Churches must reach out to disaster victims – Veep

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JATO KWASHIVI RAWLINGS 8 years ago

AFTER THE NDC THIEVES WITH SHARP TEETH INSULTED PASTORS, THEY WANT CHURCHES TO HELP THE VICTIMS OF DISASTERS AND INSULT THEM SOME MORE WHEN PASTORS COMMENT ON FAILURES OF NDC???????

AFTER THE NDC THIEVES WITH SHARP TEETH INSULTED PASTORS, THEY WANT CHURCHES TO HELP THE VICTIMS OF DISASTERS AND INSULT THEM SOME MORE WHEN PASTORS COMMENT ON FAILURES OF NDC???????
william 8 years ago

Time for pastors to give back some of the money they harvest from the poor without paying tax. And as indicated by Veep, share time to counsel and console. That is a basic christian duty; a basic Islamic duty. Happily our mos ...
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Time for pastors to give back some of the money they harvest from the poor without paying tax. And as indicated by Veep, share time to counsel and console. That is a basic christian duty; a basic Islamic duty. Happily our moslem clergy don't engage in the greedy money collection as seen among many of our pastors/'prophets'!!!
ABAAH 8 years ago

NONOSENSE HAVE THEY HAVERSTED FROM YOU?.IT IS A TIME OF CONSOLE AND COUNSEL BUT IT IS NOT THE VICE-PRESIDENT WHO HAS TO TELL THEM TO WHAT THEY OUGHT TO DO.ADVISE NDC TO USE OUR RESOUCES WELL,WHERE IS THE $600MILLION THAT WAS ...
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NONOSENSE HAVE THEY HAVERSTED FROM YOU?.IT IS A TIME OF CONSOLE AND COUNSEL BUT IT IS NOT THE VICE-PRESIDENT WHO HAS TO TELL THEM TO WHAT THEY OUGHT TO DO.ADVISE NDC TO USE OUR RESOUCES WELL,WHERE IS THE $600MILLION THAT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE USED FOR THAT PROJECT?.THESE PEOPLE ARE USELESS,STUPIDS AND THIEVES VOTE THEM OUT IN 2016.THE SOULS OF THE DEATH PEOPLE ARE GOING TO HAUNT THEM FOREVER FOR FAILING TO DO THE RIGHT THING.MMOADOMA!
ISAAC A.K.A MARCUS GARVEY- ASIA 8 years ago

ABAAH,WONIM NYANSA PAA,YOUR VERY WISE,WE NEED A PERSON LIKE YOU,RULE MOTHER GHANA, NONE,UNEDUCATE FOOL W ALWAY'S CAME HERE FOR INSULT,OUR ELDERS,MEDAASE.

ABAAH,WONIM NYANSA PAA,YOUR VERY WISE,WE NEED A PERSON LIKE YOU,RULE MOTHER GHANA, NONE,UNEDUCATE FOOL W ALWAY'S CAME HERE FOR INSULT,OUR ELDERS,MEDAASE.
Omanba Pa, Islington-London! 8 years ago

Where is the money that you borrowed from USA for the Accra drainage? Did you give some to the churches in Ghana? Gyimi gyimi look at his mouth!

Where is the money that you borrowed from USA for the Accra drainage? Did you give some to the churches in Ghana? Gyimi gyimi look at his mouth!
william 8 years ago

Wow. So the money is here? Did you follow the news, POOR SOUL? Go and empty your money in church.

Wow. So the money is here? Did you follow the news, POOR SOUL? Go and empty your money in church.
The African Patriot 8 years ago

Whiles i support your request on the churches concerning their monetary support, i am aware that the churches are not psychotric institutions. They have got any expert to handle traumatize patients.

Once again NDC is doing ...
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Whiles i support your request on the churches concerning their monetary support, i am aware that the churches are not psychotric institutions. They have got any expert to handle traumatize patients.

Once again NDC is doing politic which will solve the problems of these victims.

NDC needs professionalism. Only winning power is what it has as interest.
Nothing else nor for the people...
SHAME ON NDC 8 years ago

I find if extremely amazing that the vice president of Ghana seemed to be suggesting that flood victims are to get mental health assistance from churches. I know that churches has a role to play in reassuring the masses but ...
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I find if extremely amazing that the vice president of Ghana seemed to be suggesting that flood victims are to get mental health assistance from churches. I know that churches has a role to play in reassuring the masses but that is unofficial, unprofessional, and charity based assistance which cannot be used as part of government solution to the mess that they call governing.
Gye Nyame 8 years ago

Here we go again, government shirking its responsibilities, instead of finding professional counseling for victims they are throwing these victims to pastors to further exploit them. If one of their kids was a victim, they pr ...
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Here we go again, government shirking its responsibilities, instead of finding professional counseling for victims they are throwing these victims to pastors to further exploit them. If one of their kids was a victim, they probably would have flown them out of the country to see the best psychologists/psychiatrists in the world, but because many of the victims are just ordinary citizens they should go to their pastors for mental health help from their pastors. I actually wonder if there are "ambulance chasing" lawyers in Ghana? Lawyers in the civilized countries would have been having a field day with the recent "disaster" to sue those responsible for the drainage and oversight of petrol stations, and GOIL as well. The victims should not be begging for help they should be demanding for help from government and also their lawyers should be front and center getting them all the help and monetary compensations they need. Didn't Ghana go get doctors from Cuba to replace striking doctors? The government can again temporary bring in some mental health specialists from Cuba to help. One of Cuba's main export is doctors, so it is time for the government to pay and bring some psychologists/psychiatrists in to assist traumatized victims. Counseling by churches are usually for non mental issues, marriage, petty quarrels and not for mental health issues. Also is the VP assuming that all the victims are religious? What about the atheists? it is a shame that these are the brains that are leading the country, no wonder the country is on a downward turn.
Close Observer 8 years ago

FOOLISH AND USELESS NDC. AFTER INSULTING THE CLERGY, YOU WANT THEM TO TAKE UP YOUR RESPONSIBILITY. EVIL NDC. PEOPLE OF GHANA, VOTE THE USELESS NDC PARTY OUT IN 2016.

FOOLISH AND USELESS NDC. AFTER INSULTING THE CLERGY, YOU WANT THEM TO TAKE UP YOUR RESPONSIBILITY. EVIL NDC. PEOPLE OF GHANA, VOTE THE USELESS NDC PARTY OUT IN 2016.
Mahmoud 8 years ago

A patriotic Ghanaian replying to Busia and NPP hater wrote:

What tribalist trash! How old were you in 1969? Busia’s government in terms of structured and sustainable national development is still one of the best in the ...
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A patriotic Ghanaian replying to Busia and NPP hater wrote:

What tribalist trash! How old were you in 1969? Busia’s government in terms of structured and sustainable national development is still one of the best in the annals of Ghana’s troubled history. Of course people like you will never see any good thing in anything any Akan does in Ghana.

1. Busia’s Rural Development agenda has never been equaled and it will take someone with courage and foresight to come anywhere close to it. It was Busia’s government that extended pipe-borne water to most villages in Ghana, including some really wretched ones in the Volta Region. That is what led to the elimination of guinea worm (which was causing annual havoc in most parts of the country), in Ghana.

2. His government also wiped out cholera, which is now causing havoc in our national capital.

3. The construction of polyclinics, district hospitals and health posts was meant to free Korle Bu and Okomfo Anokye Hospitals for research, teaching and the treatment of more serious cases.

4. Mass-scale feeder road construction began with Busia, and I witnessed it at Akatsi, Sogakope, Hohoe, Ho Dome, Ho Banque, and many other places, even in the Volta Region.

5. Busia’s cottage industry programme would have created employment avenues in most rural districts in Ghana, to curtail the now unbearable and uncontrollable urbanisation with names like Sodom and Gomorah, Agege, etc, with the resultant “ghetoisation” in almost every town in Ghana.

6. Ever heard of Odorkor/Dansoman Housing Estate development, with replicas in all the regional capitals, Adeweso at Koforidua, Low Cost at Winneba, etc? It was Busia’s idea.

7. How about the major sewerage and drainage system in Accra, which would have connected all homes to a central sewerage system? The remnants of the abandoned trenches are still around.

8. Your reference to education is really dishonest and illiterate. Up until 1969, about 60% of the lecturers in the three original universities of Ghana were foreigners. Their emoluments were paid in dollars. Their families were entitled to at least one paid holiday a year. It was Busia who began the “Ghanainisation” of university lecturers. Everyone who graduated with a first class or second class upper was sent away through Ghana government, Commonwealth or specially arranged American scholarships, to pursue MScs and PhDs and return to Ghana, to lecture. Had the idiot Acheampong not derailed that policy, Ghana’s universities would have been among the leading universities of the world. Many of those who were trained under that scheme are now professors in major universities of the world. Quite a number of those who returned to Ghana have been vice chancellors and some are deans!

9. In 1970, all three universities together had an intake of less than 13,000 students, but the state was still struggling to give everyone free education. Can you imagine what the situation would be today, with 30 or 40,000, when 50% of the state’s treasury is looted and shared among a handful of families? Busia’s loan scheme opened the doors to people like you who were not so bright, but still could go to university, on a loan and pay later, which is what pertains everywhere in the world. What is wrong with that?

10. The JSS system that was botched by your murderer tribesman was meant to transform Ghana’s education policy and make it relevant to national development with vocational s and technical schools and more polytechnics. It began with pilot schools at Kinbu in Accra and others in Kumasi, Takoradi, Cape Coast, and other regional capitals. Their products were to be monitored over a seven year period as teachers were gradually upgraded or specialised, to take over the primary and middle schools. Can you think of any country in Africa that has such a system?

11. Did you ever hear of “two rabbits=equal to one cow in one year?” It was a programme of rabbit rearing, which took off in many parts of Ghana like a storm. It was meant to supplement our low protein intake as a nation. If your low life compatriot Newlove Mammatah had not mismanaged the programme as your lot usually does, it would be changing lives in Ghana today. It was under that programme that poultry farming ballooned in the Central and Ashanti Regions only to be destroyed by your armed tribesman.

12. The Aliens’ Compliance Order enabled many Ghanaians to go into trading in every corner of Ghana. See how the Chinese now control everything in Ghana, including the trade in “buronyi weewu.” The Nigerians are back with a vengeance, buying everything in sight, with cash! And so are the Lebanese. Under the programme, long-standing foreign resident were supposed to regularize their stay. Like the Asians in Uganda, because they used their status to smuggle diamonds and hard currencies out of Ghana, they did not bother. Do you really fault a leader of a bankrupt nation for trying to safeguard local commerce, in order to better the lot of his people?

13. Appollo 568? Hahaaa Have you heard about the rot in the NSS today? It is the same with the civil service. That was what Busia was trying to curb. After Kotoka and Harley filled the civil and public services with every middle school drop-out from the Volta Region, they were as over-bloated as the clueless Mahama has done today. Anybody who takes over in 2017 will have to trim down the public purse, if our overlords the IMF do not do it now.

Come on buddy, if you really hold a PhD in something worthwhile, there are records in the archives that you can research and educate yourself about Ghana, instead of just swallowing the socialist nonsense hook, line and sinker
Good day!
****((((((****** 8 years ago

Ghana is suffering cos of Ashantis.IK ACHEAMPONG an Ashanti worthless CPP DESTROYED ALL THESE.

Ghana is suffering cos of Ashantis.IK ACHEAMPONG an Ashanti worthless CPP DESTROYED ALL THESE.
DUKE GEORGE 8 years ago

WELL SAID SIR,KEEP IT UP.I SALUTE YOU WITH MUCH BLESSED TO THE ENTIRE FAMILY OF YOURS.

WELL SAID SIR,KEEP IT UP.I SALUTE YOU WITH MUCH BLESSED TO THE ENTIRE FAMILY OF YOURS.
Sapee 8 years ago

I'm ignorant about this build ups!

I'm ignorant about this build ups!
Aj 8 years ago

My ooo mine bro,you bring tears into my eyes.the new generation and due to tribal misconceptions they are too blind to even think out of the box and look for how all these leaders did perform but rather listen to big and chea ...
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My ooo mine bro,you bring tears into my eyes.the new generation and due to tribal misconceptions they are too blind to even think out of the box and look for how all these leaders did perform but rather listen to big and cheap talk from politicians who are searching for their personal fortunes.I rest my case.thanks
Donkor 8 years ago

Maybe he can make a difference in Ghana

Maybe he can make a difference in Ghana
Paa Joe (UK) 8 years ago

The 1st duty of any government is to protect its citizens. Yearly floods are predictable and therefore preventable to some extent.
If all this exhortation was mobilised to protect people and property before the rains arrived ...
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The 1st duty of any government is to protect its citizens. Yearly floods are predictable and therefore preventable to some extent.
If all this exhortation was mobilised to protect people and property before the rains arrived, many souls would be alive today.
I sincerely hope that next year the floods will be better managed.
Did I hear someone say "stop dreaming Paa Joe?"
CHRISTOS CHRISTOFF 8 years ago

Fools and heartless persons ruling Ghana. Why ont you tell your wife to donate money for the needy? Now churches? which your regime was trying to destroy for moslems? Let the mosques help their people too?

Fools and heartless persons ruling Ghana. Why ont you tell your wife to donate money for the needy? Now churches? which your regime was trying to destroy for moslems? Let the mosques help their people too?
Ansah 8 years ago

Rumour mongrel

Rumour mongrel
nana 8 years ago

Why do you want churches to help? Do you respect churches in Ghana? They have to stop paying the Government officials for three months and use their respective checks for development in Ghana.

Why do you want churches to help? Do you respect churches in Ghana? They have to stop paying the Government officials for three months and use their respective checks for development in Ghana.
The don 8 years ago

How funny it is when these crooks preach the your "brother's keeper" theme.What happened to all the billions you guys have stolen from the nation??was that your version of taking care of "your neighbour".You must understand ...
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How funny it is when these crooks preach the your "brother's keeper" theme.What happened to all the billions you guys have stolen from the nation??was that your version of taking care of "your neighbour".You must understand that you and your government has lost the moral credibility to say anything to anyone about anything.
PAPSEEY. 8 years ago

TRUE,WELL COOKED. HOW COME THESE NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT OF CRIMINALS,NDC,WILL PREACH LOVE THY NEIGHBOUR AS THY SELF.THEY SHOULD STOP PREACHING APARTHEID IN THEIR GOVERNING BODY. TRUST ME.MY GENERATION WILL MAKE IT A CHANGE.

TRUE,WELL COOKED. HOW COME THESE NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT OF CRIMINALS,NDC,WILL PREACH LOVE THY NEIGHBOUR AS THY SELF.THEY SHOULD STOP PREACHING APARTHEID IN THEIR GOVERNING BODY. TRUST ME.MY GENERATION WILL MAKE IT A CHANGE.
ZED 8 years ago

NDC thieves build twenty million dollars headquarters, SADA SUBAH GYEEDA FAKE JUDGEMENT DEBTS etc are what NDC THIEVES have indeed used to empty our coffers.....

NDC thieves build twenty million dollars headquarters, SADA SUBAH GYEEDA FAKE JUDGEMENT DEBTS etc are what NDC THIEVES have indeed used to empty our coffers.....
Bob Affram 8 years ago

Yes, because the victims voted for the churches and also pay their taxes to the churches. Nkwasias3m

Yes, because the victims voted for the churches and also pay their taxes to the churches. Nkwasias3m
william 8 years ago

NO FURTHER COMMENT TO MY PREVIOUS ONE! PLEASE SEE ABOVE.

NO FURTHER COMMENT TO MY PREVIOUS ONE! PLEASE SEE ABOVE.
omanbapa 8 years ago

Didn't the church tell you guys because of dumso business is not good so tell me Mr vp what money will they use.

Didn't the church tell you guys because of dumso business is not good so tell me Mr vp what money will they use.
Nana Nketiah, DU Germany 8 years ago

Most people follow the Leader

Most people follow the Leader
CALAMITYJOHN 8 years ago

Waiting to exchange relief items for votes during election 2016 campaigns??? Idiots !!!

Waiting to exchange relief items for votes during election 2016 campaigns??? Idiots !!!
abena-kwabena 8 years ago

The opposite is what is likely to happen. The injured will give the little they have to the pastors.

The opposite is what is likely to happen. The injured will give the little they have to the pastors.
Yussif Fuseini 8 years ago

How irresponsible can this government be in their appeal to the general public to contribute to the flood victims ever since it happened.Look its the responsibility of government to takecare of such disaster issues, we pay ta ...
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How irresponsible can this government be in their appeal to the general public to contribute to the flood victims ever since it happened.Look its the responsibility of government to takecare of such disaster issues, we pay taxes VAT which covers everybody, so they shouldn't pretend or pass the burden on ghanains.No government in this world develops a nation alone, why it has put proper and prudent economic measures in place to make the citizens rich enough to help in the developmental agenda of the country, as it were now in ghana, the citizenry re so impoverished that purchasing power so low,the current energy crisis has seen companies that was doing well dwindled, a nation where the priorities of young people up to the middle age is to build homes instead of building businesses and going into manufacturing because of high and unavoidable housing accommodations,how can things go right?.Leaders such as the vice president ll not address their minds to all this economic setbacks but finds it easy to be calling on citizens who can hardly afford three square mills a day to donate money and blood.I sometimes thing the black man is just an unwanted spices on this planet earth.
CHRISTOS CHRISTOFF 8 years ago

Author:
CHRISTOS CHRISTOFF
Date:
2015-06-14 12:09:33
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PUT RT REV MANTE IN CHARGE OF RELIEF

Fools and heartless persons ruling Ghana. Why ont you tell your wife to donate money for the needy? Now churches? ...
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Author:
CHRISTOS CHRISTOFF
Date:
2015-06-14 12:09:33
Comment to:
PUT RT REV MANTE IN CHARGE OF RELIEF

Fools and heartless persons ruling Ghana. Why ont you tell your wife to donate money for the needy? Now churches? which your regime was trying to destroy for moslems? Let the mosques help their people too?
Joy Wa 8 years ago

THIEVES WHAT DO YOU DO WITH OUR TAXES?

THIEVES WHAT DO YOU DO WITH OUR TAXES?
Yussif Fuseini 8 years ago

How manytimes haven't government officials insult churches for complaining on matters that affect all of us as a state?,reccent example is when some bold pastors talked about the current energy.All kinds of unprinterble adjec ...
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How manytimes haven't government officials insult churches for complaining on matters that affect all of us as a state?,reccent example is when some bold pastors talked about the current energy.All kinds of unprinterble adjectives was use on them, now that a disaster has hit us, suddenly realize that they must reach out to victims as if they collect our taxes,how I wished the pastors had commented on the drains before the floods happened.You ve been given the political and executive
powers of the nation and all you ve done since you took power is tell us about our problems rather than finding lasting solutions to
them,mahama has failed monumentally and must be voted out without any delay come 7th December.
HARDCORE 8 years ago

My good Veep, these so called churches are thieves, they never contributed anything, these are are criminal enterprises, the good Lord shall punish them according to their works.

My good Veep, these so called churches are thieves, they never contributed anything, these are are criminal enterprises, the good Lord shall punish them according to their works.
Nana Ajena 8 years ago

Another mad man.. Don't blame anyone, it's the government responsibility to make sure things are done properly to avoid this happening.

Another mad man.. Don't blame anyone, it's the government responsibility to make sure things are done properly to avoid this happening.
Asem se be 8 years ago

What about criminal politicians? You politicians, the chiefs and corrupt criminals have been working hand in hand to bring Ghana to its knees. So what about you criminal politicians ? Most of you have millions you have not ...
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What about criminal politicians? You politicians, the chiefs and corrupt criminals have been working hand in hand to bring Ghana to its knees. So what about you criminal politicians ? Most of you have millions you have not worked a day for, so why not reach out to the flood victims?
YEBOPOWER 8 years ago

What is your NDC cartel doing to address the flood and drainage problems.No clue. The solution is not donation. The solution is massive infrastructure and political will in addressing drainage and other problems. Your governm ...
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What is your NDC cartel doing to address the flood and drainage problems.No clue. The solution is not donation. The solution is massive infrastructure and political will in addressing drainage and other problems. Your government has failed. Ghanaians must reject you. Talking about donations is a failure. The problem is not being addressed. A cheap way to calm tempers. Reject this guy Ghanaians.
YAW MAN 8 years ago

LEAD BY EXAMPLE WHEN WE SEE THE PRESIDENT HIS VICE, MP'S START DONATING TO THESE POOR PEOPLE THEN AND NOT WHEN WHAT BELONGS TO THE PEOPLE IS BEING GIVEN TO WHO VOTE FOR THE .GOD IS WATCHING US ALL

LEAD BY EXAMPLE WHEN WE SEE THE PRESIDENT HIS VICE, MP'S START DONATING TO THESE POOR PEOPLE THEN AND NOT WHEN WHAT BELONGS TO THE PEOPLE IS BEING GIVEN TO WHO VOTE FOR THE .GOD IS WATCHING US ALL
TAMAKLO 8 years ago

I DONT KNOW WHETHER SOME PEOPLE TALK BE4 THEY THINK. AS A LEADER TO AVOID DIVISION LETS GHANA SEE ITSELF AS ONE NOT THESE KIND OF TALKS CREATING MENTAL DIVISIONS. IS A SHAME.

I DONT KNOW WHETHER SOME PEOPLE TALK BE4 THEY THINK. AS A LEADER TO AVOID DIVISION LETS GHANA SEE ITSELF AS ONE NOT THESE KIND OF TALKS CREATING MENTAL DIVISIONS. IS A SHAME.
Sapee 8 years ago

Churches must show some luv as anchored in bible as christians!

Churches must show some luv as anchored in bible as christians!

Churches must reach out to disaster victims – Veep

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