EPAs: Ghana will support ECOWAS position – Hanna Tetteh

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Azonto online.com 10 years ago

When the economy was in gutters Kuffour instructed 7 armed body gaurd to guard his girlfriend at LA PALM hotel and lied to journalist that she is an economic adviser? Later he had twins with woman....

OH these nation wreck ...
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When the economy was in gutters Kuffour instructed 7 armed body gaurd to guard his girlfriend at LA PALM hotel and lied to journalist that she is an economic adviser? Later he had twins with woman....

OH these nation wreckers
Kojo 10 years ago

This woman has supported the signing of the EPA from the very beginning. She is not acting in the interest of Ghana as she is supposed to and must be sacked.

This woman has supported the signing of the EPA from the very beginning. She is not acting in the interest of Ghana as she is supposed to and must be sacked.
Hmmmmmm!! 10 years ago

You have to go and partake in the debate show your maturity as Ghanaians but not just go there and say " I concour"

You have to go and partake in the debate show your maturity as Ghanaians but not just go there and say " I concour"
KWAA 10 years ago

She doesn`t care what this agreement can do to Ghana.She has a shared loyalty to Ghana,whether Ghana prosper or not,she don`t care,after all she is not a full Ghanaian,like Rawlings,if the country is doing well they are in,if ...
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She doesn`t care what this agreement can do to Ghana.She has a shared loyalty to Ghana,whether Ghana prosper or not,she don`t care,after all she is not a full Ghanaian,like Rawlings,if the country is doing well they are in,if things aren`t so good they don`t care.
Rawlinghs came in the name of a revolution,now he is a multi Millioniare,what happened to his slogan,that he will make the poor to become rich?It only applied to him and his cronies.
NANA J, K. 10 years ago

DONT SIGN.
IT IS NOT FOR GHANA INTEREST ONLY TO KILL MADE IN GHANA GOODS AND PROMOTE EUROPEAN ECONOMY.
PLEASE MINISTER READ BETWEEN THE FINE PRINTS. BE BOLD AND DO THE RIGHT THING

DONT SIGN.
IT IS NOT FOR GHANA INTEREST ONLY TO KILL MADE IN GHANA GOODS AND PROMOTE EUROPEAN ECONOMY.
PLEASE MINISTER READ BETWEEN THE FINE PRINTS. BE BOLD AND DO THE RIGHT THING
John 10 years ago

She be a social side for mahama but this woman is destroying Ghana. EPA is slavery!

She be a social side for mahama but this woman is destroying Ghana. EPA is slavery!
Readi 2 dye 10 years ago

Then how come nigeria and senegal opted out. Dumb bitch all u care about the little monies these aliens bribe u with.. For the love of GH. Fuck ecowas. Boycott vondafone. One!

Then how come nigeria and senegal opted out. Dumb bitch all u care about the little monies these aliens bribe u with.. For the love of GH. Fuck ecowas. Boycott vondafone. One!
Concerned 10 years ago

She should declare whether Ghana will be supporting EPA at the ecowas meeting. Which way will Ghana vote is all we want to know.

She should declare whether Ghana will be supporting EPA at the ecowas meeting. Which way will Ghana vote is all we want to know.
Akoto 10 years ago

How then is the agreement going to be binding between EU and EACH inidvidual African country if the decision is to be taken by ECOWAS as a block?

How then is the agreement going to be binding between EU and EACH inidvidual African country if the decision is to be taken by ECOWAS as a block?
Kojo T 10 years ago

EPAS will doom us. How do you compete with the Europeans. Even the Insurance industry was afraid of Obamacare being run by government . How do peasant farmers compete with multi nationals

EPAS will doom us. How do you compete with the Europeans. Even the Insurance industry was afraid of Obamacare being run by government . How do peasant farmers compete with multi nationals
Frank Agyena-Karikari 10 years ago

THERE WILL BE NO DEVELOPMENT IN GHANA. THEY SHALL USE US AS GUINEA PIGS-JUST DUMP THEIR GOODS ON US FOR EXPERIMENT. THIS TIME YOU ARE RIGHT.

THERE WILL BE NO DEVELOPMENT IN GHANA. THEY SHALL USE US AS GUINEA PIGS-JUST DUMP THEIR GOODS ON US FOR EXPERIMENT. THIS TIME YOU ARE RIGHT.
Don Blunt 10 years ago

Ghana has in fact no idea what the whole thing is about, so "we shall support the majority" of ECOWAS

But does it not ring bells?
Did we not foolishly just followed the flock to vote "Ye Bedii Keke"? Just to turn round to ...
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Ghana has in fact no idea what the whole thing is about, so "we shall support the majority" of ECOWAS

But does it not ring bells?
Did we not foolishly just followed the flock to vote "Ye Bedii Keke"? Just to turn round to complain "Y'ato Aba Bone"?
Why do we send out Brainless representatives, and expect them to take intelligent decisions?
I think it is because we are Ghanaians; we always know where to put the blame, and we always know we can't be blamed.
Nkrumah's daughter 10 years ago

Thank goodness good sense is now prevailling in Ghana's contribution to this debate.

Thank goodness good sense is now prevailling in Ghana's contribution to this debate.
Yawed 10 years ago

How

How
Readi 2 dye 10 years ago

GHians dont want it......come on make some sense. Boycott vondafone

GHians dont want it......come on make some sense. Boycott vondafone
Onipaba Of Akyem Maase 10 years ago

Do not throw dust in our eyes. ECOWAS looks up to Ghana and follow suite. Whatever useless position will be Ghana's. NDC liars.

Do not throw dust in our eyes. ECOWAS looks up to Ghana and follow suite. Whatever useless position will be Ghana's. NDC liars.
Yaw Adu-Asare 10 years ago

It is safe and sound policy for Ghana to stay with the position of ECOWAS.

It is safe and sound policy for Ghana to stay with the position of ECOWAS.
Obenfo 10 years ago

Is Hannah Tetteh truly seeking the interest Ghana? I doubt it! She looks and sounds more European than a Ghanaian.

Is Hannah Tetteh truly seeking the interest Ghana? I doubt it! She looks and sounds more European than a Ghanaian.
PEOPLE'S POWER 10 years ago

Ghana will not support and sign the EPA agreement. That is the position of Ghana.

Ghana will not support and sign the EPA agreement. That is the position of Ghana.
HOLY SINNER 10 years ago

Not again shd the African leader of this century be fooled.Emancipation is what the African of this civilised generation need. All African nations must for once stand up for their rights. How I miss the late Osagyefo Dr Kwa ...
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Not again shd the African leader of this century be fooled.Emancipation is what the African of this civilised generation need. All African nations must for once stand up for their rights. How I miss the late Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah.This were some of the things that made him a really Great man and leader.
Obenfo 10 years ago

I am surprised that Africans have dealt with Europeans for more than 500 years and still haven't learnt anything about them. We stupidly and naively still embrace these people the same way our forefathers welcomed them as fri ...
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I am surprised that Africans have dealt with Europeans for more than 500 years and still haven't learnt anything about them. We stupidly and naively still embrace these people the same way our forefathers welcomed them as friends in 1471.

When Nana Kwamina Ansah and his elders were warmly accepting them as friends, and giving them land to build their home (castle) for co-existence, their White friends were thinking of how they could use their new home (castle), as an opportunity, to enslave their free-hearted host, colonize their land, and take every precious property on the land free to enrich themselves.

I think the modern generation is more stupid than our forefathers. We claim to be enlightened but we are worse - it is not the first fool but the second, who is more foolish.

Europeans have been very good in analysing Africans. They divide us and outwit us at any moment we deal with them.

Since Hannah Tetteh and Mahama and their Ghanaian deligation have no pre-fomulated position but would blindly follow ECOWAS, then Europeans will stage some contention between the Francophone and Anglophone ECOWAS as a strategy to divide and conqure them.

For lack of vision, my people perish. INDEED, STUPIDITY AND IGNORANCE CAN BE VERY EXPENSIVE, AFRICA'S IGNORANCE IS COSTING HER A FORTUNE! Europeans are going through hell, and they want to throw their misfortune on Africans, SO SAD!
LONTO-BOY 10 years ago

Ghana should simply reject any Economic Partnership Agreement[EPA] trade pact/agreement with the European Union[EU]. This trade pact is not good for Ghana. Basically, the agreement will would give duty free and quota free acc ...
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Ghana should simply reject any Economic Partnership Agreement[EPA] trade pact/agreement with the European Union[EU]. This trade pact is not good for Ghana. Basically, the agreement will would give duty free and quota free access to the EU market in return to liberalisation of our market to EU imports. Given Ghana's current poor level of economic development, this is like substituting Ghana's focus/priority on industrialisation and improving our agriculture sector with imports.

Another hidden danger in the EPA trade pact is that the agreements are aimed at harming our regional integration as it encourages trade with the EU but not among ECOWAS countries. Ghana should not sign on the dotted line.
Abeiku 10 years ago

Hannah, I thought people said you were clever? You people still do not realise you have destroyed our economy through ratification of stupid agreements. Did you hear what Dr. Percy said. There is something in the wind.

Hannah, I thought people said you were clever? You people still do not realise you have destroyed our economy through ratification of stupid agreements. Did you hear what Dr. Percy said. There is something in the wind.
Goateater 10 years ago

Either Hanna Tetteh is stupid, or she is she trying to fool her audience. She says "we can't have a single country position.", yet it is clearly stated in the report that "The EPAs are legally binding contracts between the EU ...
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Either Hanna Tetteh is stupid, or she is she trying to fool her audience. She says "we can't have a single country position.", yet it is clearly stated in the report that "The EPAs are legally binding contracts between the EU and individual African countries". Is her statement a contradiction, a foolery, or blatant lie???? God help Ghana and Africa if this is the caliber of people leading the country and continent.
Kgee 10 years ago

Our beloved Minister seems to be uninformed about the trappings of the EPA. She appears to be following the crowd and singing the 'European song' without reflecting upon its potential effects on the constituency she represent ...
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Our beloved Minister seems to be uninformed about the trappings of the EPA. She appears to be following the crowd and singing the 'European song' without reflecting upon its potential effects on the constituency she represents. May be, she knows but does not care.
Independent observer 10 years ago

Ghana's participation in this EPA was based on opening up our non-traditional produce, such as banana, mango, pine-apple, etc., into the EU market. After only a few years of accepting our small scale producers in the Market ...
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Ghana's participation in this EPA was based on opening up our non-traditional produce, such as banana, mango, pine-apple, etc., into the EU market. After only a few years of accepting our small scale producers in the Market the EU countries said most of Ghana's products did not meet the high standard acceptable in their market.
The qustion is, where is the incentive for us to open up our markets for them: Where is the reciprocity?
DAN 10 years ago

WITH GOODS FROM EUROPE...AND REMEMBER WARM WEATHER FRUITS AND VEGATABLES CAN BE GROWN IN SPAIN, SOUTHERN FRANCE AND ITALY..SO THE CAN BRING IN ORANGES AND OTHER CITRUS

WITH GOODS FROM EUROPE...AND REMEMBER WARM WEATHER FRUITS AND VEGATABLES CAN BE GROWN IN SPAIN, SOUTHERN FRANCE AND ITALY..SO THE CAN BRING IN ORANGES AND OTHER CITRUS
BENNETT 10 years ago

I am disappointed in this woman! you cannot talk like that? what arrogance and who put those words in her mouth? who is she trying to please? did we not put her there to carry forward our interest? Hmmm. Asem.

I am disappointed in this woman! you cannot talk like that? what arrogance and who put those words in her mouth? who is she trying to please? did we not put her there to carry forward our interest? Hmmm. Asem.
SAQ 10 years ago

The EU should give ECOWAS 20 years of head start and drop the individual country stipulation becasue that is divisive. The fear among Africans is that we cannot perform (continent of slackers and overly risk averse).
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The EU should give ECOWAS 20 years of head start and drop the individual country stipulation becasue that is divisive. The fear among Africans is that we cannot perform (continent of slackers and overly risk averse).
Ghana for example imports everything from rotten chicken to tooth pick from China, why not formalise the madness with more cultured europeans?
AFRICAAAAAA 10 years ago

Foreign Affairs Minister, Hanna Tetteh told Journalists in The Ivory Coast that: “we can’t have a single country position. That is the whole thing about having a regional agreement. We must have a regional consensus.”
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Foreign Affairs Minister, Hanna Tetteh told Journalists in The Ivory Coast that: “we can’t have a single country position. That is the whole thing about having a regional agreement. We must have a regional consensus.”

Nonsense! First of all, why is she basing her decision solely on Ghana's responsibility to Ecowas? Shouldn't she be diligently examining the contents of the agreement to ascertain whether it is in the best interest of Ghana first, then Ecowas before agreeing to it? What kind of warped thought process is she employing here? She is speaking as if somebody is twisting her arm to sign the agreement. And if thats the case then shes clearly demonstrated that shes not up to the task and should be removed with immediate effect! Her only job should be trying to ascertain if this agreement is in the best interest of the Ghanaian people. And clearly thats not her number one priority. Shes more concerned about pacifying other member states than doing her due diligence. If this isnt neglect of duty then i dont know what is. If anybody wants a classic example of the psychological deficiency known as GROUPTHINK, they shouldnt look farther than this inept minister's actions.

Where do they get these idiots from? A whole Secretary of State who cant make simple strategic decisions. What a buncha idiots!

Then again i dont blame them. They have equally, if not more, idiot faux journalist roaming the streets of Accra. Somebody need to ask her what she thinks of the agreement. Then take it from there. Its a very simple question. Tweaaaaaaa kwaseabi nti
Charles 10 years ago

It's amazing how some people, instead of trying to understand what a change connotes, rather allow their ignorance to lead them to oppose the change. The other day, someone declared that, if the president signed the EPA, he s ...
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It's amazing how some people, instead of trying to understand what a change connotes, rather allow their ignorance to lead them to oppose the change. The other day, someone declared that, if the president signed the EPA, he should be overthrown. How ridiculous!
The main thing about the EPA in question is the removal of trade barriers between the signatories: Europe and African countries. This means equally, an opportunity to export more African commodities to Europe as much as import more European commodities to African countries. If you want to be negative however, you can argue that this will open the door for Europe to dump its products on Africa.
We in Ghana know that, even in the absence of EPA, we already import so much from Europe. Thus the EPA, like AGOA with the US, will rather make it easy for us to export to Europe. It has often been said that, what Africa needs is not aid but trading with its development partners. This is the opportunity the EPA seeks to bring.
foxnews 10 years ago

Mr.smart just read your comments and you will right-away know that you have contradicted yourself. Ghana nor that matter any other country in the sub-region could compete with any of the european multinationals and been subsi ...
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Mr.smart just read your comments and you will right-away know that you have contradicted yourself. Ghana nor that matter any other country in the sub-region could compete with any of the european multinationals and been subsidized by their governments with cheap asses to capital to finance their produce and exports,so tell me how Africa is going to benefit from this deal?.Its always smart for one to use both sides of the brain to analys before spewing out nonsense.
Igp 10 years ago

The man leading Ghana from behind, John Mahama, does not even have a foreign policy for his regime and more so, for Ghana. Ecowas says is what he will do. Ghana is on the verge of being mortgaged to Ecowas. Oman ba eh, we nee ...
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The man leading Ghana from behind, John Mahama, does not even have a foreign policy for his regime and more so, for Ghana. Ecowas says is what he will do. Ghana is on the verge of being mortgaged to Ecowas. Oman ba eh, we need to vote this people out and save our sovereignty. Hannah betrayus Tetteh, is a Hungarian borne Ghanian. What sense and patriotism do we expect to come out of her? She is ready to sell Ghana off like his boss. I can not wish 2016 to come fast, but I am counting on all good people of Ghana to throw NDC under the bus once and for all and in their place we shall have only two parties: CPP and NPP. Any one of us can choose to join either party of our choice when a steady of Akuffo Addo transitions Ghana into a new paradigm.
DAN 10 years ago

MAKE MAHAMA RUN FOR EXILE LIKE UKRAINE/EGYPT AND SOON VENEZUELA AND SYRIA

MAKE MAHAMA RUN FOR EXILE LIKE UKRAINE/EGYPT AND SOON VENEZUELA AND SYRIA
Whatever 10 years ago

Is ECOWAS, the republic of Ghana? When ECOWAS took that stupid decision to invade Ivory Coast, didn't Ghana under President Mills say no to it and refuse to involve Ghana in that?

Is ECOWAS, the republic of Ghana? When ECOWAS took that stupid decision to invade Ivory Coast, didn't Ghana under President Mills say no to it and refuse to involve Ghana in that?
Kaw Bentum 10 years ago

Atta Mortuary man wo ye heen adzi, abe, eh!! Atta Mills did not listen to the Rawlingses. They disagreed with his choice of his Vice but Edjah Atta did not listen.

Atta Mortuary man wo ye heen adzi, abe, eh!! Atta Mills did not listen to the Rawlingses. They disagreed with his choice of his Vice but Edjah Atta did not listen.
Kaw Bentum 10 years ago

NDC must call for an early polls and remove this anti-Ghanaian Mahama fast before it is too late. This man is leading us to the slumber. Remove him like ANC removed Mbeki from the leadership. NDC act fast. If this is not sell ...
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NDC must call for an early polls and remove this anti-Ghanaian Mahama fast before it is too late. This man is leading us to the slumber. Remove him like ANC removed Mbeki from the leadership. NDC act fast. If this is not sell out, what is it? We never saw it coming. People spoke of his other vices, but not this level of corruption and greed.
Nii 10 years ago

WE DONT WANT IT ECOWAS OR NOT.YOU DONT SEEM TO CARE ABOUT THE FIRE BACK HOME BECAUSE YOU ARE TAKING US FOR GRANTED AND YOU WOULD FLEE WITH YOUR DIPLOMATIC PASSPORT.WE ARE QUIET BUT NOT FOOLS.

WE DONT WANT IT ECOWAS OR NOT.YOU DONT SEEM TO CARE ABOUT THE FIRE BACK HOME BECAUSE YOU ARE TAKING US FOR GRANTED AND YOU WOULD FLEE WITH YOUR DIPLOMATIC PASSPORT.WE ARE QUIET BUT NOT FOOLS.
Gee 10 years ago

Very sad statement indeed. Hannah Tetteh and the NDC government should be reminded that Ghana is a sovereign state and therefore primarily responsible to the dictates of our constitution and not any Ecowas Treaty.

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Very sad statement indeed. Hannah Tetteh and the NDC government should be reminded that Ghana is a sovereign state and therefore primarily responsible to the dictates of our constitution and not any Ecowas Treaty.

You can be part of the Ecowas and yet hold a contrary view to some of their policies.

Let me please remind this Government that Great Britain (UK) is part of the EU but refused to join their single currency and maintained the British Pound Sterling.

What has Ghana done to deserve this level of ineptitude from our leaders.
MENSAH 10 years ago

Did PRESIDENT MAHAMA sign the deal in favour of THE EUROPEAN UNION or rejected it?

GHANA WOULD LIKE TO KNOW THIS.

Did PRESIDENT MAHAMA sign the deal in favour of THE EUROPEAN UNION or rejected it?

GHANA WOULD LIKE TO KNOW THIS.
kaketonti 10 years ago

The answer is capital NO.EPA is slavery.Better we have Chairman Mao.Let's dictate to them.Goods, finances and services cross borders easily why not HUMAN-BEINGS.Ghana must not be a dumping play ground.

The answer is capital NO.EPA is slavery.Better we have Chairman Mao.Let's dictate to them.Goods, finances and services cross borders easily why not HUMAN-BEINGS.Ghana must not be a dumping play ground.
Sam A 10 years ago

If Nigeria is part of ECOWAS and they won't sign then what business is it of ECOWAS to go on and sign this nonsensical agreement if you say its going to be a regional decision

If Nigeria is part of ECOWAS and they won't sign then what business is it of ECOWAS to go on and sign this nonsensical agreement if you say its going to be a regional decision
JAGA 10 years ago

HANNA tETTEH MUST BE CAREFUL..

HANNA tETTEH MUST BE CAREFUL..
JAGA 10 years ago

hANNA TETTEH MUST BE SACKED SHE RUN OUT IDEAS..WE THE PEOPLE DONT WANT THIS AGREEMENT

hANNA TETTEH MUST BE SACKED SHE RUN OUT IDEAS..WE THE PEOPLE DONT WANT THIS AGREEMENT
NII LARTEY NARTEY 10 years ago

Ghana will support the ECOWAS position simply because Ghana under the Mahama led government has lost her birth right to the regional association and has non of the former proactively brilliant and progressive elements with na ...
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Ghana will support the ECOWAS position simply because Ghana under the Mahama led government has lost her birth right to the regional association and has non of the former proactively brilliant and progressive elements with nationalist brains at the helm of political affairs to discuss deep into issues affecting the country to take the right decision in favor of our dear country, Ghana.

Hanna Tetteh's embarrassing statement here means that whatever decision ECOWAS will take, either negative, blindly or forfeiting our social economy rights, market control and political rights to the imperialist neo-colonialists, Ghana will just stupidly Concorde and follow the already politically influenced ECOWAS without any strategic assessment of the situation at hand to evaluate the consequentials as if we are 24 million nation of mumu bigotries, eh?

How are we going to explain this to to the next generation if at the end of the day Ghana find herself an economic and political captive? Are we going to explain to our future children that Ghana consented into the traps of the infamous EPAs simply because ECOWAS said so?

That will certainly make the great Osagyefo Kwame Nkrumah and the pioneers who laid their lives with their blood spin in their graves, how pathetic!
KEN AYARIGA 10 years ago

I have always maintain that Rawlings coming was a politicla strategic plan by the exploitative Americans and their Western criminals to highjack the progressive leftist front, kill some including Kwame Adjiman who then stood ...
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I have always maintain that Rawlings coming was a politicla strategic plan by the exploitative Americans and their Western criminals to highjack the progressive leftist front, kill some including Kwame Adjiman who then stood against Rawlings's plan for privatization of national entities and other assets to the local petty bourgeois.

Today, long after Rawlings had succeeded selling out cheaply Ghana's enterprises with the majority of them being own by himself and his heartless wife including the Nsawam Cannery all former buildings of the then Ghana National Trading Corporation (GNTC), state hotels like Star Hotel, La Palm Beach and many-many more, his bloody criminally corrupt "woyomenized" Mahama led NDC government is pathetically leading Ghana to yet another economic slaughter house.

Where are the once formidable Student Union, the progressive Farmers
Co-operative, PANIMO, the Kwame Nkrumah Revolutionary Guards, the African Youth Command, the People's Freedom Movement, Workers Union, the Socialist Front, the Market Associations, the progressive Revolutionary Cadres Front, and all the patriotic organisations including GUNSA? Lets once hit the road to demonstrate that power really belongs to the masses and not to the few elites or any dead-headed political party.

It is a NO-NO-NO for Ghana on the issue of the EPAs. Period!!!
akwasi mintah 10 years ago

it's a yea! yea! to that.

it's a yea! yea! to that.
Mankind23 10 years ago

Think yourself and nske decision yourself, or you can not think? Lack of wisdom is eat you.

Think yourself and nske decision yourself, or you can not think? Lack of wisdom is eat you.
ESI 10 years ago

WHY IS EUROPE FORCING THE ECOWAS WITH DEAD LINE TO SIGN A TWENTY YEARS TRADE AGREEMENT.
IF EUROPE CAN NOT WAIT AND ALLOW ECOWAS TO LOOK THROUGH THIS AGREEMENT CAREFULLY THEN THEY CAN GO TO HELL. GHANA SHOULD STAND WITH NIGER ...
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WHY IS EUROPE FORCING THE ECOWAS WITH DEAD LINE TO SIGN A TWENTY YEARS TRADE AGREEMENT.
IF EUROPE CAN NOT WAIT AND ALLOW ECOWAS TO LOOK THROUGH THIS AGREEMENT CAREFULLY THEN THEY CAN GO TO HELL. GHANA SHOULD STAND WITH NIGERIA AND NOT FOLLOW IVORY COAST AND THOSE 'FRANCOFONE' NATIONS WHO HAVE SOLD THEIR CONSCIENCE TO THEIR COLONIAL MASTERS AND EUROPE.
ECOWAS DOES NOT NEED ANY PRESSURE FROM EUROPE. WE SHOULD NOT SIGN ANY AGREEMENT.
JAMES Y 10 years ago

What Hanna Tetteh has said, "...we can't have a single country position", is nonsense and a sheer capitulation of sovereignty. In every group there is a room for decent. Britain opted out of the 'single European currency' yet ...
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What Hanna Tetteh has said, "...we can't have a single country position", is nonsense and a sheer capitulation of sovereignty. In every group there is a room for decent. Britain opted out of the 'single European currency' yet, it has not lost its membership of the union - indeed, it has benefitted from being out of the union currency agreement. Hanna, also, says; "it's not a question of what is Ghana's stance because this is an ECOWAS decision. Either we all agree or we don't agree." Nonsense! This being so, why is it stated then that "EPAs are legally binding bilateral contracts between the European Union (EU) and INDIVIDUAL AFRICAN COUNTRIES", and not African countries en-bloc - in that situation it would be understandable not to decent - but, this is not the case about EPA contract; it affects only INDIVIDUAL COUNTRIES in Africa and not all as a whole, at the same time. This presupposes that there can be a decent and, there is because ECOWAS consists of only few countries among many in Africa.
foxnews 10 years ago

The british are debating how to opt-out of the european union totally because it is not in their interest.The eastern europeans are destroying their social system and taking away their jobs.Its sad Ghana doesn't know her inte ...
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The british are debating how to opt-out of the european union totally because it is not in their interest.The eastern europeans are destroying their social system and taking away their jobs.Its sad Ghana doesn't know her interest.
JAMES Y 10 years ago

The word "decent", should be "descent".

The word "decent", should be "descent".
KWAME TWUM BARIMA,MARYLAND-USA 10 years ago

LOOK AT HANNAH,S FACE.STRAIGHT AWAY YOU SHOULD KNOW THIS IS THE FACE OF A FOOL.HOW COULD SHE KNOW GHANA,S STANC -E?SHE JUST HAD TO FOLLOW WHAT THAT FOOLISH,NAIVE AND HOPE PRESI.MAHAMA TELLS HER,WHETHER GOOD OR BAD FOR GHANAIA ...
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LOOK AT HANNAH,S FACE.STRAIGHT AWAY YOU SHOULD KNOW THIS IS THE FACE OF A FOOL.HOW COULD SHE KNOW GHANA,S STANC -E?SHE JUST HAD TO FOLLOW WHAT THAT FOOLISH,NAIVE AND HOPE PRESI.MAHAMA TELLS HER,WHETHER GOOD OR BAD FOR GHANAIANS.MAHAMA WAS ASKING GHANAIANS TO SUPPORT HIM WITH IDEAS YET THEY DO NOT TAKE BAWUMIA,S ADVICE WHICH TELLS HOW ARROGANT AND STUPID MAHAMA IS.
Christian 10 years ago

Hannah Tetteh, think again!

EPA is detrimental to our economy. The Africa Union is boycotting Europe, So why do we want to sign this agreement which is being imposed on us?

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Hannah Tetteh, think again!

EPA is detrimental to our economy. The Africa Union is boycotting Europe, So why do we want to sign this agreement which is being imposed on us?

How can we allow 80% of imports from Europe to be duty-free? This is economic and political suicide!
Kwasi, MD 10 years ago

No African Country should sign any agreement which lead to Monopolistic Competition. Free (open) market is the Democratic idea we all should uphold.

No African Country should sign any agreement which lead to Monopolistic Competition. Free (open) market is the Democratic idea we all should uphold.
Nii Akwei 10 years ago

Ghana is like a dead fish. Doesn't have a mind of her own.

Ghana is like a dead fish. Doesn't have a mind of her own.
tk 10 years ago

Ghana don"t have stand but Nigeria and Senegal they have their stand, what is wrong with our leaders, sham on to you for calling ur self a leader.

Ghana don"t have stand but Nigeria and Senegal they have their stand, what is wrong with our leaders, sham on to you for calling ur self a leader.
DAN 10 years ago

THIS SHOWS HOW LOW THIS NDC GOV IS TO BUT THIS UGLY BITCH OUT IN PUBLIC VIEW!

THIS SHOWS HOW LOW THIS NDC GOV IS TO BUT THIS UGLY BITCH OUT IN PUBLIC VIEW!
Dr Robert Glah 10 years ago

Hannah Tetteh of Ghana must submit EPA to Referendum and impact assessment for mandate.

ECOWAS has no mandate on the issue; only opinion.

Hannah Tetteh should know better.

Hannah Tetteh of Ghana must submit EPA to Referendum and impact assessment for mandate.

ECOWAS has no mandate on the issue; only opinion.

Hannah Tetteh should know better.

EPAs: Ghana will support ECOWAS position – Hanna Tetteh

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