Why won't the cedi suffer if you travel to Maldives, other countries? - Deputy finance minister

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  • Rex 1 year ago

    The citizens of the United States, travels than any other country in the world, yet still their dollar is to fifteen cedis, people were traveling for holidays before your government came to power, so stop the unintelligent l ...
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  • Animal Kingdom where criminals fester 1 year ago

    From their infantile public pronouncements, you wonder how they got into high positions to lead. Well, if you have a super clueless president who's only good at creating a cartel with family and friends just to loot, such are ...
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  • Gabby 1 year ago

    Very sad
    Anyway one cannot blame him
    He was there to talk about tourism so he will blame the cedi depreciation on local not visit local sites forgetting that the difficult economic situation and crisis is the root of the c ...
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  • Naa Nana, naa julor 1 year ago

    What he meant was that, the printed 66billions had been converted to US Dollar ans deposited in banks in Maldives which will pass on to Cayman Islands

  • iPRONOUNCE 1 year ago

    WE NEED TO..WE NEED TO..WE NEED TO. You had 8 solid years to do what you need to do. At the end of the 8 years you are still talking about what YOU NEED TO DO. This particular political party behaved like they are in oppositi ...
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  • Gabby 1 year ago

    Very sad
    Anyway one cannot blame him
    He was there to talk about tourism so he will blame the cedi depreciation on local not visit local sites forgetting that the difficult economic situation and crisis is the root of the c ...
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  • DotCom 1 year ago

    Deputy Finance Minister, You Lost The Plot

    The politicians and public officials have stolen our monies and exchanged them with strong foreign currencies. They are keeping millions of these foreign currencies in their bedro ...
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  • Alogic Speech 1 year ago

    Ghanaians voted for comedians who will never be serious about anything.
    They only come back to blame Ghanaians for their own Crazy actions as Leaders. Aaah! So Sad.

  • Help 1 year ago

    Ye, you’re right. If Cecilia Dapaahs family hold a million dollars in cash at home, another thousand of them collectively hold over a billion dollars in cash. A bug reason why the exchange rate is so bad.

  • Massa Americans travel within America due to size 1 year ago

    A small fraction travel abroad even though u think they are many..they many due to size if population but majority don't travel outside USA..so they use the dollar even with multiple travel in USA...USA is large it's like Afr ...
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  • Someone 1 year ago

    Hmmm video conference on zoom. They will send a whole team on business class ....sad country

  • Kofi Adu 1 year ago

    The US citizen travel with their own currency. And even through bank cards or credit cards. They don't import anything unnecessary like Ghanaians do.Do you know that some Ghanaians even buy the dollars with cedis and deposits ...
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  • Okyere J. 1 year ago

    Am tempted to diss our some insult to this guy but l leave him for posterity to judge him come 2025 onwards. He will be back with talks.

  • First Offer 1 year ago

    My brother hmm, sometimes things choke us oo. Nkwasiasem keka nkoaa

  • Game Changer 1 year ago

    Hollow talk. The main problem is Ghana importing everything for her needs.

    Another problem is you politicians in the quest of hoarding money goes to the forex bureaus with your stolen cedis to buy dollars.

  • Danny 1 year ago

    Bro you have hit the nail right on the head.When we live in a country that imports virtually everything how do you expect your currency to be strong?
    Out of the total population how many travel abroad for vacation.This is sh ...
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  • they say they say 1 year ago

    Komenda sugar factory is still languishing in pain, waiting to be rescued yet Ghanaians are looking on sheepishly while the govt is importing $240 million worth of sugar every single year, aahhahahaaa.

  • Kooboy 1 year ago

    These hypocrites don't do what they say. The economy is beyond them. They are inept in managing such a small country yet they know where to put the blame other than themselves. They've always been victims as Ofori Atta said " ...
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  • Kofi Adu 1 year ago

    What can the Minister do when houses are sold in dollars in Ghana? And some Ghanaians buy the dollars and deposit them in their foreign accounts? The best thing for the cedi is the government should let it be as it is.

  • they say they say 1 year ago

    aahhahahaaa isn't the cedi as it is yet ?

  • Kwame 1 year ago

    That is not the main cause. Your government takes hundreds of people on just climate change conference so imagine the many conferences and several patronize services abroad. They also make the country unbearable for people to ...
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  • Who is who 1 year ago

    When the fundamentals are weak,the ...,.....will expose you.
    A.lies
    B.exchange rate
    C.depreciation
    D.inflation

  • Aba 1 year ago

    all of the above

  • chief vandal 1 year ago

    Correct ! for 100%

  • the Villager 1 year ago

    Auntie ceci and her husband saved their s under the bed for over 200 years

  • Ex-Pope 1 year ago

    THE CEDI IS SUFFERING BECAUSE OF THE CORRUPTION, INCOMPETENCE AND MISMANAGEMENT BY THIS JULOR HOUSE GALAMSEY GOVERNMENT.

    Traveling to the Maldives and other countries has nothing to do with the struggles of the cedi. Your ...
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  • Abusua 1 year ago

    Hope Dr Amoah was listening to himself when he was talking. If after eight years, you were not able to do anything about the tourism sector, what can you do if you are given another term? Gone were the days when governments w ...
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  • Mark, Accra 1 year ago

    There's too much water in this minister's head.

  • Kwame 1 year ago

    Another frog is talking oo
    When he was not a minister, in 2020 you heard him made some sense, I never knew he just wanted to be one. Now he has become one and he is following the same muddy path.

  • Reykjavik 1 year ago

    Listen to this educated illiterate too. Who yhe hell are you to t3ll us where to go or spend our money? If the dollar is 50 cedis and I can afford it, so be it. Who created the pressure on the dollar? Blame your unscrupulous ...
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  • Serwah Broni 1 year ago

    We have the men, we have the men. So this be the men to developed Ghana ? God have mercy. Idiots in power.

  • Peace man 1 year ago

    My heart bleed anytime I hear educated people in government talk as if small kids in syto , after election before you stabilise the dollar , why now ???

  • Oprege 1 year ago

    The Cedi will also fall if political thieves and Ghana’s elite keep holding dollars in their homes rather than the banks ! Cecilia Dapaah , Haruna,Mahama are all complicit

  • Foolish minister, is travelling abroad bad? 1 year ago

    Your country is infected with corruption to the extent that one cannot travel a mile without paying bribe or being cheated. Your leaders only have names but with no brains to implement systems that will rid the country off c ...
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  • Bob 1 year ago

    WELL SAID. WE GOT FOOLISH LEADERS GOVERNING THE COUNTRY WITH NO CLUE. DON'T KNOW WHAT THEY ARE DOING.

  • Bobby 1 year ago

    You are a blockhead.
    Are you really the Deputy finance minister?
    Of all the reasons you see going on holidays as the major reason for cedi depreciation.
    Have you forgotten of stolen dollars in your homes as Akuffo Addo min ...
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  • Adu 1 year ago

    Himmmm this man paa ,he has a sense, colaspting banks ,where people travel than European

  • Randy 1 year ago

    Kwasiato


    Do u do same? What is attractive in this shithole?
    These politicians..
    They think we are stupid

  • Jiggs Newark-New Jersey 1 year ago

    Aww The Head is Really Empty, This is A Deputy What??? Damn

  • Joseph johnson 1 year ago

    This country is sinking very fast and it is very sad. I fear for the future of this country it could oneday turn into a conflict and a lawless place . The patience of the citizenry is now running thin and if those in power t ...
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  • Gaddaffi 1 year ago

    Too many theories, we need practical things NPP

  • Oliver n Atmore 1 year ago

    Another textbook theory in solving our litany of economic

  • Joseph johnson 1 year ago

    Thirteen years ago I use to live in another country and the exchange rate at that time was 1ND = 1USD and Ghana's own was the same too. I recently checked and the exchange rate between the former was still the same whereas o ...
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  • Saylor 1 year ago

    All these people in positions in Ghana….such a silly statement..why do people travel…don’t people come to Ghana from other countries for vacation..Madness..and that’s your solution to the cedi..Shammm

  • Oyibo 1 year ago

    Walk your talk. Do politicians patronize anything in Ghana? Did Bagbin not go for medical care in Dubai? If a citizen in Nadoli have the same illness, would one be sent there? Did Adwoa Sarfo not go to the US to give birth? W ...
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  • Cici 1 year ago

    Since when have you lot been in power? We live in a funny country where politicians only put on their thinking caps when they are about to go to opposition or in opposition. Its too late it's like trying to get some water aft ...
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  • Umofia 1 year ago

    Nkwasiasem and nkwasia keka saa..loose talk nkoaa..why won’t the cedi suffer if a whole minister talk so cheap..Do you people think of developing our tourist sites in the country..gyimii when you get money what do you use i ...
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  • Ray 1 year ago

    Idiotic comments, fool

  • Alogic Leaders 1 year ago

    Are these people serious, how can you talk like this? Which people travel more than the Americans or the Chinese?
    Fix the fundamentals and stop talking nonsense. Ghanaians voted for comedians who will never be serious about ...
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  • Kk 1 year ago

    Akoa wei dier.. wagyimi dodo. He has never said anything reasonable before

  • Proszy 1 year ago

    Stupid incompetent people what did you say then in opposition about the dollar know you want as to trust you and vote for you again my prayer for Ghana this year is that all those old and young criminals in government will di ...
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  • We don't believe the pitch 1 year ago

    Ghana and Dr this Dr that .
    They are the most useless .village aristocrats and dodgy degree .haha

  • Alkebulan 1 year ago

    This is what you get ,if you decided to do only Theorie in the school instead of practical. Those same fools go to school to study about osei tutu than any others important Subject in school, so how can they read economy. GH ...
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  • they say they say 1 year ago

    I hope Bawumiah is not one of the northerners you're talking about

  • Akwasi Addai 1 year ago

    So there's not a single wise person in the government of Akufo Addo? What a childish analysis by this mentally deraigned Amoah? Why don't you tell us where your stupid government has "hoarded" all the loans it has borrowed?

  • Odjame 1 year ago

    Idiot , what was Addo broni using to travel with serwa broni thought the world . Nonsense

  • Joe 1 year ago

    I beg oooo that private jet way una Dey rent travel up and down nu, na you Dey think say what ? I no know why this pipo Dey think like say kerosene way e Dey thema head inside . No be them fault kraaa. Na we way we fool . The ...
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  • Foolish talk 1 year ago

    You are very foolish and ignorant minister.I can see any sensible person in this useless NPP government.They are all looters and foolish.

  • Blocker 1 year ago

    Hmmm.....this are the men we have....over to them,#Wehavethemen, travelling for business and pleasure is as old as men.

  • Tobiah 1 year ago

    Foolish talk. which people travel more than ministers and the president alongside large delegation,?

  • Tsitretsitsi 1 year ago

    His head like koobi poo. Nonsense

  • Julius 1 year ago

    This konko head foolish man again

  • kobby 1 year ago

    Does this man have clue of what he is talking about? nkwaseas3m ara kwa. So is he also part of "we have the men"? smh

  • hahahaha 1 year ago

    See this senseless dwarf talking bs. I don't blame them

  • How many Ghanaians afford holidays abroad 1 year ago

    It’s your own fellow politicians that afford to going abroad on holidays. It’s the politicians that are stealing state money to buy houses abroad and paying foreign student’s fees for their children’s education. It’ ...
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  • Don labone 1 year ago

    This idiot is a unwise, which hospitality facilities and tourist centers he is talking about, he should visit Wli waterfalls , kakum National park and others to witness the state of those centers, the pravite resorts and hote ...
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  • Fila 1 year ago

    Just imagine oooooo. This kentry koraaa why?

  • Advise nana addo about his travels 1 year ago

    Do u know howuch they change for each trip.leave the poor public alone..many travel with loans and don't even have places to sleep ...

  • Foolish man 1 year ago

    May God punish this idiot and his entire generation for ever and ever. Stealing state resources has made you a man.

  • ROG 1 year ago

    God bless Burkina Faso and Ibrahim Traore! In a short space of time he has been building more infrastructure than any African country. He invests in agriculture, buying hundreds of tractors for farmers, not luxury cars for mo ...
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  • Nii Adjei 1 year ago

    Did holidaymakers start visiting Maldives only under Akufo-Addo-Bawuliar's NPP regime? These excuses are nauseating. Fix the damn structure of the economy as you promised. Empty textbook theorists bereft of practicality in ap ...
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  • Nana Serwa Broni 1 year ago

    This was the man who cried and asked for the country ti be rescued on live TV.
    Today it's the fault of the citizens and not the government anymore.

  • Gabby 1 year ago

    This guy has moved from abject poverty to one of the filthy rich guys in Ghana now. Doing galamsey and over priced government contracts with the support of Dokuwaa. They sit on cocoabob board taking a the contracts there and ...
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  • Yaw 1 year ago

    So you know that? Tell your president and the entire looting brigade of the NPP to stop it. Poor Ghanaians can’t go to Maldives

  • Kofi Adu 1 year ago

    What the Minister is saying to me is true. Ghanaians put too much pressure on the cedi. Importation of foreign goods, even some people buy the dollars here and take them out to their foreign accounts. Houses in some parts of ...
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  • Sika mpe dede 1 year ago

    Kofi Adu, what is the elder statesman Sam Okudzeto said about saving dollar in houses in Cecilia Daapah's case?
    What is the government position on guy and storing dollar in the house?
    Those who travel on holidays abroad h ...
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  • F 1 year ago

    What an idiot!!!

  • SOME PEOPLE DESERVE 240 LASHES EACH WEEK 1 year ago

    Why at all does Ashante Region breed so many of these folks? What at all the problem with Ashantes?

  • Yaw Appiah 1 year ago

    He is a fool for saying that , what have they done to make citizens feel comfortable in the country, when he is sick doesn't he fly outside the county ?

  • Babbs 1 year ago

    Common headache, you travelled abroad for treatment while UGNC is there. Why won't the cedi depreciate

  • Digging a hole for themselves 1 year ago

    Herrr... Talk of stupid comments from energy minister and now finance minister... this is statement has cost them an extra million voters... Putting blame on citizens for your Mismanagement... wow.

  • Achakanapaya 1 year ago

    His head like coconut.

  • ATAKPA 1 year ago

    Stupid fool... So you knew this when ndc was in power.....intact you guys have failed woefully.....it's better you handover in peace....

  • Bola Bird 1 year ago

    so this guy has PhD ? how did he get his PhD ?

  • chief vandal 1 year ago

    So this guy thinks he said something sensible?And this guy is a minister? With ministers like this I can see the cedi hitting 20 before Xmas