Stop imposing tax on imported timber – MP tells Mahama

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Ntim 8 years ago

So Ghana is now an importer of timber?? Oh, what is happening?. These stupid NPP/NDC leaders are destroying Ghana o. We have to get rid of this nonsense

So Ghana is now an importer of timber?? Oh, what is happening?. These stupid NPP/NDC leaders are destroying Ghana o. We have to get rid of this nonsense
Slim Bee 8 years ago

Importing timber is a good thing.It will give Ghana some time to re-grow our forest.In fact is a policy that the Government needs to encourage by reducing the import duties or removing it completely.
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Importing timber is a good thing.It will give Ghana some time to re-grow our forest.In fact is a policy that the Government needs to encourage by reducing the import duties or removing it completely.
If any taxes are levied then the monies collected should be used for afforestation programs.But off course knowing how we do things in Ghana,they will collect those taxes and squander it or steal it other words.Is an opportunity to bring the sawmills and the furniture industries back to live.
Ntim 8 years ago

This shows how leadership has failed. No planning. For a country like Ghana which prides herself as a timber producer and exporter to be importing timber now means we have failed to plan. We failed to do proper forecasting. V ...
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This shows how leadership has failed. No planning. For a country like Ghana which prides herself as a timber producer and exporter to be importing timber now means we have failed to plan. We failed to do proper forecasting. Very soon we'll import gold and diamond. What koraa did we gain from all the timber we exported? Look at the roads. Look at all the timber producing towns. They are the poorest communities with nothing to show. And worse of it all, we're coming to import. Eeish. We don't think. Our forest commission people and all those stupid people up there taking huge salaries must be sacked. Our leaders don't think. Very soon Ghana will be left with nothing. Our children's children will know how stupid we run this country. If you see nothing wrong with Ghana importing timber, you're crazy
kululu 8 years ago

Ntim you are looking at the issue from the wrong side. Importing timber will save our environment and also help recover our dwindling forest reserves. The Europeans for long have been importing our timber to save their trees. ...
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Ntim you are looking at the issue from the wrong side. Importing timber will save our environment and also help recover our dwindling forest reserves. The Europeans for long have been importing our timber to save their trees. we should do same even if we have some timber. These trees are not easily replaceable and therefore eliminating the tax on them will help our country in the future.
Kwadaso 8 years ago

Importing timber will save our almost depleted forestry.It is about time for the government to get serious about timber in Ghana.I hear there are over 7500 commercial tree farmers in the U.S. and they plant trees which mature ...
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Importing timber will save our almost depleted forestry.It is about time for the government to get serious about timber in Ghana.I hear there are over 7500 commercial tree farmers in the U.S. and they plant trees which mature in less than a tenth of the time regular trees take to mature.Maybe our government will do the unthinkable and start helping willing farmers with logistics and market to usher us squarely into commercial tree farming.
ed 8 years ago

NDC AND MAHAMA PLAESE IMPOSE BATHROOM TAX ON US WE WANT MORE TAXES AND WE PROMISE TO RE-ELECT YOU

NDC AND MAHAMA PLAESE IMPOSE BATHROOM TAX ON US WE WANT MORE TAXES AND WE PROMISE TO RE-ELECT YOU
daladam 8 years ago

we soon going to be tax for the air
mahama is killing us with his taxes and fees and vat

we soon going to be tax for the air
mahama is killing us with his taxes and fees and vat
Kojo Billy Duncan 8 years ago

What is difficult about planting trees? I have planted over 30 teak and 10 mahogany in the past 5 years. I am nursing more to plant continuously. All this cultivation is being done on the perimeter of a 2.32 acre land. We ne ...
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What is difficult about planting trees? I have planted over 30 teak and 10 mahogany in the past 5 years. I am nursing more to plant continuously. All this cultivation is being done on the perimeter of a 2.32 acre land. We need to talk less and act more to be effective problem-solvers.
Nii Okai 8 years ago

It is simple, why are they in Ghana following what will kill the lively wood of their people? Are they fools and calling themselves politicians, for politicians ought to be wise who are really concerned of the lives of the pe ...
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It is simple, why are they in Ghana following what will kill the lively wood of their people? Are they fools and calling themselves politicians, for politicians ought to be wise who are really concerned of the lives of the people they represent.

The NDC as a government should have the will power to argue at the international level in the interest of the Ghanaian wood markets. I personally think the honorable MP is saying something worth considering, because the question stands as where is the timber in Ghana? If in real sense the timber is in short, why then imposing taxes if they are imported from outside into our nation?

This issue should not be politicised as it calls for careful consideration in the interest of the nation as a whole in link to the market and the work that our local labour will lose.
Kwadaso 8 years ago

I think we are all on the same side of this issue.So far nobody has advocated for importing manufactured wood products.I rather we imported the timber than wood.Timber gives our sawmills jobs and income before the wood trader ...
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I think we are all on the same side of this issue.So far nobody has advocated for importing manufactured wood products.I rather we imported the timber than wood.Timber gives our sawmills jobs and income before the wood traders and workers come into play.We could even do better if we bought some seedlings and started our own commercial tree farming industry.More jobs for tree nurery operators, farmers,transportors,buyerss,sellers,exportors,sawmill workers, wood dealers etc,.We need the government involvement because of the investment required in heavy equipments needed to harvest and transport the trees.
Kofi Afreh Boakye 8 years ago

The full implementation of VPA is expected to rig the domestic timber market of illegalities. The current over 72% local consumption of illegal timber is worrisome. How is this shortfall going to be filled with this state of ...
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The full implementation of VPA is expected to rig the domestic timber market of illegalities. The current over 72% local consumption of illegal timber is worrisome. How is this shortfall going to be filled with this state of affairs as the envisaged interventions include importation of lumber.
hk 8 years ago

National Democratic Congress (NDC) Member of Parliament (MP) for Ketu North and Chairman of the Finance Committee, James Klutse Avedzi, has told Ghanaians to stop complaining about hikes in fuel prices.According to him, if us ...
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National Democratic Congress (NDC) Member of Parliament (MP) for Ketu North and Chairman of the Finance Committee, James Klutse Avedzi, has told Ghanaians to stop complaining about hikes in fuel prices.According to him, if users of private vehicles can’t afford to buy fuel to service their cars due to the introduction of new taxes, nothing stops them from joining ‘trotro’( public transport) to work if they so desire.

If this sounds familiar to you, maybe then you are not amongst the Ghanaians President Mahama calls as memory deficient citizens. We have heard this before from another Politician from Volta region almost exactly to the same day this snollygoster of a shyster James Klutse Avedzi.

On Jan.-13, 2015, NDC communicator Eric Ametor Quarmyne who is also a consultant for the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) said almost the same thing. He told Ghanaians to ride a bicyles to work if they cannot afford fuel and I quote; "NDC communicator, Eric Ametor Quarmyne has called on Ghanaian car owners to park their cars and ride on bicycles to work if they cannot afford to buy fuel for their cars." Mr Ametor Quarmyne yoho was in response of government fuel price reduction of 10% when fuel price on the world market had gone down 50% and Ghanaians were demanding further price reduction.

Folks, from Bicycles to "trotro", that is an improvement and maybe in January 2017, another yahoo from Volta region will tell us to park our cars and join the Metro Transit Bus if by then we are lucky to still have the Mahama pictures on those buses as government owned and not Selassie Ibrahim personal private company buses.

Now let's analyze how stupid the two Ewe Politicians are especially that of the Member of Parliament from Ketu North and Chairman of the Finance Committee, James Klutse Avedzi. What does Mr Avedzi think the Trotro buses run on? The Trotro buses does not run on water and even if it does, his government recently increased taxes on water around 57%.

Secondly, and the most important point is that, those people with private cars are not the ones who are going to be affected most by the increase in petrol prices, these people can afford to fuel their private cars like him Avedzi. Telling citizens to park their cars and join the Trotro line is a velleity. If Mr Avedzi is not aware, it is the poor workers who are going to boprne the brunt of the petrol price increase as those trotro owners are going to increase their transportation fares.

Why is it always the Ewe Politicians who come out with this disrespectful statements when citizens complain about increase in petroleum products in the country? Doesn't the price increase affect people in Volta region too?

Am I missing something? Does the Ewes pay cheaper price for petrol in Ghana? 'MP James Klutse Avedzi is disconnected from his constituents and the common man. If it were not so he would have realized that it is the trotro riders and farmers - the non-vehicle owning populace who are crying loudest about the fuel price hikes, as they are the ones who have the burden of carrying the trickle down price hikes, not the well-to-do middle class who drive their own cars.

This fool is so stupid he does not know what the people are complaining about as with regards to they having to bear the brunt of Mahama's incompetence, corruption and mishandling of the economy.

How can we pay more for petrol today when the world price of oil is below $40 per barrel, as compared to 2007 and 2008 when the world price of oil was $147 per barrel? What the people are being asked to pay is not the fair price of oil, but to make for the gaping hole in the budget created by the stealing of Mahama and his army of thieves.'

It is not fair to ask Ghanaians to buy petrol at GHc 16.00 a gallon when a barrel of petrol is being sold at the world market at $37.00

It is cruel and inhumane to ask poor workers some of whom earn just eight cedis a day to spend about three cedis on transport fare or on Trotro Mr Avedzi stupidly believes runs on fumes.

It is cruel and inhumane on this government to corruptly give more than GHc30,000 per bus to a Party apparatchik to brand buses and then ask a poor worker some of whom earn less than GHc 200.00 a month to subsidize petrol prices so that this incompetent and useless thieving administration can have more money to give to people like Selassie Ibrahim, Woyome, Roger Agambire of RLG, etc for no work done.

In any democratic and advanced country, a member of Parliament and for that matter any person holding a political position like Ametor and Avedzi would have been forced out of their positions by their own government or constituents if they did not resign themselves but this is Mahama's Ghana where every nonsense is acceptable.

James Klutse Avedzi is a disgrace to the people of Ketu North but he is representing a constituency where even a yellow dog on NDC ticket can win the constituency by just barking so he can afford to make such a stupid and insulting statement to Ghanaians.

Justice Sarpong

(CARDINAL of TRUTH)
hk 8 years ago

CORRECTION

National Democratic Congress (NDC) Member of Parliament (MP) for Ketu North and Chairman of the Finance Committee, James Klutse Avedzi, has told Ghanaians to stop complaining about hikes in fuel prices.Accordin ...
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CORRECTION

National Democratic Congress (NDC) Member of Parliament (MP) for Ketu North and Chairman of the Finance Committee, James Klutse Avedzi, has told Ghanaians to stop complaining about hikes in fuel prices.According to him, if users of private vehicles can’t afford to buy fuel to service their cars due to the introduction of new taxes, nothing stops them from joining ‘trotro’( public transport) to work if they so desire.

If this sounds familiar to you, maybe then you are not amongst the Ghanaians President Mahama calls as memory deficient citizens. We have heard this before from another Politician from Volta region almost exactly to the same day this snollygoster of a shyster James Klutse Avedzi.

On Jan.-13, 2015, NDC communicator Eric Ametor Quarmyne who is also a consultant for the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) said almost the same thing. He told Ghanaians to ride a bicyles to work if they cannot afford fuel and I quote; "NDC communicator, Eric Ametor Quarmyne has called on Ghanaian car owners to park their cars and ride on bicycles to work if they cannot afford to buy fuel for their cars." Mr Ametor Quarmyne yoho was in response of government fuel price reduction of 10% when fuel price on the world market had gone down 50% and Ghanaians were demanding further price reduction.

Folks, from Bicycles to "trotro", that is an improvement and maybe in January 2017, another yahoo from Volta region will tell us to park our cars and join the Metro Transit Bus if by then we are lucky to still have the Mahama pictures on those buses as government owned and not Selassie Ibrahim personal private company buses.

Now let's analyze how stupid the two Ewe Politicians are especially that of the Member of Parliament from Ketu North and Chairman of the Finance Committee, James Klutse Avedzi. What does Mr Avedzi think the Trotro buses run on? The Trotro buses does not run on water and even if it does, his government recently increased taxes on water around 57%.

Secondly, and the most important point is that, those people with private cars are not the ones who are going to be affected most by the increase in petrol prices, these people can afford to fuel their private cars like him Avedzi. Telling citizens to park their cars and join the Trotro line is a velleity. If Mr Avedzi is not aware, it is the poor workers who are going to boprne the brunt of the petrol price increase as those trotro owners are going to increase their transportation fares.

Why is it always the Ewe Politicians who come out with this disrespectful statements when citizens complain about increase in petroleum products in the country? Doesn't the price increase affect people in Volta region too?

Am I missing something? Does the Ewes pay cheaper price for petrol in Ghana? 'MP James Klutse Avedzi is disconnected from his constituents and the common man. If it were not so he would have realized that it is the trotro riders and farmers - the non-vehicle owning populace who are crying loudest about the fuel price hikes, as they are the ones who have the burden of carrying the trickle down price hikes, not the well-to-do middle class who drive their own cars.

This fool is so stupid he does not know what the people are complaining about as with regards to they having to bear the brunt of Mahama's incompetence, corruption and mishandling of the economy.

How can we pay more for petrol today when the world price of oil is below $40 per barrel, as compared to 2007 and 2008 when the world price of oil was $147 per barrel? What the people are being asked to pay is not the fair price of oil, but to make for the gaping hole in the budget created by the stealing of Mahama and his army of thieves.'

It is not fair to ask Ghanaians to buy petrol at GHc 16.00 a gallon when a barrel of petrol is being sold at the world market at $37.00

It is cruel and inhumane to ask poor workers some of whom earn just eight cedis a day to spend about three cedis on transport fare or on Trotro Mr Avedzi stupidly believes runs on fumes.

It is cruel and inhumane on this government to corruptly give more than GHc30,000 per bus to a Party apparatchik to brand buses and then ask a poor worker some of whom earn less than GHc 200.00 a month to subsidize petrol prices so that this incompetent and useless thieving administration can have more money to give to people like Selassie Ibrahim, Woyome, Roger Agambire of RLG, etc for no work done.

In any democratic and advanced country, a member of Parliament and for that matter any person holding a political position like Ametor and Avedzi would have been forced out of their positions by their own government or constituents if they did not resign themselves but this is Mahama's Ghana where every nonsense is acceptable.

James Klutse Avedzi is a disgrace to the people of Ketu North but he is representing a constituency where even a yellow dog on NDC ticket can win the constituency by just barking so he can afford to make such a stupid and insulting statement to Ghanaians.

Justice Sarpong

(CARDINAL of TRUTH)

N/B

Yellow dog Democrat

Yellow Dog Democrats was a political term applied to voters in the Southern United States who voted solely for candidates who represented the Democratic Party. The term originated in the late 19th century. These voters would allegedly "vote for a yellow dog before they would vote for any Republican".

We have our own yellow dog NDCians from Volta region who will vote for a yellow dog before they will vote for an Npp candidate so any Member of Parliament from this region can 'crap any idiocy' and still get elected.

Stop imposing tax on imported timber – MP tells Mahama

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