Gov’t appointees are being “intellectually disingenuous” – IEA

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Queen 9 years ago

DR GYAMPO, DO NOT PAY THEM ANY ATTENTION. THEY DONT KNOW "THE THING" AND THEY ARE RELUNTANT TO LEARN "THE THING".THEY THINK RULING A COUNTRY IS A CHILD'S PLAY. THEY ARE ONLY USING "BUGA BUGA" AND IT IS NOT WORKING

DR GYAMPO, DO NOT PAY THEM ANY ATTENTION. THEY DONT KNOW "THE THING" AND THEY ARE RELUNTANT TO LEARN "THE THING".THEY THINK RULING A COUNTRY IS A CHILD'S PLAY. THEY ARE ONLY USING "BUGA BUGA" AND IT IS NOT WORKING
Whatever 9 years ago

I sometimes wonder why in spite of this open bias, NDC even attend their debates. NDC must be congratulated for being tolerant. An NGO which cooks up surveys to support a doomed opposition campaign

I sometimes wonder why in spite of this open bias, NDC even attend their debates. NDC must be congratulated for being tolerant. An NGO which cooks up surveys to support a doomed opposition campaign
KING BRIGHT (USA) 9 years ago

Are you not even happy IEA rather glorified ndc? The presidency is the most corrupt institution in the republic of corruption. The leader Mahama is filthy corrupt and a hypocrite par excellent.

Are you not even happy IEA rather glorified ndc? The presidency is the most corrupt institution in the republic of corruption. The leader Mahama is filthy corrupt and a hypocrite par excellent.
PRINCE KWASI ADADE (OFIE P33) 9 years ago

AUTHOR: STEVOO-------
GOD ISNT STUPID LIKE US, WE REAP WHAT WE SOWED,,,,WE SOWED FAKE JUDGEMENT DEBTS, ALMOST ONE BILLION DOLLARS....WE SOWED WOYOME 45 MILLION DOLLARS, WE SOWED WATERVILLE 46 MILLION DOLLARS,.....WE SOWED GY ...
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AUTHOR: STEVOO-------
GOD ISNT STUPID LIKE US, WE REAP WHAT WE SOWED,,,,WE SOWED FAKE JUDGEMENT DEBTS, ALMOST ONE BILLION DOLLARS....WE SOWED WOYOME 45 MILLION DOLLARS, WE SOWED WATERVILLE 46 MILLION DOLLARS,.....WE SOWED GYEEDA, SUBAH, SADA, ....WE SOWED INFLATED CONTRACTS LIKE SIX CLASSROOM BLKS COSTING 400,000.00 GHC UNDER NDC INSTEAD OF 80,000.00 UNDER NPP....WE SOWED 8.7 BILLION GHC OVEREXPENDITURE IN 2012 JUST FOR NDC AND JOHN MAHAMA TO WIN ELECTIONS....WE SOWED A GREAT DEAL OF THIEVERY AND CORRUPTION WHILST MEN OF GOD AND DUNCAN WILLIAMS CONTINUE TO SIT IDLE BY OR GOT INVOLVED IN THIEVING THEMSELVES.......SO WHAT IS DUNCAN WILLIAMS SAYING TO GOD.....WE ARE REAPING WHAT THE NDC GOVT HAS SOWED.
OLD SOLDIER 9 years ago

Author:-SGT ANANI FIADZOE...
But we have such a senseless and weakest President fellow country men and women, what should we expect as a nation?

The entire NDC so-called politicians are all "BENTOA", salt, cooking oil, s ...
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Author:-SGT ANANI FIADZOE...
But we have such a senseless and weakest President fellow country men and women, what should we expect as a nation?

The entire NDC so-called politicians are all "BENTOA", salt, cooking oil, sardine, rice, money, cutlasses and
other material distributor politicians, what should we expect?

In which country in this world can we see a credible and dynamic politician
influencing a voter with either money
or any other material to by their vote?

This can only happen under NDC fucking regime which as a result our sovereignty is now hopeless and foolish.
KOFI 9 years ago

THESE USELESS IEA GUYS THING THEY ARE SMART.THEY WORKING FOR THE NPP. FOOLS.

THESE USELESS IEA GUYS THING THEY ARE SMART.THEY WORKING FOR THE NPP. FOOLS.
Alhassan Walla 9 years ago

Isn't it amazing that you NDC 'talkers', especially you, make no sense at all anytime you post your comments here. You are just a fool undertaking a stupid sinecure for your apocalyptic gang of thieves. Indeed, you are a wast ...
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Isn't it amazing that you NDC 'talkers', especially you, make no sense at all anytime you post your comments here. You are just a fool undertaking a stupid sinecure for your apocalyptic gang of thieves. Indeed, you are a waste of your father's sperms - cogitate on that.
Mahmoud 9 years ago

"Sulley was also born in Accra before independence. His favourite jokes are recounting DC Kwame Kwakye’s bad English. His best is the one about Kwakye inaugurating a new water project: "I DC Kwakye, thank you for inviting m ...
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"Sulley was also born in Accra before independence. His favourite jokes are recounting DC Kwame Kwakye’s bad English. His best is the one about Kwakye inaugurating a new water project: "I DC Kwakye, thank you for inviting me to open your new water project. As you all know, water can bath, water can drink, water can cook, water can wash. So, water open … ta ta ta taaa”. There are many variations on this joke and other sayings of DC Kwakye. Many have certainly been embellished over the years but they show Nkrumah’s dependence on ordinary uneducated Ghanaians.

Mr. Appiah recounted an instance of Kwame Kwakye that he saw as a boy. It was at a CPP rally he attended at Bekwai. He remembers Kwame Kwakye, in the middle of the rally, turning to Nkrumah and addressing him thus:

Kwame, emaa no se woho yefe paa. Sre kakra ma wonmoe… Nkrumah couldn’t help it but smiled flashing his perfect teeth. And all the women went woooooooooh…"
NTRA SAKYI 9 years ago

Are you so daft that with what Gyampoh have said you still come up with this nonsense. I marvel at the level of your intelligence. How can the country progress with citizens like you.

Are you so daft that with what Gyampoh have said you still come up with this nonsense. I marvel at the level of your intelligence. How can the country progress with citizens like you.
KWAKU ANANSE 9 years ago

HMMMMMMMM TEACH THEM THE THING.

HMMMMMMMM TEACH THEM THE THING.
Plain Truth, USA 9 years ago

Dr Gyampo shouldn't be surprised when Ndc appointees are merely schoolboys under trees. Just look at boys like Fifi Kwetey, Ablakwa, Ofosu-Kwakye. Omane Boama (Medical doctor NOT academic doctor, Baby Sam Krobo George, and a ...
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Dr Gyampo shouldn't be surprised when Ndc appointees are merely schoolboys under trees. Just look at boys like Fifi Kwetey, Ablakwa, Ofosu-Kwakye. Omane Boama (Medical doctor NOT academic doctor, Baby Sam Krobo George, and a bunch of those schoolboy hoodlums.
Nimo 9 years ago

These so called Ministers have limited education. They got their jobs by being offensive and insulting and not on merit. They are lazy and cannot find time to read let alone analyze. They prefer to hop from one radio station ...
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These so called Ministers have limited education. They got their jobs by being offensive and insulting and not on merit. They are lazy and cannot find time to read let alone analyze. They prefer to hop from one radio station to another. With this crop of leaders, we wonder why the nation is in such a mess. Elsewhere, governments commission third party research to get objective advice. Not so in Ghana. Every organization or individual is painted with a partisan brush. By so doing, the nation is deprived of smart, non-partisan advice and discourse and we all are the poorer for it.
Osofo 9 years ago

Ndceivers are always quick to pounce on anything that doesn't go their way. They send thier babies with sharp teeth to rubbish whatever goes against them.

Ndceivers are always quick to pounce on anything that doesn't go their way. They send thier babies with sharp teeth to rubbish whatever goes against them.
Joe 9 years ago

In the first place thanks to IEA that they have identified NDC appointees as young,but I see them as inexperienced and INCOMPETENT. They do not know anything and as IEA pointed out, the first thing they should have done was ...
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In the first place thanks to IEA that they have identified NDC appointees as young,but I see them as inexperienced and INCOMPETENT. They do not know anything and as IEA pointed out, the first thing they should have done was to get a copy of the report to study before passing judgement; but what did they do? These appointees, some of them not even fit to be SHOE SHINE BOYS in Mahama administration is rediculing this report. I am sorry for the nation Ghana with experienced intellectuals being ruled by rogues and thugs; thank God for about 70% of illiterates and semi litterates who continue to vote for them, these INCOMPETENT bunch of thugs have been imposed on us for more than 6 years, unable to even solve the basic necessities of life. The end result is Ghanaians are beggers in their own country. I will appeal to IEA not to mind them and leave them alone, TRUTH IS THE TRUTH, whether they accept it or not nad it could not be altered and will come back to hunt them. They will continue to doubt the truth it until eventually they are removed from office come 2016 beause I am sure Ghanaians have learnt their lessons. Time will tell.
United Ghana 9 years ago

I'm totally in agreement with you. Anyway, most sincere Ghanaians don't disagree with the results of the survey. They see what's happening to our beloved country

I'm totally in agreement with you. Anyway, most sincere Ghanaians don't disagree with the results of the survey. They see what's happening to our beloved country
POSSIBILITIES 9 years ago

WHY WAS FIIFI KWETEY SACKED FRM FINANCE MINISTRY....ITS BCOS HE HAS DONE TOO MUCH PROPAGANDA THAT HE DOES NOT EVEN KNOW HOW TO SPEAK OR ADMIT SIMPLE, HARD, COLD BITTER TRUTH.....ITS EITHER THAT HE IS TOO STUPID TO COMPREHEND ...
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WHY WAS FIIFI KWETEY SACKED FRM FINANCE MINISTRY....ITS BCOS HE HAS DONE TOO MUCH PROPAGANDA THAT HE DOES NOT EVEN KNOW HOW TO SPEAK OR ADMIT SIMPLE, HARD, COLD BITTER TRUTH.....ITS EITHER THAT HE IS TOO STUPID TO COMPREHEND OR TOO EVIL TO ADMIT WHEN HE EVEN FEELS THE ECONOMY IS DESTROYED BY NDC THIEVERY
Pumpuni 9 years ago

"...they out-rightly condemn it without reason."
Easiest way to hide their incompetence.

"...they out-rightly condemn it without reason."
Easiest way to hide their incompetence.
Braveman 9 years ago

govt appointees are being intellectually disingenuous iea

govt appointees are being intellectually disingenuous iea
KT 9 years ago

In the first case what sample methods did they use? and what is their geographical location,and where the Data was collected. Ghana our population is over 22million and why only 1200

In the first case what sample methods did they use? and what is their geographical location,and where the Data was collected. Ghana our population is over 22million and why only 1200
N. Kofi 9 years ago

Kwasea, if you had read the report you would ask suct stupid questions. Do you know what a real survey looks like.

Kwasea, if you had read the report you would ask suct stupid questions. Do you know what a real survey looks like.
United Ghana 9 years ago

The IEA have invited this incompetent govt to come & scrutinise the survey documentation. You would do well to go along with them if they are interested in the reality

The IEA have invited this incompetent govt to come & scrutinise the survey documentation. You would do well to go along with them if they are interested in the reality
POSSIBILITIES 9 years ago

ANY ISSUES NDC IS UNABLE TO TACKLE OR SOLVE IS BRANDED AS COMING FROM NPP SYMPATHIZERS OR CREATED BY NPP SYMPATHIZERS....hahahahahaaa hhahahahaaaa

ANY ISSUES NDC IS UNABLE TO TACKLE OR SOLVE IS BRANDED AS COMING FROM NPP SYMPATHIZERS OR CREATED BY NPP SYMPATHIZERS....hahahahahaaa hhahahahaaaa
ATIA FRAFRA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 9 years ago

TANII IS STILL TANII, WHAT EVER IT IS. MAHAMA IS TANII, NO BRAINS! !!!!!!!!!!!!

TANII IS STILL TANII, WHAT EVER IT IS. MAHAMA IS TANII, NO BRAINS! !!!!!!!!!!!!
Annorwuo 9 years ago

Intellectual dishonesty! You cobble 'information' together to put the Presidency in a bad light,and instead of justifying your report,you say what?
Shame on you Jampoh,and all others,who are working behind the scenes to bri ...
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Intellectual dishonesty! You cobble 'information' together to put the Presidency in a bad light,and instead of justifying your report,you say what?
Shame on you Jampoh,and all others,who are working behind the scenes to bring about a regime change.
On the subject of corruption,has your outfit bothered to find out what happened to all the humogous funds which 'evapoarated' under the watch of Jake and Owusu Afriyie(Sir John)?
Why have you not questioned why the laid down rules of the party,were not scrupulousy followed,but allowed to be used to the advantage of a particular candidate during the leadership primaries?
Listen,my problem with the IEA is that,It cannot hide its true colours any longer! My advice to you and your 'prominent' members,is to be honest with people of this country about your real intentions.
KWAKU ANANSE 9 years ago

A GREAT NATION WITH SO MUCH PROMISE, PLUNDERED AND PILLAGED BY PIRATES AND HOODLUMS OF THE NDC PARTY INTO THE ABYSS. PITY, REAL PITY!!!!!!!!!!!

A GREAT NATION WITH SO MUCH PROMISE, PLUNDERED AND PILLAGED BY PIRATES AND HOODLUMS OF THE NDC PARTY INTO THE ABYSS. PITY, REAL PITY!!!!!!!!!!!
Kodua, Suhum 9 years ago

Where was IEA when Kufour and his family were buying hotels, selling bungalows, state lands, building shopping malls, here and there? This research is un academic and apolitical! How representative is 1200 respondents of a po ...
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Where was IEA when Kufour and his family were buying hotels, selling bungalows, state lands, building shopping malls, here and there? This research is un academic and apolitical! How representative is 1200 respondents of a population of about 30,000,000? IEA is now a Institute of Political Affairs and recruits according to anti-NDC affiliation or perceived sympathy...SHAME
Kojo E 9 years ago

Do those arrogant sharp teeth even understand what such a perception survey Is meant to achieve? Such surveys seek to determine what the public's view(s) are in matters of social interest/concern. Whether the perception is co ...
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Do those arrogant sharp teeth even understand what such a perception survey Is meant to achieve? Such surveys seek to determine what the public's view(s) are in matters of social interest/concern. Whether the perception is correct or wrong it calls for work by whichever organisation it affects. If people say the government is corrupt and government thinks it's a wrong perception it means government needs to gird its loins and work to disabuse the public's mind. Not condemn the survey. We have a bunch of proud and arrogant illiterates in government. Simplicity.
Jim wise 9 years ago

The report makes no sense . U cannot make a sweeping statement like that without any prove ; like Imani this is also a sceptic tank very hollow & useless

The report makes no sense . U cannot make a sweeping statement like that without any prove ; like Imani this is also a sceptic tank very hollow & useless
Klutse 9 years ago

Now you appear not to have even read what Dr Gyampoh is saying in this short report here. You prove him right that you do not read and yet want to make big noise. tell the schoolboy ministers to ask for a copy of the survey r ...
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Now you appear not to have even read what Dr Gyampoh is saying in this short report here. You prove him right that you do not read and yet want to make big noise. tell the schoolboy ministers to ask for a copy of the survey report, Digest it, ask for explanation where they lack understanding and then debate the issues raised. THE REPORT OF THE SURVEY IS THE PROOF.
Ugly Akufo Addo 9 years ago

He his an old fool

He his an old fool
Ugly Akufo Addo 9 years ago

IEA members are bastard

IEA members are bastard
Amoako Kyei 9 years ago

IEA has lost any credibility.

IEA has lost any credibility.
KOLIKO 9 years ago

u can not take simple criticism and yet expect government to take your garbage criticism

u can not take simple criticism and yet expect government to take your garbage criticism
YAW 9 years ago

Ghanaians by their perceptions criticized the government and the IEA only served as a conduit to convey that criticism.

By contrast, the NDC government's school boy ministers, who to all intent and purposes, may not even ...
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Ghanaians by their perceptions criticized the government and the IEA only served as a conduit to convey that criticism.

By contrast, the NDC government's school boy ministers, who to all intent and purposes, may not even understand the content of the survey hopped from one station to another to criticize a report they have not seen, and may not even understand.

They are calling for the methodology of the research to be publicized, yet they have not eve taken the opportunity to read the report, why?

The IEA is not hiding the report so what stops them from going to access the report? This leads to only one conclusion and that is their inability to read the report and understand it. What are their credentials? what reports have those shallow-thinking ministers ever authored? none!
Kwaku 9 years ago

The presidency is corrupt through and through. SADA is under office of prez. GYEEDA is there also. The office is selling imported goods whose duties are yet to paid to cronies at prices lower than the duties charged. Nadmo th ...
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The presidency is corrupt through and through. SADA is under office of prez. GYEEDA is there also. The office is selling imported goods whose duties are yet to paid to cronies at prices lower than the duties charged. Nadmo the citadal of corruption os inder the office. The Woyome and the other judgement debts wrongly paid emanated from the OP. Importers evade duties using letters issued from the OP. The O P cuts over all ministries and the IEA is very correct and the people know it.
GHANABA 9 years ago

THEY ARE ONLY SPECIALISED IN STEALING AND PREACHING TRIBAL POLITICS .

THEY ARE ONLY SPECIALISED IN STEALING AND PREACHING TRIBAL POLITICS .
joy 9 years ago

Dr. Gyampo and his IEA should get serious.You can full some people some of the time,but not all the people all the time.

Dr. Gyampo and his IEA should get serious.You can full some people some of the time,but not all the people all the time.
USMAN 9 years ago

That is why they are intellectually weak. This is how far our useless university education has brought us.

That is why they are intellectually weak. This is how far our useless university education has brought us.
still rastafari 9 years ago

insults,intolerance mark of NDC

insults,intolerance mark of NDC
still rastafari 9 years ago

How NDC gets to power i dont know......

How NDC gets to power i dont know......
Iwan 9 years ago

while The Institute of Economic Affairs is politically biased

while The Institute of Economic Affairs is politically biased
JOHN 9 years ago

RANSFORD GYAMPO IS A POLITICAL SCIENCE IN LEGON AND IS AMONG THE GROUP OF LECTURERS CHAMPIONING A CRUSADE AGAINST NDC. GYAMPO, ASAH ASARE, BOSSMAN ASARE , AND THIER BOSS BOAFOH ATTAH ARE NPP SURROGATES.

RANSFORD GYAMPO IS A POLITICAL SCIENCE IN LEGON AND IS AMONG THE GROUP OF LECTURERS CHAMPIONING A CRUSADE AGAINST NDC. GYAMPO, ASAH ASARE, BOSSMAN ASARE , AND THIER BOSS BOAFOH ATTAH ARE NPP SURROGATES.
Kwame 9 years ago

We wrote on several occasions that corruption is part and parcel of the capitalist socioeconomic system or the market economy. But let us not make fetish of corruption and turn it into a ghost.

We wrote on several occasions that corruption is part and parcel of the capitalist socioeconomic system or the market economy. But let us not make fetish of corruption and turn it into a ghost.
Baba 9 years ago

Just publish the methodology for public critic. that is all

Just publish the methodology for public critic. that is all
Ishimoto 9 years ago

This is kookoase survey made to favour the opposition party. When did IEA started this sinistic survey? Why from 2010? To make NDC unpopular? Posterity will judge all of us.

This is kookoase survey made to favour the opposition party. When did IEA started this sinistic survey? Why from 2010? To make NDC unpopular? Posterity will judge all of us.
SANK 9 years ago

IEA MUST KNOW THAT THE CLOAK OF HYPOCRICY HAS BEEN UNVEILED WHEN NPP CAME INTO POWER THE OFFICIALS STARTED THEIR POLITICAL ATTITUDE. IEA CANNOT CONTINUE TO PLAY THE POLITICAL GAME UNDERCOVER. ANY BODY WHO IS OBJECTIVE AND GEN ...
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IEA MUST KNOW THAT THE CLOAK OF HYPOCRICY HAS BEEN UNVEILED WHEN NPP CAME INTO POWER THE OFFICIALS STARTED THEIR POLITICAL ATTITUDE. IEA CANNOT CONTINUE TO PLAY THE POLITICAL GAME UNDERCOVER. ANY BODY WHO IS OBJECTIVE AND GENUINE IN THAT INSTITUTE CANNOT WORK THERE BECAUSE OF THE POLITICAL AGENDA THAT IS BEING PURSUED THERE.

WHAT HAPPENED TO ITS SURVEY REPORT ABOUT ABUSE OF POLITICAL POWER AND OFFICE AFTER THE 2008 ELECTIONS - WHERE IS IT?

THIS BRIBED NPP COMMUNICATION TEAM MEMBER CALLED DR. RANSFORD GYAMPO SHOULD SPARE US THIS HIS USELESS AND SENSELESS INFUSIONS.
ogyam 9 years ago

The president's failure doesn't surprise me. He himself never thought he would be a leader. To be a leader means foresight and implementation like our forefathers like Paa Grant , JB Danquah, Kwame Nkrumah and all the BIG SI ...
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The president's failure doesn't surprise me. He himself never thought he would be a leader. To be a leader means foresight and implementation like our forefathers like Paa Grant , JB Danquah, Kwame Nkrumah and all the BIG SIX thought for our mother ghana. But as the president of ghana, he has surrounded himself with school boys who might not be able to manage their own young families if not in governmet. Yet they are the ones managing 25 million ghanaians.
True Ghanaba 9 years ago

I write to strongly dispute the IEA claim of the Presidency being the second most corrupt institution in Ghana. The Ghanaian presidency has really out paced the Ghana Police when it comes to corruption. The Presidency is actu ...
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I write to strongly dispute the IEA claim of the Presidency being the second most corrupt institution in Ghana. The Ghanaian presidency has really out paced the Ghana Police when it comes to corruption. The Presidency is actually the most corrupt institution currently in Ghana. The Police comes nowhere near the Presidency in the field of corruption.
KOFI 9 years ago

THE MOST CORRUPT INSTITUTION IS IEA. THEY COOK UP DATA AND GET MONEY FROM DONOR PARTNERS JEAN MENSAH AND HER COHORTS ARE VERY VERY DISHONEST FOLKS

THE MOST CORRUPT INSTITUTION IS IEA. THEY COOK UP DATA AND GET MONEY FROM DONOR PARTNERS JEAN MENSAH AND HER COHORTS ARE VERY VERY DISHONEST FOLKS
Ghanaman 9 years ago

Hey, Kofi, just like the Govt usual noise makers, you're an illiterate who has no clue about the purpose of a "perception" survey! Whether right or wrong this is what the people surveyed perceive so, as long as the methodolog ...
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Hey, Kofi, just like the Govt usual noise makers, you're an illiterate who has no clue about the purpose of a "perception" survey! Whether right or wrong this is what the people surveyed perceive so, as long as the methodology can stand to to scientific scrutiny, it doesn't matter one way or the other whether the Govt agree with its findings or not but forewarned is forearmed! A word to the wise is enough!! Only fools rush where angels fear to tread!!!
BIRAHMA 9 years ago

I am not sure those guys the I E A interviewed really understand how things work at the Presidency.Some people think the Presidency is the person called John Mahama and will always label him as corrupt without any evidence.Wh ...
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I am not sure those guys the I E A interviewed really understand how things work at the Presidency.Some people think the Presidency is the person called John Mahama and will always label him as corrupt without any evidence.When Harruna Esseku alleged that monies were carried to Prez Kuffour at the Castle we did not hear anything from the I E A. What has changed?
Abrantie 9 years ago

IEA is a criminal organization headed by train crooks. Who is of acidic tongue than Gyampo. I am very suspicious of his degree.

IEA is a criminal organization headed by train crooks. Who is of acidic tongue than Gyampo. I am very suspicious of his degree.

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