Gov't is too corrupt to fight corruption - Awuku

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Nana Yaw 10 years ago

this little boy called samy awuku is so supid and dawmn he need to grow up and get a better job

this little boy called samy awuku is so supid and dawmn he need to grow up and get a better job
ZoRRo 10 years ago

This idiot continues to make a fool of himself. After the London episode saying how politicians are in it for the money; and after saying that women will turn to prostitution when their salaries are delayed; like his mother d ...
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This idiot continues to make a fool of himself. After the London episode saying how politicians are in it for the money; and after saying that women will turn to prostitution when their salaries are delayed; like his mother did when her salary was delayed by one week at ZoomLion.
Nana Ansah 10 years ago

Shut your beak Sammy boy, I am trying to get some sleep. When will this boy grow up and stop his adolescent antics? Have you forgotten what your Wofa Kufuor said when he was engulfed with corruption? He blamed Adam for corru ...
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Shut your beak Sammy boy, I am trying to get some sleep. When will this boy grow up and stop his adolescent antics? Have you forgotten what your Wofa Kufuor said when he was engulfed with corruption? He blamed Adam for corruption. If that still holds then why are picking on others? What an idiot squared!
GHFUO, change ur thinking 10 years ago

WE NEED CORRUPTION COURTS IN GH!
WE NEED CORRUPTION COURTS IN GH.!
Maxwell Kofi Jumah who claims to have "concrete evidence" to support his allegation says, President Mahama is the architect behind the huge monies given to ...
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WE NEED CORRUPTION COURTS IN GH!
WE NEED CORRUPTION COURTS IN GH.!
Maxwell Kofi Jumah who claims to have "concrete evidence" to support his allegation says, President Mahama is the architect behind the huge monies given to RLG and Zoomlion, both service providers to the Ghana Youth Employment and Entrepreneurial Agency (GYEEDA).
CORRUPTION IS SIPHONING WANTED REVENUE AWAY FROM THE COFFERS OF THE STATE. MONIES NEEDED TO PAY NURSES, DOCTORS, TEACHERS, INCREASE POLICE SALARIES, BUILD MORE SCHS, HOSPITALS, ROADS, RAILWAYS ETC ARE ALL BEEN CHANNELED ILLEGITIMATELY INTO THE POCKETS OF UNDESERVING PPL. THIS HARMING THE GROWTH OF THE NATION.
FOLKS, HOW CAN Salaries Of Ghanaian MPs BE THE 3rd Highest In The World? HIPC, 3RD WORLD NATION GHANA?...NO WAY!
REDUCE THE SALARIES OF THESE USELESS , OVERINFLATED EGOS N USE THE CASH TO DEVELOP OUR RAILWAYS, HIGHWAYS, MARKETS, STADIUMS, POLICE FORCE, SECURITY AGENCIES.
OH GH. TOO MUCH STRIFE, HUNGER. PPL ARE DISILLUSIONED. THEY DONT EVEN USE THEIR THINKING CAPS ANYMORE. THEY ACT AND BEHAVE LIKE ZOMBIES. ALL BECAUSE OF
CORRUPTION N GREED FROM OUR SO CALLED POT BELLIED LEADERS.
MOVIE: APOCALYPTO....."A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within."
This is a great quote, but extremely problematic for the movie that follows.
Durant's quote talks about corruption within being followed by external conquest, what we usually associate with the
decadence that preceded the fall of Rome, but that does not apply to what happened to the Maya.
Besides, even those Mesoamerican cultures that did not engage in human sacrifice were going to be immune to the myriad
diseases that Europeans brought to the Americas and which decimates entire peoples.
BILL GATES USING GMO FOODS, GENERIC DRUGS, CONDOMS, FLU AND TB SHOTS ON AFRICANS UNER THE GUISE OF HELPING THEM.
IN ACTUALITY, HE IS ENGINEERING AND FOSTERING A REDUCTION AND A SLOW REMOVAL OF OUR POPULATIONS, SLOWLY.
WE NEED A SYMPOSIUM TO ADDRESS WHY BRIBERY N CIRRUPTION STILL PERSISTS IN GH.
WHY DO PPL ENGAGE IN BRIBERY N CORRUPTION?
IS THE SALARY NOT ENUFF? FIX IT, PAY THESE WORKERS WELL
IS IT GREED? IF YOU FEEL YOUR SALARY IS NOT ENOUGH FOR YOU, GO N GET 2ND JOB. DONT HARASS PPL FOR BRIBES.
THIS IS UNLAWFUL AND A CRIME IN ITSELF. YOU DONT COME INTO PUBLIC OFFICE TO STEAL.
YOU MUST COME THERE TO PROTECT GH'S INTERESTS, NOT YOUR PERSONAL INTEREST.
WEN U BRING IN PPL ARE ARE NOT QUALIFIED FOR THESE CABINET JOBS, HAVE NO TRACK RECOD OR REPUTABLE PREVIOUS OCCUPATIONS. THEY WILL ROB THE STATE.
THOSE IN THE PUBLIC SECTOR WHO EMBEZZLE FUNDS MUST BE CHARGED WITH CORRUPTION BY THE POLICE/STATE AND SHOULD BE PROSECUTED IN THE COURTS.
MALAYSIA HAS A SIMILAR CONCEPT AND IT IS REAPING REWARDS. LOOK AT MALAYSIA'S POSITION ON THE GLOBAL CORRUPTION INDEX?
IF GH STARTS PROSECUTING CORRUPT PUBLIC SECTOR WORKERS. MORE FOREIGN INVESTORS WILL COME IN BCOS THEY CAN COUNT ON THE RULE OF LAW TO WORK N BE FAIR.
OUR PPL WILL HVE JOBS, TAXES WILL BE PAID, MORE DEVELOPMNT IN GH. ALL WILL BE HAPPY. THIS IS THE ONLY WAY THESE STUPID ANIMALS WILL EVER LEARN.
ARREST THESE FOOLS, JAIL THEM UNTIL A HEAVY BOND/BAIL IS PAID. GATHER THE EVIDENCE AND TAKE THEM TO COURT. THE CHIEF JUSTICE MUST PUT THEIR FUCKING FOOT DOWN!
CONFISCATE THEIR ASSETS AND PAY OFF THESE MISMANAGED PROJECTS WITH THEIR PROCEEDS FROM THE PUBLIC AUCTION.
THEN JAIL AND PUBLISH THEIR NAMES IN THE MEDIA. NAME AND SHAME THEM. NKWASIAFOUR! NOT UNDER MY WATCH! AHA NA WO B3 DA!
the pressing immediate problems confronting the countRY GHANA ARE - GALAMSAY EVERYWHERE, no electricity, no water, rife in corruption, high incompetence levels, etc.
At the moment JOHN MAHAMA has NOT articulated any vision for the country and his governance. Ghanaians don't know what he stands for except his mere promises and lies.
For sustainable socio-economic development Ghana needs ACCOUNTABLE GOVERNANCE not mere promises without action as characterised BY MAHAMA'S "leadership".
Argentina’s president has announced increases of as much as 35 percent in cash handouts to the poor, students, pregnant women and retirees.
President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner said the programs also will reach nearly 700,000 more children, expanding the social safety net and encouraging consumer spending this election year. She said the total cost of the subsidies would grow $7.8 billion a year.
GH MUST FIND A SOLUTION TO THESE PRESSING ISSUES: high level corruption, CITIZEN IDENTIFICATION, insecurity, unemployment, LACK OF INFRASTRUCTURE and infrastructure decay as the major problems confronting africa's development.
LOOK, YOU CAN BROADEN THE TAX BASE AS MUCH AS YOU WANT...UNREALIZED CAPITAL GAINS, GIFTS TO FAMILY/PERSONAL CHARITIES, TAXING THE RICH, ETC...YOU CAN CLOSE ALL THE LOOPHOLES ALL YOU WANT, BUT IF YOU DONT FIND A WAY TO DEAL WITH PUBLIC SECTOR CORRUPTION. U END UP PREACHING TO THE CHOIR.
REDUCE GOVT SPENDING. LOWER PUBLIC SECTOR SALARIES. MORE MANUFACTURING. CORRUPTION COURTS. MORE PRIVATE SECTOR ROBUST BUSINESSES. LOWER IMPORTS AND FREE TRADE.
WE NEED AN ATTITUDINAL CHANGE TO MAKE THE ECONOMY WORK IN GH.
PROGRESS IS A MODEL OF PRODUCTIVE DESTRUCTION. U NEED TO MAKE MISTAKES BEFORE YOU SUCCEED. THE GOVT SHOULD PULL BACK AND ALLOW THE ECONOMY TO PROGRESS. TOO MUCH GOVT INTERVENTION STIFLES PROGRESS.
06/17/2013: Just this morning, Montreal Mayor Michael Applebaum was arrested at his home by the city's anti-corruption police.
"Tens of thousands" were paid in bribes in return for permit approvals police say.
06/28/2013: A Brazilian congressman sentenced to 13 years in jail for corruption has given himself up after two days on the run. Natan Donadon is the first serving congressman to be jailed in Brazil since military rule came to an end in the 1980s.
Mr Donadon was convicted three years ago of siphoning off nearly $4m (£2.6m) from the State Assembly in Rondonia, in Brazil's Amazon region.
THE GH GOVT MUST CONTACT RAMON ANG, PRESIDENT OF SAN MIGUEL CORP IN THE PHILLIPINES. WE ARE SLEEPING IN GH, JOKER$!
HE CAN ADVICE AND HELP GH WITH AIRPORT INFRASTRUCTURE, OIL EXPLORATION, ROAD, RAIL PROJECTS. VERY INTELLIGENT MAN
"GHANA'S early hopes were dashed by exclusionary politics, poor economic management and corruption, which created and perpetuated political instability"...KOFI ANNAN
ARE WE GOING TO LEARN FROM OUR MISTAKES AND FIX THEM OR ARE WE GOING TO BLINDLY LOOK AWAY N CONTINUE TO WALLOW IN MEDIOCRITY?
Most of the over $541 million revenue received from oil in 2012 was drained by Government due to poor planning and spending decisions rendering most of the projects incomplete.
Compared to its African neighbors like Malawi, Tanzania and the DRC, Ghana’s cost overruns are at least 18 percent higher.
Albert 10 years ago

Where is the revenue realised from the drill ship sold. Can you find out from ken dapaah and his team for me?
I believe you belong to the same party with him. It will be stealing on the part of npp If we can find the money

Where is the revenue realised from the drill ship sold. Can you find out from ken dapaah and his team for me?
I believe you belong to the same party with him. It will be stealing on the part of npp If we can find the money
fred 10 years ago

learn how to spell in English

learn how to spell in English
Kojo T 10 years ago

It should be politicians and leaders are too corrupt. You are all the same

It should be politicians and leaders are too corrupt. You are all the same
CAPE-COAST BOY 10 years ago

SOME PEOPLE JUST HATE THE TRUTH

SOME PEOPLE JUST HATE THE TRUTH
fakum 10 years ago

NPP held Ghana for ransom at Supreme court case and Republican party is doing the same by shouting the gov't down. If these two parties are not in helm of affairs, everything is not good. They are the best to rule. They will ...
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NPP held Ghana for ransom at Supreme court case and Republican party is doing the same by shouting the gov't down. If these two parties are not in helm of affairs, everything is not good. They are the best to rule. They will keep on loosing elections over and over.
fred 10 years ago

For 5 years you did sod all in power; you failed to deliver and needed a good excuse to cover your incompetence and corruption - the supreme court petition; something to put the blame on for the woyomisation, watervillisation ...
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For 5 years you did sod all in power; you failed to deliver and needed a good excuse to cover your incompetence and corruption - the supreme court petition; something to put the blame on for the woyomisation, watervillisation, akomfemisation, isotofonisation, and gyeedalisation of Ghana. Shame unto you guys. ARE YOU DAFT OR WHAT?
po 10 years ago

KRONFUO KUFUOR DID WORSE THINGS IN 8 YEARS, IDIOT

KRONFUO KUFUOR DID WORSE THINGS IN 8 YEARS, IDIOT
DAN 10 years ago

THIS STUPID EQUALISATION ARGUMENT DOES NOT HOLD WATER. You were voted for to improve things with your better ghana agenda not to turn it into a bitter ghana agenda and point fingers at Kuffour. Are you stupid or what? Do y ...
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THIS STUPID EQUALISATION ARGUMENT DOES NOT HOLD WATER. You were voted for to improve things with your better ghana agenda not to turn it into a bitter ghana agenda and point fingers at Kuffour. Are you stupid or what? Do you think or are u just plain dumb?
po 10 years ago

kronfuor kufuor 'll remain kronfuor everybody knows that.

kronfuor kufuor 'll remain kronfuor everybody knows that.
GEORGE BEE 10 years ago

When at all will this GBESHE boy Sammy Awuku change. Am sure he has forgotten his grandfather Kufuor who led NPP in grabbing anD looting state properties waa waa during their reign. After all JAKE's grabbed state bungalow is ...
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When at all will this GBESHE boy Sammy Awuku change. Am sure he has forgotten his grandfather Kufuor who led NPP in grabbing anD looting state properties waa waa during their reign. After all JAKE's grabbed state bungalow is there for all to see the rot when NPP were in power. Never again will the GBESHE party get the chance to loot and grab waa waa. Meanwhile Sammy Awuku, where is the money K.T. Hammond brought down from the GNPC saga and you are talking of corruption. NPP and corruption are bedfellows
kuluulu 10 years ago

Find a place to hide and shut up. Too much talk-talk makes you a political misfit.

Find a place to hide and shut up. Too much talk-talk makes you a political misfit.
Abeeku Mensah 10 years ago

Ghana is corrupt and it shows. This is the price Ghana will continue to pay for our sins in 1966. If the corruption that endured under the CPP had been at the levels we live in today there would never had been any money, land ...
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Ghana is corrupt and it shows. This is the price Ghana will continue to pay for our sins in 1966. If the corruption that endured under the CPP had been at the levels we live in today there would never had been any money, land and or property left for anyone, from the coup leaders to all the other coup leaders that came after to steal.
The shame about Ghanaians who derive their hatred and venom from their tribal leaders is that they see no shame in their talk and actions neither will they ever accept being greedy. We arrived at the 1966 coup because of greed cloaked in freedoms and multiparty system of governance. Yet the very people who talked and continue to ingratiate themselves in the folly of multi-party diatribe are the very people who are intolerant in the NPP and NDC alike. They engage in acts to suppress the freedoms of the rank and file of party members to run for party positions and or make changes in their man-made party rules. How can people like J.J. Rawlings, general Mosquito, Sir John, Nana Akufo-Addo and other fools for our leaders talk about freedoms and a multi political party system when they are neither willing to accept the results from ballot boxes, accept rulings from the judiciary, execute people for any sorry excuse, give away tax payer money to friends and cronies, give away national assets and sell others on the cheap and have the audacity to talk about principles of freedom and or democratic values?
Sammy Awuku, like his masters in the NPP here in Ghana and in New York continue to exemplify the ills and immaturity of the Ghanaian mental development that gave rise to the bribery that persuaded some to believe it is better to destroy Ghana through an overthrow of its leaders. The very nations Akufo-Addo, Danquah and others claim to look up to for direction live in nations where suppression of others prevailed while they created the nations we have come to see as shining examples of democratic nations. Could a two (2) to five (5) year period where the opposition under the CPP era not have engaged in intellectual fights with their adversaries in the CPP? Could the UP/matemeho/NPP band not have proven itself via improvement of their lot in the enclaves they reside to show the rest of Ghana the systems they hoped to import unto the Ghanaian scene? Were there government overthrows in the USA, Canada, UK and all the other nations we pretend to emulate? Instead what we have are half of Ghanaians in the Diaspora, especially those ingrates of the NPP in New York who continue to dump unwanted items from the USA in Ghana for a buck and the NPP and NDC clowns in Ghana who steal any and all things government that is not bolted down.
We have created a nation of thieves, a society that has accepted immoral acts as acceptable moral norms, a very rich thieving few who cannot account and or justify their wealth to themselves but for whom the Ghanaian child, woman and man worship for their ill-gotten wealth. Yes Ghana is broke but we became broke because the new Ghana founded on a rotten concept in 1966 sow seeds that will continue to reap greed and animosity as our national moral fiber.
JUJUMAN 10 years ago

TOO EARLY TO ASSESS JM

TOO EARLY TO ASSESS JM
SAY IT AS IT IS! 10 years ago

If the NPP, think this guy speakes sense then they are introuble because i and many of us think , anybody who have his or her head on as a human will never take him serious because he SAMMY does not make sense anytime he trie ...
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If the NPP, think this guy speakes sense then they are introuble because i and many of us think , anybody who have his or her head on as a human will never take him serious because he SAMMY does not make sense anytime he tries to make sense.
GREAT NANA ANTWI 10 years ago

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Paa Kodwo 10 years ago

NPP IN THEIR TIME OF OFFICE ONLY STOLE THE IDENTITY OF GHANA AND CORRUPTED THE NATION IN THEIR EIGHT YEARS OF RULE.

IT IS TIME FOR THESE SELF STYLED POLITICIANS OF THE NPP TO WORK TOWARDS THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF GHANA ...
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NPP IN THEIR TIME OF OFFICE ONLY STOLE THE IDENTITY OF GHANA AND CORRUPTED THE NATION IN THEIR EIGHT YEARS OF RULE.

IT IS TIME FOR THESE SELF STYLED POLITICIANS OF THE NPP TO WORK TOWARDS THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF GHANA AND TO STOP THESE BASELESS ACCUSATIONS AGAINST THE RULING GOVERNMENT.

POLITICS IS A GATEWAY TO A BROADER AND BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF HUMAN NATURE,SOCIETY, ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL DRIVE OF A COUNTRY AND THE WORLD AT LARGE.

IT IS RATTER UNFORTUNATE THAT MANY POLTICIANS ESPECIALLY FROM THE NPP HAVE STILL FAILED TO UNDERSTAND WHAT POLITICS MEANS TO A NATION.

IT WILL HAVE BEEN A GREAT DISATER IF, NPP WOULD HAVE BEEN GIVEN THE MANDATE TO RULE THE NATION AGAIN IN 2012.

IT IS TIME FOR THIS GENTLEMAN TO STOP THESE PRIMITVE BLAME GAMES.
NON-ALIGNED 10 years ago

Awuku, Ghanaians are too corrupt to fight corruption! I guess it takes one to know one. Here you are condemning as equally a CORRUPT government as your party.

After all, your former leader and president of Ghana claimed
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Awuku, Ghanaians are too corrupt to fight corruption! I guess it takes one to know one. Here you are condemning as equally a CORRUPT government as your party.

After all, your former leader and president of Ghana claimed
"corruption has been with us since Adam"...............in other words he was not prepared to fight corruption.
If such a useless and a corrupt leader makes such remarks....what do you expect of the citizens???????

Of course Ghanaian citizens like yourself, will keep pointing fingers at each other and blame each other of being corrupt; till thy Kingdom come.

Both the NPP and NDC parties are the most CORRUPT and USELESS parties our nation have had the misfortune of being ruled by.

Corruption can be fought if we treat it as a "two way street". It takes two to tango........and more importantly, as a cancer that wrecks nations.

Every citizen in every nation, if given the opportunity can be corrupt. But, if the law works effectively and everyone watches over each others' evil acts of corruption, then it can be reduced drastically.

I honestly don't believe it can be eliminated for good.

However, I dare say, our children as from nursery age should be well educated to take pride in the nation their forefathers fought for. And by that, I do not mean this breed of people in our society today. (Please don't get me wrong).

We need to wash our children's brains with patriotic feats via our good historical facts and positive personalities that is required for building a nation of incorruptible people all through their educative years.

An education that makes them know who they really are and feeds them with the evils effects of CORRUPTION - that needs to be uprooted and exposed anywhere they see it, at every stage of their lives. In our own 'lingos'!!!

Our citizens needs to be rewarded for fighting corruption and living corruption free lives. That is what competitions and promoting anti-corruption comes in to overtake the likes of Miss Ghana, Miss Universe Ghana and all that rubbish!!!

Our citizens should and must be rewarded with cars, houses etc. for fighting and exposing corruption in every corner of our nation..........

I would like to suggest we start from the parliament house and ask all Ghanaian citizens to stop calling MPs - "honourables"......that in itself corrupts their minds.

That is when we may start seeing some progress. We need to start from scratch with our kids.....The adults now in Ghana? Hmmmm....The civil servants, market women, house-helps, carpenters, tax-collectors, bar staff .... Hmmmmm!!!! I wonder!

GOD BLESS GHANA!
AFRICAN FOREVER!
ANTI CORRUPTION CRUSADER 1 10 years ago

After President Mahama, the ministers, MPs, Regional Ministers and District Execs must be made to declare their assets to the public. They should lead the fight against corruption if they are serious.

After President Mahama, the ministers, MPs, Regional Ministers and District Execs must be made to declare their assets to the public. They should lead the fight against corruption if they are serious.

Gov't is too corrupt to fight corruption - Awuku

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