Blame Mahama, Parliament for ‘massive’ corruption – Emile Short

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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!
  MAHAMA PAID TO APPEAR ON CNN!!! CNN DIDNT INVITE HIM.
  WHY DID MAHAMA GIVE AGGUDEY A PRESIDENTIAL PARDON? FOR WHAT? FOR HIM TO SAVE FACE AN ...
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  WE NEED ACCOUNTABILITY N TRANSPARENCY IN GOVT!
  WE NEED CORRUPTION COURTS IN GH NOW!
  MAHAMA PAID TO APPEAR ON CNN!!! CNN DIDNT INVITE HIM.
  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. ghana is under the most useless leadership of all time,nurses are unpaid for six months ,children are dying of heart failures and asiedu nketia is feasting in streatham london with ghanas money.i pity for those who voted 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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• GTV-TV3 on WWW.OFMTV.COM 10 years ago

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• NDCGuy 10 years ago

  The MOU between Symbion and the Ghana Investment Promotion Center is corruption. Go to the GIPC website and send a note to the Director to cancel this deal.It is fraud.

  The MOU between Symbion and the Ghana Investment Promotion Center is corruption. Go to the GIPC website and send a note to the Director to cancel this deal.It is fraud.

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• WILLIAM 10 years ago

  If the document went to Parliament and as reported has not received their attention how does that reflect on President Mahama? I don't get it!

  If the document went to Parliament and as reported has not received their attention how does that reflect on President Mahama? I don't get it!

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• Koby 10 years ago

  God bless you for your braveness

  God bless you for your braveness

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• Vuvuzela 10 years ago

  Looks like corruption started after Mahama was elected president! Funny Ghanaians.

  Looks like corruption started after Mahama was elected president! Funny Ghanaians.

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• AkwasiB (USA) 10 years ago

  Corruption has long been in our system, except more and more brave people are now standing up and talking against it. To make any progress, the people, especially our leaders, must stop the empty talk and do something at all ...
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  Corruption has long been in our system, except more and more brave people are now standing up and talking against it. To make any progress, the people, especially our leaders, must stop the empty talk and do something at all levels to fight it. Ghana needs to eliminte this cancer whenever possible. We cannot use the past as an excuse to do nothing. We are in a different age and time and worse, peole are suffering.

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• Kwame 10 years ago

  Good English is not wisdom and courage for a Prez. This Prez's English is banal and much clichéd with no substance to give hope and direction. So the greedy bastards are latching on to it with no one effectively watching an ...
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  Good English is not wisdom and courage for a Prez. This Prez's English is banal and much clichéd with no substance to give hope and direction. So the greedy bastards are latching on to it with no one effectively watching and cracking the whip. He is a beneficiary of such a system and cannot open his mouth. Ghana is in a deep shit.

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• KG 10 years ago

  HOW CAN HE FIGHT CORRUPTION? HE HIMSELF IS MORE CORRUPT THAN ANYBODY. DURING HIS TENURE AS VP HE WAS INVOLVED IN MANY CORRUPT PRACTISES THAN ANYBODY.ASK MARTIN AMIDU.

  HOW CAN HE FIGHT CORRUPTION? HE HIMSELF IS MORE CORRUPT THAN ANYBODY. DURING HIS TENURE AS VP HE WAS INVOLVED IN MANY CORRUPT PRACTISES THAN ANYBODY.ASK MARTIN AMIDU.

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• Lt. Gen. At3dua 10 years ago

  Nonsense, why blame the president when he did his part by sending the document to the parliament? A former commissioner CHRAJ indeed.

  Nonsense, why blame the president when he did his part by sending the document to the parliament? A former commissioner CHRAJ indeed.

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• Diprof 10 years ago

  Don't blame the former commissioner CHRAG, the misleading headline is the fault of the writer.

  Don't blame the former commissioner CHRAG, the misleading headline is the fault of the writer.

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• AkwasiB (USA) 10 years ago

  Are you implying that it is simply OK to send something to parliament and let it die there? Doesn't the VP have a significant role in what goes on in parliament? One of our many problems is that we get content and comfortable ...
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  Are you implying that it is simply OK to send something to parliament and let it die there? Doesn't the VP have a significant role in what goes on in parliament? One of our many problems is that we get content and comfortable because we have no teeth to bite. Consequently, many of our parliamentarians, ministers and leading civil/public servants get away with murder. They know nobody will challenge or do anything to them. We need responsiblity and accounatbility from them, but most importantly, every Ghanaian must play their part.

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• mohammed 10 years ago

  We need the ghanaian in the diaspora to participate in the very important contribution to destroy this cankerworm of corruption in ghana. We should not only have the platform to contribute to the discussion, but also have the ...
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  We need the ghanaian in the diaspora to participate in the very important contribution to destroy this cankerworm of corruption in ghana. We should not only have the platform to contribute to the discussion, but also have the teeth to challenge our government as Martin Amidu did. The more we get such things the serious it shall become in the country. We cannot sit down and expect another meyharm of some sort like the Rawlings June 4th revolution. Though, there were excessive, it was necessary. Rawlings did not need to kill anybody, but seize the wealth back to the state and ban such culprits from any public office for at least some reasonable period when they will see the need to do good for the state in reparation.

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• Kolo 10 years ago

  You can say it loud but they just hate and fear those from the diaspora because of our work ethics.
  
  Name them! We have massive wealth of knowledge but they leave us to rot. They only take our money!!!

  You can say it loud but they just hate and fear those from the diaspora because of our work ethics.
  
  Name them! We have massive wealth of knowledge but they leave us to rot. They only take our money!!!

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• Lt. Gen. At3dua 10 years ago

  AkwasiB, I wouldn't like to believe that you are trying to be naive. Perhaps you are referring to something done in a different jurisdiction otherwise you should know that in Ghana the Executive, as one arm of governance has ...
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  AkwasiB, I wouldn't like to believe that you are trying to be naive. Perhaps you are referring to something done in a different jurisdiction otherwise you should know that in Ghana the Executive, as one arm of governance has no oversight responsibility over the Legislator, another arm of governance. Therefore there is nothing he could do after fulfiling his part of the job by forwarding the document from the Executive to the Legislators.

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• AkwasiB (USA) 10 years ago

  You may be right and I may be naive, but we have a country where the executive is supreme and controls everything, including the other branches of government. The other two are subservient to the executive, who gets its way a ...
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  You may be right and I may be naive, but we have a country where the executive is supreme and controls everything, including the other branches of government. The other two are subservient to the executive, who gets its way anywhere, anytime. We have legislators who are in the executive, so let's face it, if the executive truly wants something in Ghana, there is nothing stopping it. That was really my point. If, as an ordinary citizen, you challenge an MP or a Minister, you are most likely to be taken by the police and if not so lucky, mishandled. Let's take off the rosy glasses and call a spade a spade.

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• SULE 10 years ago

  So where is the document and why has parliament not looked at the document and made it operational by adding legal muscle to it? Is the opposition really working to keep the Mahama-Amissah Arthur administration on it's toes?
  ...
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  So where is the document and why has parliament not looked at the document and made it operational by adding legal muscle to it? Is the opposition really working to keep the Mahama-Amissah Arthur administration on it's toes?
  Again, there was a committee set up by parliament on the instructions of the executive to create a workable document to address the issue of judgment debts, which committee had the likes of Barton Oduro(1st dep speaker of parliament and a figure very much in the thick of things with respect to the payment of dubious judgment debts), Joe Ghartey, former AG, and a host of others. Where is the workable document and why has the opposition not been following up with these matters? Somebody is dropping the ball and for the NPP, with the strongest front with respect to being a gov't in waiting, their stewardship to the masses by ensuring that, gov't is held accountable is woefully lacking.

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• mohammed 10 years ago

  Why not Publish the Document for Review here and Pass it in Parliament. You might get the best reviews on the legislation here free of charge than parliament can offer. First good step. we make sure convicts pay back with int ...
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  Why not Publish the Document for Review here and Pass it in Parliament. You might get the best reviews on the legislation here free of charge than parliament can offer. First good step. we make sure convicts pay back with interest and corruption charge...the cost to investigate them with a further ban on any public office for least 8 years.

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• po 10 years ago

  BLAME PARLIAMENT. WE ARE OUR OWN enemies.

  BLAME PARLIAMENT. WE ARE OUR OWN enemies.

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• AVANTI 10 years ago

  THIS PENCHANT FOR TITLES AND AGGRANDIZEMENT IN THE BLACKMAN WILL SIMPLY NOT GO AWAY - NOW SHORT IS A FORMER SUPREME COURT JUSTICE?
  FRIMPONG BOATENG WILL ALWAYS BE A FORMER CEO OF KBTH AND SO ON AND SO FORTH AD NAUSEAM.CAN PE ...
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  THIS PENCHANT FOR TITLES AND AGGRANDIZEMENT IN THE BLACKMAN WILL SIMPLY NOT GO AWAY - NOW SHORT IS A FORMER SUPREME COURT JUSTICE?
  FRIMPONG BOATENG WILL ALWAYS BE A FORMER CEO OF KBTH AND SO ON AND SO FORTH AD NAUSEAM.CAN PEOPLE ONLY BE DEFINED AND TAKE THEIR IDENTITY OR BEING FROM ONLY POSITIONS THEY HAVE OCCUPIED? GOD HELP US....

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• Kweku Boateng Jnr. 10 years ago

  Liberia Anti-Corruption Commission is taking the lead by investigating the assets of not only ministers, senior police officers, but members of public Boards and publishing their names, the amounts paid into their accounts, t ...
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  Liberia Anti-Corruption Commission is taking the lead by investigating the assets of not only ministers, senior police officers, but members of public Boards and publishing their names, the amounts paid into their accounts, the value of their assets and their salaries. This is what needs to be done in Ghana, named them, seize their assets, shame them.
  Read today's edition of Tom Kamara's New Democrat www.newdemocratnews.com.
  How can poor university teachers, accountants, politicians who are poor all of sudden have the resources to send their kids to the US and Europe for studies when they are made deans, ministers, ambassadors and so on. And yet the embassies of the European and American in Accra do NOT ASK WHERE DID YOU GET THE MONEY TO FUND YOUR CHILDREN' EDUCATION? Liberia's anti corruption commission is taking the lead. Poor journalists all of a sudden are rich, how? They have not written a Harry Porter or Things Fall Apart etc We must fight corruption in all aspects if the country is to develop. We must stop respecting the corrupt rich, let the nation take the anti corruption battle to primary and secondary schools.

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• AkwasiB (USA) 10 years ago

  God Bless You - Well Said.

  God Bless You - Well Said.

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• mohammed 10 years ago

  Good input. I like that. seize the wealth and shame them.

  Good input. I like that. seize the wealth and shame them.

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• Lante Lante 10 years ago

  Emile Short headed CHRAJ when the Anane case was deliberated upon. And what did Emile Short do? He ruled that Anane had done nothing wrong even though there was all the evidence of his sending huge sums of money that he had s ...
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  Emile Short headed CHRAJ when the Anane case was deliberated upon. And what did Emile Short do? He ruled that Anane had done nothing wrong even though there was all the evidence of his sending huge sums of money that he had stolen from Ghana Airways to his Mistress in the USA. Anane even sent a roundtrip Ghana Airways ticket to his Mistress - which she cashed when she couldn't fly.

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• mohammed 10 years ago

  the minister could afford a round trip. this should not be a character assassination event, but positive contribution. so long us there was due process and nobody like you was preventing from contributing publicly or secretel ...
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  the minister could afford a round trip. this should not be a character assassination event, but positive contribution. so long us there was due process and nobody like you was preventing from contributing publicly or secretely with information that will interdict Mr. Anane it was fair. Were you prevented from adducing a fact in your hand? if the answer is no, then you have case.

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• SETHO 10 years ago

  WHEN PEOPLE TALK ABOUT MASSIVE CORRUPTION IN THE COUNTRY, I WONDER WHY THEY ARE NOT ABLE TO SUPPORT THEIR ALLEGATION WITH ANY VISIBLE, AUTHENTIC AND VERIFIABLE EVIDENCE TO THAT EFFECT. IF YOU KNOW OF SUCH CORRUPTION AND YOU ...
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  WHEN PEOPLE TALK ABOUT MASSIVE CORRUPTION IN THE COUNTRY, I WONDER WHY THEY ARE NOT ABLE TO SUPPORT THEIR ALLEGATION WITH ANY VISIBLE, AUTHENTIC AND VERIFIABLE EVIDENCE TO THAT EFFECT. IF YOU KNOW OF SUCH CORRUPTION AND YOU ARE NOT AFRAID TO SPECIFICALLY PUT NAMES TO FACES, YOU ARE HELPING IN A LONG WAY TO UPROOT THE CANCER. OTHERWISE, KEEP YOUR MOUTH SHUT. ALLOW GOVERNMENT TO BE FOCUSED TO RUN THE COUNTRY. WE KNOW THAT THERE ARE SERIOUS CHALLENGES AND WE NEED EVERYONE OF BOARD TO RESCUE A SINKING BOAT. DON'T YOU KNOW THAT WE SINK OR SWIM TOGETHER. FORGET ABOUT PARTISAN AFFILIATION AND COME ON BOARD

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• AkwasiB (USA) 10 years ago

  How much evidence do you need when our leaders borrow these huge sums of money and have nothing to show after 3 to 5 years? We are always borrowing for infrastructure development - roads, schools, hospitals - you name it. Wh ...
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  How much evidence do you need when our leaders borrow these huge sums of money and have nothing to show after 3 to 5 years? We are always borrowing for infrastructure development - roads, schools, hospitals - you name it. Where are those and why shouldn't we ask for accountability and justice?

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• Esi 10 years ago

  The story does not suggest that Mahama and Parliament have caused large scale corruption. Before the Programme was developed, there was widespread corruption.

  The story does not suggest that Mahama and Parliament have caused large scale corruption. Before the Programme was developed, there was widespread corruption.

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• Balawo President 10 years ago

  The corruption is synonymous with the name Mahama. Then whole vice-president who is the second highest paid official in Ghana greedily took $170m in one negotiation and never explained how he came by that money shows that he ...
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  The corruption is synonymous with the name Mahama. Then whole vice-president who is the second highest paid official in Ghana greedily took $170m in one negotiation and never explained how he came by that money shows that he cannot be trusted to fight corruption

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• GREAT NANA ANTWI 10 years ago

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• HONESTY 10 years ago

  Emile Short was appointed CHRAJ boss by Rawlings despite his known NPP leanings. He presided over the un precedented looting of Ghana by Kufuor and his gang, including Short's formrr wife. He did not see anything wrong at the ...
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  Emile Short was appointed CHRAJ boss by Rawlings despite his known NPP leanings. He presided over the un precedented looting of Ghana by Kufuor and his gang, including Short's formrr wife. He did not see anything wrong at the time. It is people like Mr Short who are the cause of Ghana's problems. HE SHOULD GET AWAY WITH THE HYPOCRISY!!!!!

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• Osei Yao 10 years ago

  This man is naive. He still thinks corruption can be fought with documents. Corruption is by the highly educated. The excuse that education will fight corruption has been proven wrong. The moral confusion created by too much ...
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  This man is naive. He still thinks corruption can be fought with documents. Corruption is by the highly educated. The excuse that education will fight corruption has been proven wrong. The moral confusion created by too much church-going is the trouble but people are too frightened to point fingers at the BISHOPS.

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• PlainPlainTruth 10 years ago

  I don't think Emile Short blamed the President. This was a pure fabrication of whoever wrote this piece.
  
  The president has presented it to Parliament as he should. Parliament hasn't done anything about it. So wherein lies ...
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  I don't think Emile Short blamed the President. This was a pure fabrication of whoever wrote this piece.
  
  The president has presented it to Parliament as he should. Parliament hasn't done anything about it. So wherein lies the president's fault? He can't coerce parliament into doing anything. He doesn't control the Legislature and Emile Short knows this very well. So why would he blame the President?
  
  If Emile Short, with that background in law, actually blamed the President, then I simply don't have words to describe him. However as responsible contributors, we should be mindful of how we present issues here on the web.
  
  We should be seen to be presenting reports as accurately as possible without the slanting it in favor of any political party.

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• nasuru 10 years ago

  Togolese are a problem in this country.. they quickly learn GA and Odd Twi and they talk loud like they own GA town.. all eyes on you and this ewe ppl allowed them.. Ghana Military, police and other good jobs only benefit thi ...
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  Togolese are a problem in this country.. they quickly learn GA and Odd Twi and they talk loud like they own GA town.. all eyes on you and this ewe ppl allowed them.. Ghana Military, police and other good jobs only benefit this Togolese more then any tribe in this country.

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• nasuru 10 years ago

  Ghana, Police, soldiers and any good jobs in the country has been taken over by this Togolese in the country.. One i know only speak French and English and Togolese Ewe, not Ghana ewe.. foreigners are ruling Ghana if you don' ...
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  Ghana, Police, soldiers and any good jobs in the country has been taken over by this Togolese in the country.. One i know only speak French and English and Togolese Ewe, not Ghana ewe.. foreigners are ruling Ghana if you don't know make your own search and see what you would find.

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• akosua nukurefo 10 years ago

  human beings operate and cheat very well where are no rules to guide them in pretence. liberia, sierra leone, ivory coast etc the multinational companies took advantage of the various disturbances to loot especially the miner ...
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  human beings operate and cheat very well where are no rules to guide them in pretence. liberia, sierra leone, ivory coast etc the multinational companies took advantage of the various disturbances to loot especially the mineral resources. Ghana has improved from the 70s and 80s but it is descending back into old days. kufuor was not wise to have stated corruption started from the days of adam.His government looted and got rewarded. Today John Mahama is in bed with equal looters indirectly involved with him. shameless, spineless etc. Emile short drives himself around, go to a lot of places on his own. he can speak publicly without any accused fingers except his perchant for fine women. He is respected both nationally and on international level. These looters take and most of them end up with bp, hipetension, diabetes, impotency, etc yet they are unahppy to spend publicly. Whenever they feel ready to expose their wealth, it is time to leave this world. no sympathy for their fellow human beings

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• SAY IT AS IT IS! 10 years ago

  If something is giving to someone to forward and he has done that, dose the person still bare the blam?
  These people are in society getting deminted but as long as we know to EMIL SHORT, whatever he says is taken to be sens ...
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  If something is giving to someone to forward and he has done that, dose the person still bare the blam?
  These people are in society getting deminted but as long as we know to EMIL SHORT, whatever he says is taken to be senseble even thought one can see or hear that he EMILE SHORT is not making sense here.
  This will be the case if we put older people who are still fighting to lead this lovely country with such deminted people, sorry but it is the truth.
  There many of them who when they talk does not make sense no more.

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• mahama is corrupt,evil 2 the nation 10 years ago

  MAHAMA IS NUMBER ONE CORRUPT,CRIMINAL,USELESS,INCOMPETENT,EMPTY HEAD,MOST GHANIANS LEAVE MAHAMA TO GOD,PERIOD

  MAHAMA IS NUMBER ONE CORRUPT,CRIMINAL,USELESS,INCOMPETENT,EMPTY HEAD,MOST GHANIANS LEAVE MAHAMA TO GOD,PERIOD

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• nasuru 10 years ago

  Togolese dn't really care about the country...they normally say Ghana is better then Togo and other African country's,but ordinary Ghanian dream more and demand justice whiles they think there are fortunate to be in the count ...
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  Togolese dn't really care about the country...they normally say Ghana is better then Togo and other African country's,but ordinary Ghanian dream more and demand justice whiles they think there are fortunate to be in the country where everything is free... our military and police are full of them and they take loans anytime they want and they also feel Ghana belong to them under NDC and they mock Ghanians...weather Ga or akan or norther... they can lie and disguise their self to be what they are not... they hate Akuffo Addo Simple because they feel they could be reviewed and it would be a risk... it is better to them for ghana to rout under NDC then to develop under NPP just because of separating Togolese from ewe's...Togolese own Ghana and they are coming in numbers.. Find out.

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• mahama is corrupt,evil 2 the nation 10 years ago

  AZAAA,ATOPAHENE,JUJU KILLER,KILLED MILLS FOR POWER,GHANA GOLD TO IRAN FOR FREE,OH GHANA PAA NIE,HMMMMMM

  AZAAA,ATOPAHENE,JUJU KILLER,KILLED MILLS FOR POWER,GHANA GOLD TO IRAN FOR FREE,OH GHANA PAA NIE,HMMMMMM

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• nasuru 10 years ago

  Togolese, ewe combined, are too dangerous to Ghana stability....every strong NDC I have reason with in my area are all pure Togolese...I was shocked to find out this.. they are everywhere in our police and military..very low ...
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  Togolese, ewe combined, are too dangerous to Ghana stability....every strong NDC I have reason with in my area are all pure Togolese...I was shocked to find out this.. they are everywhere in our police and military..very low minded ppl to and they laugh out loud very well even if the party is not doing well..foreigners dey give us pressure oooo.

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• SPIDER IN HIS WEB 10 years ago

  The shameless NDC government has returned the country to the economics of the Acheampong era whereby the govt borrows heavily from foreign sources and then mortgages all exports over an extended period of time to pay for it. ...
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  The shameless NDC government has returned the country to the economics of the Acheampong era whereby the govt borrows heavily from foreign sources and then mortgages all exports over an extended period of time to pay for it. Meanwhile, the borrowed money is not utilized for national development but goes into individual pockets. (Remember 'fa wo to begye Golf'?). We are reliving it all over again, this time in the form of judgment debts. The simple but sad truth about Ghana's economic condition is that at the moment we are not receiving any revenues from our exports, not even oil, the borrowed money is nowhere to be found and there is no financial planning. Soon enough, government is going to find it very hard to pay workers. So, for the Minister of Finance to assert that government is working to achieve its deficit target, however difficult, is not only disingenuous and false, but an attempt to cover up the wild, rampant corruption within the government. All this coming from a political party that prides itself of the principles of accountability, transparency and probity!!! Ghanaians, we are in for another long, bumpy ride.

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• Joe Turkey 10 years ago

  Any anticorruption action will sweep Mahama like a fallen leaf in the Fall season. The man is so corrupt he wouldn't want anything to do with any anti-corruption measures.

  Any anticorruption action will sweep Mahama like a fallen leaf in the Fall season. The man is so corrupt he wouldn't want anything to do with any anti-corruption measures.

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