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State CEOs milk Ghana dry... highest paid earns GHS89,000/month

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  • Concern citizen 7 years ago

    This is all coming into the public domain after the NDC lost power, if not these people will be legally stealing from us. And yet these NDC people claim there is no money to pay off this Energy debt. Our money is what they we ...
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  • APONKYE 7 years ago

    When we had Middle School leavers as ministers under Nkrumah things were going well. Now we have PhDs and Profs as ministers and what do we see: they use their knowledge for looting only!!!

    Though I don't subscribe to thei ...
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  • ST. GHFUO, BLACK EXCELLENCE! 7 years ago

    who are these state ceos accountable to? shareholders or the president? ceos alsways get paid but they have to be tasked with increasing share prices, paying dividends and making sure their institutions are profitable. to jus ...
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  • ST. GHFUO, BLACK EXCELLENCE! 7 years ago

    look at his innocent face. he will steal all the gifts and run away with the kids

  • Tamtam 7 years ago

    Milking Ghana dry and they call themselves social democrats to throw dust into the eyes of unsuspecting Ghanaians.

  • Sam Berlin 7 years ago

    I don't have problem with their salary. My concern is rather the free accommodation,water,electricity,fuel etc. After taking all this money,they still have almost everything for free. I just feel like crying when I read such ...
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  • Concern citizen 7 years ago

    Sam you should be concern about their salary, convert that into dollars, they were taking more than $10000, some as high as $20000, how much is a standard house in Ghana. My brother we should all be concern wai. At the end of ...
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  • Samson 7 years ago

    Sam you are absolutely right. The free things that go with the salaries are too much. In the U.K. They have a solution for these freebies. Tax them. In determining your tax code all the freebies are given allowances that incr ...
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  • ST. GHFUO, BLACK EXCELLENCE! 7 years ago

    wow...no wonder gh is alays broke. they would rather go and borrow from nations who demand that their ceos pay for rent, gas, water muahahahaaaa. why dont you gh leaders, president nana adoo tell these greedy bastard ceos to ...
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  • Prince Abibirim 7 years ago

    With these humongous salaries, should they not be producing gargantous profits for the nation. Because that is what determines what you should be paid. They are being compensated without merit or reason.

  • Aduna 7 years ago

    Published all state CEOs salaries including, ex Prez, Rawlings, Kuffour, Mills and JDM and what Prez akufo addo intend to pay. Hypocrisy

  • slyster 7 years ago

    You see people like you that are indirectly destroying the country. Instead of contributing to what's at stake you are condoning thievery. You are a big fool.

  • kass 7 years ago

    Awwwww country wrecker's in fact this so call CEO's re very wicked

  • KOJO 7 years ago

    CAN SOMEONE TELL ME WHO DETERMINES THESE LEVEL OF SALARIES AND ALLOWANCES.

  • omanba 7 years ago

    IS IT THEN A CRIME FOR POORLY PAID PUBLIC SERVANTS TO TAKE BRIBES TO MAKE ENDS MEET?MONKEY DEY WORK,BABOON DEY CHOP.THIS IS A CRIME AGAINST THE POORLY PAID WORKERS OF GHANA.So the colonial era privileges enjoyed by the whitem ...
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  • OMANBA 7 years ago

    Ghana is not a poor country.Only a few at the top are enjoying almost the entire wealth of the nation.Foreign countries should stop giving financial help to the nation.The ordinary struggling Ghanaian is not benefiting from o ...
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  • Victor A. Young 7 years ago

    Those people making these unfounded stories should try to be honest. I'm not a fan of Dr. Opuni, but the truth must always be told. He earned his status through education and hard work. The problem is that his appointment to ...
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  • skinnierbird 7 years ago

    What are you talking about?? Those companies you mentioned are private ones not Government controlled. The problem is the fact that, the get paid those fat salaries out of the country's safe box. If its MTN paying their CEO t ...
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  • ALIMI YAO 7 years ago

    .....And those private companies make huge profits annually to justify the very high salaries paid to their CEOs. That's why if the company's profit tanks, the CEOs lose their jobs. In the current Ghanaian cases, the huge sal ...
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  • GK 7 years ago

    Be very very careful!

  • K k b 7 years ago

    In fact u are an idiot we talking of people chopping our money and u are there vomiting this nonsense keep quite if u don't know what to say !!!!!

  • Barfour 7 years ago

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  • Colegrate 7 years ago

    Now i am convinced that the free SHS can come on board.Change is good,it reveals some of the unthinkable things we are hearing today.Don't get me wrong,if the economy was at its peak then nobody will be bothered about the ear ...
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  • PULPO 7 years ago

    THE UN, WORLD BANK, ETC, ARE LOOKING FOR GHANIANS WITH THOSE QUALITY TO EMPLOY SO THEY SHOLD BE PAID WELL FOR THEM NOT TO GO, NOW GOVNER BANK OF GHANA, IS GONE, HE MAYBE TAKEN MINIMUM OF 20,000$ A MONTH, HOW MUCH IS IT IN GH ...
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  • predator 7 years ago

    nonsense! there will be no v8, free fuel, free accommodation free garden boy, free gateman, free watchman in America or Europe

  • ObaaYaa 7 years ago

    I dont know what to say or write about what I just read on Ghanaweb. Is it true that some people are been paid such salaries in Ghana? Oh, mother Ghana why? why? People are dying in hospitals.

  • ObaaYaa 7 years ago

    For lack of hospital beds, no oxygen, nasty bathrooms, children under trees studying. Others enjoying free booties from poor Ghanaian farmers, tax payers etc. My heart is bleeding. Pls if found guilty, prosecute them.

  • Ebenezer 7 years ago

    I just converted 89000ghc to ghc old CEDI's n it is 890million, eeei mother Ghana, n we university graduates r struggling to even get a job. I am turning myself into armed robber n I am going to kill all politicians.

  • Kwame 7 years ago

    Why can we do this to ourselves? These people innovate nothing and are unproductive, yet, they milk our resources and children don't have incubators in our hospitals. Are we crazy?

  • TEAM B MEMBERS 7 years ago

    OH GOD HAVE MERCY UPON MERCY OPONG

  • fiife 7 years ago

    stealers leaders,Ghanains politicianz!!.

  • Attajko0o0o9o9o9o9oo0o 7 years ago

    Review all these salaries and cut them down.Those making loses should even be sacked and replaced. These so called CEOs are worse kleptomaniacs than the politicians. Educated thieves!!!

  • Michael K. Tettevi 7 years ago

    BOG governor = GhC 89,909. CEO of GRA GhC 88,102. SSNIT boss = GhC 76,606. Cocoa Board CEO = GhC 75,102. ADB Boss = GhC 68,707. NIB boss = GhC 65,000. BOS boss = GhC 62,000. TOR boss = GhC 56,000. GCB boss = GhC 55,000. EOCO ...
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  • The Poor Ghanaian 7 years ago

    Are our leaders aware of the abject poverty poor public and civil servants go through? There is no moral justification for this. No Wonder poverty ends peoples lives in so many form of which suicide is the order of the day. G ...
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  • Ah 7 years ago

    In fact never again, I say never again should Ghanaians allow ndc to rule this country. Even if possible, it should be disbanded becos of the wanton dissipation of our resources. How can CEOs of state-owned enterprises earn ...
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  • IQ ( Asiedu Nkate3) 7 years ago

    if what I just read is truly on records that indeed they received the said salary quoted above, then our leaders are just wicked, thief's and were heads without brains. we need to reduce those salaries drastically and also ...
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  • hhhhh 7 years ago

    Npp should come out with appropriate legislation to ensure that no public sector worker receive salary above the president. Period.

  • PATAPAA TRUMP 7 years ago

    Who is determined to setup salaries for government appointees CEO'S?

  • Forgive Attipoe 7 years ago

    My people,let us one day beat these stupid fools.oh my heart!!!!! Let's destroy all these fake leaders.They are greedy people let us kill them.oh I wish I can destroy all of them

  • kojo 7 years ago

    who prepares their salaries ?indeed Ghana is not a poor country but we are very poor because of mismanagement

  • Michael K. Tettevi 7 years ago

    God bless our homeland Ghana................

  • Forgive Attipoe 7 years ago

    My people,let us one day beat these stupid fools.oh my heart!!!!! Let's destroy all these fake leaders.They are greedy people let us kill them.oh I wish I can destroy all of them.Where is my MACHINE GUN!!!! Nkwasuafo) leaders ...
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  • esssto 7 years ago

    why shud dey enjoy free accommodation nd stuff whilst taking dat huge amount ..meanwhile there re other workers taking very little but enjoy none of those...All works re equally important. . .wat abt de lab.technologists,tea ...
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  • Yakubu Caleb 7 years ago

    Why were people crying about President Mahama house when other CEOs were bagging home 4X his salary and retiring home at bench? Ghanaian'were not fair to President Mahama

  • Ziggy 7 years ago

    Unbelievable, and ordinary citizens can't afford to pay fifty pesewas to use the community toilets and hence resort to OPEN DEFECATION. My question is are they comfortable receiving so much salaries while others live in extre ...
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  • abu 7 years ago

    why use opuni pic when he is not the highest paid big shame on ghanaweb

  • Vinss 7 years ago

    I WILL STAGE A COUP TO BRING SANITY TO GHANA ITS TRUTH I AM HURT TOO MUCH IN MY SPIRIT I WILL MY LIFE REDEEM GHANA THEY SIT AT CHURCH AND PASTORS HEAP PRAISES ON THEM I AM A TRUE PROPHET BUT IS A MATTER TIME

  • A concern citizen of Ghana 7 years ago

    Which we all know that it is the teacher that made them all CEOs. How much is the teacher annual take home? Not even 1/11 of their monthly.

  • FRANCIS, Brampton 7 years ago

    Ghanaians have to punish those stupid people, Opuni last stop is Nsawamu and God will ask them

  • Edward 7 years ago

    short memory is what is killing us because this is not new. Have u forgotten William ampem Darko of GBC fame?

  • BOY KOFI 7 years ago

    All these big men were appointed by the Presiden of the Republic of Ghana.Just we speak,Nana Addo is sacking all the heads of state institutions and entreprises to replace them with NPP members who are going to receive the sa ...
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  • Agya Amanfi Belgium 7 years ago

    We need a change in our constitution.One thing is that these institutions don't make profit and yet receives such;they should bound down in shame

  • AKWE 7 years ago

    GREEDY PEOPLE

  • Ugly akufo addo 7 years ago

    He was even a deputy Governor

  • jonas 7 years ago

    What are the salaries for GNAT, Nagrat, con. Trs, tewu and tuc ceos

  • predator 7 years ago

    where is smith graham and his single spine? single-spine is for some people whilst government appointees fix their own salaries. one so-called CEO salary can pay an average of 100 teachers or nurses. what insensitivity!

  • ASIRIFI (Dunkwa 7 years ago

    Dis is absolutely nonsense stupid

  • Richie 7 years ago

    Madness to all these salaries, That's why Ghana is broke. And doesn't pay electricity, water,etc. Ghanians are suffering in other countries coz of these greedy bastards.Are leaders from so call big Churches in the country

  • Ghana leaders are cowards 7 years ago

    Please can all these greedy guys get some check ups and their wages should be slashed totally, l think a lot is happening in GH which is nonsense

  • Loneranger 7 years ago

    None of them is among the world's richest.

  • Loneranger 7 years ago

    They think they are rich, yet very very poor.

  • Good citizen 7 years ago

    Nana please slash off 60% from it. In this dire state???

  • Prof. A.K.Appiah 7 years ago

    Are we that stupid? We go all over the developed world borrowing money for development and turn around and use it to pay obscene salaries on the back of our poor cocoa farmers who provide our country foreign earnings. No pers ...
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  • Srade3 7 years ago

    I am in a shock mode.

  • Eagle 7 years ago

    Oh God! Why?
    When I take my salary it does not even last for 3 days. I take below 500gh monthly meanwhile I have been working as civil servant for the past 7-8 years.
    I work at different levels in the office and the last ...
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