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MPs cry for protection, not luxury

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  • koosei 10 years ago

    do you want security at the parliament house or your homes.?

  • ELINAM 10 years ago

    I pay taxes on import duties that pay mps so where's my protection?

  • Nicholas J Bedzo 10 years ago

    There is no need for protection for
    MPs,We send them to represnt us in the
    Parliament as our spoke person and you are paid with our tax money,your Job doesnot need protection.

  • Frank Agyena-Karikari 10 years ago

    Can someone show me where the restroom is? I feel like throwing up. Foolish MPs need protection? What about the rest of Ghanaians? I don't like armed robbers but I wish they attack you before they do to the poor Ghanaians. Th ...
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  • Frank Agyena-Karikari 10 years ago

    Very soon, they shall be crying for FREE CONDOMS TO HAVE MORE SEX. I KNOW THEY EVEN HAVE FREE CONDOMS ALREADY. WHAT DO THEY NOT HAVE FOR FREE IN GHANA? USELESS FOOLS.

  • WILLIAM 10 years ago

    IF YOU IMPROVE RESOURCES OF POLICE YOU WILL GET BETTER PROTECTION!

  • GAbaa 10 years ago

    "Mr Loh said MPs conditions of service should be tantamount to a high court judge, but MPs “roles are not seen as important”. DO HIGH COURT JUDGES GET CARS EVERY 4 YEARS, DO THEY GET END OF SERVICE ALLOWANCE EVERY 4 YEARS ...
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  • BULAALAH 10 years ago

    IS THIS THE FIRST TIME ROBBERS ARE ATTACKING CITIZENS OF GHANA? OR IS IT B'COS THESE CROOKES CALLING THEMSELVES MPS ARE NOW HAVING THE TASTE OF WHAT WE'VE BEEN GOING THRU ALL THE TIME. ARE THEY NOT THE LAW MAKERS? THEY SHOULD ...
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  • AKK 10 years ago

    They are representatives of the people. Why do they think they deserve better security than the average citizen? Maybe, Ghana needs another revolution.

  • BULAALAH 10 years ago

    PROTECTION? WHAT PROTECTION? EVERY CITIZEN IN GHANA NEEDS PROTECTION NOT ONLY MPS.

  • boss 10 years ago

    Idiots, after paying yourself over 7000GHC each per month plus ectra goodies, you still want police protection at the poor tax payers expense.

  • wofa kokoor 10 years ago

    This is garbage. How many ordinary citizens are attacked daily? As so called lawmakers what have they done to improve the security of the people they claim to represent?

  • ato kwamena 10 years ago

    what do you people do that you want protection? i guess you have lost your mind

  • Cecil 10 years ago

    You people don't need protection...you need sheen guards......

  • Frank Agyena-Karikari 10 years ago

    I can sell some to them, including bullet proof vests. A band of useless people doing almost nothing, yet are the best paid.

  • wiseman 10 years ago

    Hey dishonarable mp.No body forced you to become an mp.If you have been SHEGBEYELISED. you can resign onulo? the real wiseman not the fake.

  • Kofi 10 years ago

    Are the MPs crazy? Are they the only people who need protection? What the the rest of Ghanaians? If a secure country is created, every one will be secure. If we provide selective protection, no one will be secure. MPs do not ...
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  • Kokonte 10 years ago

    Nonsense! What police protection? Who pays for that protection? They are no better than the citizens that they steal from on daily basis and who are equally subjected to armed robbery on daily basis, because they are law m ...
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  • THE LONE PROPHET OF JEHOVAH 10 years ago

    These mps are taking Ghanaian taxpayers money for granted.They drain our economy with 7GHC per month.

  • cha 10 years ago

    Even of this enough- u fools are draining the Ghan

  • Japo 10 years ago

    Yeah Right,
    Including chiefs, CEOs, and Directors of institutions. Ghana is loadaed financialy for the protection.

  • THE LONE PROPHET OF JEHOVAH 10 years ago

    In other words protection is luxury right.

  • DONBOLI 10 years ago

    All MPs are paid to get their private watchmen. If MPs were not selfish they could employ securty agents and pay them, look how good the money they are paid. Rubbed.

  • GOV 10 years ago

    Why do you need protection when your doing the right thing.You want protection like the walls you built around your houses because of the sufferings you bring on the ordinary Ghanaian

  • Ghanabiya 10 years ago

    What work have you been doing over the years other than to come together to ask for more pay and other undeserved privellages?

    Go to your constituency and see the lamentable conditions of your people. What have you done t ...
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  • peace 10 years ago

    stupid statement protect u mps this stupid cant pay nurses teachers tariff is way high u need police proctection

  • IBB 10 years ago

    Work efficiently to provide jobs for the armed robbers and get them busy, the will forget about you..

  • Minninkin Piss 10 years ago

    What law has Mr.Loh participated in enacting to protect the poor traders and innocent citizens who are attacked virtually every day on the highways and by-ways of Ghana. It is definitely wrong for Mr. J.K. Ofori to be attacke ...
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  • Ghanaba 10 years ago

    When are parliamentarians going to live like ordinary Ghanaians? They can use part of their 50,000 Gh Cedis to hire their own security if they choose. These guys make 100,000.00 per month when 95% of the country makes less ...
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  • Concerned Ghanaian 10 years ago

    Maybe more attacks on MPs would make them reality and make proper laws for Ghanaian citizens.

  • GHANA LOVE 10 years ago

    THIS ROOKIE MP IS KNOWN TO BE ARROGANT &DISRESPECTFUL. HE SHOULD SHUT UP AND LEARN THE LAWS & PRACTICE OF P'MENT. IF HE SHOULD BE MADE A MINISTER, THEN WE SHALL ALL BE IN BIG TROUBLE. HE WILLASK FOR AN ARMOURED VEHICLE TO PRO ...
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  • VICKY LEE BENTON 10 years ago

    SOME NERVE DO THEY HAVE TO CRY FOR PROTECTION, AFTER MAKING THEMSELVES RICH AND THROWN EVERYONE UNDER THE BUS.

  • BBC NEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!! 10 years ago

    Bawumia is the only idiot from the north,does he think he will get a chance in "Y3N AKANFO" PARTY? He should go and ask the late ALIU MAHAMA THIEF KUFOUR'S VICE. When kufour was travelling allover the world, vice president AL ...
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  • Voice of Ghana 10 years ago

    Why don't you leave Bawumia out and comment on the sense of insecurity that has engulfed the country under the 'able' leadership of the NDC? Now one of your idiots is requesting police protection for himself. You the only idi ...
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  • WARD GDX - WE THE PEOPLE 10 years ago

    Armed robbers have been terrorizing and killing the citizens in the process and these buffoons of parliamentarians have not passed a single law to strengthen the existing laws to weed these animals out.

    Now they want pro ...
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  • jd, usa 10 years ago

    He maintained that the lack of protection has affected their work substantially.



    shame on you. yuo cannot deliver already. do not base your failure to deliver on protection from the government. you have deceived the ci ...
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  • pablo 10 years ago

    interesting one word..you earn respect and dont demand it mr mp..do what is right and the populace will hold you in high esteem. protection good but we have to strip you off some of your luxuries to protect you..hope you dont ...
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  • Nii Nortey (NY) 10 years ago

    Are these MPS, out of their mind. what is special about them. the constitution did not provide them with the security they ar asking for. If they cant do their job they should resign. The ordinary Ghanaians are always been at ...
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  • Quashigah, Kukuom 10 years ago

    Nonsense.

  • sam 10 years ago

    ghana gov should creat more security job for he safety of the nation. security men or watch men should go round all over every community at night. by doing that the so call robber may fear and run from the community and it wi ...
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  • GHANA IN TROUBLE 10 years ago

    WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THIEVES AND PARLIAMENTARIANS?. TO ME THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THIEVES AND PARLIAMENTARIANS. TO GIVE A PARLIAMENTARIAN POLICE PROTECTION IS THE SAME AS GIVING THIEVES PROTECTION. THEY WANT ...
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  • BabaUS 10 years ago

    A man of the people is able to move freely among the people without fear. Are these MPs men of the people?

  • Lone Ranger 10 years ago

    Because they are all thieves and greedy bastards who think only of themselves. Let the terrorists raid Parliament and rid the country of these leaches.

  • akosua 10 years ago

    paaaaaaaaaaaay!

  • Kofi poku 10 years ago

    useless people, u go there to team up with ministers to steal the poor tax payers money,u need Christ not police. stupido.

  • Akua AU 10 years ago

    Parliamentarians, ministers and all politicians have contributed to this state of terrorism by thieves and robbers now, you ask for protection, what about the ordinary citizen on the street. Make efforts to rebuild the count ...
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  • Max 10 years ago

    The common man also needs protection. Who cares?

  • LYDIA 10 years ago

    THESE MPS HAVE NO SENSE OF SHAME, THEY STEAL OUR MONIES AND WANT PROTECTION FROM US AGAIN.....COLLECT OUR MONIES FROM GYEEDA, RLG, SADA, WOYOME, ISOFOTON, ETC ETC ETC...THIEVING POLITICIANS...JULOI..THIEVES...

  • akosua 10 years ago

    paaaaaaaaaaaay!

  • mohammed 10 years ago

    I have never seen a joker like this guy. On whose fund will they pay the police from? what laws have you made that help the country pay for your services and what kind of development or jobs have you created? All MPs can resi ...
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  • Padmore 10 years ago

    The best suggestion to the MP's, is to tighten the laws for criminal and be tough on crimes. All Ghanaians needs protection.Judges lives are at risk
    than MPs. MPs needs no protection, it will be a waste 0f tax payers money.

  • ff 10 years ago

    mpshmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

  • KAHUNA 10 years ago

    If you enact laws that will promote businesses,reduce corruption through out the public sector and enhance the living standards of all the citizens, armed robbery will be curbed.

  • Yaw Adu-Asare 10 years ago

    All Ghanaians need protection not just MPs.

  • Toofei 10 years ago

    Do they even realize that arm robbery is a big problem for the entire nation? Push for tougher punishments against those rats that's what we want to see! Death penalty!

  • KOFI ABROKWA - AKIM AKOKOASO/USA 10 years ago

    THE BRIDGE ON BIRIM RIVER AT AKIM ODA IS ROTTEN AND DANGEROUS.
    IS THERE ANYTHING THE GOVERNMENT OR CMB CAN DO TO CONSTRUCT A NEW ONE FOR THESE POOR FOLKS?
    COCOA, TIMBER AND OTHER MINERAL RESOURCES HAVE AND STILL COME FROM
    ...
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  • Honestman 10 years ago

    Funny! As if wealth they went to parliament to amass is not enough. They are further insulting Ghanaians with this latest demand! Why are MPs attacked? Because they are seen to be very very rich; some overnight. Why would the ...
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