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How did fake US embassy operate in Ghana for a decade?

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  • NDC IS A CURSE 7 years ago

    MAHAMA HAS SOME SHARES IN THAT DUBIOUS OPERATION.

  • Nii 7 years ago

    Obviously - because you make foolish allegations.

  • NPP SENIOR CITIZEN 7 years ago

    Now we see how criminal and rebellion NPP are, Nana Akuffo Addo will be worst that's why we Voltarians will vote massively against Nana Akuffo Addo and The NPP

  • Koo 7 years ago

    They've been doing dat lol nothing new

  • Desmond Tokyo 7 years ago

    this is not politics my bro

  • Kanawu 7 years ago

    Ghana is too corrupt. We have surpassed Nigerians

  • XMAN 7 years ago

    WHAAAT!

  • NDC IS A CURSE 7 years ago

    NPP POLLING AGENTS CHECK THE SERIAL NUMBERS ON THE BALLOT PAPERS BEFORE THEY ARE COUNTED.

  • Lollipop 7 years ago

    first of all its not true, even if its true then one can only think of a CIA black site.

  • Kwame USA 7 years ago

    I believe it was an inside job. Some of the monies benefited someone within the real embassy

  • Hae 7 years ago

    Lollipop read CIA web site before you discuss

  • buddha 7 years ago

    these are lies

  • Tiefe Ebonn Kunnnn 7 years ago

    Can the government of Ghana come out to clear the air on this fake news? White men working at fake embassy!!!! Are they white men from Kyebi, Bodomase, Bole or Keta? I tried following this story but, it never add-up. And a de ...
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  • Louis 7 years ago

    In fact, the Police are not on top of things. It means a terrorist group may be operating in the system for years without intelligence picking any information about it. The Police of today are too money conscious and careless ...
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  • TG ORKOM 7 years ago

    FAKE NEWS. Ignore this nonsense! 10 years and nothing was doneabout it by the US government? What was the FBI doing? And CIA? Anansesem

  • Captain 7 years ago

    Anything NDC fools

  • GKOSSUTHK 7 years ago

    BECAUSE IGP WAS BUSY DOING POLITICS WHILST MAHAMA & THE PEOPLE AROUND HIM WERE LOOTING, SHARING $$$

  • omanbapa ele 7 years ago

    If a country is govern by a corrupt president n ministers this is what happens. Ghanaians must vote for change of government

  • Saint 7 years ago

    The U S of A again. I suspect the building was a CIA black site. There are 3 group of people u should never trust : An American, an Arab and a Chinese

  • JDM Toaso 7 years ago

    Stupidity has no boundary with the NNP.Who was in power a decade ago?

  • Kofi 7 years ago

    They operated for a decade is different from "a decade ago". Read properly and dont try to twist the story. This happens under your president's watch. The story is all over the world. Let your govt come out to clear the air a ...
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  • AKO 7 years ago

    If they operated for a decade doesn't it mean they started their operations under your so-called incorruptible government or you don't know what a decade means. Tired of people reading politics into everything!

  • PATRIOT 7 years ago

    Why close it down?After all it helped many Ghanaians to get authentic visas to America and several European countries.The 'fake US embassy' was able to operate for so long all because it had officials in the various embassies ...
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  • ONIPANUA 7 years ago

    It started operating when Kuffuor was in power.The NPP established it to get fake visas for their foot soldiers.

  • OPEN YOUR EYES NPP! 7 years ago

    VOTE MAHAMA OUT TOMORROW!

  • tolegba 7 years ago

    If the fake one could provide the authentic visa that the real Embassy will deny me why won't I patronize the so called fake one. They should rather close down the original one which takes money from people without issuing th ...
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  • The Future Force 7 years ago

    The fake embassy existed because the US embassy and other foreign embassies for many years have duped Ghanaians in the name of visa acquisition. Even when you have good reasons, they will refuse you but will give you the visa ...
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  • shiraz hamza 7 years ago

    And so what?

  • bob 7 years ago

    What that's the issue says about Ghanaian politics. This issue has been run on all US major news outlet. Even some local news has also run it. It speaks how stupid our polical leaders. This fake operation went on for a decade ...
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  • Odoi 7 years ago

    What Solomon Nkansa said in Takoradi about stowaways is an indication that NDC can do that. Vagabonds In Power

  • Farmer 7 years ago

    Anything, just anything can be obtained if you can pay for it. The system has it's advantages for the "customers", so those who have money get what they want. And don't forget, the criminal organizations link to the highest l ...
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  • THEREALTRUTH 7 years ago

    Really is this new news. Everyone knows this was happening. The us. embassy has a data base (supposedly) with all visas issued. When arriving in the country why would numbers match up if the visas wer fake. Can you randomly g ...
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  • Yussif 7 years ago

    I'm just suprise that oganise crimes such as this can go on for years without the BNI or the American authorities noticing it,we re all at risk if they were planing anything evil against the US the unexpected would've happen ...
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  • THEREALTRUTH 7 years ago

    TRUMP IS ONLY A DEVIL.

  • Aly 7 years ago

    Do you know him ?

  • THEREALTRUTH 7 years ago

    YES I DO..AND IF YOU HAD ANY UNDERSTANDING OR EVEN EARS OU WOULDNT HAVE PUT YOUR FOOT ....NO FEET IN YOUR MOUTH PRAISING AN EVIL MAN?HAVE YOU ONLY LISTENED TO HIS FALSE LIES TO MAKE A JUDGMENT? BEING ON TELEVISION DOES QUALIF ...
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  • Nkrumah 7 years ago

    This proves that the black man's brain is not as useless as most whites believe.If space-going white America has been duped for ten good years by so-called black monkeys with inferior brains, who has won the battle of being s ...
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  • Obama 7 years ago

    Where exactly is the building. These are cheap lies. I challenge the US embassy to come out with the culprits and the area where the building is located.
    Please journalist stop tarnishing the image of Ghana

  • Kwesi 7 years ago

    You have your head in the sand like an ostrich whilst the wind is blowing open your ass.

    You are there screaming lies lies, when you know that you are nothing of a saint, full of self-deceit!!!

  • Peniz Chopper 7 years ago

    Am surprised no one picked on this for 10 good years. Not even the CIA, FBI, nor our BNI. How could this possibly be?

    It's called "The Egya" Koo. Lazy Egya Koo the visa contractor and Akufo Addo might have made a kill cha ...
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  • NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH 7 years ago

    BLAY -NPP CHAIRMAN IS WELL KNOWN VISA CONTRACTOR CHARGING $5,000 per pop for visa for his constituents. This the kind of people who wants to run Ghana.

  • Odikro 7 years ago

    The US State Department was able to bribe John Mahama and his Foreign Minister, Hannah Tettey to dump the so-called Gitmo2 in Ghana. Now they must take the Ghana1000. Thiefman thief thiefman; God dey laugh. How were the "Mobs ...
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  • Kanawu 7 years ago

    Mahama is incompetent

  • The Patriotic Ghanaian 7 years ago

    How can they break the US visa system with all the sophistication to offer genuine visas. How can their fake visas beat JFK airport immigration. The investigators should come out clear. US immigration system is not that weak ...
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  • Cry The Beloved Ghana! 7 years ago

    Turkey is a TERRORIST state, one of the main sponsors of Al Qaida aka ISIS aka IS together with the ruling Wahhabi despots of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. This "embassy" and its operations were in support of the ...
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  • Aly 7 years ago

    Ghana is a dangerous country

  • OBINIM PASSPORT 7 years ago

    That's where Obinim gets visas for his congregation. I Love that guys. He is so smart!

  • Rengay 7 years ago

    Was Mahama in helm of affairs ten years back? Gorokpaku.

  • Nii Adumuah 7 years ago

    Who in their right mind would believe such a story ?????

    Absolute nonsense

  • EG 7 years ago

    One of those fake news items on the internet and social media. In any case, the state department says none of those visas entered the US which means they do not exist. A decade ago Obama was not the president anyway. Let's us ...
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  • Nyokorpio 7 years ago

    Obama is the president of the United States today. I assume 10 years ago, his predecessor's picture will be the one in the fake embassy. These con men are not that simple minded. they are keeping time, and Ghana's security ag ...
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  • Nyokorpio 7 years ago

    This hoax reminds me of the "money doublers" at Kejetia when I was a child in Kumasi. They are confidence tricksters who collect hard earned money from villagers who have come to Kumasi, in exchange for newspaper, which the c ...
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  • Freddie 7 years ago

    Now you know where Angel OBINIM got those heaven sent US visas. Crooks all over the country; from head to toe.

  • Hae 7 years ago

    It was not 10 years but that's another story ...GHANA is corrupt to the core from ghc1 to get a pillow in a hospital upto the mahama's multi millions corrupt deals with AMERI etc

  • Adamu 7 years ago

    Blame Ghana government this a big rocket that the government knew about it.

  • Citizen Ghana 7 years ago

    The US State Department can go to hell, after what they did to some of us. They just collected visa applications and refused us on empty grounds. They should shut up.

  • P.J 7 years ago

    Foreigners are ripping Ghana apart because the government don't respect the sovereignty of Ghana . Chinese are arming armed robbers, bringing in suspected and unhealthy food and meat to the country without the government say ...
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  • Kanawu 7 years ago

    Ghana is now the most corrupt nation in Africa

  • Prempeh 7 years ago

    With which ever visa, when one arrives at the USA border entry points, your finger prints are checked to determine you are the same person whose finger prints were taken at the USA embassy and in the USA database. The questi ...
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  • Gabby 7 years ago

    Was the fake embassy uploading the finger print scans of fake visa applicants into the USA border control database for all these 10 years? Come on guys, this story cannot be true. Politics as usual eh?

  • Kojo Nkansah 7 years ago

    I can imagine people are lambasting Ghanaians and the Turks for this fake embassy. If they issued genuine visas for then years, then they must have had insiders who had been activity involved in the process. The past consular ...
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  • Joe Navajo 7 years ago

    Na lie, lie - period

  • thelynq 7 years ago

    not true. FAKE!!!

  • Obuasi 7 years ago

    why not true? so u cant simply see that our systems are weaker? they are of no use any more.

  • OBINNA 7 years ago

    PEOPLE WORKING INSIDE THE EMBASSY KNEW OF THE EXISTENCE OF THIS 2ND EMBASSY AND PARTICIPATED IN THE PROFITS. THEY TOOK ADVANTAGE OF THE CORRUPTION CULTURE IN GHANA TO OPEN THEIR "BUSINESS" AND, OVER THE YEARS, HAVE MADE HANDS ...
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  • HONESTY 7 years ago

    The fake embassy was allegedly set up about a decade ago i.e. around 2006, when the NPP was in power and Akufo Addo was the Minister for Foreign Affairs. I am therefore not surprised because it was during that time that Akufo ...
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  • Hohoho, montreal 7 years ago

    All visas issused by the US embassy or consulate has numbers which has been entered into the Homeland Security data base. At any port of entry, the customs officer will enter the number ant it pull out your information. ...
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  • Emma 7 years ago

    Those who acusn NDC,10yrs how many years has prez Mahama n NDC bn in power.pls don't do useless politics.wat nonsens npp's re too foolish n useless gud for natyn.

  • Agbeli Kumordzi 7 years ago

    The answer is very simple both American and Canadian embassy employees in Accra Ghana are very corrupt