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You need GHC500,000 to become an MP – Muntaka

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  • APONKYE 7 years ago

    Our parliament will soon be for only the crooked.

  • life 7 years ago

    Note he did not say where they get the money from!

  • Youlis 7 years ago

    And steal to get their money back plus profit

  • Frank Agyena-Karikari 7 years ago

    That is why you guys steal and do everything to win. Now I know why Ghana is broke.

  • DR TRUTH 7 years ago

    MUNTAKA IMPORTED BURKINABEES TO REGISTER AND NOW THEY HAVE TURNED TO ARMED ROBBERY AND UNLEASHING VENOM ON KUMASI RESISENTS. ASEWASE WILL VOTE U OUT

  • Dr 7 years ago

    275 lazy and greedy hardened criminals who have all become rich overnight

  • Odikro 7 years ago

    Oh, ndc

  • ddkt 7 years ago

    why NDC alone? npp is equally mess up

  • NiNa 7 years ago

    Always talking about money and MPs. lack of innovation, ideas and capacity for nation building. Shameless people! GHS500,000 for campaign? good for you!

  • BLACK NINJA-ASIA. 7 years ago

    We All this criminals in our Beloving Hood osei krom,Garden city,Mother fuckers sukers,Nkwasiafuo Ammanmuo.

  • JOKERRY abdul Hussein 7 years ago

    If you are honest to yourself you need to spend more than that. It's now expensive. Npp made it so in 2008 when they denominated the new currency just to scare NDC. MPs from contesting and it has come to stay.

  • OMANBA 7 years ago

    Constituents even expect MPs to pay their children's school fees and when they do not they threaten to vote them out of parliament.And ghanaians expect MPs to live on their salaries alone.This is a joke

  • Dessie 7 years ago

    Ghanaians still lack core value of democracy

  • Efo Odenkey 7 years ago

    OMANBA, tell me, is paying of school fees part of MP's job?

  • Frank Agyena-Karikari 7 years ago

    Some people even expect MPs to pay their medical bills and APIO

  • omanba 7 years ago

    It is not but some are being forced to do it or they lose the votes of those whose requests they turn down.

  • Dessie 7 years ago

    why can't candidates raise fund by asking for donations from or within constituencies and try lobby through govt award project with cconsttituencies in that way special interest with come in and help.Beijing said I am not en ...
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  • ASEM ooo 7 years ago

    Well said,but please don't forget that,this is the roots of corruption which is killing Ama Ghana.
    ALL MPS SHOULD DECLARE THEIR ASSETS B4 AND AFTER EVERY ELECTIONS.

  • Kwame 7 years ago

    Was it the same guy who was involved in the Black Stars "missing $45,000.00" deal? Is he trying to justify why the MPs become so corrupt? May be they need to stop making damn promises they can't keep. To most of them, it is b ...
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  • Agonaba 7 years ago

    Why so much money.

  • JM 7 years ago

    That is the reason all of you are in dept. and can do the job.

  • Dr tweba, Bronx NY 7 years ago

    How much did muntaka had when he became an MP. He was a poor man now he has stolen Ghana's money and he is talking about ghc 500, 000. Common thief.

  • Van Bell 7 years ago

    IS THIS STATEMENT NECESSARY?

  • NPP KWASEFUO PARTY. NPP JIMIFUO KUO 7 years ago

    Our present day politics is what is fueling the rampant corruption that we are witnessing.

    If one needs 500,000 New Ghana Cedis ($132,000 US dollars), then that definitely opens the floodgate to become corrupt.

    No wond ...
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  • PLAIN TRUTH 7 years ago

    What do you expect me to do if I invest a huge sum of money to enter parliament.I have to get it back.You think politics is a charitable job.It is worse in America where individuals are sponsored by companies and the rich an ...
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  • Kofi 7 years ago

    So Muntaka, how did you raise that amount to get into parliament? What about the rest of the MPs who had never been employed before? How did they raise that amount? No wonder, the house is filled with many thieves!

  • Tom Tema 7 years ago

    Aboa Tani corrupt useless man like you fool where did you get your money from you and brainless corrupt Mahama will soon see yourself useless Muslim man did your Qur'an tells you to steal your wife and your kids will rot in h ...
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  • PLAIN TRUTH 7 years ago

    So if i invest heavily and get to parliament you want me to lose my investment?For what?I WILL MAKE SURE I GET IT BACK WITH PROFIT.Politics is not a charitable job.

  • patriot 7 years ago

    I like your candidness but do not steal what belongs to the state when you become an MP.Ok.

  • Osono 7 years ago

    Blatant liar and a fool,Muntaka.Akando was my mate at UCC.We graduated in 2008.Akando became MP shortly after because he was from a remote area. Akando wouldn't have been able to raise even ghc 1000.MPs are the most corrupt p ...
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  • The Man South Africa 7 years ago

    If MPs have this huge sums of money just for power, why are they not investing them in the economy to provide jobs for the ordinary people to get work? God save Ghana

  • Ndc nkwasiafo)kuo,ndc gyimii party 7 years ago

    All the men in ndc are fools and the women have stinking vaginas.

  • Betina 7 years ago

    From where is coming this amount of money ?