Common Currency: Dr. Bawumia urges African countries to shift towards MoMo interoperability

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  • Northern Boy 2 years ago

    Makes sense to me.

  • Bortey 2 years ago

    It doesn't make sense. The cedi value will still be paired against the other currencies. Work on the free fall cedi and stop running your mouth.

  • His Excellecy The Ugly Dwarf 2 years ago

    Can we not have both? What currency will that interoperability be based on? The US dollar?
    This disgraced economist no sobe nothing!

  • Kofi 2 years ago

    After shamefully and woefully failing to stabilize the cedi, is this what you want to divert our attention to? You lie bad! Who is the exchange rate now exposing?
    BAWULIAR.

  • Northern Boy 2 years ago

    I change my mind. True it doesn't make sense to me anymore. Why? I never thought of the fact that a common currency will put a stop to crooked Ghanaian government's ability to print money at will.

  • Kk 2 years ago

    Common currency for africa is a game changer far better than mobile money interoperability Bawumia should come again no wonder cedi is the third worst performing currency this year one currency would be very strong and enable ...
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  • SMARTPHONE £XPERT - START MAKING REAL MONEY IN 3WKS 2 years ago

    What have Africa ever united towards that succeeded...No one is coming to rescue you! - it is every man for himself.Use that seed in your hand & Learn a service oriented skill to-Earn - it is much easier than buying-&-selling ...
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  • Fred 2 years ago

    Mumu. Common currency has no equal. That's how to build a powerful currency. Failed economist thinks digital is everything. He knows nothing. Ghanaians are hungry and all he keeps shouting is digital

  • Kuzkuz 2 years ago

    Common currency means they can no longer print money to keep under their beds so why won’t this liarman be against it

  • Kk 2 years ago

    With one African currency I can travel all over africa without needing to change my money to dollars or euro first that means that currency would be widely used and very strong you can’t compare mobile money interoperabilit ...
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  • Paul 2 years ago

    When is common currency going to happen since 1963. Bawumia is genius. If this country was left in the hands of the shallow minded ndc fools, we would still be voting with black and white voter ID cards in opaque boxes

  • Nana 2 years ago

    And whose says mobile phone interoperability is not being implemented by member countries? A common currency for the region would solve a lot of problems particularly exchange rate volatility and stabilize rice's across the r ...
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  • Pee 2 years ago

    But you were part of the planners of ECO, why are you now running away

  • Kusie 2 years ago

    Common currency is more important because it will replace the cedi that Borrowmia and his azaa government have crashed totally and bring down prices etc

  • Mr bones 2 years ago

    This OGAR 1GH CARD can talk ooo

  • JJ 2 years ago

    Is Bawumia ok momo interoperability will follow with same currency you can’t compare the two even though they are both good

  • BAWULAIR SAY THAT TO YOUR RETARDE FAMILY KWASIA 2 years ago

    ALWAYS TALKING RUBBISH BECAUSE YOU THINK GHANAIANS CANNOT REASON ABUA BI BA GIMI GIMI. JUST WAIT COME DECEMBER 7 AND WE SHALL SEE. VERY FOOLISH RETARDED PEOPLE LEADING OUR DEAR GHANA TODAY......ONLY TIME WILL TELL

  • Alkebulan 2 years ago

    Who even has ears for this Bawumia fool , he never makes sense as a vice president.

  • Thief of Staff - Akosua Frema 2 years ago

    Dr. Mahamudu Timothy Bawumia, you have already lost 1% of the total votes to be cast just because of Gabby Otchere-Darko sitting by you. Your association with any member of the Akyem Mafia from this time onwards will portray ...
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  • Agya 2 years ago

    Is True Dr. They Don't Read!!!

  • ObuasiMan 2 years ago

    This is just nonsense and an attempt to repair the damaged credibility of the speakers. Today, the Bank of Ghana cannot even reconcile its inward remittance figures with that of the World Bank as to how much is sent to Ghana ...
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  • Hope hope 2 years ago

    The depreciation of the cedi benefits him so why won't he say they should drop common currency.
    I don't think this man has ever read economics.

  • Kofi 2 years ago

    Restrict the amount of transfers ased on the nature of business. Graduate the amounts and decriminalize money laundering and tax accordingly

  • Bafooon 2 years ago

    This man just fool pass anything I know the policy that will make us same currency you don't like it but transfe that comes with charges you like you fool too much

  • JAMES DEDE 2 years ago

    Mr VICE President, I beg to disagree

  • Wakkuffo Waddo 2 years ago

    Three medium sized tomatoes is still 10 cedis. Foolish proposals. Think of matching your cedi to the dollar and everything will be better. What is digitization?

  • PITO 2 years ago

    Silly position from Bawumia to say the least!. If macro-economic convergence is the stumbling block, why not propose to merge on a smaller scale and seek to assimilate more economies with time, as the convergent currency gro ...
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  • Yahaya 2 years ago

    He is just someone with myopic opinions
    How can a whole vice president of a republic say such a thing?
    Common currency is the ultimate answer to Africa's problems aside from getting rid of bad leadership and corruption.

  • Truthfully 2 years ago

    In fact Bawumiah is a gem. He is a blessing to Ghana.

  • Nana 2 years ago

    Silly npp footsoldier! Why don't you go around collecting and eating bawumia shit! What he said doesn't make sense! They are two different policy positions, equally have merits. Single currency serves the whole economy. West ...
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  • Truthfully 2 years ago

    Bawumiah is deep, sees afar beyond the ordinary minds. He has unique economic theory different from known traditional patterns.

    From his speech, he believes in single currency but interoperability will be faster and easie ...
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  • OYOKOBA 2 years ago

    The man is way ahead of his peers. He is a genius, a deep outside the box thinker. Already you see the shallow minded people talking trash on the forum. They don’t even read what he had to say, and jump straight from the he ...
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  • Trade deficits cause cedi to fall 2 years ago

    We are now spending dollars in Ghana. All our business are owned by foreign investors taking out their profits home. Mobile money is used everywhere and that is not the problem but getting the money is. Come out with a better ...
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  • Nanawee Addo 2 years ago

    Bulubulu bulubulu toke toke kwasiato Bawuliar Bawumia ofui is now talking about digital infrastructure which he hasn't acknowledged it as the significant ingredients in his digitalisation drive which was built by JDM. Bawulia ...
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  • Kudozia 2 years ago

    Nobody wanted to be another Libya. Bro Pantin says no to one currency lol.

  • WGoku 2 years ago

    This stupidity has to end soon. Thinking without foresighted mindset and it's possibilities is the most dangerous way to POVERTY. Even in Ghana, not all parts are well covered by good internet service or phone calls. Only one ...
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  • Grace 2 years ago

    What happened to Bawumia economic
    How could you compare common currency with mobile money interoperability
    It doesn't even come close
    One currency for the whole of Africa will reduce dollar value drastically
    All of Afr ...
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  • Grace 2 years ago

    What happened to Bawumia economics
    How could you compare common currency with mobile money interoperability
    It doesn't even come close
    One currency for the whole of Africa will reduce dollar value drastically
    All of Afr ...
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  • Kwaku 2 years ago

    Mr. Bawumia has just shown he knows little about Pan Africanism. Won't it the cheaper make one ot two currencies interoperable instead of 40/50? And, 4 to 8 United Africa embassies instead of 54? United AFRICA IS THE WAY FORW ...
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  • Kwaku 2 years ago

    Mr. Bawumia has just shown he knows little about Pan Africanism. Won't it be cheaper make one ot two currencies interoperable instead of 40/50? And, 4 to 8 United Africa embassies instead of 54? United AFRICA IS THE WAY FORW ...
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  • pin 2 years ago

    Stupidity at uts best.

  • Achakanapaya 2 years ago

    A vote for Bawulair Timothy is a curse because is a vote for Akuffo Addo's 3rd term in power. The Captain of the Akyem sakawa Mafia Gabby . Bawulair Timothy is the real definition of puddle to the Akyem Mafia's.

  • THINK TWICE. 2 years ago

    African leaders, don't listen to bawumia. Je just want to be relevant. He has never in his lying life come up with any useful ideas before.

  • Ernest Addison 2 years ago

    He is a clown. What has happened to his Gold for Oil ideas he was bragging about. This fool collapsed the Zimbabwe economy and then run away. Incompetent fool

  • Eric 2 years ago

    Technocrats at work. Professor i can't arrest the Cedi left managing our cedi. Walking and talking dead.

  • Allee 2 years ago

    Talk is cheap. Fix the cedi now if you think you know all.

  • Kwame Nyarko 2 years ago

    Just because he wants to score political points with the mobile money interoperability

  • Francophone 2 years ago

    Interoperability is possible with common currency.
    You can send money from Togo to Mali via Orange money because of common currency and Interoperability.
    Without common currency, who handles the currency exchange? Swift? ...
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  • Emmanuel 2 years ago

    Bawumia must stop this nonsense and look at the News item above him to realize that staple food like gari is now very expensive. Bawumia address this issue and stop the BIG BIG English grammar!

  • Wakkuffo Waddo 2 years ago

    You see, this is what some Ghanaians are going to trade their thumbs for. Foolish thinkings knoaaaa. We should digitize a bad economy. Empty headed.

  • JJ KUFFOUR AKUFO ADDO 2 years ago

    See who's talking. Clean up the mess you have created in your own country.

  • Economist 2 years ago

    Bawumia better learn why Gaddafi ended up dead.

  • Aponkyi 2 years ago

    We don’t just need a common currency but a very strong common currency to match the dollar & pound sterling. Interoperability is not a currency but just an excellent platform to transfer funds among sister nstions.

  • Actual currency not momo- ,Bawumiah is a big FOOL 2 years ago

    We are talking about currency and useless Bawumiah is talking abount Momo, foolish. Even if the currency is electronic. It can be bit coin, Binance etc or we can create our own coin and not MoMO. Failed economics disgracing G ...
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