Statement on the state of the economy

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• SGT ANANI FIADZOE 10 years ago

  NPP members forget that Ghanaians have more common sense than they imagine. As a result they always want to twist everything with the hope that they will turn public opinion against the government. They forget that people are ...
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  NPP members forget that Ghanaians have more common sense than they imagine. As a result they always want to twist everything with the hope that they will turn public opinion against the government. They forget that people are sensible enough to see things for themselves. And when people feel that their intelligence is being cheated they resent this insulting posture.
  
  So long as NPP continuous with this kind of politics they will continue to be rejected by the people. The interesting thing is that they feel shocked people reject them - they cannot believe why people did not buy their lies!!!
  
  If you show some semblance of sincerity, people will tolerate you, as they do with NDC.

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• Askopite 10 years ago

  Whislt the ACEP thorough analysis of this year's petroleum projects have largely been vindicated...they a have also proven beyond reasonable doubt that their processes and proceduces for analysing the Energy health of the nat ...
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  Whislt the ACEP thorough analysis of this year's petroleum projects have largely been vindicated...they a have also proven beyond reasonable doubt that their processes and proceduces for analysing the Energy health of the nation is working...i will encourage ACEP to continue to provide such unbiased assessment for Ghanaians....Ghana forever.....
  
  Askopite

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• SANKOFA 10 years ago

  GHANA WILL BE WORSE THAN NIGERIA WHEN IT COMES TO THE MANAGEMENT OF OUR DERISORY SHARE IN OUR OWN OIL.
  
  GHANA'S LEADERS ARE SIMPLY NOT PREPARED TO LEAD, AS EARLIER INDICATED BY A CONTRIBUTOR ON THIS FORUM.
  
  GHANA HAS TOO ...
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  GHANA WILL BE WORSE THAN NIGERIA WHEN IT COMES TO THE MANAGEMENT OF OUR DERISORY SHARE IN OUR OWN OIL.
  
  GHANA'S LEADERS ARE SIMPLY NOT PREPARED TO LEAD, AS EARLIER INDICATED BY A CONTRIBUTOR ON THIS FORUM.
  
  GHANA HAS TOO MANY THIEVING BABOONS CALLING THE SHOTS IN GHANA.
  
  THAT'S WHY GHANA'S BACKWARDNESS WILL CONTINUE UNABATED!
  
  ONLY 10% OF GHANA'S "LEADERS" CAN USE A COMPUTER PROFESSIONALLY.

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• Qhawag 10 years ago

  The level of analysis of this our think tanks is so poor that I feel diappointed.If cocoa prices are said to decline on the world market and oil prices on the other hand has beeen rising coupled with excess oil production per ...
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  The level of analysis of this our think tanks is so poor that I feel diappointed.If cocoa prices are said to decline on the world market and oil prices on the other hand has beeen rising coupled with excess oil production per barrel,common sense tells me that oil revenues will exceed cocoa revenues.where is the dutch diseasse? ACEP please make logical analysis.

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• Osei 10 years ago

  What about the decline in Agric and manufacturing? Is it also because cocoa prices have fallen globally and oil prices rose? The reality is that there is diutch disease as is demonstrated by the real currency appreciation of ...
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  What about the decline in Agric and manufacturing? Is it also because cocoa prices have fallen globally and oil prices rose? The reality is that there is diutch disease as is demonstrated by the real currency appreciation of the Cedi. ACEP said that the Cedi relatively had lower depreciation this year than last year, and if this had effects on demand for Agric n manufacturing exports, is that not Dutch disease. So QHawag, or what do u call yourself, stopping running down credible think tanks.

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• GHFUO, change ur thinking 10 years ago

  WE NEED ACCOUNTABILITY N TRANSPARENCY IN GOVT!
  WE NEED CORRUPTION COURTS IN GH NOW!
  WHY DID MAHAMA GIVE AGGUDEY A PRESIDENTIAL PARDON? FOR WHAT? FOR HIM TO SAVE FACE AND NOT BE DISGRACED?
  THIS FOOL WAS SPENDING MONEY THAT ...
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  WE NEED ACCOUNTABILITY N TRANSPARENCY IN GOVT!
  WE NEED CORRUPTION COURTS IN GH NOW!
  WHY DID MAHAMA GIVE AGGUDEY A PRESIDENTIAL PARDON? FOR WHAT? FOR HIM TO SAVE FACE AND NOT BE DISGRACED?
  THIS FOOL WAS SPENDING MONEY THAT WASNT HIS AND WOMANIZING WITH YOUNG LEGON FEMALES. WHERE IS THE MORALITY HERE?
  THESE GIRLS COULD HAVE BEEN YOUR SIS TERS, DAUGHTER OR NIECE...YOU KNOW...
  ALL THESE THINGS ARE HAPPENENING IN GH, AND YOU EXPECT ME TO SUPPORT GH TO GO TO BRASIL? CMON NOW...
  MAHAMA SAYS: LET THEM EAT CAKE....
  ...TARRIFS ARE GOING UP ALL ACROSS THE BOARD IN GH. YET, WE DONT SEE AN IOTA OF AN IMPROVEMENT IN PUBLIC SERVICES OR QUALITY INFRATSRUCTURE. YOU HAVNT SEEN ANYTHING YET.
  ILLITERACY/LACK OF BASIC EDUCATION HAS CAUSED THE PPL TO VOTE OUT OF SHEER EMOTIONS AND ETHNIC JUDGEMENTS.
  PUMPING MONEY INTO PUBLIC SERVICE ISNT THE WAY TO GO. ESP IN TODAY'S CASH STRAPPED, TECHNOLOGY INSPIRED WORLD. GOVT MUST STREAMLINE THE PUBLIC SECTOR.
  WE HAVE DISTRICT, MUNICIPAL/CITY, REGIONAL AND FEDERAL GOVT . STREAMLINE THE GOVT N REMOVE THESE QUACK/QUASI, USELESS GOVT INSTITUTIONS WHICH EXIST BUT DONT DO ANYTHING TO RENDER EFFICIENT SERVICE OR COLLECT REVENUE.
  1.CHECK PUBLIC SECTOR CORRUPTION. INSTITUTE CORRUPTION COURTS!
  2.REDUCE PUBLIC SECTOR WAGES.
  3.HIRE LESS PPL TO PROVIDE EFFICIENT SERVICE. WE NEED DISCIPLINE, CLEAR OVERSIGHT, CHECK N BALANCES N PATRIOTIC HARDWORKERS IN THE SYSTEM.
  4. FACTORIES
  GH REVENUE SOURCE: TAXES. LOANS, GRANTS FROM OUTSIDE FOR REVENUE GENERATING VENTURES IN GH. STREAMLINE INDUSTRIES, GOVT...CUT DOWN SPENDING,
  WIDEN TAX BASE, EXPORT MORE.
  NOT A BUNCH OF THIEVES WHO COME TO STEAL N COLLECT BRIBES! WHO ARE YOU MAKING A MOCKERY OF?...
  IN MY BOOK, YOU EITHER DO IT RIGHT. OR YOU GET ELIMINATED.
  TOO MANY GH PPL LACK SELF CONFIDENCE AND DONT BELIEVE IN WHO THEY ARE. THEN AGAIN, U CANT BLAME THEM. LOOK AT THEIR SURROUNDINGS..OPEN GUTTERS, MALARIA, FILTH, DIRT EVERYWHERE!
  I AM 37 YRS OLD. WE HAVE BEEN DEALING WITH MALARIA SINCE THE DAY I WAS BORN. STILL HAVNT FOUND AN ATIDOTE. WHY?
  NO BASIC PLANNING IN GH TO AID TAXATION, AND ADDRESS SYSTEM OR TO CHECK CRIMINAL ACITIVITY. UNLICENSED BUSINESSPPL SELLING FOOD NEXT TO FILTH, I MEAN ITS A SHAME...ITS A SHAME.
  SINCE THE DAYS OF METHUSELAH, WE HAVE BEEN WASTING MILLIONS ON MALARIA, WHY?
  WAT WILL IT TAKE TO DEVELOP MODERN DRAINAGE SYSTEMS, CLOSED GUTTERS?
  LOOK AT BRASIL? THEY HAVE CLAIMED THE MOST WCUPS IN HISTORY BCOS THEY INVESTED IN QUALITY SOCCER INFRSTRUCTURE, STADIUMS ETC.
  GO TO ALL OUR GOVT STADIUMS N SEE GARGANTUAN INFRASTRACTURAL DEGRADATION. YOUR SCOREBOARD DOSENT EVEN WORK, BUT U WANT TO GO TO WORLDCUP?
  LOOK AT GH. YOU WANT TO GO TO WCUP, BUT LOOK AT YOUR SOCCER INFRSATRUCTURE? IS IT FAIR TO THE OTHER NATIONS IN AFRICA WHO HAVE INVESTED IN
  BETTER SOCCER INFRASTRUCTURE, STADIUMS, LEAGUES ETC. TO STAY HOME FOR GH TO QUALIFY AND GO TO BRASIL? HELL NO!
  HE WHO CLIMBS A GOOD TREE DESERVES SUPPORT....NOT VICE VERSA. LOOK AT THE QUALITY OF PLAYERS AA HAS INVITED FOR THE WCUP QUALIFIER VS EGYPT?
  REALLY?..EVEN OLELE PAID 5000 DOLLARS FOR SELECTION. DO BRASILIAN PLAYERS PAY BRIBES TO GET SELECTION? WAT IS OTOO, JORDAN AYEW, ADOMAH, FRIMPONG DOING HERE?
  Now, if you were to open a textbook from years ago, you would have found that natural resources in abundance are a source of growth and wealth for
  developing countries, or so it was supposed. Why not?
  If you have oil, if you have diamonds, if you have gold and copper, can't these be used to help develop the country?
  But if you turn to contemporary textbooks, the first chapter is liable to be about the resource curse, meaning that the revenues from foreign
  investment in oil and gas and coal and copper get siphoned off in corruption. billions of dollars are siphoned off every year into THE private pockets of these so called DEMOCRATIC LEADERS.
  WHAT A SHAME! There is a lack of transparency. There is a lack of accountability.
  if you look at Chile, Peru, Indonesia, Malaysia, these are
  countries that have been very successful in using their rich resources TO DEVELOP THEIR NATION. WHY CANT GHANAIAN GOVTS LEARN FROM THEM?
  So the question is, how can resources be used to benefit broad economic and social development and avoid the corruption and authoritarian rule?
  The key issue is always going to be the local population, the local leadership, the local press, and NGOs, non-governmental authorities that try
  to promote openness and transparency. In 2010-2011, Ghana started to export significant quantities of oil.
  Is this going to be the best thing that ever happened to Ghana or the worst thing that ever happened to Ghana?
  The phenomenon called "Dutch Disease" is also part of the resource curse. THIS means that the exchange rate for the currency of
  resource-rich countries becomes overvalued, and this hurts the exports of other industries.
  WHAT THIS NDC GOVT IS DOING IS THIS. THEY HAVE DEVALUED THE CURRENCY, SO FOREIGNERS CAN BUY MORE EXPORTING OIL FOR EXPORT, RESOURCES. WHILES THEY STEAL THE MONIES INTO THEIR PRIVATE, FOREIGN
  BANK ACCOUNTS. REALLY? IM READY TO START KILLING SOME OF THESE MINISTERS, MPS ETC......
  Ghana is NOW like Haiti!!! There was only one airport in Haiti and when the disaster strucked,aid donors HAD it so hard to send humanitarian reliefs because the only one international airport
  was destroyed. just imaginING if Ghana is not the same as Haiti??!! Building one international airport in Kumasi has turnED into tribal politics!!#
  President John Dramani Mahama has added a whopping GHc15.6 BILLION DOLLARS to Ghana’s total public debt stock since being sworn into office as caretaker and substantive president within the period from July 2012 to August 2013.
  This implies that President John Mahama has contracted a total of GHc15.6 BILLION DOLLARS of debt for Ghanaians since becoming the President of Ghana.
  WHAT DO WE HAVE TO SHOW FOR ALL THIS DEBT? LOOK AT GH? SMELLY, DUSTY...OPEN GUTTERS I MEAN WHY? HOW? WHO VOTED FOR NDC? GO N CLAIM YOUR SHARE....PLUS AN INCREASE IN WATER, HYDRO TARRIFS ACROSS THE BOARD?
  WHEN RICH WESTERN NATIONS ARE PAYING DOWN THEIR DEBTS/NATIONAL DEFICITS. WAT IS GH DOING, U ASK? BORROWING MORE MONEY. WAA LOOK?
  IF YOUR STANDARD OF LIVING IS THIS BAD. HOW BAD WILL THE STANDARD OF LIVING FOR YOUR CHILDEREN AND GRANDCHILDREN BE? THINK ABOUT THIS PPL?.....
  THIS IS NOT ABOUT NPP OR NDC.
  A CLASSIC CASE OF FRENCH QUEEN CATHERINE'S "LET THEM EAT CAKE"...WELL, GUESS WHAT TRIGGERED THE FRENCH REVOLUTION? THIS FOOLISH STATEMENT IS WHAT TRIGGERED THE FRENCH REVOLUTION.
  GHPPL, RISE UP AND CLAIM YOUR SHARE!
  Mr Paul Victor Obeng, has made a strong case for the need to ensure that increasing access to the Internet does not lead to the importation of alien cultures.
  “While increasing access to the Internet would improve the socio-economic circumstances, its negative influences call for a concerted effort to counter the bad influence.
  Increasing access should not lead us to the importation of attitudes that are incompatible with our social norms,” he said.
  WAT IS PV'S PROBLEM? WESTERN NATIONS LIKE CANADA, AMERICA, BRITAIN, GERMANY ETC ALL HAVE INTERNET TECHNOLOGY READILY AVAILABLE FOR THEIR CITIZENS. HAS IT IMPACTED THEIR CULTURE NEGATIVELY?
  EVEN BEFORE INTERNET, WE WERE SELLING/THROWING AWAY OUR CULTURE. WAT HAPPENS AT INDEPENDENCE MARCHES IN GH, 6 MARCH. DO WE EVEN POUR LIBATION ANYMORE?
  WE PUT OUR KIDS IN THE BURNING SUN TO BLACKEN N FAINT. KIDS WE CANT EVEN GIVE FREE BASIC EDUCATION TO. WHILES, WE WALLOW IN THE ABJECTIVITY OF THE BIBLE N KORAN..
  GAMBIA, CONGRATULATION FOR TAKING A BOLD STEP ON YOUR DECISION TO LEAVE THE COMMONWEALTH. I SALUTE YOU! GH GOVT, DO YOU HAVE THE BALLS TO DO SO?
  SHAME ON OUR USELESS, TOOTHLESS SO CALLED LEADERS, ELDERS, MINISTERS, PRESIDENTS. SHAME ON YOU AND TO YOU ALL WHO HAVE EMBARKED ON STEALING.
  I WISH EARLY DEATH AND A LIFE RIDDLED WITH PAINFUL DISEASES ON ALL OF YOU. YOU KNOW WHO ARE....
  STUPID GOVT LEADERS. BCOS OF YOUR STUPID CORRUPT HABITS, AFRICANS ARE HAVING TO TRAVEL ILLEGALLY TO RACIST NATIONS. MANY HAVING TO DIE OR DROWN IN THE SEA. IS THIS RIGHT?
  WHY ARE YOU SOO FUCKING WICKED, HUH? WHY?....
  THIS IS BROWN BROWN BROTHERS, AND I APPROVE THIS MESSAGE!

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