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Akufo-Addo: IMF bailout sign of govt’s “failure”

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  • ARAB SPRINGS 9 years ago

    WHAT ACHIEVEMENT CAN YOU BOAST OF APART FROM YOUR ALL DIE BE DIE MANTRA. ALWAYS CRITIZING, EVEN IF WIND BLOW IN GHANA...IT'S ALWAYS SOMEONE'S FAULTS FOR YOU TO ACHIEVE YOUR LONG TERM GOAL AS PREZ

  • BEDIAKO 9 years ago

    OH GOD HELP NANA AKUFO EBOLA ADDO THE IS ALMOST DEAD. YOUR FRIEND CHAPPY IS PUNISHING YOU FOR FUCKING HIS WIVES NOT ONLY ONE BUT BOTH

  • Osei Bonsu 9 years ago

    EVEN THE POOR IN GHANA CAN TELL YOU THAT YOU ARE FINISHED.
    OBAMA SAID THIS RECENTLY TO YOU IN WASHINGTON DC IN YOUR FACE AND YOU DID NOT UNDERSTAND.

  • kill me 9 years ago

    Oh this man look sick he is not health, oh my poor Nana , he look tired in the brain.

  • PRINCE KWASI ADADE (OFIE) 9 years ago

    AUTHOR: MR. FIGURE OUT----------
    It is only in Ghana would such a dishonorably idiot be on the government pay roll. Professor Mill should be solely blamed for imposing those criminals on us. After Mills found Betty Moulds gu ...
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  • Ali 9 years ago

    Can someone please tell me what HIPIC/HIPC means

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  • walid 9 years ago

    NANA HAVE MORE SUPPORT TODAY THEN THE CLUELESS FAILURE MAHAMA THAT IS DESTROYING GHANA AND CUSING PAIN AND MISUREY TO ALL GHANA PEOPLE TODAY.
    STOP THE LIES AND DENIAL GHANA NEED NANA NOW OR SOON WE ALL GOING TO STARVE TO DEA ...
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  • moyo 9 years ago

    Nana Addo is surely not looking well and if he wants to build the NPP, he should encourage a younger person to take over the leadership. He can never win an election with this looks.

  • SGT ANANI FIADZOE 9 years ago

    Is this Nana Addo's picture we are seeing? It is clear his soul has already departed. I remember when the late Prof was looking like this NDC was busy denying. They even forced the good old prof to jog on the tarmac to prove ...
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  • SGT ANAI FIADZOE 9 years ago

    Because you NDC criminals helped such a hopeless and senseless Mahama to murdered Atta Mills, do you think you criminals can kill Nana Akuffo Addo?

    The answer is simple, check it out.

    It is because of you monkey thieves ...
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  • SGT ANAI FIADZOE 9 years ago

    You sound exactly like a mental handicap person you are such an animal with only human skin covering your skeleton, between the dynamic and selfless politician such as Nana Akuffo Addo and your brain impaired
    idiot Dramani M ...
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  • SGT ANANI FIADZOE 9 years ago

    From the picture we are seeing here, Nana is no longer with us. His soul is long departed. Show the picture to a seer and he will tell you that from the way Nana is squeezing his face he must suffering badly in hell.

    May G ...
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  • John Mensah 9 years ago

    I don't know why Nana can not stay away of the political arena and pray to God to heal him.If NPP make the mistake to bring him, then Ghana should be ready to spend almost 200 million Cedis to send him to Asomdwe Park in the ...
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  • FUNNY THAT 9 years ago

    This your media drum beat makes you as silly as the day you wrer born.The NDC does not give at toss about country or people, which is why the people are apathetic. See during the World Cup in Brazil,the German Chancelloe Ange ...
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  • Nunkaawa 9 years ago

    Akuffo-Addo and his master Kofour sold out important State asserts like Ghana Telecoms,Ghana Airways and Ashanti goldfields to pay workers. John Mahama is investing for the FUTURE. An example is the GAS project which is com ...
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  • Joe Dagarti 9 years ago

    Mahama is clueless.

  • Aponkye 9 years ago

    Ask the elders and they will tell you that knowing Nana, they can confirm that his soul is already with his maker. You can see the signs in his face. Only technology is keeping him 'alive', just like keeping a corpse in the m ...
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  • OSEI 9 years ago

    IF ANY PATRIOTIC GHANAIAN DOES NOT KNOW THAT THE NDC GOVT. IS NOT CAPABLE OF RULING GHANA, THEN IT IS EITHER, THEY ARE INSANE OR I AM. OF ALL THAT IS HAPPENING IN GHANA, SOMETIMES I WONDER WHY PEOPLE STILL SUPPORT THE NDC AND ...
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  • Ado 9 years ago

    can only criticise without offering alternatives. Two years of criticisms. We are fed with you.

  • STONER KOBYLYNTON 9 years ago

    What do you want Akufo-Addo to tell Mahama again when his inner circle economic gurus of Wampah, Fiifi Kwetey, Amisah-Arthur, Terkper and sharped teeth communication group had been decending on other people who dared to advis ...
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  • DAN 9 years ago

    DID THEY LISTEN TO BAWUMIAH'S ALTERNATIVE SUGGESTIONS AND ADVICE. ALL YOU COULD DO IN RESPONSE IS Y3NTIE OBIARA WHAT DO U WANT FROM NANA?

    WHAT HAS MAHAMA DONE WITH THE SENCHI ADVICE? SHIT ALL WITH THE HOME GROWN POLICIES; ...
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  • Counselor 9 years ago

    Bawumiah did not offer any solutions, Dan!

  • T.T 9 years ago

    BOGUS,ECONOMIST.

  • Peter Khan 9 years ago

    What would you have done in this situation? Words are cheap

  • STONER KOBYLYNTON 9 years ago

    Don't tell me that you are not of Pakistani descent or from one of those countries around?

  • kill me 9 years ago

    This Ramadam is not good for Nana, dry fasting oh God.

  • J.B. Rockson Washington D.C. 9 years ago

    That's NDC Govt

  • Osei Bonsu 9 years ago

    PLEASE TAKE A TRIP TOGETHER TO ASIKUMAH TO SEE THE FINISHING TORCHES OF THE GREAT EASTERN CORRIDORE HIGH WAY. A TYPICAL NDC PROPAGANDA 3 YEARS AGO ON TV.

  • Mother Ghana 9 years ago

    I want a solution to the 3b to over 10billion wage bill without the corresponding increase in productivity. Lets all pull together as a nation and solve this problem. We have a real crisis at hand. The wage increase is too mu ...
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  • Pelicles 9 years ago

    First of all, if you are a CEO who has just been appointed to head a corporation, what will be your first act on the job? You will look at the finances of the company. Right or wrong? That is where Mahama fell short. As soo ...
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  • DAN 9 years ago

    I will nominate you for president and Martin Amidu for attorney general so the corrupt arses can be kicked out to free ghana's system of leakages. It appears mahama is unwilling, unable to put your simple solution into prac ...
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  • J.B. Rockson Washington D.C. 9 years ago

    This Govt is sick

  • Osei Ameyaw Kuntunkununku 9 years ago

    Some dey London and some dey new Yok and whether ebe JAk, JJ, Eric Amoateng or JDM ruling...we just talk basa basa and we just wear our bias spectacles and don't see natin. If we be fed up with John Mahama, make we kick out n ...
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  • ONE OF YOURS 9 years ago

    IMF Bailout is the best.more than nothing.NPP[JAK],Time we were in HIPC,All our debt and interest to be paid was written off by world powers.but JAK thought he has done well so he awarded himself gold medal.JDM is entering mi ...
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  • Kalahariman 9 years ago

    IMF bailout sign of govt’s “failure” is the begining of Wisdom. When you see trouble ahead of you - ask for help from the experts - don't try your experiments and make things worst.

  • NDC 9 years ago

    Mahama is a big fool

  • Sam 9 years ago

    Narcorticts would go down in history would go down in history as a first class rogue politicians of our time. This a man who can best a shameless opportunist who will always clutch at a straw revive his ever dwindling politic ...
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  • Patroit 9 years ago

    Stop campaigning against Ghana abroad. This would not win you the presidency. Probably look towards Zimbabwe for a lesson.

  • Mimi 9 years ago

    Shut a fuck up. You were a minister in Kuffour's government. He took loans from the IMF.You think you're almost there as president?. You lie!!.

  • Counselor 9 years ago

    Well said!

  • SICURA 9 years ago

    Partisanship aside, do you know what it means when a country blessed with human and natural resources like Ghana goes to the IMF with a begging bowl? Do you know what is happening to the money gained from oil?

  • Mizzy2012 9 years ago

    wow Ghanaians are now sick

  • truth 9 years ago

    failure as well. If reasonable folks can counter argument without insults Ghanaians can see eye to eye with each other/.

  • The Trucker 9 years ago

    (1) TOP TEN REASONS TO OPPOSE THE IMF

    from Global Exchange

    WHAT IS THE IMF?

    The International Monetary Fund and the World Bank were created in 1994, shortly before the end of World War II, at a conference in Bretton ...
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  • Kalahariman 9 years ago

    This writer is a communist - he doesn't know that even the communist are learning to be capitalist. China is all over Ghana showing their capitalist new ideas...if you don't have money and your child is sick and need critical ...
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  • Kalahariman 9 years ago

    Nana Looks very SICK- I pray that he takes care of his health and forget about this stressfull job... i feel sorry for him in this picture. He looks very SAD and Gloomy - like has been told he has 6mos to live by his Dr.

  • Kalahariman 9 years ago

    You saw all the 49 presidents that met President Obama. Did you see any short man there. I told you are too short to be president - even your wife knows it. Uhmmm

  • PRINCEWILLY@YMAIL.COM 9 years ago

    “A few months after his parents were divorced, Little Johnny passed by his mom's bedroom and saw her rubbing her body and moaning, "I need a man, I need a man!" Over the next several months, he saw her doing this often. One ...
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  • Agyapong 9 years ago

    ONEC AGAIN DOCTORED PICTURE FROM NDC GURUS IT IS SHAMEFUL AND NEED TO BE STOP.

  • Palmwine Tapper 9 years ago

    What Doctored Pix. This is the Youthful Midget. Your Nana looks very old like a zoo midget monkey. Months ago, the wife Becky complained Nana's weak performance in bed with his okro size dick. I felt so sorry for the man that ...
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  • Kwajo Sei 9 years ago

    Politics is indeed insanity of humanity. Is this the first time Ghana goes to the Bretton Woods for bailout? When Kuffour all of a sudden decided single handedly to go HIPIC where was Nanao, I want to be prezidend? I believed ...
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  • bayaba 9 years ago

    is that same man who lost all the elections/?

  • Palmwine Tapper 9 years ago

    When will this Lilliput Midget ever going to SHUT the FUCK UP?
    Good grief!
    Just SHUT the FUCK UP! Will ya?

  • Sir Kofi 9 years ago

    NANA YA MUTU OOO

  • Andi 9 years ago

    WISH U GOODBYE

  • Otoo 9 years ago

    Nana, enough of your constant garbage. Instead of attacking the government here and there, the first thing to do is to prove to Ghanaians your are not a crook. Please, please do us a favour. Show us a copy of your Law certifi ...
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  • ken 9 years ago

    What is this evil dwarf talking about. Your stock in trade is to present yourself as a credible person but discerning minds know that you are the devil himself. You have nothing good to offer this except dabbling in evil- min ...
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  • NICE-BELGIUM 9 years ago

    NANA ADDO.. GOD BLESS YOU.. WE LOVE YOU.. STAY BLESS ALWAYS

  • Opinenhof 9 years ago

    Ghana is not the first country to go in for bailout.Some european country go through it .so is not a crime. What about the Hipc K4 took Ghana through.?

  • BOY KOFI 9 years ago

    Kuffour was elected in 2000 and it took him 6 good years to break from IMF.Mahama has less than 2 years in office so you cannot make such comparison.By the way, Nana Addo has every right to criticise the govt but as a politic ...
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  • Chabba 9 years ago

    Ghanaweb your evil practice of always creating the impression that Nana Akuffo Addo and Dr. Bawumia are out of touch with the ordinary Ghanaian by the type of their pictures you use alongside their views or comments is known. ...
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  • Skains 9 years ago

    The question is this: what does Akuffo Addo know about the intricacies of economics for him to talk about government failure? This man is really arrogant!

  • AKONFEM MAHAMA BAD LUCK 9 years ago

    CNN BOY CRIMINAL,MAHAMA IS BIG EVIL.CORRUPT IN GHANA HISTORY,WHAT A SHAME,MAHAMA SHOULD BOW HIS USELESS,KILLER HEAD DOWN,KWASEAFUO NDC WILL NEVER UNDERSTAND,ALL THEY CAN DO IS CORRUPT.SINKING.COLLAPSING GHANA FOOOOOOOOOOLS AS ...
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  • Akomadan Adjei Nkansah Belgium 9 years ago

    NDC CRIMINALS,INCOMPETENT,FOOOOOOLS,MAHAMA SAID HE CHOP ALL GHANA MONEY AND LEFT US BONES,STILL NDC JUJU NKWASEAFUO BOYS INSULTING NANA ADDO,HAHAHAHA FUNNY,,AGYIMIFUO,AKRONFUO,MAOFUO,GOD WILL PUNISH THEM ONE BY ONE FOR GHANA, ...
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  • QUAYSON 9 years ago

    NANA YOU'VE ALREADY LOOKS LIKE DEAD BODY OOOOO, ARE WE SAFE?

  • NEOPOLUS 9 years ago

    Nana will live a lot longer than Mills.
    Mills was killed and died before his time. However, Nana will die like everyone else will by natural death, and that is better death than being killed for political power by those you ...
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  • GHANAIAN 9 years ago

    IS AKUFO ADDO TELLING GHANAIAN THAT KUFUOR GOVERNMENT IN WHICH HE WAS ATTON. GEN. AND FORIN. MINSTER DECISION OF GOING HIPC AND SELLING OF VODAFONE IS A FAILURE IN THE PERIOD OF THEIR RULING IS GOOD WITH US

  • GHANAIAN 9 years ago

    YOU ARE A DISGRACE TO GHANA

  • Genuine Observer 9 years ago

    Whenever NPP speaks with wisdom, NDC shows foolery by its responses. Look how none of the 'enemies' of Nana could respond directly to his reasons given here except their personal attacks which is irrelevant to Ghana's econom ...
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  • asonaba kofi 9 years ago

    i believe that the first thing akuffo addo/bawumia would have done if they won the 2016 elections would have been to go to the imf.

  • Dasoli Fuzzy 9 years ago

    2016 is going to be a year for Nana Addo becouse NDC has fail Ghanaians.

  • WHITE MAN 9 years ago

    ...

  • NANA 9 years ago

    The man is really SICK

  • Bernard 9 years ago

    Nana, why did Gen. Acheampong overthrow your dad's government within a short span of time? Was it not the dire economic hardship Ghanaians were going through at the time that brought Kutu Acheampong and National Redemption ...
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  • Akwasi Boateng 9 years ago

    what is Akufo Addo's problem........He is behaving like he is God and knows everything....But we all know that Nana Akufo Addo is just an empty barrel making noise a desperado wishing to become President of Ghana so his drug ...
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  • ERIC 9 years ago

    HE IS NOT THE ONLY MAN THAT WENT THERE, WHY CAN,NT U POLITICIANS BE HONEST AT ONCE IN LIFE.

  • JAMES CONGO 9 years ago

    NPP must not make a mistake to elect this sick man as their leader.The man is sick.Even a blind person can see that Akufo-Addo is sick.

  • THE ETERNAL PRINCE 9 years ago

    Nana Addo! I am addressing you personally for the first time. Please, shield your presidential ambition if you love NPP. By the Grace of God I have grown to a level a little above a normal human being. According to The Ancien ...
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  • KWESI YEBOAH 9 years ago

    USELESS THIRD CLASS STUDENT, U WLILL NEVER BECOME OUR PREZ. YOU WANT TO DIE IN OFFICE MR. METUCELLUR?

  • STONER KOBYLYNTON 9 years ago

    Get it that academic credentials don't make one a political visionary. How many of your so stupid 1st class honor students who mounted on the political arena was able to help the nation's transformation? Chairman Rawlings was ...
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  • Bernard 9 years ago

    Akufo Addo is a curse on Ghana. If not demonstrating against introduction of Vat, which he will later on adopt whiles in government, then he is either going to court spending eight(8) unproductive months of Ghanaians time fi ...
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  • Joe 9 years ago

    THANK YOU NANA. IF SO THEN HIPIC IS A FAILUER IN THE KUFOUR ADMINISTRATION WHICH YOU WERE A PARTY TO. IT IS ONLY YOUR ILLITERATE SUPORTERS WHO WILL BELIEVE WHAT YOU ARE SAYING.

  • Koblah Gyamfi 9 years ago

    Nana, you cannot equate the IMF bail out issue to your 'free school education' diarrhoea with no intelligent analysis. This matter in fact, involved good levels of thoughts and proper considerations by really qualified and e ...
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  • NEOPOLUS 9 years ago

    “Indeed, going back to the IMF after Ghana had weaned itself under President J. A. Kufuor in 2006 is a clear manifestation that this government’s management of the economy has been a spectacular failure."
    The above is a ...
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  • asembeba 9 years ago

    Akufo Ado;IMF bailout a sign of govt's failure.

  • Kwakuba 9 years ago

    Akufo Addo; IMF bailout sign of govt's failure.

  • OBIKYIRE 9 years ago

    Did it cost Ghana 200million cedis to bury Pres. Mills

  • Sammy 9 years ago

    By extension, when Kofour took Ghana to HIPC, he was a failure including Nana Addo.

  • TWEAAAAAAAA 9 years ago

    oh! nana is finished i don't think it is worthy for nana to go into politics the man is worn out sad indeed