Roads Minister responds to World Bank’s Big Push warning

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  • Kwame Nkrumah 1 day ago

    Foolish world bank. We should struggle and lean forward. Look who is talking at the world bank. What is his background. Roads and highways is cocoa, gold, and a natural resources. World bank shut up!!!!

  • SULLEY 1 day ago

    You NDC fooled soldiers will always come and insults at whoever talks sense against your failures. For nineteen months you've allowed legacy road projects to rot on the roads while you're making noise about the so-called Big ...
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  • STGHFUO: Monkey see, Monkey do 1 day ago

    So after all these years this party does not have a blueprint for financing roads and highway construction? You have to borrow to do these? Other nations use taxes, public private partnerships go on Gemini and obtain idea gh ...
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  • FRANKIE 1 day ago

    These fvcken Aryan Caucasian rascals. The modafvcker Bretton woods secular trinity of the IMF & co have always been the bane of our underdevelopment. Fvck them! How about building our maintenance capacity!

  • Kofi 1 day ago

    World Bank , IMF and those institutions are not happy that, the government is not borrowing from them. They want the previous government borrowing and they can not control themselves.

  • Aduomi 1 day ago

    If you had any sense and not blinded by npp colors, you would know that the world bank doesn't mean us well. They will try and discourage us from being self sufficient... Have you u ever heard the world bank advising against ...
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  • TRUTH 1 day ago

    So was the World bank in Ghana when Atta Ofori was borrowing their Eurobinds like cheap gari soaking?

    This is better than loans for roads.

  • Kkkk 1 day ago

    Just see the pain the World Bank and IMF seem to be in because Ghana is making some progress without running to them so they can impose their conditionalities on us.
    These are the people the NPP wants to make us believe lov ...
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  • Test2 21 hours ago

    WITHOUT WORLD BANK GHANA WOULD NOT BE A COUNTRY
    BECAUSE WITH ALL YOUR COCOA GOLD OIL MAGANESE BAUXITE TIMBER DIAMOND ETC YOU STILL BORROW FROM WORLD BANK
    ISNT IT A SHAME
    YOUR POLITICIANS SRE THIEVES

  • Michael 1 day ago

    So the World Bank does not want the govt to construct the roads or what? What is maintenance burden compared to the economic benefits that come with good road network?
    Is the World Bank serious at all? Do they say this to ot ...
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  • Abu 1 day ago

    Good job Minister. We should by now know that the WB is like any other bank that we know. The more you mismanage yourself the better it is for them so that you come running to them for loans with outrageous interest rates.

  • LONGJOHN 1 day ago

    THE WORLD BANK HAS SEEN HOW THE COUNTRY IS BEING RUN NOW WE ARE NOT GOING FOR LOANS SO THEY SAY ANYTHING FOR AFENYO AND HIS COHERTS TO SMEAR THE CURRENT GOVENMENT

  • Prof 1 day ago

    Why is the world Bank and IMF so jittery about Ghana's improved and smart financing arrangements. They always want us to beg them for funds so that they will perpetually control us. All the complaints about Goldbod and the ro ...
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  • kulbogo 1 day ago

    A minister who can't speake good english, this are the people the useless ndc claimed they have the men, the paid bloggers would visit this platform to insult kulbogo and trust me guys i enjoy your insults so much,

  • NOT THE AKUFFO-ADDO TYPE,PLEASE- Ghanawatch 1 day ago

    We need people who are competent and deliver and not the Akuffo-Addo type who speak the queen's english but cannot deliver and like Ofori Atta who is now a fugitive thief in America.

  • STGHFUO: Monkey see, Monkey do 1 day ago

    Idiot if you can't communicate ropperly to foreigners to seek financing, broker finance deal and even seek public private partnerships to build and maintain roads..how can you be effective? Afuom.gyimifuo investors don't spea ...
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  • Zebuntie Zaato 1 day ago

    Like Kwesi Bekoe of Goldman Sach? Or Richard Ahiagbah and Palgrave of Wontumi camp. English and Political Science keke. Apuuuu

  • TRUTH 1 day ago

    @so this monkey see, monkey do can not use his faculties at all.

    At least, try using it a bit.

    How did those foreigners generate enough wealth to wait for an English speaking African to come and borrow some?

    Again, h ...
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  • Akufo Addo 1 day ago

    Kulbogo kwasiampanin, even Ofori Attah who couldn't construct one good sentence was once a minister in this country. Kwasia aboa mu aboa. Mmoa bi ba

  • Akufo Addo 1 day ago

    *Amoako Atta

  • Afetor Kwasi 1 day ago

    Is this writing good English?

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  • Achakanapaya 1 day ago

    What at all is wrong with this world Bank and the IMF??? They are evil forces pulling Africa backwards. They should leave Ghana alone.
    They are enemies of progress.
    Evil people.
    The white Man is the representative of the d ...
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  • Abusua 1 day ago

    So are they saying that because of our lack of maintenance culture we shouldn't build quality roads. I'm really shocked unless maybe the world bank might have been misunderstood. Because in the advanced countries what you see ...
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  • Joe 1 day ago

    God bless you my brother, Honourable

  • Kofi 1 day ago

    Why don't you use the big push money to construct railways which are more everlasting?

  • Of 1 day ago

    As for good English please English is not out language so you have no point but there is nothing wrong if the world bank caution us because world bank is our partners in development

  • Yellow man 1 day ago

    Political talk

  • We Need THE BIG PUSH in the Water Sector 1 day ago

    Water is not reaching our homes ooooooo, Mr. President

  • Zaga 1 day ago

    Forget world bank and develop the country

  • SAWUA MENSAH 1 day ago

    MAJORITY OF NPP SUPPORTERS ARE ILLITERATES THAT'S WHY THEY BELIEVE WHOEVER SPEAKS FLUENT ENGLISH IS INTELLIGENT.THE QUESTION ASK IS WAS FORMER ROAD MINISTERS AMOAKO ATTA AND ASENSO BOAKYE SPEAKING GOOD ENGLISH THAN AGBODZA WH ...
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  • Let Us Give Honourable Agbozo A Chance. 1 day ago

    Put your partisan lenses and bias aside and allow this hard working road minister to do his work.
    I believe the minister of Roads, in the person of Honourable Mr Agbozo is a genuine and serious man on the job. Let’s give h ...
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  • Let Us Be Constructive In Our Criticisms. 1 day ago

    Please let our comments rather be constructive instead of vilifying every opponent.

  • George 1 day ago

    Well Mr Roads Minister. I hope what you said will happen when the roads are constructed. However, l will believe you when I see that there is a system in place for roads maintenance. I am sorry to say we black people are not ...
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  • Kwabee - shai 1 day ago

    The entire African continent should be wary of the IMF, the world bank and the West. You see what they are telling us. They want us to drive in potholes rather than building the roads. Because of maintenance burden we should ...
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  • Dr. Spider 1 day ago

    Roads are good. The most effective transportation in the developed world is TRAIN. Imagine a single line from Tema to Takoradi. Then from Accra, Koforidua, Kumasi, via Sunyani to Tamale are in operation; consider job opportun ...
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  • TRUTH 1 day ago

    Did the World bank suggest an alternative?

    Another opportunity to prove them wrong. I see the reason to invest in a much more expensive venture such as light trains and inter-city trains, but that also require heavy maint ...
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  • Francis B. 1 day ago

    The World Bank is warning the NDC government because it knows that the projects are too many and there is no way all of them can be completed in the next two years.and some may be abandoned by the next government. Again, t ...
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  • TRUTH 23 hours ago

    @Francis,, don't just state the problems, use your brains to suggest solutions.

    Many of these roads were started by previous governments and NDC is just continuing them.

    Should we limit our economy as the population gr ...
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  • Northern Boy 23 hours ago

    Thank God today we have a trusted, dedicated, winning team. I hope they never take their eyes off the ball. Bravo!!

  • Kwam 20 hours ago

    Hmmm!! I travelled yesterday from Takoradi to Afloa and must admit at some sections of the corridor work has virtually come to a halt. I don't know why the slow down? The government must find money to complete these projec ...
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  • Boba 19 hours ago

    I think let's think through the caution. He could have sounded it better than he did but I'm equally happy to hear the Minister's response. However another sector that needs critical and urgent attention is rail to lift heavy ...
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  • Jo 17 hours ago

    Always long English. Keep talking

  • Mandela 15 hours ago

    Securing financing is not the issue. The use of the money is crucial. So far, you're just throwing money in the air, running around and screaming to so-called contractors to finish the work, or be terminated. Are you serious? ...
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