While Ghana was wallowing in debts, Ofori-Atta’s bank made US$9.2m – Manasseh Azure's new book reveals

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  • Ghanaweb 1 year ago

    Nonsense !!!!!

  • FRANKIE 1 year ago

    These inglorious bastards and glorified freeloaders must rot in the hottest parts of hell. Thieves and hyenas who just came to power to steal from the state.

  • Simeon London 1 year ago

    Nonsense!!!

    How much did previous financial advisors made in the past? What's standard globally? Data Bank even during the NDC's era was a financial advisor. Hypocrites !!!

  • Denise 1 year ago

    Who told you that, Data bank was on the verge of collapsing... Now through Agyapade3 constitution it's thriving.

  • Quran is toilet paper 1 year ago

    I spit on sick dog prophet mohammed

  • VOTE FOR Cheddar 1 year ago

    Hey mr frog, we have better things to discuss than to write about your personal religious sentiments. Bastard. stop this before i stick some woods in your black ass. Lets discuss about corruption.

  • His Excellecy The Ugly Dwarf 1 year ago

    WE NEED JUNE 4 TO DEAL WITH THIS AKYEM FAMILY.

  • Obibini 1 year ago

    Ghana Army is sleeping

  • Akosua Do 1 year ago

    If the God of heaven doesn't deal with these people, we will turn to the gods of the land (the antoas and kwaku firis) to curse them to make sure they and their descendants suffer perpetually for these evil deeds.

  • Unpredictable Oye Onye Kwasi Atta 1 year ago

    No one should blame Akufo Addo's family. We Asantes led by our foolish "obey the wind" MPS are the biggest lookers. They foolishly fought Ghanaians and opposition with their last blood to approve all the loans. Look at the st ...
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  • Yak 1 year ago

    @oye onye, you feel shy to let us know your tribe and you keep talking about Ashantis , who are known in many parts of the world for good things.
    Be bold and tell the world where you come from. We are waiting!!

  • Afriyie 1 year ago

    Ghanaweb you are seeing such comment and you're doing nothing about it, are you in support of such unnecessary comments, or you are waiting for something to happen before you take an action.
    Ghana is a peaceful Country and ...
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  • For Gh 1 year ago

    Tell us what you know and stop asking questions. He who alleges must show proof.

  • Kofi 1 year ago

    So what were the services from Data , and the other Banks to earn so much money? There were no explanations as to why those banks were paid that money. Issuing euro bonds without the services of these banks doesn't guarantee ...
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  • they say they say 1 year ago

    Toke...how does one get paid ghc48 million for negotiating ghc78 million loan

  • K. Kusi 1 year ago

    Toke, read well. It's 78 billion not million as you claim

  • Sly K. Ed 1 year ago

    To simeon London, that's complete conflict of interest position and this man should have been punished for such grave infraction in most sensible jurisdictions. What is the benefits of those huge loans to Ghana.? What can thi ...
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  • Sly K. Ed 1 year ago

    To simeon London, that's complete conflict of interest position and this man should have been punished for such grave infraction in most sensible jurisdictions. What is the benefits of those huge loans to Ghana.? What can thi ...
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  • Test 2 1 year ago

    YOU ARE A FOOL AND A SLAVE TO THE AKYEM CHIMPANZEES LOOK ALIKE

  • ATAKPA 1 year ago

    Nonsense,....
    Do you need to defend every rot about the npp government? Don't you feel pitty for the ordinary Ghanaian?.....you better allow people to express their grievances in peace...

  • Senseless old man 1 year ago

    Gimiiiiiiii

  • True Ghanaian 1 year ago

    Unfortunately for us as Ghanaians, these monies were legitimately earned. We can neither recover the cash nor get them to jail. But we have the power never to allow them back to power.

  • York zublay 1 year ago

    Manasse your deformation suit against by Lighthouse church you nearly collapse. You write without evidence.

  • Freewill 1 year ago

    Manasseh, this what u campaigned for vigorously in 2016. Eat the fruits of the bitter tree u planted and nurtured. Everything is good for good.

  • MoonGod 1 year ago

    tell the stupid mad cow follower herdsman manaseh, he campaigned for these thieves and now saying what ? stupid fool

  • KWAKU AGYEI 1 year ago

    ACE ANKOMAH WHO IS KEN'S PERSONAL LAWYER AND CHURCH MEMBER ALSO BENEFITED HUGELY FROM ALL THIS TRANSACTIONS ACTING AS LEGAL ADVISER IN ALL THOSE BONDS CONTRACTED.

  • Nana Gyambiby- Jacobuhene 1 year ago

    WHAT A BOMBSHELL!

    Folks, the Akyem Sakawa Mafia Looters led by president Naada and assisted by Aplankay Bawuliar are at it again. Naked thievery and corruption. The more they borrow, the more the Agyapa dea family become r ...
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  • GPS 1 year ago

    All Africans are the same. African leaders think about only themselves, families and friends. Leaders of Africa have been cursed by their wicked intentions. Both NDC and NPP are the same destroyers. These 2 parties have nothi ...
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  • Shine your eyes Ghanaians 1 year ago

    Look at Nigeria, Bangladesh etc

  • CRIMINALS WHO CAME TO MILK MOTHER GHANA 1 year ago

    They left debt for the youth and future generations to come and pay…..

    We are waiting for the way everything will END!

  • Grow in Wisdom 1 year ago

    How much did the same company make for the same period prior to 2017, and what did others also get in total for the same periods? What were the terms of those loans and what were they used for, comparatively for the same peri ...
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  • Ewusiwaa 1 year ago

    Entirely true, even though I particularly dislike Ken Ofori Atta, this book is just wallowing in sensationalism

  • Solomon 1 year ago

    Data bank worked with Mahama's administration even when Npp was in opposition. That tells you how competent that institution is. They are really good at what they do, especially when it comes to raising bonds at international ...
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  • Yaw 1 year ago

    Why are you so irated? Do you work for ofori attah or you are just another stupid person protecting corruption? You are only one out of 34 million Ghanaians so fork off!

  • Solomon 1 year ago

    Yaw, do u understand who you are if you hold a company's shares? Databank is for shareholders, and should all shareholdings other than Ofori Atta are withdrawn, databank will collapse. Databank is not an NGO, they operate at ...
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  • For Gh 1 year ago

    Why not tell the good people of Gh.

  • Gyimiiii saa 1 year ago

    Manneseh and so what? We wanna know how much Data bank made during ndc time.

  • Great 1 year ago

    Another FOOL.

  • Agyenkwa Hustler 1 year ago

    You sound like a big fool. You mean crime by NPP is not a crime if same crime could have happened under NDC. That sounds like a stupid argument.

  • Abeiku 1 year ago

    How the black race characterized by bofoonery and tomfoolery I miss the military rule. These ones must be fed to fishes

  • Tuffour 1 year ago

    These are hardened bandits who came to loot this poor country to death. Never again,

  • Drunk Pilot 1 year ago

    This guys is stupid and should not be taken serious. He did the same fucken shit to President Mahama.Kwasia Guy

  • AMA Ghana 1 year ago

    Serious conflict of interest and the money must be seized but yes it’s Ghana and as usual - we go make e slide bleooo.
    Useless country

  • AMA Ghana 1 year ago

    Because of 9.something million dollars you have left a burden on our heads that way more than we can carry .
    We must make politics unappealing to crooks and selfish people . Politics is so cheap in Ghana . Now look at the m ...
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  • Nana Agyeman 11 1 year ago

    Manasseh, this is the by-product of your toil to kick Mahama out. Azaaaa book - we won't buy. Quack journalist

  • John 1 year ago

    Look at this intellectual Desability knows nothing, what makes Bank to grow????? Don't think that think that this election year, Someone can wake up and write nonsense, l myself invested with the bank because of their g ...
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  • Kwam 1 year ago

    Eii these are the people who promised Ghanaians they are not into politics to make money, but to serve. That if you are in their government to make money then go to private sector.
    That Ghana is sitting on money , yet we a ...
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  • FTT 1 year ago

    Manasseh looks like a devil, infact hatred and pull him down attitude is his character. NPP will stand and Manasseh will fall like a tree

  • Tko 1 year ago

    WARNING !! Please do not plug your phone while charging it.

  • Ghana's worse Cocoa performance 1 year ago

    Flip flop Manasseh. Have you seen what you have helped to impose on us? Too late

  • Achakanapmoaya 1 year ago

    Thieves and Lai's brigade. NPP thinks Ghanians are fools.
    A vote for Bawulair Timothy is a vote for Akuffo Addo's 3rd term in power.

  • Hatred kills 1 year ago

    Manasseh envy, jealousy and hatred will kill you.

  • Co2 1 year ago

    Manasseh you are a Crab I wonder how they gave you an award. When was data Bank form you saw nothing wrong with the bank during NDC era why now your stupidity will lead you every where you go with your donkey investigative jo ...
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  • Kofi Adu 1 year ago

    This is nonsense. So if they the agent represent the country are they not going to make profit. You are you not making on lies you put on people?] You lied about Mahama and the Guinea Fowls didn't you made profit from it? Idi ...
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  • Yaw Nkansah 1 year ago

    Why are some journalists so jealous about prosperity of entrepreneurs in Ghana? If Ghana is in debt through borrowing for developmental works,does it mean citizens businesses must not make profits?
    This is just ridiculous a ...
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  • Dwarf 1 year ago

    Azure, nobody is interested in your useless book.

  • Lost Cathedral Int. 1 year ago

    When 2021 crossed over, prices increased more than doubled. I know the fool responsible for nothing on our table tonight. We know what you talk about, and we're surprised that you claimed journalist come out with this matter, ...
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  • AB 1 year ago

    What does Manasseh want me to do now? He said Mahama was not good so we kicked him out and brought Nana Addo

  • XYZ 1 year ago

    Manassas check your facts right, don't you know that about 70 to 75% of the world worth is in hands of the private sector? Is no surprise that Data bank made that profit, is a private entity. Stop the hatred

  • s))mli 1 year ago

    This NPP IS CURSED. Nothing they do will make sense till they leave power. Mark it somewhere

  • Shit hole 1 year ago

    Ghanaweb...stop this anytime a story is published against the government, you people put the comments area very far from the the article

  • Marcus Adepaye 1 year ago

    It looks like Manasseh and his NDC cronies are suffering from some kind of sickness that has no name!!! So Manasseh want me to depend on this foolish so called investigation and vote for Mahama?? Did Ofori Atta get these moni ...
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  • Kojois 1 year ago

    Another evil and pull him down rat. And so what

  • AD 1 year ago

    People who never saw even ghc1 will still come and defend this with his or her own data

  • Bonkers 1 year ago

    And the shocking part is that databank is not a bank. It does not have a banking licence from Bank of Ghana. It has for a long time been operating like Menzgold. The reason why they shut Menzgold. NAM1 was doing the same thin ...
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  • stop misinforming the public manessah 1 year ago

    Manessah you are being coy. That's profits you are told to write. We know daaah

  • Kofi safo 1 year ago

    Is that the only bank in Ghana that made gains? Or is because that is for Ofori Atta?

  • Great 1 year ago

    We still have fools in Ghana. Infact the fools are much more than the wise. People are still supporting these demons. Nana Addo and his Akyem boys must face firing squad and all their properties must be seized and give them b ...
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  • Appiah Kubi 1 year ago

    And so what? Because the President refused to meet you that’s the hearted. Who are you to see the president? Don’t you think the man you accused open the bank just to received debt? You are a fool

  • Kwadwo 1 year ago

    So Ghana was wallowing in poverty so Kennedy Agyapong, Kwame despite, all private entities etc should post losses? This is CRAP, and can only happen in Ghana!!!

    Check, whether when US economy or UK economy shrank, all com ...
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  • CKA 1 year ago

    Do this people actually believe that there's a big God out there who we must fear. I think we need our voodoo to put fear in these guys.

  • Ishmael Dayess 1 year ago

    Sometimes a wonder and pander whether Ghana will get better. It seems the politicians has woefully failed us and we need an outsider to rescue the nation from these diabolical misleaders.

  • Kobina 1 year ago

    If these monies were erned by some the foreign banks operating in Ghana like no journalists or CSO will complain about it. Most Ghanaian hate to see their fellow Ghanaian progressing in life or business. When npp was in oppo ...
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  • NANA 1 year ago

    is making money legally now a crime ?Did Databank make the money illegally? If no then there is no case

  • Wisdom 1 year ago

    Because he took the risk of investing his time to acquire (a) knowledge and (b) invested into invested INVESTMENT BANKING!

    So you expect him to make loses! Such nonsense

  • Kenite 1 year ago

    Dagombas, Mamprusi and Nanumbas are puppet of colonial indirect rule. These are the traitors who aided the whiteman to commit abominable act and barbarism against the black man. These shameless individuals are holding their ...
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  • Noah 1 year ago

    Manassas you see how useless you have become now, now your Facebook post don't even get 200 likes when you post,at first over 1k comments on your post. Sit back and reflect on that. U are also corrupt, where did you get money ...
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  • Umofia 1 year ago

    Family and friends and Agyapade3

  • Kids 1 year ago

    I like how Nana Addo snub him. Manessah Kwasia, you write a book against him and you want to go interview, who told you you are important. Because of few awards so you think you have arrived. Now he didn't get Nana add attent ...
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  • Jeffrey Prempeh 1 year ago

    We run business to make profit so go away with your propaganda book.

  • Test 2 1 year ago

    AKUFO ADDO AND HIS MAFIA CLUB SHOULD GO TO JAIL

  • TRUMU TRUMU AKUFFO ADDO 1 year ago

    FIRING SQUAD. ACHAMPONG, KOTEI , AMEDUME, AKUFFO AND CO NEVER STOLE SO MUCH. KEN OFORI ATTA, AKUFFO ADDO AND HIS ARMED ROBBERS MUST FACE FIRING SQUAD

  • Ojah 1 year ago

    The issue with we Ghanaians is that, we cannot multitask but we think we do! So whilst everybody was preoccupied with Rawling's 'BABIES WITH SHARP TEETH' conundrum, the 'PICCADILLY ARMED ROBBER' and the 'MOTHER SERPENT OF COR ...
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  • Aboagy 1 year ago

    God will punish them and their generation,but people are still supporting the thieves,they capture the party from us and we are still following them like a sheep Alan all the way

  • Kweku 1 year ago

    You have no business doing is $9.2m money that you are shouting, go to other countries and see, in Ghana anything is a political talk useless idiots go to court

  • Nati 1 year ago

    Akyem mafia: Until Ghana collapses

  • Kobi 1 year ago

    What is wrong if an investment bank earns fees for services rendered? There are many such institutions in the country that have assisted various governments to raise funds from the domestic and the international markets. Data ...
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  • snd 1 year ago

    Oh kobi, i suppose you might be an akyem or asante tribal bigot. If this had happened under Mahama would you have said "what's wrong with that". Generally, you akans/asantes/akyems are corrupt. Not just corrupt, but deadly co ...
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  • BOYIIMEN 1 year ago

    Manasseh, this what u campaigned for vigorously in 2016. Eat the fruits of the bitter tree u planted and nurtured. Everything is good for good.
    Serious conflict of interest, ken offori atta and Bankers must be prosecuted and ...
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  • Gyimifuonkwaseafuo 1 year ago

    The people are powerful than the army.

  • JACK TORONTO 1 year ago

    SƐ MO SE MO AGYIMI. AGYAPADEƐ HAS COME TO STAY.

  • Yak 1 year ago

    Did Ofori Atta steal the money or provided service and received payment for it.? I cannot understand this mentality of GHANAIANS. Whilst we borrowed money, did parliamentarians who agreed to stop receiving salaries because G ...
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  • abooozigi jokers 1 year ago

    hmmmmm country called Ghana indeed family and friends, agapadie ampa eiiii never again this ppl in government must be investigated and state founds must be return how can u tell me this story how

  • JULO Family 1 year ago

    The family is noted for thievery

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  • Nuamah 1 year ago

    He is living on another person's internal organ and instead of leading a humble life, he is busily committing crimes against humanity but there is God

  • Francis-USA 1 year ago

    Akufo-Addo/Bawumia government is the most corrupt in the history of Ghana

  • Nuamah 1 year ago

    How can Ken Ofori Atta and his uncle, the president be that wicked to Ghanaians? They should look at the way Sir John and John Kumah died. God will punish them. Already, Ofori attah is surviving on another person's liver but ...
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