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Sole Commissioner accuses AG’s dep't of “cooking cases”

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  • GHANABA 1 11 years ago

    This is Ghana under a corrupt government,they will use all means to loot the nation coffers.ndc for ghanaians indeed

  • moyo 11 years ago

    These people are not doing their job and are gradually killing the Civil Service. Why should you be taking salary if you are able to do the job you are asked to do

  • Kofi Ata, Cambridge, UK 11 years ago

    It appears the claim for and payments of judgement debts in Ghana is big business between politicians, civil servants and judges on one side and the claimants on the other. Politicians abuse their positions to even encourage ...
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  • Fellow citizen. 11 years ago

    You and I have been active and for that reason, these criminals are all over to the extend of the so called politicians. judgement debts are part of their salaries and they`re ready to claim them all the time from head to toe ...
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  • GTV News at OFMTV.COM 11 years ago

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  • Nana Kofi Gyasi 11 years ago

    THESE GHANAIAN-RECKERS SHOULD KNOW THAT, THEY WILL NOT GO FREE, SO LONG AS THE OMNI-GOD LIVES. THIS IS A COMMON BLACKMAN THINKING - THEY DON,T SEEK FOR ETERNAL THINGS BUT FOR ONLY- TODAY THINGS. THEY WILL ALL SUFFER THE RESUL ...
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  • The African Patriot 11 years ago

    OMNI God was there when Blacks were slaved, beat, raped, manipulated, etc. We need to act by our selves. We need to strategize and build up lobbies to work against these thiefs. We need patriots. We need to come together. A g ...
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  • The Masses 11 years ago

    The Situation will one day get out of Hand.

  • animals ewes 11 years ago

    thay can't sack him he is ewe ewes have no brain to lead enything in ghana

  • Danny, London 11 years ago

    Moyo you are very right that Mr Kpobi must be sacked immediately from his job by the current Attorney General and Justice Minister.

    This Mr Kpobi is very very corrupt indeed and must be gotten ride off immediately without ...
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  • mawriz 11 years ago

    Let's thank God that they are working to expose these people. I think it is a very good step in the right direction. I also think we as citizens should work to help the government. It is not enough we fold our arms and say th ...
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  • CK 11 years ago

    LETS BRING BACK THE CPP!

  • Fellow citizen. 11 years ago

    Kufour`s NPP did the same. It`s not only NDC so we Ghanaians don`t have to point fingers at only one political party. Bot NDC and NPP are the same. GHannaians won`t continue to reason so long as we continue to live in the dar ...
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  • KOFI 11 years ago

    LEAVE NPP OUT OF NDC THIEVERY...HOW MUCH JUDGEMENT DEBT DID NPP PAY IN 8 YEARS? SHAME ON YOU...PROVE YOUR CASE ABOUT NPP WITH SUCH DATA NOW...NDC LIES

  • ST. SIMON 11 years ago

    IF THIS IS HOW STATE OFFICIALS USE OUR MONEY THEN THE COUNTRY WILL NEVER SEE ANY MEANINGFUL DEVELOPMENT. NO DOUBT OUR ROADS ARE NOT BEING DONE, NO GAS,ELECTRICITY,WATER AND ABOVE ALL NO MONEY TO PAY WORKERS, CONTRACTORS ETC. ...
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  • FREEDOM FIGHTER 11 years ago

    Ghanaian politicians and civil servants are leading the country to a failed nation...what do you expect from a nation where the judicial system is corrupt,aiding and abetting criminals to have a field day with judgement debts ...
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  • SYDNEY 11 years ago

    IRRESPECTIVE OF WHATEVER JJ RAWLINGS MAY HAVE AS A WEAKNESS, WE SHD HAVE SUPPORTED HIM WHEN HE CONDEMNED CORRUPTION IN ATTAMILLS GOVT AND HOW IT WAS WORSE THAN THE KUFFOUR REGIME...BUT ALL WE DID WAS TO KEEP QUIET WHILST ATTA ...
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  • Ama Atta 11 years ago

    JJ was shouting because Atta Mills refused according to JJ himself in one of his speeches celebrating an aniversary of the 31st Women's Movement, a judgement debt to the tune of 5million Cedis or 5Millions dollars belonging t ...
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  • BRAVEBOY 11 years ago

    This is Ashanti Region for you. They are untouchable.

  • duke 11 years ago

    Would you say this is volta region for you because of woyome being paid for not working or in contract? Dont be tribalistic, racist, and ignorant with every issue.

  • Iwayne 11 years ago

    when are we seeing people get locked up. if a goat thief can do 5-10 yrs behind bars.why not these idiots

  • JONES 11 years ago

    THIS NDC GOVERNMENT IS THE WORST IN GHANA'S HISTORY.

  • Sappey Agbo 11 years ago

    @Ghanaba 1, in case you are dumb or a moron, this case was prosecuted under the aegis of the NPP. When did NDC assumed power,January 2009. Judgement was passed under the NPP before they left office. What do you expect the NDC ...
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  • KWAME KURITWAMANSA 11 years ago

    RE: WHAT DO YOU EXPECT?
    sORRY, YOU GOT IT ALL WRONG. THIS TOOK PLACE UNDER THE kUFFOUR ADMINISTRATION. EVEN IF IT TOOK PLACE UNDER THE NDC, THE SAME NDC IS NOW INVESTIGATING THE MATTER.
    WHERE WERE YOU WHEN KUFFOUR WAS REPOR ...
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  • MANTSE 11 years ago

    And what is going to happen to this Mr Kpobi and his partners in crime?

    And THE ANSWER IS:

    The same thing that has always happened in similar cases: NOTHING.

    And you know what, that 'NOTHING' is the FUEL that GROWS C ...
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  • okyeame 11 years ago

    And dear Justice, Apau how do you know that Mr Kpobi didn't gain anything from that act?

  • Mama Tula 11 years ago

    Of course, it is obvious from the article it is evident that the Atorney-General's Department intentionally put up a weak case so themoney can be claimed and shared among them. What a sad, sad state we live in. And people who ...
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  • AB 11 years ago

    So govt will sit down and be helpless in this case and it will be business as usual? Pres Mahama shine your eyes ooo. Please sack such people the dont deserve to continue to be in govt employment.

  • MENSAH CASTRO..TEMA 11 years ago

    IF NDC GOVEMENT IS NOT BOOST OUT FROM POWER

  • CK 11 years ago

    SAME COIN DIFFERENT SIDES ;NDC-NPP

  • insight to the bone 11 years ago

    the fantis did not vote for ndc rather they put their faith in atta mills who was undermined and later brutally murdered by the ewes. he hoped that the unity of the nation would be the basic platform to ensure a better standa ...
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  • Vodoo Xebieso 11 years ago

    Swine. Your anti-Ewe stance will definitely take you nowhere. What proof do you have that Mills was brutally murdered by Ewes? Mills was terminally ill and he died a natural death, so why blame someone for his death? Who woul ...
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  • kweku don 11 years ago

    shut up he was brutally murdered.

  • insight to the bone 11 years ago

    you ayigbe are of the intrinsic evil the devil created . you walk around thinking how clever you are because you believe you can fool everybody , we tolerated this nonsense just to make you happy now you make it the norm of k ...
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  • princewilly@ymail.com 11 years ago

    INSIGHT TO THE BONE IN YOUR ASS.YOU ARE A VAGABOND BIGOT CONCEIVED THROUGH ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION SO YOU DON'T HAVE BRAINS.
    SIR JOHN WANTS TO MAKE THE CONCERT WITH YOU SO GO AHEAD.

  • insight to the bone 11 years ago

    actually i am entertained by most of your jokes you post here so will ignore your stupidity. you are undisturbed by the decades of ewe hegemony and hatred of the Akans but when we answer in kind you fume off the top, check yo ...
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  • Citizen vigilante II 11 years ago

    It is a shame that the Press in GHANA has become complicit in the cover up of the unholy alliance of judges like Margaret Welbourne, loan sharks like NDK Financial Services and Betty Mould and Barton Odro and Chief State Att ...
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  • K K 11 years ago

    I have known this Kpobi guy to be very corrupt and thus am not surprised. he will do anything for money.

  • rkt 11 years ago

    most of the time when some of us have said that we know someone very well we have, at best, only been bragging, so how well do u know mr kpobi?

  • gooza goro 11 years ago

    Shut up He knows him as aprotected thief, period!!!!!!!!

  • YUPYUP 11 years ago

    So we can all see how the Ghanaian educated class in leadership positions are the very wolves drinking the blood of d poor in Ghana. ..........extremely wicked to Ghana.........GOD SHD INTERVENE FOR THE SAKE OF THE POOR.

  • ZONGO BOY 11 years ago

    CORRUPT AGS DEPARTMENT, WHAT DO YOU EXPECT.

  • Kwaku 11 years ago

    THIS CASE COMMENCED DURING OKROMFUO KUFFUOR'S TIME AND THE CRIMINALS MADE SURE IT WAS DISPOSED OFF AS SOON AS THE NDC CAME TO POWER. DO YOU REMEMBER?

  • ZONGO BOY 11 years ago

    YOU TELL THE COMMISSIONER AS YOU RECON HE DOESN'T.

  • KOFI KOFI 11 years ago

    WITH A BRIBE, ONE GET'S WHAT EVER HE NEEDS. WHAT DO WE EXPECT, IF WE DO NOT PUNISH CULPRITS. DID THE SAID CHIEF PUT THE MONEY TO COMMUNITY USE OR NOT, IF NOT HE IS TO BE MADE TO VOMIT EVERY CENT. PEOPLE SELL LANDS IN GHANA AN ...
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  • ZONGO BOY 11 years ago

    WHO IS TO BLAME HERE? MAHAMA BRIBES THEM WITH LANDCRUSERS AS WELL AS NOT PUTTING REVENUES OF LAND SALES INTO GOOD USE FOR THE COMMUNITY, DO THEY DESERVE LAND CRUSERS AS WELL?

  • Nii Akwei 11 years ago

    Do you blame the strike actions by Doctors, Nurses, Teachers?

  • bright jectey asofua\asamang 11 years ago

    What will all these debts issue pass over.Do some of our leader never ever think for the prosperity of mother Ghana

  • rkt 11 years ago

    it is sad 2 say so, but i cannot fault the sole commissioner! we must do something drastic to arrest the situation. corruption has so become the norm in every sphere of life in Ghana that jss and sss students, sometimes with ...
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  • ZONGO BOY 11 years ago

    YOU DON'T ALLOW A DOG TO WATCH OVER A PIECE OF MEAT? GHANA HAS ALLOWED TO BE STOLLEN BY THIEVES, HENCE STEALING OF ALL SORTS WILL GO ON, EITHER IS GUINEA FOWL INDUSTRY, TREE PLANTING INDUSTRY, WATER AND ECG TOR AND MANY OTHER ...
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  • DENNIS AVOY, Italy 11 years ago

    Mr. KPOBI should be investigated, and if possible a retrial of the case. There was something fishy

  • KANEWU 11 years ago

    GHANA REALLY NEEDS A BLOODY REVOLUTION TO EXTERMINATE ALL THESE CRIMINAL LEADERS HOLDING OUR NATION TO RANSOME AND LOOTING IT TO THE BONES.

    GHANA AND GHANAIANS WILL CONTINUE TO STAY WHERE WE ARE, IF THESE CRIMINALS ARE A ...
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  • AB 11 years ago

    So Govt will look on and it is business as usual? this individual involved will remain at post and continue to sabotage national efforts? Pres Mahama shine yours eyes ooo. Haa.

  • NANA YAW 11 years ago

    Ghana is suffering from the hands of incompetent people and those who have obtained certain status through deception "fake certificates" we need to have a national database to eradicate impersonations and fictitious certific ...
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  • Zoobie-Zoobie 11 years ago

    you are right... they have it South Africa. There is also degree verification in the U.S.

  • Genuine Observer 11 years ago

    As usual, Kpobi collected his 40% share of the loot right after the judgement......NDC style of modern corruption. And there will be money available for such payments but nothing there for doctors!

  • CK 11 years ago

    THAT IS THE FACT

  • kwaw bntum 11 years ago

    Let the state appeal against the judgement and Kpobi recuse himself from the case. This is the new normal prevailing in Ghana. Colluding and conniving to steal from the state through socalled judgement debts. We have a whole ...
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  • PATRIOT 11 years ago

    Why is the tax payers money user to pay salary of these nation wreckers at the attorney general when they connive to rip the nation financially into pieces. God help this putty country.

  • NANA AKUFØ ADDØ 11 years ago

    SYLVESTER MENSAH AND BEN KUSI AT THE NHIA MUST GO. THEY MUST GO. THEY ARE DESTROYING THE NHIS. SYLVESTER MENSAH AND BEN KUSI MUST GO NOW, MR PRESIDENT.

  • Concern Ghanian 11 years ago

    YOU AGREES SOME ERRORS WAS COMMITED?

  • Concern Ghanian 11 years ago

    ALL OF YOU ARE THIEVES PEN ROBBERS

  • john atolague 11 years ago

    That is a product of Ghana law school-university of Ghana.

  • AKONFEM PREZ MAHAMA 11 years ago

    GOD WILL PUNISHED ALL NDC,MAHAMA CORRUPTIONS PEOPLE,MAHAMA COLLAPSING GHANA,SINKING GHANA,FOOLS,GOD HATE THIEVES,CORRUPTION,CRIMINALS,SHAMELESS

  • Gandalf 11 years ago

    THIS IS THE WAY MANY IN THE ATTORNEY GENERALS DEPARTMENT HAVE BECOME RICH. YOU BRING YOUR CASE TO THEM, CALL THE MONEY INVOLVED, THEY PRESENT A BAD CASE, YOU WIN THE CASE AND SHARE THE MONEY WITH HIM OR THEM. AND THIS IS NOT ...
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  • Yaw Adu-Asare 11 years ago

    Justice Apau is witnessing what befits the pattern of corruption hatched in Kumasi, (Ashanti Regional capital and the seat of Asanteman Council)

  • Kofi 11 years ago

    Woyome's payment was made in Kumasi, I guess.

  • Osei Yao 11 years ago

    DEMOCRACY WITH CROOKED LAWYERS? NO WAY

  • Kpegah Junior 11 years ago

    We are chopping the money that is why I am asking Akufo-Addo for his cert. We Ewes have joint the Northerns to detroy Ghana. We are the DEVIL'S SOLDIERS

  • Maama 11 years ago

    Crooks all round

  • From Italy 11 years ago

    Lawyers,especially AG.has now strike a new lotto deal called Judgement Debt.Eii,Ghana!!!!!!!1!!

  • Kofi 11 years ago

    WHAT SHOULD HAPPEN TO MR KPOBI? SHOULD NOT HE FACE THE LAW FOR CAUSING FINANCIAL LOSS TO THE STATE? YOU SEE PEOPLE MUST BE MADE TO PAY FOR WHAT THEY DO WHEN IN OFFICE, OTHERWISE EVERYTHING BELONGING THE STATE WOULD BE LOST BE ...
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  • Kofi 11 years ago

    What happened to those who defied the president and paid Woyome? Why should Kpobi be treated differently?

  • ISSIFU 11 years ago

    But this is no news. Judgement debts under the NDC administration of the Mills-Mahama-Amissah Arthur gov't instituted judgement debts as a gov't policy to loot the national kitty of scarce funds, to enrich themselves in the p ...
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  • KWAME 11 years ago

    Sorry Issifu, your point is as if the NDC is the cause of these judgements debts. This case was even in the period of the NPP. IfQ YOU WANT TO TO CONTRIBUTE OF ANY ISSUE? READ IT VERY WELL AND GET TO KNOW THE CASE HISTORY VER ...
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  • KWASHIE ADJAH 11 years ago

    THE NDC GOVERNMENT PAID THE MONEY IN 2009, SO WHOSE FAULT IS IT? SHOULD NOT HAVE NDC GOVERNMENT AFTER TAKING OVER REVIEWED ALL CASES OF JUDGEMENT DEBT PENDING IN THE COURTS AND DEFEND THEM IN THE INTEREST OF GHANA. WHY DID ND ...
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  • kedo 11 years ago

    Don't talk politics. See how a Ghanaian poor woman became a millionaire by buying and selling accidented cars, Very interesting. Go to (ACCIDENTEDCARS.COM) to see the various methods and companies she used (ACCIDENTEDCA ...
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  • IT'S BRIBBERY & CORRUPTION 11 years ago

    A CORRUPT CHIEF

  • USMAN 11 years ago

    Corruption and incompetence is the hallmark of university education.

  • G. K. Berko 11 years ago

    It comes as no surprise at all to many who have long suspected this to be an established practice within the various Ministries.


    I would bet my bottom dollar on the likelihood that some top Civil Servants who tend to be ...
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  • ABOKYI da GOMA 11 years ago

    MAY GOD HELP GHANA

  • RICE WATER 11 years ago

    PLEASE COMMISSIONER, JAIL MR. KPOBI FOR AT LEAST 40 YEARS HE IS CRIMINAL, A THIEF AND LUNATIC ARMED ROBBER, PLEASE JAIL HIM, AND ASK THE THIEF ALLED A CHIEF TO RETURN THE MONEY OR ELSE CAUSE HIS ARREST FOR DEFRAUDING GHANA. S ...
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  • RICE WATER 11 years ago

    AFTER STEALING AND CHEWING GHANA'S MONEY COME AND TAKE MY FATHER AND USE HIM AS CURRENCY NOTES AND PAY GHANAIANS. WHAT IS THIS NONSENSE.

    CHAIRMAN RAWLINGS ARE YOU HEARING ALLA THSES RUBBISH? CHAIRMAN ARE YOU HEARING?

  • AGYA 11 years ago

    gHANA should scrap off payment of judgement debt from its laws. Educated theives are stealing a lot from this 'payment debt issues'

  • Junglefire 11 years ago

    2 Bn is not in Kumasi, Please!!!

  • kow amisah 11 years ago

    These things have been going on for a long time. It is now that a few are coming out. It takes various forms. Our politicians and so called big men have been benefiting from them. It is happening in all ministries. The honest ...
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  • ahmed-dormaa ahenkro 11 years ago

    Oh, as usual, you don't need to be told.YENKYE NDI galore

  • NOKO FIOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO 11 years ago

    NOKO FIOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

  • Kwabena Ansa 11 years ago

    Mr. Justice Apau, may God bless you for your candid comments on the lackadaisical defence the Chief State Attorney in the Ashanti Region-Mr. William Kpobi submitted to you on behalf of the State. Mr. Justice Apau, I am very ...
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  • Kwasi P 11 years ago

    Another very corrupt State Attorney is Theophlus Appoh in Sunyani. He steals money from the state on daily basis. He also takes bribes from complainants.

  • ERIC KEN 11 years ago

    THAT IS WHAT NDC IS ALL ABOUT GIVING MONEY TO THEMSELVES TIME WILL CATCH WITH THEM VERY SOON