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MPs in massive 'chop-chop'

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  • Kojo T 11 years ago

    This cuts accross party lines. Let the journalists also do their work Good job

  • kwame 11 years ago

    Good work. These corrupt practices should be exposed. Parliament should have a conscience and integrity. God save Ghana

  • Evans 11 years ago

    IDIOTS, FOOOOOOLS, GOD PUNISH YOU ALL ...

  • REMOVE BY 11 years ago

    Does Mahmoud Ahmedinajad really want to pay a State Visit to these pigs?

  • OLIVER TWIST 11 years ago

    Instead of the NPP and it's parliamentarians coming out to condemn such obscene frivolity, they rather join in and enjoy the booty.

    Ghanaians are left with no one to advocate for them. Our political class have joined hands ...
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  • GHFUO, BE SERIOUS NOT PRIDEFUL! 11 years ago

    the MPs have adopted disingenuous means of siphoning more money from the national purse.....

    MEANWHILE, THE CHILDREN OF GH DONT EVEN HAVE FREE BASIC EDUCATION. WOMEN AND CHILDREN HAVE NO HOSPITALS. NAME 1 CHILDREN'S OR WOM ...
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  • Tibba 11 years ago

    It seems as if Ghana is sliding down on a vertical road of disaster, and greedy politicians are bent on cutting selfish slices of the national cake before the final disaster. Those who make peaceful democratic processes impo ...
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  • Sanku 11 years ago

    Havent we got anymore men in the army with balls? What are they waiting for? The longer they wait, the less money there will be leftover for the rehabilitation process.

  • TerrblY Spe cifiC 11 years ago

    I HAVE ALWAYS INSISTED THAT NPP WILL NOT BOYCOTT ANYTHING MONEY. THEY WILL ONLY BOYCOTT

  • TerrblY Spe cifiC 11 years ago

    THEY WILL ONLY BOYCOTT ANYTHING THAT WILL PREVENT THEM FROM FILLING THEIR BOTTOMLESS, POTHOLE POCKETS.

  • Vodoo Xebieso 11 years ago

    Terri, Terri, you can now see that both the NDC & NPP birds of the same feather.

  • CC GAYE 11 years ago

    Whioch animal represents you?

  • Wicked LeaderWilly 11 years ago

    Ghanaian leaders are very wicked and selfish
    Becareful Rawlings doesn't come again

  • holy smoke 11 years ago

    no one is in charge in the country. The number of MPs keep increasing while respected country have fix MPs and far lower MPs than Ghana. The MPs are indeed wicked.

  • CT Padmore 11 years ago

    It is wrong for MPs to be paid extra to perform their duties, they need to think about the country at-large and not just themselves. Selfish MPs, they all need be sacked.and be replaced with people who needs to work.

  • CARDINAL 11 years ago

    This is plain stealing by MP's with connivance with the Executive branch of government. Now tell me if we don't need a revolution harsher than the 1979 Rawlings coup to clean out these3 dredges of society.

    These Politician ...
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  • Rachel 11 years ago

    Chase them money hungry bloodsuckers out of parliament!!!!!

  • insight to the bone 11 years ago

    a coup like and other war effort requires logistics and propaganda in order to gain the support of the quiet majority and succeed so usually its under the cover of ideology be it the left or ultra left . Ghana is seeing today ...
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  • POTO 11 years ago

    What has become of Ghana at all. Are these MPs so insensitive? God help us

  • boss 11 years ago

    i have said it before and iam saying it again ,thieves ruling fools , what are you expecting? the voters collected money before voting , now its payback time , they need all the money they spend on campain plus intrest

  • MARK CANADA 11 years ago

    DOCTORS TEACHER HAS NOT PAID BUT DOCTORS AND THE USELESS MPS WHO IS IMPORTANT

  • kosibroni 11 years ago

    Ghana desperately needs a mass engineered revolution to cleanse the system.

  • CARDINAL 11 years ago

    That is the only way to cleanse these Politicians from the two major parties who when it comes to money don't see umbrella or elephant but march to the same tune and dance to the same music.

    Most of these Politicians are n ...
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  • Mame Amma 11 years ago

    You go and revolt from where you are sitting. It is those who are at the bottom end of the scale who will suffer. Go on all those of you instigating for this call. The politicians will all do a RUNNER.

  • CARDINAL 11 years ago

    You don't seem to be a student of history. Where will these Politicians run to? Modern world is not like the 1960's where these Politicians used to have somehwere to hide. Saddam Hussein couldn't find anywhere to go, Mubarak ...
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  • OLIVER TWIST 11 years ago

    CARDINAL,

    These people have stuck their heads in the sand like the proverbial ostrich.

    They won't know what hit them. We cannot continue living like this. Something's got to give.

    The brazen and blatant rape of our trea ...
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  • AMMA 11 years ago

    You may not be which I never said or pinpointed you it is a figure of speech!!! If the cap fits then wear it. I do not need the politicians to buy my love as I do not have any.Just go away and let it be for I'm not here to ar ...
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  • kagee 11 years ago

    I am sad

    . If what I read is true then Ghana.It's disappointing.Thanks to God that Rawlings alive.The blood of the assassinated military personnel in 1979 has been wasted. Because we see worse than what they are alle ...
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  • Vodoo Xebieso 11 years ago

    You are right on course. These brigands (NDC & NPP) are fleecing the masses boneless. They deserve no pity. They are too evil to live. You know the solution: WE SHOULD MARCH TO THE PARLIAMENT AND GIVE THEM ALL THE BEATING OF ...
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  • ZYX 11 years ago

    A corrupt nation, supervised by a corrupt regime, its funny how unpatriotic these people are yet majority of the poor folks doe not see anything wrong.

  • SGT ANANI FIADZOE 11 years ago

    If until now someone can still supports President Nkomfem Mahama and his NDC corrupt administration and he or she is not a thief, then Ghana as a
    nation we have a very long way to go before we can achieve or see progress.

  • Alabama 11 years ago

    ZYX did you read the first two comments. Leave a regime out of this it cuts accross party lines and these people are MPs not Govt appointees.

    Stupid Fellow

  • Daniel Twum-Barimah 11 years ago

    Wow!

    My GHOSH, if this is true.....then the situation is worst then I thought....It explains why every tom dick and harry wants to be an MP at all cost....not for the people but for GOODIES....FREEBIEESS.......so sad. I'm ...
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  • Alabama 11 years ago

    Daniel,
    If you look at this piece very well, we should be asking why the don't we hold the Ministries who are agreeing to this accountable. The next heat in on them and they should brace themselves.

  • K9 Lead Vendor 11 years ago

    This is obscene. It's no wonder the EC itself is bankrupt and cannot pay its workers.

  • Alabama 11 years ago

    K9,
    EC has not done anything here. It is the MDAs we need to hold accountable.
    MDAs are the next group of people to fill the heat.

  • K9 Lead Vendor 11 years ago

    You are right, EC is guiltless here (I think), but they are starved of government funds, like several state institutions, so cannot pay their workers.

  • KOTIBORTOR 11 years ago

    We need a return of the savior, J.J. Rawrings! We are tired of the stinky-pooh corruption by all the political parties of Ghana! Enough is enough, let the blood flow once more!

  • Sanku 11 years ago

    Whaaat? You need that fool Rawlings back? What is wrong with you? He and his thieving side-kicks are the cause of all this nonsense. We want their blood as well. The entire stable NDC/NPP needs to be cleaned otherwise there i ...
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  • CC GAYE 11 years ago

    You dont need Rawlings you too can take the initiative.

  • Twum Barimah Richard 11 years ago

    God have mercy on our nation Ghana

  • Luciano 11 years ago

    Our economy is in a precarious position with a lot of external pressure on our resourceful due to our sluggish economy.This is what the IMF had to say on our economy.Meanwhile the greedy mps have all ganged up to loot the eco ...
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  • Tundai 11 years ago

    I am shocked after reading this. I hope it is not true. Nkrumah was indeed wrong when he said the the African would be seen globally as carrying their burden. Something needs to be done to awaken the conscience of the MPs ass ...
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  • Opia Mensah 11 years ago

    A hungry man is an angry man.The will be a coup if.

  • Kofi Asante 11 years ago

    I am not surprised, today, every Ghanaian wants to do politics where it is easy to get rich as fast as possible. If these kinds of nonsense is not stopped, we will continue to remain like this. Shameful MPS

  • Shamu 11 years ago

    Ghana Mps or the so called po;iticians are in 2 or 3 different types. We have those who are there to steal from government, we also have those who are there to steal and at the same time are drug dealers, while others are the ...
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  • Gandalf 11 years ago

    This matter should not be politicised. It happens under any government, be it NDC or NPP or CPP. What must be done is for govt to set up a committee to regulate these things. And remember that Boards of all public agencies, s ...
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  • Alabama 11 years ago

    Thank you Gandalf, Now the heat has to be on the MDAs because they are not suppose to pay any amount to them. As the the Boards it is like three times a year meeting and that is all that they get as board members.

  • Asuo 11 years ago

    They are looting our cofferes

  • Nana 11 years ago

    Sitting allowance is everywhere. Not only with parliamentarians but any iner miistyr meetings come with sitting allowances.

  • Alabama 11 years ago

    Nana please if the this is Part of MPs job there should not be an allowance for it. they can give them lunch that is done. Part of our problem is this. We are paid salaries(no one should tell me it is not enough) and suppose ...
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  • ZONGO BOY 11 years ago

    CARRY ON CHOPPING CAUSE YOUR DAYS ARE NUMBERED BUT DON'T FORGET YOU WILL PAY FOR IT. NO MERCY WHEN THE TIME COMES.

  • sinar 11 years ago

    Cut down the committee members to a maximum of five mps and pay them five Ghana cedis a meeting and finally they should have these meetings at the various ministries.

  • K buggy 11 years ago

    Is not fair to Mother Ghana

  • Tundai 11 years ago

    There is urgent need to develop a new curriculum for our schools that would produce citizens who would not behave the way our MPs are reported to be behaving. It is a shame. But why did the Ministries not leak this informatio ...
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  • Alabama 11 years ago

    Tundai,
    Exactly my point.the ministries shuld not be payment this monies out of their budget. They themselves are going to be on the choping board soon.

  • grace 11 years ago

    This is absurd and totally unacceptable! The only time you see those two parties agreeing is when they have to rip the govt dry. This must be investigated and stopped immediately! This is total rip-off. God help our motherlan ...
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  • GYAMFI, ADDO 11 years ago

    AKOMEAH, URSULA, OWUSU AFRIYIE, OTCHERE DARKO, GBODZOR ABAYATEYE ETC, WHAT ARE YOUR TAKE ON THIUS ? YOU'RE ALL HIEVES AND NATION WRECKERS, NPP, NDC ETC-DAKA DU YA!!.

  • Tundai 11 years ago

    Is the Moderator of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana Rev. Professor Martey awake. I hope we hear him soon. He speaks when other men of God appear to be asleep; he is always awake and that makes the difference in the Presbyter ...
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  • Munir 11 years ago

    My Quention is what at all are they doing with all that money? Most part of our contituencies have no driking water , no libraries each four year, these thieves will come asking for vote and nothing changes I will never vote ...
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  • Akosua Mansah. 11 years ago

    THESE ARE THE PIUS WHO TALK LOUD AND MAKE NOISES ABOUT THE GARGANTUA PAYMENT TO ALFRED AGBESHIE WORYOME. IN FACT, THEIR CORRUPT MEANS AND ACTIONS ARE EVEN WORSE. IMAGINE HOW LONG THESE HAVE BEING GOING ON AND CALCULATE HOW MU ...
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  • papa 11 years ago

    The MPS claimed that they were paid their ex-gratia in 3 instalments. The current instalment of GHC204,347 ie 47 million Ghana Cedis divided by 230 MPS relate to only one instalment. How much were they paid in the first two i ...
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  • Serious talk 11 years ago

    Time for some politicians in ghana to be publicly EXECUTED

  • MATEMEHO 11 years ago

    HM! I REALLY AM DUMBFOUNDED!!

    NO WONDER THE NATION'S DEVELOPMENT IS NOT GETTING ANYWHERE WITH ALL THESE FRAUDULENT LOANS FROM EVERY TOM, DICK AND HARRY.

    GHANA GOVERNMENT NEVER UNDERTAKES A NATIONAL PROJECT WITHOUT FRAUD ...
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  • GHANA BA NANA BA 11 years ago

    Left-Right-Left-Right funya-funya-funya!!!! Mena mekaaea, anka atene, agye baabiara, anka obiara ate dadaada. Adwumayenii bi na yeeye a anka Aban akye no ato efiase. Monhwihwe asem no mu yie. Mmrahyebadwam ho nye sika pe bre ...
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  • Koku Kesedovoo 11 years ago

    This robbery "Filifili"

  • Kwame Nti 11 years ago

    This is true. I had personally worked with GetFund and this was always happening until I left. If you don't provide the money your budget will not be approved. This relates to Common Fund, GetFund, and others. Somebody must s ...
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  • SMOOTH 11 years ago

    NO GHANAIAN IS CAPABLE OF MANAGING THE AFFAIRS OF THE COUNTRY...ALL THE POLITICIANS ARE UNLESS, STUPID, GREEDY AND LACK OF WISDOM.....AFRICA NEEDS THE WHITEMAN BACK....

  • ALHAJI AZONGO MUSTAPHA-BAWKU 11 years ago

    ONE SHOULD NEVER ENVY MP'S SUCH AS THAT OF THE MP FOR GAR HON DOMINIC AZUMAH YOU HAS BEEN IN PARLIAMENT FOR DECADES. HE BELIEFS IN BRIBING DELEGATES DURING PARLIAMENTARY PRIMARIES TO SCORE POINTS. GARU CONSTITUENCY IS RIDDLED ...
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  • Al Haj AAA Rashiid(OH.USA) 11 years ago

    If what I just read is true then we are in trouble, but I would want the journalist to go ask, the MPs if what the Ministries or MDAs are saying about their behavior is right.

    The Administration should also be made aware o ...
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  • Edward 11 years ago

    If this is true, then I think Ghana is heading for trouble. Unbelievable. God save Ghana

  • Musah Osman 11 years ago

    This was the exact situation Ghanaians found themselves before 1979.Thank God history is repeating itself and the action Rawlings took to redeem this country was justified.Time indeed has vindicated Rawlings on his 1979 coup.

  • Osei Yao 11 years ago

    GOOD JOURNALISM. BUT GO FURTHER TO NAME MEMBERS OF SPECIFIC COMMITTEES WHO ARE MEETING AT PLUSH HOTELS AND COLLECTING PAYMENTS FROM MINISTRIES. WE HAVE IMITATED PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEE SYSYEM FORM ABROAD, BUT LOOK AT HOW WE H ...
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  • Mama G 11 years ago

    This only happen in the animals's kingdom when you vote for monkeys this is the end result. Ghanaians has vote for people who are not Ghanaians and this people never think of the betterment of the country.

  • Big Alhaji 11 years ago

    Parliament is the most corrupt institution in the country today. Aside what has been reported, our m.p's disburse pubic funds, only God knows what is being done with our money by these greedy m.p's.

  • Proceed on leave 11 years ago

    They demand envelopes from MDAs all the time for whatever assignment they perform on their behalf.

  • John 11 years ago

    there is no difference... funny that the only time they all come into agreement is when its about salaries. and you my friend wanna be a party loyalist ? give me a break. these partys are not worth defending of dying for.

  • Lorgo Ligri 11 years ago

    Now you know why we have so many fucking Drs., PhDs. ,LLBs.,Profs., Businessmen/women, Elders and ghost chiefs in politics and parliament. The elephant is big. Just get there, find it, dig into the belly, find your spot and, ...
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  • Erci 11 years ago

    strikes will continue. As for this the President will not comment. Mps Ghanaian s thank u very much, all you know is u,ur family, numerous girl friends and ur stomach. remember u will account for it one day. NDC government ha ...
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  • Boniface Adu Yeboah 11 years ago

    I am waiting for these politicians to come out and debunk this piece, if not and it is indeed true, then this people should be describe as pen and intellectual murderers. God save Ghana from the hands of this heartless creatu ...
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  • Concern Ghanian 11 years ago

    POOR TRIBALISM VOTERS GET SENCE

  • Kofi 11 years ago

    Which is which- $ or GHc

  • CANES 11 years ago

    mother Ghana..why fight your brother becos of polictics..see what they are doing to tax payers money??

  • solomon 11 years ago

    what is absolutely wrong with these mps? do they want the country to go back to hipc? so are they really intellectuals? God save our mother ghana.all blames comes frm john mahama for rigging de election results.

  • Amos Aseidu 11 years ago

    I wish we get a revolution again that will come and all this greedy pigs call mps should all be killed leaving no single one, there we see if they will take the looted money along bastereds.God will punish them one by one, yo ...
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  • Mike 11 years ago

    Bunch of country wreckers who gets paid big for wrecking a poor nation.

  • moses 11 years ago

    the MPs in the Parliamentary are not help the national to grow.

  • Hague 11 years ago

    Fools. These are the things you need to demonstrate about and not follow that short man to demonstrate unwisely.

  • Efua Gaisey 11 years ago

    This is preposterous, please vote these idiots out off office in the next election. What is wrong with them? While majority of Ghanaians a suffering, they are burnt on draining the little blood that's left in the tax payers ...
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  • Akra,bronx NYC 11 years ago

    Coup d'état is the answer

  • mante yaw, kumasi 11 years ago

    how much is the military officers who have served the colours 4 15 year take home at the end of the month. coup really awaits gh. for how long will we continue to be silence,

  • Zip Up 11 years ago

    Polities is not a money making job instead it's a suit-cider Public Office for non Patriotic MPs to hang themselves whilst the patriotic ones are awarded with a Monuments extra extra.......

  • kagee 11 years ago

    What about the minister.?

  • OFOE 11 years ago

    God is seeing them all.In times like this they are all one no NDC no NPP. G OD IS WACTHING.

  • Concern Ghanian 11 years ago

    SHAME TO THIS ARMLESS ROBBERS

  • Mankind 11 years ago

    This practice started four years ago. I am surprised to learn that it has now gone to public domaine!! This is a standard thief! thief! process. Thanks for blowing the whistle, any way.

  • Zombi 11 years ago

    Get your facts right.no need to politicise everything.NPP and NDC the same

  • Kwobia 11 years ago

    Is this all true?

  • marian 11 years ago

    Do not re-elect them to parliament.

  • kwadwo baffour 11 years ago

    these are not new, yet they will start to comments that there is no money to be paid Doctors. we call this country developing country, mean while our spending are done in extravagant manner and it does not talk that we are de ...
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  • EZEKIEL 11 years ago

    NO DOUBT, EVERY IDIOT wants to go into parliament !! When the Tea-pot EXPLODES, don't be SURPRISED!

  • Amavie 11 years ago

    STEALING GALORE, ITS BLACK AND WHITE. GHANA IS BEING RIPPED OFF AND THERE IS NO LETTING DOWN. AWWW GHANA IS BLEEDING AND NEEDS IMMEDIATE MEDICAL AND ECONOMIC RESUSCITATION!. WHO IS THERE TO SAVE US? SHALL I GO TO CENTRAL, WES ...
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  • Abeiku - SW2 London 11 years ago

    FUCKING LAZY GOOD FOR NOTHING THIEVES ... THEY R ALL USELESS ...CAME TO ENRICH THEMSELVES

  • Kwaku 11 years ago

    Sack all NPP parliamentarians. Mahama, they say they dont recorgnise you why give them money?

  • Kofi - USA 11 years ago

    NOW YOU TELL THE DOCTORS THAT YOU DONT HAVE MONEY TO PAY THE DOCTORS. SOME FOOLISH PEOPLE BLAME THE DOCTORS FOR GOING ON STRIKE WHEN THESE USELESS AND NONPRODUCTIVE MPS ARE BEING PAID EVERYDAY FOR DOING NOTHING. THIS COUNTRY ...
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  • SAM 11 years ago

    OUR DEAR COUNTRY IS A JOKE, A WASTE BASKET.

  • Eric Datsoor ,Live in Bologna 11 years ago

    Politics are kill all of us.Please let do proper demonstration and stop following the same NPP and NDC.
    They are more than arm robbers.They are doing more harm to Ghana what Politicians are doing.

  • AMA 11 years ago

    Great, wondering when this information will come out! Finally,

  • PROFESSOR THOMAS KUBI- McA 11 years ago

    WE MUST THINK RIGHT
    WITH GOOD INTENTIONS
    WE MUST NOT EXPECT APPALING
    RESULTS
    THIS IS BIGGEST CONVERSATION
    IT MUST BE THE CENTRE OF
    EXCELLNCE
    PROFESSOR THOMA ...
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  • Woman's wisdom 11 years ago

    I don't know what is wrong with Mahama and his NDC evil dwarfs. Ye be dii keke is their slogan and that is the carpet upon which they tred. Mahama is so wicked and I wish this man was dead. It wounds my heart to see a human b ...
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  • Concern Ghanian 11 years ago

    AKRONFO) LEADING GHANA

  • Fo Kofi 11 years ago

    BUT IT IS TRUE!

  • Hard one 11 years ago

    When it comes to matters like these,you see no npp or ndc

  • EDWARD KOFI DTWUMASI (USA) 11 years ago

    OMG (OH MY GOOD GOD, PLEASE)
    FREE INDIA FROM FREE GHANA FROM CORRUPTICIANS

  • NANA ADDO DANQUAH 11 years ago

    WE SHOULD STOP VOTING FOR THIS FOOLS WE CALL THEM MPS.AFTER ALL WHAT ARE THEY DOING.TEACHERS AND DOCTORS ARE MORE BETTER THAN THEM.RAWLINGS WILL COME AGAIN

  • FF 11 years ago

    THIS IS MADNESS

  • FF 11 years ago

    CRAZY

  • Justice 11 years ago

    Wish more strike and demonstration to stop this day robbery

  • Sky Chicago 11 years ago

    And the FOOls in Ghana are thinking the next COUP will not succeed.It will only be BLOODIER.THINK AGAIN.

  • Eric Asamoah. 11 years ago

    How can we developed when law maker or mps whom are paid a huge amount must be bribe before they go on duties ,it a big shame to the people of Ghana.The citizens of this country should wake-up and also take dicisson.

  • MAHAMA's government 11 years ago

    THIS IS MAHAMA'S REPUBLIC,AKONFEM REPUBLIC,TREE'S REPUBLIC,EX GRATIA REPUBLIC,SHARING MONEY WHEN CITIZENS ARE SUFFERING,MAHAMA IS CONFUSE AND NOT A HAPPY MAN

  • Concern Ghanian 11 years ago

    DOUBLE PAYMENT

  • Concern Ghanian 11 years ago

    HUNGRY VOTERS FIGHT FOR THEM

  • AAD 11 years ago

    Being in Government is no longer the Act of public Service.... it is now the Act of stealing from state coffers.

    That is how it has come to they are hitting below the belts and we sit at the sidelines and applaud them.