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Napo’s Chinese chair broken

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  • HONESTY 9 years ago

    This shows our MPs are overweight and need to be voted out to go and loose some weight. How can a chair that survived thousands of miles from China break so easily.

    I support local business 100 percent but this is not jus ...
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  • HONESTY 9 years ago

    Ghana will remain poor and backward because of these primitive half.

  • SETH 9 years ago

    BABY POLITICS; WHY DID,NT FOOL REFUSE TO SIT ON THE CHAIR AT THE FIRST PLACE?
    AFTER FORCING THE CHAIR TO DAMAGE ; YOU ARE BRING IT TO AIR

  • OLD SOLDIER 9 years ago

    Author:-Kofi Ata, Cambridge, UK...
    I agree with Justice Emile Short that the language used by GBA was inappropriate but at the same time, it is true that Afari Gyan's credibility was dented and the image of the Electoral Co ...
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  • CORNEY 9 years ago

    I think the authorities have to start checking cameras in the House if they have one,it seems some people including these MPs are deliberately breaking the chairs to score political points,arm rest of a chair cannot just brea ...
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  • DusTY-FooT-pHiloSophER 9 years ago

    Isn't it quite amazing that the complains are strangely coming over from the opposition in the house only? One should pay them a visit in their homes and I bet you me that 95 of their household appliances could spell China bo ...
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  • HONESTY 9 years ago

    NPP must change.

  • Humanity 9 years ago

    Africa will forever remain poor, if this is the type of BRAINS it has, you are indeed a half-wit.

  • Greatman, USA 9 years ago

    Ghana to develop?its sad to realize that mps dont know why they are at par'ment,

  • lone prophet of Jehovah 9 years ago

    LET THEM FIX THE ECONOMY WITH DEVELOPMENT STOP THESE BROKEN ARM CHAIRS MP'S

  • SGT ANANI FIADZOE 9 years ago

    It is intriguing that it is only NPP MPs whose chairs have problems. These fools should know we are fully aware they are intentionally damaging the chairs just to make a political point.

    NPP will not stop anything to score ...
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  • ' and Jesus wept ' 9 years ago

    You may be right this time.

  • Annorwuo 9 years ago

    Who has morphed into a cross-dresser,with painted finger nails, displaying the 'damaged' piece to the cameras,is it? We are very much aware of the silly 'political intrigues' some of these so-called 'honourables' are resortin ...
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  • The Trucker. 9 years ago

    Even chairs "made in China" have become a political weapon . I think it is very sad that the NPP have to resort to these cheap and desperate attacks in order to undermine a poorly performing NDC. NPP WILL HAVE TO DO BETTER ...
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  • Humanity 9 years ago

    Africa is backwards because of imbeciles like YOU...you believe chairs have been imported from china and if they survived the shipment journey, that is testament to its QUALITY...WOW...Forget your NDC/NPP NONSENSE and stop CH ...
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  • Yaw Selby 9 years ago

    Nawaao! Lets be serious, today it's complaining about cocain trafficker, tommorrw Chinese chairs, what next? We need UNIGOV to solve our political defferences. Oh! Ghana.

  • The mask 9 years ago

    Nowadays businesses and government organisations have stopped demanding Secondary School Certificate or Basic Education Certificate.

    Each of these certificates are important. For example for many tertiary graduates the on ...
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  • Abdul 9 years ago

    Perhaps we should be focusing on the broken economy not the broken chair

  • okofo 9 years ago

    The broken chair issue is part of the economic discourse, don't you get it?

    Importing CHEAP chairs from China when we could have opted for chairs made locally from Ghana's hardwood is NOT a sound economic decision, is it?
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  • Humanity 9 years ago

    The broken chair is all part of the broken economy...your political leaders (FORGET NDC/NPP NONSENSE) Import low quality chairs from china(renowned for fake, cheap, low quality goods)...probably pockets majority of the budget ...
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  • Kuntey 9 years ago

    Why is this country lacking quality leadership? We always here "purchase made in Ghana goods" but they themselves are not complying with what they said. We have competent furniture companies but look at this ....... God have ...
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  • SGT ANANI FIADZOE 9 years ago

    The way we vote we can never have a good leader.We vote mainly on ethnic lines. Worse still we don't care about the background of the one we are voting for: whether a thief, a rapist, drug addict or drug baron we don't mind a ...
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  • Gaba 9 years ago

    Blacks will forever be inferior to the rest of the races .Common chairs which i strongly believe can be made in kumasi is being given to Chinese for selfish gain .
    May God kill these leaders .

  • EZEKIEL 9 years ago

    Guys,watchout! These NPP- Talibans will SOON set Parliament on fire and blame it on the Inferior quality of Fire-Extinguishers FROM China !!!
    WE ARE ALL SEEING THROUGH YOUR DIABOLICAL TACTICS TO DISCREDIT Mahama!
    Walahi, y ...
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  • Greatman, USA 9 years ago

    we need to get rid of all these current mps. kill them all and set new ones.

  • Joe 9 years ago

    NPP MEMBERS ARE REALLY SHOWING THEIR TRUE COLOURS TO GHANAIANS. Even people who are supposed to be law abiding are breaking chairs in parliament for political off side goals.

  • Princess 9 years ago

    Headless trolls, it serve them right.

  • BBC NEWS!!!!!!!!!!! 9 years ago

    This not a political issue,we all knows that made in china goods for thirdworld countries don't last since the chinese companies knows these countries like cheap stuff and this exactly what the gov't did.Nonsense!!!

  • TIJANI 9 years ago

    this is absolutely irresponsible behavior and he must be made to pay for the damage caused. he broke the chair intentional because of the controversy surrounding the purchase of the chairs.

  • ama 9 years ago

    NPP npp, npp, grow up, parliamentarians behaving like children, because of their huge salaries he are fooling. Who bought the Chinese chair, and how come its only NPP members whose chairs are breaking. First it was a female n ...
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  • Cantankerous 9 years ago

    Seems to be a concerted effort to blacken and discredit everything Chinese these days. I wonder who is behind this.Western powers continue to be increasingly worried about the growing influence of China in Africa and elsewher ...
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  • Pwallace 9 years ago

    Please stop vandalizing these state property in the name of inferiority and subsequently blaming gov't just for cheap political gain. I don't put it past a desparate Napo who is hell bent to discredit gov't to see this as one ...
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  • FOOLISH NPPIANS. 9 years ago

    NPP WILL FIND AWAY TO DESTROY EVERY THING IN GHANA.FOOLISH IRRESPONSIBLE ADULTS.

  • Karbo Nangbeviel-Lawra 9 years ago

    Napo was against these chairs

  • Greatman, USA 9 years ago

    So can Ghana move forward in this tribal politics.

    Ghana MPS are not serious.

    Most of them claim to be Drs. its sad to vote for all these people who dont know why and why they are in leadership position.
    They plan evil ...
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  • Greatman, USA 9 years ago

    When will a new JJ ROWLINS be born to silence these negative people.They make Ghana dirty in the eyes of GOD.

  • Kwaku Ananse 9 years ago

    Woaa hwe

  • Tran_quil 9 years ago

    Who cares what happens to these greedy fools...NONSENSE!

  • nabia 9 years ago

    Napo this piblicity stunt will not get us anywhere.
    Why dont u stretch the joke to cover the bui dam and the national theatre.

  • Kwame 9 years ago

    It is most interesting that the majority of those who are shouting that furniture from China should not be used in parliament are people who import rice, sugar, chicken and other things from abroad. All these people never thi ...
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  • mahama Loot nd share 9 years ago

    TWAEEEEEE NKWASEAFUO NDC MAHAMA ARE ALL CORRUPT PERIOD FOOOOOOOOOOLS

  • HOMEY 9 years ago

    ELEPHANT GO BACK TO FOREST

  • korkuu 9 years ago

    Only npp members gettin broken chairs.

  • Obaa Yaa 9 years ago

    Thank God the two groups selected the chairs. Why couldn't two or three companies be contracted to make the chairs under a certificate of urgency.

  • YEBOAH 9 years ago

    NPP MPS, NDC MPS AND THE OTHERS ARE FOOLS. PERIOD....

  • Joe 9 years ago

    OH HO OPPOSITION NPP, YOU ARE DOING IT TOO MUCH. EVEN CHILDREN WILL ASK WEATHER IT IS YOUR CHAIRS ALONE THAT IS BEING BROKEN. IT MAKES SOME OF US SAY YOU ARE ALL JOKERS. THINK FAST.

  • mr no name 9 years ago

    since this chair were brought to the parliament house i have never heard any of the NDC chairs broken its always the NPP are the NDC chairs different from the NPP

  • Amoateng 9 years ago

    Mr.speaker let the overweight mps, go to gym and loose some weight. The lady that is holding a piece of broken furniture is so overweight that you can see from her fingers. Her fingers alone can brake all the chairs l tell yo ...
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  • Yaw Selby 9 years ago

    Why should parliament of all institutions by pass made in Ghana goods to buy Chinese chairs.?. The president was recently in the house to showcase his made in Ghana shoes and now this, who procures for parliament? They need t ...
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  • Sam M 9 years ago

    Incredible cost of one chair was 71000 dollars. Madness. Were they gold plated? In reality a swivel chair doesnt cost anything more than 55 dollars at the max.

  • NATIVE SON 9 years ago

    It s becoming clear by the day that each morning, people are going to pray for some bad thing to happen to these Chinese chairs so that they can sustain the cricism. My own dining hall table got broken on assembling. Who care ...
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  • OGOGLO QUARTER! !!! 9 years ago

    A LOOK AT THE FINGERS TELLS THE SEAT OCCUPANT IS REALLY OVER THE WEIGHT LIMIT FOR THE CHAIR,,,

  • Ugly Akufo Addo 9 years ago

    The nose is heavy

  • Lorgo Ligri 9 years ago

    Obesity has nothing to do with these braking down so-called new chairs. If my instincts with Chinese goods are correct, these chairs are used chairs that have been re-fabricated and shined to look new. That's the Chinese way ...
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  • Johnson 9 years ago

    Ghanaians should listening to them,and is only NPP MPs chairs are broken.

    God Is Watching,NPP.