Gov’t expects US$2.2bn in new money

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EDDIE 10 years ago

In my opinion, priority must be given to some basic needs such as 1. Water, 2. Electricity, 3. Health Care. Second on the priority note must be our ROADS. The above matters have been neglected for far too many years, and is r ...
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In my opinion, priority must be given to some basic needs such as 1. Water, 2. Electricity, 3. Health Care. Second on the priority note must be our ROADS. The above matters have been neglected for far too many years, and is really retarding the nations development. An urgent consideration must be given to the housing deficit around the country. The housing problem can be solved if the Government regulates the RENTAL laws of the country. To demand rental payment of 2 years in advance is just unlawful. Even in the developed countries no one demands that. Long live Ghana.
G. K. Berko 10 years ago

I fully agree with you that we need to prioritize as you indicated and suggest we pull in Sanitation, Drainage and Waste Management right after those you cited.

Without proper hygienic environment and a reliable modern Was ...
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I fully agree with you that we need to prioritize as you indicated and suggest we pull in Sanitation, Drainage and Waste Management right after those you cited.

Without proper hygienic environment and a reliable modern Waste water treatment system to back it, abundance of water would not necessarily translate to drinkable water.

Besides, a cleaner environment that ensures easy access to modern lavatories among other facilities would boost our attraction for Tourism and improve our savings on Health. We should abandon open culvert drainage system and design a national underground drainage network that would traverse all the country, for example. Such an infrastructural development would be more durable and pay for itself multifold.

Long live Ghana!!!
Jay+++++++++++London 10 years ago

What sort of economics is this? This Mahama wasted $6b in the months leading to the elections only to resort to borrowing to built infrastructure.

How can we believe that the euro bonds would be used to build infrastructu ...
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What sort of economics is this? This Mahama wasted $6b in the months leading to the elections only to resort to borrowing to built infrastructure.

How can we believe that the euro bonds would be used to build infrastructure?

I mean this guy is unable to help himself when it comes to wasting our meagre money. Faced with the humiliation of being removed from office after just a few months, Mahama showed us his true nature: an abuser of political office.

With the help of those who are purchasable, he mis-used our money and now we see increase in all things of daily living.

Mahama have to be screened whenever he is removed from office. The guy is tainting our good image internationally. I mean look at the value of the Cedi now. It is in a free falling mode and with our current clumsy government the trend is in no mood to reverse.
G. K. Berko 10 years ago

Mr. Oware, please, be bold and honest enough to admit errors made in attacking the late Prez personally.

Right from day one, before Prez Mills could even sit at his desk to spend the first day at the Job, the radical activ ...
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Mr. Oware, please, be bold and honest enough to admit errors made in attacking the late Prez personally.

Right from day one, before Prez Mills could even sit at his desk to spend the first day at the Job, the radical activists among you began to humiliate him with derogatory nicknames like "ecomini" .

You often disrespectfully called him Rawling's poodle even before he could do or say anything to alienate his former boss. In fact, it was your psychological assault on his ability to stand on his own that made him radically push Rawlings away to finally earn the latter's bitterness and claim of betrayal.

Your (NPP's) action could not be anything but a deliberate strategy to split the two even before Mills could perform on the first day. You worked to demoralize him. What could be more personal an attack than that?

It is one thing criticizing Mills' official policies, utterances, or actions and another deriding him with indecent names like 'ecomini'.

Don't play a saint now. It would be better to fess up and apologize posthumously to the late Prez. , and help the Youth learn to practice Politics with decorum.

Long live Ghana!!!
mensah abrampa 10 years ago

Are you intimating that President Mills failed because he was constantly criticized by a vibrant opposition? He may have had good intentions because of his good nature but good intentions are never enough. Mills himself was a ...
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Are you intimating that President Mills failed because he was constantly criticized by a vibrant opposition? He may have had good intentions because of his good nature but good intentions are never enough. Mills himself was a great academic scholar but he was incompetent as a political leader. He compounded the problems his incompetence created by surrounding himself with equally incompetent and inexperienced younger men whose only contribution to national development was polluting the political atmosphere with offensive language. They were such a bad example but President Mills turned a blind eye whilst they tore this nation apart. Nobody needs to apologize posthumously to a man who was his own enemy. If there should be any apologies at all then it must come from the late Mills if that is possible for letting the nation down big time. He inherited political and economic capital more than any president before him and he squandered it all, bequeathing the nation with the biggest external debt in the history of the nation.Please it'd be better to let sleeping dogs lie instead of insulting our intelligence.
G. K. Berko 10 years ago

I posted my comment to the wrong Article. I have since made the correction. However, on your question, I would like to emphasize that I never intimated anything of the sort you suggested. What I set out to do was to specific ...
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I posted my comment to the wrong Article. I have since made the correction. However, on your question, I would like to emphasize that I never intimated anything of the sort you suggested. What I set out to do was to specifically challenge the primary claim by Fred Oware that NPP never criticized the late President's person but only his performance.

That is what I continued to prove. But no. I have long ago, soon after Mills' death rejected any notion that he died because of any criticisms, whether leveled against his person or his performance at the Job.

In fact, elsewhere in response to this very Article Oware wrote, I reiterated that it is simply a puerile notion that Mills died from excessive criticism. In fact, I noticed at the outset that the Awhois were the ones selling that opinion, and I came down on them strongly against that notion.

We should distinguish between genuine criticisms and derogatory, denigrating epithets. What I have come to notice as very common among some of us is the usage of personal denigration to accentuate our opposition to something another stands for in Politics.

It is very common to come across a rain of personal insults on someone by another, just because the former disagrees with the latter on an issue. Such is what I denounce. We could always oppose someone without reducing him to some sub-human entity with insults.

And surely, any failure of Mills to accomplish anything was more of his own making. I believe his poor health compelled him to defer too much to his subordinates, many of whom were inexperienced and chose to cover their shortfalls with sheer acid tongue-lashing.

Nevertheless, you must admit also that the NPP helped set Mills up for that failure. Mills was subjected to personal denigration by the NPP from the very day of his inauguration. Remember "Ecomini" that came to be the favorite derogatory nickname NPP used to describe Mills?

He was mocked with that slip of tongue by NPP before he could even begin to sit at his desk for duty. The strategy was to impugn his competence even before he set to work.

Long Live Ghana!!
Kobina 10 years ago

Beautiful picture painted here but the end results will be disaster as usual. This money will go line the pocket of crooked politicians.

Beautiful picture painted here but the end results will be disaster as usual. This money will go line the pocket of crooked politicians.
G. K. Berko 10 years ago

Kobina, we need stop them. Therefore I entreat you to support a new drive to send the persistent and most vicious culprits to The Hague to answer charges against Humanity.

Many of us have been advocating this because suc ...
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Kobina, we need stop them. Therefore I entreat you to support a new drive to send the persistent and most vicious culprits to The Hague to answer charges against Humanity.

Many of us have been advocating this because such egregious corruption eventually leads to many deaths in our Country. Imagine the reported corruption that was reported in our Health system because of which we run out of medication in our Pharmacies. If we could prove the corruption of any politician denied folks essential services and caused their deaths in massive numbers, the Politicians must face that International Court of Justice, given that our Judges could be influenced by the culprits to skew the cases for their acquittal.

Long live Ghana!!!
GHFUO, BE SERIOUS NOT PRIDEFUL! 10 years ago

EEIIII, SO U HVE MISMANAGED THE ECONOMY. U HAVE NO OPTION BUT TO PRINT MORE CASH N FLOOD GH WITH MORE CEDIS. THIS WILL DEVALUE THE CEDI N CAUSE MORE INFLATION. WHY DNT U COME OUT N SAY U HAVE PRINTED MORE CEDI NOTES? INSTEAD, ...
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EEIIII, SO U HVE MISMANAGED THE ECONOMY. U HAVE NO OPTION BUT TO PRINT MORE CASH N FLOOD GH WITH MORE CEDIS. THIS WILL DEVALUE THE CEDI N CAUSE MORE INFLATION. WHY DNT U COME OUT N SAY U HAVE PRINTED MORE CEDI NOTES? INSTEAD, U ARE USING USELESS IDIOMS N TECHNIQUES. U THINK I WAS BORN TODAY?........U CAN DO ALL U WNAT. IF THAT EPIDEMIC CORRUPTION ISNT HANDLED BOLDLY. FORGET IT, GH IS RUINED!
messa 10 years ago

what is expecting new money is that mean that without this money ghana is broke? we must stop relying on hands out so we can write our own futore

what is expecting new money is that mean that without this money ghana is broke? we must stop relying on hands out so we can write our own futore
Agbeli kumordzi 10 years ago

Ghana government lack of business
idea How can we continue to give cheaper cocoa beans to Europeans to make billions of dollars.Why not Ghana government proccessing the cocoa beans into finish goods for export and forget abo ...
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Ghana government lack of business
idea How can we continue to give cheaper cocoa beans to Europeans to make billions of dollars.Why not Ghana government proccessing the cocoa beans into finish goods for export and forget about that little
swisszerland Nestle.
DAN 10 years ago

the story says ghanians get discounted beans! That means they paid less than Neztle/cadbury/Hershey...Ghanians bought beans at reduced prices!!!!!! Build your own chocolate bar factory and sell them then...Its pretty crazy th ...
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the story says ghanians get discounted beans! That means they paid less than Neztle/cadbury/Hershey...Ghanians bought beans at reduced prices!!!!!! Build your own chocolate bar factory and sell them then...Its pretty crazy that only place in ghana you can find chocolate is at the airport duty free and 1 or 2 gas stations that have snickers bars!
Hazor 10 years ago

Once again,the best advice to those who want to buy this eurobond should not patrolise it.Has those who want buy this eurobond as what Government did with US$10billion ment for STX security house?What happened to US$1.5billli ...
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Once again,the best advice to those who want to buy this eurobond should not patrolise it.Has those who want buy this eurobond as what Government did with US$10billion ment for STX security house?What happened to US$1.5billlion firstphase STX housing? In 2011 April 16 Mahama announce to Ghanaians that he has secure US$1billion for Gas plant,What happen to that one billion.We were told the the Gas plant is a prepaid of US$850million,What to the prepaid?Now they are tell us the the eurobond is going to paid for the gas plant .So what about all those loan secure for the Gas plant where are the money?Those who dont want their money KOSA need help Give KOSA that this corrupt Mahama Government turn the state coffers his gold mines.

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