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Mahama backs Nunoo-Mensah ‘rude’ attack on workers

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  • Joe lartey 10 years ago

    Statesman is npp paper ,who owns it,ah you better know ,akkufo addo.

  • Prez. Mahama should resign 10 years ago

    He cannot even function as an Advisor.

  • mensa 10 years ago

    THIS LOWLIFER SHULD SHOT UP AND LEAVE HIS OFFICE TOGETER WITH HIS BOSS MAHAMA THE LOSER THE BUSNISS AND JOBS KILLER THAT DESTROYING GHANA EVERY DAY HE IS IN OFFICE

  • MAHAMA IS A DAMN FOOL 10 years ago

    NO WONDER THAT THE USELESS AND BRAINLESS GONJA BOLE-BAMBOI IDIOT MAHAMA SIDES WITH THE UGLY GORILLA NUNOO.

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  • HON SHAMO 10 years ago

    WHAT DO YOU EXPECT FROM ATOPAHENE JOHN MAAMA? DO YOU THINK ANY GOOD THING CAN COME FROM IDIOTS? HAHAHAHAHA

  • OBAA YAA 10 years ago

    The problems of this country are not the handicaps of its limited natural resources. However, it is the class of idiots who parade themselves as leaders of the country. How could this fool be a head of national security? Well ...
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  • OLD SOLDIER 10 years ago

    Author:-Hon. Martin A.B.K. Amidu.

    ...The Government exercised the latter option when we disagreed over the judgment debt and other Gargantuan crimes. The Government, and my colleague Ministers at the time know that there w ...
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  • Kponyo 10 years ago

    The National Security Advisor to Kwame Nkrumahs Ghana is a self-confessed CIA agent. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha aha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha aha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ...
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  • GHFUO, change ur thinking 10 years ago

    U WANT OTHERS WITH NOTHING TO SACRIFICE? U HAVE ALL THE MONIES. WAT ARE U SACRIFICING? GFA WILL GIVE AA OVER $300GRAND DOLLARS AS BONUS. HOW MANY NURSES, TEACHERS CAN THIS MONEY SETTLE?

  • Stupidity 10 years ago

    John Dramani Mahama is a toak damn fool like his advisor, Nunoo Mensah. Cheats!!! Thieves!!!!!

  • Jake 10 years ago

    Who in his rightful mind implemented the salary scale knowing very well the Govt. cant pay. The coffers having been emptied by the NPP

  • abbey 10 years ago

    all these people call themselves leaders of this noble country pretending to sacrifice. where did he get the money to build the classroom. thieves in disguise

  • Nii Tsokor 10 years ago

    I do not see anywhere in the story where Mahama said he backs Nunoo-Mensah. This is a piece of rubbish journalism.Is this an NPP newspaper ?

  • CARDINAL 10 years ago

    How did these fools get apppointed? Now nobody in Ghana can complain of hardship without getting tongue lashing from these morons ruling the country.

    The other day it was the Energy Minister telling Ghanaians to turn their ...
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  • HON SHAMO 10 years ago

    ANY SENSIBLE PERSON IN NDC? JUST MENTION ONLY ONE.., NONE

  • Asante Kwame 10 years ago

    NPP AGYIMIFO PARTY

  • oba nyansani baako Pe in Ghana! 10 years ago

    If the president himself is a fool then what do you expect his ministers?
    Think carefully about this! NDC human animals, nation wreckers, idiots and incompetents.

  • Kponyo 10 years ago

    If, according to Nunoo-Mensah, his wife of all people is making the claim that he is crazy, why is the mentally retarded President backing him?

    It seems that Mahama is the only high profile public personality who has had t ...
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  • DOUBLE STANDARDS 10 years ago

    FROM A FAMILY OF BLACK PIGS!!!! SPEWING NONSENSE AND GARBAGE....I ACTUALLY FEEL SORRY FOR YOU!!! SKIN PAIN NPP ASSHOLE!!!!

  • Nicholas J Bedzo 10 years ago

    Nana Akomea semms tobe Stupit a very
    big one,not using his commonsenses,if
    child demands something from the Parent and they dont have,are you goimg to steal and give him? No matter
    of talking ( BRA BRA ) That solve the
    i ...
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  • Nicholas J Bedzo 10 years ago

    The truth shall make you free,if you
    want to hear more from him contact
    him.He is fed up,like Mohama.

  • OMANI YE DOM 10 years ago

    Listen to this toke bele. Nunoo Mensah, you are nyimpa gyengyan.
    Instead of finding a better way to diffuse the heat of the agitators,
    you are rather throwing in more
    inflammable materials. You are so stupid to be a leade ...
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  • Kwame-NYPD, USA 10 years ago

    I urge Ghanaian workers to be brave and stand for their rights, keep it up with your demonstrations and don't let this useless an visionless Mahama government and old freaky asswhole Nunoo Mensah to take you guys for granted. ...
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  • Ojam 10 years ago

    "Some worried sources close to the Presidency...." (greedy B.......")! These "informants" are the nation wreckers, they are the ones who manouvered to bring down Pres. Mills, they are now gearing up to join hands with NPP and ...
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  • blazy roll 10 years ago

    Mahama is to be overthrown by Ghanians, if he has really forgotten the hands that brought him into power.
    if he don't have anything to say he should shout up and stop stop backing this old craker

  • blazy roll 10 years ago

    Mahama has to be overthrown by Ghanians, if he has really forgotten the hands that brought him into power.
    if he don't have anything to say he should shout up and stop stop backing this old cracker

  • Mends, The Lone Ranger. 10 years ago

    Nunnoo Mensah is a retarded retired Brigadier General. And as for this stupid president the less said about him the better.

  • john ansah 10 years ago

    WILL INSULT CHANGE ANYTHING? HOW CAN YOU INSULT YOUR PRESIDENT LIKE THAT? IS THAT HOW YOU INSULT YOUR ELDERS WHEN THEY DO SOMETHING WRONG? ARE YOU PERFECT? SHAME ON YOU!

  • HMMMMM 10 years ago

    LETS SACK MAHAMA FROM OFFICE,HE HAS NO IDEA ABOUT LEADERSHIP LET ALONE THE GHANAIAN LEADERSHIP THEORY.

  • mensa 10 years ago

    GHANA PEOPLE DONT APPRICEATE YOUR SUPPORT OF A RUDE BIG MOUTH NUNOO THAT WAS NEVER ELECTED TO ANY JOB IN HIS LIFE AND HAVE THE NURVE TO VERBALLY ATTACK THEM AND CALL THEM FOOLS

  • Kodjo 10 years ago

    These NPP guys can't seem to get it into their thick skulls!! Like it or not YOU have Mahama for the next 3 years and if you continue with these infantile attacks instead of confronting him on the REAL issues affecting our co ...
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  • Kwame Addo 10 years ago

    The NLM/UP and current NPP are noted for using any means necessary to criticise or discredit the government. They criticised anything Dr Kwame Nkrumah did, including our Independence, Akosombo Dam, Tema Harbour, Tema Motorway ...
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  • Terrence 10 years ago

    It is Ewe people trying to make NPP look bad by falsely accusing them of influecing the strikes! If I am not paid for months, what should I do? If you could hire someone else, aren't going to pay him/her? So firing the strike ...
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  • Truth 10 years ago

    Well, Nunoo-Mensah was absolutely spot on. Why should he resign? For speaking the truth? Nation wreckers who fear the truth and want to take advantage of sometimes needless workers agitations must rethink again. Ghanaians are ...
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  • Seko 10 years ago

    Ghanaians are getting the class of governance the voted stole for. More will come and the desperations hightens

  • PLUMBER 10 years ago

    The President was sitting by General Nunoo Mensah when the remarks were made and was alledged to have applauded him for the remarks which showed that he was in agreement with what the General said. So what other assurance do ...
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  • Kwamena 10 years ago

    PLUMBER

  • Mebo afu 10 years ago

    You know when such Buffalo soldiers drink it is nonsenses that suffer. Npp was accused as behind the recent market fires in the country. Experts from USA were brought in to proof that, but the report never was. When he drink ...
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  • Nii Joromi 10 years ago

    The two men are birds of the same feather. Ghana has gone to the dogs. There is no class and dignity in leadership today.

  • Nana 10 years ago

    President Mahama should not listen to the people calling on him to move the loyal to him people in his office. They wish the President to be weak so that they can easily defeat him. Is the responsibility of the opposition par ...
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  • WORRIED Ghanaian Doctor Abroad 10 years ago

    The reason I left Ghana to practice medicine in the west was not because of money, although my pay now is more than 20 times what I used to get in Ghana. I left because I found myself being a slave in my own country to some f ...
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  • Truth 10 years ago

    Remain wherever you are. We are fine without you. Best luck

  • Mawuli 10 years ago

    My worried ghanaian dr. brother, as much as agree with you, I don't think brigadier Nunoo Mensah's frustrations should be brushed aside.
    How can an impoverished third world country such as ours afford to spend more 10% GDP o ...
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  • BAAFOUR TWUM AMPOFO 10 years ago

    JUST A LITTLE THOUGHT FOR MAHAMA AND THE CONTROVERSIAL RETIRED ARMY OFFICER. WHEN THE MAJORITY OF THE WORKING FORCE SAYS NO YOU NEED TO NEGOTIATE AND NOT PROLONG THE WHOLE SCENARIO, MUST WORK WITH THE WORKERS AS PRESIDENT

  • STEVE. 10 years ago

    If someone has to vacate his current position, I may suggest you leave Accra and go back to wherever you were before migrating to mix up with human beings, the bush.

  • Hazor 10 years ago

    Ghanaians let get wise.President Mahama said he is not a fool so we should stop calling him a fool,he is 100% correct no mistake about that.On the other hand president Mahama sees Ghanaians as fools cube.When he Mahama view u ...
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  • kofi Awutsey 10 years ago

    Akomea should keep quiet!! tell me how much u and ur npp have paid for those workers when u were in gov't and how many times u have increase their pay and with what percentage? hypocrite always hate the truth. this country ne ...
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  • Terrence 10 years ago

    dude there were no strikes during NPPs rule - nothing else matters! This is politic and NDC has failed since these thing happened on their clock! The same way if NDC invest in Black stars now, and Blacks stars win a world cup ...
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  • KORSHIE 10 years ago

    Its only fools and unpatriotic ghanaians who will NOT stand by Nunoo Mensah's comment. ALL wise and patriotic ghanaians fully support the security capo.

  • Kwesi 10 years ago

    Mr. Capo, I am surprise about your delusions and insults. You know what the CIA will never accuse any opposition member of masterminding a strike because in this country right here in America unions have the right to strike a ...
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  • Terrence 10 years ago

    if Mahama and NDC does not contain the current economic turmoil and allows it to slip out of hand resulting in a civil war, I'm heading straight to Volta region to massacre all Ewes...idiotic albinos!

  • Nobleman 10 years ago

    People like you are a disgrace to the nation! Why do you want to kill Ewes? Are you not ashamed of making such stupid and foolish statement? Brigadier Nunoo-Mensah, I believe, is a Ga, why not you instead kill the Gas? What h ...
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  • USMAN 10 years ago

    Birds of the same feathers.

  • pala 10 years ago

    the man said what should have been said

  • b Ball 10 years ago

    The SSS should go with increased productivity and efficiency and not strikes.

  • Yamo 10 years ago

    It does no one any good by putting forth insults. Ghana can be saved, progress made and living standards improved by words of encouragement, not in talking down to people. I know of no one who is against the utilities being ...
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  • David 10 years ago

    please stop using "agitate" in constructing sentences.

  • Hmm... 10 years ago

    Yes I back Mr. Nunoo, if you can't sacrifice for your dear nation, resign and get out of the country so that those who ready can take your place rather than laying down your tools refusing to go work. They should get out, the ...
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  • nana new york 10 years ago

    ARE YOU PATRIOTIC YOURSELF ? DO YOU RECEIVE YOUR SALARY ?WHY DO YOU FOOLS BLAME NPP FOR ALL YOUR INEFFICIENCIES ?

  • GHANA MAN 10 years ago

    We are being told time and again that the economy is doing great an dthe over subscribing to the Euro bond/s is clear testimony of a vibrant and investor confidence in the Ghanaian economy. When opposition laments abt the eco ...
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  • Kofi, Xavier 10 years ago

    Call it whatever you wish but the ordinary law abiding and conscientious Ghanaian totally agree with Nunoo Mensah. Enough of the political stupidity, indiscipline and unconstructive and negative attitude of some of our work f ...
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  • length... 10 years ago

    Dear country men, offlate iv thrown my support 2 d ndc government...bt matas of this nature shd b treated wf d best of seriousnes it deserves ....he declared it himself dat he is a CIA agent of america meanin he is a spy of a ...
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  • Sena 10 years ago

    Revolution in Ghana is as certain as Death. As to whether it will be Civil or military, Time will Tell. It is even Long over due. The day, the week, the month and the year will not end without it

  • YAA 10 years ago

    MAHAMA HAS NOTHING BETTER FOR GHANAIANS SO HE SHOULD LEAVE OFFICE. NUNOO-MENSAH IS ANOTHER NDC FOOL WHO TALKS RUBBISH LIKE ACHEAMPONG AND OTHERS.

  • J Ananga 10 years ago

    Kudos Mahama. Show steel in your dealings. What the capo has said is right. Back him. Government employees are a handful but want to consume every thing in the country. What about the rest of us? You workers have single spine ...
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  • Parker 10 years ago

    This is what we need discipline with moral values we lack these principles as a nation,the man is not a politician therefore not kissing anyone,s ass just like other politicians,full of lies and treachery, who is more insensi ...
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  • Whatever 10 years ago

    GUTTER JOURNALISM. When the president is sitting his somewhere, you go and link his name to someone's pronouncements to score cheap cheap political point. This is gutter journalism. The president through the ministry of infor ...
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  • 9years boy! 10 years ago

    the 9years old boy living in the USA was like ghana's president MAHAMA IS A FOOL.. hahahaha

  • AKASI MARTHA NZEMA 10 years ago

    KUFOUR BORROWED LOANS TO PAY WORKERS TO STOP THEIR STRIKE ACTION. THE LOAN THAT MAHAMA IS EXPECTING, IS IT FOR INDUSTRIES OR TO PAY FOR WORKERS AS FORMER PRESIDENT DID? FELLOW COUNTRY MEN/WOMEN, LET'S PRAY FOR OUR COUNTRY GHA ...
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  • Victor A. Young 10 years ago

    Woaa look na tie! Mahama was in the news promising new military, police and national security job training and security etc. He's made every promise there is to be made, yet things continue to fall apart for Ghanaian workers. ...
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  • goofy 10 years ago

    I said before Mahama can't do a fuck to this ass hole call nunoo this is a dark day in Ghana because we had a president who can act just watch what insane is this

  • ROKO 10 years ago

    GEN. NUNOO MENSAH IS A RESPECTED PERSON, HONEST AND COMMITTED GHANAIAN
    WHO CANT BE DESTROYED BY SUCH CHEAP NPP POLITICS. MAHAMA WILL NOT SACK THE GENERAL TODAY OR TOMORROW BECAUSE HE IS AN HONEST PERSON, UNLIKE THE NPP

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  • ' and Jesus wept ' 10 years ago

    Much as I don't like the government paying so much money-SSSS- to fund the system full of redundant employees ranging from the too many MPs in parliament and Ministers to the way, way too many civil employees in our ministrie ...
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  • BE BOLD 10 years ago

    General Nunuu himself is contributing to the destruction of the country by his silence over the grandiose scheme of the politicians to loot and share the resources of the nation among themselves. May I say he is a coward?

  • Selina 10 years ago

    With all the strange things going on in this gov't, I wonder which informed, sane person will vote for them again in 2016

  • Kambasi 10 years ago

    Is this a POLITICAL LAMGUAGE??? MR. ADVISOR??

  • bibi 10 years ago

    THE MERE FACT THAT THE GENERAL MADE THE UNWANTED REMARKS IN THE PRESENCE OF THE PRESIDENT ITSELF SUGGESTS THAT THE PRESIDENT OR SOMEONE CLOSE TO HIM WAS ACTUALLY PREVY TO THE COMMENTS BEFORE THEY WERE VOICED OUT IN PUBLIC SO ...
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  • Rawlings the MURDERER 10 years ago

    think b4 you talk even though you are helping yet Ghana is not for you.

  • Nii Bi 10 years ago

    because of our parochial partisanship we tend to see not beyound our noses.
    He bluntly said it all. It might seem expedient to hound govt. even in the face of the evident difficulties with raising cash to pay public sector ...
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  • Mankind 10 years ago

    Mahama can't sack some people in the government. Why? because they were the ones who destroyed Dr. "Di wo fie asem" to make him the president. He knows it, and they know it!!!

  • Nii Okai 10 years ago

    Akomea of NPP, please do not lie to the world and to the weak minded population and the selfish workers in Ghana, that what Nunoo Mensah is talking about is over the workers' salaries. The Brigadier-General asked the workers ...
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  • OKRO MOUTH 10 years ago

    Okai, you should rather come clean by submitting that you are a die-hard NDC supporter and that come rain or shine you will support this govt's actions and inactions. Other than that, why would you differentiate between worke ...
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  • OKRO MOUTH 10 years ago

    Okai, you should rather come clean by submitting that you are a die-hard NDC supporter and that come rain or shine you will support this govt's actions and inactions. Other than that, why would you differentiate between worke ...
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  • OKRO MOUTH 10 years ago

    Okai, you should rather come clean by submitting that you are a die-hard NDC supporter and that come rain or shine you will support this govt's actions and inactions. Other than that, why would you differentiate between worke ...
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  • OKRO MOUTH 10 years ago

    Okai, you should rather come clean by submitting that you are a die-hard NDC supporter and that come rain or shine you will support this govt's actions and inactions. Other than that, why would you differentiate between worke ...
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  • Meman Nti 10 years ago

    Mahama and Nunoo do you guys sacrifice for the nation? What do you expect works to do if you don't pay them? Are you not getting your salary as you're due? You should be ashamed thieves.

  • Meshack 10 years ago

    I have always opined that the NDC is a party of idiots, by idiots and for idiots...I have been vindicated.

  • Maame Gyata Afua Dansoa 10 years ago

    Like I said somewhere Ghana is for the rich. If you can't afford an 70% of electricity increase, live in the dark or move from Ghana.
    I say Mahama and Nunoo-Mensah should be driven out of Ghana. How much money have they stol ...
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  • THE TEXAN 10 years ago

    Two"IDIOTS"do nothing Mahama has found a "RE-CYCLED"failed local breed general, a seargent equivalency in Turkey turns to be the "DUMB MAHAMA'S top brain."TWO BLIND MICE"

  • Meman Nti 10 years ago

    How dare you to ask workers demanding what is due them to get out of the country,do you think Ghana belongs to you? or do you think we are still under dictatorship? You called them unpatriotic? Are you patriotic? Can you com ...
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  • Nana Beyuo Potuo - Jirapa 10 years ago

    Frustrated NPP are behind all these strikes

  • JAMES Y 10 years ago

    Everybody knows the old general was telling the truth; the NPP, knows it. That party is using organised labour to foment industrial strife in its quest, to gain political advantage over Mahama's administration.

    Their prede ...
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  • Fadi Ka Fuuta 10 years ago

    This colonial thinkers must give way to modern positive thinkers .If u have worked for the CIA and so what?

  • OKRO MOUTH 10 years ago

    and so it gives you the freedom to insult Ghanaians. And Nunoo must know that he is not the first Ghanaian to have built schools for communities.
    \There are so many such gestures that go unpublished and unannounced. Oh and ...
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  • Majele Gbeke Kofie Mawuko 10 years ago

    Its not surprising when you have an NDC man like Mahama in charge.

  • Abednego 10 years ago

    Ghanains got what they asked for; lesson one please.

  • AGYA 10 years ago

    MAHAMA, DONT FORGET WHERE YOU COME FROM.. OKAY??????????????
    NOW, YOU SUPPORT THIS MAN TO INSULT WORKERS OF THE WHOLE COUNTRY..
    WAYE ADEE PAPAAPA.

  • south 10 years ago

    2.5% of government works consuming 70% of a whole nations income. Does it not sound very nonsense? Ghanaians are very very lazy and yet they're still articling.

  • Taidu Mohammed 10 years ago

    Taidu Mohammad -from Afram pains-we should think about country and stop thinking about self interest.

  • Taidu Mohammed 10 years ago

    Gen.Nunoo is 100% right

  • kwadwo asare 10 years ago

    He is right but not insisted

  • yao 10 years ago

    they are crazy people

  • nifty 10 years ago

    Nunoo Mensah is 100% right

  • BENONY TONY AMEKUDZI, ESQ. 10 years ago

    DEAR H.E.PRESIDENT OF GHANA JOHN DRAMANI MAHAMA, NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR AND THE READING PUBLIC OF GHANAWEB.COM,

    THIS IS TO RESPECTFULLY REFER TO THE ABOVE RELATED SUBJECT-MATTER WHICH HAS GAINED CURRENCY NOW AND TO RESP ...
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  • Vicentia 10 years ago

    Lets all leave the general to stay at his advisory job forever and ever. He talks as if he is paying workers from his pocket. Where did he get the money? He stole it from the army and under Mills and Mahama. Let him leave for ...
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  • Abu-USA 10 years ago

    Mahama is a mad man

  • kofi sika 10 years ago

    i am a soldier and i known what i am saying there was a time that ghana navy secondi unit was having some dubar there we ask about our faded uniforms when to be changed this horrible man says we are lucky our uniforms are in ...
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  • BE BOLD 10 years ago

    "The time has come to save this nation. This country is dying. Those of us who have been around for a long time can see that; that is why I’ve launched a moral crusade."

    If this country is dying, has the general attempte ...
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  • BE BOLD 10 years ago

    "The time has come to save this nation. This country is dying. Those of us who have been around for a long time can see that; that is why I’ve launched a moral crusade."

    If this country is dying, has the General attempt ...
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  • boom 10 years ago

    Listen to the grey headed bafooooon. THIEVES.