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Abu Issaka 12 years ago

you are all at it again. Where did this Mahama bullshit came from?

you are all at it again. Where did this Mahama bullshit came from?
Nana Antwi-Berko 12 years ago

Going on strike is not only unprofessional, it is unethical !! I'll surely prefer guinea fowl to those bloody fowls called Ghanaian Doctors. If you see them as your Gods, count me out! You beg them to do a job they are paid f ...
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Going on strike is not only unprofessional, it is unethical !! I'll surely prefer guinea fowl to those bloody fowls called Ghanaian Doctors. If you see them as your Gods, count me out! You beg them to do a job they are paid for! Wake up mother fucker!!
Logosian 12 years ago

This is our lot in this country where people who cannot analyse, rationalise or think straight in their heads gain admission to the GIJ and when they come out, their articles do nothing to help in the course of development.
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This is our lot in this country where people who cannot analyse, rationalise or think straight in their heads gain admission to the GIJ and when they come out, their articles do nothing to help in the course of development.

What has guinea fowl project of SADA got to do with doctors' strike? Much as we need our doctors to treat common diseases, we cannot allow them to have their way. Every country has its own challenges and strikes by aggrieved workers are not far from any government that comes to power.

Mr. Akilu Sayibu comes from the north and knows too well the poverty level and the excruciating hardship his own people are going through. He is aware the SADA projects are some of the numerous interventions the government has put in place to ameliorate the pain of denials and poverty in the north. I can vividly recollect my days in the north specifically at the Bawku West District of Upper East region where most of the inhabitants used to lived virtually on a mixture of a millet powder and a certain type of leaves for survival between the months of February and July where they have very little or nothing to live on and when they could afford nothing. Mr. Akilu Sayibu does not care anymore about his people who need so much cottage industry as a means of survival and stability and development. He is here in Accra, promoting NPPs bid to come back to power by writing senseless and unnecessary articles.

Even though I come from the Volta Region, I pray that any project taken to the north should succeed for the people there to live their lives abundantly.

Mr. Akilu Sayibu's senseless will not help in the quest of the northerners to help stop the drift to the south by their youths to do Kayayee jobs, chop bar fufu pounding, house-boys, garden boys, house-helps, etc. Mr. Sayibu must begin to rethink the posture he has taken towards a government that wants to do so much for the north which we all in spite of our own difficulties are associated with.
TerrblY Spe cifiC 12 years ago

FOR THE FIRST TIME NPP HELP THE SWORD OF POWER TO RULE GHANA, THEY RUINED HER MISERABLY. GHANA IS NOW ECONOMICALLY COLLAPSED. NOTHING CAN BE DONE TO REPAIR OR REVIVE IT. AFTER SEEING WHERE OUR RWEVENUE EMERGE FROM, NPP ARE FI ...
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FOR THE FIRST TIME NPP HELP THE SWORD OF POWER TO RULE GHANA, THEY RUINED HER MISERABLY. GHANA IS NOW ECONOMICALLY COLLAPSED. NOTHING CAN BE DONE TO REPAIR OR REVIVE IT. AFTER SEEING WHERE OUR RWEVENUE EMERGE FROM, NPP ARE FIGHTING DESPERATELY TO RETURN TO LOOT THE REST OF OUR MONIES. POOR GHANA. BUT GOD IS SO GOOD, HE SAVED US FROM ALL-DIE-BE-DIE RULE AS HE BLESSED THEM WITH BITTER DEFEAT. GOD CONTINUE TO KEEP THEM IN THE BUSH OR BEYOND TO SAVE GHANA. FOOLS WHO THINK GHANA CANNOT MOVE FORWARD WITHOUT THEM. WE ARE STANDING BY FOR THEM.
Ntifol Kpaana 12 years ago

Yes Guinea fowls in Ghana are far far better than Ghanaian doctors. Why? no guinea fowl will wish or intentionally kill a fellow guinea fowl. What do we see in Ghana murderers calling themselves doctors. How many Ghanaians kn ...
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Yes Guinea fowls in Ghana are far far better than Ghanaian doctors. Why? no guinea fowl will wish or intentionally kill a fellow guinea fowl. What do we see in Ghana murderers calling themselves doctors. How many Ghanaians know that cars and other vehicles bought or brought in by doctors from overseas are cleared free without paying tax. Whose should pay tax and you doctors will collect and chop? Very stupid and greedy people.
Senior Doctor 12 years ago

Sadly some Ghanaians still do not understand why we are a third world country and as long as people prefer guinea fowls than doctors we are going to remain a third world country. For us to move on, people like Nana Antwi-Berk ...
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Sadly some Ghanaians still do not understand why we are a third world country and as long as people prefer guinea fowls than doctors we are going to remain a third world country. For us to move on, people like Nana Antwi-Berko, and Logosian have to die and be replaced by intelligent people who can reason like the write of this article. I wish Nana Antwi-Berko and Logosian well so that they do not collapse, because when they are sent to the hospital we are going to find some guinea fowls to treat them. The writer is pointing to the arrogance and lack of communication skills in conflict resolution which is essential in leaders and politicians, but sadly in Ghana because any fool can go into politics this skill is non-existent. Sadly people read an article like this and fail to grasp the message because common sense is not common in Ghana
Appletus 12 years ago

Doctors hold themselves to a certain degree that they use that as a ransom for their parochial interest. Take stock of your strike action.....How many times in the last decade? Must you always have to hold the sick ransom to ...
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Doctors hold themselves to a certain degree that they use that as a ransom for their parochial interest. Take stock of your strike action.....How many times in the last decade? Must you always have to hold the sick ransom to achieve your goals? If other professionals do so, where are we heading to? If the engineers, the pharmacists, the teachers, planners, second degree holders, accountants, statisticians, researchers etc do same how will Ghana move forward?
Your training has even been taken care of ....and after that...free imports of any thing you bring into the country and yet you are not satisfied and keep demanding unreasonably more.
Government sometimes must develop thick skin and make nonsense of those irresponsible demands.
Senior Wisdom 12 years ago

What about MP's, are they better than doctors as being asserted. See the cars they drive, the number of allowances paid, now huge ex-gratia. See some of the house these MP's have built, some were poor before parliament and th ...
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What about MP's, are they better than doctors as being asserted. See the cars they drive, the number of allowances paid, now huge ex-gratia. See some of the house these MP's have built, some were poor before parliament and they are now millionaires and I know a lot. In fact as a doctor I visited one MP's house and I know I will never be able to build even a quarter of what he has managed as an MP's. If you think that is fair then please tell me. People do not expect engineers, lawyers and the other professionals you've mentioned to be posted to small towns except doctors, nurses and teachers. Even MP's move to Accra after being elected and you don't think these professions deserve more than MP's
Appletus 12 years ago

I agree with your assertions but Doctors have to slow down with their demands. I hate these our illiterate MPS who have made politics look like a lucrative business where as infact they shd be serving us.
Our laws must chang ...
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I agree with your assertions but Doctors have to slow down with their demands. I hate these our illiterate MPS who have made politics look like a lucrative business where as infact they shd be serving us.
Our laws must change regarding exgratia and MPS.
ZYX 12 years ago

people dont get it, what is a strike?
now if ghanaians want to see what will become of ghana after this pndc/ndc mahama regime, just look at "zongo" and the volta region then conclude if there is anything go in these two loc ...
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people dont get it, what is a strike?
now if ghanaians want to see what will become of ghana after this pndc/ndc mahama regime, just look at "zongo" and the volta region then conclude if there is anything go in these two locations. The proverb is obvious why should mother ghana be ruled by "otani" and or "ayegbene"? the reasons why mame ghana is crying foul
Senior Wisdom 12 years ago

I think serious issues need serious minds. Let us take tribalistic sentiments from this. We are all Ghanaians and we should treat each other as equals. Doctors deserve what MP's think is good for them and we need to keep the ...
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I think serious issues need serious minds. Let us take tribalistic sentiments from this. We are all Ghanaians and we should treat each other as equals. Doctors deserve what MP's think is good for them and we need to keep the debate focussed. There are Ahante, Fante, Ewe and Northern doctors. And sadly our coconut head politicians come from all the regions
ZYX 12 years ago

there is nothing good from these two locations. also we the northerners cherish our "nkomfem" moe than anything, the reason why the komkomba war was staged.

there is nothing good from these two locations. also we the northerners cherish our "nkomfem" moe than anything, the reason why the komkomba war was staged.
Kojo T 12 years ago

Volta and the North are better than your village

Volta and the North are better than your village
akwasi 12 years ago

I DONT THINK WHAT URE WRITING IS OF ANY SENSE. HOW DO U EXPECT THE DOCTORS TO DO? WHEN THE GOVT SAYS NO MONEY BUT WAS ABLE TO DOLE OUT MILLIONS OF CEDIS TO MINISTERS,WYOME, ETC.WHEN NPP LEFT, GHANA WAS RICH, BUT NDC FOR THE P ...
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I DONT THINK WHAT URE WRITING IS OF ANY SENSE. HOW DO U EXPECT THE DOCTORS TO DO? WHEN THE GOVT SAYS NO MONEY BUT WAS ABLE TO DOLE OUT MILLIONS OF CEDIS TO MINISTERS,WYOME, ETC.WHEN NPP LEFT, GHANA WAS RICH, BUT NDC FOR THE PAST 4 YEARS, HAVE RUINED THE ECONOMY.
MENSAH 12 years ago

If MAHAMA & CO,could satisfy the DOCTORS of their grievances,they would be still working 24 hours a day.We all need them,just as they also need us.

If MAHAMA & CO,could satisfy the DOCTORS of their grievances,they would be still working 24 hours a day.We all need them,just as they also need us.
Kojo T 12 years ago

This article reflects the warped mind of the NPP. Trees stop deforestation and can be used for many things and the project will create employment . The same with the guines fowl. We reject NPP because they cannot think wholis ...
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This article reflects the warped mind of the NPP. Trees stop deforestation and can be used for many things and the project will create employment . The same with the guines fowl. We reject NPP because they cannot think wholistically
OSEI TAWIAH 12 years ago

You are so consumed with such stupidity that you have no time to think. Mr. Idiot, you don't have to beg anybody to do the job they are paid for, you just have to pay them to do the job. How about that? I guess your brain is ...
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You are so consumed with such stupidity that you have no time to think. Mr. Idiot, you don't have to beg anybody to do the job they are paid for, you just have to pay them to do the job. How about that? I guess your brain is too tiny to understand that.
Kwame 12 years ago

Comparing oranges to apples can only be done by a weak, warped and senseless mind.
The Guinea fowl project is aimed at reducing the amount of foreign exchange we spend on importing Turkey tails, chicken and other meat produc ...
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Comparing oranges to apples can only be done by a weak, warped and senseless mind.
The Guinea fowl project is aimed at reducing the amount of foreign exchange we spend on importing Turkey tails, chicken and other meat products. To compare getting money to fund the project and spreading the payment of Doctors' market premium, can only come from a fool who doesn't understand the issues.
Nima Old Soldier 12 years ago

Can't have my eyes closed to have a good sleep since. Staying all nights thinking that a government in Osagyefo's Ghana of all places after 56 years of independence will put national priority on guinea fowls over the welfare ...
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Can't have my eyes closed to have a good sleep since. Staying all nights thinking that a government in Osagyefo's Ghana of all places after 56 years of independence will put national priority on guinea fowls over the welfare of our people including Doctors, Nurses and Teachers.

Where did we went wrong as people and country to merit such a curse?

May the Lord have mercy?
Akwasipapa 12 years ago

Please Doctors you have made your point return to the OPDs in the name of the one who died and rose JESUS CHRIST

Please Doctors you have made your point return to the OPDs in the name of the one who died and rose JESUS CHRIST
Kwesi Agbenu 12 years ago

Mahama is at sea sailing to wonderland

Mahama is at sea sailing to wonderland
Nicholas J Bedzo 12 years ago

ln deed Mahama has no brains,now at seas wondering,do you know what is priority? Sit down and say no money,
and you will be taken by events,there
you will find money to pay them.A fool
is a fool.

ln deed Mahama has no brains,now at seas wondering,do you know what is priority? Sit down and say no money,
and you will be taken by events,there
you will find money to pay them.A fool
is a fool.
And Jesus Wept. 12 years ago

A useless government rules Ghana.

A useless government rules Ghana.
Ike Kumasi 12 years ago

kwasiato, do they pay the doctors by selling guines fowl, All these stupid things were caused by who????? your wife should advise u before u take pen and paper to write, foool

kwasiato, do they pay the doctors by selling guines fowl, All these stupid things were caused by who????? your wife should advise u before u take pen and paper to write, foool
Frank 12 years ago

IS POULTRY FARMING NO AN INVESTMENT AVENUE? FOOL.

IS POULTRY FARMING NO AN INVESTMENT AVENUE? FOOL.
papa cee 12 years ago

is poultry farming a top priority for the country in this critical moment. whatever bad and nonsensical policy you support you will definitely reap the outcome of it

is poultry farming a top priority for the country in this critical moment. whatever bad and nonsensical policy you support you will definitely reap the outcome of it
DOBOLI 12 years ago

If only the guinea fowls were the guinea fowls we eat. The guinea fowl farmers do exits, its money passing, to come back later for.
Corruption is our problem. People of the three regions, its not the first time people and go ...
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If only the guinea fowls were the guinea fowls we eat. The guinea fowl farmers do exits, its money passing, to come back later for.
Corruption is our problem. People of the three regions, its not the first time people and governments used our name to get money.
Ever Ghanaian if they really love should be KONKOSA. That will bring back ghana. Keeping quite should be a crime. Lets speakout loud and clear we are Konkosa and proud of been a konkosa. Every body should be konkosa and nobody will steal from us, if we dont guinea fowl will get pay before doctors.
Yaw 12 years ago

What a country?

What a country?
BROWN YAW 12 years ago

check and find out how much is DOCTORS' SALARY(40 MILLION TO 50 MILLION) MONTHLY. FIND OUT THE TOTAL CUMMULATIVE PAYMENTS TO DOCTORS IN A YEAR AND COMPARE WITH COUNTERPART PROJECT FUNDING FOR 50,000 BENEFICIARY OF A PROJECT I ...
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check and find out how much is DOCTORS' SALARY(40 MILLION TO 50 MILLION) MONTHLY. FIND OUT THE TOTAL CUMMULATIVE PAYMENTS TO DOCTORS IN A YEAR AND COMPARE WITH COUNTERPART PROJECT FUNDING FOR 50,000 BENEFICIARY OF A PROJECT IN THE THREE NORTHERN GHANA.
EVERY PROFESSIONAL OR PROFESSION IS EQUALLY IMPORTANT. IF GHANA POLICE, MILITARY,AIRFORCE, GHANA WATER, ECG,VRA, TOR, OIL MARKETING COMPANIES, ZOOMLION EMBARK ON STRIKE, GHANA WILL COME TO A HALT.
G HANANI 12 years ago

This is a typical example of the backward mentality of some ghanaians.They think that doctors are so important that whatever they ask for must be given and that nobody else is important.I THINK DOCTORS CAN AT THE SAME TIME FA ...
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This is a typical example of the backward mentality of some ghanaians.They think that doctors are so important that whatever they ask for must be given and that nobody else is important.I THINK DOCTORS CAN AT THE SAME TIME FARM TO FEED THEMSELVES,POLICE TO ENSURE LAW AND ORDER AND DEFEND THE NATION IN TIMES OF AGGRESSION.For a journalist to conclude that guinea fowls are more important than doctors shows the extent to which some ghanaians are stupid.The contribution of every ghanaian towards nation building must be respected and appreciated.Doctors alone cannot build Ghana.
Senior citizen- Germanny 12 years ago

In every country people who extingushes fires are needed when fire breakes out in the country.The writer of this aticle is one of those people who are needed in the country to cool up tempers when crises of this nature real ...
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In every country people who extingushes fires are needed when fire breakes out in the country.The writer of this aticle is one of those people who are needed in the country to cool up tempers when crises of this nature real its urgly head.The minister of imformation should endevour to act quickly to do all what he can to use the advice given by the writer to win the confidence of the Docters.Insulting language being used by certaian induviduals does not help in solving problems in this country but rather aggravate it.
Mahome 12 years ago

Thank God the people of Tamale North never got you to our august house of Parliament. You definitely would have been taking part in doing illegality to this state of Ghana. You write to twist the issues just to catch attentio ...
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Thank God the people of Tamale North never got you to our august house of Parliament. You definitely would have been taking part in doing illegality to this state of Ghana. You write to twist the issues just to catch attention, and somehow you are, but for the wrong reasons.

First of all, the Doctors strike was illegal and insensitive. We are a people governed by laws. Why didn't the Doctor go on strike when they felt agitated but submitted themselves to arbitration by the Labour commission? Because they knew that there were rules. When they disagreed with the ruling of the labour commission, why didn't they appeal, but unilaterally go on strike? Did the government refuse to pay their monies as have been falsely stated by you and many others? Please give us a break, there are many millions of us who are intelligent enough to know the truth.

Of course the Doctors did not just wake up one day to become Doctors. Someone's tax money built a school for them to attend, and made sure that their studies were subsidized. Someone's tax is used to pay them so that they will be able to fend for their families too and thus be able to work. If they go on strike with no recourse to laid down procedures, they are insensitive, moreso when they continue to draw salaries from the tax paper they are denying their services. That is why the Government through the Information Ministry was right in writing to them and instructing them to be rational.

Call it whatever you think, but your liking the importance of the G.fowl initiative by SADA to government's insensitivity to the plight of the Doctors is not only misplaced, but uninformed. At best, you come across as an ignorant elite. Please go back to learn what public private partnerships are, and remember to ask around about what value chain is. Then you would appreciate the importance of the SADA G.fowl initiative.

Until the opposition stop machinations to put governments in the tight corner through such inciteful articles as yours, our people will continue to wallow in abject poverty. As an aspiring leader of society, what you should be interested in is what will benefit the people, not what will make your opponent unpopular so that you can win power. Such is what you and the NPP are doing and it is simply disgusting, to say the least
Pat 12 years ago

YOU CAN EXPRESS YOUR VIEWS WITHOUT INSULTS.

YOU CAN EXPRESS YOUR VIEWS WITHOUT INSULTS.
Mahome 12 years ago

Sorry Pat if I sounded insulting, but it is hurting when knowledgeable people twist issues for political expediency sake. Many of us supported President Rawlings to govern, and so did we support President Kuffour to govern su ...
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Sorry Pat if I sounded insulting, but it is hurting when knowledgeable people twist issues for political expediency sake. Many of us supported President Rawlings to govern, and so did we support President Kuffour to govern successfully. Look, if John Mahama succeeds, it is Ghana that will, and so let those trying to put breaks on the way of government stop it and lets move on
Senior Doctor 12 years ago

Mahone, I guess you could also have been in medical school as you make it sound so easy a thing to do. The comparison to the guinea fowl is being used as a metaphor when one reads the article with an analytical mind. What is ...
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Mahone, I guess you could also have been in medical school as you make it sound so easy a thing to do. The comparison to the guinea fowl is being used as a metaphor when one reads the article with an analytical mind. What is sad is that government finds it easy to spend money on certain projects including the ex-gratia of MP's and minister and find the highly educated and international sought after profession as second class, then we have a problem in the country.
akos 12 years ago

Kwasia...so they should work with no pay

Kwasia...so they should work with no pay
Amayzing Akrodie 12 years ago

Oh Foolish Mahama,you valued guinea fowls more than all the Nation's human resources we spent many years to train.Stupid Prez,cocquin Prez,dum you.......ade3muu woy3..............so he is telling ghanaians he's going use"akon ...
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Oh Foolish Mahama,you valued guinea fowls more than all the Nation's human resources we spent many years to train.Stupid Prez,cocquin Prez,dum you.......ade3muu woy3..............so he is telling ghanaians he's going use"akonfem income to run the throne he stupidly stole.
obia nye obia 12 years ago

When we have sso many educated illiterates who refuse to recognize investment in agric, what do u expect. He refused to learn that more employment would be created and already existing poultry farmers would remain to help boo ...
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When we have sso many educated illiterates who refuse to recognize investment in agric, what do u expect. He refused to learn that more employment would be created and already existing poultry farmers would remain to help boost the sector. As for doctors, it pays to be more patriotic for the blood of those who sacrificed their souls for ghana's independence. Ghana is now replaced by generation that is thirst for human blood, unpatriotic and prepared to loot. all these heads, u guys can't simply understand that its time the public sector workers remember that not much is in government coffers.
kofi 12 years ago

then borrow

then borrow
nyantachi 12 years ago

from where. then!

from where. then!
ASEM BE BA DABI 12 years ago

Truely, truely,things are falling apart in Ghana because Ghana is the only country in the world where guinea fowls are valued more than doctors.This NDC government under Mahama is full of incompetent as well as evil dwarfs an ...
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Truely, truely,things are falling apart in Ghana because Ghana is the only country in the world where guinea fowls are valued more than doctors.This NDC government under Mahama is full of incompetent as well as evil dwarfs and babies with sharp teeth.
doobia 12 years ago

Akilu what sought of myopic analysis is this. Am surprise some of you are down playing projects meant to benefit our poor folks. yes in certain instances guinea fowls can be valued more than doctors.if doctors make a mockery ...
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Akilu what sought of myopic analysis is this. Am surprise some of you are down playing projects meant to benefit our poor folks. yes in certain instances guinea fowls can be valued more than doctors.if doctors make a mockery of themselves that is what happens
DR. DADE BOUR 12 years ago

I AM ALL FOR GUINEA FOWLS. WHEN THE DOCTORS STRIKE AND I AM WEAK OR SICK, AT LEAST I CAN LIVE ON GUINEA FOWLS. CAN YOU IMAGINE TAKING A BITE OUT OF THIS "DR SILLY BOY" CHAP WHO SPITS VILE AND VERNOM LIKE A SNAKE?

I AM ALL FOR GUINEA FOWLS. WHEN THE DOCTORS STRIKE AND I AM WEAK OR SICK, AT LEAST I CAN LIVE ON GUINEA FOWLS. CAN YOU IMAGINE TAKING A BITE OUT OF THIS "DR SILLY BOY" CHAP WHO SPITS VILE AND VERNOM LIKE A SNAKE?
Luther King 12 years ago

this article is as stupid and reckless as it has no justification. masa akilu, u wrote the article as if govt has done nothing abt it. please be reminded that there was a conclusion on this issue with the the ruling of NLC. a ...
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this article is as stupid and reckless as it has no justification. masa akilu, u wrote the article as if govt has done nothing abt it. please be reminded that there was a conclusion on this issue with the the ruling of NLC. are the doctors above the laws of this country. ppl like u are the cause of ghana's problems cos u have no principle or respect for rule of law.

can u imagine what will happen to this country if the police or the military who have not also been paid their arrears also go on strike? or the prisons service letting out all the criminals in the name of srike? all these ppl belong to the essential services category yet non of them has been on strike. it was not for nothing that these categories of ppl were put under essential services. what the doctors are doing is illegal and we must stop this cheap politics and unite as a country against all nation wreckers.

the doctors are on strike today yet they are working in private hospitals andf they will be paid at the end of the month. u expect a group of ppl to do an illegal thing only for govt to come beg them to resind the illegality? how cheap can u be akilu? if we condemn foot soldiers for taking the law into their own hands to cease toilets, and lock up NHIS offices, we must also condemn the doctors for going on strike as an essential service and also refusing to abide by NLC ruling. the question we need to ask is, of what benefit has their strike action been apart from causing innocent ghanaians pain and suffering? this same strike took place last yr and the issuesn were not resolved. this time the NLC has given a ruling and GMA says since govt violated NLC ruling in the past then its no big deal if GMA does same this time around. how petty can we get?

akilu will always link this issue of indiscipline by doctors to the issue of the guinea fowl and tree plantations in the over 60 districts. u know very well the guinea fowl issue is an investment that aims to create about 1,500 jobs but u will delibrately ignore this fact and throw dust in the eyes of readers. well the doctors at least get paid each month, what abt the numerous unemployed that this guinea fowl project will create jobs for? if u monitor the news the guinea fowl breeders association gave a thumb up for the project because storage facilities and ready market will be provided to improve the incomes of the growers. what investment project starts and yields results immediately? none. am a northerner and and npp but will support all initiatives to improve the living standards of the north. i will place the development of my ppl first before politics.

we are all told how fast the desert is approaching the north from Burkin Faso to the extent that the upper east region is as hot as hell around this time. instead of raising red flags abt this project without any facts, we can call for an investigation into how the funds were used and the results achieved. this useless argument that where are the trees just sounds so silly. u dont plant a seedling today for it to become a tree the next day. please lets be patient and ensure that the moneys are used judiciously.

this unnecessary politicisation of important projects like this will lead us nowhere. SADA must account for every cedi it has invested. but if we politicise the issues to create the impression that the funds have been wasted or stolen, we will argue and counter argue and will never get to the bottom of it.

the NDC is a mess and this cant be over emphasise. but gahana is for ghanaians and not NDC and we should all play our individuals roles well within the laws to move ghana forward. long Live Ghana and long Live NPP
Victor A. Young 12 years ago

That's NDC's SADA project for you! And this is the reason why the NHIS is collapsing! They'll rather concentrate on Guinea Fowls and the eating of "chinchinga" ect. "Damn with your doctors; we don't care!" they'd say. What a ...
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That's NDC's SADA project for you! And this is the reason why the NHIS is collapsing! They'll rather concentrate on Guinea Fowls and the eating of "chinchinga" ect. "Damn with your doctors; we don't care!" they'd say. What a bogus party.
GK Fast 12 years ago

During NPP regime wht happened to greening ghana project did it survive, NPP were planting trees in the hamattan coursing financial loss to de state as at dat tym. Let us forget dis sort of politics n concentrate on de substa ...
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During NPP regime wht happened to greening ghana project did it survive, NPP were planting trees in the hamattan coursing financial loss to de state as at dat tym. Let us forget dis sort of politics n concentrate on de substantive issues n hw to solve it, they jux trying to raise small scale industries but n things went wrong for it yield wht abt those who r going into grasscutter rearing n stuff. Politics will kill some of u
Whatever 12 years ago

Your comparison is baseless. Guinea fowl rearing is an investment meaning we would recoup the capital and profit. Paying doctors arrears is a matter of debt settlement. Stop putting up mismatches for propaganda purposes

Your comparison is baseless. Guinea fowl rearing is an investment meaning we would recoup the capital and profit. Paying doctors arrears is a matter of debt settlement. Stop putting up mismatches for propaganda purposes
Dr. Dr. Afari Jane 12 years ago

We NDCians need Akonfem more than Doctors becoz we already have about 260 Medical Young boys from volta and Northern in Cuba.... Doctors can go to Heaven..... Asiedu Nketia and the Akonfem Party....more grease to your elbow. ...
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We NDCians need Akonfem more than Doctors becoz we already have about 260 Medical Young boys from volta and Northern in Cuba.... Doctors can go to Heaven..... Asiedu Nketia and the Akonfem Party....more grease to your elbow.....
Appletus 12 years ago

Your title is misplaced. The guinea fowl issue is a project that has nothing to do with the striking doctors. Doctors are not satisfied about the market provision of SSSS that they refer to. In fact Doctors have been at it fo ...
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Your title is misplaced. The guinea fowl issue is a project that has nothing to do with the striking doctors. Doctors are not satisfied about the market provision of SSSS that they refer to. In fact Doctors have been at it for yesteryears. Fact is that SSSS intends to streamline all disparities in salary structure in the country. How can we all graduate with a bachelors, spent variant sums of money, spent same years in the university and some are paid more than others? That is what SSSS intends to streamline.
The SADA project was initiated, implemented and has nothing to do with striking doctors. What about similar projects in some regions?
Kweku 12 years ago

That is a brilliant write up and a catchy title to get more people to read it. You just don't know how.

That is a brilliant write up and a catchy title to get more people to read it. You just don't know how.
Mr. QUESTIONS 12 years ago

What is all this noise about Rawlings and the NDC ? Under his watch for over 20+ years Ghana has fallen to her present state.

When people base their lives on the law of cause and effect as it applies to life throughout th ...
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What is all this noise about Rawlings and the NDC ? Under his watch for over 20+ years Ghana has fallen to her present state.

When people base their lives on the law of cause and effect as it applies to life throughout the three existences, they acquire a natural inner moral compass and come to walk the Royal Road of Goodness. And just as naturally, they will find themselves unwilling to build their own happiness on the misfortune of others.

In our times, the decline of morals is often decried. We are confronted with bullying, public disturbances and illegal activity. Of course laws that deal with such misdeeds could be strengthened, but a fundamental solution is needed to establish firm principles that create a moral standard in people's hearts. In other words, it is urgent and absolutely necessary to establish the principle that though one might fool other people, there is no avoiding consequences of the law of cause and effect in one's life.
When people try to lead good lives based on such aprinciple, they polish and perfect their character.

In the over 20 years of the PNDC and the NDC, is that what has happened ?
What is the purpose of the The United Cadre Front (UDF) in the context of Ghana ?
BULAALA 12 years ago

Not only in Ghana. In London restaurants too the value of guinea fowls is priceless, find out from you brothers and sisters abroad, and how about gold chains around the necks of special politicians too? hypocrites

Not only in Ghana. In London restaurants too the value of guinea fowls is priceless, find out from you brothers and sisters abroad, and how about gold chains around the necks of special politicians too? hypocrites
Alhassan Bawah, NPP UK 12 years ago

NDC stands for National Destroyers Company, so do not expect that bunch of nation looters cum day light robbers to reason reasonably like you have articulated. What you have written can only be from an NPP firebrand like your ...
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NDC stands for National Destroyers Company, so do not expect that bunch of nation looters cum day light robbers to reason reasonably like you have articulated. What you have written can only be from an NPP firebrand like yourself. John Mahama is the modern day Abraham Kofi Kafu of Money Galore fame. There is no difference between what is happening in Ghana now and what transpired in Ghana during Kafu's regime. Dumsor Mahama is running after women openly and impregnating them left, right and centre.
nsem pii 12 years ago

Now adays eeh jack can tell real men of God. All are in it for prosperity.

Now adays eeh jack can tell real men of God. All are in it for prosperity.
Ali, Toronto 12 years ago

This article shows complete ignorance of how a state institution functions - hence the apples-oranges comparison of doctors and guinea fowls. To put it simply, monies for doctors (health sector/ministry) and for guinea fowl p ...
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This article shows complete ignorance of how a state institution functions - hence the apples-oranges comparison of doctors and guinea fowls. To put it simply, monies for doctors (health sector/ministry) and for guinea fowl project (SADA/other agencies) don't just come from one pot AT WILL; the monies are budgeted for and allocated to expenditure lines. Each budget line, guided by government policy, mostly decides how it expends its allocation. Thus, funds for one ministry or agency are simply not available for another. A national budget/budgeting is holistic exercise and not done willy-nilly. The doctors should know this as should the author. They the doctors should accept to take the instalment payments of their arrears rather than insist on a lump sum – they should not behave like spoilt a spoilt child who wants a candy right here and now in the middle of the night. There is no need to beg anyone, involve religious leaders or manipulate the media as this ignorant author is ridiculously proposing. Ghana should not be such a country of illiterates!
Paolo 12 years ago

Waa look at such a stupid write-up, with nothing sensible to digest.

So Government should just stop everything and be looking out for striking doctors. When was Gment asked to choose between Doctors and the project and cho ...
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Waa look at such a stupid write-up, with nothing sensible to digest.

So Government should just stop everything and be looking out for striking doctors. When was Gment asked to choose between Doctors and the project and chose the latter? WHY DO WE HAVE SO MANY BRAINLESS PEOPLE IN GHANA? AND GHANAWEB PUBLISHES THIS TRASH.
KKO 12 years ago

Mahama and the parliamentarians did not think of Ghana before increasing their wages and other allowances. Ghanaians don't blame the doctors.How much is Okudjato Ablakwa earning?What is his first job? All workers should la ...
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Mahama and the parliamentarians did not think of Ghana before increasing their wages and other allowances. Ghanaians don't blame the doctors.How much is Okudjato Ablakwa earning?What is his first job? All workers should lay down their tools.Mahama's monthly wages is more than somebody's wages for the whole year.Buying cars and laptops for votes forgetting about the plight of the ordinary Ghanaian.
Osei Yao 12 years ago

AT LEAST GUINES FOWLS ARE NOT AS ARROGANT AS THE DOCTORS ON WHOM MILLIONS OF TAXPAYERS\ MONEY HAS BEEN SPENT.

AT LEAST GUINES FOWLS ARE NOT AS ARROGANT AS THE DOCTORS ON WHOM MILLIONS OF TAXPAYERS\ MONEY HAS BEEN SPENT.
Joe 12 years ago

Shortsightedness is informing your position if you see the guinea fowl project as a just a preference for guinea fowls over doctors. That project is supposed to change the lives of people and economic conditions in five regio ...
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Shortsightedness is informing your position if you see the guinea fowl project as a just a preference for guinea fowls over doctors. That project is supposed to change the lives of people and economic conditions in five regions and you can't appreciate the importance of that? These same doctors are reluctant to accept postings to these regions because of poor economic conditions there. So please come again.
Iddi Maltiti 12 years ago

Akilu 50 50, your article is jaundiced, why do you mischeviously make it seem as if the SADA project and the Docters strike are happening at the same time and the government has opted to fund the SADA leaving the Strking Doct ...
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Akilu 50 50, your article is jaundiced, why do you mischeviously make it seem as if the SADA project and the Docters strike are happening at the same time and the government has opted to fund the SADA leaving the Strking Doctors. It is a shame that you have so soon foegotten that your government still owes NAGRAT one month salary.
ASARE 12 years ago

URSULA OWUSU ASHAWO MP

URSULA OWUSU ASHAWO MP
ASARE 12 years ago

AKUFFO ADDO MONKEY FACE STUPID

AKUFFO ADDO MONKEY FACE STUPID
Kwame 12 years ago

Doctors you can not renegade on an arbitration award in which your own appointed arbitrator took part, that is like eating your bread and pretend that you have it. Just return to work.

Doctors you can not renegade on an arbitration award in which your own appointed arbitrator took part, that is like eating your bread and pretend that you have it. Just return to work.
Mankind 12 years ago

Would you agree with me that MONKEYS are smarter than the governments of many African coutries?? Ghana is what we are talking about here!!

Would you agree with me that MONKEYS are smarter than the governments of many African coutries?? Ghana is what we are talking about here!!
ECOMINI 12 years ago

Newly Oil-Rich Ghana Struggles to Please
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April 09, 2013

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When Ghana struck oil in 2007, citizens expected the industry would bring them better lives and investors anticipated hefty profits from a rising African economic star.

Six years later, all of them are complaining.

Lower-than-expected production from the offshore Jubilee field and funding a costly presidential election process in 2012 have left the West African nation struggling to deliver promised development projects while keeping its finances in order.

The situation underscores the complex reality of translating raw materials into prosperity on a continent notorious for the 'resource curse'' of graft, strife and mismanagement that has hit oil-rich countries like Nigeria, Angola and Equatorial Guinea.

Ghanaian president John Dramani Mahama gives a speech in Accra, Dec. 10, 2012.
Newly-elected President John Dramani Mahama is walking a fiscal tightrope between ordinary Ghanaians demanding swift change and investors alarmed by the country's ballooning debt.

A stumble could prove politically costly for Mahama and
financially disastrous for Ghana as it seeks to retain its access to credit to fund rapid growth.

"Because of oil production, rising expectations in Ghana
will have to be met. But at the same time, past policy choices constrain the room for maneuver and Ghana is toeing a very delicate line,'' said Razia Khan, Africa analyst at Standard Chartered Bank in London.

Eschewing the deepest of cuts, Ghana's 2013 budget plotted a middle-of-the road route intended to trim the deficit while using increased revenues to fund a jump in public spending.

Last month, Finance Minister Seth Terkper unveiled plans to pare the government's deficit to 9 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) this year from 12.1 percent in 2012, while cranking up expenditures by 20 percent.

That disappointed economists who were expecting Ghana to reaffirm its commitment to a deficit of 6 percent of GDP - the target it set and then widely missed in 2012.

Rating agency Fitch had already downgraded the outlook for Ghana's credit rating to negative from stable in February after details emerged of deteriorating public finances, a blow to its reputation as a model of African potential.

Total public debt rose by more than a fifth last year to
$18.8 billion, versus $15.3 billion in 2011.

Studying under trees

Rare in a region where coups, civil wars, disputed elections and strong-arm rulers are the norm, Ghana has distinguished itself with six peaceful transfers of power via the ballot box.

That reputation allowed it to launch a $750-million eurobond in 2007 and helped it secure the accolade of hosting Barack Obama for his first African trip as U.S. president in 2009.

Across the capital Accra, evidence of new resource wealth abounds: brightly-lit multi-storey buildings, cranes looming over construction sites, well-paved roads and billboards advertising banks, cars and mobile phones.

But many Ghanaians remain excluded. An influx of rural
workers hoping for jobs in Accra, has spawned a sprawl of outlying shanty towns and spilled vendors across the streets.

Standing in a trash-strewn courtyard, 49-year-old school teacher Monica Quansah wonders where the oil money is going.

"Our children are still attending school under trees,'' she said. "Those of us in the city don't have reliable power and water, let alone those in the regions.''

Grace Asantewaa, who voiced hope three years ago that oil would improve people's lives, said she had yet to see any benefit.

"Nothing has changed. We are even worse off than before because prices have shot up significantly,'' she said behind her stall of tomatoes and chilli peppers at the teeming Agbogbloshie market along a potholed road in the seaside capital.

Mahama won the presidency in December by tapping into public frustration at the slow pace of change for ordinary Ghanaians.

Among other things, he promised to build 200 new school blocks within his first four years, bolster crumbling water and power infrastructure, pave roads outside Accra and sustain economic growth at 8 percent or more.

But he was dealt a tough hand.

Technical hitches meant Tullow Oil's Jubilee field, 80 km (50 miles) offshore and the prime engine for revenue growth, produced 72,000 barrels per day in 2012, well shy of a 90,000 bpd target.

A report last month showed Ghana received $540 million from the oil industry last year, far short of a projected $774 million. About $32 million of that was saved in Ghana's two-year-old sovereign wealth fund, which was valued at about $72 million at the end of 2012.

Nigeria's oil-fed sovereign wealth fund, by comparison, is worth about $1 billion.

A public pay hike and election spending after the sudden death of President John Atta Mills in July further squeezed finances. Simply organizing the voting last year cost $125 million - over one percent of planned annual public spending.

Ghana has missed its budget deficit target in every election year since constitutional rule was restored in 1992. Vice President Kwesi Amissah-Arthur said the government chose slow fiscal consolidation to balance growth and stability.

"An attempt to correct the fiscal imbalance in one year
would be extreme,'' he said. "We'd be putting the brakes on at a time when we also have the responsibility to ensure economic growth to create employment opportunities for our people.''

The West African country ranked among Africa's fastest growing economies in 2011 and attained a lower middle-income status, propelled by the 2010 start up of oil production.

With reserves of 800 million barrels of high-quality oil and potential for at least one billion more, the field makes Ghana one of sub-Saharan Africa's top 10 oil producers. Tullow hopes to produce 120,000 bpd this year and 200,000 bpd by 2015.

Tough decisions

Despite the budgeted spending jump, Ghana will struggle to fulfil the social projects planned this year, said Amissah-Arthur, who also chairs Ghana's economic management committee.

"It means we could only be providing one or two of those school blocks this year and that's not good enough,'' he said, adding the government was seeking private sector investment.

Ghana is also grappling with power and water infrastructure problems that authorities say will require hundreds of millions of dollars to fix. Payments to private-sector healthcare providers and some public-sector workers are also in arrears.

Joe Abbey, economist at the Accra-based Center for Policy Analysis, said the government must prioritize.

"There are verifiable deficiencies in our infrastructure.
The most critical one is energy,'' he said. "It's a huge problem because every economic activity depends on reliable energy.''

In an ironic twist to the nation's status as an oil
producer, Ghanaian power utility, Volta River Authority, has been rationing power since September because it lacks the money to buy light crude after a subsea pipeline was damaged.

Ghana is hoping to start producing its own natural gas to generate power by year-end, but until then residents will have to bear power cuts lasting 12 hours every other day.

In a sign the government is feeling the financial pressure, Mahama's administration slashed fuel subsidies in February, resulting in a 20-percent rise in prices at the pump.

"We must learn to cut our coat to fit out cloth,'' said Bruce Ayiku, a 53 year-old physician. "There's too much extravagance around government machinery of late.''
UDS WA CAMPUS 12 years ago

prez mahama must satop mishandling the countries money and solve the problem of strike actions which is now the order of the day in the country..... i m a university student but i can go for lectures now whiles i have payed f ...
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prez mahama must satop mishandling the countries money and solve the problem of strike actions which is now the order of the day in the country..... i m a university student but i can go for lectures now whiles i have payed for school fees. why all these.....NAGRAT, GNAGT, DOCTORS, are all on strike whiles ministers are being paid above what is expected for them to receive at the end of every month.
Nana Asare 12 years ago

John Mahama CAN NEVER FORGET THE Akonfem MEAT AND FIND GENUINE AND PROPER WAYS OF RULING GHANA BECAUSE OF HIS LOVE FOR Akonfem MEAT, HE DOES NOT VALUE ANY GHANAIAN.

John Mahama CAN NEVER FORGET THE Akonfem MEAT AND FIND GENUINE AND PROPER WAYS OF RULING GHANA BECAUSE OF HIS LOVE FOR Akonfem MEAT, HE DOES NOT VALUE ANY GHANAIAN.
STAPH-PHILADELPHIA 12 years ago

It would do whoever wrote this article some good to please go back to school and learn how to compare and contrast before spewing this infantile thoughts of his or hers.
To educate you a little bit; ask yourself if Ghana exp ...
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It would do whoever wrote this article some good to please go back to school and learn how to compare and contrast before spewing this infantile thoughts of his or hers.
To educate you a little bit; ask yourself if Ghana exports Doctors for any gain before comparing a business initiative aimed at bagging profit and revenue.
Do you understand how a nation is run and how money is raised to pay workers of which the Doctors are no exception?
I just don't blame some of these guys; it is the buying and stealing of certificates that is pushing them to believe they are also commentators worthy of some attention. Please go back to school and learn!
mame 12 years ago

Am a nurse working in Europe. the sad thing is l work 50%, but l end a lot ten tames more a doctor at home.why? as l always tell my husband, that l wish to see one of the so called ministers in my work place. himmm.

Am a nurse working in Europe. the sad thing is l work 50%, but l end a lot ten tames more a doctor at home.why? as l always tell my husband, that l wish to see one of the so called ministers in my work place. himmm.
AGBEVE 12 years ago

WHO HAVE GREATER VALUE FOR US, DOCTORS WHO WORK 24 HOURS EVERYDAY TO SAVE LIVES OR POLITICIANS WHOSE PREOCCUPATION IS TO LOOT AND MAKE MONEY AT THE EXPENCE OF GHANAIANS ? WOYOME LOOTED GHC 51 MILLION AND OUR POLITICIANS SAID ...
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WHO HAVE GREATER VALUE FOR US, DOCTORS WHO WORK 24 HOURS EVERYDAY TO SAVE LIVES OR POLITICIANS WHOSE PREOCCUPATION IS TO LOOT AND MAKE MONEY AT THE EXPENCE OF GHANAIANS ? WOYOME LOOTED GHC 51 MILLION AND OUR POLITICIANS SAID NOTHING, BUT THE SAME POLITICIANS ARE QUICK TO CONDEMN DOCTORS FOR DEMANDING ENTITLEMENTS THAT ARE RIGHTLY THEIRS !!! WHAT DO THESE POLITICIANS TAKE US FOR ???

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