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Detained Tobinco CEO to spend the night in cells

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  • malaam salifu 10 years ago

    Another Kojo Woyome. Don't worry nothing would come of it. Peas in a pod. Julow.

  • Tobinco 10 years ago

    This company is fake shut it down burn all the 30 containers if fake drugs and Jail the guy with his indiana accomplise.Just imaginé fake malaria drugs for kids pregnant women and fake condoms.This is so cruel. He would Hav ...
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  • Fake drugs 10 years ago

    Clamp all the fake companies down.Well done.Enriching themselves at expense if human life.

  • Sam Tobin 10 years ago

    Please arrest his Indian accomplise too i learnt he ran away. Alert WHO and countries over the world about these fraudulent imports

  • ASIEDU NKETIA 10 years ago

    NDC officials having stolen the nation to a tune of billions of dollars, are now desperately looking for opponent wrong doers to punish them hard to cover themselves. But they can run but cant hide.

  • GHFUO, be serious & change ur MENtali 10 years ago

    ARENT ALL DRUGS FAKE? HOW DO U DEFINE FAKE DRUGS? MASSA, GRAB A LAWYER AND DEFEND URSELF. IS HE SELLING RAT POISON? IS HE SELLING COKE? IS HE SELLING ECSTACY PILLS TO MUSICIANS N RAPPERS LIKE RONNIE COACHES?...

  • MY FUCKING PISTOL NEVER JAM 10 years ago

    HOW MUCH WAS HIS BOND ? GHANA IS A COUNTRY WITH FUNNY LAWS . MR TOBIN WILL SPEND NIGHT IN JAIL WITHOUT BOND . IMPORTATION OF FAKE DRUGS FROM WHICH COUNTRY CHINA, ROMANIA AND NIGERIA ?

  • Adanu 10 years ago

    It feels like he invites people to call him names by the comments he put out here.My younger brother died here in Accra after ingesting fake medication which cepame from Nigeria.It hasn't happened to you so you can sit back a ...
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  • GHFUO, be serious & change ur MENtali 10 years ago

    PPL WILL ALWAYS MANUFACTURE FAKE STUFF, BUT TO WILLINGLY IMPORT THIS INTO GH TO KILL INNOCENT PPL IS BEYOND WICKED. SELL OFF HIS COMPANY, TAKE THE ASSETS N DIVY IT TO THOSE WHO SUFFERED FROM PURCHASING N TAKING FAKE DRUGS FRO ...
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  • Broni Yaa 10 years ago

    The NDC is behind this and God will deal with all of them one by one. Mr. Tobin will never import fake drugs. The truth will surely come out. God is alive. He will never delay.

  • ISAKA 10 years ago

    Fo.ols! We have all the files now. Tobinco refused to continue paying bribes after Opuni claimed he wanted a share of the company because he helped him to build it. Opuni asked Asante-Boateng to be on Tobbin's payroll to 'hel ...
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  • Atta 10 years ago

    This issue should not be politicised. It is purely criminal. Let the law take its course

  • OBURONIBA FITAFITA 10 years ago

    It is analoguous to giving poision to a sick person desperately seeking medical relief. Hang these unscrupulous monsters with no shred of regard for human decency high! I agree with you : It is criminal.

  • rebecca 10 years ago

    Why petition the president when you have gone to court? You importetd fake supporsitories for children, i mean children against malaria, a killer disease. Your greed for money surpased the death of innocent chn, face the laws ...
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  • Nana Yaw, Boston, USA 10 years ago

    Why arrest the man when he has not been found with any illegal medicine? If the EOCO has proof let the world see it. From the way I see it, it's someone in high place who just wants to show him where power lies. other than th ...
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  • Concerned 10 years ago

    Why don't you wait for the case to develop before concluding there is no case against this guy.So far, people from the ministry of health have been trying to shield him by preventing the fda from doing their job so no one is ...
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  • Obed Adore 10 years ago

    Importing and distributing drugs that have not yet been approved for use in the country is against the law and is not only criminal, it is dangerous as it can harm people and even kill some. It is simply a criminal offense

  • park trumu 10 years ago

    what the fuck is wrong with this country.Someone should tell us the truth about this tobinco issue.This FDA people are not getting anything from tobinco thats why they are witch hunting the company. They want to collapse the ...
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  • Abongo 10 years ago

    It is a lie my friend. He imported fake drugs into the country He is a crook.

  • Yaw Kusi 10 years ago

    Crooks commit crimes and take a dive for political cover. People read political meanings into the whole issue, and then it becomes NDC-NPP tug of war. Is this how we want to run this dear nation of ours? Ghanaians, let us thi ...
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  • GHFUO, be serious & change ur MENtali 10 years ago

    SO SOMEONE INVOLVED IN DRUG IMPORTS WANTS TO CONTROL HIGH MARKET SHARE. SO HE/SHE HAS PAID OF MAHAMA/MIN OF HEALTH TO STRONGARM THE OTHER BIG PHARMACIES IN GH? ..LOL

  • Rogue Head 10 years ago

    If this Company is really importing and selling fake drugs as alleged, then the law must deal with the owners accordingly. On the other hand, if government officials effort to get their palms greased, rejected by the Company ...
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  • Ali 10 years ago

    murderers are prepared to make money at the cost of the lives of innocent sick peoples lives The only people prepared to do that is only one kind of a tribe. Akan/ssante kotiboto

  • Don 10 years ago

    Murderer? Who has Tobinco killed with his drugs? Shame on you for supporting these fools whose only aim is to kill people's jobs and their hard earned reputation.

  • Fiifi Miles 10 years ago

    There are crooks and top criminals involved in the Ghana International Airways affairs Mahama, if he is a GENUINE corruption buster, must sort out before anything else.

  • KOKU AMEVOR 10 years ago

    WHAT IS THE NAME OF THE FAKE DRUGS, THE MAN HAS BEEN SUPLYING DRUGS TO THE MINISTRY OF HEALTH FOR YEARS NOW. WHEN DID THEY SUDDENLY REALIZE HE WAS IMPORTING FAKE DRUGS. STOP THE WITCH HUNTING. NDC, YOU ARE KILLING GHANA!

  • Concerned 10 years ago

    From where I am standing,it is rather the ndc trying to cover up this man's deeds. The health ministry's spokes person who claims to speak for the minister insisted the FDA had no authority to close down tobinco. The minis ...
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  • CAPE COAST BOY 10 years ago

    GOD HAVE MERCY ON GHANA

  • Concerned 10 years ago

    what witch hunt. If you know something that we don't please let us know

  • Joe a 10 years ago

    "Workers of the pharmaceutical giant organised a nationwide fasting and prayer sessions last week to ward-off what they described as evil attacks on the company."
    Ridiculous! Evil attacks? Enough of associating everything ...
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  • HARD REPLY 10 years ago

    Ignorant will keep them praying for no results, they should just go and do the right thing and their problem is solved. That is the common sense these guys have to get, not prayers. With all our education, we are ignorant abo ...
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  • GAbaa 10 years ago

    Yaw, if you really live in Boston you should know better that prescription for public use is regulated in the highest order. Think of taking fake malaria tabs or using defective condoms. Defeating the purpose wouldn't you

  • richard 10 years ago

    They want to bring him down

  • Dan Quansah 10 years ago

    It appears no good news comes from
    Ghana anymore. Toward the last days of President Mills, the residence of a President of a Central African Country became the meeting place of President Mills and his followers where inter ...
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  • mawriz 10 years ago

    I don't know what is good for Ghana. I sometimes get confused. Nothing is done without people reading politics into it. So Let's assume that FDA is right, Is not possible that can be the case? What I seriously want the man to ...
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  • sky 10 years ago

    the world want to know about the 27 pallet of cocaine disappear to

  • Cobbie 10 years ago

    so FDA has been aware of Tobinco's existence in the country all this while. why are they now taking action?

  • makus 10 years ago

    mahamer is under this ploit and he will soon pass way like a flower

  • makus 10 years ago

    mahamer is under this ploit

  • chokor 10 years ago

    Foolish workers!! why will they organize fasting and prayer sessions for someone with evil intentions? Instead of condemning the wrongdoings, they indirectly support the actions of a"boss". Oh my countrymen when will we learn ...
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  • Mr. Never 10 years ago

    Nana Yaw of Boston, USA
    You said it right, brother. The truth the matter is the police arrested Mr.Tobinco without any reason and couldn't even read his "Rights".
    "Reasons for his arrest are yet to be made clear by the Gh ...
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  • poma 10 years ago

    ah, Ghana? why? so this ndc do they have brains? JUST asking.

  • Nii Okai 10 years ago

    FDA should be very strict to follow their investigations with seriousness and never give anybody who is involved in this demonic works of fake drugs chance to grow in our nation. They collaborate with Indians and Chinese in t ...
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  • Akwamu the wise man 10 years ago

    Workers of the pharmaceutical giant organised a nationwide fasting and prayer sessions last week to ward-off what they described as evil attacks on the company.

  • BUSINESS DEVELOPER 10 years ago

    The ?mportat?on of fake drugs for consumpt?on ?s more ser?ous and dangerous than coca?n ?mport because w?th fake drugs ?t causes false treatment and unt?me death,po?sonous and compl?cates s?ckness and affect many pat?ents l? ...
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  • WEEP NOT. 10 years ago

    What for? Indeed Ghana is under bondage. God needs to intervene mightily.

  • Nii Akwei 10 years ago

    Anyone?

  • jacob basintale 10 years ago

    eyes are watching

  • KWAKU BEE 10 years ago

    After all these years, one would have though that the NDC would be weaned from their anti-prosperity policies and embrace a positive attitude towards prosperous and business people in general. But it appears that they are sti ...
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  • mama 10 years ago

    Thank God these crooks are finally being found. They are killing people with their greed and fake drugs.

  • Kwaku A. Danso 10 years ago

    Sure, but is there no law we can charge them wirh and punish criminals?
    This patapaa methods never work for long term solutions.

  • Kwaku A. Danso 10 years ago

    Why do we still have this PNDC mentality?
    If the owner has done something illegal, why not convict the person of fine the company ut close the company down?
    When are we black people going to learn ho democracy works and th ...
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  • DARK DAYS IN GHANA 10 years ago

    Kwaku A. Danso, you should know better than the comment you have posted. The rule of law is to first to arrest the CEO, shut down the company while investigations proceed.The company is importing fake and illegal pharmaceutic ...
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  • Stephen 10 years ago

    God will talk.

  • Kweisi 10 years ago

    Its that simple don't import fake drugs for the sake of wealth. What about the likely death of the people who will take them. Let this bastard face the music of jail never to see daylight if this allegation is proven

  • Kweisi 10 years ago

    The workers are fasting because they believe in the CEO? What about the consequences of FAKE DRUGS IN THE SYSTEM...SAD that the workers cannot or do not believe there is greed and evil in this world. Start eating now!!

  • atta kwaku 10 years ago

    I don't know what they want from him

  • atta kwaku 10 years ago

    God is looking to them

  • belgium 10 years ago

    Dr opuni is the right person to hold both positions,just give his work back.

  • Ato Tarkwa 10 years ago

    John mahama and has brother lbrahim mahama they are thiefs not Tobinco

  • SRAHA 10 years ago

    experts should quickly test the drugs to save lives of their customers

  • Kwame 10 years ago

    UN and WHO is watching Ghana.

  • SVR 10 years ago

    It feels so disappointing to read that people only understand & believe what media shows them.

    Before calling bad names to Mr. Tobin, has any of those people studied the whole case. He is being abused calling Greedy, Murd ...
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  • Kwame 10 years ago

    Wake up, there is a crusade against perceived NPP businesses in Ghana. Speak out, Ghana belongs to us all. God is our protector.