‘We Won’t Cough de Money’ -Waterville

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Vodoo Xebioso 10 years ago

Betty mould and Barton Oduro must die a violent death for denying Busangqs and Baasare kids access to portable water , toilet facility and above all protect them from koshiorkor

Betty mould and Barton Oduro must die a violent death for denying Busangqs and Baasare kids access to portable water , toilet facility and above all protect them from koshiorkor
PRINCE KWASI ADADE 10 years ago

WHO CAN PROVE KWASI ADADE WRONG? I AM SAYING, THAT, GHANAIANS VOTED FOOLISHLY!! GHANA'S PROBLEM, TODAY, IS NOTHING BUT THE RESULT OF CRIMINAL NDC'S ALLIANCE TO CREATE, LOOT AND SHARE POLICY***---------------*** "IT IS ONLY A ...
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WHO CAN PROVE KWASI ADADE WRONG? I AM SAYING, THAT, GHANAIANS VOTED FOOLISHLY!! GHANA'S PROBLEM, TODAY, IS NOTHING BUT THE RESULT OF CRIMINAL NDC'S ALLIANCE TO CREATE, LOOT AND SHARE POLICY***---------------*** "IT IS ONLY A FOOL, WHO ALLOWS HIS TESTICLES TO BE STEPPED ON, TWICE"-------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 SUICIDAL. HAD NDC MANAGED THE ECONOMY WELL, THESE ECONOMIC PROBLEMS WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN THE SITUATION. NDC HAS PRESIDED OVER THE BIGGEST RESOURCES GHANA HAS EVER HAD. THEY HAVE ALSO CONTRACTED MORE LOANS THAN ANY OTHER GOVERNMENT IN OUR HISTORY, BUT THEY HAVE NOTHING TO SHOW FOR THIS. GHANAIANS SHOULD HAVE ENJOYED SOME ECONOMIC PROGRESS AT THIS TIME IN OUR HISTORY. THE ECONOMY IS COLLAPSING BECAUSE THE GOVERNMENT IS SO CORRUPT. TO RESCUE THE SITUATION, THE POOR IS NOW BEING FORCED TO PAY. THIS IS INJUSTICE. THIS IS NOT THE GHANA KUFFOUR HANDED OVER TO NDC, HE EVEN ADDED FRESH CRUDE OIL WELLS. NPP TRANFORMED GHANA TO A MIDDLE INCOME ECONOMY WITH LIMITED RESOURCES BUT GOOD POLICIES. NDC IS WOEFULLY REVERSING THESE NPP ACHIEVEMENTS. GHANA'S CURRENT SITUATION IS VERY DISTURBING. WHEN THE HISTORY IS TOLD, IT WILL BE SAID THAT GHANAIANS WERE OFFERED FREE SECONDARY EDUCATION, IMPROVED UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE, SOCIAL HOUSING FOR THE POOR AND AN EGALITARIAN SOCIETY BUT 50% SAID NO THANK YOU. THEY PREFERRED ECONOMIC "WOYOMISATION" , PHANTOM DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS, PHILANDERERS FOR LEADERS, MACHIAVELLIAN DISRESPECTFUL CORRUPT LOUTS AND A VISIONLESS EVIL GOVERNMENT. I AM SO PROUD I VOTED FOR NANA AKUFFO ADDO.
GHFUO, change ur thinking 10 years ago

PLS SEND NANA YAA FROM ADOM TV TO LAW SCH SO SHE CAN HELP GH MINISTRIES BECOME PRODUCTIVE ONES. SHE IS MORE SMARTER THAN MANY OF THESE TRASH FEMALE MINISTERS IN GH.....
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PLS SEND NANA YAA FROM ADOM TV TO LAW SCH SO SHE CAN HELP GH MINISTRIES BECOME PRODUCTIVE ONES. SHE IS MORE SMARTER THAN MANY OF THESE TRASH FEMALE MINISTERS IN GH.....
NANA YAA PINKSHEET LAWYER PAPA PAAA
C.Y. ANDY-K 10 years ago

Voodoo,

I think that's too hard a thing to say despite the wrongdoing of the two mentioned persons. For me, paying those monies when my in-law and his colleagues who retired from the Audit Service have not been paid their ...
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Voodoo,

I think that's too hard a thing to say despite the wrongdoing of the two mentioned persons. For me, paying those monies when my in-law and his colleagues who retired from the Audit Service have not been paid their gratuities, etc. for over 10 years is simply an unpardonable action on their part. And I've lost a lot of respect for President Mahama for appointing Oduro to another post in Parliament. Hmm. He also appointed that impostor Agboba to the Council of State. Simply portrays the debased mentality of those who rule in Ghana, be it NDC or NPP. Indeed, they are all greedy, callous bastards, as captured by Justice Paul Baffoe Bonnie in his ruling, but should we wish violent deaths on them?!

It is definitely in very poor taste coming on the hill of what some Awoonor haters have been saying about him which you also didn't like.

Besides, why Busanga and Basare kids, not kids from Adaklu in this video below? You will see the water they drink too. It seems Rawlings and Co's "tribalism" didn't them too in the VR. They are caught up in the C19th!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwBBieJzLFs

I've taken to watching re-broadcast of Joy News on ABN TV, Sky Channel 290 at 12 noon and midnight if I could. What I've been seeing of dilapidated schools in the rural areas, dwelling houses (in both rural and urban areas) and the environment in general in Ghana is simply shocking to me! The deterioration and lack of any improvement since the 1960s is simply mind bungling.

And yet, it is so easy to bring about change in the material circumstances of people if we think laterally and outside the box, applying local knowledge to resolving those problems.

Andy-K
C.Y. ANDY-K 10 years ago

"...coming on the heal of..."

And "... Rawlings and Co's "tribalism didn't reach them...."

And ".... mind-boggling..."

Phew! Typos one make in haste!

Andy-K

"...coming on the heal of..."

And "... Rawlings and Co's "tribalism didn't reach them...."

And ".... mind-boggling..."

Phew! Typos one make in haste!

Andy-K
Kojo T 10 years ago

Waterville is being naive and stupid. One who buys stollen property is equally as guilty as STEALER . Inlet the law deal with both parties if the terms were not properly arranged

Waterville is being naive and stupid. One who buys stollen property is equally as guilty as STEALER . Inlet the law deal with both parties if the terms were not properly arranged
Nyansasem 10 years ago

Why do you think they will pay that money when you and Government officials support Woyome of duping the government? Not until we retrieve what the government gave to your cousin, Woyome there is nothing that we can do with t ...
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Why do you think they will pay that money when you and Government officials support Woyome of duping the government? Not until we retrieve what the government gave to your cousin, Woyome there is nothing that we can do with them.

Retrieve the our money from Woyome and let them know that you we are serious, and then we can go after Waterville.

Fiafitor, Kojo-T.
MR OBJECTIVE 10 years ago

NEVER,cannot be possible,WATERVILLE WILL RETURN THE MONEY as ordered AS THE CURRENT A-G was the fighter/defender of Waterville success of the claims.THE MONEY IS GONE FOR GOOD.

NEVER,cannot be possible,WATERVILLE WILL RETURN THE MONEY as ordered AS THE CURRENT A-G was the fighter/defender of Waterville success of the claims.THE MONEY IS GONE FOR GOOD.
C.Y. ANDY-K 10 years ago

In the midst of all the diversionary attacks on Woyome, instead of focusing on the nitty gritty of the case, I wrote this. Since it is no longer on Ghanaweb, I am re-posting it. Let us recollect that Woyome said that he gave ...
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In the midst of all the diversionary attacks on Woyome, instead of focusing on the nitty gritty of the case, I wrote this. Since it is no longer on Ghanaweb, I am re-posting it. Let us recollect that Woyome said that he gave the bulk of the money he collected to Waterville, which even sued him for taking too much for his "expenses".

Andy-K

WOYOME CASE: I AM CONFUSED!

Honestly, folks, I've been wondering if I am the only person who is confused and cannot understand how Woyome allegedly defrauded the state. Reading through the jumble of information from government sources, including the EOCO Report, correspondences published by the press, and the tons of verbiage by self proclaimed judges and moralists who have poured out their venom on Woyome and all associated with him, I am still left puzzled how and where fraud emanated from. Maybe I might have missed something due to the information deluge, with so much dissonance in it. So I am writing this to seek some clarity.

Methinks, if you file a case in court, believing in your rights as it were, and you won the case in the face of equally competent legal experts before a judge, or in this case when the defence threw in the towel, believing that they have a weak case, how can that be a fraud? If his claims were fraudulent, then it behoves upon the court to throw it out after the defence had shown stiff opposition and defence. If the defence claimed they had a weak case and did not defend and negotiated a settlement, how can that be fraud on the part of the plaintiff? Payment to the wife of the Chief State Attorney? Naaw! A smart person can explain that: we were planning a business venture together! Tall tale? OK, in Ghana, we all know that plaintiffs and defenders alike and seekers of public services show “appreciation” for services well rendered. It is a pervasive part of the Ghanaian conundrum. So the payment could be an honest show of appreciation for the way and manner the Chief State Attorney handled the case expeditiously. But if the “weak case” claim was just a contrived and dubious copping out by the senior officials of the Attorney General’s Dept, in tacit collusion with Woyome, then I expect not only Chief State Attorney Neequaye-Tetteh and his wife to be under arrest and so charged. The A-G herself and her assistant, Barton Oduro, must also be in the dock for collusion and abetment of a “gargantuan crime” against the state! Or, have they claimed that they were fooled by Neequaye-Tetteh? With such a big sum involved and they never bothered to review the papers for themselves before going on the debt collection mission for Woyome? Were they so daft that they thought they could pull off such a rip off without detection in the future? I pray, if indeed they acted in collusion, then I put it to you that that is one more solid evidence to support my hypothesis that idiotic thieves and morons have been ruling us!

Then, another puzzle. Some said there was no contract but we have read several times mentions of a contract being signed! They also said the alleged non-existent contract was not in Woyome's name ( ha! so there was a contract after all!) and hence he couldn't claim, but that is a porous argument, as obviously, Waterville and the other parties in Austria had given him power of attorney to collect the 2% fee for financial structuring of the loans that did not eventually materialise. Woyome in his own press statement claimed that 1% of the money he collected was to go to the Austrian consortium. But the consortium withdrew from the deal, they said, but was it after the illegal and unconscionable abrogation of the contract by Kufour personally, just as many other contracts were unceremoniously and recklessly terminated by his regime at great cost to the nation, or before? Clarity, fellow Ghanaians, clarity!

I haven’t read anywhere that any documents presented by Woyome were forged, so I presume the letters of authority he presented from Waterville and whoever were genuine ones. So if there is no claim to be made, as claims have been made that Waterville had already been paid by the Kufour regime for the abrogation of the contract and for work already done, especially at El-Wak, should the owners of Waterville and the Austrian consortium not be hauled to court too? I have gleaned that Woyome was their errand man. Or, am I wrong? I need some explanation here. I beg!

A lot of hot air is being blown over this case but I am not excited by it at all. Maybe it is because I am used to the gargantuan ripping off of Ghana since the early 1960s, to the really massive losses Ghana is taking right now due to the unconscionable oil block sell-outs under the shameful C19th mercantile trade-like agreements our brain dead and egoistic “leaders” have formulated; for the dubious assigning of their cronies to the oil companies as local partners and whatever bribes they are getting. Makes total judgement debts paid so far puny in comparison! But most Ghanaians seem to be totally oblivious to this fact! It is indeed pathetic to be “developing people”! So when are Ghanaians going to reach the mentality of developed people?

BTW, can someone locate the news article in which Betty Mould boasted of payments of judgement debts resulting from the NPP's actions as one of her achievements? She claimed she had saved the state many millions by re-negotiating such debts. That was last year, when she was still the A-G. And to think that Rawlings and Konadu wanted such a woman to team up with Mills in 2008. Foisting two such disasters on us as President and the Vice! Wallahi!

Those of you close to Rawlings should tell him that he is screwed up and should stop trying to make decisional outputs on Ghana, as we don’t want any further disaster emanating from his judgement of persons, including that impostor Patrick Agboba he has been trying to impose on us Anlos as Awoamefia since 1999! Next time he should turn up in court to solidarise with him.

We all heaved a sigh of relief when my sister finally went on retirement from the A-G Dept. recently. We were counting the years, then the months and then the days! I know my even saying this small thing here will make her go into tantrums, she being the totally apolitical type who does not like to be drawn into anything political or controversial!

Andy C.Y. Kwawukume
YAKUBU 10 years ago

They have the backing of John Mahama and Amissah Arthur, with Barton Oduro sitting on the committee as the chairman to draw up a framework and a working document to prevent the occurrence of such a situation again, what do yo ...
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They have the backing of John Mahama and Amissah Arthur, with Barton Oduro sitting on the committee as the chairman to draw up a framework and a working document to prevent the occurrence of such a situation again, what do you think would be the position of Waterville? Also Marietta Brew-Appiah whose chambers was at a point defending one of the stinking conduits in the form of a company called Austro Invest is the Attorney General and minister of justice? What do you think would happen? Our elders say, "when a blind man says he would throw a stone at you, then he knows what he's standing on".
Kwadwo 10 years ago

Pathetic paper.

Pathetic paper.
Kofi Ata, Cambridge, UK 10 years ago

How can a foreigner in Ghana disobey the decision of the highest court of the land? If his company is not seeking a review of the SC court decision then the company should cough up or shut up. He cannot tell Ghana government ...
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How can a foreigner in Ghana disobey the decision of the highest court of the land? If his company is not seeking a review of the SC court decision then the company should cough up or shut up. He cannot tell Ghana government to go to court because there is no other court to go. The decision to refund the money was made by the SC and that is the end. Period. This company should be told in no uncertain terms to either respect the laws, institutions and the people of Ghana or leave Ghana. The company bosses should not be telling Ghana what to do.
C.Y. ANDY-K 10 years ago

Yes, Kofi, they can refuse to pay and the GoG can't do anything about that except go back to court to seek to compel to them to pay, failing that, seizing their assets through a court order. But they have thrown the first cha ...
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Yes, Kofi, they can refuse to pay and the GoG can't do anything about that except go back to court to seek to compel to them to pay, failing that, seizing their assets through a court order. But they have thrown the first challenge.

Andy-K
COMFORT 10 years ago

LOOK AT THESE NDC-ASSOCIATE-FOOLS WHO THINK BCOS NDC IS IN POWER THEY CAN THROW THEIR WEIGHT ABOUT......THIEVES HAVE NO SAY FOREVER SO THEY MUST BE WARNED THAT NDC WILL EVENTUALLY LEAVE POWER AND THE COUNTRY WILL CRUSH THEM L ...
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LOOK AT THESE NDC-ASSOCIATE-FOOLS WHO THINK BCOS NDC IS IN POWER THEY CAN THROW THEIR WEIGHT ABOUT......THIEVES HAVE NO SAY FOREVER SO THEY MUST BE WARNED THAT NDC WILL EVENTUALLY LEAVE POWER AND THE COUNTRY WILL CRUSH THEM LIKE ANTS .....THIEVES THIEVES THIEVES....I DONT BLAME U AT ALL.....I BLAME THE CURRENT NDC WHICH IS IN BED WITH CRIMINALS TO LOOT THE STATE.....ide biiiii keke....
BJ 10 years ago

Our Judiciary is being regulated. Why should the company be penalized for the crook act of crook NPP thieves? Ghanaians must be straightforward.

Our Judiciary is being regulated. Why should the company be penalized for the crook act of crook NPP thieves? Ghanaians must be straightforward.
COMFORT 10 years ago

KWASIAA INDEED,,, THE BLACK MAN IS A TYPICAL FOOOOOL INDEED......THIS IS A CLEAR CASE OF CREATE LOOT AND SHARE INVOLVING GHANAIAN HARD EARNED MONEY WHICH SHD HAVE GONE TO IMPROVE THE LOTS OF POOR GHANAIANS IN THE VOLTA REGION ...
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KWASIAA INDEED,,, THE BLACK MAN IS A TYPICAL FOOOOOL INDEED......THIS IS A CLEAR CASE OF CREATE LOOT AND SHARE INVOLVING GHANAIAN HARD EARNED MONEY WHICH SHD HAVE GONE TO IMPROVE THE LOTS OF POOR GHANAIANS IN THE VOLTA REGION, CENTRAL REGION AND THE NORTH WHO VOTED VERY MASSIVELY FOR THE NDC THIEVES......SHAME ON U STUPIIIID BJ.
BJ 10 years ago

What was the verdict? Whom did the administration award the contract to after the abrogation? Was the second award any different from the first one?

What was the verdict? Whom did the administration award the contract to after the abrogation? Was the second award any different from the first one?
Dallas 10 years ago

Waterville should not pay the money. There's no basis for the judges to rule that waterville should pay back the money because the then government failed to send the contract to parliament for ratification. It does not make s ...
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Waterville should not pay the money. There's no basis for the judges to rule that waterville should pay back the money because the then government failed to send the contract to parliament for ratification. It does not make sense. The court should rather apprehend those who failed to send the said contract to parliament.
Oppong Kyekyeku 10 years ago

So is that another poor verdict by the highest court of the land? They are using the election petition ruling to protest - "wants to punish us for a sin we have not committed?"

So is that another poor verdict by the highest court of the land? They are using the election petition ruling to protest - "wants to punish us for a sin we have not committed?"
C.Y. ANDY-K 10 years ago

Indeed, I think Waterville has a case too. It was up to the AG to have used the failure of ratification to deny Waterville's writ for compensation on technical grounds, but they failed to do that. You can't make a mistake and ...
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Indeed, I think Waterville has a case too. It was up to the AG to have used the failure of ratification to deny Waterville's writ for compensation on technical grounds, but they failed to do that. You can't make a mistake and then used that to deny the person you hurt his/her due compensation.

But, fact is, taking a cue from the US, Treaties signed by the US President are not valid in the US until ratified by the Senate. So, in this case too, the contract cannot be said to be valid in law. But it is not the fault of Waterville and so must bear the consequences of their own hasty actions in starting the project without Parliamentary approval. This position presents a problem, as in the commercial world, that's not how things are done. A hand shake may be enough to start action on a deal, documents signed and exchanged later.

The least that GoG should have done give a little negotiated compensation money to Waterville for the callous, selfish and untrustworthy actions of the Kufuor cabal of greedy bastards!
paying them such huge sums of money was simply a display of incompetence and graft engineered with the support of the AG's office, so that they got their shares through the back door.
Woyome was just the kingpin of the conspiracy.

Andy-K
Tijani 10 years ago

Kuffour & co. should be arrested because they failed to do the right thing. they took monies from Watervile and awarded them the contract

Kuffour & co. should be arrested because they failed to do the right thing. they took monies from Watervile and awarded them the contract
Kwame 10 years ago

When one goes to the market and negotiated the price of an item with a market woman and decided to take the item at the agreed price it means that the two parties had an agreement. The buyer can not take the item and refuse t ...
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When one goes to the market and negotiated the price of an item with a market woman and decided to take the item at the agreed price it means that the two parties had an agreement. The buyer can not take the item and refuse to pay for it because his wife or husband has not approved that the item should be bought.
The question to ask the Supreme Court in Ghana is that does the constitution said that a foreign company has the power to take an agreement for he performance of a specific work to parliament to be ratified? If No, then why should Waterville Holdings Limited suffer because a minister appointed by the president, the executive officer appointed by the state refused or renegade on his duty.
It is a serious dereliction of duty when a minister of state did not present an agreement he had with a company for endorsement of parliament. Let me ask the Supreme Court why should a person who performed a contract suffer because a minister refused to perform his or her duties. Why should the Supreme Court rule knowing well that its verdict can not be enforced.
Mr. Martin Amidu knew well that the ruling can not be enforced, yet he went ahead to cut the nose of Ghana to spite her face.
Obed Adore 10 years ago

Kwame, good posting! It is clear, Waterville will not refund any money.

Kwame, good posting! It is clear, Waterville will not refund any money.
kululu 10 years ago

Our supreme court judges have problems. they are just happy being at the apex court and carrying the prestige that goes with it. they don't debate issues well and they don't update their knowledge. They are a problem.

Our supreme court judges have problems. they are just happy being at the apex court and carrying the prestige that goes with it. they don't debate issues well and they don't update their knowledge. They are a problem.
Abeeku Mensah 10 years ago

There are those without the ability to use the common sense God gave them and those who needed heroes so desperately they found one in Martin Amidu; in the end the constitution will not save Ghana especially the Kufour admin ...
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There are those without the ability to use the common sense God gave them and those who needed heroes so desperately they found one in Martin Amidu; in the end the constitution will not save Ghana especially the Kufour administration. Kufour and his henchmen of thieves engaged in mafia-like tactic while in charge of Ghana by awarding contracts left and right without requisite approval from parliament. In each of those contracts, documents that should have been left for government were stolen and taken home by Kufour and his men. Yet there are those brain dead educated illiterates in Ghana and in the Diaspora the likes of Okoampa-Ahoofe and Rockson Adofo who continue to sing the Kufour praises.
A good leader and or manager of an institution would have left office ensuring that all that needed to be accounted for, especially all documents generated at the time in office were left for the next government. But we have in Ghana a nation of the under educated and uneducated led by educated fools who prefer to destroy Ghana by stealing and passing out national money to a few in the hopes that opposing parties who take over government may fail. This is the Ghana that has been left behind by J.J. Rawlings, J.A. Kufour and Atta Mills. Unfortunately instead of people with classroom earned credentials acting according to the knowledge acquired they act in line with tribal and party politics while the blame game rules the day. I hope the day comes when Martin Amidu puts his tail between his legs and run to his fans to tell them the truth about laws as practiced and the built-in anticipatory onus on all parties in a contract. To have Ghana's Supreme Court look at a narrow statute without a full understanding of events is to allow government officials like Kufour era administrators to engage in illegal activities to rip-off businesses for their own gains. This must not hold in a nation of thinkers.
OKOE 10 years ago

MOST POLITITIANS LEAVE PARLIAMENT OR GOVERNMENT RICH MEN. DO YOU KNOW WHY? CONTRACTS AND CONTRACTS. DID'NT ONE POLITIAN SAY WHAT WAS OR HAPPENED ABOUT CONTRACTS AT THE CASTLE? REMEMBER THE 10% HE INSINUATED? WELL, THERE YOU H ...
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MOST POLITITIANS LEAVE PARLIAMENT OR GOVERNMENT RICH MEN. DO YOU KNOW WHY? CONTRACTS AND CONTRACTS. DID'NT ONE POLITIAN SAY WHAT WAS OR HAPPENED ABOUT CONTRACTS AT THE CASTLE? REMEMBER THE 10% HE INSINUATED? WELL, THERE YOU HAVE IT!!!
GREAT NANA ANTWI 10 years ago

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Balawo President 10 years ago

What Ghanaians don't know is that Waterville, fronted by Woyome, went through the decadent process of bribing Ghanaian officials from the Presidency to the AGs office and are prepared to tough it out. If they are pushed to th ...
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What Ghanaians don't know is that Waterville, fronted by Woyome, went through the decadent process of bribing Ghanaian officials from the Presidency to the AGs office and are prepared to tough it out. If they are pushed to the corner they will reveal all they know (don't forget Woyome's list of names); and that is why no member of the govt would dare them to pay the money.
FOUNDING MEMBER 10 years ago

CHEEKY WATERVILLE,then you will'shit it with bloodstain,you bandits/dupes

CHEEKY WATERVILLE,then you will'shit it with bloodstain,you bandits/dupes

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