Why the man behind Ghana's first-ever mattress factory was tried in absentia by PNDC
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JJ was short-sighted.
The downfall of Ghana was the foolishness and stupidity of Rawlings and his useless government.
#Sara, Akufo Addo has destroyed Ghana and Ghanaian businesses more than any other government in Africa. Posterity will judge the Akyempanzees
Rawlings collapsed more industries because of hatred and jealousy and nothing else
So now you the young generation of Ghana have you now know why we dont have the Dangotes in Ghana, why there are no jobs in Ghana and why some us will hate ndc forever? The devilish armed robbery group called PNDC converted t ...
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Did the owners of the seized "Akan" businesses honor their tax obligations and settle all the loans given them by state banks? Just asking....
Who told you they weren't paying tax. Bear in mind that government was not giving loans to people
A few good man
Rawlings destroyed Boakye Mattresses business and other Ghanaian businesses to pave way food for Lebanese and Indian businesses.
Nokware trodooo
Their next move is to destroy ASHANTI businesses to pave way for Togbe Afede and Ibrahim Mahama.
J.J WAS AGAINST THE AKANS
And they want us to vote for the NDC ? THE NDC FOUNDATION IS BASED ON ASHANTI AND KWAHU HATERED. THATS WHY THEY'RE CALLING FOR A COUP , TO FINISH OFF ASHANTI BUSINESSES , THE FIRST CASUALTY WOULD BE KWAME DESPITE. TO MA ...
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Envy by the Ahwoi brothers and lack of deep thinking by the AFRC and PNDC ruined his business in Ghana. RIP...Boakye Mattress
Lol. All the comments so far are from assholes. JJ never hated akans because he was married to one, even though his akan wife was as usual an idiot and a fool.
Look, I don't know who that mattress man was, but today's level ...
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Be frank with yourself, okay? The mattress man in question was not a politician but a businessman who the useless PNDC charged him of not paying taxes.
Now, who made tax laws in Ghana, and who should enforce them? What ar ...
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He hated those that were rich, he thought the rich people were the Ghana problems, in everywhere US, UK Europe Asia the rich people pay low taxes and in some cases like UK they use lopole to avoid paying taxes, the question ...
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In Ghana, companies NEVER paid any taxes, despite making several thousands percentage profits, to the detriment of the individual.
Like seriously,are multinational companies like Mtn and the rest in the free zone given tax holidays like the do it everywhere in the world,so what was wrong by the government then doing same for indigenous businessmen then.
It's a shame rawlings regime collapsed this company, he could allowed to work along with the present company's .
If you were smart, you'd have asked why the man demurred and stayed in Europe if he really wasn't in infraction of the law? The article clearly mentioned TAX EVASION! Ghanaians with a serious aversion for patriotism.
Anyti ...
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Rawlings was indeed a huge curse
RAWLINGS CAME TO DESTROY AKAN, ESPECIALLY ASANTE BUSUINESSES OUT OF JEALOUSY. AND THIS IS WHAT THE PNDC / NDC STANDS FOR. NEVER AGAIN SHOULD WE GIVE SUCH EVIL PEOPLE ANOTHER CHANCE TO RULE GHANA. ELSE WE ARE FINISHED!!
The root of the problem is Afrifa, do your research
Fantastic story of resilience, focus, hard work and dedication against all odds even at old age. May God grant us the courage to emulate same.
J.J.Rawlings also with his inquisitive and tribalistic ideas collapsed TATA BREWERY of Mr. Agyekum.
Great visionary, we need more like him.
And where are they now?? "Onipa nntumi nsee nea Yehowa ehyira no". Bravo Egya Sei.
He invaded tax that's what the writer said even if that is true the western countries were there run too jail people for invading tax
It breaks my heart to read some of the comments. Our problems really started with the overthrow of Nkrumah.Until we understand the vision of the Great man, no leader will be able to pull Ghana up from the depth it has sunk.
The AFRC with Rawlings and co, were in power for less than 180 days (six months) so who did the audit for them to know the companies that were liable for tax? None, the were motivated by hatred and envy and attacked all Ghana ...
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You're right on point! JJ and his AFRC PNDC sadly thought every rich entrepreneur and all market traders were corrupt and therefore brought down as many as they could. If indeed Boakye Mattress had evaded taxes, would he have ...
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