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Intimidated Chinese investors pack out of Ghana - Antwi Boasiako

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  • CAN 11 years ago

    BYE BYE

  • MAMA 11 years ago

    BETTER FOR US

  • ELINAM 11 years ago

    This Boasiako guy thinks it is ok to bring in these Chinese he believes are technically savvy to exploit and destroy cocoa farms and water bodies for his selfish appetite.
    If he's that brilliant, he should train more Ghan ...
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  • Kwame 11 years ago

    Leave our land alone.

  • GBESE MANTSE 11 years ago

    All Lebanese, without exception, are criminals! They must all be show the door to Lebanon!

  • Kwaku 11 years ago

    Illitrate you are. Kwasia paaa. Why some Lebanese chop your mother or sister? Fool you are.

  • GHFUO, BE SERIOUS NOT PRIDEFUL! 11 years ago

    But Antwi Boasiako thinks otherwise. He said the Chinese have began packing out of the country for fear of being attacked by the security personnel.

    KWASIA, U THINK WE ARE INCAPABLE OF MESSING UP OUR OWN COUNTRY? WE DONT N ...
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  • MANHYIA SON 11 years ago

    YOU CANNOT GO TO CHINA AND DO WHAT THE CHINESE ARE DOING IN GHANA. THEY ARE VIOLATING OUR LAWS, OUR WATER BODIES, OUR FARMS AND INTIMIDATING AND HARASSING OUR LOCALS. ENOUGH ALREADY. IF THEY ARE ENGAGED IN LEGAL INVESTMENT ...
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  • Ellen 11 years ago

    You are really showing your true characters especially those who are aimless and lazy

  • Diabolic 11 years ago

    I will not be surprised if someone tells me that he bought you some peanuts and managed to take your virginity. How can we sit back and allow strangers to disrespect us. if their action have been formalised, then we cannot cr ...
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  • SHAMO 11 years ago

    KWESI AND KWEKU, WHAT R YOUR VIEWS? ARE PERMITS WRONGLY GIVEN VALID?
    DID BOSIAKO PAY HIS TAXES? (PENALTY FOR LATE TAXES AS K SAID. WHAT IF THEY DID NOT PAY ANY AT ALL? IF BOSIAKO HAD BEEN FROM THE VOLTA REGION, WALAI TALAI, ...
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  • Agyepong Ntra 11 years ago

    This Antwi Boasiako can go with the Chinese and leave our lands for us. We sit here in Ghana and these Chinese with their shameful Ghanaian counterparts destroy our farms and we keep quite. Show me a town developed out of min ...
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  • Ellen 11 years ago

    How selfish you are and not ashamed you people can go and do business over there and those who do not travel outside Ghana behaves so

  • Nana Sarpong 11 years ago

    Antwi Bosiako is a Nation wrecker he should be deported to China

  • Kofi Ata, Cambridge, UK 11 years ago

    These Chinese are involved in illegal activities, polluting Ghanaian water sources, causing environmental damage, threatening lives of Ghanaians, do not pay taxes, enriching themselves at the expense of Ghanaians and possibly ...
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  • DusTY-FooT-pHiloSophER 11 years ago

    And of course, free "booty calls" at the expense of our young naive "apuskelekes" down shores.

  • Ellen 11 years ago

    That is why a Nigerian man will tell us that money is flowing in our gutters but we are not seeing it . People are really envious if they see others progressing

  • SHAMO 11 years ago

    BOSIAKO, DID YOU AND YOUR FRIENDS PAY YOUR TAXES?
    GO ON, TELL ALL GHANAIANS U PAID YOUR TAXES. I AM VERY SURE THE NEXT THING WE SHALL READ ABOUT IS HOW MUCH TAX YOU GUYS TRIED NOT TO PAY. FOLLOW OUR LEADER. WHAT TAXES HAVE U ...
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  • Nicholas J Bedzo 11 years ago

    Mama,Can you do their works. What do you mean BYE BYE.

  • MAHA MA GBAGBO 11 years ago

    Long overdue. Our rivers and farmlands will be safe without the Chinese.

  • CHOU EN LAI 11 years ago

    Chinese can leave Ghana, who cares!

  • Ellen 11 years ago

    How many lands are laying waste in Ghana and can not even be developed some of us just get excited over set back spirits

  • OSKD 11 years ago

    LET THEM GO AND DO MINING IN THEIR COUNTRY. STUPID!
    THEY CANNOT DIG "MAN-HOLE" FOR THEIR HOMES IN CHINE BECAUSE THE CHINESSE LAWS DO NOT PERMIT THAT. WHY SHOULD THEY SPOIL OUR COUNTRY TO ENRICH THEMSELVES? THIS IS THE NEW C ...
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  • Ellen 11 years ago

    Please let us continue to respect the Laws of our Noble , lovely, generous God fearing Nation. One of the secret reason why Ghana is blessed and if God does not open your understanding you may not know is our hospitality. Pl ...
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  • GHANABA1 11 years ago

    Gold Bars belonging to them? What a bullshit.Did they brought the Gold Bars from China? or they were about to take steal it out of the Country? Ghanaians should travel to China and try to dig even a Gutter and see what will h ...
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  • MAMA 11 years ago

    SEE YOU IN TOGO

  • nana 11 years ago

    it is good chinese pack out of ghana they are bad people,good bye chinese people

  • CTZ 11 years ago

    CHINESE NEED THEIR MONEY BACK!!!

  • JUSTICE AKAKPO 11 years ago

    Ghana sacked the Nigerians and the Nigerians replied after sometime

  • Brains 11 years ago

    And they are coming back

  • AJ 11 years ago

    THEY CANT BE TAKENING WHAT IS MEANT FOR WE THE LOCALS....EVEN THEY HERE ILLEGAL

  • Ellen 11 years ago

    What have you done to benefit the Nation shut up

  • Me 11 years ago

    LET THEM LEAVE, GHANA WILL BE BETER OFF WITHOUT THEM. THEY ARE CRIMINALS.

  • Lucy 11 years ago

    You Ghanaians again? Lord have mercy.

  • Kwame Dokyi 11 years ago

    S3 wore we 3foc nsa a, na wahw3 wonsa! While you are masticating the upper limbs of a chimpanzee, watch your fingers. The ruthless confrontations with the illegal Chinese immigrants in Ghana will have their reverberating effe ...
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  • Brains 11 years ago

    Kwame, you should have written, "S? wore we ?fo? nsa a na wo ahw? wo de?"
    If you don't know how contact me.

  • Brains 11 years ago

    My apologies but I am trying to find out why the twi letters I typed has metaphorsed into question marks

  • Kwame Dokyi 11 years ago

    Thank me! It was an effort that many educated can't make; writing your own language other than the colonialist dictates. However, I appreciate your help. How can I contact you?

  • Kwame 11 years ago

    It is said that Santrokofi Anoma goes up stream to dirty the stream, then runs down stream to shout that the stream is dirty.
    It came to pass that the 1.5 Million Dollars gold that was said to have been taken to Turkey by P ...
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  • Dr Fianko 11 years ago

    If the so called investment is wreaking such havoc on the environment and our rural water sources then so be it! This folks dare not do what they flagrantly do in Ghana in the name of investment in China.If the want to invest ...
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  • KOO PONG 11 years ago

    Well I know where Mr. Boasiako is coming from. He owns one of the mines that was closed down recently. Our environment is being degraded everyday by such unscrupulous activities and here is a Ghanaian crying foul. Our laws ar ...
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  • Kwame K. 11 years ago

    "Our environment is being degraded everyday by such unscrupulous activities" - mesre wo, our environment is being degraded by the burning of rubbish, tires, plastic, and dumping of other toxic chemicals ranging from automobil ...
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  • CARLOS SLIM 11 years ago

    The Lebanese are worst than the Chinese or Indians! They are involved in criminal & anti social activities like armed robbery, hoarding, 419 scams, rape, slavery & drug trafficking! They must all be deported to Beirut immedia ...
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  • Kwame K. 11 years ago

    OK, so then, no lebanese, no indians, no foreigners, that means then, no Shop Rite, No MaxxMart, The Accra Mall is gone, Airlines will pack up and go, Car companies gone, Fewer hotels, etc. and then we can all do and buy wha ...
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  • Kwaku 11 years ago

    Carlos Slim? I think his brain is slim of cells. That guy is a pure racist however a coward. If he has proof, he should bring it out and report it to the police and immigration.

  • joel 11 years ago

    I support you,on this Lebanis issue.

  • Kwaku 11 years ago

    Idiot you are. Do you have proof? Lebanese are one of oldest settlers in Ghana and have invested in building factories and businesses that employ thousands of Ghanaians. How many people do you employ? If you have proof that t ...
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  • Kwame K. 11 years ago

    Name one way Ghana has become better without foreigners here to help development? Sanitation? Water? Electricity? Mining? Money? Investment?--- The infrastructure, Roads, Technology, Cars, Engineering, Medicine, etc...., is a ...
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  • Agyeman 11 years ago

    Name one way Ghana has become better thru Ghanaian self reliance?The mentality of always relying on foreign help is killing Ghana bcoz we will never learn and develop Ghana ourselves.

  • Kwame K. 11 years ago

    How will we learn? Who will teach us? From the he building of combustible engines to microchips, how will kwesi, living in the zongo, ever have the opportunity to learn these things correctly? Corruption is too high, costs fo ...
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  • HONESTNEST GOD IS MY JUDGE 11 years ago

    Yes we can't sit in our own country for them to over ride us cos of Foreign Aid,are we slaves in this 20th century? Breaking of our laws is not the way forward!!!!

  • Kwame K. 11 years ago

    Sure, no one is advocating the breaking of laws. But if we are going to extradite each law breaker, there would no longer be any police, officials, taxi or tro-tro drivers, and the list goes on and on. Simply put, it all star ...
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  • Ellen 11 years ago

    You really have good sense

  • Afor 11 years ago

    All these are from Ghanaians ourselves. We show them the way to cheat us due to individual selfishness. Where did they pass to send those heavy machinery into the hinterlands. Is everybody blind. The chiefs, the local people ...
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  • Ellen 11 years ago

    Tell your people to work hard and be creative if you travel out side before you will know that some Ghanaians are really lazy

  • Alabama 11 years ago

    Mr Antwi Boasiako, please give us a break and name the investors who are leaving because they are in the country illegaly.

    And you are the of what Ghana-China Chamber of Commerce? You are some of the problems we have. Your ...
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  • daladam 11 years ago

    if ghana will treat investors bad they will leave ghana and no progress
    will be made we must explain them the laws and that illegal mining is not allowed as simple as that. no ghana army or police harrassment is nessesary a ...
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  • OBURONIBA FITAFITA 11 years ago

    I am yet to see the kind of investment these illegal miners are bestowing upon Ghana. What are the benefits ? they dont report mining earnings, they dont build the communities they destroy, in fact they operate their clandest ...
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  • Ellen 11 years ago

    I thank God we have wise people like you God bless you Nobody can sabotage our progress .Those passive Citizens will soon be ashame

  • Mahama 11 years ago

    They must fuck off. Why must we lie low like that. how can they come and misuse our land. Can a Ghanaian go to China and do that?

  • JMP 11 years ago

    How did Antwi Bosiako come to the conclusion that the Chinese are packing to return home because of the treatment meted out to them? Is if from Research? from national security?

    He just wants to spark another round of sens ...
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  • Kwame 11 years ago

    WHO IS PREPARED TO SELL GHANA FOR A SONG.

  • CHINOOK 11 years ago

    Doe Mr Anti Bosiako mean to say that we allow these Chinese to poison or water bodies and soil? They should take away our minerals and later we go to borrow from them? Are we Ghanians human beings???

  • Yaw Adu-Asare 11 years ago

    Ghana must entertain only responsible and law-abiding immigrants.

  • SAY IT LOUD ! 11 years ago

    JUST LOOK AT THAT PHOTO, AND IF THESE ONES AND SUCH NONSENSE IS WHAT YOU CALL INVESTORS IN GHANA, YOU CAN SEE WHY MAJORITY OF GHANAIANS ARE REAL MORONS.

    ALL THEY KNOW WELL IS CRYING TO A "WHITE" HOMOSEXUAL CALLED "JESUS C ...
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  • Rejoice 11 years ago

    Good riddance. Chinese have no love or respect for black people. Without any provocation whatsoever, they will tell you in your face that they do not like black people. They use us only when and where they can make money. ...
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  • Amavie 11 years ago

    If they have to pack out, then so be it. Illegal activities must not be permitted even if they are Ghanaians! We will encourage legitimate business dealings. Ghana will NOT BE A TOLL FREE TOILET where every tom, dick and harr ...
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  • Victor A. Young 11 years ago

    Where did the Chinese get the gold bars from; wasn't it from the soil of Ghana? Do they have any documentation covering the gold? In this civilized age, we had thought that these Chinese illegal immigrants would comply with t ...
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  • dadiebatakari 11 years ago

    Rejoice fellow ghanaians and never
    allow this to happen again.

  • angle man 11 years ago

    CHINA,SOMEBODY SHOULD ASK THE AMBASSDOR OF CHINA CAN THEY ALLOWED WHAT THOSE ILLIGAL CHINES DOING IN GHANA,FOR GH TO DO THE SAME IN CHINA,.

  • TAANI-KWAASEA !!!!!! 11 years ago

    GHANAIANS CAN DO WITHOUT CHINISE IF YOUR GOVERNMENT STOP THE LOOTING AND CORRUPTION

  • EC 11 years ago

    Let the law breakers be dealt with not the law abiding Chinese.The security agencies are taking the law into their own hands and taking undue advantage of the situation and stealing their gold. The govt has regularise what us ...
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  • DAN 11 years ago

    We thank God if its really true.That goat of Boasiako must bow down his head in shame.Selfish idiot.

  • HONESTNEST GOD IS MY JUDGE 11 years ago

    Journalist are our enemies they published false things.The chinese should first respect our laws as we respect their laws in china when you are there right.Antwi Boasiako think twice before u write man!

  • Kwasi Miezah, Western Region 11 years ago

    Mr. Boakiako please think about the nation and not just you and your family. I'm sure you've received some kickbacks from these illegal Chinese miners; however, think about the land, forest, rivers, lakes and wildlife destru ...
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  • nii 11 years ago

    U unpatroitic Ghanaian .pls SHUT UP

  • HON. JOHN ASIEDU NKETIA 11 years ago

    BOASIAKO, YOU ARE GREEDY.YOU ARE SELFISH. YOU WANT TO ENRICH YOURSELF WHILE YOUR BROTHERS (GHANAIANS) PAY THE PRICE FOR THE FUTURE ABOUT THEIR ENVIRONMENT AND EVERYTHING. SINCE YOU ARE GREEDY CHINESE PEOPLE'S MESSENGER, TELL ...
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  • Quophie 11 years ago

    They are leaving, and so what? Let them go and go again. Do Ghanians have to suffer because of the peanuts they will give us? The Chinese are destroying our farm lands, our water bodies and enslaving our people before our own ...
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  • Paakow 11 years ago

    Don't Blame the Chinese:
    I would urge my fellow countrymen, not to hate or follow blindly.
    The Chinese are just being human..."taking advantage of obviously corrupt institutions and system.
    Which of us would not do same in ...
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  • AKAN 11 years ago

    WHO ARE THOSE CHINESE NATION WRECKERS!

  • obaapa christie canada 11 years ago

    We have prayed for this let those idiots pack up is good for our motherland Ghana.

  • MotherLove 11 years ago

    Their gold Bars?

  • Abba 11 years ago

    Ghana don't need them because they are destroying our land and our waters while they are taking our gold away.

  • MotherLove 11 years ago

    I wont let any Chinese leave Ghana they need to be KILLED. Can any Ghanaian go to China and mine gold? Yes China also has gold and these people will be put to death if they go mining gold in their own country and you let them ...
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  • Curious 11 years ago

    Mother 'Love'??? Doesn't sound like the voice of love is what you are speaking.

  • Abba 11 years ago

    If they don't go, the villagers should take their guns and cutlasses and fight with them. Be bold to protect your land and your waters because NDC has nothing for you.

  • test 11 years ago

    ???????????????

  • goza go toro 11 years ago

    This go news for Ghana. No national can invade China with such careless attitude. The idiotic ghanaian collaborators can follow them to China.

  • Richard, UK 11 years ago

    I don't know what the interest of the chamber man is. Laws are laws, don't sell yourself cheap. Nobody doses hat they want in another persons home. Respect yourself and your country. People like you makes as a cheap nation. W ...
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  • Pontius Pilate 11 years ago

    my country is fucked up. no direction. anybody at all says what he likes. is this guy aiding and abetting crime? if so what are the security agencies doing.

  • afua 11 years ago

    did the chiness brought those gold bars from china? did the so call investors started leaving ghana when the illigal chiness were killing our citizens?the gold bars are the property of ghana so it should remain in ghana. bye ...
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  • Tete 11 years ago

    the laws of Ghana are not working in immigrants. Foreigners come and lord over the citizen, imagine, the Chinese, the Lebanese, and very stubborn, Nigerians, the fulanis who behave with confidence in the country more than th ...
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  • Concerned citizen 11 years ago

    How about the Chinese hawkers and petty traders all over Accra? The earlier they are also chased out, the better for struggling Ghanaian traders.

  • Ellen 11 years ago

    Selfish people you can go to other countries and people will not earn living in your country travel and see you do not know how to use your resources and if some one want to help you to trouble

  • bright 11 years ago

    XYZ news editor should know that it's incorrect to say across board, but across the board. Anyway, the man speaking for the illegal Chinese miners must be selfish and unpatriotic. Could any Ghanaian be allowed to behave this ...
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  • INOLIKE BRONYI 11 years ago

    GOOD RIDDANCE, ALL ILLEGAL FOREIGNERS AND THEIR GHANAIAN TURNCOATS SHOULD BE WHACKED OUT OF TOWN. HOW HAPPY WE WILL BE WHEN THE MORMONS ON BICYCLES, THE ASS FUCKING EUROPEANS AND DEVIANTS TOO ARE RUNOUT TOO. GHANA SHOULD BE ...
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  • DusTY-FooT-pHiloSophER 11 years ago

    'Across Board or Across The Board' are both correct since the first is often used by the American and the second is Mama Queen's parables.

  • AbasZ 11 years ago

    In fact the definite article 'the' is not important since the writer wants to save SPACE.

  • stephen 11 years ago

    Who is this stupid Ghanaian called Boasiko collaborating with the chinees

  • Investigator 11 years ago

    This Boasiako man should be ashamed of his defence of these slit- eyed chinese. Ghana is better off without them.Like they pollute their rivers in china they think they can do so in Ghana with nation wreckers like Boasiako an ...
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  • PHUCK DEHSHEET 11 years ago

    HURRAY, LET'S KICK THEM OUT FASTER THAN LIGHTNING. ILLEGAL FOREIGNERS SHOULD'NT BE ALLOWED TO DO BUSINESS THAT WE CANNOT DO FAIRLY IN THEIR COUNTRIES. IT IS ONLY FAIR. THE GOVERNMENTS OF THESE FOREIGNERS IN OUR COUNTRY WILL N ...
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  • Agyaku NYC 11 years ago

    Illegal mining is not business investment. Ghana don`t benefit nothing out of it just a distraction to our environment they should all pack and go back to China. Chinese government will never encourage such illegal activities ...
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  • Lorgo Ligri 11 years ago

    It's the Chinese illegal investors that are leaving,and hurray for that. Why are other foreign investors not leaving Antwi Boasiako? You see, the runaway investors miscalculated the magnitude of the risk involved in their ri ...
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  • DKB 11 years ago

    Congratulation President MAham. The laws of the land must be enforced and it is unfortunate if it appears the foreigners can come to Ghana and break the law while the authourities look on helplessly. the chinese who live with ...
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  • DOME HOTEL 2 11 years ago

    THE REMARKS BYTHE PRESIDENT OF GHANA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE IS VERY DISTASTEFUL.I WONDER IF THIS MAN KNOW THE LEGALITIES AND ILLEGALITIES OF DOING BUSINESS IN GHANA.BY HIS REMARKS, HE IS ENCOOURAGING CORRUPTION. THIS MAN IS NOT ...
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  • kWAKUVIE 11 years ago

    they should run faster we dont need them

  • Glo 11 years ago

    Let them leave. We are tired of them.

  • zorro 11 years ago

    MANAMA WILL SELL HIS MOTHER FOR MONEY TO THE CHINESE

  • esi 11 years ago

    Let the Chinese people go back to their hometown. Can any other national go to china to start a business or get a land for free more so destroy their water bodies. Think about our children future. Do think about today but w ...
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  • Kwaku 11 years ago

    They can go to hell

  • Kyekyeku 11 years ago

    Why are you calling the investers. Into what are they investing in.

  • kofi antubam 11 years ago

    The statement which is the heading for this article from the President of the Ghana-China Chamber of Commerce,Daniel Antwi Boasiako is certainly false. He is only talking for those of the Chinese who are doing illegal busines ...
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  • KWESI 11 years ago

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    NO PAYMENT MADE TILL VISA IS SECURED.
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  • Evans 11 years ago

    They should go. What do they contribute to the people of Ghana except the profits people like Boasiako and co make from their services? After all they even have the audacity to own guns and be using it to threaten Ghanaians, ...
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  • john adongo 11 years ago

    What are the Lynn Fyns doing with the gold deposits in the Tibet region? All foreign mining companies should leave the country; whether Americano, British, French, Germans, Iranians, North Koreans, Israelis, Indians etc must ...
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  • GYASI 11 years ago

    FOOLISH NATIONAL WRECKER BOSIAKO MUST GO WITH HIS CHINESE PEOPLE TO CHINA AND SEE IF HE WILL BE ALLOWED TO MINE THERE.

  • Ibn Batuta 11 years ago

    Antwi Bosiako reminds me of the natives who connived with the slave traders to decimate our territories. As long as he Antwi Bosiako benefits from the presence of the Chinese, he is game. Gone are the days where we simply all ...
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  • insight to the bone 11 years ago

    In as much as the Ewes have been mislead into committing various acts of atrocities against their fellow Ghanians mainly the Akans and therefore have become the curse of Ghana equally so have the Ashantis become the sorrow of ...
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  • Diasporan, Canada 11 years ago

    Mr. International Relations expert: What is your name? Vladmir? Why would you, Mr. Antwi Danso, find it essential to voluntarily submit himself to a foreign Slavic mental and psychological slavery by calling himself "Vladm ...
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  • bright asare 11 years ago

    i dont know why some people were born stupid .The chinese should leave the country and go with Antwi Boasiako.

  • bright asare 11 years ago

    OPANIN KWASIA

  • MENSAH 11 years ago

    I like it very much that THE SECURITY FORCES are now showing something possitive to SAVE GHANA'S RESOURCES & ENVIROMENT.WE SHOULDN'T SIT DOWN FOR THESE Communist people to loot our natural rsources illegally with impunity.THE ...
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  • Doe 11 years ago

    Antwi Boasiako, Chinese illegal miners are not investors. Educate yourself!

  • Mohammed Ibrahim 11 years ago

    Don't Allow them to steal our Glod.

  • Mohammed Ibrahim 11 years ago

    Don't Allow them to steal our Gold

  • TWEEAAA 11 years ago

    let antwi bosiako travel and live in china for just 6 months and he will change from the passive citizen he is.
    his utterances tells us who he is as the president of a chamber of commrce. hehe - english

  • C/?@@+£ 11 years ago

    The chinese will set their face against Ghanaians in China and kill some of them. In China,most hate black race and this situation in Ghana now will trigger violence in China against Ghana nationals. Mahama ye kwaseafo pii.