From GH¢15m to GH¢1.5m: President Mahama discloses cost of 68th Independence Day celebration

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  • Orion Consult 9 months ago

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  • NPP SENIOR CITIZEN 9 months ago

    LONG LIVE GHANA, LONG LIVE MAHAMA AND NDC AND ALL GHANAIANS, NPP enemies who want the country downfall will paralysed and die pre mature. AMEN

  • Vornyovie Victory 9 months ago

    Well, that's some cost saved but I hope we will not be penny wise and pound foolish. Or better still pesewa wise and cedi foolish.

  • Propaganda. The celebration is not over, how donyoi know the cost? 9 months ago

    This propaganda in government is nauseating. How can you compute the cost of an on-going celebration?

  • Terminator 1 of jubilee house 9 months ago

    Mahamaliar pocketed the 13.5 million cedis. The Loot and share has began…

  • Asante 9 months ago

    The same strategy, we are not in 2016

  • Bright 9 months ago

    Are you stupid. How do you start a project without knowing the cost to finishing. Dumb.

  • M.T 9 months ago

    Exactly my thought. It could just be a 'copy and paste' expenditure. The effect is the same if you cut the cost into your pockets rather than use to develop the country. Corruption comes in different forms.

  • NPP was much better 9 months ago

    Nkrumah and JJ Rawlings are turning in their graves. Traditional is lost.

  • Ekow 9 months ago

    All this is useless, comparisons are unnecessary, a serious government will not care about these childish mentalities. The NDC cannot do anything innovative for Ghana. Mahama is just a playboy, not a serious person. Any serio ...
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  • Kwaku Tee 9 months ago

    Those PPP Agreements he criminally signed and pocketed on behalf of Ghana for VRA cost 100 times more than he has saved on independence day.Corrupt John Mahama cannot convince we discerning Ghanaians.

  • CURSED NPP 9 months ago

    Kwaku Tee, may Almighty God offer you, Akuffo Addo, and your entire NPPs stroke and other incur diseases.

  • GOATY 9 months ago

    @ornyovie Victory2.next time give idiots like Kwaku Tee facts.

    They hate facts, it breaks them and render their JANDAM useless.

    He lovely JANDAM Party lied their way to office promising heaven on Ghana.
    We ended up wi ...
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  • Yaw 9 months ago

    Why do we have to incur costs celebrating our own independence? Are we really independent as a country, at least from our own African political colonials? The whites were a lot magnanimous to ordinary black person compared to ...
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  • NPP AGENT 9 months ago

    Yaw hypocrite your NPP will never come to power again. Who told you NPP and NDC are the same?

  • GH8 9 months ago

    They are Buckingham bloody the same. Like it or not they all steal from state coffers when in govt. Massa stop being childish and silly. The president himself said if the event was held at Blackstar Square in Accra , not even ...
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  • NII-BI 9 months ago

    Some of you with Illiteracy eeerh!
    Felix disclosed that the whole program would be cut off about 90% of M15 which will be M1.5

    Today Just when the president himself was speaking, he disclosed that 95% of M15 has been cut ...
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  • TAKE OR PAY DEMON 9 months ago

    It is still costly. This president is ignorant. He doesn't know the difference between qualitative benefits and quantitative benefits. The figures he is mentioning are quantitative. It appears he doesn't know the cost of deny ...
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  • Abena 9 months ago

    Teach at where in Ghana? Liars! People with visas are being stopped from boarding the flights at Kotoka

  • Politics has turn to gold mines 9 months ago

    So each and everyone wants to go into politics just to loots

  • Alhaji Komda 9 months ago

    Well I believe the President has learnt from one oh his past expenditures during celebration of Independence Day. That’s a smart move.

  • Nana 9 months ago

    He shd refund all he stole in his 1st term then we will believe him.Ghanaians are sick of his propaganda and lies

  • Joyce Adedepoh 9 months ago

    I believe the percentage savings of 95% was against the new quote of M20GHC (for this year) but not the M15GHC quoted in the article. Therefore savings is actually M19GHC. Actual spend is M1GHC apprx. Well done HE John Mahama ...
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  • Karikakchar 9 months ago

    If your math is bankrupt please give us some peace

  • Sam 9 months ago

    Talk about $1.4 billion of interoperability reduced to $3.5 million. A whopping amount of $1.05 billion was saved. I hope anyone reading this knows the difference between a billion and a million.

  • Mark k 9 months ago

    We thank God for giving us JM as our President. Never again with animal dwarf President.

  • Owusu Amaniampong 9 months ago

    Let's share the remaining money

  • Enyo 9 months ago

    What is wrong with Mahama? The Ghc1.5m was spent on what and the Ghc15m was spent on what? What is the cost benefit analysis? The Koforidua celebrations included the inner road rehabilitation and upgrade, a state of the art y ...
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  • ASK )KAFO) AKUFFO ADDO 9 months ago

    The Koforidua celebration included your Ashawo mother!

  • Alfa 9 months ago

    So what was the reaction of akufo-addo,the mother sarpent of corruption, when the figure was mentioned and how did he feel. Wicked former president.

  • Citizen8 9 months ago

    Low IQ folks like you are easily deceived by cheap propaganda. This is the 5th Independence Day Celebration Mahama is presiding over. What happened with the last four celebrations in terms of cost? We're watching this space i ...
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  • Alfa 9 months ago

    You folks would never agree that you brought the country to the hopless situation we find ourselves now. Looters

  • Citizen8 9 months ago

    Did Mahama leave behind a paradise in 2017? We know you so well like the back of our hands. Don't talk as if you're saints. Mahama is the other side of the same incompetence coin. We don't expect anything much from him. Duka ...
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  • Pelicles. 9 months ago

    What is Mahama trying to tell his stupid supporters? Some of were not born yesterday to clap for such "Cheap" populist nonsense. Does Mahama under what cost means, if yes, why did he sign that bogus power agreement and saddle ...
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  • GOATY 9 months ago

    He is trying to tell Ghanaians if politicians want Ghanaians to work hard and wise to build Mother Ghana, politicians must also be sensible in the way they spend.
    Charity begins at home.
    This is so common knowledge I shou ...
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  • Pelicles. 9 months ago

    Will you spend 50 cedis to have sex while you child is walking barefooted?

  • Tsotsoo 9 months ago

    Thank you Mr President for the huge savings. We need to cut down on unnecessary government spending especially in the public sector because we still have the workers there. Only the heads have changed. We should cut down unn ...
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  • Geeman 9 months ago

    Thank God you are back

  • Bro kwesi 9 months ago

    God blessings JA Kufuor for this vision.Today the venue is Jubilee House aka poultry farm.

  • Joy 9 months ago

    It must be done this way from now going

  • Joe Dee 9 months ago

    I thought it wiuld be less. Hope we aren t going to hear different figures from different angkes like THE 24 HOUR ECONOMY mantra.

  • Kwame Nkrumah 9 months ago

    Common sense

  • Kwame Peter 9 months ago

    If propaganda could develop a nation Kwame Nkrumah and his then ignorant imbeciles would have turned then brand new Ghana into a Singapore,deceive the gullible and loot and they will drum and dance for you. We shall know the ...
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  • Nkrumah doulos 9 months ago

    5 percent of 20 million is a million Ghana cedis.kindly correct your report please

  • Obuobisa 9 months ago

    Should we believe this? Cost of ferrying VIPs alone.....

  • HDondon 9 months ago

    They looted our tax money Those found guilty must cough the money for development npp never again. npp is a horrible party

  • Pelicles. 9 months ago

    Really, which one would you prefer, the "Aboboyaa ambulance and the State-of-the-art ambulance" bought by Nana Addo?

  • Makaa-maka 9 months ago

    Ayekoo but we will like to know how much was spent on economic dialogue and that of parliamentary orientation held in Ho. Monies spent on these two functions could have been used to provide relief items to people who are vict ...
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  • Ernest nawaane 9 months ago

    Well done Mr. President, you are exempt to us

  • Londoner 9 months ago

    How gullible are some Ghanaians? Collins Dauda and his looting brigade are now walking free after syphoning millions of dollars from the State in the Saglemi housing project, and you're here praising Mahama for saving peanuts ...
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  • Bastie the emperor of Kumasi 9 months ago

    Excellent , we should even do it Online next year.

  • bxydy 9 months ago

    what at all was done to cost 1.5million cedis???

  • Kwadwo 9 months ago

    A mark of good leadership. Thank you your excellency

  • Atsu 9 months ago

    Cheap propaganda who don’t know NDC thieves

  • TAKE OR PAY DEMON 9 months ago

    It is still costly. This president is ignorant. He doesn't know the difference between qualitative benefits and quantitative benefits. The figures he is mentioning are quantitative. It appears he doesn't know the cost of d ...
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  • Obroniba 9 months ago

    This is an intelligent President not an idiot. He is setting good precedence for the country. God Almighty made majority of us vote for you to change the corrupt incompetent practices experienced under the previous government ...
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  • Koppong 9 months ago

    Tell us how much was spent during the national economic forum

  • Yoo 9 months ago

    So,this John Mahama guy is still not matured He behaves like a kindergarten pupil. What is the meaning of what he said? Anyway, it is not his fault. He has managed to pull along with Ghanaians, who are as useless as he him ...
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  • Ina 9 months ago

    What is there to celebrate?
    Anyway

  • Appiah Kubi 9 months ago

    Mr. Ptesident you have your own questions and marking it so don't disturbe the people who voted for you.

  • Jigsaw 9 months ago

    Thievery at all costs, same as how much was billed for the interoperability from 1.2 billion dollars by ndc to 450million by NPP.

  • Nkrumah MURDERED JB THAT WAS STILL NOT ENOUGH FOR HIS FOLLOWERS 9 months ago

    NKRUMAH MURDERED JB, THAT WAS STILL NOT ENOUGH FOR NKRUMAH AND HIS FOLLOWERS. THE SPIRIT OF JB CRIES BEFORE GOD FOR JUSTICE; WE DIDN’T THINK NKRUMAH TOO WILL DIE.

  • Nii 9 months ago

    Mr. President when are you cancelling the exgratia as promised. Do that and I will clap for you. Celebrating lndependene at Atta Mills's poultry farm is no achievement.

  • HDondon 9 months ago

    Long life John Mahama and all those who voted for John Mahama and NDC .Amen

  • Aponkye shuaa 9 months ago

    Liars! The President said 95%. And what is 95% of 15 million is 750,000ghc

  • Jerry 9 months ago

    Even the 1.5milliom is too much. Give subtle details

  • Sam 9 months ago

    Disclosing the cost is not enough until details of how the ghs1.5million used is provided as well.

    That will give room to judge whether we have efficient or not.

    They should tell ghanaians of the content of the ghs1.5mi ...
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  • Bastie the emperor of Kumasi 9 months ago

    Fa wo kwasia kɔ do.

    You should rather tell Ghanaians how you spent 250 million dollars on an un completed bank of Ghana and $58 million on a dugout. Ofui

  • Stop the discrimination 9 months ago

    The ordinary Ghanaians must open their eyes, I'm NDC executive yet not happy about the discrimination in the name of cutting budget. You hide to celebrate with selected few. Stop misleading the public with budget control chor ...
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  • Tetteh 9 months ago

    I didn't see the actual figure but if you have been given ghc20m estimate and you saved 95% of that, it will be left with ghc19m. This means that you used only ghc1m. So which one is the ghc1.5m ?

    Only 5% of the estimated ...
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  • Truthfully 9 months ago

    It's good for Ghana however, to be fair, Mahamah should tell is how much he spent during his previous administration.

  • Awo Yaaso 9 months ago

    What will the difference be used for to constantly remind us that when we scaled down the celebration of our independence day this or these are the benefits from the savings.

  • Truthfully 9 months ago

    Celebrating the occasion small is a great idea but comparing this small celebration is like comparing apples and oranges. To be fair, you must compare the cost during your previous presidency and that of Nana Addo.