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“Buy Made in Ghana” campaign launched by Prez Mahama

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  • ABI NAKAKU 10 years ago

    Nope. i have the right to buy my quality made products.

  • TONTO 10 years ago

    OUR PEOPLE ARE NOT SERIOUS AND PRODUCTIVE: LETS FORGET THEM AND CONTINUE OUR IMPORTATION: GHANAIANS ARE NOTED FOR BEING LAZY IN ALL THESE WE DO

  • OSEI TAWAIA 10 years ago

    GOOD

  • Don Blunt 10 years ago

    You could have taken "PAUL GYAMFI"

  • SHAMO 10 years ago

    SAY THIS TO YOUR THIEF MINISTERS, ITS THEM THAT HAVE MUCH MONEY TO SHOP AND LEAVE US ALONE

  • princewilly@ymail.com 10 years ago

    IF YOU ARE HUNGRY AND YOU CALL THE FLAGSTAFF HOUSE FOR MADE IN GHANA AKONFEM SOUP AND THEY PUT YOU ON HOLD,
    YOU GET BORED AND START TO TO PLAY WITH THE HAND GLIDER.
    THE HAND GLIDER HITS THE POWER GRILL,IT CREATES POWER SHO ...
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  • Gye Nyame 10 years ago

    Every politician runs to South Africa and the West for a mere medical checkup, and they want to wear the Armani suits, Italian made shoes etc., and yet they are telling the citizens to patronize local goods/services. We don ...
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  • OSEI AMPOMAH LOUIS 10 years ago

    DEN WHY DONT U HELP THE SECTOR OF MANUFACTURIN AN DEN STOP IMPOT

  • Don Blunt 10 years ago

    When the right hand does not know what the left is doing.

    But, on the other hand, "Ghanaians have short memory".
    Who is talking about "free secondary education" now.

    In fact, you do not necessarily need any intelligen ...
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  • Mander 10 years ago

    That is what politics is all about.
    What did US President Bush(snr.) say during campaign? `read my lips no new taxes. And what did he do when he became president? In fact you do not need any intelligence to know.

  • kuma 10 years ago

    yes U are right, but remember he lost his reelection,

  • princewilly@ymail.com 10 years ago

    Did you know my iphone which is made in Ghana is also a remote control? Why do i have to go somewhere remote and you can have control.

  • Don Blunt 10 years ago

    You better throw that iphone away asap!
    They cause a lot of social damage
    Chinese women complain their men even interrupt sexual activities to attend to the ringing iphones.
    Why should I take control when you go somewhere ...
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  • princewilly@ymail.com 10 years ago

    i will be producing made in Ghana canned Akonfem soup for Export,I hope the dwarfs don't stop me before Bishop Duncan says its spiritual.

  • CHE ANDREW 10 years ago

    Sure you have the right to live in your inferiority complex and neo-colonized mentality.

  • Eye yen Dargartefor 10 years ago

    Don't try to be a smart ass, Mahama. Why don't you also have your holidays in Ghana to boost the tourist industry?

  • mike 10 years ago

    Where did go for christmas?

  • TONTO 10 years ago

    GHANAIANS ARE LAZY MR: PRESIDENT

  • Job 10 years ago

    Can some0ne tell me what ten items are made in Ghana? I can just make ten made in Ghana items please

  • Pround pepeni. 10 years ago

    Let us patronise made in Ghana, but let us also request that their finishing is of good quality.

  • FEDUP 10 years ago

    Job, you took the words out of my mouth. Everything in Ghana is basabasa. The few things made in Ghana are of bad quality.

  • Kojo 10 years ago

    Siaw's Tata beer was made in Ghana

  • young ideas bohyen 10 years ago

    mere rhetorics. u say these things on paper and don't follow up with any concrete work. posterity .......... Mr. prez

  • Say The TRUTH 10 years ago

    TALKING AS IF WE ARE AN INDUSTRIALIZE NATION PRODUCING MAJORITY OF PRODUCTS IN GHANA!!!!!

    WHEN WE HAVE A SITUATION WHERE EVEN TOOTH PICKS MADE FROM BAMBOOS, CATAPULTS ARE IMPORTED FROM CHINA AND WE HAVE NO FACTORIES IN GHA ...
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  • BB 10 years ago

    Bye bye Dubai gold chains

  • Aminatu 10 years ago

    My farm is full and am having difficult marketing them. Stop the import of poultry meat and then we will believe you are serious!

  • Gogus 10 years ago

    Aminatu, who wouldn't love to eat fresh chicken from your poultry farm. Ask yourself why are consumers not patronizing? Basically it is the price. We cannot afford the prices you are selling at therefore a meager budget can o ...
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  • Kman 10 years ago

    Funny how JJ was not included. The West encouraged the removal of all leaders with a nationalistic vision. Rawlings gave us trade liberalisation, which the West wanted all along. Simply dumping their goods on us and turning u ...
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  • Kojo 10 years ago

    Kuti nationalized Ashanti goldfields. Ghana owned it 100 percent. Rawlings and the nkrumahist children gave it back to the whites remember?

  • C C 10 years ago

    I think the president and his ministers presidential staffers must stop wearing expensive silk suits and patronise Ghana made batticks.

  • peace 10 years ago

    Our leaders should set example by patronizing Ghana made goods. Wear locally made attires to parliament.

  • General spider 10 years ago

    Finally some good strategy and please Mr President, help lead these words into action by doing all you can to ensure that the environment for Made in Ghana goods have the adequate investment with probity and accountability! ...
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  • Kojo 10 years ago

    Siaw's Tata brewery was taken away from him and sold to the white guys remember. Start the buy made in Ghana by giving the brewery back to the family

  • K. MANU 10 years ago

    If the president want us to buy made in Ghana goods, then he and his family must set the first example. He should buy Made in Ghana suit, shoes, shirt, and pants. he should fly made in Ghana aeroplane (Apostle Kwadwo Sarfo's ...
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  • BB 10 years ago

    Stop importing tomatoes and chicken
    And patronize our made in Ghana farm produce

  • oppong london 10 years ago

    made in ghana goods are more expensive than goods made from outside,the reason is,made in ghana goods are inferior,they don,t have long durability,one can wear european shoe for two or three years whilst made in ghana shoe wi ...
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  • Ghanabiya 10 years ago

    I think the blame for Ghanaians appetite for foreign goods should be put at the door steps of the government and her policy makers.

    These people will not formulate enabling policies that will encourage local productions of ...
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  • King 10 years ago

    At first i taught you are not doing anything because there is no money but now i know and believe that you are dem incompetent like people are saying from what you just said. You Prz.MAHAMA have now realized that assistance h ...
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  • Pumpuni 10 years ago

    "Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana’s first president and General Kutu Acheampong, who championed the cause to develop and use locally manufactured products."
    And Kutu was still murdered?

  • Ama 10 years ago

    We will buy made in Ghana goods if the president, his family and ministers set an example by buying made in Ghana goods and that includes the makeup his wife plasters his face with!!!!

  • concern citizen 10 years ago

    Mahama and his politicians must set good example by attending medical check up in ghana than to go to abroad if he thinks everything in ghana is ok for him. We have quality hospitals in ghana but why he and his people always ...
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  • Francis Adzomadi 10 years ago

    I thing the President has Spoken well. We should buy MADE IN GHANA GOODS. But JUBILY CRUDE is also made in Ghana good. TOR is also Ghanaian Company. Why the President is preaching this but fail to allow TOR to process JUBILY ...
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  • NANA KWAME 10 years ago

    Well done President Mahama. You are changing Ghanaians for us to begin to INNOVATE, CREATE AND MAKE the things in need locally. Certainly, this a fundamental change and all changes normally will encounter resistance. You ...
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  • Ntiri 10 years ago

    It time to walk the talking.....and not to play politrics..made in GH goods...good for the Economy

  • BIMBILA 10 years ago

    Stupid president who look down on his citizens as inferior. Has he set any example for Ghanaians to follow? Just go to his FLAGSTAFF house and see how many stuff there is made in Ghana.

  • Tibaa 10 years ago

    Set the example and spend Xmas in Ghana, spend on Ghana Xmas products and drink Ghana wine; apketeshie!!!!

  • EZEKIEL 10 years ago

    Why are we ALWAYS (RE)-STARTING ??? Did I read ...."strategic partneship to produce JUTE SACKS.."?
    We were doing this years back. What happened ???
    Maintenance CULTURE is SORELY NEEDED IN GHANA !!!!!!!

  • Angel 10 years ago

    I congratulate prez mahama for his sincerity. The prez has correctly identified the nation's problems, but how can we solve them when our politicians are so corrupt? All need to change their attitudes to allow these suggested ...
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  • km agyin 10 years ago

    There is nothing to talk about goods made here. I can count the number of factories and what we produce on my fingers. We do not produce simple things like matches or tooth pick. It is not a matter of choice to buy foreign go ...
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  • HAZOR 10 years ago

    I very impressed about the decision the president wants to lead the country by promoting made in Ghana goods.It seem that he has finally come to his senses by thinking about sanctions the world economic powers will impose upo ...
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  • Mr Tee 10 years ago

    enforce it

  • Balawo President 10 years ago

    What did JJ Rawlings tell Ghanaians in the heady run up to the 1992 elections? 'Don't buy Apino soap made by Appiah Menkah or anything made by the industrialists in the opposition because they would use the money to fund NPP ...
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  • ADABRAKA 10 years ago

    Buy made in Gh produce, said the gov't. Kristo Asafo man has tried for decades manufacturing different products. Tomorrow you will see Mahama in China seeking loans to buy toyota landcruiser from Japan. Tweaaaaaaa

  • yaw apau 10 years ago

    How do you buy made in Ghana goods when about 80% of goods on the market is made in outside. In a country where we have plantain, yams, potatoes but we still import pringles from Europe and no one sees anything wrong with the ...
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  • Igp 10 years ago

    Well Mr President, this is a case of Mahama Vs Mahama. How in one length you champion the Moroccan Real estate Developer over Ghanaians and yet you want us to believe that you are calling for the patronizing of made in Ghana ...
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  • KING OF KING 10 years ago

    Mr pres God wolud help you lead the nation peacefully so that enemies of the nation ashantes wld continue to cry abundantly ghana peace n love

  • Maame Nyarko 10 years ago

    This is the same President who travelled to Dubai to spend the last Christmas. How much did it cost the country for the period that you were away. Hypocrite. Whatever you spent there has contributed in no small way to the fal ...
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  • MENSAH 10 years ago

    Mahama says Ghana should be manufacturing COCOA SACKS but never mentioned the processing of the bean.
    The sack is used in packing the bean for export.
    WE NEED THE BEAN PROCESSED,BUT NOT THE SACK TO LOAD THE BEAN.
    Mahama is ...
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  • Antiochus - London 10 years ago

    After your boss , Rawlings collapsed many private enterprises. What is left for the manufacturing

  • Kwadi 10 years ago

    Christo asafo is the answer lets allocate 1per cent of our budget to him, he can start producing small gadgets and cars to local school and district assembly and hospital for the start. I think he is better than our universi ...
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