IT staff at the centre of Ghana's Washington DC embassy scandal Fred Kwarteng speaks

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  • Yaw 10 months ago

    This guy is a thief.. who sent you to DC? Were you not working full time? Whose time were you using for all that you said? Could whatever you said not been integrated into the Ghana portal? You are just making your case even ...
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  • Ike 10 months ago

    I think that some technocrats need to seek advice in the area of compliance and law with respect to these issues.
    It's not wrong to setup your own company to work along side your employer. But there could issues of conflict ...
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  • TAKE OR PAY DEMON 10 months ago

    Fred Kwarteng is perfectly right. When it comes to communication at the various Ministries, Departments and Agencies in Ghana it is very bad. I remember when I sent my foreign certificate to the National Accreditation Board ( ...
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  • Von Pappen 10 months ago

    Hey, gyimifuor ba @TAKE OR PAY..!!!! Per your own narrative that you have copiously presented here, in defense of your colleague thief... (Fred in Washington), I can say unequivocally that you are either a CERTIFIED THIEF you ...
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  • PURE MADNESS AND A COMPLETE HATRED FROM THESE DIVERSIONARY NDC LEADERSHIP TACTICS.FINALLY AGENDA HAS WORKED AS FRIENDS AND FAMILY HAS BEEN PACKED THERE AT THE WASHINGTON EMBASSY AND HAPPY ABLAKWA IS SATISFIED.GHANAIANS ARE WATCHING YOU 10 months ago

    THE WICKEDNESS AND LIES OF THIS NDC LEADERSHIP IS CLEAR AND GODS JUDGEMENT AWAITS THEM.. THE SAME PERSON ABLAKWA WHO CURSED HIMSELF ON PRIVATE JET LIES AND HIS PROMISE TO SACK HIMSELF AND EVENTUALLY COULDN'T HONOR IT NOW CHAS ...
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  • Kweku Tsin 10 months ago

    This is a clear case of conflict of interest. You cannot be employed by an agency then turn around and create a side job within that agency.. it appears that he was also double dipping, doing this side job during embassy work ...
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  • Divine Ninja of America 10 months ago

    In Ghana, you cannot come up with great ideas or solve major societal problems with your own ideas, because the selfish corrupt ones in authority with no ideas will politicize your great ideas and destroy you. This is why we ...
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  • Divine Ninja of America 10 months ago

    Enjoy the practice of political appointments and ensure that all top government officials elected by votes, if you are not fools in authority with corruption and conspiracies to enslave ignorant people who are the most in Gha ...
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  • Divine Ninja of America 10 months ago

    If most of the MPs are not demonic or fools, they would listen and abolish political appointments by constitution to solve Ghana's problems. Your leaders cannot create ideas to solve societal problems because of political app ...
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  • Divine Ninja of America 10 months ago

    You can have money and still be cursed. I caution any corrupt MPs in the Parliament of Ghana against cursing themselves for ignoring what is good for their people while I pray for the good MPs in Parliament who listens to my ...
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  • Divine Ninja of America 10 months ago

    Most Blacks are cursed with poverty because they are; disobedient, stubborn, coward, naïve, indiscipline, indiscipline, unlawful, divided, selfish, greedy, arrogant, useless, unreasonable, untruthful and evil towards one ano ...
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  • Divine Ninja of America 10 months ago

    The evil that men do lives after them. If the refuse to end political appointments, they will curse their land and live in the curse with those they plot to enslave, because we cannot fool God. I prophesy.

  • Life 10 months ago

    Electing appointees will not solve shit. Most politicians,especially the npp stock are thieves.Another set of thieves are civil,public servants,a number of security personnel,technocrats,chiefs,religious leaders,consultants s ...
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  • AB 10 months ago

    Agree with you. Possible conflict of interest, with him working in the consulate. Our embassies do not provide mailing as part of their core services- you the applicant have to provide your own mailing supplies. He (Kwarteng) ...
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  • prophet mohammed was a sick dog 10 months ago

    Qur'an is toilet paper. Burn all mosques in Africa.

  • Apraku 10 months ago

    Ablakwa acted mistakenly ,without getting to the bottom of this case.
    Like always wants to be very important without facts.

    I've now got what this Kwarteng guy is saying. When you go to the Ghana embassy , there happens t ...
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  • Jean 10 months ago

    God bless you VON. These people think we are stupid. how can we ever move forward with this kind of mentality. You decide to charge Ghanaians extr for the same job you are paid to do.

  • Yaw 10 months ago

    You are not serious. So because there is a lack of communication he should add a link to the embassy’s official website. And embassy representing ghana in another country. He be serious

  • Cedi 10 months ago

    Yes, that was a conflict of interest. It seems we don't have a clear law on something like that to prevent government employees to engage in such practices. JM for example, awarded a contract to his brother to acquire and ...
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  • Big Ben 10 months ago

    Mr. Kwarteng's BAD behavior is not limited to the Washington, USA, embassy because the corruption is all over many embassies. His problems:
    1) He used government time to do that work;
    2) He did not say his superiors approve ...
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  • Von Pappen 10 months ago

    Woaaaa look ooo...!!!!! Who really advised this "TINY-BRAINED" NPP THIEF to be spewing out this kind of garbage...???? Fred Kwasia Mampam K3se3..!!!!! If you want to run your own private business, is it the facilities, equipm ...
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  • Prof Kwame Serbeh-Yiadom 10 months ago

    Dear Minister, do you see the angle readers are taking your seemingly innocuous action. Now Mr Kwasi Kwarteng is NPP without and evidence to prove so.

  • Okyeman 10 months ago

    Does this guy know what is called 'conflict of interest'?
    Sorry, bro; you were doing the wrong thing!

  • HOW DIFFERENT WHAT HE DID FROM PARLIAMENTARIANS HAVIBG A SIDE JOB! ! 10 months ago

    Both NDC and NPP Parliamentarians paid with taxpayers money most have a side job.

    How many Parliamentarian Lawyers do not represent their private clients when charged for one offense or the other. From the Adenta NDC MP So ...
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  • Aluta 10 months ago

    I had the same questions. Do they train these staff??? You go to other embassies and consulates. You can see the difference clearly. Our folks are so unprofessional. The immigration service is another corrupt and incompetent ...
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  • Bons 10 months ago

    Do you know how many such services exist in dc providing services for visa and passport applications? The only issue i have with this guy was the conflict of interest which unfortunately isn't a crime. The minister needs to s ...
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  • Lori 10 months ago

    Arrest Kofi Tonto IMMEDIATELY.

  • Comp. 10 months ago

    He will deny everything even if seen having an affair with his legally married wife. Thieves and thief.

  • Torpedo 10 months ago

    Aboafunu, wasn't Asiedu Nketia board chairman of bui dam and selling them blocks, hasn't mahama gave his wife 20 million to import pads and isn't mahama using his brother plane travelling outside ghana. The issue here is a c ...
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  • TWEAA DC 10 months ago

    OKUJETO ABLAKWA IS STILL HIRING PRIVATE JETS FOR THE PRESIDENT AND THE VICE.... UNPRINCIPLED PRINCIPLED MINISTER...TWEAA.

  • Enyo 10 months ago

    Stop being stupid and read the article carefully. He provided a service to facilitate consul services. He is not guilty for doing that if that’s the truth. If that’s the truth then the minister is being overzealous and bl ...
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  • Unkomoti-Hawaii 10 months ago

    Okrojato baby with sharp teeth and too known, he is criminal than Ataa.Ayi

  • Toto 10 months ago

    These criminals are quick to run to these NPP stations to white wash themselves

  • Poor Africa must think again 10 months ago

    Sometimes people think they are smart. Why were you employed there in the first place? Was it not because of your intellectual capacity? Was it not to improve services? Did you seek clearance from government? Why did you a pu ...
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  • Knowledge 10 months ago

    On point I wanted to ask same questions.

  • Obaa Sima 10 months ago

    You need to shut up. As an embassy staff, what stopped you from ensuring that the embassy included these tasks in its delivery of service to the general public? In any case, this was part of the service and we usually had to ...
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  • Truth 10 months ago

    It is not about any crime committed but ablakwa wants it to be done by his boys but not you.

  • Donald Trump 10 months ago

    This is balderdash. You are an enemy of progress. You name will be etched in the books as a crooked IT staff at the Embassy.

  • NDC PAID MEDIA COMMUNICATORS AT WORK.ABLAKWA IS QUICK TO FIRE EMBASSY STAFF AND COULDN'T FIRE HIMSELF ON VICE PRESIDENT PRIVATE JET SAGA UPON ABLAKWAS OWN PROMISE????MAY GOD FORGIVE YOUR HYPOCRISY AND WICKED AGENDA WITH ALL THE DIVERSIONAL TACTICS 10 months ago

    ABLAKWA SHOULD BE SEEN AS THE MOST SELFISH AND A VERY DUBIOUS FELLOW AND PEOPLE OF THIS CHARACTER WILL HAV TO SUFFER STROKE AND BLINDNESS.MAY GOD PUNISH HIM AND HIS ENTIRE FAMILY FOR ALL THE WICKEDNESS AND LIES ON GHANAIANS

  • MyBigMouth 10 months ago

    Is this guy serious? You open your mouth too wide and you confirm your stupidity.
    My brother you have raised more questions than answers

  • Donatus 10 months ago

    You were in a business competing with your employer? Which lawyer advised you to compete with your employer? Now you see?

  • Donatus 10 months ago

    Did you disclose this to your employer? when? Year.

  • Kwame 10 months ago

    Master, did you Register your activities as a Business? If so did you disclosed it to the Ministry of foreign affairs? How much Tax have you paid on the such activities to the United States government and Ghana?
    You are a di ...
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  • Is his business operating in Ghana? 10 months ago

    Woas3e as3m no

  • HOW DIFFERENT WHAT HE DID FROM PARLIAMENTARIANS HAVING A SIDE JOB! ! 10 months ago

    Both NDC and NPP Parliamentarians paid with taxpayers money most have a side job.

    How many Parliamentarian Lawyers do not represent their private clients when charged for one offense or the other. From the Adenta NDC MP So ...
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  • Nanjo Z 10 months ago

    Another thief is here. Wire whose money and chase wasap. Funny boy

  • Asakramitoga 10 months ago

    Listen to this criminal. Arrest him for jail

  • THE TRUE SWORD 10 months ago

    Fred Kwarteng did you create the website in your name? You rather used the embassy’s credentials or something in semblance with the existent website to formalize your crime and you think there was or there is nothing wrong? ...
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  • HOW DIFFERENT WHAT HE DID FROM PARLIAMENTARIANSS HAVING A SIDE JOB! ! 10 months ago

    Parliamentarians use their govt paid Parliamentary time to represent clients in Court. How different is that from what Mr Kwarteng is doing?

  • Kwame 10 months ago

    Master, did you Register your activities as a Business? If so did you disclosed it to the Ministry of foreign affairs? How much Tax have you paid on the such activities to the United States government and Ghana?
    You are a di ...
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  • Stop lying 10 months ago

    You guys were moving from state to state in America doing passport and overcharging,
    Tell me i am lying

  • JB 10 months ago

    Thank you my brother. Here in Colorado too. We are our own enemies

  • Shut up 10 months ago

    Conflict of interest. Doing business within someone’s business. Your case is even worse this time. Who even advised you to talk? Sugar has entered your brain.

  • HOW DIFFERENT WHAT HE DID FROM PARLIAMENTARIANSS HAVING A SIDE JOB! ! 10 months ago

    Why do govt pay MPs who use that time to represent private clients in Court. They drive to Court in their govt subsidised cars? Is that different from what Mr. Kwarteng is doing?

  • Know your boundaries 10 months ago

    The government should prosecute this guy
    He is a thief and crook benefiting from his employer unduly

  • Ken 10 months ago

    Confident thief

  • Be Honest 10 months ago

    With all politics aside, this guy was providing services that was not offered by the embassy. The optics may not be right because he worked at the embassy but any body could have provided the same services and would not be co ...
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  • Wanchupp 10 months ago

    Shut up there with all your JSS comments.....!!! If he has a service to offer, ask him to resign. You a such a nasty and irritating fool

  • Kofi 10 months ago

    Kwarteng what you did was the responsibility of the embassy for which fees were paid to the embassy. Since you diverted some of the services to your private business there was a conflict of interest and you short changed the ...
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  • HOW DIFFERENT WHAT HE DID FROM PARLIAMENTARIANSS HAVING A SIDE JOB! ! 10 months ago

    Both NDC and NPP Parliamentarians paid with taxpayers money most have a side job.

    How many Parliamentarian Lawyers do not represent their private clients when charged for one offense or the other. From the Adenta NDC MP So ...
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  • Edward 10 months ago

    Do you understand conflict of interest? Please don't pretend to be smart. You are a thief and you have been caught.

  • Alokoto 10 months ago

    That guy should be immediately arrested, prosecuted and jailed. Thieves everywhere you find Ghanaians. Even in Heaven and hell.

  • Aluta 10 months ago

    I don’t know whether thee staff are trained. There needs to be training on these items. It appears just party boys and girls are sent to these places. Probably better qualified folks were bypassed for these incompetent and ...
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  • GhanaBeyond Aid 10 months ago

    Thief mindset that is typical of the political Mafia cartel. He seems to have just confessed of his crime publicly without knowing that his stupid excuses are illogical and flawed. He certainly had a conflict of interest and ...
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  • Miagy Soft 10 months ago

    Fred Kwarteng your a thieve all those talks with Asempa is bullocks, obviously your a thieve

  • Major 10 months ago

    Asantemanians will always find a way to steal when there is no way. Illiterate criminals.

  • Alpha Romeo 10 months ago

    It is difficult to comprehend the logic of this thief. Instead of keeping quite and thinking about his impending term in jail, he has decided to further insult the intelligence of Ghanaians with this trash. Unfortunately, any ...
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  • Donald T 10 months ago

    He thinks he is being clever. He should be jailed to serve as a deterrent to others

  • HOW DIFFERENT IS WHAT HE DID FROM PARLIAMENTARIANS HAVIBG A SIDE JOB! ! 10 months ago

    Both NDC and NPP Parliamentarians paid with taxpayers money most have a side job.

    How many Parliamentarian Lawyers do not represent their private clients when charged for one offense or the other. From the Adenta NDC MP So ...
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  • Wanchupp 10 months ago

    Chale, your brain is equal to that of an ant. Go and sleep. Grown ups are talking here, not teenage junkies

  • The question he asks is legitimate! 10 months ago

    Nonesense, if you can answer him please do. He is askibg a legitimate question. Why do Parliamentarians take side jobs . And if they do what prevents other public servants from taking other jobs or setting up their side busi ...
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  • s))mli 10 months ago

    Please keep quiet. Talk to a Lawyer. You are admitting to a crime. YOU NEED A LAWYER NOT A RADIO STATION.

  • Nana 10 months ago

    YAW YOU SEE HOW FOOLISH YOU AND FATHER IS. YOU JUST PUT IT THERE LIKE THAT IT YOU AND YOUR FATHER WHO SENT HIM TO DC.HE HAS NOT DONE ANYTHING WRONG ANYWHERE. HE IS IN DC WAITING FOR YOUR COURT DATE. YOU GUYS BELIEVE IN EVERYT ...
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  • Asea Ho 10 months ago

    What an institutional approved scammer! In 2012, I renewed my wife's and my passport without paying any third party. I leaved in DE then. Allwe did was to go online, fill the application form, pay online and go to the USPost ...
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  • BECAUSE THE WESTERN COUNTRIES DECIDED TO OUTSOURCE THEIR VISA & PASSPORT PROCESSES! ! 10 months ago

    Nothing happened. Just that the UK and Europeans started it by outsourcing their visa and passport processes to companies like Indian owned VFS Global so Ghanaians thought its fun to follow suit!

  • Ghana 10 months ago

    Only in Ghana does criminals have a voice, people think taking money from Ghanaians is OK, people come out with all sort of rubbish to milk Ghana, this idiot operations is not different from SML scandal, he should be prosecut ...
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  • Prof. USA 10 months ago

    This guy is a greedy fool. I personally applied for a visa twice during the period that this thief worked at the embassy but I never knew I was paying money to a private entity for those services that Fred Kwarteng is spewing ...
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  • yaw 10 months ago

    You are police officer, then you turn round and say because when you take criminals to court it takes a long time to prosecute them so you have come up with an idea to create your own fast truck court to assist offenders for ...
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  • Kweku FRIMPONG 10 months ago

    This is stupidity at its best. It is admission of guilt! Guilty as charged. This is big time conflict of interest.

  • Truth man 10 months ago

    while I paid $10:50 to mail my priority passport and form to them, they charged $31 to return only the passport/ visa.
    Why should it be mandatory for one to order the priority mailing package from the embassy?
    NY consulate ...
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  • Ei NPP 10 months ago

    He is Npp so what do you expect?

  • Nana addo men 10 months ago

    You are thief idiot Npp criminals another wutumi get him arrested immediately bring all the money you looted Npp. Criminals lawyers go and protect him nation wreckers criminals.

  • Afeto Kwasi 10 months ago

    This bull shit. You are all thieves. Why wouldn't accept my post?

  • AK 10 months ago

    Fred, go to court. Let the court vindicate you or otherwise.

  • Adjoa Aidoo Esq. 10 months ago

    Criminals are becoming bolder and bolder by the.
    And he is offered the platform to display this level of stupidity!

  • Pat 10 months ago

    Stupid thief. Wrong and bold. Is that not a conflict of interest?

  • Holy Sinner 10 months ago

    OTHER SERVICES he said. These guys think we are dumb, you statement as you have put across implicate you Mr Kwarteng.You guys make people think you are being witch haunted but the reality is that you are a nation wrecking TH ...
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  • GEORGIO 10 months ago

    Ghana web, we need more updates on Dr Anna fake , bring her back to board, we need her to explain more about her life

  • Maame Akosua 10 months ago

    Minister of Foreign Affairs, yes conflict of interest you may say. But you dismissing him dier i am not for it.

    Be careful ooo


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  • Jeffie 10 months ago

    The embassy home staff and local are beneficials of Kwateng scheme they have it’s results.The Ghana Embassy in Washington DC is prone for corruption for a long time and this is mainly from the home staff right to local staf ...
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  • Yaw Asamoah 10 months ago

    You are a criminal !

    Can’t you a conflict of interest????

    You are a big fool!!

  • Joe Bee Accra 10 months ago

    Close the whole embassy and create embarrassment to the nation !! Sinister attempt to send their chose people to DC .... Reset my arse !!

  • Kudjoe 10 months ago

    Conflict of interest! Lies!

  • Citizen vigilante 10 months ago

    Hmmmmm. Lies nkooaaa, we remember 3000 containers at the Tema Port, reduced to 2500, then 1350 missing, then 700 being transported to to NIB office, then 49 found at Chinese shop, then finally finally NO Containers missing . ...
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  • Zionism is racism 10 months ago

    So for man using one's position for self enrichment is not criminal. If this is part of Akan culture, then Ghana is in deep trouble.

  • Richie 10 months ago

    NONSENSE and STUPIDITY is the Embassy your Personal Property? You even have mouth to talk NONSENSE. You're not Arrested.

  • Stones 10 months ago

    London is even worst of all, if you are someone with heart in your sleeve, you better seek for advice from emotional experts before going to the Ghana high commission

  • Prof Kwame Serbeh-Yiadom 10 months ago

    Truly, what and where is the crime here? Of course, the opportunity is a loophole which can be blocked but it will have to be replaced by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. It makes me wonder if the Minister's over excitement c ...
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  • DR OKANTEY 10 months ago

    Really! I think you are a fake doctor. There's no way someone who has achieved that title legitimately, will make that kind of argument.
    Conflict of interest is a thing! Look it up. Come back and lets talk after that.

  • Aluta 10 months ago

    @Yiadom, where do you teach at? You are a sorry case of a human. Google what’s called conflict of interest. If you are what education turns one into, then give me illiteracy any day. Tweaa.

  • I. Kofi 10 months ago

    How are those return labels being purchased? They are free USPS envelopes. Creating labels are automatic and take less than a minute per label. Stop playing around. I ran a business for years and I know for sure that thos ...
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  • Wind 10 months ago

    See you ? Authorities should investigate this guy . It’s childish ! Hell no . Oyebo would never do this..

  • Achakanapaya 10 months ago

    NPP are full of shameless thieves and Lai's. They won't agree even if they are caught right in the act.
    NPP is a criminal organisation.

  • KWASI IN EUROPE 10 months ago

    The guy is a thief. What services is he talking about without giving even one specific evidence?

  • Definition 10 months ago

    Conflict Of Interest= Something bad but not applicable to the party in power.

  • Definition 10 months ago

    For as we write the current government appointees are busy CONFLICTING their INTERESTS.

  • Eric Newton 10 months ago

    Another failure in Government Systems. Why not centralized all Embassies across the world to a single point of Database at Ministry of Foreign Affairs...

  • Kwame Begro 10 months ago

    Nonsense. Why didn’t you open the idea up for every businessperson to compete for the so-called services you were provided. Did you go through a competitive process with ithers to ensure that the customers were getting the ...
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  • Nii Joromi 10 months ago

    A crook trying to defend the indefensible. If he was using work hours to do his private business with government resources he has to pay a hefty fine or be sent to filthy Nsawam. Another educated criminal.

  • KofSam 10 months ago

    Fred Kwateng has just admitted to his crimes with the crafted explanation of his scheme. The services that he provided was in collaboration with the embassy staff and he needs to be investigated.

  • Addai Sarfo 10 months ago

    Sorry Mr kwarteng. I think there is cpnflict of interest. Your best uption was to resigh and set up that business and seek the embassy's link. Thank you.

  • Jaman 10 months ago

    This guy has no shame. If you don’t see anything wrong with what you did, the best place for you is the mental institution.

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  • Nothing 10 months ago

    I learnt from other news portals, that, the foreign affairs minister, okudzeto ablakwa , has sacked Fred kwarteng , from the embassy. In fact, his action simply amounts to sheer conflicts of interest. Why was he using state ...
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  • Lucky 10 months ago

    Nonsense! How did Clients outside identify you as the one who could work on their return labels? Be careful!

  • thetruth 10 months ago

    intellectual property idea, my foot!

  • Kwame Prah 10 months ago

    Stupid boy. Do you understand conflict of interest. Was you company approved or accredited by the embassy to provide those services. Who gave you the permission to use the landing page of the embassy website if it was differe ...
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  • Owusu Agyei, Suhum 10 months ago

    The mindset and attitude of npp towards the republic of ghana. Always trying to circumvent the system to make cheap money. The reset is seriously blocking all these nonsense.

  • 12345 10 months ago

    without any shred of evidence, the energy says containers are being stolen and sold.
    without any shred of evidence, the foreign minister claims an embassy staff is siphoning monies.
    Go and check,99% of the containers were s ...
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  • world 10 months ago

    ndc party leaders and members pull him or her down,when is the 24 hr economy going to start?.

  • Nkrumalist 10 months ago

    So if you have innovated a way to service clients better to help them dealing with the embassy then why didn’t you resign and stick to your company rendering service deliveries to the client but rather functioning within t ...
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  • Afeto Kwasi 10 months ago

    The practice by the embassy was to request applicants to include pre-paid self-addresd envelopes with the application. He exploited this to his advantage. I used both approaches. His explanation is bull shit. They are all thi ...
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  • JULOR CAESAR 10 months ago

    He's nothing but a shameless unrepentant crook.