so others will try. Look at what is happening at the NYEP. This is quite glearing. Joy FM, Kudos to them, have done all the ground work. All that is needed is for these peop ...
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  • Pelicles 11 years ago

    The rot at NYEP, is quite amazing and I do not understand why the National security and the chief director at the ministry playing the "ball game" to shield the culprits.

  • HASSAN RASTA GERMANY 11 years ago

    ANY POLITICAL PARTY MAY BE INVOLVED BECAUSE ALL OF THEM ARE GETTING THEIR PAYS FROM THE GOVERNMENT AND NOT ONLY NDC WORKERS ARE GHANAIANS WORKERS.

  • Barfour 11 years ago

    Hassan, he quoted, 'The government of Ghana must fight the ghost employees phenomenon with all the vigor it must muster'. Why can't we embrace criticism in the nation and rectify things rather than playing politics with anyth ...
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  • OMANBA. 11 years ago

    Why not from Ashant Region which the nation has depended on for so long for its survival.

  • CLIMO 11 years ago

    Let us do the arithmetic. 7bn Ghana cedis devided by 12 months is about 584million Ghana cedis per month.

    Assume an average salary of 1200 Cedis including MPs and Ministers in this average. Then devide 584 million by 1200 ...
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  • AKAN 11 years ago

    THIS WILL NOT BE THE END SO LONG AS THIS IDIOT NDC IS IMPOSING ITSELF ON OUR GHANAIAN BROTHERS AND SISTERS!

  • maame 11 years ago

    your government for eight years did not even know something like this could happen. kuffuor was taking his share of the per diem even when he did not work for it. you can cure a disease when it is diagnosed. mahama, check ...
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  • AZU NARH 11 years ago

    AS I SAID JUST LOOK AT THIS GOOD EXAMPLE IS THIS MAAME AND DRAMANI MAHAMA,FOOLS OOO,FOOLS GHANAIANS FOOLS NEVER LIKE PROGRESS

  • Afi 11 years ago

    The CEPA is right however who is responsible for these fraud. The controller and accountant generals dept must respond to this. Heads must roll and culprits made to refund all monies. It is sad to observe that everybody in Gh ...
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  • KOFI - AKIM AKOKOASO. 11 years ago

    ANYONE WHO HAS USED THIS BRIDGE KNOWS IT NEEDS A QUICK OVERHAUL. PEOPLE IN THS AREA ARE FED UP JUST LIKE PAKISTAN IS FED UP WITH TALIBANS AND JEHADISTS. CAN THE GOVERNMENT GET US SOME HELP?

  • maame 11 years ago

    WE HAVE DEVELOPED WORLD AND UNDERDEVELOPED WORLD BECAUSE OF ALL THESE. THIS CANNOT HAPPEN IN THE DEVELOPED WORLD BECAUSE THEY KNOW THE SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER. NO ONE PERSON CAN HAVE TWO. YOU PICK UP YOUR PAY SLIP AND THAT ...
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  • Concerned citizen 11 years ago

    1. Ghana Education Service; 2. the armed forces, the police force; the Accountant General's Department and all other public services departments. All those involve in commiting this crime against ordinary citizens are all goi ...
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  • AZU NARH 11 years ago

    GHANA,THE LEADERS ARE THE MOST WICKED THIEFS AND STUPID EVER.
    THE CITEZENS MOST COWARDS GHANA CAN'T EVER SEE IMPROVEMENTS,YOU WILL SLEEP IN THE DARKNESS WITH THURST FOR A VERY VERY VERY LONG TIME FOOOOOOOLS

  • ROBERT TAKYI 11 years ago

    i think this isn't time to apportion blame to a particular political party but must be an issue of national interest.strategies must be put in place to curb the situation.

  • Gypsy Queen 11 years ago

    Everything is run by the government in Ghana and unfortunately, most of these leaders are a bunch of corrupt thieves. Imagine the boss of a company doing nothing to corrupt employees, that company is bound to collapse. The sa ...
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  • Azuma 11 years ago

    What is in Ghana

  • Bush 11 years ago

    A country where money is spent as if there's nothing proper that could be used for. Just because oil had been discovered,the authorities decided to misuse the whole Nation's resources.how on earth could we spend money on un ...
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  • Kofi 11 years ago

    If the government is serious and not complicit in these crimes then let it set up a SPECIAL TASK FORCE to carry out a forensic audit into this and find out where the money went to and recover it

  • bright jectey asofua\asamang 11 years ago

    What a country do we have•where from these ghost so we are
    With living dead and still paying them•why our politicians

  • Ghost in your own pocket 11 years ago

    The ghost workers are the leaders in the country. If there is a good management system like biometric registration of government workers,these problems will not persist. Think big and develop Ghana Mr. Ministry of Finance and ...
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  • Ben, U.S. 11 years ago

    A computerized social security numbers (ID and Addresses) for all Ghanaians, such as it's done in the U.S., will help solve most of these problems.

  • Moses Abodzraku 11 years ago

    Let us pray for Ghana because if we even set committee to ivestigate, by the time they have finished, their names will remain on pay list for the nxt four years. What then is the need?

  • Fad 11 years ago

    GHS1bn paid to ghost workers in 2012 - CEPA

  • Abeiku - SW2 London 11 years ago

    And the people responsible for this SHIT r walking and driving around in the streets of Ghana yet the two poor truck pushers who were caught with weed were jailed 10 years each ... hmmmmm fair enough they were'nt meant to but ...
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