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Only Jesus Christ can rid Ghana of corruption – Appiah-Ofori

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  • kwame 10 years ago

    WHY WOULD U THINK THEY WILL SUPPORT YOU SO THAT WHEN THEY ARE OFF POWER THEY WILL BE APREHENDED. POOR GHANA. GOD HAVE MERCY .

  • Avogadro 10 years ago

    I remember, during the time of AFRC, the short period before Hilla Limann came into power in 1979 (June 04, 1979 - September 24, 1979), corruption was near zero. Ghanaians were afraid of being flogged publicly, going to jail ...
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  • Frank Agyena-Karikari 10 years ago

    Hahahahahahaha. I remember those days. People were even scared to go to work late because that person will be flogged.
    But Ghanaians and Nigerians are so corrupt that even if Jesus becomes the president, they shall steal and ...
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  • Francis 10 years ago

    hahahaha, lol my brother are right. I like you very funny comment

  • ATSU, HO 10 years ago

    UNFORTUNATELY WE HAVE A SYSTEM THAT ENCOURAGES CORRUPTION RIGHT FROM THE ELECTION OF PRESIDENT. DO YOU SEE HOW MUCH MONEY GOES INTO THE POLITICAL CAMPAIGNS? THAT IS WHERE CORRUPTION BEGINS. MAY GOD HAVE MERCY ON ALL OF US

  • GHFUO, BE SERIOUS NOT PRIDEFUL! 10 years ago

    CORRUPTION COURTS IN GH
    WE NEED CORRUPTION COURTS IN GH, NOW!
    THOSE IN THE PUBLIC SECTOR WHO HAVE BEEN ALLEGED AND CHARGED WITH CORRUPTION BY THE POLICE/STATE WILL BE TRIED THERE.
    MALAYSIA HAS A SIMILAR CONCEPT AND IT IS R ...
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  • IBM 10 years ago

    The fact is that the attitude of some of these leaders are influenced by neocolonialists or imperialists vis-a-vis their own greed.

    It is only the change of attitude that can rid Ghana and other African countries from corr ...
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  • GHFUO, BE SERIOUS NOT PRIDEFUL! 10 years ago

    CORRUPTION COURTS IN GH
    WE NEED CORRUPTION COURTS IN GH.
    THOSE IN THE PUBLIC SECTOR WHO HAVE BEEN ALLEGED AND CHARGED WITH CORRUPTION BY THE POLICE/STATE WILL BE TRIED THERE.
    MALAYSIA HAS A SIMILAR CONCEPT AND IT IS REAPIN ...
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  • Jupiter 10 years ago

    Appiah- Ofori is a complete failure as an anti-corruption campaigner. We must take our destiny into our hands and fight against corruption rather than through our arms into the sky and calling Jesus to help. In the days of Je ...
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  • Fellow citizen. 10 years ago

    It`s a pity you`re saying this about someone who always stands against corruption. When Kufour was about to sell Ghana telecom, he bribed all his party members but this man alone stood against it. He pointed it out when the d ...
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  • JAMES 10 years ago

    I have the same belief.Until Jesus Christ returns the situation will be the same.

  • Kujo, ATL 10 years ago

    You are RIGHT!

  • Nana Ansah 10 years ago

    Why should our lousy lazy minded leaders think that corruption is incurable? They have given up not on corruption but also on how to create Jobs for the youth. Think of ex-gratia and their bottomless pockets.

    And why shoul ...
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  • OKYEAME 10 years ago

    What happened to the over 800 million that the AFRC collected from the fines they got from the People's Vetting Committees? Nothing was left, the soldiers looted the bank when they were leaving office. Ghana has been very cor ...
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  • insight to the bone 10 years ago

    the pepeni sticks his dick into anything that walks on 2 or 4 legs and when caught finds a way to blame some poor innocent . this pepeni has proven to be perverse so much so that he tries to force on us a gay sodomizing cultu ...
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  • RAS LION 10 years ago

    ARE U BETTER THAN ANY PEPENI? NO WONDER KUFUOR LOST THE MO IBRAHIM AWARD, AN AWARD FROM PEPEFUO

  • Ali 10 years ago

    Even if God is made president, he would be corrupted. The attorney general and his whole outfit including the judges up to the Supreme Court are all corrupt. Just imagine a judge jailing someone for processing 10.8 grams of c ...
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  • RAS UHURU 10 years ago

    JOHN 5:30 JESUS SAID: I CAN OF MYSELF DO NOTHING. WHAT DO U KNOW ABT JESUS THE SON OF MARY WHOM U TERN TO BE GOD INSTEAD OF A MESSANGER OF GOD ALMIGHTY?

  • PHILTY McNASTY 10 years ago

    Yes, but Jesus has been gone for 2000 years now. We are who we have been waiting for, not Jesus, to save us. We better set aside our stupid and corrupt ways or else we wait until thy kingdom come.

  • kisasi 10 years ago

    A highly educated and informed citizenry hold each other accountable and feel responsible for the whole, regardless of religion.

  • NAT 10 years ago

    ANYBODY WHO SAYS CORRUPTION CANNOT BE ERADICATED IN THE SYSTEM IS TELLING US THAT HE OR SHE IS ALSO CORRUPT.

  • Vuvuzela 10 years ago

    That's untrue and you know it. No individual is stronger than the law courts. But those courts don't really exist in real terms.

    I understand Appiah Ofori but he is wrong. Even Jesus Christ will not succeed in his attempts ...
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  • Remove Indemnity Clause 10 years ago

    When Appiah-Ofori said mps were pad $5000.00 before they approved the sale of vodaphone,he was asked to name the mps but he did not.

  • NAT 10 years ago

    WHEN I DECIDED NOT TO BE CORRUPT,YOU DECIDED NOT TO BE CORRUPT OR WE ALL DECIDED NOT TO BE CORRUPT,CORRUPTION WILL BE WIPED OUT.

  • TALK TALK 10 years ago

    YOU ARE RIGHT, THIS GUY IS CORRUPT AND SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF HIS DEEDS.

  • Osei 10 years ago

    Appiah Ofori is corrupt and so he should stop the so called crusade against corruption since he himself is not Jesus.

  • Paddy 10 years ago

    Hon Appiah Ofori is definitely not a saint but he is charting a noble cause which demands all our support and encouragement if the canker of corruption is to be sledged head on and once

  • Jay+++++++++++London 10 years ago

    How can a corrupt person rid the nation of corruption?

    Even our election was corrupt with the President cheating the majority of a true leader with the collaboration of corrupt EC leaders and the Police.

    GHANA IS A JOKE ...
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  • HASSAN RASTA GERMANY 10 years ago

    YOU ARE A FOOL. THESE IS NOT NPP OR NDC ALL AFRICANS ARE CORRUPT INCLUDING YOUR FATHER NANA DWARF WHO WANT TO BE A PRESIDENT AT ALL COST JUST BECAUSE OF HE WAS VERY HAPPY DURING THEIR 8 YEARS OF POWER.HE WANT TO CONTINUE THE ...
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  • Yaw Boateng 10 years ago

    THIS MAN IS TALKING SENSE AND YOU ARE INSULTING HIM

  • john 10 years ago

    waa look what that stupid is saying,better reglation and good government can change that by stricl laws,nonsense

  • HASSAN RASTA GERMANY 10 years ago

    WE CAN STOP IT IF WE FOLLOW THE GOOD PROCEDURE AS HOW YOU SAID THOSE FOUND SHOULD BE PUNISH AS THEY DO HERE IN THE WESTERN WORLD. OUR GREEDINESS AND ENVIOUSNESS WILL NEVER END.

  • Pelicles 10 years ago

    We read in the good book about how the Jews forced the Romans to eliminate Jesus because he was thwarting their effort to suck the blood of the poor etc.

    When Jesus comes to Ghana, we will do whatever possible to get rid o ...
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  • Lawrence Asiateba 10 years ago

    YOU'RE SUCH A STOPIDMAN,THAT'S WHY YOU'VE VOTED OUT OF PARLIAMENT.

  • Rastero 10 years ago

    I am in agreement with P.C's proposal. Until then, we will never see corruption uprooted. The political scuffle going on is as a result of politicians' proclivity to empty the state coffers, and not a genuine concern for the ...
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  • the truth 10 years ago

    This is another fool in high position in our society. Jesus can't help us if we as individual arent ready to sacrifice our greed for the betterment of Ghana. pinning our fight on jesus is shows we arent serious about fighting ...
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  • Efua Bloomberg 10 years ago

    How can it be said that Ghana is a shining example of democratic governance when corruption is so widely pervasive and institutionalised?
    Corruption is the norm and people strive to get involved as a normal way of achieving ...
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  • JOHN RAMBO 10 years ago

    With John Mahama as president and looting the national coffers through dubious(woyome) judgement debt and steal under the pretext of guinea fowl president, why won't the ordinary citizen do the same. Cleansing should start fr ...
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  • Nana Sarpong 10 years ago

    Corruption becomes endemic and entrenched when society craves for free things. We are reaping where we have not sowed, and this starts from our infancy to the top when even we become echelon of the society. We are thought to ...
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  • travel and see 10 years ago

    jesus said it finish on the cross is up to as to the fight use your cumtion

  • koo nimo 10 years ago

    It is only by punishing breakers of the laws of this countrythat we would have salvation. We all know that civil servant should not demand or accept gifts in the performance of their normal duties for which they are paaid. Th ...
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  • Shamu 10 years ago

    All this people will come out and admit how they ruin the nation during the period between 2000-2008. Now, they look at themselves too rich that, they can sit somewhere and be making any statement. Who are you to sit down som ...
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  • BUSINESS DEVELOPER 10 years ago

    I think we can reduce corruption by changing the way we practice democracy in ghana,currently the status quo of multi-party democracy in ghana breeds more corruption,its a system where it cost much to be elected as an Mp or P ...
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  • travel and see 10 years ago

    we know go site down put up your thinking cups

  • GHANANI 10 years ago

    Yes,Mr Appiah-Ofori is absolutely right.How can evil stop when it is not punished?Corruption will never stop in Ghana because those caught involved,especially public servants are not punished.Our lawmakers haven't got the gut ...
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  • Adroba 10 years ago

    Let's all respect our laws and be ready to be punished. Amen!

  • OMANBA 10 years ago

    Jesus will not succeed eradicating corruption if ghanaians are not prepared to change.Ghanaians are corrupt to the bone.

  • Obed Adore 10 years ago

    I completely disagree. Anti-corruption, ant-theft laws must be implemented. Perpetrators must face the discipline. Corrupt individuals must be arrested, prosecuted and jailed if found guilty of the offence. Te government must ...
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  • Sarskoberta 10 years ago

    Jesus who could not write a book about himself and the wonderful work he did whilst on earth. A Jesus who is forever quite and silent enjoying the Heavens would fare better in his new world as a spirit. He must have to rewri ...
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  • Agonaba 10 years ago

    From top to toe of Ama Ghana need a Spiritual Purgitive to free us from corruption.

  • American 10 years ago

    No, you don't need to believe in a supreme being, human or otherwise, to have a respect for property, contracts, and life that entails respect for the law.

  • Adongo 10 years ago

    Are you an atheist ?

  • bukom boy 10 years ago

    Ghana can learn from Montreal how to dealt with corrupt gangs. Corruption is everywhere , but its worse in Africa

  • GOSH 10 years ago

    UNLESS ALL GHANAIANS COME TOGETHER TO ERADICATE, SNITCH LINES, EXPOSE THOSE WHO CONTINUE THIS PATH, THE GHANA AND AFRICA WILL CONTINUE THE TREND OF POVERTY. COLONIALIST DID HAVE THEIR INTENSIONS CLEAR, THEY BUILD RAILWAYS, TA ...
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  • BRAVEBOY 10 years ago

    Sorry to disappoint you, but only Ghanaians can stop corrupt not God

  • TALK TALK 10 years ago

    WE CAN STOP IT, SO WE HAVE TO STOP IT. LOOK AT A CORRUPT POLITICIAN COMING TO PUBLIC SO SAY HOW CORRUPT HE IS, WHAT A SHAME!

  • BRAVEBOY 10 years ago

    This is why a don't have faith in the post independence generation. They are just self defeatist. Even the Bible says you can achieve any fate if you put your mind to it.

  • .. 10 years ago

    Not right.

  • Agyaku NYC 10 years ago

    Yes,Appiah-Ofori you absolutely right every body in Ghana government is corrupt for the fact that the law protect them. You cannot build any institution without enforcing the law, even in God`s Kingdom there is a law and you ...
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  • Kofi 10 years ago

    We have to put Ghana ubder a UN trusteeship. Then a whiteman will be appointed as head of state. Maybe, things will begin to change.

  • EZEKIEL 10 years ago

    Jusus will be BRIBED at the IMMIGRATIONS and that will be it!!
    When Mills said he wished God were the president, people were crying wolf! Why this now ??
    So,are we saying that this should be the FUTURE of OUR NATION ???Path ...
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  • Kofi 10 years ago

    People were crying wolf as you said because Mills campaigned that he was going to do it. If he realized he couldn't, all he had to do was to step down and let Ghanaians decide if they would convince God to put his name on the ...
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  • charles koduah 10 years ago

    NO, GOD HELP THOSE WHO HELP THEMSELVES.ONLY GHANAIANS CAN SAVE GHANA.

  • Ban Ghana Police For Life 10 years ago

    How do we end this knowing from our security department to the button are all corrupt. Look at our police alone and advise yourself for God sake. When the police is straight, our country will be straight. This might sound cra ...
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  • Gyata 10 years ago

    If systems are created by humans, then they can make it work better efficiently. From anti-colonial rule to independence, military rule to democracy in Ghana, it has been Ghanaians who did it themselves, so they can stop cor ...
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  • from UK 10 years ago

    Look at this criminal old man

  • hayford 10 years ago

    i also share the same sentiment cos now employment is based on party affiliation,tribe and bribary.how can a nation of this develop.

  • BRAVEBOY 10 years ago

    It is the same thing everywhere but once in office, people seek the good of others. The reason is that there are systems that direct people what to do after. Trust me even the whiteman is tribe and nepotist. Corrupt must be s ...
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  • thuglife 10 years ago

    fuck your jesus and fuck his God

  • Nana Yaw Effah 10 years ago

    Jesus cannot rid Ghana of corruption. Only either St Peter (see Acts Chapter 5) or more potently, Antoa Nyamaa could do it.

  • Evestar 10 years ago

    Ok we don hear!

  • cartus 10 years ago

    This is bullshit and highly ignorance!!!

  • PICASSO 10 years ago

    The leaders are not think for future.They only think for themslef for we to call them BOSS OR MASTER.But they also call themslef GOD people. l pray that GOD will kill all corrution leaders

  • KOJO 10 years ago

    EVEN THE ATTORNEY GENERAL DEPT WHICH IS RESPONSIBLE FOR PROSECUTION IS CORRUPT TO THE CORE.HOW ELSE COULD WE HAVE THESE DUBIOUS JUDGEMENT DEBT PAYMENTS.EVEN JESUS CHRIST CANNOT HELP.

  • PEKI TUMU 10 years ago

    Untrue. We the people can do it

  • THE KILLERS WERE EVEN CORRUPT 10 years ago

    Thoes who sentenced others to death
    on corruption charges were even corrupt.

  • Kwabena Boateng (Atlanta u.s.a) 10 years ago

    Do u need powerful spiritual help? I know of a very very powerful young lady name Queen who has rescue me from hell, poverty nd shame. Nd has made me very very rich nd powerful. Wats ur problem? Name it nd Queen will solve al ...
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  • mohammed amin abdallah adenta fafraha 10 years ago

    NO WONDER THE CALIBRE OF YOU ARE THE RULERS OF THIS COUNTRY.ALMIGHTY GOD WILL NEVER CHANGE THE CONDITIOSN OF PEOPLE UNLESS THEY TAKE INITIATIVE TO CHANGE IT BY THEMSELVES.WE ARE ALL CONTRIBUTORS TO THE CORRUPTION THAT IS ON ...
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  • ohenenana 10 years ago

    Its the duty of citizens to call politicians who build houses and buy cars, open businesses, and properties they never could afford before they entered politics, and the state institutions should be used to bring those who m ...
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  • ohenenana 10 years ago

    set up blogs and electronic media to list those who are stealing

  • Komla 10 years ago

    Amen to that. Our Lord Jesus Christ has the power to set free. And I totally agree He is the only one who can help us now.

  • Efo Kobla 10 years ago

    Indeed only Jesus can save propective passport applicants from the hands of corrupt officials of Kumasi Immigration Service.
    Modus Operandi: They cancel the collection dates generated when new applicants are due to collect t ...
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  • Henry Ayim 10 years ago

    Hmmm! Mr, Appia Ofori....... There is only one hope for Ghana and that is there needs to be a declaration of a king whom God has appointed to rule his beloved country 'Ghana'. (Isaiah 42)
    But authorities doesn't want to do i ...
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  • Abba 10 years ago

    Now the spirit of June 4th 1979 Revolution is totally dead because Mahama led NDC has looted the coffers of the nation.

  • Abba 10 years ago

    Now the blood of those who were executed are innocent because Mahama led NDC has opened the way for corruption in the country.

  • AKONFEM PREZ 10 years ago

    MR YOUR RIGHT,GO TO MAHAMA BANK IN USA,HE HAS 170MILLIONS DOLLAS IN HIS ACCOUNT,GOD SAVE GHANAOOOOOOOO,HMMMMM

  • Efua 10 years ago

    You are found to be corrupt, lose your job...that simple. A cop caught taking bribe, lose your job. A teacher, a judge, nurse,govt employee... All MUST BE SACKED IF CAUGHT

  • Efua 10 years ago

    Why is it that you cannot bribe a cop here but in ghana you can Why Why Why
    The Cop in Ghana is not paid well. Okay let's pay them well, and so is the nurse, teacher, etc. We have Oil, Gold Timber, Cocoa, Mangenese, Bauxite, ...
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  • STONER KOBYLYNTON 10 years ago

    Appiah-Ofori is corrupt himself. When people were voicing out for the President, Ministers and Parliamentarians to declare their assets before they mount on their political appointments by the electorates, could he add his vo ...
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  • MENSAH 10 years ago

    That's HEART-BREAKING.
    So that means they all support BRIBERY & CORRUPTION IN STATE INSTITUTIONS,PERIOD.
    WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?
    BUT WE CANNOT MOVE IF WE ARE STILL ENTANGLED BY THE "TENTACLES OF BRIBERY & CORRUPTION".
    M ...
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  • KOKI 10 years ago

    Surely, Ghana is bleeding terribly because of a number of obvious factors easy to identify but strangely difficult to eradicate or reduce it significantly.

    The biggest culprit is deep seated CORRUPTION and worse of it all ...
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  • Kwaku Gbloenawo 10 years ago

    Uptil now no public official or politician has been able to publicly declare his/her assets. Why would corruption not continue. Even Paa Kwesi Indoom who was purported to have declared his assets and paid taxes, where is the ...
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  • NANA IS USING BAWUMIA 10 years ago

    TELL THAT TO KUFUOR AND HIS CROOKS! KUFUOR BUILT A HOTEL IN HIS SON'S NAME JUST WHEN HE WAS PRESIDENT FOR TWO YEARS. SO HOW CAN GHANA RID HERSELF OF CORRUPTION? GO AND LECTURE KUFUOR ON THIS.

  • NANA IS USING BAWUMIA 10 years ago

    JESUS CAN'T SAVE GHANA FROM CORRUPTION. ONLY GOD CAN SAVE GHANA FROM CORRUPTION.

  • ADJOA 10 years ago

    CHRIST WILL NOT COME TO END CORRUPTION .INSTEAD WE SHOULD USE THE WISDOM/GOODJUDGMENT FROM HIS TEACHES THROUGH THE RULE OF LAW, KNOW OUR RIGHT AND INDIVIDUAL RESPONSIBLITY IN SOCIETY TO CHALLENGE WRONG ACT WITHOUT FEAR. THOS ...
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  • TRUTH MAN 10 years ago

    WHAT HAPPENED TO YOUR CONSCIENCE WHEN YOU KEPT QUIET ABOUT THE VODAFONE BRIBE? CAN U SLEEP? AND NOW U R TELLING US WHAT? PRACTICE WHAT YOU PREACH.

  • SMOOTH 10 years ago

    ONLY JESUS OOOOO BUT SINCE JESUS IS NOT COMING DOWN TO RULE, I THINK AFRICA IN GENERAL SHOULD BE GIVEN TO THE WHITES TO RULE....AFRICAN LEADERS ARE SELFISH, CROOKS, GREEDY AND STUPID...

  • GHFUO, BE SERIOUS NOT PRIDEFUL! 10 years ago

    WHERE IS THE 10GRAND U CLAIM FROM KUFFOUR FROM THE GH TELECOM DEAL? INSTEAD OF PUSHING FOR CORRUPTION COURTS LIKE THE MALAYSIANS HVE DONE, LISTEN TO WAT THIS OLUMAN DEY SPEW? TRASH TALK!

  • Sheriff Wisdomgold 10 years ago

    Please Mr Appiah Ofori your Jesus Christ said he is not good and no one is good so why do you think he can end corruption in Ghana? Let me tell you all the truth if you all help by telling the truth to all mankind that only T ...
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  • Mr Green. 10 years ago

    I' would like to know such a truthful author like Sheriff Wisdomgold who does not believe the stories Jesus Christ! We need to find ways together to change peoples mind.

  • asonaba kofi 10 years ago

    jesus alone cannot do it.he will need the help of all the angels and a little help from the oldman himself.

  • CONCERNED GHANAIANS 10 years ago

    WE AGREE THAT CORRUPTION IN GHANA HAS BECOME ENDEMIC; BUT WE DISAGREE WITH THIS UNFORTUNATE STATEMENT. WE BELIEVE THAT CORRUPTION IN GHANA CAN BE OVERCOME. THERE SURELY ARE HONEST PEOPLE IN GHANA WHO, IF GIVEN THE OPPORTUNITY ...
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  • KOJO 10 years ago

    Hate him or love him, Mr Appiah-Ofori has said the truth. Adze no dze eren ye yie. Asei potooo. NPP and NDC, the same. Our politicians have let the ordinary Ghanaoan down big time. I'm wondering why the suffering and unemploy ...
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  • Ceeboy Dangerman 10 years ago

    A number of human rights institution are doing anti-corruption. The issue is that people who know about the corruption do not want to volunteer information.We are aware of corruption not only at GRA but in the mining sector, ...
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  • Mr Green. 10 years ago

    This is human greedy, it has got nothing to do with Jesus christ.Human see to his mistakes and to correct it.Also material life so Jesus can not do anything about. You should always find better ways to explain things to under ...
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  • STEVE 10 years ago

    Corruption can be eliminated if good institutions are built upon on good leadership, morales are instituted into the young generations, separation of powers by the three arms of government to dispense its duties without fear ...
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