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Ghana's seized Gold: What the Mehr News Agency Reported

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  • Omanba, Chicago IL. 11 years ago

    This is rubbish.

  • THE TRUTH HURTS 11 years ago

    God will punish all ndc members. absulute nonsence. mahama and his generations will never know peace on this planet earth. they will also burn in hell when they die.

  • KO 11 years ago

    GOD HAVE AND BLESS OUR HOMELAND GHANA. EEEI ASEM SE BE.

  • ASIEDU NKETIA 11 years ago

    Eei,Mahama,wabodin adooso. Onipa baako, wo ye okoromfo,awi balawo.woye otorofo, atopahene, wosan ye owudini {Atta mills wudini)tra ase saa, na da a Onyame abufuhyew beba wo so no no, apon ba mpo so beba mfaso asen wo.

  • OLD SOLDIER 11 years ago

    Source: Daily Guide...

    All of a sudden nonentities want to portray to the world how close they were to the late President.

    Those who had to chat with him for one hour everyday, those Deputy Ministers who had to call h ...
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  • remember 11 years ago

    The govt must extremely be care about how it goes about its business.
    I hope they dont want Ghana to be blacklisted as one of the countries helping to finance terrorism by the international community.
    Ghana's democracy shou ...
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  • KNYC (USMC) 11 years ago

    Say all U want to say is a fact. Call the news rubbish and sit there in your BACKWARD self at that Country side Omanba and get shot at, by Chicago getto boys your GOLD is on the line. F all NDC.

  • OLD SOLDIER 11 years ago

    Author:.. PRINCE KWASI ADADE

    ...IT IS CLEAR THE GREEDY CORRUPT NDC BASTARDS AND CRIMINAL AFARI GYAN'S EC RIGGED THE ELECTION, HOWEVER, MANY VOTERS WERE ON THE SIDE OF THE EVIL NDC DWARFS. WHEN THE HISTORY IS TOLD, IT WILL ...
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  • Pito Brewer 11 years ago

    Absolute garbage! The NPP zealots are really in dire straits.

  • Kojo Billy Duncan 11 years ago

    Mehr News Agency claims to have sourced this story from Associated Press. A check on AP's website does not come up with anything related to this story. It is obviously concocted by nation-wreckers.

  • d joe.CONNECTICUT U.S.A 11 years ago

    ANOTHER USESLESS CONCOCTED STORY BY THE LOSSER NPP IN OPPOSITION LED BY THE LEADER OF THE DANQUAH INSTITUTE ;GABBY OKYERE DARKO.TRY SOMETHING WISER NEXT TIME THIS USELESS PROPAGANDER TO DISCREDIT AND MAKE THE NEW GOVERNMENT U ...
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  • Akadu Mensema 11 years ago

    Duh!

  • KNYC (USMC) 11 years ago

    Call it all U want. The fact that You know something about it thatz what you call it. Backward self.

  • Fellow citizen. 11 years ago

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  • Michael Bokor 11 years ago

    @djoe, This not concocted story, there is credible evidence from international media that this story is true. Now what is left for is that the government of Ghana to explain what all this is about. Government must also try to ...
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  • Vuvuzela 11 years ago

    I have maintained my attention was drawn to an article on it in seneweb.com and other international media.

    The Govt. is already rubbishing it as futile but with no convincing argument worth of trust and substance.

  • KROHEKROH 11 years ago

    Since the Obama administration and the EU started tightening the sanctions on Iranian banking sector, it has become next to impossible to pay Iran for its oil and gas in dollars, sterling, deutchmark or Euros, this has led to ...
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  • MENSAH 11 years ago

    Why denying then,if GHANA is using its GOLD to batter for oil,gas?

  • Akwadaa Swiss. 11 years ago

    UR STORY AND THE ARTICLE IS NOT QUITE CLEAR,IF IRAN & TURKEY ARE SUCH TRADE PARTNERS AS U CLAIM,THEN THIS DEAL WLD NEVER BE EXPOSED BCOS OF JUST §2000-BUT SOMEHOW-WHY IS DE PRESIDENT JUST AT THIS TIME IN TURKEY? AND FOR WHAT ...
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  • So.so 11 years ago

    Ghanaians have voted for a fool and now look at what's happening in our dear country.after taking northers to be his presidential aid,they are now stealing the country's gold in the name of barter for their own selfish gain,w ...
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  • Mr David Amenyo 11 years ago

    This is a good opinion, to sell Ghana gold to the Turks worth$80million( sieze is not in this matter) and order 2 boing 777commercial airline and a cargo aircrafts to be our courier aircraft for gold export. Why use turk carg ...
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  • OH GHFUO, WHY SO PRIMITIVE? 11 years ago

    GOLD SEIZURE...
    TYPE "1.5 Tons Of Gold Bound For Iran Seized on Plane In Turkey" VIDEO ON YOU TUBE
    GH IS ONE OF THE WORLDS TOP GOLD PRODUCERS. YET 25PERCENT OF ITS POPULATION LIVE UNDER 1 DOLLAR A DAY
    Today's gold price = ...
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  • Kofi Dadie 11 years ago

    This is what happens when the powers above want to show their disapproval of vice. Strange coincidences occur that expose evil deeds done in secret. You cannot hide the truth. Onyame ayi ne nsa wo NDC fo to. How dumb can the ...
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  • Alex London 11 years ago

    Hi d joe,
    You appear to be blinded by partisan mentally. This incident was first reported by some international press in January 2, It has just come to the surface in Ghana.This is not a concocted story. Google the incident ...
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  • PROF -- THOMAS KUBI -- McA INT 11 years ago

    IN AFRICA WE LACK DYNAMIC MAKETING
    OF OUR COMMODITIES=MARKETING AFRIKA===
    COCOA INDUSTRY IS COLLAPSED ???
    GOLD IS NOT STRUCTERED
    OUR FOOD IS WASTED=www.customermertro.com
    . NO MARKETI ...
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  • insight to the bone 11 years ago

    the moslems are regrouping to try again to defeat the west and our moslem king with his alajih packed cabinet have secretly aligned themselves to this organization and paid homage and dues to the Turks by giving a contributio ...
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  • Nana Ampem Agyei (Demo.,Toronto 11 years ago

    well, i believe that, if this is true then , the UN, US and the EU must sanction the so called Mahama NDC government for this secret gold transaction of stealing......NDC thieves eh Awurade come down to save Oman Ghana.... ...
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  • ASHKENAZI 11 years ago

    IF THIS IS THE REPORT THAT GABBY OKYERE DARKO READ, THEN THE GUY IS NOT INTELLIGENT AT ALL. NO WONDER HE FAILED IN HIS LAW EXAMS UNTIL ANSAH ASARE DECIDED TO POLITICALLY GIVE IT TO HIM. NO WONDER HE DOES NOT AND CAN NOT PRACT ...
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  • Nana Ampem Agyei (Demo.,Toronto 11 years ago

    The socalled NDC government and compatriots have hijacked Ghana to financial social and economic doldrums....mismanagement and overlapping of functions.

  • ADELE PALMAS 11 years ago

    GOLD IN EXCHANGE FOR AMUNITIONS SHAME
    UNTO NDC GOVT.

  • John Carslake 11 years ago

    Even if this gold had originated in Ghana, and that's not clear, it does not necessarily belong to the Ghana government. The mining company which extracted it owns it and sells it to whoever wants to do pay its debts in gold ...
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  • Cantankerous 11 years ago

    One would have thought that Turkey having their desperate attempts to join the EU spurned repeatedly by the Europeans would have learned by now that they are not wanted in Europe.Turkey as a NATO member was of course useful t ...
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  • LEW 11 years ago

    look if u have problem with turkey fine mr international relations...our sorrow in Ghana is using political power to steal. dis is why i hate greedy leaders?GOD IS WATCHING

  • lawrence 11 years ago

    SO THIS IS HOW YOU HAVE STATED, 1.5 TONS OF GOLD TO IRAN, YOUR FIRST WEEKS AS PRESIDENT, so,IF this is truth. then from how they HIDE them WITH OUT PAPERS, then you are trying to show that, GHANAIANS HAVE GIVE YOU, THE NDC M ...
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  • Kwaku 11 years ago

    My advice to every Ghanaian is to make sure you steal whatever state asset you come across,don't let your conscience deceive you just steal.After all our president is also a thief,can't you see what happened in Adenta Vodafon ...
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  • WISEMAN 11 years ago

    I dont think this is the first time.Or the only mineral they are stealing from us.We are DOOM if we think we can TRUST this N.D.C.Goverment

  • Santa 11 years ago

    1.5 tons of gold is just not more than even 2 bars , so this story seems funny.
    One thousand kilos =1 ton
    1.5 tons is = one thousand five hundred kilos. how funny it is for a government to steal just that amount of gold.

  • K4 11 years ago

    International Media and Credibility indeed!! If we so believe International media intoto how come we are selective ......when international media said NPP lost the elections the NPP claimed otherwise.......now another interna ...
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  • Kofi Dadie 11 years ago

    K4 your logic is so lopsided and warped, it would make little sense to try and straighten it for you. You would not understand.Foreign press houses reporters who were not in Ghana during the elections parroting the propaganda ...
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  • MAHAMA ATOPAHENE 11 years ago

    ONYAME GYA BEHYE NDC MAHAMA MOST,OH OH OH OMAN GHANA WE DONT HAVE A GOOD GOVT AT ALL,GOD SAVE GHANA FROOM THIS THIEVES,CORRUPTS,EVIL DWARFS,WOYOME GANGATUAN DEPTS HANDS,MAHAMA DONT CARE 4 US,ONLY BIG TALKS BIG SHAME TO MAHAMA ...
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  • kast 11 years ago

    President Mahama Back From Turkey Business Trip
    By GNA
    President John Dramani Mahama Of Ghana President John Dramani Mahama Of Ghana

    "DON'T GIVE ME YOUR FISH, TEACH ME TO FISH!" By: STEPHEN OPOKU MENSAH
    More Quotes ...
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  • JJ RAWLINGS, JERUSALEM 11 years ago

    REMEMBER IRAN HELPED US WITH PERSONNEL DURING THE MELCOM DISASTER

  • MENSAH 11 years ago

    Was Mahama saying the truth when he denied yesterday that the GHANA GOLD SEISURE was not true?
    That is what GHANA should ask him.

  • VICTOR OWUSU 11 years ago

    Ghanaians must be careful about the type of government we vote for.We are in a country where judgment debts are paid dubiously.Will the so called Commission come out with credible finding from GHANAS GOLD SEIZED IN TURKEY?We ...
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