About $1m spent daily to import crude for power generation

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Nii Akwei 10 years ago

Yes, From China with $3B loan. We shall continue to suffer everyday, each and everyday.

Yes, From China with $3B loan. We shall continue to suffer everyday, each and everyday.
OLD SOLDIER 10 years ago

The NDC would have to explain to Ghanaians how a dead man came to author and sign a letter!

The opening paragraph states, “I came to serve; I have finished my time here on earth and have moved on to everlasting rest an ...
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The NDC would have to explain to Ghanaians how a dead man came to author and sign a letter!

The opening paragraph states, “I came to serve; I have finished my time here on earth and have moved on to everlasting rest and celestial duties with my heavenly father.”

The immediate question is; how did the dead man come to sign his own personal tribute, since he is already in heaven?

The letter then goes on melodramatically, “As you leaf through these pages of my life’s story, I pray to God that it touches your heart in many positive ways. Weep not, I am not dead. I am alive and awake in the Lord. Ghana will not die; Ghana will live to declare the works of the Lord. As I rest in perfect peace in the celestial realms with my maker, I pledge to always uphold and defend the good name of Ghana. Remember the Lord in all your ways and He will protect you. Stay well my brothers and sisters, I will always be with you. Signed (with actual signature) John Evans Atta Mills...
ATONGO 10 years ago

EVEN IF WE SAVE $1 MILLION EVERYDAY, GHANAIANATOS WILL NEITHER SEE THE MONEY OR FEEL ANY CHANGE IN THEIR LIVES. THE INCOME FROM THIS GAS ROJECT WILL GO TO THE POLITICIANS POCKETS.THEY CAN DO IT OR STOP,

EVEN IF WE SAVE $1 MILLION EVERYDAY, GHANAIANATOS WILL NEITHER SEE THE MONEY OR FEEL ANY CHANGE IN THEIR LIVES. THE INCOME FROM THIS GAS ROJECT WILL GO TO THE POLITICIANS POCKETS.THEY CAN DO IT OR STOP,
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PRINCE KWASI ADADE 10 years ago

WE THANK GOD FOR THE LIFE OF ST. MARTIN AMIDU. IT COULD BE RECALLED THAT, EVIL CORRUPT NDC BASTARDS SACKED ST. MARTIN FOR DEFENDING THE POOR PEOPLE OF THIS COUNTRY. TO BE PRECISE, FOR FIGHTING CORRUPTION IN EVIL NDC GOVERNMEN ...
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WE THANK GOD FOR THE LIFE OF ST. MARTIN AMIDU. IT COULD BE RECALLED THAT, EVIL CORRUPT NDC BASTARDS SACKED ST. MARTIN FOR DEFENDING THE POOR PEOPLE OF THIS COUNTRY. TO BE PRECISE, FOR FIGHTING CORRUPTION IN EVIL NDC GOVERNMENT. THE NDC MAN (ATTA MILLS) WHO SACKED HIM , WAS THE SAME MAN WHO ONCE SAID "GHANA WILL BE LIKE KENYA" THIS SO CALLED ASOMDWE HENE IS NOW BURRIED AT A PLACE CALLED ASOMDWE PARK. VERY RIDICULOUS!!! LOOK AROUND AND YOU CAN EASILY FEEL, SMELL AND SEE IT. THIS IS NOT THE GHANA KUFFOUR HANDED OVER TO THESE NDC CORRUPT BASTARDS, AS THEY ARE AFFECTIONATELY KNOWN BY THEIR EQUALLY CORRUPT FOUNDER. KUFFOUR IS INDUBITABLY THE BEST PRESIDENT EVER IN OUR HISTORY!!!!-----FELLOW COUNTRYMEN, WHO CAN PROVE KWASI ADADE WRONG?? NDC IS THE WORST THING EVER TO HAVE HAPPENED TO GHANA.
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What is the gov waiting for please? Release the effing funds and lets get this project over and done with so we move on to other solutions. And please I suggest in order for us to increase the use of renewable energy sources ...
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What is the gov waiting for please? Release the effing funds and lets get this project over and done with so we move on to other solutions. And please I suggest in order for us to increase the use of renewable energy sources to generate electrics, every home built legally and in the right frame of mind should at least be given loans to instal a solar panel on their roofs, it should also be installed in all schools and offices and we should have solar street lights and traffic light. I believe this will help in fighting the current load shedding.
Son of Africa 10 years ago

Say this to inward thinking politicians in Ghana

Say this to inward thinking politicians in Ghana
princewilly@ymail.com 10 years ago

While waiting at a bus stop for a bus, a woman stepped onto a weight machine that told your fortune and weight for a quarter. She put a quarter in, and out came a card that read, "Your age is 32, You weigh 135 lbs., and you p ...
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While waiting at a bus stop for a bus, a woman stepped onto a weight machine that told your fortune and weight for a quarter. She put a quarter in, and out came a card that read, "Your age is 32, You weigh 135 lbs., and you play the violin." She found the fortune amusing, since she didn't play the violin, but it did have her age correct. About that time, an old gentleman walked up carrying a violin. She asked him if she could see his violin. He agreed, and to their amazement, she started playing the violin with great natural skill. She wondered if the fortune machine had actually known something about her that she didn't. She thought about it, and decided to try the weight machine again. She put another quarter in the machine, and out comes the card that reads: "Your age is 32, you weigh 135 lbs., and you have gastritis." She found this one to be absurd, as she was in perfect health, so she goes back to the bus-stop to wait for her bus. While sitting there, she develops abdominal pains that continue to get worse until all of a sudden she farts. She wondered about the fortune, and again was curious if the machine was capable of knowing stuff about her that she didn't know. She puts another quarter in the machine, and out comes a card that reads: "Your age is 32, you weigh 135 lbs., and you are about to have sex." She laughed out loud, as she had been trying to find a decent guy to screw for weeks, with no luck. She is sitting there waiting for the bus,when this attractive young man sits down and immediately their eyes locked, and they both knew that they were right for each other. They quickly ducked down an alley and began to screw like two teenagers. The woman was so simply amazed at the ability of the machine, that she had to try it one more time. She stood on the machine, put her last quarter in, and out came a card that read: "Your age is 32, you weigh 135 lbs.,you've play the violin, you've farted, you've screwed around, and now you've missed your bus.
Son of Africa 10 years ago

These conscience dead leaders in Ghana are waiting for the youth to break loose and go after them.The Money is there were you see People who were supposed to serve the Country are ridding in V-8 vehicles ,what is not even tol ...
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These conscience dead leaders in Ghana are waiting for the youth to break loose and go after them.The Money is there were you see People who were supposed to serve the Country are ridding in V-8 vehicles ,what is not even tolerated in a rich Country like Germany.This is simply heartless behavior towards ones own People.
Pelicles 10 years ago

Any money in connection to the WAGP is gone with the wind. Report indicates that NDC had squandered all the money hence the delay and Mahama is scrambling to look for loans as a substitute.

NDC is the most corrupt govern ...
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Any money in connection to the WAGP is gone with the wind. Report indicates that NDC had squandered all the money hence the delay and Mahama is scrambling to look for loans as a substitute.

NDC is the most corrupt government in the history of Ghana. The corrupt allegation leveled against Limann government do not come near anywhere to what NDC is doing.

They are hell bent on depleting the purse of Ghana before they lose power.
KOFI ASANTE 10 years ago

IF GHANA IMPORTS $1M TO IMPORT OIL BUT CHANGES TO GAS TO GENERATE ELECTRICITY
IT DOES NOT MEAN WE ARE GOING TO SAVE $1M--UNLESS WE GET THE GAS FREE.
IS THERE ANY INTELLIGENT PERSON IN GHANA?????????????????????????

IF GHANA IMPORTS $1M TO IMPORT OIL BUT CHANGES TO GAS TO GENERATE ELECTRICITY
IT DOES NOT MEAN WE ARE GOING TO SAVE $1M--UNLESS WE GET THE GAS FREE.
IS THERE ANY INTELLIGENT PERSON IN GHANA?????????????????????????
Ghana Ni 10 years ago

This World Bank Report, is commonsense.

They, the Government, do not know what their priorities are.

To borrow the old thing "It doesn not require rocket science" to determine that.

IF YOU ARE SPENDING $1M TO IMPORT ...
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This World Bank Report, is commonsense.

They, the Government, do not know what their priorities are.

To borrow the old thing "It doesn not require rocket science" to determine that.

IF YOU ARE SPENDING $1M TO IMPORT THE STUFF, DAILY, AND THE SUPPLY IS OFTEN INTERRUPTED, THEN THE FASTER YOU DEVELOP YOUR OWN THE BETTER.

WHEN, DURING AND AFTER THE ISRAEL/ARAB WAR, IN THE EARLY SEVENTIES, OIL PRICES WENT OVER THE ROOF, BRITAIN BROUGHT FORWARD THE DEVELOPMENT OF ITS NORTH SEA OIL AND GAS EXPLORATION. THAT SAVED ITS ECONOMY.

Today, we have these stomach politicians, who cannot look beyond one day in dealing with the country's development.

I am not an NPP person, but, if Akuffo Addo was to be believed, this would have been his priority.
Kofi Atu 10 years ago

This is the kind of input one would expect from an international organization like the World Bank and the IMF.

African leaders are capable of sleeping and snoring during the most severe thunderstorms.

They need to be wo ...
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This is the kind of input one would expect from an international organization like the World Bank and the IMF.

African leaders are capable of sleeping and snoring during the most severe thunderstorms.

They need to be woken up by policy think thanks like the World Bank since they are not able to effectively mobilize and deploy the expertise of their own people whom they see as political rivals.

This article confirms that simple hikes in tariffs is not the answer to our energy crisis.
Whatever 10 years ago

Read this "It concluded that without a plan to ensure full cost recovery or scrapping of subsidies in the sector, managers of the gas facilities could still make serious losses". This report is intended to persuade ghanaians ...
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Read this "It concluded that without a plan to ensure full cost recovery or scrapping of subsidies in the sector, managers of the gas facilities could still make serious losses". This report is intended to persuade ghanaians to accept price increases and bring more hardships. World Bank is rather wicked
OSEI TAWIAH 10 years ago

Fucking Ayigbe idiots, negative people all the time. What sense are you making here? Do you mean we should leave the project to rot in the jungle because you don't want to hear from the World Bank? And if even we do abandon i ...
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Fucking Ayigbe idiots, negative people all the time. What sense are you making here? Do you mean we should leave the project to rot in the jungle because you don't want to hear from the World Bank? And if even we do abandon it, is that going to stop the price increase? Trokosi backward thinker. Like your foolish JJ, you Ayigbe idiots will always put people into hardships first before you go back begging. What alternative vision has the NDC presented to the people?
Whatever 10 years ago

You continue to hide behind that OSEI TAWIAH moniker to post irrelevant tribalist comments. Because someone has decided to use a moniker called "SARPONG ILLITERATE GURU", you found it uncomfortable to use your usual moniker t ...
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You continue to hide behind that OSEI TAWIAH moniker to post irrelevant tribalist comments. Because someone has decided to use a moniker called "SARPONG ILLITERATE GURU", you found it uncomfortable to use your usual moniker to defend your position hence this fake Osei Tawiah nonsense. You are such a coward. If you are a man, come at me with your usual name. Coward
SARPONG 10 years ago

You are really an idiot and stop your guessing game because OSEI TAWIAH has been posting in the forum longer than you. Are you moron scared to face him?

I might have super natural powers to live at two different countries ...
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You are really an idiot and stop your guessing game because OSEI TAWIAH has been posting in the forum longer than you. Are you moron scared to face him?

I might have super natural powers to live at two different countries as OSEI TAWIAH lives in SALBERTA, CANADA and I live in Houston, Texas.

You can accuse me of anything but not a coward. I have faced the best brains in the forum from your NDC trokosi party and never did I run away from anybody let alone a mental lightweight like you. Stop taking myriad of illegal drugs or you will soon shed off your clothes and start walking naked in Bukom, Accra or you would be packaged LIKE A LUGGAGE AND SENT BACK TO kETA TO FEED ON kETA SCHOOLBOYS.

I know the dumb fool who writes under that moniker and his name is Kola, a known illiterate who has never made a comment in this forum without making a mistake and his stupidity will not force me to go under any name. I post in this forum under SARPONG, CARDINAL and sometimes Houdini and I have a strategic reason of using those monikers and no other names, you hear?
Whatever 10 years ago

You never cease to amaze me with your micky mouse quick fabrications. What is the difference between that irrelevant ethnic theme in your denial comment to that from this so-called Osei Tawiah moniker(that you've been using)? ...
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You never cease to amaze me with your micky mouse quick fabrications. What is the difference between that irrelevant ethnic theme in your denial comment to that from this so-called Osei Tawiah moniker(that you've been using)? I'm not an ewe, but even if I was, my comments will still NOT be guided by ethnic consideration as you insinuated in that conjecture.
SARPONG 10 years ago

You are a fool. How can one person post from Alberta, Canada and Houston, Texas at the same time? Are you that stupid you can't do a common IP check?

You are a fool. How can one person post from Alberta, Canada and Houston, Texas at the same time? Are you that stupid you can't do a common IP check?
SARPONG 10 years ago

First of all, I will never call you as being "TOO KNOWN" because that is a sign of respect you attribute to somebody and you know I have no iota of respect for your hooey contributions in this forum and that should have given ...
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First of all, I will never call you as being "TOO KNOWN" because that is a sign of respect you attribute to somebody and you know I have no iota of respect for your hooey contributions in this forum and that should have given you a glimpse that, I am not OSEI TAWIA whose comments I 99%do I agree with. You are not the sharpest knife in the drawer.
Whatever 10 years ago

Stop sounding like a dumb student who just got himself exposed infront of his class. So You have "Too Known" as a sign of respect in your vocabulary? Really, You are such a dumb fellow because that phrase carries a clear disa ...
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Stop sounding like a dumb student who just got himself exposed infront of his class. So You have "Too Known" as a sign of respect in your vocabulary? Really, You are such a dumb fellow because that phrase carries a clear disapproving intent. Whether you agree with yourself 99% or not is my back case. You can call me the most blunt knife in the drawer, still, I will cut you with the truth
SARPONG 10 years ago

You are really dumb. If you refer to somebody as too known, you have already conceded that the person knows more than you do.

The one who has been exposed on this thread is you hooey who employs your mouth without paying y ...
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You are really dumb. If you refer to somebody as too known, you have already conceded that the person knows more than you do.

The one who has been exposed on this thread is you hooey who employs your mouth without paying your brain bills hence everything you post in this forum has one thread, "IDIOCY".

You only have one gear in your brain and it is marked with "S", STUPIDITY

OSEI TAWIAH lives in Alberta, Canada and I live in Houston. Get somebody with brains to do an IP address check for you Because you don't have the brain capacity to do it yourself.
Odapagyan 10 years ago

Somebody is becoming filthy rich from Ghana importing a million dollar a day of oil. Same as Tema oil refinery being sabotaged so govt can import refined oil through the companies formed by Alex Mould and his mafia.

This i ...
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Somebody is becoming filthy rich from Ghana importing a million dollar a day of oil. Same as Tema oil refinery being sabotaged so govt can import refined oil through the companies formed by Alex Mould and his mafia.

This is what happens the all important gas project when you put notoriously corrupt and ex-convict Sipa Yankee in charge at Ghana Gas.
Whatever 10 years ago

People should not but this crap from the world bank intended to throw dust into our eyes. They want electrity and petrol prices increased by the government.

People should not but this crap from the world bank intended to throw dust into our eyes. They want electrity and petrol prices increased by the government.
yaw owusu,boston 10 years ago

What are the neccessary recomendations this writer is providing for the managers of the ghana gas facities to ensure the smoothes runing of the ghana gas and fuel facities.

What are the neccessary recomendations this writer is providing for the managers of the ghana gas facities to ensure the smoothes runing of the ghana gas and fuel facities.
Dr Robert K Glah 10 years ago

Prez JDM is aware of the power situation in Ghana.
What is needed is the collaboration of all stakeholders in management of the situation.

Presidential Energy Commission must be set up to control and manage the energy nee ...
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Prez JDM is aware of the power situation in Ghana.
What is needed is the collaboration of all stakeholders in management of the situation.

Presidential Energy Commission must be set up to control and manage the energy needs of Ghana.

The Health, Education, Industry and any Infrastructure development depends on the efficient Energy management of Ghana. Prioritize it.
Shamu 10 years ago

Even if Ghana is put in heaven, there will be complain. There is no sense in this report that, Ghana will be saving money. So long as the work continue to go on, I did not see why complaining about this project. It is unfortu ...
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Even if Ghana is put in heaven, there will be complain. There is no sense in this report that, Ghana will be saving money. So long as the work continue to go on, I did not see why complaining about this project. It is unfortunate that, the most wicked Ghanaians have taken opportunity of our half democracy to find their way in critisizing everything That the government is doing just for the sake of their benefit, forgetting that, when giving them the chance, they corrupt and nearly collapse the nation to the brink of catastrophy.
truth 10 years ago

this story does not have a head and tail, mr or mrs writer please do your research well before you write like a pupil in class 1

this story does not have a head and tail, mr or mrs writer please do your research well before you write like a pupil in class 1
Modernist 10 years ago

There is something I don't quite understand. Ghana supplies Togo, Benin and Burkina Faso with electricity. If you are supplying someone with something it probably means you have more than enough or the advantages outweigh the ...
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There is something I don't quite understand. Ghana supplies Togo, Benin and Burkina Faso with electricity. If you are supplying someone with something it probably means you have more than enough or the advantages outweigh the disadvantages.

However, we don't have enough electricity in Ghana. The evidence is the load shedding of electricity round the country. Now if we were supplying these countries with electricity and we don't have enough now what is the most sensible thing to do? Well I think we have to stop supplying them so we would have enough.

However, the government of Ghana hasn't done that. The government of Ghana went for a loan, Eurobond, to build a new Dam and new power plants. Valco collapsed. The question I want to ask is whether the revenue we get from supplying these countries with electricity exceeds the loan and the interest we are paying in order to have new dams and thermal power plants.

Secondly many communities in the country still don't have electricity.
SERIOUS THINKER 10 years ago

Here is where you are wrong, you are using your brain to think about the status and problems in Ghana.

The leaders of this country, use the pockets and fufu filled bellies to debate the progress of Ghana. They have told(SH ...
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Here is where you are wrong, you are using your brain to think about the status and problems in Ghana.

The leaders of this country, use the pockets and fufu filled bellies to debate the progress of Ghana. They have told(SHOWN) that they don't care.

P.S We don't supply Burkina Faso anymore, but we do supply Ivory Coast, which has 24hr uninterrupted power. Yet the country looks heavily worn torn and poor, waaaaaay poorer than Ghana, but they have seen the importance of Constant clean water and electricity, even in their villages. I have seen it first hand.

Shame, Shame on Ghanaians. We must demand better treatment and not give up until we get it.
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Kaku 10 years ago

The World Bank should not tell Ghanains lies.They only want a way to help the VRA/GRIDCO/ECG increase their tarrifs.How much does a barrel of crude/refined oil sell on the world market?And do they know how many barrels of cru ...
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The World Bank should not tell Ghanains lies.They only want a way to help the VRA/GRIDCO/ECG increase their tarrifs.How much does a barrel of crude/refined oil sell on the world market?And do they know how many barrels of crude/refined/light crude this US$1m can buy a day as they want
Ghanains.to believe?Do they want us to believe that VRA is using over 5,000 barrels of light crude a day for that medium size generating plant?VRA should tell Ghanains the ttuth and stop trowing dust into our eyes.We know how much power you generate and what it takes to generate that power.Do not force some of us to come out with technical details of what goes on at Aboadze thermal plant.
Hazor 10 years ago

Has both the White and Black Volta dry up that produce fee free water to generate power on both Akosombo and Bui Dams and the Dams has close its pipes down?Which power plant in Ghana run on crude?With all this Dumso Dumso Gha ...
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Has both the White and Black Volta dry up that produce fee free water to generate power on both Akosombo and Bui Dams and the Dams has close its pipes down?Which power plant in Ghana run on crude?With all this Dumso Dumso Ghana still waste about $1million daily to import crude to generate power?.If Ghanaians did not wake up from their slugger to take their country like both Egypt and Turkey are doing then NDC will connive with World Bank to steal our money.Ghanaians are help NDC to steal because they don't care what direction NDC is driving the country.Parliament approve GHC 33billion and also approve $1billin dollar bond without any scrituny of what NDC use the money for and went ahead to approve 3billion eurobond.GHanaians rise and defend your money from these theifs.
Ghanabapa 10 years ago

AT WHAT PRICE IS THE GAS GOING TO BE USED? PLS LET US THINK OF INNORVATIONS THAT WILL LET US USE THE FREE ENERGIES AVAILABLE OTHERWISE THERE WILL BE NO WAY OUT OF THIS PROBLEM.

AT WHAT PRICE IS THE GAS GOING TO BE USED? PLS LET US THINK OF INNORVATIONS THAT WILL LET US USE THE FREE ENERGIES AVAILABLE OTHERWISE THERE WILL BE NO WAY OUT OF THIS PROBLEM.

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