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'Rice importers sabotaging Mahama'

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  • 0243578657 9 years ago

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  • SARPONG 9 years ago

    This Twum Boafo is a complete idiot. What does he mean by theg secretly import more and they import high priced rice?

    This Twum Boafo can operate very well in North Korea where the people eat and wear what the government t ...
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  • DDKT 9 years ago

    Why pretend as if u don't know wat he is talking abt. he knows the npp gurus who are subotaging thru illegal nd illicit business.

  • ADJOA WANGARA 9 years ago

    The primitive Kojo Twum-Boafo is dressed just as primitive as he talks.

    "NKWASEAFUOR WO NDC MU PA PAA PA, EBEYI!!!"

  • DAN 9 years ago

    AMERICA RICE CAN BE PURCHASED FOR LESS THAN $1 PER POUND,,,CHINA DOLL AND mAHAMA BRAND ARE 70 CENTS PER POUND

  • GHFUO: nyantakyi, 1/9aa must go ASAP! 9 years ago

    VIGILANTE JUSTICE
    I SLEPT AND DREAMNT OF SMTHING LIKE THIS. I DREAMNT THAT I WAS IN GH AND HAD SET UP AN ELUSIVE COMPANY TARGETTING NON PERFORMING COACHES, GOVT MINISTERS, DCE ETC....
    IF PERSONS LIKE AA, MINSTERS, GOVT INDU ...
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  • Kweku 9 years ago

    What pointless allegation is this? They import more rice to thwart the president's initiative in what sense? If people buy, and that the importers don't loose their investments then naturally there is still identified gap. As ...
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  • Zero 9 years ago

    Good advice for Otabil and other money centred pastors

  • kpeglar 9 years ago

    fix the economy and stop blaming people. odiots

  • Afari 9 years ago

    I am surprised the law enforcement agencies in Ghana are still looking at a resident Ghanaian who claims to know about an economic sabotage and not picking him up for questioning to save our mother Ghana. Is there anybody in ...
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  • Kow Kyemeinu 9 years ago

    Please don't insult. Just make your point. A fine point you make of simple supply and demand(form one economics which often elude great Ghanaian minds.) so why mar the beauty of your argument with insults. By the way, when do ...
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  • Humanity 9 years ago

    Yes, this Twum-Boafo is ill-educated.
    The Gov't is in charge of the economy and as such has many tools at its DISPOSAL to INCENTIVISE growing/producing home-grown rice and LARGER Levies on IMPORTING RICE for instance. OHH GH ...
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  • Dodzi 9 years ago

    How much rice are we really producing?

  • Yaro de Mann 9 years ago

    ´Just listen to this guy.

  • Komla Agbeshie ( Ho ) 9 years ago

    Where from this idiot and stomach politician call Twim Boafo? If it is true why don't you mention their names ?Mahama himself knows he is incompetent,indecisive,blind and..., Why can't Twim Boafo tell us the truth? God Bless ...
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  • DAN 9 years ago

    ONLY FOOLS AND IDIOT AND ROBBERS VOTE ndc (NIGGER DEMOLITION CREW)

  • Kwamina 9 years ago

    That is fact. Where they see the opportunity to make a profit they would go for it! Dont blame them. Blame your bad policies!

  • kofi atta mills 9 years ago

    Why even say it even you dont have the balls to disclose the identity of the perpetrators? That is a disservice to Mahama.

  • BOY KOFI 9 years ago

    Many importers have stopped doing business because if you convert the weak cedis into foreign currency it makes it very difficult to sell.I wish
    Mr Twum-Boafo himself will change cedis into foreign money,goes to Tailand or w ...
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  • HASSAN YAAYIMA _ Jasikan 9 years ago

    U better stop dis propaganda things ns lets all help your unfortunate Mahams to fix the economy.
    NDC neva take advice nd dats wher ur problem lies.
    Stop dis stupid blame game nd get something doing sir !

  • Roger 9 years ago

    If you know the names of those corrupt traders that import rice into the country and you proud to sit down and say you know them but you won't call their names then what good does that makes to you , are you part of them ...
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  • ROYAL SIKAMAN 9 years ago

    Boafo, are you living in another planet? Don't try to be an Education Fool. How many promise had your John Mahama did without any result. Promising of GYEEDA, SUBA, SAGA, WAYOME and now YES what achievement have you seen? Tal ...
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  • KK 9 years ago

    They did these same things to make Nkrumah unpopular, and later connived with the British and America to overthrow him. We know them traitors!!!!!

  • Emmanuel 9 years ago

    Ha, I don't believe this stupid who insult his mother in law in public still talking nonses importers and government who have capacity to sabotage if the rice importers have that much power to sabotage your government that me ...
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  • CATALYSTIC CATALYST 9 years ago

    THIS IS CHILDISH AND HE MUST BE FIRED. I EXPECTED A STATEMENT WARNING THEM BE WELL BEHAVED IN THEIR OPEARTIONS AND TO BE AWARE THAT ANY ATTEMPT TO UNDERMIND THE GOVT WOULD BE MET WITH OTHER INCONSIDERATE MEASURES. JDM MUST FI ...
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  • Kwame VS. Kofi 9 years ago

    will import cheap rice. Mahama is a failed president! How can Ghana export rice, if even Ghanaians don`t buy ghanaian rice? The inflation lead to high import costs for importers. Mahama is not doing his job - and that`s the c ...
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  • Ringo 9 years ago

    Did this guy ever go to school?

  • Terry 9 years ago

    Why will a business person import something into the country when the cost price will be more than the sale price and making a loss. ?

    It simply does not make sense. These fools should come out with answers to the problems ...
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  • JAKEY 9 years ago

    My friend, In fact the people Ghana did not vote for the NDC party to tell us of people secretly importing rice into the country which you know of but voted for you to solve illegal importation problem. Why complaining.

  • TEE 9 years ago

    PERIOD

  • TEE 9 years ago

    UNDER THIS USELESS NDC ADMIINSRTATION PERIOD

  • Special T 9 years ago

    Whatever you say, say nothing. Why come out with such excuse? People like you are letting Mahama down. Call in the law enforcement agencies. The BNI, SFO and to lesser extend good old Police Force

  • KWAME-BELGIUM 9 years ago

    Sabotaging Mahama or Ghana in general?

  • KK 9 years ago

    They have always been traitors my brother. They never wanted independence, but now seek to rule Ghana as their birth right.

  • Naadu 9 years ago

    Let Twum Boafo import rice into the country and he will acknowledged that business men are losing capital. This is stomach politics. The message is for children and empty heads who can't reason for themselves. Is the Twum Boa ...
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  • CATALYSTIC CATALYST 9 years ago

    THE GOVT HAS MANY TOOLS TO DEAL WITH TRADERS AND RICE DEALERS THAN THEY CAN DO. ARE THEY NOT USING SPECIAL UNNUMBERED LIENSENCE (SUL) ISSUED BY THE BANK OF GHANA? SUCH THAT WHAT IS BROUGHT IN SHOULD TALLY WITH THE NATIONAL DE ...
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  • DAN 9 years ago

    LIKE ADM,HERSHEY,NESTLE OR NEWMONT...TO FORCE GOV TO DO ANYTHING

  • Francis 9 years ago

    Listen to another fool. Which country in the world is self sufficient on imported rice, be it cheap or expensive? What prevents these fools from importing cheap rice if the saboteurs are importing expensive rice? Does this re ...
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  • Kofi 9 years ago

    Everybody seems to be "sabotaging" Mahama including NDC traders. What is the hell is Mahama doing in the Flagstaffhouse then? Twum Boafo, I guess all rice importers must be NPP members.

  • Hard Listeners 9 years ago

    See the Konongo Kayas now. Blaming and making excuses for everything that they cannot solve. Sheer Incompetence, period.

  • Hugo 9 years ago

    If the Asian countries whose only staple food is RICE , discover how to eat GARI, they'll find a way to produce & stain their own.
    RICE is not white man's food so Ghanaians should stop copying. Eat your own home grow n food ...
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  • Kofi - USA 9 years ago

    WHAT IS THE PREZ VISION? TWUM BOAFO, ACTIONS SPEAK LOUDER THAN WORDS. ALWAYS MAKING PROCLAMATIONS WITH NO ACTIONS. LOCAL RICE PRODUCTION CAN NOT FEED THE POPULATION AND THE GOVT IS NOT HELPING THE FARMERS TO MAXIMIZE THEIR YI ...
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  • Consider 9 years ago

    Is every government official in Mahama's administration now acts as propagandist. If this statement truly came from the CEO of Ghana Free Zones Board, then Ghana is in serious crisis. I find it hard to believe how a business ...
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  • Dilly Circus 9 years ago

    If you know them, that they are sabotaging you, your govt. and your country and all you do is complain, then shut up because you are a coward. That is what is wrong with this inept NDC govt. They claim to know all that is cau ...
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  • Dramani 9 years ago

    why so many useless people in top government offices in ghana or is the educational system in ghana producing empty headed graduates

  • KWASI IN EUROPE 9 years ago

    Was is not this same NDC which printed large signposts with the inscription 'GHANA RICE', saying they will produce enough rice to feed Ghanaians? Where is that Ghana rice? Fools.

  • Mary E 9 years ago

    is that an official? he should explain himself well.
    How can they connive? he should mention names. is it not an exchange rate problem and is it not the case that we should produce more through the right incentives?

  • Efo Kobla 9 years ago

    Do you think when they import less the price of rice will come done? By not mentioning names, you are in league with them.

  • DENTE 9 years ago

    THE PROBLEM CAN BE SOLVED IF WE ARE ABLE TO PRODUCE CHEAP LOCAL RICE ENOUGH TO MEET DEMAND, THEN PEOPLE WILL NOT BUY THE HIGH-PRICED IMPORTED RICE

  • Patroitic Lash 9 years ago

    Twum Boafo are you saying that Ghanaians are prone to buy rice only if the price is high.if the locally produced rice is cheaper and available who will buy the imported high priced rice.i perceive the government has no respec ...
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  • Rogue Ray 9 years ago

    If you import more, demand will exceed supply and price will go down. So what is this confused Boafo talking about?

  • KWAME SAM 9 years ago

    NO ANOTHER IDIOT WHO COME TO OFFICE WITH PISTOL AND HE IS LEFT TO GO FREE.
    OH GHANA!!

  • bibi 9 years ago

    This must be a joke!!!If that is the case, what is Kojo Twum Boafo doing in his capacity as a Government official with the whole government machinery behind him?

  • NANA JK 9 years ago

    I DON'T BELIEVE YOUR STORY.
    IF YOU REALLY KNOW THE PEOPLE SABOTAGING THE GOVERNMENT EFFORTS PLEASE EXPOSE THEM, MENTION THEIR NAMES. IF YOU CANNOT DO THAT THEN KOJO YOU ARE LYING
    THIS IS A SERIOUS NATIONAL SECURITY PROBLEM. ...
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  • kwame peter 9 years ago

    Twum BOAFO is aiding and abetting with criminals if he does not want to expose them! Is he in bed with the criminals? Twum BOAFO please come clean!

  • mumuni musa 9 years ago

    it's true,but i think the gov't have allowed itself to be sabotage b/c u have the power to deal with them squarely.but u are not doing so,why.

  • Amlima 9 years ago

    Why are u the ruling govt? U sitting down & persons are doing their own things.Are u weeping,too? U can order the dollar shd be exchange @ a particular rate & make sure have some foreign currencies to shore up the Cedi.Don't ...
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  • Lord Tennison 9 years ago

    How hollow the argument.Everything imported into Ghana passes through the seaports and the land borders.So the government can institute measures to control them.It is a case of failed import policy.
    John Mahama loves the imp ...
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  • Otsibu Darko 9 years ago

    The GG should by law tell the business men what kind of rice to import so that the ordinary could buy the rice at reasonable price, it doesn't mean also that they should buy inferior rice and any doing contrary to the law sho ...
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  • KWASI KUNE 9 years ago

    THIS GUY TWUM BOAFO HAS BEEN A BIG IDIOT FROM DAY ONE OF HIS APPOINTMENT. HE KNOW THE IMPORTERS< BUT WILL NOT MENTION THEIR NAMES! WHAT CHILDISH TALK ISDAT! ARE THOSE IMPORTERS BIGGER THAN YOUR WEAK GOVERNMENT, OR IS THE IMPO ...
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  • asonaba kofi 9 years ago

    am fed up with these politicians who come up with damning allegations and go on to say they wont mention names or they wont produce the evidence.so these people should go on sabotaging Ghana`s efforts for progress.to me they ...
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