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Ghanaian leaders are intellectually lazy – Dr Kwabena Donkor

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  • peace 10 years ago

    as usual you ill is good at critisizing.
    well dr.

  • ben 10 years ago

    apart nkrumah

  • blackstar 10 years ago

    lol... I Agree

  • ZoRRo 10 years ago

    A combination of factors including laziness, lack of vision, and greed, characterizes most of our past and recent leaders. The country will not go anywhere with such leadership !

  • HASSAN RASTA GERMANY 10 years ago

    SOMEONE WILL JUST BE LYING FOR THE SAKE OF BECOMING A MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT. AFTER HE WIN THE ELECTION, THERE THAT HE WILL BEGIN TO SHOW YOU HIS REAL COLORS. LET THE GOVERNMENT GIVE THIS DR. A CHANCE RIGHT NOW AND SEE IF HE WI ...
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  • KB 10 years ago

    HE MUST GET OFF.

  • Emma 10 years ago

    That's true. What has he done practically for the nation?

  • Nicholas J Bedzo 10 years ago

    The leaders are Lazy, Visionless and
    greedy,and you one of his subrdinate
    around him,what advise are giving to
    him and share your views with him as a
    Citizen in the same ship. You only come to digrace him and yourself.If
    ...
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  • golu 10 years ago

    stop this nonsense, what is happening to the oil mines. No way we shall sit on these raw minerals and preserve the land than explore them for your selfish interest.

  • cosey adwenpa: germany. 10 years ago

    kufour was not lazy,ge worked tirelessly to raise ghana to a higher level,it was Mills led NDC which has led Ghana in to skeleton state.mention some of the interventions kufour brought to Ghana.

  • Yag 10 years ago

    Dr. so so and so what have you created with your PHD ?This is dishonesty on your part.You don,t have to be the President b4 you can change a situation ,aftet all you are an MP ,a good position to do great things for us Sir.

  • Kow 10 years ago

    MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT? DOCTOR ? CHAIRMAN OF MINES COMMITTEE ? WHAT ARE YOU DOING NOW? YOU ARE ONLY ASKING AND JUSTIFYING FOR FAT SALARY.

  • Funnythat 10 years ago

    This constant media drumbeat of the same thing day after day is diverting us from the important issues we should be thinking about. Last month, the Corruption, this month, Laziness. What will next month bring us to waste tim ...
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  • Lasisi 10 years ago

    You people like "apart from Nkrumah" too much. Was Nkrumah the president of Botswana, and isn't Botswana the best performing African country?

    Get real Kwame is dead..and lets look "forrrad" aba!

  • Sankofa 10 years ago

    We keep referring to Nkrumah because he blazed a trail for our country and Africa unparalleled by anyone else before or after him.

    Nkrumah articulated a solid intellectual basis and vision for the development of our countr ...
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  • Ada Boy 10 years ago

    Nkrumah also was responsible for the culture of impunity by politicians in this country.Politicians answer to no one,they are the players and the umpires at the same time.The member for Pru must realize that we cannot train s ...
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  • OGYANI 10 years ago

    BEN,YOU ARE THE MAN.APART FROM DR KWAME NKRUMAH.YOU CAN SAY THAT ZILLION TIMES MATE.THE QUESTION IS...DOES THAT INCLUDE DR DONKOR AS WELL?

  • Kwabena sam 10 years ago

    Me p? s? obi nkyer? me ade? baako p? a Nkruma y??e a Ghanafo? de y?n adwen 100% na ?y??e.S? w'anntumi aankyer? me baako, na wo nso wodi akyire s? na Nkruma w? anisoadehunu a na wo nso w'b?n s? Nkruma no ara. The foundations o ...
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  • Sir sly 10 years ago

    Masa....dnt deceive anyone here wid all this lies

  • peace 10 years ago

    we want solution you people only point accusing fingers. that is your hallmark

  • Michael biko 10 years ago

    U are right Mr MP

  • Che 10 years ago

    Only intellectually lazy? They are GREEDY BASTARDS. Extremely selfish and thieves.

  • SARFO MOSES-TAIN 10 years ago

    what have u done in your constituetcncy.. how mannnnn...nn..y jobs for youth of pru... stop the talk shop

  • Kwaku Asrifi 10 years ago

    Bro Sarfo! This your question amounts to a suggestion that he should use tax-payer's money to creat jobe in his area. Because to start anything, one needs money. Where do you expect him to bring such money from? The fact that ...
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  • Obed Adore 10 years ago

    Sometimes it is not the money. The connection is necessary here. Nothing stops this guy to connect with some business people, engineers, etc., as the O&E did in bringing the Texas oil company here to find the oil. What is kee ...
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  • hh 10 years ago

    do u sleep on pillow ? stupid comment.

  • ben 10 years ago

    apart from Nkrumah all our intellectauls are lazy including you

  • mr Tina 10 years ago

    90%of ghanaian leaders are lawyers and that makes it difficult to fight corruption. Lawyers are corrupt and lack the zeil in developing the country. Europeans spent alot on science in developing their countries.

  • Zaaza 10 years ago

    If this is what this man , who has a doctorate degree, is an MP and even chairman of the mines and energy committee, says about leadership in Ghana, my question is, where does he put himself - among the leaders or those bei ...
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  • STONER KOBYLYNTON 10 years ago

    Remarkably yes! He has shot himself well. These are parasites who are just using the taxpayers money for nothing, and stupid Afari-Djan just added another 45 of these things on the taxpayers again. Oh Ama Ghana when will you ...
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  • MUMUNI 10 years ago

    Hey doctor, what you said is right. But what are you doing about it? You are even chairman of the mines and energy committee but action have you taken regarding the citizens benefitting for the mining of those precious resour ...
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  • Pelicles 10 years ago

    Our leaders and the educated elite including you Dr Kwabena Donkor, are just stupid and foolish. Why? Just ask yourself what have you done since elected as an MP?

    All of you have kept mute while receiving thousands of do ...
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  • Thunder 10 years ago

    Well said. They may possess knowledge but no wisdom. I think it's time we shut down these universities awarding these bogus degrees and go and learn some home sense. Over 80% of the courses in the country's university are irr ...
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  • Victor 10 years ago

    We know Doc, including your self. You left that part out. How many research findings do you have??

  • kay 10 years ago

    He has fake ?erts.dt mind him.

  • TAWIAH AMOS 10 years ago

    WHAT I MEAN IS THAT;WE SHOULD START TO CRREAT JOBS IN OUR OWN POCKET MONEY THAN ALWAYS GOING IN FOR LOANS FROM CHINA ECT;WHICH ALWAYS END THAT THEY STEAL HUGE AMOUNT OF MONEY FROM US.I DON;T MEAN THE GOVERMONT,

  • African man 10 years ago

    It seems that some of us(Ghanaians) find it difficult if not impossible to goive praise where it is due.This man sees to what he believes to be affecting us but sadly some of us go showering insults on him. If u dont have a ...
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  • TAWIAH AMOS 10 years ago

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  • HASSAN RASTA GERMANY 10 years ago

    YOU ARE HAVING THE BEST IDEAS BUT AM SORRY TO SAY THAT IF THE GOVERNMENT ASK YOU NOW TO FORM A GROUP THAT WILL LEAD TO RESTART THESE PROJECT, AT ONCE YOU WILL CHANGED AND BECOME LIKE THOSE LAZY INTELLECTUAL LEADERS AS YOU DES ...
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  • SAMMY 10 years ago

    NKRUMAH WAS OVERTHROWN BECAUSE HE PURSUED THE POLICY OF TRANSFORMING THE STRUCTURE OUR ECONOMY BY ADDING VALUE TO OUR RAW MATERIALS THEREBY CREATING EMPLOYMENT IN GHANA.

  • MENSAH 10 years ago

    Nkrumah was not overthrown by his industrial performance,but by his governance system he posed:
    COMMUNISM,AUTOCRACY,ONE MAN SHOW/SELF CONCEITED ATTITUDE.
    There is the downside to everything.Even,the downside to focus is dis ...
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  • Sankofa 10 years ago

    What more should Nkrumah have done?

    In any case why did those leaders who succeeded him not build on what Nkrumah had started? Why were projects like the Bui dam, Barikese dam, Tarkwa gold refinery all abandoned and the in ...
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  • nii 10 years ago

    You just pass the buck,criticize but you do nothing yourself. Are you not in a position to do something?

  • Whatever 10 years ago

    If you were close to me I'd have kissed your feet. I love for saying the truth. Leaders who can't create anything

  • K.Twum 10 years ago

    It's only in Ghana that we think the president is the only leader.If he is an MP ain't he a leader? So why do you want to kiss a lazy MP's feet?

  • STONER KOBYLYNTON 10 years ago

    You must remember that The Executive and the Legislative are the government organs that see to come with development ideas and not solely by the Executive branch.

    A law maker can come with a bill for a particular developme ...
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  • Agyaku NYC 10 years ago

    Another loose tongue! These Ghanaians think running their mouths like writing their school compositions is a solution to Ghana`s problem. First of all Ghana is 1/2 a century old so how dare can its economical structure being ...
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  • paull siaw 10 years ago

    They don't even have it.They are intellectually stupid !!!

  • DUKE GEORGE 10 years ago

    THE INTELLECTUAL LAZY LEADERS MAKES A LIVING OUT OF SIMPLE POORMAN .. THEY LACK OF WISDOM AND VISION.

  • Gbc1 10 years ago

    But Mr. MP you re leader myself, what have you done for the rest to fellow?

  • AKASI MARTHA NZEMA 10 years ago

    THE GHANAIAN LEADERS NEED TO THINK HARD.

  • Deen 10 years ago

    All they care is about bringing their girlfriends to America for shopping. What a corrupt nation. The reason is they don't know. No technical skills, just theory

  • TAWIAH AMOS 10 years ago

    PLEASE LRT;S USE SOFT AND RESPATIBLE WORDS FOR WHATEVER WE WRITE;BECAUSE IT;S ONLY THEN SHALL THEY TAKE THE CONTENT WE ARE INTEND INTO CONSIDERATION;THANK YOU ALL,

  • Sir sly 10 years ago

    U talk well we are hoping for the gud

  • goofy 10 years ago

    HEY DR FOOL YOU ARE PART OF THE PROBLEM WHAT HAVE YOU TRY TO DO HAS SOMEBODY STOP YOU FROM CREATING ANY JOB ALL YOU ARE JUST LAZY CORRECTING PAY CHECK

  • LYDIA 10 years ago

    NDC FANATICS WONT LET ANYTHING WORK IN GHANA BCOS THEY BELIEVE NPP CHOPPED SO THE NDC MUST ALSO CHOP SOME.....BUT WHO STOPPED THE NDC FROM HOLDING THE NPP ACCOUNTABLE AT ALL....THE NDC FOUND IT CONVENIENT TO BLACKMAIL THE NPP ...
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  • Judgement Day 10 years ago

    Everybody seems to be talking even when it is within their power to influence policy. So what are you doing there in parliament - getting paid to criticize, talk, talk. When will the talking cease?

  • MYSELF 10 years ago

    it's not laziness,it is eloquence. africans think anything who is good english is clever. oh poor africans open your eyes.

  • JH New York 10 years ago

    I don't agree with you.What do you mean by lazy ?.
    The fact is they lack foresight,ideas and Common Sense approach to resolve problems.All what they think about is the fat Salaries & allowances Commensurate to the position t ...
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  • Osei 10 years ago

    You two dr donkor you are lazy

  • NON-ALIGNED 10 years ago

    DON'T WE GET IT!!!! The colonialist education system we have had and have in place, stems analytical thinking to progress. It is not only about our leaders......leaders are not hatched sir! They come through the formative yea ...
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  • JH New York 10 years ago

    The English alphabet(a-z) is the same in all the English-speaking Countries in the World.
    Again there is not any School anywhere in the world that could makes a fool(excuse my word) to have a vision or to think.
    Some peop ...
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  • Nana 10 years ago

    Easy to say but difficult to implement.
    Does Donkor think that he is hard working person than other Ghanaians? You are the President of committee for mines and energy so what are you waiting for to introduce a law that will ...
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  • Lasisi 10 years ago

    He laments that about 250, 000 students graduate from tertiary institutions looking for jobs, yet the mentality of leadership has not yet found out any new thinking needed to harness resources that can create opportunities fo ...
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  • NANA EGYIR 10 years ago

    How long can the intellectuals keep talking instead forging action groups to put into practice. I am fed up with long lectures and finger pointing. We need actionable brains to put these visions into action.

  • Say the Truth 10 years ago

    Dr. Kwabena Donkor: Your NDC which you have been part of for decades has the major part of the ruling of this Nation's years of independence under its RULING & GOVERNANCE!!!

    AT LEAST THE NDC HAS 26 YEARS+ OF RULING THIS NA ...
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  • AK47 IS MY FUCKING ADDRESS 10 years ago

    WE ALL KNOWS THAT , THIS IS NOT SOMETHING NEW .

  • Bruce Kojo. 10 years ago

    Indeed Dr is right Ghanaian leaders are in intellectually useless and their education is baseless because they lack vision.whiteman as to do everything for them.That is why white man see us as unreasonable people and un human ...
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  • PROFESSOR THOMAS KUBI- McA 10 years ago

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  • VICKY LEE BENTON 10 years ago

    You Politician's lack creativity, you think having all the Degrees is the end of the world
    The Entrepreneurs are the Back-Bone of every Country. They have the ability to create values instead of looking for them to give t ...
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  • DOKORDOKOR 10 years ago

    ASEMOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

  • Abongo 10 years ago

    You are either part of the problem or must be part of the solution.

  • MENSAH 10 years ago

    Until we discern to decide,the rough plateau we are descending from,we would not know the risk we are taking.
    Ghana has to hate EGYPT BEFORE SHE CAN ENTER CANNAN.
    Until we decide where we would rather,like to be,where we ar ...
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  • IS THERE ATL 10 years ago

    THANK YOU DR,DONKOR,OUR PRESIDENT CAME TO ATLANTA INSTEAD OF MEETING WITH THE BUSINESS LEADERS OF ATLANTA HE WENT ABOUT TAKEN PICTURES.

  • Kofi 10 years ago

    Monkeys.....

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  • Sampene 10 years ago

    Dr. Donkoh, so what are you waiting for if you are not among the lazy crooks?

  • Branaboy 10 years ago

    Vision is overrated in the context of Ghana's politics. We all have practically the same vision for Ghana irrespective of political colors and affiliations etc. Even a MADMAN has vision!

    What is needed is application and ...
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  • IS THERE ATL 10 years ago

    THANK YOU DR, DONKOR,YOU ARE RIGHT, OUR PRESIDENT CAME TO ATLANTA, INSTEAD OF MEETING WITH THE BUSINESS LEADERS OF ATLANTA HE WENT ABOUT TAKEN PICTURES.

  • Sicura 10 years ago

    The MP is absolutely right. Ghana's as well as all African political leaders are lazy and woefully lack vision and a sense of pride and self-esteem. With competent leaders Ghana should have been competing with South Korea, Si ...
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  • one day one u will meet ur match 10 years ago

    what he said is right.The Leaders are really Lazy.Also all Ghanaians need to our attitude, work hard stop corruption at all angle.

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  • 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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  • Sankofa 10 years ago

    Dr. Kwabena Donkor you are absolutely right.

    We must articulate a vision of how we are going to exploit our abundant natural resources, and implement it for the benefit of all our people.

  • AB 10 years ago

    do not say they,say we

  • akwasi 10 years ago

    Thanks to you Mr,Donkor, Ghana need good thinkers and those who care for its people and the growth

  • Lanssden 10 years ago

    It is quik and easy to come out to talk by opening your mouth,but where is your suggtested opinion to move this country forward?

  • Be honest 10 years ago

    Good job Mr, if there is election today, i will vote for you and i hope others will support you on these, Ghanaians we are bless, so my people let us use it in a good course.

  • HAWA YAKUBU 10 years ago

    Doc, wrong choice of words. This is a very incorrect political statement. If you have an idea with your class, you do not insult people before you bring it out. Your language had some elements of impunity with a preamble voic ...
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  • Better to Be WISE 10 years ago

    Member of Parliament for Pru in the Brong Ahafo region Dr. Kwabena Donkor is blaming the poor state of the Ghana’s economy on what he calls intellectual laziness on the part of our leaders.
    I am surprised about this statem ...
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  • Speedy Gonzalez 10 years ago

    the man is a fool

  • King Foster 10 years ago

    Yes they are all lazy just as you are

  • Old Young Pioneer 10 years ago

    wow, he has spoken for many. Kwabena mo ne kasa! i agree with you wholeheartedly.

  • KWAME, BELGIUM 10 years ago

    All the time, it's nothing more than talking, talking

  • Kwesi Afranie 10 years ago

    How so true Mr. MP! During the trip I made to Ghana this past summer, what I got from talking to the people including those in leadership positions was that they (the leadership) was waiting for somebody from "overseas" to s ...
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  • Stanley 10 years ago

    Until we change our attitude Blackman can't rule by itself to prosperity

  • There Is 10 years ago

    That is the truth, and say that again and again. Yes, Ghanaian leaders are intellectually without vision and lazy and that is the fact!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Yaw Adu-Asare 10 years ago

    Lack of political will instead of intellectual laziness. The &-year development plan Kwame Nkrumah prepared had the roadmap for Ghana's industrialization. His political opponents have refused to look at what Nkrumah left be ...
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  • Shanana 10 years ago

    It is too easy to have a plan, after all a plan is ON PAPER.

    Nkrumah, Chairman Mao, Kruschev all are dead. And so are those plans.

    Think, think, think a.d stop tugging at yesterdays "plans".

  • Nana Egyir Aggrey 10 years ago

    You have hit it right on the nail,-what do you expect if you have ignorant,arrogant college/university trained illiterates as leaders who have lived all their lives in the 'darkness' and have learned to speak white man's lan ...
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  • KAMA,U.S.A 10 years ago

    well said,intellectually lazy doing the same thing all the time but expecting a different result.

  • owukua 10 years ago

    talk is cheap! are u not intellectually lazy yourself? are u not a leader? what solutions are u recommending?

  • Speedy Gonzalez 10 years ago

    Dr.Kwabena Donkor,you in the best position to make things happen,you expect others to take the lead for you to follow despite your doctorate degree and current position.Infact you are the worst offender when it comes to intel ...
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  • xhlemiso 10 years ago

    What was the reason for the selection of this current President to lead the country? The man is not espousing any big or even small ideas about something he wants to do, for example, a plan for water treatment and modern sewa ...
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  • Nick Cincinnati 10 years ago

    This is the kind of people Ghana needs
    Thank u Doctor

  • azaa akonfem mahama is corrupt 10 years ago

    YOU SAID IT ALL,MOST CORRUPTS WOYOME MONEY,GYEEDA,TREES,OIL MONEY,AKONFEM CHOP CHOP,WOYOME CHOP FREE,EVEN MORE,HMMMMMMMMMMMMMM,MAHAMA IS CORRUPT PERIOD

  • Ekuma 10 years ago

    Not only lazy, but also very stupid and foolish. They have given our gold, cocoa, diamond, oil and TELECOM for cheap .

    Provided these stupid leaders get their share, like Kufuor had 3% for the EONS group in the Jubilee fie ...
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  • Joseph Lartey 10 years ago

    You are 100 percent right. We lack born leaders , such people always focus their attention on how to improve the lives of next generation not how to win vote.

  • Big Jay 10 years ago

    DR Kwabena Donkor,please write to your president, and discuss the issues in Parliament for Action plans to be put in place to mine the deposits and create jobs for the numerous employable but unemployed Ghanaians.
    You are pa ...
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  • ras 10 years ago

    It's true, but he is a leader too.

  • ekow dennis 10 years ago

    no school ghana leaders