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Don’t blame Mahama for existing corruption - Baako

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  • Nicholas J Bedzo 10 years ago

    Why not? He is the head of the Country
    and you want who to take the Blame?
    Your thinking faculties are not working properly.

  • Selassie Dzokoto 10 years ago

    Folks hold your fire pls. The HEADLINE is at variance with what am reading from the report.

  • Agyei 10 years ago

    CHECK THE HEADLINE. PLEASE, STOP THE TWIST.

  • BRIAN WILLIAMS 10 years ago

    YES WE BLAME YOUR MOTHER FOR GIVING BIRTH TO STOMACH JOURNALIST LIKE YOU AND PRATT. SHAME ON YOU FOR NOT SPEAKING THE TRUTH, BUT INSTEAD ABOUT WHERE YOUR DAILY BREAD WILL COME FROM.

  • Adams 10 years ago

    Kweku Baako reap what you sow. Please reap the whirlwind and suck it up!!

    (Source: Office of the President at Flagstaff House, Accra, Ghana).

    1. Moses Asaga - Chief Executive Officer of the National Petroleum Authority ...
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  • N. NYIMPA-BENYAW 10 years ago

    Mohammed Baba Ahmed Jamal is a Fante Kramo from the Central Region but domiciled in the Eastern Region for ages.

  • ADWEN 10 years ago

    MAHAMA SEEMS TO WANT TO TURN GHANA UPSIDE DOWN. HIS APPOINTMENTS ARE ABOUT 75% FROM THE NORTHERN AND UPPER REGIONS.
    WHAT AN IDIOTIC "PRESIDENT".

  • Nyansa Ba 10 years ago

    Why, Baaku, are you now receiving more money than Kwasi Chameleon Pratt to speak more and bigger rubbish than Kwasi is noted fore?

  • PAT 10 years ago

    WHO IS KWAKU BAAKO AND KWASI PRATT AT ALL....GHANA SHD BE RELYING ON AND BE USING TECHNOCRATS FOR INFORMED ANALYSIS OF NATIONAL ISSUES AND STOP USING THESE JOURNALISTS WHO KNOW NEXT TO NOTHING APART FROM PROPAGANDA....WE NEED ...
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  • NYARKO U.S.A. 10 years ago

    PAT MY FRIEND. SERIOUS CORRUPTIONS STATED SOON AFTER PRESIDENT NKRUMAH WAS THROWN OUT OF THE OFFICE AND KEPT GOING THROUGHOUT VARIOUS ADMINISTRATION BEFORE PRESIDENT ADMINISTRATION.
    IT IS TOTALLY WRONG AND DISGUSTING FOR YOU ...
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  • Pelicles 10 years ago

    Corruption in Ghana, started with Nkrumah. Was he accountable for anyone during those day and who was that person? Who or whom did he consult before giving out our monies to some nations in Africa as well as supporting freed ...
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  • srome 10 years ago

    @ Pelicles, Indeed professional corruption started with NK but prior to that the indirect rule that placed authority in the hands of the chiefs was also saw serious corrupt practices, moreover, corruption was also applied as ...
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  • Gye Nyame 10 years ago

    Corruption is a character trait of Ghanaians – people started chopping as soon as independence was handed to us. The ministers, MPs, brigade leaders and all who was who then started chopping. Hate to tell you this consideri ...
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  • Ghana Massai-France 10 years ago

    Excellent comment! Corruption really is an incurable Ghanaian cancer, an indelible "trade mark" without a beginning nor an end just as the Almighty is. Corruption seems to be the first word in the "the Ghanaian Dictionnary" & ...
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  • NYARKO U.S.A. 10 years ago

    BROTHER GYE NYAME, LET ME RESPOND TO SOME OF YOUR ALLEGATIONS OF CORRUPTIONS LABELLED AGAINST THOSE FORMER HON'S IN CPP GOVERNMENTS.
    HON. KROBO EDUSEI WAS A RICH BUSINESSMAN BEFORE HE WAS APPOINTED AS MINISTER.
    HON. GBEDEMA ...
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  • NYARKO U.S.A. 10 years ago

    correction STARTED SOON AFTER

  • Guv 10 years ago

    RESPECT OTHERS AND OTHERS WILL RESPECT YOU.

  • PAT 10 years ago

    JUST LOOK AT GYEEDA, WOYOME, SADA, JDEBTS, ETC ETC AND TELL ME THAT NDC'S CASE ISNT UNIQUE KWAKU BAAKO......NDC HAS A UNIQUE CASE BCOS THEY CAME ON THE BACK OF POOR NORTHERNERS, FANTIS AND EWES SO THEY HAVE NO BUSINESS STEALI ...
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  • Krikri 10 years ago

    Listen to Kufour: 'I will not expose thieves and corrupt people in my govt because if I do that I will be destroying my party'. As for THIEVES in government, THERE IS NO CHALLENGER TO KUFOUR AND HIS NPP. Tell me, how come Kuf ...
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  • PAT 10 years ago

    UR NDC ARE SIMPLY LOOTING AND NOT GOVERNING AT ALL .

  • Abena 10 years ago

    I know people always points fingers at the current government all the government that have come and gone were all corrupt. What happened to the hotel that belong Kufour's son. The unnecessary gold chain award that Kufour gave ...
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  • PAT 10 years ago

    PAYING 85 MILLION EUROS DUBIOSLY TO CP BY NDC/BETTYMOULD IS EXTRA EVIL....PAYING 45 MILLION DOLLARS TO WOYOME IS EXTRA EVIL.....OVER EXPENDITURE OF 8.5 BILLION GHC OR 4.2 BILLION DOLLARS IS TOO EVIL......NONE OF THIS COMPARES ...
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  • Proud Pepeman. 10 years ago

    kuffour sold Ghana telecom so cheap that Vodafone couldn't believe their luck and pocketed the side kicks. Got a percentage in the Jubilee field and sold his share. When he and his cronies should have been negotiating for Gha ...
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  • PAT 10 years ago

    KWASIA PROUD PEPEMAN, THIS ISNT ABOUT NORTHERNERS BEING INVOLVED...INDEED UR NORTHERNER AS PRESIDENT SHD HAVE KNOWN HOW TO USE THOSE LOOTED HUGE SUMS TO BETTER THE ECONOMIC CONDITIONS OF THE NORTH TO MAKE PRODUCTIVITY EASY TO ...
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  • Jake 10 years ago

    Your comment in response to Proud "P' shows how inhuman you are, resorting to insults when uncalled for.
    You are "that" as you called him.
    You have no wisdom to make constructive comments I guess. You are a N.E.W.T.A.
    No e ...
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  • VIDA 10 years ago

    look at the corruption of this NDC and tell me if u are happy with the sad state of kayayes whilst almost one billion dollars was paid in dubious judgement debts......then GYEEDA sada etc etc. ......kwasia Jake. .....I am not ...
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  • PROPERTY DEVELOPER 10 years ago

    PEPEMAN ARE YOU PEPE WITH TRIBALS MARKS OR UNMARKED.WHAT TRIBALISTIC MENTALITY DO YOU HAVE. KUFOUR SWALLOWED SO MAHAMA MUST SWALLOW.THERE WOULD BE A TIME WE ARE GOING TO HOLD THEIR NECKS FOR THEM TO VOMIT WHAT EVER THEY HAVE ...
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  • KWAME OWUSU 10 years ago

    nana won only the ashantis and and the
    part of eastern in both 2008 and 2012 elections but yet went to court what acheap loser. K4 WON SIX REGIONS

  • Shanana 10 years ago

    Nana won more regions but Afari jan-jan conspired with Asiedu nkatee to rob him. Didn't you follow Atuguba's sessions?

  • LONTO-BOY 10 years ago

    Yes, there's the need to put Ghana's culture of corruption in perspective. However, John Mahama, as the President, bears responsibility for his everything wrong with his Government. Whether he knows personally about corrupt a ...
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  • Asempaye 10 years ago

    Well said. What the country needs is a collective discussions and approach to fight this menance not raining unqualified insults on one another. ALL POLITICIANS IN GHANA ARE THIEVES.
    They should march them to the so-called f ...
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  • togoboy 10 years ago

    what kind of english is this?? NONSENSE!!! mahama cant be blame paaa?? illiterate fool!! the word is BLAMED!

  • DusTY-FooT-pHiloSophER 10 years ago

    "Don't blame Mahama for existing corruption - Baaku." That's the caption posted clearly up in here before all. Nothing about your complaint and the extraneous correction therein after is registered anywhere in the above posti ...
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  • BABA 10 years ago

    if authorities seriously want to eradicate corruption in ghana, it will just take less than a week for the law makers to fight and introduce a severe punishment on corrupters and corruptees into the constitution that can lay ...
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  • Adwoa-London 10 years ago

    What a lame excuse that we cannot fight corruption in our society?
    Who are the law enforcers are they not the ones who have to prosecute these people? tHE POLICE, OFFICE OF FRAUD SQUAD, AND THE JUDICIARY ARE THE ONES WHO HAV ...
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  • fosu 10 years ago

    Ask John Boadu of NPP how he was able to finance his mansion.Could NPP account for the HIPIC funds? NPP 8:2 dose awaits you in 2016. Whether the NDC is corrupt or not we will still vote them due to NPP arrogance

  • Uncle Sam, USA 10 years ago

    I think Abdul Malik Kweku Baako is loosing it. He is becoming very inconsistent these days. He and Kwesi Pratt are the most confusionists in the
    country at the moment. It's a pity they have left their CPP in a state of iner ...
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  • mimi 10 years ago

    John Boadu they say I should ask you how you financed your mansion. Will you be kind enough to tell us.

  • wigit guit 10 years ago

    two wrongs dont make a right if npp was corrupt that does not justify corruption in any party in government the side effect of corruption such underdevelopment affects all ghanaians regardless the party color u wear. All hand ...
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  • Adams 10 years ago

    Who said 'corruption began from the days of Adam'?, after acquiring a five-star hotel?.

  • Kwabena Gyamfi 10 years ago

    NDC communicators day in day out accused Kufuor of corruption and Mahama enjoyed that. He did not butt an eyelid. Now it is his turn to be at the receiving end. In any case he was the defacto president until Mills demise and ...
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  • AAD 10 years ago

    The institutions to fight corruption are themselves using dishonest exploitation of power for personal gains- that is the reason fighting corruption is deep rooted in our society

  • Djata 10 years ago

    So corruption started in Nkrumah days. That does not make it right, you fool. The buck stops with Mahama. If he cant stop it nobody forced him to his post. I as a citizen need to be reassured that who ever is in power is figh ...
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  • NAA4U 10 years ago

    HE IS THE HEAD OF THE COUNTRY NOW BUT NOT THE HEAD OF COUNTRY IN THE PAST YEARS WHERE CORRUPTION STARTED FROM. IT IS AGAINST THIS BACKGROUND THAT HE CANNOT BE BLAMED FOR THE ONGOING CORRUPTION.

  • mimi 10 years ago

    Ghanaians have the notion that any government in power are looters.

  • NAA4U 10 years ago

    PAT, KRIKRI MADE HIS POINT WITHOUT INSULTING ANYBODY SO YOU SHOULD DO SAME TO HIM.

    IF NDC IS LOOTING IN 4 YEARS, WHAT DID NPP DO IN 8 YEARS? HOW COME KEN AGYAPONG WAS GIVEN CONTRACTS UNDER DIFFERENT NAMES WHEN IT WAS VERY ...
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  • ahmed issah 10 years ago

    NDC is overdoing it that is why we are struggling

  • you thought you've got NPP FOLKS 10 years ago

    kwaku baako

  • concern citizen 10 years ago

    I am disappointed in your statement Kwaku Baako,So what do you intend to achive by this statement?I will advice for you that sometimes you will make more sense when you are quite.nonsense.
    your John Mahama is paying you fick ...
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  • Topie wa 10 years ago

    l like people who are objective like kweku they say it as it is .

  • zoic 10 years ago

    what kwaku is saying is true. even prez kufour admit that is as long as adam but all hpoe is not loss lets keep fighting may be i will be the one to stop it or u

  • concern citizen 10 years ago

    Every man pleaser will fail,why, becos you cannot please man.If you fail to call a spade a spade surely you will fail.
    Mahama wants to play the good man and so he is not puting his legs down.so corruption will not stop.and w ...
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  • Ben 10 years ago

    Kwaku I do agree with you on many issues but not this. Who should we blame? Tell us who we should blame for heading the most corrupt government Ghana has ever had? Are you telling us that there has ever been a corrupt govern ...
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  • OPANIN KWAKU ATTA 10 years ago

    WE CAN FIGHT CORRUPTION,ONLY IF THERE IS CHECK AND BALANCES IN THE SYSTEM.

  • Papa Yaw 10 years ago

    Hoe

  • Abeeku Mensah 10 years ago

    I challenge thinking Ghanaians to show where the corruption under the Nkrumah regime comes close to the in-your-face thievery that continues since the 1966 coup; No one can point to national lands that were stolen and or sold ...
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  • Jake 10 years ago

    still goes on, from kankan nyame, and all the lies being peddled till today.
    The 2 parties are to blame, as none can muster up courage, yet some go as far back to Nkrumah's regime; why? it is to deflect attention and respons ...
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  • RICE WATER 10 years ago

    CHILDHOOD-SCHOOL MATE KWEKU, YOU MAY BE RIGHT BUT WHAT IS LEADERSHIP DOING, LEADERSHIP IS TO BE BLAMED, YOU SEE PREZ JOHN SHOULD A PROGRAM OF SHIFTING EVERY GOVERMENT INSTITUTION WORKER IMMEDIATELY, RESHUFFLE THE PUBLIC SECTO ...
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  • jay tee 10 years ago

    why should government issue physical cash instead of cheque system, because they want to steal they use physical cash on government transactions how.

  • KWAME 10 years ago

    All these leaders who seek power and get have at the back of their minds to change their financial circumstances. Because they have to change their financial circumstances, usually through corrupt practices, they dont have th ...
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  • Pelicles 10 years ago

    To minimize corruption, Ghanaians should exhibit HONESTY and respect the RULE OF LAW. Anything other than these two things to fight corruption, will fail. Honest people do not steal or lie and the long arm of the law must ...
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  • Agyaku NYC 10 years ago

    Here is another lunatic, The president is charger of anything going on the country. The priority of the president is to uproot the corruption by implementing and enforcing the law of the land. Corruption is a crime and anyone ...
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  • PROPERTY DEVELOPER 10 years ago

    PLEASE KWAKU I DO NOT GET YOU WELL CAN YOU EXPLAIN TO ME IF THE PRESIDENT IS COMBATING OR DOES HE CONDONE CORRUPTTION?BECAUSE I HAVE HEARD YOU MANY TIMES ON RADIO TALKS.YOU ARE NOT A POLITICIAN OR A LAWYER.BUT AS AN EDITOR WO ...
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  • Abu-Mahama 10 years ago

    Atugubas is the problem of the corruption in Ghana

  • azaa akonfem mahama is big lies 10 years ago

    USELESS MAHAMA IS INCOMPETENTS,EMPTY HEAD,JUJU CRIMINAL,KILLED MILLS,SHAME ON HIM

  • Kwami - US 10 years ago

    By reading and listening to the kinds of writeups and comments being pasted and posted on ghanaweb, one can vividly come into conclusion that corruption is far from elimination

  • fuck npp 10 years ago

    Look at this certificateless baboon pedophile....Who made him the spokes person for anything...he should concentrate on improving that his toilet paper he calls a newspaper,and stop taking money to publish stories.Foolish dru ...
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  • owusu poku 10 years ago

    well done kwaku;our friend

  • KWASHIE ADJAH 10 years ago

    THE BUCK STOPS WITH JOHN MAHAMA AS PRESIDENT. HE OVERSEERS THE USE OF STATE FUNDS AND RESOURCES AND HE IS TO BE HELD FOR THE ROBBERT OF STATE FUNDS LOST THROUGH SADA, GYEEDA, JUDGEMENT DEBTS ETC.

    THE BUCK STOPS WITH JOHN M ...
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  • SANTROFI 10 years ago

    ESTABLISHING ALL THOSE USELESS TOOTHLESS COMMISSIONS LIKE THE JUDGEMENT DEBTS COMMISSION AND THOSE THAT EXISTED DURING KUFUOR'S TERM WERE/ARE ALL A COMPLETE JOKE.

    WHO DO GHANA'S SUCCESSIVE DOWNRIGHT CORRUPT LEADERSHIP THIN ...
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  • OBTT 10 years ago

    NONSENSE, NONSENSICAL NONSENSE. SOME OF US HAVE LIVED TO SEE THE FEAR FORMER PRESIDENT JERRY RAWLINGS INSTILLED AMONG CORRUPT PEOPLE IN THE 70S. I'M NOT SAYING GOVERNMENTS SHOULD RESORT TO THAT CALLOUS AND BRUTAL WAY JERRY FO ...
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  • Zangina 10 years ago

    I am beginning to wonder how Kwaku Baako is changing his stance on NDC. Since Mahama came he has mellowed so much so that people hardly quote him these days. We know he is an intelligent man but he is beginning to sound a lit ...
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  • Jonny 10 years ago

    If Kwaku is my son i will never let him even enherit my shoes if i die. Kweku who do you want us to blame you or the policemen.

  • BBC NEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!! 10 years ago

    Bawumia is the only idiot from the north,does he think he will get a chance in "Y3N AKANFO" PARTY? He should go and ask the late ALIU MAHAMA THIEF KUFOUR'S VICE. When kufour was travelling allover the world, vice president AL ...
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  • LYDIA 10 years ago

    ISNT IT OBVIOUS THAT THIS STUPID BBC NEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!! IS SO ENVIOUS OF AKANS FOR THEIR PROGRESS AND OPEN MINDEDNESS.......ALL TRIBES FEAR EWES BCOS OF OBVIOUS REASONS BUT IN SPITE OF EVERYTHING, AKANS ARE VERY OPEN TO ALL PE ...
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  • Kwobia,Toronto 10 years ago

    Corruption is endemic to Ghanain society.Every Ghanain is equally responsible for corruption.

  • EWES EAT CATS, ASHANTIS EAT RATS 10 years ago

    Now NPP people are attacking Mr. Baako for speaking the truth.

  • NII LARTEY NARTEY 10 years ago

    If we can not blame the leader of the country as our nation is currently turned into a free for all criminally corrupted arena as if crime and corruption is now an officially recognized institution, who do we blame?

    Ghana ...
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  • goofy 10 years ago

    ok then i will blame you because you are fool of it you get to speak your mind but the lest of us can which ass do you come from Mr know everything

  • Nana Egyir Aggrey 10 years ago

    Kweku Baako,-whose side are you now?Are you now joining the stomach journalists club to praise Mahama and his band of greedy bastards to have your bread buttered like the likes of Kwesi Pratt? If we can't blame Mahama and his ...
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  • mohammed 10 years ago

    We praise President Mahama for establishing the committee to share the rot and corruption to the public. His next step is to prosecute, retrieve and ban culprits from getting into pubic office again.

  • odasani bi 10 years ago

    Really guys, do you want solutions to this cancer called corruption? Please no insults to Pratt or Baako, that is their opinion being expressed.
    I do however have a solution, and that is setting up courts that are there sol ...
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  • glenn Oko 10 years ago

    When you sell your conscience for just for some few cedis thats how you talk...when her hospital bills was paid by Mahamas wife then this guy cannot say the truth to the poor Ghanaians....Poor people of Ghana i cry for you wh ...
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  • SAVVY 10 years ago

    HMMMMMMMMM NO COMMENTS,ARTICLES LIKE THIS SHOULD BE IN SHIT PLACES NOT PLACES LIKE GHANA