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MPs GHC13.5 million Rent allowance Outrageous - PPP

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  • JAMES Y 11 years ago

    Ghanaians are being ripped off by the Parliamentarians. I suspect it will become worst when the oil money flows.

  • TerriblY Spe cifiC 11 years ago

    WHY ARE NPP MPS QUIET OVER PAYMENT OF THESE MONIES? WE THOUGHT THEY WOULD GO ON BOYCOTT ON THIS ALLOWANCE.

  • Tani Mahama - Yendi 11 years ago

    The NDC is known as "FAGS" government has made great strides in encouraging diverse lifestyles; have a gay Vice President, a gay deputy interior minister in Kobby Acheampong, and a gay member of the NDC communication team in ...
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  • ANANE JAMES 11 years ago

    THE MAN ATTAMILLS IS THE WORST POLITICIAN IN GHANA AS HE PAINTED HIMSELF HOLIER-THAN-THOU WHILST USING BETTY MOULD TO LOOT GHANA THRO FAKE J-DEBTS EVEN THO THE NORTH AND VOLTA ARE SUFFERING EXCRUCIATING POVERTY.....AND YET TH ...
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  • Anonymous Coward 11 years ago

    Foolish so-called honourables with primitive minds. And they can't see that Ghana is fucked up. Buului including their leaders.

  • GHANAVIA 11 years ago

    The events unfolding in our Motherland over last 48 months plus are neither mere accidents nor coincidences. They a well thought of NDC plans, succinctly outlined in their policy, the seeds cleverly or stupidly sown and have ...
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  • Repugnant. 11 years ago

    That is the Pandora's Box Kufuor left open, for the ensuing unrepentant honorable thieves. “Like many Ghanaians, I am outraged and angry about news of our so-called honourable men and woman of Parliament allotting to themse ...
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  • Papa 11 years ago

    Ghanaians should learn to be bold and hit the street on the magnitude that will go down in history to register their rejection of the way our politicians have taken our leniency for weakness.
    When whole cites goes up in flam ...
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  • DAN 11 years ago

    Keep sucking those white dicks at Bojo Beach to pay for Cafe time..They should be building a apartment complex or Hotels in Accra just for the mp's to stay then go home to their district when sacked!

  • ADAMA 11 years ago

    THE ghanaian youth neeeds to wake up before the so called foolish leaders destroy ghana for good. GHANAIAN LEADERS ARE THIEVES

  • ADAMA 11 years ago

    THEY ALL THIEVES

  • TRUTH 11 years ago

    LETS GO TO COURT PERIOD

  • Ibn Batuta 11 years ago

    Simply pay them enough so that they can afford their own housing. Building houses for them has a built in maintenance cost which could be prohibitive and subject to corruption. A poor nation like Ghana simply cannot afford to ...
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  • gh 11 years ago

    dey are steallllllllllllllers

  • KOLOOKO, JAPAN 11 years ago

    A GOOD COMMENCE AND ALL MUST WAKE UP AND POINT OUT

  • sikadwa kofi 11 years ago

    GHANAMAN this is toooooo Muuuuccccchhhh

  • KOLOOKO, JAPAN 11 years ago

    ALL MUST WAKE UP TO SUPPORT THIS ISSUE.

  • ANANE JAMES 11 years ago

    did u see how ndc looted our almost one billion dollars thro fake j-debts and shared with cronies and yet their strongholds are so very poor......these same strongholds of volta and north ghana continued to vote them back int ...
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  • John K 11 years ago

    Stomach politics at its best

  • yakubu adama 11 years ago

    infact u are a perfect citizen of mother ghana. this is just too much and difficult to understand .the office of MPs now is just a full scale gold mine.this kind of spending shows no respect to the ghanian tax payer.why must ...
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  • owoahene 11 years ago

    This what all Ghanaians should stand up and fight against not so-called npp election issue.

    it is too much, even rich America will never do that. ei Ghana.
    I want to know whether the NPPs also took it, they presume stand ...
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  • D D Gof 11 years ago

    If these mahama led gov't is begining this way, am sorry but it wont take them anywhere

  • Tijani 11 years ago

    At least they. are Ghanaians, what about the resources and money the whiteman taken from us.

  • angel 11 years ago

    I suggest that the government should go and look for a large tract of land on which it can build a gated community of three hundred three-bedroom furnished houses for the parliamentarians; one each for each constituency. Th ...
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  • ABRANTIE GYASI 11 years ago

    WELL SAID ,YOU GOT THE BRAINS TO SOLVE THIS PROBLEM WHICH IS SUCKING OUR BLOOD BY THESE POLITICIANS

  • Nii Kootse. 11 years ago

    “Any well-meaning Ghanaian would prefer the State uses the total amount to put up apartments for the use of Ghana’s MPs. That way when an MP completes his/her term, he/she packs his/her bag and baggage and vacates the apa ...
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  • Sampana 11 years ago

    It is taking long to act. This is day light robbery of the nation.

    The youth most of who are unemployed could benefit from some of the amount.

    There must be pressure from all angles on government to rescind it's decisio ...
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  • Yo man 11 years ago

    After all we have an endless Sea of Oil.Our Leaders are Supreme Money Choppers.spare me the headache.

  • jas 11 years ago

    Well said. this isthe tim for the youth to wake up for the country. they are all thieves and selffish.I think all the MPs and the president need to be fired they don't care about the ghanaianas

  • Yo man 11 years ago

    the state property with houses that the MP can use,Kufour sold them to his friends and family.So now we can waste money on MPs,after Oil"flows"and flows for ever!!

  • Mr.Awuku 11 years ago

    Sworn enemies in the run-up to election,divided on policies and political affiliations but finds a common ground fleeceing tax payers to logic defilings sums for unjustified reasons,when the average man on the street can bare ...
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  • Jah Glory 11 years ago

    It is time John Dramani Mahama wise up and let the government build on some of the government acquired lands to the MPs of this country. But in the interim the should not have been paid that huge amount as this article sugge ...
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  • Jah Glory 11 years ago

    Beware from Mali to Ghana is just a stone throw and all our borders a very very loose and the security forces need more in their pockets and they can easily be bribed, please be warned.

  • Araba 11 years ago

    And those MPs living in their own houses will pocket the money!

  • Alex London 11 years ago

    Divine the nation should thank for bringing this to light. We must scrutinise the members register of interest. Any MP who has a property in the Greater Accra region should not be entitled to rent allowance because they have ...
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  • owusu afriyie daniel 11 years ago

    so does our leaders raelly think
    about us

  • egya awua 11 years ago

    i have known from this cumbersome amount that our honourables do not think about our nations situation they are only there to give us trouble,one day the big guns will descend.a hungry man is an angry man.

  • Sam 11 years ago

    Better Ghana agenda,the nation is prospering in every quatters.

  • Dianah Mensah 11 years ago

    My Brother,you are right ohooo,and l wish we will all wake up to this call. THANK,PLEASE ALL GHANAIANS FIGHT AGAINST THIS.

  • SOLDIER POLICE 11 years ago

    WAIT WHEN THE GUN CRIES ONE DAY , SOLDIER AND POLICE DON,T HAVE ROOMS AND SEE THE MONEY BEEN SPENT , WE SHALL COME BACK

  • SOLDIER POLICE 11 years ago

    WAIT WHEN THE GUN CRIES ONE DAY , SOLDIER AND POLICE DON,T HAVE ROOMS AND SEE THE MONEY BEEN SPENT , WE SHALL COME BACK

  • SAKARA AHMED 11 years ago

    HOW CAN THIS CONTINUE IN GHANA? WE ARE IN A COUNTRY WHERE SOME SECTIONS OF SOCIETY NEED COMMON WATER TO DRINK BUT THEIR REPS CAN POCKET THIS SUM OF MONEY AS RENT ALLOWANCE,GOD HELP GHANA.

  • JAKE OBETSEBI-LAMPTEY, BOMBER 11 years ago

    SO, THE STUPID NPP-MPs WILL ALSO COLLECT THIS AMOUNT? FOR WHAT? THERE ARE PLENTY EVIL DWARFS AMONG THEM.

  • Terrorist TerriblY SpecifiC 11 years ago

    They objected to the proposal at paliment but because of NDC's absolute majority, it was passed. So its the criminal NDC MP's who are to blame.
    Too many of them are in for the GOLD RUSH

  • Joe 11 years ago

    GHS50,000 for 4 years works out to be about GHS350 per month. I think that is a fair amount to pay to get an MP a fairly decent accomodation. Instead of criticisng the amount, why dont we rather review the basis for creation ...
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  • MR MARTIN AMIDU 11 years ago

    DEAR PRES.JOHN MAHAMA. WE VOTED FOR YOU AS PRESIDENT OF GHANA. NOT TO CONNECT GHANA TO HOMOSEXUALS AND GAYS.

  • wilson kumah worcester, ma usa 11 years ago

    our so called president, mahama has no vision the country. for instance the salary which was proposed for him, if he is a good leader he will think of the poor ones in the northern part of the country and also the utilities p ...
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  • Is me! Am annoyed. 11 years ago

    Some of the MP's will used that money to go and Buy or Build House for themself's and we the tax payers will still remain poor, why oh why Government of Ghana. Hmmmmmm

  • SMOOTH 11 years ago

    GHANA SHOULD HAVE, "SLAP A POLITICIAN DAY"......THAT DAY EVERY POLITICIAN IS SLAPPED FOR, "MISAPPOPRIATE OF PUBLIC FUNDS"......

  • KOFI 11 years ago

    yes , we shall chase them definately

  • Adwoa Peadzeyei,NY 11 years ago

    After rent allowance,cars and all the incentives,at the end of their term too humongous ex gratia.If this is not robbery in disguise,then how will anybody term this?They,the MPs are united in matters like this,no NPP or NDC.A ...
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  • kodjo 11 years ago

    Come on people GHC50,000 over 4 years is less than $500/month. Why are we sensationalising this issue. If we have agreed to make rent allowance part of an MPs' emoluments then it must be realistic and in my estimation $500/mo ...
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  • DeRoy 11 years ago

    We are indeed being short-changed by our elected representatives.Just about the same amount of even less than that could be used to put up pre-fabricated houses within two months for all our MPs.We must rise up!

  • User 11 years ago

    I believe the the time has come for the youth of Ghana to rise up and defend their rights to a secured future. we cannot watch our leaders rip us off like that. how many houses has the minister of housing built and what did t ...
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  • kodjo 11 years ago

    Building houses for MPs doesn't make sense, they will turn round and buy them like they did the Sakumono flats. Give them the allowance and let them go to the housing market and rent houses like everybody else.

  • SAY 11 years ago

    SOME ONE LIKE KENNEDY AGYEAPONG WHO CAN NOT DISTINGUISH A FROM B IS ALSO MP.ONLY IN GHANA.

  • BYE 11 years ago

    AND YOU CANNOT PAY NHIS PROVIDERS.....FOR VULNERABLE IN SOCIETY TO BE CATERED FOR.. SHAME ON POLITICIANS

  • ATAKORA BEDIAKO 11 years ago

    DO NOT WORRY-AFARI DJAN WILL CREATE MORE CONSTITUENCES THIS YEAR.

  • Sue 11 years ago

    True observation though!

  • Akadu Mensema 11 years ago

    Our politicians and chiefs and all are thieves!

  • CCGH 11 years ago

    IT'S SO UNFORTUNATE THIS ATTITUDE OF EGOCENTRISM RISEN TO HEIGHT. GOD HELP US. IF NOTHING IS DOWN IT OUR BELOVED COUNTRY WILL FALL APART. IS IT POSSIBLE TO CHANGE THE CONSTITUTION FOR THE MP'S TO TWO TERM AS IT IS FOR ...
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  • Mr.Awuku 11 years ago

    These inept and out of dept MPs,and evidently out of touch of reality to the masses daily struggle,these greedy prima dona MPs find it convenient looting the nation to its hilt,the question's how many of these mercenaries of ...
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