WHAT APPRECIATION?? AFTER EXPLOITING US WITH YOUR TOTAL CONTROL OVER CEMENT MARKET IN GHANA? GHACEM IS MAFIOSI. HYPOCRITES
WHAT APPRECIATION?? AFTER EXPLOITING US WITH YOUR TOTAL CONTROL OVER CEMENT MARKET IN GHANA? GHACEM IS MAFIOSI. HYPOCRITES
Nana USA 11 years ago
we are ghanains and the price of a bag of cement shd come down for people to be able to build a well hardened buildings to avoid what happened at melcom. the price is too high.
we are ghanains and the price of a bag of cement shd come down for people to be able to build a well hardened buildings to avoid what happened at melcom. the price is too high.
Antoinette 11 years ago
They bribe our leaders who assist them in duping the poor consumer. Allow more cement companies in. why has the Ghana government refused to allow other companies like LaFarge in? Our leaders don't have Ghana at heart. its all ... read full comment
They bribe our leaders who assist them in duping the poor consumer. Allow more cement companies in. why has the Ghana government refused to allow other companies like LaFarge in? Our leaders don't have Ghana at heart. its all about lining their pockets shame on them and Ghancem
I TOLD U SO 11 years ago
SLAVE TRADE REDSIGNED. THEY ARE SEELING US CHEAP!!
SLAVE TRADE REDSIGNED. THEY ARE SEELING US CHEAP!!
gh 9 years ago
A 20-year-old unemployed, Baffour Awuah, has been sentenced to 45 years in prison with hard labour by a Kumasi Circuit Court for robbing a man of his mobile phone worth GH¢40 and GH¢70 cash.
I was outraged, despite knowi ... read full comment
A 20-year-old unemployed, Baffour Awuah, has been sentenced to 45 years in prison with hard labour by a Kumasi Circuit Court for robbing a man of his mobile phone worth GH¢40 and GH¢70 cash.
I was outraged, despite knowing about this increasing social nuisance, when I read that a circuit judge in Kumasi had sentenced someone to forty-five years imprisonment for stealing the mobile phone of another person. The story read: QUOTE ‘An ex-convict, Baffour Awuah has been sent back to prison by a Kumasi Circuit Court to serve a 45-year jail term in (sic) hard labour for robbery’.
Mr Duodu, on the case of the guy who was sent to jail for 45 years, he did not steal a mobile phone but he robbed the victim of a mobile phone and seventy cedis .
There is a difference between STEALING and ROBBERY. When somebody is not looking and you take their wallet or a purse, that is STEALING, on the other hand when you use a weapon like a gun or knife to threaten somebody to hand over their property or you will kill or harm them, that is ROBBERY and at that point, it doesn't matter whether it is one cedi or million cedis, the crime has become a more serious one called ARMED ROBBERY and the punishment for armed robbery can range from 15 years to life imprisonment depending on the history of the person who has committed the crime.
You referred to this Baffour as an ex-convict, that means he is a habitual criminal and I have no sympathy for him. He was lucky he was not beaten to death. A lot of people have been killed for pick pocketing.
What is strange to me is that, all these people complaining about this the judge haven sent this young man to 45 years in prison would not have complained if he had received mob justice in Ghana by way of lynching.
gh 9 years ago
"A 20-year-old unemployed, Baffour Awuah, has been sentenced to 45 years in prison with hard labour by a Kumasi Circuit Court for robbing a man of his mobile phone worth GH¢40 and GH¢70 cash."
Mr. Sam Duodu on his news c ... read full comment
"A 20-year-old unemployed, Baffour Awuah, has been sentenced to 45 years in prison with hard labour by a Kumasi Circuit Court for robbing a man of his mobile phone worth GH¢40 and GH¢70 cash."
Mr. Sam Duodu on his news comment; "Good news from Ghana! on May 3, wrote,
"I was outraged, despite knowing about this increasing social nuisance, when I read that a circuit judge in Kumasi had sentenced someone to forty-five years imprisonment for stealing the mobile phone of another person. The story read: QUOTE ‘An ex-convict, Baffour Awuah has been sent back to prison by a Kumasi Circuit Court to serve a 45-year jail term in (sic) hard labour for robbery’."
Mr Duodu, on the case of the guy who was sent to jail for 45 years, he did not steal a mobile phone but he robbed the victim of a mobile phone and seventy cedis .
There is a difference between STEALING and ROBBERY. When somebody is not looking and you take their wallet or a purse, that is STEALING, on the other hand when you use a weapon like a gun or knife to threaten somebody to hand over their property or you will kill or harm them, that is ROBBERY and at that point, it doesn't matter whether it is one cedi or million cedis, the crime has become a more serious one called ARMED ROBBERY and the punishment for armed robbery can range from 15 years to life imprisonment depending on the history of the person who has committed the crime.
You referred to this Baffour as an ex-convict, that means he is a habitual criminal and I have no sympathy for him. He was lucky he was not beaten to death. A lot of people have been killed for pick pocketing.
What is strange to me is that, all these people complaining about this judge haven sent this young man to 45 years in prison would not have complained if he had received mob justice in Ghana by way of lynching. My wish is that, lawyers in this forum like Dr. SAS and others will sometimes have time to explain to laymen of the law in this forum what mitigating circumstances compel Judges in these situations to impose such sentences.
In the case of the 28 year old cassava thief sent to prison for ten years, I don't see why people were so outrage. It is not like a hungry man stealing two or three tubers of cassava to eat but stealing five hundred(500) cedis worth of cassava to sell deserve that sentence since this man has been to prison before.
In our villages with poor farmers, five hundred cedis worth of cassava might be what this poor farmer might earn for the whole year for his labour and it is justice to me for the Judge to impose such a sentence as a deterrent to other would be cassava thieves.
A twenty year old armed robber is more dangerous than a middle aged man in their nocturnal armed robbery expeditions and this Awuah Baffour would not hesitate to pot a bullet in your head when he confronts you at night in your house and demand from you to hand your valuables.
The same Ghanaians condemning these Judges, I will repeat here will be the same people who would have applauded a mob if they have killed these criminals.
I am sometimes baffled by the behavior of our citizens. They get outrage about issues they should not be outraged about and lack of outrageousness when you expect it. Why are people not outrage about these SADA thieves who have been caught and are returning millions of cedis they stole but will not face any prosecution for stealing? Agambire and other SADA Officials have been asked to return the money they stole in exchange for promise not to send them to prison and that is ridiculous and people should be outrage and demand from this government to prosecute and send them to prison instead of getting bent out of shape about Judges who are just interpreting the law laid down by our legislature.
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'Cashgate' - Malawi's murky tale of shooting and corruption
It is the biggest financial scandal in Malawi's history. Known as "cashgate", it has affected the country's relations with donors and caused outrage among Malawia ... read full comment
'Cashgate' - Malawi's murky tale of shooting and corruption
It is the biggest financial scandal in Malawi's history. Known as "cashgate", it has affected the country's relations with donors and caused outrage among Malawians. And with elections in May this year, the scandal could cost President Joyce Banda and her People's Party votes, writes the BBC's Chakuchanya Harawa. At the centre of the scandal is a computer-based financial information storage system. Some government officials have allegedly been exploiting a loophole in the system to divert millions from government coffers.It is estimated that up to $250m (£150m) may have been lost through alleged fraudulent payments to businessmen for services that were not done.
People have to be afraid of government money”
Bruno Kalemba Director of Public Prosecutions, according to a report in the local media, an audit by managers of the financial system has established that records of some transactions carried out between July and September 2013 were deleted. Allegations of the massive looting of government money became public following the shooting of the finance ministry's then budget director Paul Mphwiyo in September 2013.Just days before, a junior civil servant was allegedly found with bales of cash totalling more than $300,000 in the boot of his car. More cash was confiscated from some civil servants' homes and car boots. 'Crisis of confidence' The country's main donors were infuriated. They have withheld $150m pending further investigation into the scandal. Malawi is one of the world's poorest countries and is reliant on donor funding. Up to 40% of Malawi's annual budget is donor-funded. The EU ambassador to Malawi, Alexander Baum, told the BBC: "It is a crisis of confidence, and unless there is transparency and everybody has the feeling and trust that the crisis has been addressed with full determination, confidence will not return." But it is not all doom and gloom for the government.
The IMF, which had been withholding funding for the same reason, has just decided to give nearly $20m to the country. A government preliminary report looking into the alleged fraud, carried in conjunction with British experts, has now been completed although it has not been made public. Police have since impounded vehicles, houses, apartments and office buildings belonging to those suspected of involvement with "cashgate". The Director of Public Prosecutions, Bruno Kalemba, told the BBC: "People have to be afraid of government money. In a country like ours, the needs are enormous and to imagine that just a few people were able to get their hands on this much money is quite discomforting and unpatriotic." With the start of the trial this week of two of the 70 people charged so far, many will be hoping that more revelations will come into the open. But while the legal battles are being fought in the courts, on the political front cashgate could become a major issue in the forthcoming elections.
'Scandalous'
It is already dominating campaign rhetoric. The opposition has criticised the government's handling of the scandal, portraying the current administration as corrupt. Many Malawians have been shocked by the allegations. President Banda argues that she initiated appropriate steps, including investigating, apprehending and prosecuting suspects as soon as she became aware of the allegations. Some have linked the scandal to the president, saying her party was trying to raise funds for the May election campaign. Her office described the allegations as "scandalous and baseless". Some of the top names facing charges were until recently senior officials of the ruling party. Sacked Justice Minister Ralph Kasambala, who has been charged with the attempted murder of the former budget director, has told a magistrate he wants President Banda, her sister and two other senior officials to be his witnesses when his trial starts. Another former ruling party executive committee member and businessman has been charged with theft and money-laundering. It is alleged that his company pocketed $6.5m for services not rendered. Both deny the charges. The financial management system was adopted in 2005 by the late Bingu wa Mutharika administration.
President Banda has suggested that the looting may have started as far back as 2010 following a directive by the former president that banks should honour all government cheques without asking questions.Ms Banda became president in 2012 following the sudden death of Mr Mutharika; she had been vice-president although she had been fired from the then ruling party and had formed her own party. For the moment, the political effects of the trial are not not clear - the scandal could well hurt both Ms Banda's People's Party and Mr Mutharika's Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), possibly allowing another party to gain ground.
CARDINAL 9 years ago
Why is the Engineers and Planners(E&P) company jet in trust at the Utah Bank in USA? That should be a question that needs to be pursued to find out the reason behind this arrangement. We know now that the Plane belongs to E ... read full comment
Why is the Engineers and Planners(E&P) company jet in trust at the Utah Bank in USA? That should be a question that needs to be pursued to find out the reason behind this arrangement. We know now that the Plane belongs to Engineers and Planners(E&P)
“Engineers and planners had issued a statement in which they clarified the issues. They state without fear of equivocation that the President has never travelled on the Engineers and Planners jet. Secondly Government has not sent any delegation that has travelled in that jet to Iran and I believe that should end the matter.”
Oh not so fast, Ofosu Kwakye. Can the Deputy Minister of "Misinformation" tell us why this plane seems to be everywhere the Presidents travels to? This plane was seen in Iran, Davos, Switzerland, London, England and other places where the President of Ghana was at the same time.
In order for the Mahama family to pursue its frivol lifestyle, this plane was bought by Mahama family to do what it is doing now, to transport government officials and businessmen who will accompany the President and other government officials and charge them exorbitant fares for the flights which is putting more money in the pockets of the Mahama family. I hope Ibrahim Mahama is not cuittling his brother to give him this transportation contract for some underhand deals they have done earlier. It seems like Ibrahim Mahama holds a passé-partout that enables him to walk through the vaults holding Ghanaian assets and these free educated Mahama brothers banking on the alphabetic Ghanaian populace seems to be getting away with 'murder'.
In USA, usually the President and government Officials put their business interest in trusts to avoid conflict of interest like this whereby the President's brother is reaping financial benefits from his proximity to power. This is why Ibrahim Mahama is trying to hide his interest in this plane. You put your plane in trust and it is the only plane transporting government officials and businessmen who accompany the President in his foreign travels, very strange if not bribery and corruption. Mahama is not a government official so why is he doing business with the government with asset in trust if he is not trying to hide something? This is because Ghanaian taxpayers are being fleeced by high transportation charges.
I don't know how long Ghanaians will be able to tolerate this scandal embroiled administration averaging one scandal per week on average.
CARDINAL 9 years ago
Ghanaian citizens are calling on government to clarify the obvious contradiction between an official statement issued by the Iranian government Friday that the plane carried Ghana government officials to Tehran for official m ... read full comment
Ghanaian citizens are calling on government to clarify the obvious contradiction between an official statement issued by the Iranian government Friday that the plane carried Ghana government officials to Tehran for official meetings with the government of Iran and a statement subsequently issued by the company of President Mahama’s brother that the plane only carried a group of business people from Ghana.
The attention of the world, this weekend, was drawn to a corporate jet, owned by Ibrahim Mahama’s mining firm, Engeneers & Planners, and held in trust by a small US community bank, the Bank of Utah, The plane came to the attention of the CIA because a US-registered airline had no business being in Iran, which is facing sanctions.
According to the New York Times, Iran’s Foreign Ministry, bombarded with questions over why an American plane was parked at the airport, said on Friday that the plane had been used to transport top Ghanaian officials as part of a broader push to expand cooperation between the two countries.
gh 9 years ago
Author:
JOE
Date:
2014-04-27 16:43:03
Comment to:
PULLING OF KNIFE SEALED HIS FATE
I don't care if he pulled an AK 47 the face remains that his sentence was way too harsh
Author:
JOE
Date:
2014-04-27 16:43:03
Comment to:
PULLING OF KNIFE SEALED HIS FATE
I don't care if he pulled an AK 47 the face remains that his sentence was way too harsh
gh 9 years ago
ARTICLE
"A 20-year-old unemployed, Baffour Awuah, has been sentenced to 45 years in prison with hard labour by a Kumasi Circuit Court for robbing a man of his mobile phone worth GH¢40 and GH¢70 cash."
Mr. Sam Duodu ... read full comment
ARTICLE
"A 20-year-old unemployed, Baffour Awuah, has been sentenced to 45 years in prison with hard labour by a Kumasi Circuit Court for robbing a man of his mobile phone worth GH¢40 and GH¢70 cash."
Mr. Sam Duodu on his news comment; "Good news from Ghana! on May 3, wrote,
"I was outraged, despite knowing about this increasing social nuisance, when I read that a circuit judge in Kumasi had sentenced someone to forty-five years imprisonment for stealing the mobile phone of another person. The story read: QUOTE ‘An ex-convict, Baffour Awuah has been sent back to prison by a Kumasi Circuit Court to serve a 45-year jail term in (sic) hard labour for robbery’."
Mr Duodu, on the case of the guy who was sent to jail for 45 years, he did not steal a mobile phone but he robbed the victim of a mobile phone and seventy cedis .
There is a difference between STEALING and ROBBERY. When somebody is not looking and you take their wallet or a purse, that is STEALING, on the other hand when you use a weapon like a gun or knife to threaten somebody to hand over their property or you will kill or harm them, that is ROBBERY and at that point, it doesn't matter whether it is one cedi or million cedis, the crime has become a more serious one called ARMED ROBBERY and the punishment for armed robbery can range from 15 years to life imprisonment depending on the history of the person who has committed the crime.
You referred to this Baffour as an ex-convict, that means he is a habitual criminal and I have no sympathy for him. He was lucky he was not beaten to death. A lot of people have been killed for pick pocketing.
What is strange to me is that, all these people complaining about this judge haven sent this young man to 45 years in prison would not have complained if he had received mob justice in Ghana by way of lynching. My wish is that, lawyers in this forum like Dr. SAS and others will sometimes have time to explain to laymen of the law in this forum what mitigating circumstances compel Judges in these situations to impose such sentences. Another forumer on April 27th responded to me when I wrote that the guy did not just steal a phone but committed an armed robbery with knife said,
Author: JOE
Date:
2014-04-27 16:43:03
Comment to:
PULLING OF KNIFE SEALED HIS FATE
I don't care if he pulled an AK 47 the face remains that his sentence was way too harsh."
I hope this guy will maintain the same attitude when he goes through a night of horror with these armed robbers after his wife and daughters get raped by armed robbers.
Another case that received a lot of ink time was the cassava thief.
"Yaw Nkrumah, 28, Akokoaso based farmer in the Akyemansa District, has appeared in court for stealing cassava valued GHc500 belonging to a colleague farmer.Nkrumah pleaded guilty to stealing and the presiding judge of the circuit court at Akim Swedru, Mr Yaw Atta Sampong, sentenced him to 10 years imprisonment in hard labour."
In the case of the 28 year old cassava thief sent to prison for ten years, I don't see why people were so outraged. It is not like a hungry man stealing two or three tubers of cassava to eat but stealing five hundred(500) cedis worth of cassava to sell deserve that sentence since this man has been to prison before.In our villages with poor farmers, five hundred cedis worth of cassava might be what this poor farmer might earn for the whole year for his labour and it is justice to me for the Judge to impose such a sentence as a deterrent to other would be cassava thieves.
A twenty year old armed robber is more dangerous than a middle aged man in their nocturnal armed robbery expeditions and this Awuah Baffour axiomatically would not hesitate to pot a bullet in your head when he confronts you at night in your house and demand from you to hand your valuables.The same Ghanaians condemning these Judges, I will repeat here will be the same people who would have applauded a mob if they have killed these criminals by way of lynching.
I am sometimes baffled by the behavior of our citizens. They get outraged about issues they should not be outraged about and lack of outrageousness when you expect it. Why are people not outrage about these SADA thieves who have been caught and are returning millions of cedis they stole but will not face any prosecution for stealing? Agambire and other SADA Officials have been asked to return the money they stole in exchange for promise not to send them to prison and that is ridiculous and people should be outrage and demand from this government to prosecute and send them to prison instead of getting bent out of shape about Judges who are just interpreting the law as laid down by our legislature.
If these pen thieves can get a slap on the hand to return what they have stolen without any punishment, can we do the same to purse and phone snatchers to return their booty when caught without any prison sentence and this is where the voters come in.
The Elite, educated and people with political connections are the ones getting away with 'murder' because they have the Parliamentarians who make laws in their pockets and these same Parliamentarians make the laws that will favour them in future and that is why punishment for what they call 'white color' crimes that these politicians and the elite in society commits have sweetheart punishments. Ghanaians should watch who they vote for and demand equal justice or the poor will continue to get the short end of the stick.
Voters and citizens should be outraged with those that make the laws and determine punishment for them(PARLIAMENTARIANS) and leave the Judges who are just there to interpret the law and implement what is stipulated. The Judges in most cases have their hands tied because they don't have the power to give light sentences even if they want.
WHAT APPRECIATION?? AFTER EXPLOITING US WITH YOUR TOTAL CONTROL OVER CEMENT MARKET IN GHANA? GHACEM IS MAFIOSI. HYPOCRITES
we are ghanains and the price of a bag of cement shd come down for people to be able to build a well hardened buildings to avoid what happened at melcom. the price is too high.
They bribe our leaders who assist them in duping the poor consumer. Allow more cement companies in. why has the Ghana government refused to allow other companies like LaFarge in? Our leaders don't have Ghana at heart. its all ...
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SLAVE TRADE REDSIGNED. THEY ARE SEELING US CHEAP!!
A 20-year-old unemployed, Baffour Awuah, has been sentenced to 45 years in prison with hard labour by a Kumasi Circuit Court for robbing a man of his mobile phone worth GH¢40 and GH¢70 cash.
I was outraged, despite knowi ...
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"A 20-year-old unemployed, Baffour Awuah, has been sentenced to 45 years in prison with hard labour by a Kumasi Circuit Court for robbing a man of his mobile phone worth GH¢40 and GH¢70 cash."
Mr. Sam Duodu on his news c ...
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'Cashgate' - Malawi's murky tale of shooting and corruption
It is the biggest financial scandal in Malawi's history. Known as "cashgate", it has affected the country's relations with donors and caused outrage among Malawia ...
read full comment
Why is the Engineers and Planners(E&P) company jet in trust at the Utah Bank in USA? That should be a question that needs to be pursued to find out the reason behind this arrangement. We know now that the Plane belongs to E ...
read full comment
Ghanaian citizens are calling on government to clarify the obvious contradiction between an official statement issued by the Iranian government Friday that the plane carried Ghana government officials to Tehran for official m ...
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Author:
JOE
Date:
2014-04-27 16:43:03
Comment to:
PULLING OF KNIFE SEALED HIS FATE
I don't care if he pulled an AK 47 the face remains that his sentence was way too harsh
ARTICLE
"A 20-year-old unemployed, Baffour Awuah, has been sentenced to 45 years in prison with hard labour by a Kumasi Circuit Court for robbing a man of his mobile phone worth GH¢40 and GH¢70 cash."
Mr. Sam Duodu ...
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