How 'powerful' Opuni ignored interventions from Mahama, Asiedu Nketiah to destroy my medical supplies - Tobinco boss

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  • Ing Abbas London 1 year ago

    U supposed to have been jailed, one do you mean by substandard was only one. Do you know the harm that ok ne can cause?

  • Ghana Is Not A Peaceful Country 1 year ago

    We hate law abiding people. I thought Opuni was excellent in his discharge of the law.

  • Quran is toilet paper 1 year ago

    I spit on sick dog prophet mohammed.

  • Dr. Weekipea 1 year ago

    May Allah curse the day you were born, your messy life and the day you will die

  • The Lado 1 year ago

    And the day he will be resurrected to see reality. Ameen

  • Ashantis 1 year ago

    Mr pig. Still spitting? You Will be spitting untill you go mad.remmember you talk to yourself when no one is watching. That is the begining of you loosing it.

  • Osagyefo 1 year ago

    Your days of comfort are numbered. Allah will show you signs very soon. Your arrogance will lead to your humiliation soon, but Allah is oft forgiving and most merciful. Repent.

  • Lukman 1 year ago

    May Allah forgive and guide you and all of us onto the straight path. For if you had known, you would have say better.

  • General 1 year ago

    Am not a Moslem nor I support what the guy has been saying by your comment represent what you say Islam stood for "peace" no human help God to fight his fight for him,he God can fight for him self

  • godfather 1 year ago

    Stop

  • watching the watchman 1 year ago

    The judge is one of those supporting corruption. I just saw this previous judgement. Such judges give a bad name to the judiciary. citinewsroom.com/2023/07/high-court-quashes-chraj-report-on-former-ppa-boss-a-b-adjei/

  • Kunta 1 year ago

    Wise up man only the courts could determine if the goods must be destroyed or not. Opuni has caused financial loss to the state.

  • Apraku 1 year ago

    One thing leads to another.Those chemicals were imported to ghana right, went through our port, before being cleared and delivered to Tobinco.

    My question is , don't we have any controls at the harbour by the customs to ch ...
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  • Bam 1 year ago

    Because he Tobinco feels he's powerful and could bribe his way throughout.

    Akuffo-Addo would have taken a bribe to clear him.

    This cases affirms how incorruptible JM is.

  • waste if time 1 year ago

    Did you read the article properly.

  • Wisefolk 1 year ago

    I agree, JM is not corrupt. He probably will have called to say give the man a hearing but do your job. The institutions must be allowed to work. I honestly do not see anything wrong with the actions of Opuni. One fake drug s ...
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  • £EARN & EARN - SMARTPHONE EXPERT GUIDE 1 year ago

    Guy, don't stay idle and expect miracles; as the yr is running out, skill-up & Earn! Kings don't just read news, they make news. Entertain yourself o BUT face your own hustle too. Don't blame your village people when money no ...
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  • hess 1 year ago

    I think opening dud well....I salute him...

    You bring fake chemical to manufacture pharmaceuticals...

  • Jimmy Donkor Jr 1 year ago

    It is strange that Ex President Mahama who appointed Opuni couldn't give him sound advice.

  • Joe Car 1 year ago

    GHANA! HOW DO YOU FEEL EATING GROUNDNUTS AND CRUSHING A BAD NUT AMONG THE LOT. OPUNI WAS RIGHT. THE LIVES OF PEOPLE MATTER.

  • John the Liar 1 year ago

    True talk. What tobinco is saying is he tobinco is not remorseful but rather feels like a victim. Tobbin however is saying Asiedu and Mahama can kill

  • Edward 1 year ago

    Or may be we had a president who gave the powers to people at the food and drugs board to operate without sacking them even when they said no to his face.

    He wasn’t told to proceed on leave

  • Wisefolk 1 year ago

    How do you arrive at the conclusion that Mahama and Asiedu can kill when all they did clearly was to ask Opuni to give the man a hearing but left the final decision to Opuni. If you have a problem, it should be the courts.

  • NK 1 year ago

    Now he is in trouble he will go to jail mr Tobin not over until is over God makes a way there's seems to be no way

  • watching the watchman 1 year ago

    NK, some of you, I wonder which G-d you worship. So, this Tobinco guy had FAKE PRODUCTS that could have killed many people and you’re still supporting him? It appears Opuni was going the right thing. Even if it’s one FAKE ...
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  • Maecenas 1 year ago

    THE JUDGEMENT WAS BASED ON DR. OPUNI'S ILLEGAL ACTIONS AFTER CONFISCATION, NO ONE HAS THE POWER TO DETERMINE THE FATE OF SIEZED PRODUCTS UNLESS DIRECTED BY THE COURTS

    Please Ghanaians, when there is a ruling, please take y ...
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  • OBOOBEATZINTL 1 year ago

    Wise write up.

  • My Take 1 year ago

    sure

  • NDC??... NO!!! 1 year ago

    YES, OPUNI WAS MORE POWERFUL THAN JOHN FORD MAHAMAH AND GEN. MOSQUITO... HE LATER TURNED WATER TO FERTILIZER...WHAT A POWERFUL NDC GUY.

  • Think Ghana 1 year ago

    You call this wise write up? Opuni left FDA at the end of 2023, if the drugs were destroyed in 2015 then whose judgement was that, do you still blame it on Opuni? What happened between 2014 and 2015 in the absence of Opuni.

  • DEEVINITY 1 year ago

    Technically the courts MAY be right.....but I can assure you that Opuni KNEW something that you and I do not know and I dare say he exhibited his forthrightness by ignoring the appeal of the then president and Asiedu Nketiah ...
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  • Maecenas 1 year ago

    Dr. Opuni was right but his approach was wrong

    So shouldn't he have consulted the Minister of Health in the first place, or sought the legal mandate from the court, we must not be seen to be doing the right things in the w ...
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  • Kwami 1 year ago

    Good right up. But were you in the country when the coke parcels turned into konkonte? When it comes to pharmaceuticals I think the laws should give the FDA authority to do what opuni did. It is better to save lives than havi ...
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  • Kojo 1 year ago

    Some sense. But please hep me If I catch a thief in my room stealing and I break his legs and the thief sends me to court for breaking his legs will I be punished or jailed?

  • Ask Charles Who Killed Diana 1 year ago

    @Kojo. In Ghana, you could be punished, jailed or both depending on whether the thief belongs to the political party in power or is a crony of those running the govt. You better off beheading that thief! Dead men tell no tale ...
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  • Zomi 1 year ago

    Wrong
    Long write up but it’s just English
    Go and read the Act that establishes FDA as an authority and the powers given to them
    Only the Minister of Health could change certain grievances upon appeals to that office.
    Th ...
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  • Kunta 1 year ago

    Great write-up only the courts could determine if the goods must be destroyed or not and not the CEO of FDA.
    Period

  • 1FISHERMAN 1 year ago

    Stupid fool. You mean God made a way for this "silent would be killer" to import into the country, substandard pharmaceutical products for the consumption of we the down trodden? Do you know the harm that these fake products ...
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  • Afram 1 year ago

    Only Some Were FAKE....??? WHY ANY FAKE....???

  • Nigerian man 1 year ago

    He said sample. Ghanaians are you people really educated?????????

  • Yaw 1 year ago

    I agree with Dr. Opuni. Something that is taken into our stomach must always be good. Tobi admitting that, some of the products are bad is enough ground to destroy them. Dr. might have seen such bad products on large scale an ...
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  • Kids 1 year ago

    So Mahama and others couldn't do anything at that time, and something that happens at his era, is another government time you are claiming 93million. Herr this GH,just we are not serious. Busimemmen will be conniving with pol ...
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  • Olufemelola Okikiolu-Victoria Island 1 year ago

    One bad groundnut destroy all the good groundnuts when you mixed and put them in your mouth, Opuni is a thief but in Tobinco case he did the right thing

  • YADOM 1 year ago

    Are you following the court case?
    Government wrongfully accused this man. all the witnesses government brought are all disgracing the attorney general and the government.
    Politics should not be use to destroy others.

  • You must be very special 1 year ago

    Are you not happy that Godfred Dame has accepted the ruling at the High Court? He is not even going to the appeals court not to mention the Supreme Court. First in history.

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  • Didi 1 year ago

    Extremely happy for Tobinco but I am appealing to the AG to ensure that Dr Opuni faces another financial loss charge for his stupid decision.

  • Napo 1 year ago

    You are just ignorant, don't you think your comment doesn't make sense? Do you know how many people the fake sample made to drugs killed? Human lives were at stake and Dr Opuni did the right thing which the laws allows. All t ...
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  • watching the watchman 1 year ago

    Napo, great points. At least some people in Ghana like yourself are still thinking well. I thought all hope was lost reading some of the comments, but your comment has given me hope.

  • watching the watchman 1 year ago

    Didi, you’re happy for someone using UNWHOLESOME PRODUCTS that could have killed many people??? What sort of human being are you? You’re probably those people who shout at the top of your voices on Sunday or go to my the ...
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  • Eric Fynn 1 year ago

    You stated only a small portion is fake,Mr Doctor do you know what that small can cause to someone's life.
    Let be serious as a country.

  • Loyalist 1 year ago

    Hahahaha, you are the reason Opuni is in court for over 4yrs now. You want to sound like a victim. You are afraid of your own shadow. If NDC comes power you are afraid Dr. Opuni will retaliate. You call for a fight and why ar ...
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  • Criminals and murderers 1 year ago

    Most of all this richbusiness men in Ghana are criminals and murderers hideing behind politics and killing People to make their money.What did opuni did wrong here? What is the meaning of few fake drugs? Do you know how many ...
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  • MP 1 year ago

    Only a small portion is fake. How can you be trusted by anyone if you buy fake products, mixed with good ones to produce drugs.
    Hmmm and he gets compensated ????
    Lord have mercy.

  • God Punish all the People Ruining Our Country 1 year ago

    Everything is a mess in this country. Regarding the situation, the bible says in Galatians 5.8-10 " That kind of persuasion does not come from the one who calls you. [Tobinco needs to understand that] “A little yeast works ...
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  • Seniorman 1 year ago

    From the horses own mouth that there were some fake stuff in the supplies, then Dr Opuni did the right thing as fake drugs are a danger to human health.

  • watching the watchman 1 year ago

    Right on point. The judge is the same person who struck down CHRAJ’s work on Contracts for Sale. Her judgments seem to be in favor of the criminals.

    A small amount of FAKE PRODUCTS can do a lot of harm to people.

  • J0eY l0nD0N 1 year ago

    Hmm , book marking this page.

  • Nkrumah were are u? 1 year ago

    In Ghana if u want to be happy be useless, if u try to help Ghana, npp will hunt u down, this opuni guy helped Ghana alot, the fertiliser situation they want to falsely jail him, according to the cocoa farmers, the fertili ...
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  • Nkrumah were are u? 1 year ago

    Even one fake paracetamol warrants arrest, because is stupid Ghana people get away with nansis..one is the percentage of small? 200 trucks of drugs, 10 trucks of fake drugs out of 200 trucks is small, but do u know how many ...
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  • Nkrumah were are u? 1 year ago

    *what is the percentage

  • Kojo 1 year ago

    Even though there were fake ones claimed by tobinco but there were some good ones so you burn all the drugs.

  • Osagyefo 1 year ago

    This was wickedness and attempt to destroy the man and his business. How could all his drugs in warehouses be fake? How could a business man determine fake drugs whilst importing especially in such large quantities? Was Dr Op ...
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  • watching the watchman 1 year ago

    You are the reasons our country is in such a mess! Everywhere in the world once some parts of the drug are determined to be FAKE or CORRUPTED, the entire drugs are destroyed. Remember HUMAN LIFE is more important than any mon ...
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  • Ako Spat 1 year ago

    Fake drug doesn't mean contaminated. Fake drug could be the drug is not original label. The Indians manufacture other label drugs all the time because the original label is more expensive.

  • watching the watchman 1 year ago

    Look at you. I believe this is your elder?

    Matthew 15:8-9
    New International Version
    8 “‘These people honor me with their lips,
    but their hearts are far from me.
    9 They worship me in vain;
    their teachings ...
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  • Pablo 1 year ago

    PENTECOST CHURCH ELDER TOBINCO, THE BIBLE SAYS A LITTLE LEAVEN, LEAVEN THE THE WHOLE LUMP, HOW DO YOU DEFINE A LITTLE SIN?

  • watching the watchman 1 year ago

    Thank you, Pablo! These people are those driving people away from Christianity. They worship money instead of the Almighty. This explains why we say we’re mostly Christians and Moslems, but we’re more corrupt than the wor ...
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  • The Judge will take a fake drug one day! 1 year ago

    I wonder how many people died because of the small fake drugs. Jesus! What kind of people do we have in Ghana??? Is this Opuni the same cocobod guy on trial? I hear he was firing small girls left and right but for this one he ...
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  • KWASI IN EUROPE 1 year ago

    What do you mean by just a few of the products were FAKE? In Germany you have been put into prison for a long time.

  • watching the watchman 1 year ago

    Tell them, Kwasi. Most of these guys claim to be Christians and elders ooo…

  • Very clear 1 year ago

    The person insulting Islam should be targeted by the National Security and arrested . There are many Muslims that work there .

  • Donatus 1 year ago

    You have not told us the people you may have contacted to secure that ruling. Why did you go to see Mahama and Asiedu? why? You like going to see people for results not so?

  • Kwaku 1 year ago

    We must be very careful in applying generalised and collective blame in systems and institutions that are weak and immature. Don't be lazy. Even if one warehouse is contaminated it is foolish to conclude that all warehouses i ...
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  • You are not thinking 1 year ago

    A warehouse is storage. If fake pharmaceutical products are manufactured at a factory in Tema and transported to warehouses around the country how could the products be different between warehouses?

  • SA 1 year ago

    He was saving innocent lives against your selfish interest

  • Small quantity? 1 year ago

    Which university did this Tobinco guy attend? Is he a qualified pharmacist? Is he saying he doesn't know sampling? How on earth does he expect all the drugs in his warehouse to be tested for their potency? If Opuni had discov ...
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  • Ako Spat 1 year ago

    that is untrue, not every tobinco drug could be affected. Note even for the same drug type, they are manufactured in batches. A prudent analysis will be to confiscate all in the batch unless other batches also test faulty.

  • ORCHERE 1 year ago

    TOBINCO,YOU'RE CRIMINAL BASTARD. IF YOU ARE DOING GENUINE BUSINESS YOU DON'T NEED INTERVENTION OF ANYONE. MURDERER....

  • Ghanaba 1 year ago

    So you were happy to sell those fake drugs to Ghanaians God will punish you all of you are just your president Nana Addo greed

  • Oklemekuku 1 year ago

    Only a small portion? Oh Elder Tobin

  • Os 1 year ago

    Small portion was fake... eii Ghana We are very diabolic in our dealings and when caught we justify hahahaha...

  • Akwadaa Nyame 1 year ago

    The truth is out. How Ghana pharmaceutical companies making FAKE drugs and illicit hard core drugs to make money. TOBINCO must go to jail

  • watching the watchman 1 year ago

    AGREED! Only heaven knows which government people and judges he has seen for this quack ruling of the court. That judge is the same one who ruled against CHRAJ in the Contracts for Sale case. Do you remember? That judge needs ...
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  • Bam 1 year ago

    Stupid fool. These are the people behind Opuni's predicament

    You do the wrong thing which affects human life directly, you have been caught out and you approach others to help you to get away from punishment.

    Your busi ...
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  • Observer 1 year ago

    Only a few were fake !!! You are surely mad and you see nothing wrong with a few being fake. First explain why you even thought of importing fake products !!! How could public be sure which were fake and which were not. You c ...
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  • Miki 1 year ago

    He did his job perfectly

  • yaw cool 1 year ago

    I thought you're going to say NON was fake you're an ASSHOLE

  • Wise 1 year ago

    My Elder you are talking too much, it's not the right time for you to be saying these things. Please don't be playing games with politicians, they hardly forgive and forget. Just be quiet and ensure the business is growing. N ...
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  • watching the watchman 1 year ago

    Wise, so you’re also a Christian? Would Christ agree for this so called “elder “ to give FAKE medicine to the poor? Some of you have made Christianity a laughing stock. Now, the church is about money and not the gospel. ...
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  • Kwame 1 year ago

    I remember an issue concerning two people who got injured on projects which were under the national security.
    According to the National Security outfit then headed by Captain (Rtd.) Kojo Tsikata not to investigate the matte ...
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  • AK 1 year ago

    God Bless you Elder. No man can destroy him that God has blessed more so a tither and a giver to the poor. Don't think Mahama couldn't help you it was deliberate and planned because they suspected you to be supporting a polit ...
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  • watching the watchman 1 year ago

    AK, so which G-d do you worship? Did you read the article? Do you know what a SMALL AMOUNT OF UNWHOLESOME drugs can do to the innocent? You go to your so called church and shout at the top of your voice because you’ve b see ...
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  • watching the watchman 1 year ago

    Are you a Christian? You are all FAKE like the fake drugs of Toninco.

    Matthew 15:8-9
    New International Version
    8 “‘These people honor me with their lips,
    but their hearts are far from me.
    9 They worship me in v ...
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  • Ewvevi 1 year ago

    Amo Tobin, you're very wicked. Will you gladly swallow just that so called "small quantity" of unwholesome medicine? And mahama and mosquito condoned this? Oh lord. I won't be surprised that you amo Tobin is behind the prolon ...
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  • Very clear 1 year ago

    This case sounds very fishy and should be investigated again . No one should pay any money now .

  • Akiwume 1 year ago

    "Elder Tobinco" is has been dropping names of politicians to intimidate FDA Officials whenever
    they raised questions about his fake medicines, especially since 2017.
    Tobinco will always boast of how he did deals with the ...
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  • Francis 1 year ago

    So you admit you had some fake drugs in there to harm Ghanaians errrr. Foolish business man. It’s only under Akuffo Addos government you can secure this favorable judgement.

    Ghana needs firm incorruptible people like Op ...
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  • Ghanaian 1 year ago

    Chief Tobinco, you should not have allowed even a drop of fake input for your manufacturing processes. You were lucky to have escaped heavy judgement fine and or jail terms.

  • ONE NUT SPOILT THE WHOLE LOT, SO SHUT UP TOBINCO 1 year ago

    You were caught with fake drugs which makes you a criminal and goods which are not good for purpose must be destroyed. Dr. Opuni actually did the right thing confiscating the goods save innocent Ghanaians from criminals like ...
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  • Bro kwesi 1 year ago

    We are are own enemy.Politicians we kill us.

  • Denise 1 year ago

    Currently Tobinco Funbact A cream (trippled action is suspicious), Tobin won the case because of connections and asparing member of parliament on the tickets of the NPP... Besides he confirmed that products is fake, did the j ...
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  • No one 1 year ago

    I was angry with Opuni till I read this article. If this is not create, loot and share, then the government must appeal this case asap. The man admits that some products were fake. Did he then expect the government to spend t ...
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  • PITO 1 year ago

    That is Africa Ghana for you. In western countries the drug administration body RANDOMLY samples medicines and generics from community pharmacies for testing. If any sample is substandard, the supplier looses their license an ...
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  • william. Ejisu 1 year ago

    70% of drugs made in India and exported to Ghana, and around the world are fake.......

  • Kojo 1 year ago

    All those who burnt GALAMSEY machines must take note!

  • PITO 1 year ago

    The FDA will not have confidence to do their job anymore. Maybe it should be dissolved.

  • Truthfully 1 year ago

    Opuni must be made to pay the money not our tax money. We must amend our laws. Many bosses abuse their offices and take unthinkable actions that cause the state huge monies in the form of judgment debt, compensation, etc. How ...
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  • Elder 1 year ago

    Opuni refused to take bribe from Tobinco.

  • Sam 1 year ago

    I’m surprised about your comment. Any country from the west will do exactly what Dr Opuni did.
    I work as a pharmacist in the US and I can confidently tell you how many times medications are recalled back from the market an ...
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  • Truthfully 1 year ago

    I don't believe Tobinco of all people, a man with a good and clean heart will deliberately import fake drugs. Mind you, some suppliers can be so cruel by adding fake or inferior goods to ordered consignment without the buyer ...
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  • NONSENSE U IMPORTED FAKE DRUG PRECURSORS 1 year ago

    So this Tibinco guy imports fake drug & he wanted political intervention to sell them to the public ? In another country you would actually be prosecuted. How many fake drugs have u been selling to innocent Ghanaians, huh? & ...
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  • Mr Gyimah 1 year ago

    I conclude that FDA knows more than the court. Our courts are perceived ""corrupt. All things are possible in this bawumia Government.

  • CRIMINALS 1 year ago

    Believe me or not .I can tell you for a fact that almost all the business men in Ghana are criminals LOOTING the country behind the scenes.They are all affiliated to politicians but pretend to be business men.The politicians ...
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  • Donkomi 1 year ago

    Two wrongs don't make right. Tobinco says there was sample drugs which he agreed but the way Dr Opuni took the law into his own hands and destroyed all other drugs in warehouses belonging to Tobinco must be condemned. Couldn' ...
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  • PITO 1 year ago

    Do you know what sampling means or represents? You cannot test a whole container of drugs .

  • BB 1 year ago

    You dont know what a sample is

  • ORCHERE 1 year ago

    Tobinco, you made several attempts to bribe Opuni through your friends with thousands of dollars and refused to be bought. Elder Tobinco, specialist in fake medicines, you have blood on your hands. Time will expose you an ...
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  • Ibidun 1 year ago

    Hmmmmm Opuni was powerful than JM? Eiiiiii I now understand. Its means lordina was more powerful than jdm the husband and President. This is pure lawlessness. I now understand why layer boateng was more powerful than even chi ...
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  • Yaw 1 year ago

    You belong to the scheme

  • I cry for my nation 1 year ago

    As a church elder, learn to do the right thing.
    Unregistered drugs for citizens is a sin against God and humanity

  • Kunta 1 year ago

    Two friends are fighting over a girl, one powerful state official and the other very rich businessman.

    The rich businessman uses his money to snatch the girl from the powerful state official and the powerful state official ...
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  • BB 1 year ago

    I salute Opuni for standing firm to his decisions

    Now Tobinco is saying only few are fake and are samples.
    God will judge you wicked greedy old generation

  • Kee 1 year ago

    Tobinco refused to pay bribe that’s why his warehouses were emptied and the chemicals burned. The man didn’t know how to deal with these corrupt people. His going to see corrupt Mahama and Asiedu Nketiah empty handed, twe ...
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  • Mavin 1 year ago

    Foolish npp man who import fake drugs to kill innocent ppl for money, at least u acknowledge that some of the drugs were fake, fake drugs to serve whose interest?
    Opuni is coming again, let's see how u will do, we will coll ...
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  • Aba Atta 1 year ago

    How did substandard drugs got into his warehouse? Did he benefit from the ¢50 million each the John Mahama Administration gave to some pharmaceutical companies? If I were him I would shut up telling such lies particularly wh ...
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