The ruling class loot state coffers in the name of ex-gratia

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xexemeku 11 years ago

WHERE ARE THE NPPAINS MPS

WHERE ARE THE NPPAINS MPS
NOMA 11 years ago

BIRTHS OF THE SAME FEATHER FLY TOGETHER

BIRTHS OF THE SAME FEATHER FLY TOGETHER
ELINAM 11 years ago

and re write the constitution.
No one forces any one to be a law maker.

and re write the constitution.
No one forces any one to be a law maker.
BRUTUS de ROMA 11 years ago

IT IS TIME FOR THE GOVERNMENT AND POLICY MAKERS TO SHOW HOW PEOPLE CENTRED AND SELFLESS THEY ARE. THIS IS A BIG RIP OFF BY THE POLITICIANS FROM ALL DIVIDES AND WE HAVE TO STAMPEDE PARLIAMENT AND PROTEST AGAINST THIS SERIOUS L ...
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IT IS TIME FOR THE GOVERNMENT AND POLICY MAKERS TO SHOW HOW PEOPLE CENTRED AND SELFLESS THEY ARE. THIS IS A BIG RIP OFF BY THE POLITICIANS FROM ALL DIVIDES AND WE HAVE TO STAMPEDE PARLIAMENT AND PROTEST AGAINST THIS SERIOUS LOOTING. WHAT IS WRONG IF A SEND HOME IS CALCULATED FOR MPs JUST AS IT IS DONE FOR TEACHERS AND OTHER CIVIL SERVANTS. WHO BEGGED THEM TO BECOME MPs? DID THEY NOT SHOUT ON THEIR PLATFORMS THAT IT IS NOT GHANA MONEY THEY WANT BUT JUST TO SERVE? ARE THEY NOT SATISFIED WITH ALL THE CHANCES AND EXTRA PRIVILEGES THEY HAD OVER THE YEARS IN OFFICE AND IN PARLIAMENT? WHO GIVE FAT ALLOWANCES AND LOANS TO TEACHERS FOR CAR, HOUSING, PETROL ETC ETC. ARE WE NOT ALL GHANAIANS? THIS IS PURE NONSENSE AND IF IMPLEMENTED WILL WARRANT NOT ONLY A COUP BUT A COMPLETE REVOLUTION. (BRUTUS de ROMA says so)
BEB 11 years ago

NO MORE NPP OR NDC; NOW BOTH ARE ONE PARTY

NO MORE NPP OR NDC; NOW BOTH ARE ONE PARTY
JATO 11 years ago

This one d3 Na yaaooo!guys please refound the tax payers money and let the state take care of the poor with National income.

This one d3 Na yaaooo!guys please refound the tax payers money and let the state take care of the poor with National income.
CAPT.NUAMAH.APRAMDO.TKDI. 11 years ago

WE SHALL OVERHAUL THE NDC GOVEMENT VERY SOON...

WE SHALL OVERHAUL THE NDC GOVEMENT VERY SOON...
BEB 11 years ago

NO MORE NPP AND NDC

NO MORE NPP AND NDC
Nana Ansah 11 years ago

Parliament is a honourable House with the poorest people – Appiah Ofori

Ex-gratia woefully inadequate – Former MP Alfred Abayateye

MPs are in serious debt - Rashid Pelpuo

The most foolish work is that of an MP - ...
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Parliament is a honourable House with the poorest people – Appiah Ofori

Ex-gratia woefully inadequate – Former MP Alfred Abayateye

MPs are in serious debt - Rashid Pelpuo

The most foolish work is that of an MP - Kennedy Agyapong

Prof. Mike Oquaye defends payment of ex-gratia

Woyome’s money is bigger than MP’s ex-gratia Maxwell Kofi Jumah
Fofi Yaw 11 years ago

Oh you are 100% correct,why this time the NPPAINS are quite,Why?

Oh you are 100% correct,why this time the NPPAINS are quite,Why?
SERIOUS 11 years ago

WE NEED A COUP IN GHANA NOW! NOW! NOW!

WE NEED A COUP IN GHANA NOW! NOW! NOW!
Accra Resident 11 years ago

We don't need coup in Ghana. The army is worse. Amend the constitution to stop this theft by politicians and ensure fair wages for everybody. Ghanaians must lead the way in building lasting democracy in Africa.

We don't need coup in Ghana. The army is worse. Amend the constitution to stop this theft by politicians and ensure fair wages for everybody. Ghanaians must lead the way in building lasting democracy in Africa.
ELINAM 11 years ago

SOMEBODY has to amend the constitution thru force. The MPs won't do it easily. so therefore a coup, and hand over after a more humane constitution that will guarantee us as the overseers.

SOMEBODY has to amend the constitution thru force. The MPs won't do it easily. so therefore a coup, and hand over after a more humane constitution that will guarantee us as the overseers.
OSABERIMA 11 years ago

these politicians think coup era is over. As much as we prefer democratic rule, I think our politicians have failed us and now insulting us by just grabbing our money anyhow.

these politicians think coup era is over. As much as we prefer democratic rule, I think our politicians have failed us and now insulting us by just grabbing our money anyhow.
Kweku Boateng 11 years ago

Mr. Serious, any coup would not solve the problems facing Ghana. Nkrumah told Parliament in February 1966: It is not the duty of the army or police to rule:
Let us have the recall system in operation and start recalling the ...
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Mr. Serious, any coup would not solve the problems facing Ghana. Nkrumah told Parliament in February 1966: It is not the duty of the army or police to rule:
Let us have the recall system in operation and start recalling the MPs.
We must stop campaigning for coups. Yes to the ballot, no to coups. Coup do not solve problems, remember 13th January 1972; 24th February 1966, AND 31st December 1981.
BRUTUS de ROMA 11 years ago

THIS IS THEFT ..PURE THEFT AND SUCKING GHANAIANS DRY. HOW COME AFTER ALL THE PRIVILEGES OF CAR LOAN, HOUSING LOANS AND ALLOWANCES THESE SAME PEOPLE ARE OUT TALKING ABOUT EX-GRATIA FOR SERVING JUST A PERIOD OF FOUR YEARS? WHAT ...
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THIS IS THEFT ..PURE THEFT AND SUCKING GHANAIANS DRY. HOW COME AFTER ALL THE PRIVILEGES OF CAR LOAN, HOUSING LOANS AND ALLOWANCES THESE SAME PEOPLE ARE OUT TALKING ABOUT EX-GRATIA FOR SERVING JUST A PERIOD OF FOUR YEARS? WHAT HAVE THEY DONE SO MUCH? WHAT ABOUT THE POOR CIVIL SERVANTS AND PROFESSIONALS LIKE TEACHERS WHO HAVE TOILED AS TEACHERS IN VERY REMOTE AND DEPRIVED AREAS ALL THEIR LIFE FOR SO MANY YEARS? WHAT DO THEY GO HOME WITH? THE MPs CAME IN TO SAY THEY WERE GOING TO PARLAIMENT TO SERVE AND THAT IT IS NOT FOR THE MONEY ETC ETC ..THOSE ARE THE SWEET STORIES THEY TELL US. SO WHAT THE HELL ARE THEY GRABBING HUGE EX-GRATIAS FOR WHEN THE ORDINARY GHANAIAN CANNOT GET A HOSPITAL BED TO GET ON ADMISSION FOR TREATMENT AND CANNOT GET WATER TO DRINK AND CANNOT GET ELECTRICITY AND EVEN GOOD ROADS TO TRAVEL ON FROM THE REMOTE VILLAGE TO THE NEAREST HOSPITAL. SHOULD WE ALL START ASKING FOR EX-GRATIA. THEY WORKED FOR 4 YEARS..JUST 4 YEARS AS COMPARED TO THE POOR TEACHER OR NURSE WHO HAS BEEN TOILING AND SERVING FOR MANY MANY YEARS AND USED ALL THEIR YOUTHFUL LIFE TO SERVE MOTHER GHANA. WHY CAN'T WE JUST CALCULATE THEIR TAKE AWAY PENSION BASED ON NUMBER OF YEARS OF YEARS OF SERVICE JUST AS WE DO FOR ALL WORKERS? WHY THE SPECIAL TREATMENT IN A COUNTRY THAT IS JUST TRYING TO FIND ITS FEET? ARE WE SERIOUS AS NATION AND ARE WE CONCERNED ABOUT OUR LESS PRIVILEGED BROTHERS AND SISTERS AND PEOPLE CENTRED AS WE PROFESS TO BE ON THE POLITICAL PLATFORMS. GHANAIANS WILL HAVE TO DEMONSTRATE AND PROTEST VEHEMENTLY EVEN WITH THEIR LIFES AGAINST THIS RIP OFF BY GREEDY AND SELFISH MPs AND POLITICIANS. THIS IS UNHEARD OF AND MUST NOT BE ALLOWED TO GO ON. IF PRESIDENT MAHAMA ALLOWS THIS TO GO THROUGH HE MUST KNOW HE IS HEADING FOR HIS EXIT COME 2016. MY DECISION IN 2016 WILL NOT BE ABOUT PARTIES BUT ABOUT THIS PARTICULAR AND SIMILAR ANTI PEOPLE POLICIES AND DECISIONS. (BRUTUS de ROMA does not follow parties but justice and fair play. This Ex-gratia issue is inimical to our society and must be scrapped. Let appropriate pension be calculated for MPs. Simple. What is good for the MP is even equally good and even more for the teacher and others who toiled all their life.)
NKRUMAH 11 years ago

MAHAMA IS THE CHIEF THIEF WHAT DO U EXPECT?

MAHAMA IS THE CHIEF THIEF WHAT DO U EXPECT?
EDDIE 11 years ago

This is absolute exploitation by our country's politicians.Teachers, Doctors, Nurses, and other institutional employees have not received their salaries for months in lieu, and I see no reason why these sum of money must be p ...
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This is absolute exploitation by our country's politicians.Teachers, Doctors, Nurses, and other institutional employees have not received their salaries for months in lieu, and I see no reason why these sum of money must be paid to the EX-parlimentarians.Ghanaians must wake up, and NOW.
Whatever 11 years ago

I will not not mince any words in condemning this outrageous payment to the political elite. Was this part of the electoral promise? So why should this be a priority when you haven't even set up the unemployment fund that you ...
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I will not not mince any words in condemning this outrageous payment to the political elite. Was this part of the electoral promise? So why should this be a priority when you haven't even set up the unemployment fund that you promised
Akua Dansua 11 years ago

So are the leaders and parliamentarians seriously aware of the repercussions of their greed and selfishness? What at all on God's green earth is going on? Do they know their actions is a recipe for a possible government overt ...
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So are the leaders and parliamentarians seriously aware of the repercussions of their greed and selfishness? What at all on God's green earth is going on? Do they know their actions is a recipe for a possible government overthrow? Seriously some brakes need to be placed on this road to nowhere because the alternative will be undesirable. A word to the wise is ....
Ibn Batuta 11 years ago

The Chinese are denuding our territories, power in intermittent, water is rationed, sanitation is abysmal,unemployment is rife, healthcare is mediocre, educational system is in shambles and yet the politicians award themselve ...
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The Chinese are denuding our territories, power in intermittent, water is rationed, sanitation is abysmal,unemployment is rife, healthcare is mediocre, educational system is in shambles and yet the politicians award themselves huge sums of money.
anna 11 years ago

its so sad and a shame to our leaders

its so sad and a shame to our leaders
JAGBELE 11 years ago

A Teacher stays in the class room for 30 to 40 years but can never get this amount,and a politician stays in Parliament for only 4 years and just look at the amount that he or she takes home as EXGRATIA. NO TRUTH IN THIS WORL ...
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A Teacher stays in the class room for 30 to 40 years but can never get this amount,and a politician stays in Parliament for only 4 years and just look at the amount that he or she takes home as EXGRATIA. NO TRUTH IN THIS WORLD
Joe 11 years ago

Interestingly it is averagely 70 times a University Lecturer's monthly salary.

Interestingly it is averagely 70 times a University Lecturer's monthly salary.
Edward 11 years ago

INFACT, I AM SAD AND DISAPPOINTED IN THE LEADERSHIP OF PRESIDENT JOHN MAHAMA. HOW ON EARTH CAN YOU PLEAD WITH OTHERS TO PAY THEIR ARREARS IN PARTS WHILE OTHERS COLLECT THEIR IN BULK. A MERE GHS4,000.00 AND GHS276,000 THAT YOU ...
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INFACT, I AM SAD AND DISAPPOINTED IN THE LEADERSHIP OF PRESIDENT JOHN MAHAMA. HOW ON EARTH CAN YOU PLEAD WITH OTHERS TO PAY THEIR ARREARS IN PARTS WHILE OTHERS COLLECT THEIR IN BULK. A MERE GHS4,000.00 AND GHS276,000 THAT YOU CANNOT PAY? WHAT NONSENSE IS THIS? THE PRESIDENT MUST GET SERIOUS AND SENSIBLE LESS HE THROWS THIS COUNTRY INTO CHAOS.
Observer 11 years ago

You listen to some of these MPs and wonder what are they doing in Accra? Whoever said that using one's own money to pay people's school fees is part of the duties of an MP for which they need huge ex-gratias to compensate? Th ...
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You listen to some of these MPs and wonder what are they doing in Accra? Whoever said that using one's own money to pay people's school fees is part of the duties of an MP for which they need huge ex-gratias to compensate? They are all the same - NPP and NDC. Looters and Looters out and out! God Save Ghana!
Hazor 11 years ago

The problem here is that those in parliament don't deserve to be paid ex-gratia.ex-gratia are meant for those who didn't win their parliamentary seat get ex-gratia as their retirement benefit.It is wrong for Mahama to paid si ...
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The problem here is that those in parliament don't deserve to be paid ex-gratia.ex-gratia are meant for those who didn't win their parliamentary seat get ex-gratia as their retirement benefit.It is wrong for Mahama to paid sitting MPs ex-gratia and at the same time being paid monthly salaries.Is Mahama simple don't understood the word Ex-gratia or what.Mahama is destroying Ghana beyong recognition to his selfish ambition.
Jay 11 years ago

THE ANSWER TO THIS NONSENSE IS TO CONDUCT A REFERENDUM ON THE MATTER PERIOD. AND I STRONGLY BELIEVE GHANAIAN WILL VOTE OVERWHELMED AGAINST THIS EX-GRATIA

THE ANSWER TO THIS NONSENSE IS TO CONDUCT A REFERENDUM ON THE MATTER PERIOD. AND I STRONGLY BELIEVE GHANAIAN WILL VOTE OVERWHELMED AGAINST THIS EX-GRATIA
Akos 11 years ago

THIS GARGANTUAN AMOUNT PAID TO THESE BUNCH OF HEARTLESS MPs MAKES NO SENSE TO THE HARD WORKING GHANAIANS WHO RETIRE AFTER THIRTY,FORTY YEARS OF SERVICE WITH PEANUTS.WE HAVE STOP THEM

THIS GARGANTUAN AMOUNT PAID TO THESE BUNCH OF HEARTLESS MPs MAKES NO SENSE TO THE HARD WORKING GHANAIANS WHO RETIRE AFTER THIRTY,FORTY YEARS OF SERVICE WITH PEANUTS.WE HAVE STOP THEM
HONESTY 11 years ago

Nobody forces anybody into public office. They compete, lobby and bribe the electorate to get there. Some of them can barely speak English. Ghanaians should not allow these things to continue.

Nobody forces anybody into public office. They compete, lobby and bribe the electorate to get there. Some of them can barely speak English. Ghanaians should not allow these things to continue.
NII LARTEY NARTEY 11 years ago

These are not people who have the country and people at heart at all. They are all wicked, heartless, unconcerned criminally political sychophants seeking for power to rape the nation clean. Period!

What we need is a massi ...
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These are not people who have the country and people at heart at all. They are all wicked, heartless, unconcerned criminally political sychophants seeking for power to rape the nation clean. Period!

What we need is a massive and spontaneous people's revolution to take control of the affairs of the country and to protect our rightful share of the national wealth and distributions.
Kordiaber 11 years ago

These selfish,do-nothing,looters are at it again to rob the Country.Both Paties are the same and don't care about the average Ghanaian.Teachers on strike, Doctors and other Ghanaians have the issues on the table and these par ...
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These selfish,do-nothing,looters are at it again to rob the Country.Both Paties are the same and don't care about the average Ghanaian.Teachers on strike, Doctors and other Ghanaians have the issues on the table and these parasites want to give themselves Ex-gratia?.Till now, none of them has declared their Assets as required by the Constitution.
KANEWU 11 years ago

GHANA'S PARLIAMENTARIANS SHOULD CONTINUE LOOTING FUNDS FOR DEVELOPING THE NATION AND INSTITUTIONS, WE SHALL ALL SWIM IN THE SHIT.

GHANA'S PARLIAMENTARIANS SHOULD CONTINUE LOOTING FUNDS FOR DEVELOPING THE NATION AND INSTITUTIONS, WE SHALL ALL SWIM IN THE SHIT.
Abba 11 years ago

NDC has already looted the country so the payment of 200 million cedis to the MPS is to calm them.

NDC has already looted the country so the payment of 200 million cedis to the MPS is to calm them.

The ruling class loot state coffers in the name of ex-gratia

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