Mahama orders A-G; Prosecute those who misappropriated funds

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  • moyo 12 years ago

    This is the type of leadership we have been waiting for. castrate all of them.

  • antunminin 12 years ago

    MR PRESIDENT FOR NOW,SAY THE TRUTH YOU KNOW SOMETHING ABOUT ATTAS DEATH, THERES BLOOD THY HANDS VERY SOONJUST LIKE IN MACBETH THE TRUTH WILL SHOUT TREASON TREASON TREASON

  • ATSU, HO 12 years ago

    IF THE GOVERNMENT HAS THE COURAGE TO PROSECUTE ALL WHO ARE FOUND WANTING WITHOUT LOOKING AT FACES THEN WE WILL BE MAKING STRIDES AS A NATION. ANYTHING SHORT OF THAT IS A DISSASTER IN WAITING ...

  • OLD SOLDIER 12 years ago

    Author:Jato Julor (J.J.) Rawlings...
    Hahaaaaa, Afari Djan on the ropes !

    Dr. Afari Djan, the self-acclaimed god of elections, currently finds himself between a rock and a hard place.

    The noose around his neck is gettin ...
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  • Gye Nyame 12 years ago

    Mahama should declare his assets and ask all appointees, elected officials and top government officials do the same. That would be a good start.

  • Gye Nyame 12 years ago

    Mahama needs to stregthen our institutions first -- it is a waste of time sending cases to court that you know you are going to lose because of the weaknesses in the system. Betty and co. who enabled Woyome were all on the go ...
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  • Jato Julor (J.J.) Rawlings 12 years ago

    John Mahama(first president of Ghana with 24 children from 13 women),stop deceiving Ghanaians with your propaganda.

    The Supreme Court has ordered Waterville and ISOFOTON to pay back all monies your govt gave to them as chr ...
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  • Avoka 12 years ago

    Mahama should be investigated as well since he was sighted with corruption in purchase of military aircraft, tenders for fire service, rlg, etc

  • OBAA YAA 12 years ago

    This is one of the big problem with our country …… when it is only the President who can order the prosecution of criminals. Can’t the AG proceed prosecute criminals without an order from the higher authorities? What i ...
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  • Ewusi 12 years ago

    Mahama should arrest himself first

  • KWAA 12 years ago

    That is the point ,Obaa Yaa,so without the President giving orders for the AG to prosecute corrupt officials,any Government official can steal as much as possible and go scort free?
    So why do we have the AG in the first plac ...
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  • YAW (Virginia) 12 years ago

    Obaa Yaa: You have made a very interesting observation. They are suppose to initiate prosecutions without the directive of the President but they will all rather wait for the President to tell them to do so. I don't know if i ...
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  • KNYC (USMC) 12 years ago

    It is stupidity at his best. What Obaa Yaa and you are saying is something I have always question myself about. No body can't make up their mind without the president, this shows how timidity they are. Lacking of decision mak ...
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  • AWUNI 12 years ago

    Start with Betty Mould

  • SAM TEMA 12 years ago

    Gye Nyame YOU KNOW WHY HE IS SAYING IT NOW HE HAS SEEN THAT HE IS CORRUPT SO ALL HIS MINISTER ANY GOOD LEADER SET A GOOD EXAMPLE MAHAMA HAS DISGRACE TO NORTH WHY WAITING SO LONG LOOK AT WOYOME BETTY AND CO MAHAMA IS A LOOOOOS ...
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  • CITIZEN ONE 12 years ago

    Please find contractor who squandered government funds to erect and misdirect the roundabout roadway. It is an abomination and the culprit must be found and made to complete the job within 24 months...or else...

  • Truth4Death 12 years ago

    AMEM OHHHHHH AMEN!

  • GEORGE UK 12 years ago

    YOU STUPID FOOL. TRY AND COMMENT ON THE REAL TOPIC AND NOT SILLY COMMENTS. GROW UP

  • Zombie Killer 12 years ago

    Even Mahama is corrupt

  • krikri 12 years ago

    because he is the manifestation of greed, thievery, bribery and corruption. The next after him is Kwodwo Mpiani

  • create-loot&share 12 years ago

    Mahama is the leader of the steallers. create -loot and share ndc

  • ....... 12 years ago

    IT USED TO BE THE ASANTES ARE HARD CORE
    THIEVES/ARMED ROBBERS NOW THEIR BROTHERS FROM THE NORTH JUST SOME METERS BEHIND.VERY SOON #9 WILL LEAD THE NATION AS #9 HAS STOPPED CAT,ROOSTER,GOATS STEALING.NOW #9 IS PERFECTED IN G ...
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  • HUMBLE 12 years ago

    WORDS ARE CHEAP.IT'S THE ACTION WE NEED. ATTORNEY-GENERAL OFFICE IS DEEP IN THE CREAT,LOOT,& SHARE,SO IT NEEDS STRONG POLITICAL WILL & MUSCLE TO BRING THESE NATION WRECKERS TO BOOK. MOREOVER,THE THIEVERY&CORRUPTION INVOLVES P ...
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  • Nicholas J Bedzo 12 years ago

    This announcement is very great,the country is desparet looking for money
    for devoloping the country but those
    cleaver people hard in making theirs.
    Jail them all and retrieve all the money from them.

  • POLICE MAN 12 years ago

    WHY DID MR PREZ WAITED TIL THIS TIME TO WORK, HE ALLOWED TOO MUCH LOOTING TO TAKE PLACE BEFORE ACTING!

  • Truth4Death 12 years ago

    Thanks a lot, Moyo!

  • Nationalist 12 years ago

    A lot of Ghanaian Politicians are extremely richer than Real Business People. Within two years on the job they're able to own mansions and stolen public funds pumped outside the tiny Country.

  • Zombie Killer 12 years ago

    Woyome ,gyeeda,turkey gold deal

  • Zombie Killer 12 years ago

    AG department is all corrupt from top to the lower level

  • THE LONE PROPHET OF JEHOVAH 12 years ago

    AG's department is full of corruption,how can A murder case thrown out of court ete,etc.That's ghana for U.

  • Robbing the Ghanaian Poor 12 years ago

    John Dramani Mahama should be the first person to be prosecuted. He is the most corrupt Ghanaian leader in the history of of our dear nation.

    At any rate, we all know Mahama is Mr words only...Mr no action...Mr Chop Chop.

  • Kofi Adomarakwa 12 years ago

    Oh my friend, you have forgotten than JA Kufour is the most corrupt president Ghana ever had. Don't you remember Hotel Kufour, Ghana Telecom sale, Ghana Airways, Ghana @50 etc. have also forgotten that Mr Kufour is currently ...
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  • Robbing the Ghanaian Poor 12 years ago

    Kofi, you don't seem to understand my point. If JA Kuffour stool state money/resources, he must be made to pay for his sins. If NPP man chop money, he must be jailed and the money refunded to the state. The same punishment sh ...
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  • Nemesis 12 years ago

    They are just waiting to condemn JDM for taking so long, for not publishing this or that report or taking some specific action on their time schedule and say so! Meanwhile, they won't let him do his job peacefully....God bles ...
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  • Zombie Killer 12 years ago

    SADA AKONFEM boss

  • NPP = HATERS PARTY 12 years ago

    They are only satisfied when they are the ones in the saddle. Anyone else is a taboo to them. Indeed, they will never be happy.

  • Tommy 12 years ago

    NPP will never be happy with mediocrity.

  • Asampanaeye 12 years ago

    Nemesis get this through your block head. One does not demand respect for leadership. ONE EARNS IT! It is not bestowed on people because they occupied a position. Leadership recognition is based on visionary actions and makin ...
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  • Freedom and Justice 12 years ago

    that is all I can say!!! the level of your ignorance and intolerance is astounding!!! you know what, I wish that drug addict akufool addo would be made a backdoor president...then we would see...unbelievable!!! why do you hat ...
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  • Big Alex Aluta.Hamburg. 12 years ago

    He must try to prosecute his himself and his people before going out for others.Its better to clean your blood dirty hands before you try to clean others.

  • jet 12 years ago

    Yes Mahama must be prosecuted for beating NPP's old dwarf in the 2012 election.

  • Barima Yaw 12 years ago

    Ho

  • oyinasky 12 years ago

    Why does the Attorney General have to wait for a directive from the President to prosecute? The Auditor General's report is addressed to Parliament as soon as Parliament approves and adopts the report the Attorney General if ...
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  • ATOM 12 years ago

    MY BROTHER,

    THE PROBLEM IS EVERYBODY IS LOOTING GHANA, INCLUDING THE ONE WHOSE JOB IS TO PROTECT GHANA'S PURSE STRINGS.

    BY THAT, I MEAN THE PRESIDENT OF GHANA HIMSELF. THERE'S NOT A SINGLE CLEAN PERSON IN GOV'T, NDC, NP ...
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  • Adu- Gyamfi :USA 12 years ago

    You people spew a lot of untruths about JDM and the world has come to realize the buffoonery you lot play. What proof of evidence do you lot have about him apart from your usual rumours. Let us have our peace.

  • lawrence tk 12 years ago

    his excellency decision is cordially supported by objective ghanaians. he should carry on with his mission. we want fairness and justice.

  • princewilly@ymail.com 12 years ago

    Alfred Woyome was having his weekly lunch with Jack Maxwell when he suggested a way to get a free lunch.

    "You know what Jack, we've been coming here for so many years, this place must have made a fortune from us. Not only ...
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  • Ametsitsi 12 years ago

    Also make public the GYEEDA report.

  • KOO NIMO 12 years ago

    Mr President does it mean that your AG is dumb. Your AG is not capable of using her brain. She should loss her pay for this month

  • BBC NEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 12 years ago

    The concern citizens of Ghanaians abroad such as America, Canada, London, Germany, Italy, Australia and Holland, is appealing to the highest court of our country to throw the petitioners foolish and diabolical case that is ha ...
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  • GHANAVIA 12 years ago

    What a jerk!

  • Ernest 12 years ago

    This is the president Ghanaians can relly on. not those who want to undermind Ghana hard won peace.

  • km agyin 12 years ago

    This is laudable from the President. My problem is that the Attorney General's office has been cited in the judgement debt saga and i wonder who is going to prosecute them. All the same i salute the President for his courage. ...
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  • Kofi 12 years ago

    When the cocaine-turn-soda case came into the news, the then vice prez ordered and investigation and said we were going to get to the bottom. What has happened?

  • DKB 12 years ago

    km agyin, it is people like you who make politicians take us all for fool. They come out and make such campaign like statements and NEVER follow through with it, but they know that so long as they say what Ghanaians want to h ...
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  • Queen 12 years ago

    Prosecuting our corrupt, selfish leaders who are pen robbers and use their offices to steal from Ghanaians is long overdue.

  • MENSAH 12 years ago

    If ALL LOOPHOLES THROUGH WHICH REVENUES LEAK ARE SEALED BY THE GOVERNMENT,:

    WHY HAS THE OIL MONEY VANISHED,THEN?

    WHERE IS OUR MONEY?

    JESUS SAID IN MATTHEW 12:30:
    HE THAT IS NOT WITH ME IS AGAINST ME,AND HE WHO DOES ...
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  • ATOM 12 years ago

    WHAT ABOUT KUFUOR, WEREO-BROBBEY, BETTY MOULD-IDDRISU, MPIANIM, BARTON ODURO, AMISSAH-ARTHUR, STEPHEN ASAMOAH BOATENG, WOYOME, AND MANA, MANY OTHERS.

    THEY SHOULDN'T MAKE NON-POLITICIANS SCAPEDGOATS.

    ALL INVOLVED IN MISA ...
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  • Atta Mills 12 years ago

    If only you can do that, I will fully support you. The only thing we need in Ghana is somebody who is courageous enough to fight corruption irrespective of party affiliation and also the person must be clean as well. I hope y ...
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  • peace 12 years ago

    Mahama never mention any money missing in the oil field

  • KANOKWARE.... 12 years ago

    u are building castle in the air,,,,,how can a thief prosecute a thief?

  • messa 12 years ago

    NO ONE SHULD STEAL THE COUNTRY GOLED SUPPLY

  • Joe 12 years ago

    Mahama is full of it. He is trying to look presidential, but I think it has nothing to do with DC verdict.

  • Bonne 12 years ago

    Silly backward thinking guy

  • OMANBA 12 years ago

    The government should transfer prisoners in Akuse prison and use it specially for government officials who steal state monies.The governmet should reactivate the Asutuare Sugar Factory and let the prisoners establish sugar pl ...
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  • ....... 12 years ago

    FROM TOP FIRST MAHAMAH BRING BACK FULL LOAD CARGO OF GOLD BARS TO IRAN BACK FIRST
    DEAR LORD HAVE MERCY ON GHANAIANS FROM THE GRIP NDC THIEVES

  • BERKO 12 years ago

    JM AT HIS USUAL, LIES-AND-PROMISE-AND-FAIL-BEST

  • Nana Akomea 12 years ago

    Why not staRT WITH THE report on GYEEDA?

  • a. haruna 12 years ago

    Good to hear that

  • Papa 2 12 years ago

    About time. Now lets see action!

  • K.K 12 years ago

    MR MAHAMA, IF YOU'E NOT JUST PAYING A LIP SERVICE; START WITH YOURSELF AND THEN PROCEED WITH THOSE IMPLICATED BY THE "GYEEDA" REPORT.

  • Kofi 12 years ago

    Hope it does not catch up with you. Eventually you will be indicted yourself

  • KKO 12 years ago

    Will that also include the Presidency for over-spending by 600 million last year, without Parliamentary approval? How about your GYEEDA people? Fraternity of hoodlums!

  • KZM 12 years ago

    LEADERSHIP PAR EXCELLENCE!!! BRAVO!!! MOVE ON JDM THE LORD IS WITH YOU.

  • Paa Kodwo 12 years ago

    RIGHT ORDER MR PRESIDENT.

    HOW CAN THE NATION PROGRESS, ADVANCE AND SURVIVE, WHEN ACCOUNTANTS AND FINANCIAL OFFICERS APPOINTED TO POSITIONS AT THE PUBLIC SECTOR CONTINUE TO ENRICH THEMSELVES WITH STATE RESOURCES.

    IT IS T ...
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  • OMAN BA PA USA 12 years ago

    We are tired of hearing this from the president. Action is what we need but not mouth talk. He keeps saying this every day without taking action up till now. So what is new about this news again. He is not serious President, ...
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  • Jay+++++++++++London 12 years ago

    Why does it have to be that it takes the order of the President before state thieves are brought to justice.

    Anyway would those to be brought to justice include he Mahama himself?

    If there is any one person who has stol ...
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  • senegal 12 years ago

    this president talks too much like Kabo said but nothing comes out of it

  • dunaa 12 years ago

    If this were not so sad, it would be funny! The President of the country ought not have to direct the Attorney General to do his job. One would think it is presumed the Attorney General knows that the job has to be done. The ...
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  • Nicholas Adjei 12 years ago

    It will be a great service to Ghana if the President will stand by his words and allow those greedy people to be prosecuted no matter the ones position or political affiliate.The greatest enemy in Ghana is the Bribery and Cor ...
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  • Merlic, London 12 years ago

    I am glad that the President wants to take such a line of action. This is a young President after JJ and I have always believed that JM will have absolutely nothing to lose if he is PROACTIVE. The truth is that the only way J ...
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  • Finland 12 years ago

    What about woyome?

  • adomba 12 years ago

    Good job Mr President! let thge AG go get them all

  • Hawah 12 years ago

    Kindly start from your office and submit yourself for prosecution for over spending by 300million

  • okofo 12 years ago

    The report MUST first be made public, and ALL those cited in that report published, before the Attorney-General take the suspects on.

    It appears the President is trying to shield some individuals!!

  • Dross Mahama 12 years ago

    You should resign ou corrupt man

  • PROFESSOR THOMAS KUBI- McA 12 years ago

    TRANSPARENCY===ACCOUNTABILITY==
    DEMOCRACY
    ======================================
    I AM VERY DISAPPOINTED TO NOTICE THE
    LOOK WORM ATTITUDE OF THE PRESIDENT OF INTERGGRETY
    THE PRESIDENT MUST NOT TAKE TH ...
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  • Yankee boy 12 years ago

    Moyo, Johnson...is that you?

  • kkd 12 years ago

    just talking no action

  • ohenenana 12 years ago

    This must commence immediately!

  • Osabere kotoko 12 years ago

    It is about time. Thx, better late than never

  • Truth4Death 12 years ago

    Well, there is first time for everything, i think its just good that at least this man wants to start from somewhere, even as other past Presidents say 'corruption is as old as Methuselah'

  • Ama Badua 12 years ago

    You see, JJ wanted this done way back. All those who stole the people's money should face the law and be prosecuted if found guilty. And then we laugh at them shamefully with all their stolen wealth. This should include the r ...
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  • tonny 12 years ago

    auction asiedu nketiah's house in EDMONTON CANADA.

  • messa 12 years ago

    and then anyone else

  • shakara 12 years ago

    corrupt Mahama

  • shakara 12 years ago

    LETS SEE WHAT HAPPENS

  • concern ghanian 12 years ago

    HAND OVER GTEEDA REPROT ALSO TO A-G OFFICE FOR ACTION! WE VOTE PEOPLE INTO OUR OFFICES AND STILL HAPPY ABOUT THEIR UNACCOUNTABILITIES

  • WWW.GHANANEWS.TK 12 years ago

    Ghana will work again. WWW.GHANANEWS.TK

  • Yaa Gbeminov 12 years ago

    We have to put them in handcuff and parade them in public especially the white colour criminals.It is not fair to kill 8 army officers for corruption

  • KWASHIE ADJAH 12 years ago

    THIS AFRC/P/NDC PARTY WAS FOUNDED TO LOOT STATE FUNDS AND RESOURCES FOR PERSONAL GAIN OF ITS MEMBERS; HIGH AND LOW, SO THIS JOHN MAHAMA DIRECTIVE IS JUST TO FOOL GHANAIANS. JOHN MAHAMA SET UP INVESTIGATION INTO GOLD BAR EXPOR ...
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