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Domestication is the way to go – GCPP Leader

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  • Kwame 10 years ago

    Sound narrow-minded. Domesticate what?

  • BIRAHMA 10 years ago

    Anybody who lived through the Acheampong era knows what domestication can do for us.Even the President's father had a rice milling factory called MENCILLO or something like that in Tamale.Lets change our taste for foreign goo ...
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  • Kpakpo Kormla 10 years ago

    Ghanaians should start consuming their locally produced goods. Not only does it generate internal revenue, it is healthy because it is fresh and organic. People spend a fortune just to purchase organic products in the USA and ...
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  • Ghfuo, change your MENtality! 10 years ago

    IF YOU WANT GHPPL TO BUY LOCAL PRODUCTS. THEN CREATE FACTORIES THAT PRODUCE GOODS AND LIMIT THE IMPORT OF FOREIGN GOODS....IS THIS ROCKET SCIENCE? EVEN COMMON CHEWING STICK, WE IMPORT FROM OUTSDE...IDIOTS GOVTS

  • kwasi 10 years ago

    WE DONT NEED MAHAMA TO TELL US WHAT TO IMPORT AND WHAT TO MAKE HERE WE WANT BOTH IMPORT AND DOMISTIC TO CREATE PRICE WAR SO PRICES REMAIN LOW AND AFFORDABLE . JUST LIKE IT IS DONE IN THE REST OF THE WORLD

  • Conqueror 10 years ago

    STOP TAKING UNNECESSARY LOANS! GHANAIANS NO MATTER HOW EDUCATED DO NOT KNOW HOW THE CREDIT SYSTEM WORKS. THAT IS THE REASON WE HAVE INTEREST UPON INTEREST PILING UP AND WE ARE FORCED TO PAY, RAISING THE COST OF LIVING EVERYDA ...
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  • Simon 10 years ago

    You are soooooo right.
    The imported foods have fancy packaging but the contents are all GMO.

  • Ghfuo, change your MENtality! 10 years ago

    GH IMPORTS RICE BCOS THE SO CALLED LEADERS N THEIR CRONIES HIDE DRUGS, COKE IN THESE BAGS. VERY SOON, THEY WILL IMPORT GARI JUST SO THEY CAN DISGUISE COKE IN BAGS OF GARI....

    PRODUCE LOCAL RICE, EXPORT LOCAL RICE AND LIMIT ...
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  • Stuart 10 years ago

    The imported products you eat are genetically modified.
    What that means is,your female kid can start menstruating at age 9.That isn't even the main point.You will age faster,your risk of heart disease and high blood pressure ...
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  • Paulo 10 years ago

    Does this moribund political organization called GCPP have any other message beyond DOMESTICATION?

  • Kojo T 10 years ago

    Ghana closed 400+ industries because we claimed they were State owned and that PRIVATE SECTOR should do it. Why is the private sector not performing. They are full of excuses . So why did we not allow the industries to operat ...
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  • Ghanaman 10 years ago

    Meaningless talk from a dadaba, who has not achieved much beyond his pedigree.

  • Obenfo 10 years ago

    "Words without ACTION is SLOGAN"! What we need is Renewal of the Mind and a Positive Action for Nation Building and Economic Reclamation.

    Ghana is not beyoud repair, but it takes a visionary messenger and the will of the ...
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  • okofo 10 years ago

    Mahama is NOT a serious individual, besides being untrustworthy and visionless: How could he propose everyday as "made-in-Ghana-day" but forget to relate it to giving a housing contract a Ghanaian compnanies instead of Morroc ...
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  • okofo 10 years ago

    How could he propose everyday as "made-in-Ghana day" but forget to relate it to giving a housing contract to GHANAIAN companies instead of Morroco?.....

    Seen how the President's thinking is not deeper enough?

  • Yaa Nkosuo 10 years ago

    Roll on the day when we would start selling pickled snails by Nkulenu, Sarpong; your delicacy

  • Nii Akwei 10 years ago

    Find a better word other than Domestication. Syntax: Made in Ghana sounds better.

  • JESSE BERKLEY 10 years ago

    SO THIS "DR" KNOW NOTHING IS STILL TALKING? IT'S ONLY IN GHANA THAT SUCH AN EMPTY AND RUSTY BARREL WILL THE OPPORTUNITY TO TALK ABOUT GOVERNANCE. WHY IS NOBODY ASKING HIM ABOUT HIS TITLES? THIS HENRY LARTEY GUY IS AN ILLITE ...
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  • Lgacy 10 years ago

    It seems you are rather the illiterate one.
    Think with you brains okay?Its the one in your head.
    You are just as daft as your clueless boss.
    At your age if you can't take good advice or respect it,you don't deserve your ad ...
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  • Mr K 10 years ago

    Stop importing tomatoes and frozen chicken from south Africa.

  • Ghfuo, change your MENtality! 10 years ago

    REALY? ARE WE DISABLED IN GH? IS THE POPULATION ON WHEEL CHAIRS? IF YOU E SUPID TO IMPORT CHICKEN AND TOMATOES FROM S AFRICA. THEN U DESERVE TO DIE. U DONT DESERVE T LIVE TO BREATHE THE AIR GOD HAS GIVEN US. DIE N LEAVE THIS ...
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  • Close Observer 10 years ago

    Do not support POLITICAL PARTIES like you support HEARTS or KOTOKO. They are a GROUP OF PEOPLE who claim they can manage AFFAIRS OF THE STATE for you. You pay them for doing that. You must therefore USE YOUR HEAD and NOT YOUR ...
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  • DICKSON 10 years ago

    simply tell GOVERNMENT to stop stealing stealing stealing....... imagine 20 million dollars no world cups........... Nigeria is spending only 9.5 and yet Jonathan sacked his sports minister....... this GOVERNMENT is full of T ...
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  • Joe Turkey 10 years ago

    We are already burdened by the emptiness of PNDC/NDC JSS/SSS system. I have not seen anywhere in economics of Finance where the consumption of locally-produced gods is referred to as "domestication", even in colloquial use. T ...
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  • Kojo T 10 years ago

    What do you mean by consum[ption of locally produced "gods"? Is that voodo or Antoa Nyame? Indeed JSS has killed you.What is the equivalent of middle school in the uSA? Go out to Africa and you will see JSS . Poor you it is y ...
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  • Joe Turkey 10 years ago

    FYI, and thanks to the "gods", I was never a product of the useless PNDC JSS or SSS. Second, your narrow-mindedness - perhaps plain stupidity - prevented you from differentiating between a typo and a misuse of word. I hope I ...
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  • Mr. Questions 10 years ago

    TALK IS CHEAP. YOU CANNOT ACHIEVE ANYTHING SPECIAL WITH AN IMPURE MIND.

    THESE ARE SLOGANS !! OPEN YOUR HOME FOR INSPECTION FOR ALL TO SEE WHAT YOU CONSUME IN YOUR OWN HOUSE.

  • Paapa 10 years ago

    This is the truth. God bless you.

  • poneyin 10 years ago

    Is this man really a serious politician?

  • sikdo.john 10 years ago

    Ghanaians.wake.up
    stand.one.day.born
    one.day.die.sack.this.stupid.mahama.is.one.day.

  • Johnny USA 10 years ago

    WHY EVERYTHING MAHAMA, HE IMPORT FOREIGN GOODS? IS NOT NPP GURUS IMPORTING. NPP POLORISE THE MARKET WITH IMPORTED GOODS DURING THERE TIME UNTIL NOW.SO JOHN DONT BLAME MAHAMA. EVEN IF NANA IS IN POWER TODAY IT WILL BE MORE THA ...
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  • omanba. 10 years ago

    It will be worse under an NPP government which believes in using business as the quickest route to amassing wealth and yet does not encourage the manufacture and sale of locally produced goods.It will just be import,import an ...
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  • Lgacy 10 years ago

    You don't have to be a rocket scientist to know this is the only way.
    We have to start holding our leaders to account now!

  • Kenkey Warriors!! 10 years ago

    Who put these brain dead people in leadership roles? Playing to the gallery is no sound policy to move a country forward. You cannot lock yourself in the toilet and continue to $hit indefinitely there. The world is now a glob ...
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  • ato johnson 10 years ago

    vision man

  • Johnny USA 10 years ago

    DR IS GOOD ADVICE BUT LOCAL MADE GOODS AND CROPS ARE EXPENSIVE. SO THEN WHAT WILL SOME ONE LOOK FOR, ITS CHEAPER ONE IN THE MARKET BUY, COOK OR TO PUT ON.OUR LOCALLY MADE PRODUCTS SHOULD BE CHEAPER THAN CHINA OR FOREIGN ONCE ...
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  • Timbuktu 10 years ago

    For starters, govt shd compel all MDAs to buy their furniture/furnishings from Ghanaian sources, not imported ones. This is only one example. What is needed is ACTION, not hot air!

  • Kofi 10 years ago

    We also need to patronize our tourist sites and not fly to spend foreign exchange in other countries for holidays.

  • jijk 10 years ago

    YOU ARE CRAZY TO TAKE THIS MAHAMA GUY SERIOUS. HE LOVES BUZZ WORDS JUST TO MAKE THINGS SEEM FINE. HIS IDEAS ARE JUST IDEAS WITH NO SUBSATNCES TO BACK THEM UP.

  • KWAME OWUSU 10 years ago

    ONLY FOOLS REJECT WHAT THEY HAVE

  • princewilly@ymail.com 10 years ago

    BUY AKONFEM SOUP"TWEAAAA"THE SCENTNOOOOO IS EVERY WHERE"IS GHANA MADE'

  • kofi 10 years ago

    since 57years, 85percent of our leaders in Ghana are Akan.so is now time to ask our self brothers

  • Jojo 10 years ago

    OPAYIN EGYA LARTEY,THE PRESIDENT WAS RIGHT IN HIS SPEECH AND TO APPEAL TO GHANAIANS TO PATRONISE MADE IN GHANA GGODS.

    AT THE SAME TIME WE NEED NOT TO BE HYPOCRITES.

    PLEASE ARE YOU AWARE OF TRADE AGREEMENTS GHANA HAS ...
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  • Kwame USA 10 years ago

    Religion is the cause of most African problems

  • fools 10 years ago

    Did this Dr jacko think before he talk

  • Mankind 10 years ago

    Charity begins at home!! Mahama's clothing should be made in Ghana. The fleet of cars they use at the Castle and China's presidential house should also be made in Ghana. Empty talk!!

  • Ewe nation 10 years ago

    Yes, the domestication of Ghana's leadership to local tribes and exporting the invader tribe of ashantis is the way to go.Ashanti monkeys came from Mali and Ivory Coast to take over our land so they should be exported back to ...
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  • Sekundey 10 years ago

    The west will do everything in their power to make sure JM does not win an election if promotes made in Ghana goods. They hate people like that. check history.

    Ghadaffi was killed partly because of that. They did same to C ...
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  • When 10 years ago

    I wish all Africans knew what you are talking about.
    The west will kill any leader that implements systems that will benefit the people of Afica.
    Why do you think there hasn't been any true leader with BALLS like Nkrumah?
    ...
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  • Skeptic 10 years ago

    What a breath of fresh air this is!!! One hopes that these ideas are more than lip-service. The powers that be, including all the well-known entities, do not really want developing countries to develop. They want to flood t ...
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  • The mask 10 years ago

    State owned enterprises and wholly Ghanaian owned private enterprises using wholly owned Ghanaian banks is the way forward.