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We couldn't get 300 chairs from a local Ghanaian manufacturer

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  • cha 9 years ago

    What happened to failed mahama shouting buy local goods? these jokers are not serious

  • OYOKOBA 9 years ago

    IN fact we have fools governing Ghana. When did they know they need new chairs and what quantity they needed at what cost?

    There is a deliberate intention to slight Ghana Made goods and just jump on anything foreign. I don' ...
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  • Another Thief of Bagdad 9 years ago

    All the others, especially JA Kuffour, do not deserve to be presidents of Dr Kwame Nkrumah's Ghana. As for the MPs who are crying wolf, they should keep quiet because they all do it. they see state money as OTHER PEOPLE'S MON ...
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  • OLD SOLDIER 9 years ago

    BBC NEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WHERE DID GHANAIANS GO WRONG TO SUFFER LIKE THIS? YOU MAHAMA BUILDING YOUR HOTELS ABROAD, AFRIYIE ANKRA BUYING MANSIONS AT EAST LEGON, OKUDJETO ACQUIRING FILLING STATIONS ALL OVER, TOGBUI AF ...
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  • DAVI 9 years ago

    THIS IS SOME OF THE REASONS WHY,THERE WAS NO NEED FOR E.C.TO RUSH AND ADD THE EXTRA STEATS FOR NDC TO STEALED VOTES IN 2012 ELECTIONS.

  • Kwame 9 years ago

    As usual you're one of those non thinking Ghanaians. Move on, Nkrumah died so many years ago.

  • KONONGO CONTRACTOR 9 years ago

    Well spoken Oyokoba, Aduanaba se monekasa.These people call themselves,Honorable? It is jungle out there.

  • Iinsight to the bone 9 years ago

    OYOKOBA YOU ARE SO STUPID YOU WANT GHANA TO EXPORT NOT IMPORT ANYTHING YOU FOOL WHY DON'T YOU COME TO PRODUCE KYINKYINKA ABOABA NOT OYOKOBA

  • Iinsight to the bone 9 years ago

    OYOKOBA YOUR MAMA ASSSSSSSSSSS

  • ???? 9 years ago

    What about if they gave the contract to 4 Ghanaian manufacturers with specific design and specifications, couldn't they have produced them in time? It's all about kickbacks that these NDC criminals are known for

  • Sethoo 9 years ago

    If you want to steal Ghana govt money you can easily create artificial shortage just to have your way.By the way is he related to Alfred Agbesi Woyome?These people have stealing in their DNA.

  • Gary 9 years ago

    The people of China have employment. They go to work every day and Ghanaians are unemployed.

  • GhanaBa 9 years ago

    In this day and age, you want to go to company by company to check if they can produce 300 chairs? What happened to procurement tools, online bidding process, advertisement etc? I now understand why Ghana is so seem like goin ...
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  • Victor Baidoo, South Africa 9 years ago

    Why give "that short time" as an excuse? Don't you have anyone who knows about simple planning?

  • Concerned 9 years ago

    That's how they have been running the whole country, like donkeys. He is not even ashamed to say that because he doesn't realise that makes him incompetent. Donkeys all of them.

  • CORNEY 9 years ago

    I think Mr Agbesi could have done better than that to explain to the ignorant ones that the materials used in making those chairs are not made in Ghana and the local company even if can produce within that time frame will sti ...
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  • WE ARE FED UP 9 years ago

    THIS IS STUPID AND NONSENSE....HEY POLITICIANS WE ARE TIRED OF YOU PEOPLE...AND WE WILL ONE DAY CHASE YOU PEOPLE OUT...WE ARE FED UP

  • Kofi Virginia 9 years ago

    Because our parliamentarians have becme too fat to fit in our chairs.

  • BOY KOFI 9 years ago

    I want somebody to tell me just one furniture company in Ghana who is exporting Chairs and Tables.Thank you.

  • Africanus 9 years ago

    Fifty years or so ago there was no single company in China that could export furniture, but today they do. We have to start somewhere. You must first produce for the local market and then expand to the international market.

  • BOY KOFI 9 years ago

    It means you agree with me that our carpenters don't meet international standards.Thank you.

  • DAN 9 years ago

    FEW WAITING ROOM CHAIRS IN GOV BUILDING IN USA ARE METAL!!!! THEY ARE METAL FRAME AND PLASTIC SEAT...WHAT ARE YOU BUYING EASY CHAIRS TO SIT HOME WATCH TV??

  • impromptus 9 years ago

    Blame the voters

  • Kwame 9 years ago

    In modern day Ghana, a team had to travel to china to buy 300 chairs? How stupid. If this is an international company based in Ghana, did they not have samples in their showroom in Ghana? Where did you find this company? ...
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  • Kwame Kumi 9 years ago

    Listening to this man you would be tempted to believe that the building collapsed one week-end and needed to be fitted under a state of emergency. He should rather have told us when the decision was first taken to refurbish ...
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  • Exposure 9 years ago

    Mr. Honorable, you have hit below the belt. Couldn't you have source the chairs from different shops, with the same design and quality wood? I mean eg 10no. each from Alfred, Agbesi and Kwame with the stipulated time? Do you ...
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  • Exposure 9 years ago

    Mr. Honorable, you have hit below the belt. Couldn't you have source the chairs from different shops, with the same design and quality wood? I mean eg 100no. each from Alfred, Agbesi and Kwame with the stipulated time? Do you ...
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  • Ghanaian To The Core 9 years ago

    Heartless Ghanaians who hardly walk their talk. So the concept of 'buy made-in Ghana goods is a mere talk. What a pity! I cry for my beloved country.

  • Keewuo 9 years ago

    This is the most stupid explanation one can think of. Is this fool a member of our parliament? Oh mother Ghana I weep for you.

  • liv 9 years ago

    Every single Parliamentarian should not return to the House in the next election. How can these people run a country, over the years not a single MP has done anything good for the country.

  • boka 9 years ago

    That si not true, it takes at least more than a month to ship an item from china to ghana

  • kodjo 9 years ago

    this not stop bashing of the government is become unbearable. You "honourables" are all well aware that most Ghanaians are poor and are struggling to make ends meet but you gladly take those BLOODY end of service benefit payo ...
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  • T.J 9 years ago

    PEOPLE ARE STRUGGLING IN GHANA AND MP,S ARE CALLING FOR LUXURIOUS CHAIRS.

  • Lorgo Ligri. 9 years ago

    Our modern day Ghanaian politicians speak before they think. This is the Information Age my dear brothers. You don't need to send a team to China just for 300 chairs. The money you spent for the travel could have paid for a p ...
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  • oor 9 years ago

    Stop talking idiocy to ghana man becos she is your employer ig only if you planned well would you have comme to this? You are all there only for your freebys carring a whit of the hand which feeds you.god is watching you boy ...
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  • Efo 9 years ago

    WHAT IS THE RUSH FOR THIS RENOVATION. INFACT THESE PEOPLE ARE TAKING THE PISS OF GHANAIANS.

  • oboitey 9 years ago

    This man paa calling himself an MP. Gyimi Gyimi. They will soon import school furniture and uniforms from China with same excuse. Eye be dee keke

  • Victor A. Young 9 years ago

    NDC's thievery and looting is still in force. Somehow, someway they've succeeded in pulling a fast one on everybody before people could become aware of what was going on.

    The deputy majority leader's comments isn't accepta ...
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  • J KUFFOUR 9 years ago

    foolish talk...you should have sought out all these then set time frame. how could you go to china in August and have 300 chairs produced, shipped and installed by October! nonsense

  • The Minor Prophet 9 years ago

    Simply put, the governance of our beloved country, Ghana has been commercialized by our greedy, selfish, and visionless so-called leaders.

  • AMIDINI 9 years ago

    Hon Agbesi how will Ghana promote made in Ghana goods ? It is unfortunate to heard our MPS saying this. No jobs and you sent jobs to Chinese.

  • raphic 9 years ago

    2016 is their last sitting on these chairs and they will be missing them come 7th January 2017.

  • Bole Boy 9 years ago

    Mahama is useless and waste and has no place in Ghanaian politics than in a dustbin. This is a president who relies only on propaganda, stupid and irresponsible promises to rule. Bringing in chairs and tables from China for ...
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  • George 9 years ago

    Liers Party

  • NOBODY 9 years ago

    The NPP members of parliament are foaming at mouth because Chinese chairs instead of Ghanaian chairs were used to refurbish the chambers of parliament. Why did the same NPP late complainers not make the same noise when Kufuor ...
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  • perscoba 9 years ago

    so does that make it ok for first mills selling Ghana to China..and now this fool hardy ndc goes to let the Chinese loot our country......NDC founded by Togolese rawlings and maintained by most foreigners acting as Ghanaians ...
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  • Kwame 9 years ago

    This is bad planning. They knew the number of parliamentarians who would be there during the 2112 elections. God save us.

  • Gandalf 9 years ago

    tell us how much this whole thing cost the tax payer please

  • Ibn Batuta 9 years ago

    We need a full accounting of the total costs and who was paid to do the work.

  • EFUAt 9 years ago

    Why were you rushing ? If one company couldn't at least two or three companies could have teamed up to do that the place looks like China parliament from the picture .Its all about chop chop selfish poeple

  • Ibn Abudu @adams1financial@yahoo.ca 9 years ago

    SAME WOOD NEEDED COULD BE USED WITH DIFFERENT COMPANIES WITH SAME BLUEPRINT OR DESIGN OR ARCHITECTURAL DRAWINGS.

    WHO ARE YOU FOOLING ?

  • peace 9 years ago

    Ghana made furniture would have been better than something from China. I'm disappointed in government.

  • maame 9 years ago

    You can contract more than one,two, three or four local manufacturers to produce the same one and they will al be ready on time. Stop that excuse of not being able to get someone to do it in ghana. Do what you preach!

  • STONER KOBYLYNTON 9 years ago

    The most useless parliamentarians and head of government ever assemble in the nation to steer its affairs. Mr. Agbessi's comment is utmost nonsense and only fools will buy his crap.

    First of all, when did parliament thoug ...
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  • Nana Addo 9 years ago

    No doubt Ghana is on its knees. Planning is all that is needed, Agbessi think and stop insulting Ghanaians

  • Rauf 9 years ago

    It's only God in heaven who can deliver us from this mental sickness

  • kofi yawson 9 years ago

    how the factory produce 300 chairs if our lights to run the machine is virtually not available, NDC forget it

  • kwam 9 years ago

    so what is Ghana good for ?if we can not produce common 300 chairs, then what is the noise about patronizing made in Ghana goods.

  • NICK 9 years ago

    When will Ghana get rid of this stomach directed so called honourables.Ghana is indeed in trouble if people who are suppose to make decisions on our behalf for the self are defying the noble idea of buymade in Ghana by the pr ...
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  • BRAINS 9 years ago

    “We set a time limit to move into this chamber and we could not get any company to provide us with the 300 chairs and tables within that short time… THAT WAS WHEN YOU WOKE UP FROM YOUR SLUMBER WITH THE HATCHED PLAN. O MAN ...
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  • Akiwumi ( ambassador ) 9 years ago

    Mr deputy majority leader , when did you consult the Furniture & Woodworkers Association of Ghana ( FAWAG ) as to their ability to produce ? FAWAG members comprise the main producers of furniture in Ghana ! I believe you did ...
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  • Mama Rosina 9 years ago

    So John Dramani Mahama wants us buy made in Ghana goods?
    The NDC has shown us the way. It is made in China.

  • perscoba 9 years ago

    How could the Chinese produce 300 suites within a week...stupid agbesi?
    Was there no one in Ghana who could have done a better job for Ghana?,,chairs to be used in Ghana's parliament made by Chinese??? give a break for wh ...
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  • ROLAND 9 years ago

    you failed to report on what the minority leader said but went on to report on Agbesi. SHAME ON YOU PEACEONLINE. Your evil deeds have betrayed you.

  • JM 9 years ago

    This Govt tells Ghanaians to patronize made in Ghana goods yet they go to China to buy common chairs which is easily produced in Ghana. Because they can do corruption.

  • Kofi 9 years ago

    Corruption made them to go to China to buy common chairs.

  • kwash 9 years ago

    So did these parliamentarians planthis renovations?

    And how long was that ?

    Infact we have stupid and down-syndrome leaders who think foolishly

  • Kofi 9 years ago

    Ghanaian MPs are pigs

  • Oman ba papa 9 years ago

    I am very very disappointed in you Mr minister and I have even regretted I vote for ndc

  • Koby 9 years ago

    O my Lord Jesus Christ please change the mind-set of ghanaian politicians because the foolishness is too much. A chinese carpenter will take this hard cash to his country a ghanaian carpenter will keep the money in the countr ...
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