GNPC 24 million dollar drillship skeleton found

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Joe Black 10 years ago

Not again

Not again
HASSAN RASTA GERMANY 10 years ago

SO UPON ALL THIS CORRUPTIONS THAT NPP STILL WANT TO COME TO POWER AGAIN? THAT MEANS THEY ARE GOING TO SELL THE WHOLE NATION BACK TO THE BRITISH TO COLONIZE US AGAIN. SEND ALL OF THEM TO PRISON, WE NEED SOME ANSWERS NOW!!!!

SO UPON ALL THIS CORRUPTIONS THAT NPP STILL WANT TO COME TO POWER AGAIN? THAT MEANS THEY ARE GOING TO SELL THE WHOLE NATION BACK TO THE BRITISH TO COLONIZE US AGAIN. SEND ALL OF THEM TO PRISON, WE NEED SOME ANSWERS NOW!!!!
HASSAN RASTA GERMANY 10 years ago

THEY KNOW NOTHING MORE THAN MONEY, MONEY AND MONEY. EVEN THOUGH IT WILL TAKE A LIFE FOR MONEY NPP WILL PAY. NOW VOTE FOR THEM 2016 TO COME AND HELP SELL OUR NATION WITH ITS RESOURCES BACK TO THE WESTERNERS. THESE GREEDY PEOPL ...
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THEY KNOW NOTHING MORE THAN MONEY, MONEY AND MONEY. EVEN THOUGH IT WILL TAKE A LIFE FOR MONEY NPP WILL PAY. NOW VOTE FOR THEM 2016 TO COME AND HELP SELL OUR NATION WITH ITS RESOURCES BACK TO THE WESTERNERS. THESE GREEDY PEOPLE. THEY WILL ROT IN OPPOSITION. AMMEEEEENNN!!
Corrupt Justice 10 years ago

If the west is not good for you, why are you in Germany. Fake Burgar you.

If the west is not good for you, why are you in Germany. Fake Burgar you.
POP 10 years ago

IN NANA ADDO HOUSE

IN NANA ADDO HOUSE
Krikri,, 10 years ago

You are a disgrace to the presidency. If I were you I will never speak in public again

You are a disgrace to the presidency. If I were you I will never speak in public again
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moyo 10 years ago

The law should deal with anyone found culpable. These people were ruining the country as their private business

The law should deal with anyone found culpable. These people were ruining the country as their private business
Ada Boy 10 years ago

My humble heart bleds for my country.We have monkeys at the helm of the nation who dont even have the faintest comprehension of what they are signing on.Ghana is losing billions of dollars through lack of due dilligence on th ...
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My humble heart bleds for my country.We have monkeys at the helm of the nation who dont even have the faintest comprehension of what they are signing on.Ghana is losing billions of dollars through lack of due dilligence on the part of government. This is an embarrassment,quite frankly.
Vuvuzela 10 years ago

So, how could a debt of $47 million be negotiated to anything below 20 million, let alone 10 million? I am at a loss. Seriously speaking, something weird must have happened in the background. This affair beats imagination.

So, how could a debt of $47 million be negotiated to anything below 20 million, let alone 10 million? I am at a loss. Seriously speaking, something weird must have happened in the background. This affair beats imagination.
Don Blunt 10 years ago

The so called letter to Kufuor is "too sweet to be true". Just read over that portion again. Why should Kan Dapaah inform Kufuor about the Positions of KT Hammond and Gloria Akuffo, and especially using the words: "... Mr. K ...
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The so called letter to Kufuor is "too sweet to be true". Just read over that portion again. Why should Kan Dapaah inform Kufuor about the Positions of KT Hammond and Gloria Akuffo, and especially using the words: "... Mr. K.T Hammond, who was designated as 'Minister of Energy Designate', Dr. G.A. Agambila, Deputy Minister of Finance and Ms. Gloria Akuffo, then a Deputy Minister of Justice."
NYG 10 years ago

Lets stop all these fabrications and allow the Commission to d it's work without all these spectacles.

Lets stop all these fabrications and allow the Commission to d it's work without all these spectacles.
MP 10 years ago

ONLY IN GHANA!!!

ONLY IN GHANA!!!
GHANAVIA 10 years ago

Pedophile Stan Dogbey, why are you not commenting on the unlawful and dirty derivative business of Tsatsu Tsikata resulting in a loss of more than US$40 million to the state which caused the sale of the drill ship to defray t ...
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Pedophile Stan Dogbey, why are you not commenting on the unlawful and dirty derivative business of Tsatsu Tsikata resulting in a loss of more than US$40 million to the state which caused the sale of the drill ship to defray the debt?
Are you Dogbey being stupid or it is a deliberate attention diversion from the cause?
Abeeku Mensah 10 years ago

You seem to be stuck on foolish. Stop drinking the kool-aid from the NPP play book and start using your head.
Societe Generale knew there are fools in Ghana led by fools in the presidential office and in parliament and havi ...
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You seem to be stuck on foolish. Stop drinking the kool-aid from the NPP play book and start using your head.
Societe Generale knew there are fools in Ghana led by fools in the presidential office and in parliament and having known through their embassy in Ghana that Ghanaians are used to bribery and corruption they tried to stick Ghana with a claim. I could give a damn who caused the financial loss. Tsikata could have caused financial loss to Ghana if that is what you and the parrots in NPP want to sing. The problem is that Tsikata and his crew defended the claim in two courts and beat Societe Generale. Their third bite at the apple was ongoing in the UK when Kufour and the NPP took over. Do you think people in the US courts do not know better or equal to those in the UK courts? Societe Generale knew that sooner or later someone in Ghana would take a bite laced with side kick funds and at last Kufour's men took it. Kufour and his attorney general then sent Tsikata to jail to keep fools quite because someone, Tsikata, has been punished for the phantom loss.
For a whole lot of fools to sit in Ghana and accept the claim by Societe Generale that they do not have documents on this issue because it’s been 10+ years is to know why Ghanaians are simple minded. Societe Generael has records that go back to the time of its formation, who was instrumental in the organization but clowns in Ghana who have something to hide wants to accept the bull shit coming from Societe Generale, K.T. Hammond and others in the NPP who had a piece of over US$5 million that cannot be accounted for or explained away. It is about time most in the NPP and NDC grew some brains and stopped this nonsense of one thief being better than another thief from the opposing political party.
YB 10 years ago

You are very gullible to buy the story of this rented press. This is clearly an attempt at equalization but I assure you it won't work. In any case, if anybody in the NPP mismanaged Ghana's resources, why is the NDC govt not ...
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You are very gullible to buy the story of this rented press. This is clearly an attempt at equalization but I assure you it won't work. In any case, if anybody in the NPP mismanaged Ghana's resources, why is the NDC govt not acting? And where is your sense off proportion when Ghana has lost so much through GYEEDA, LESDEP, Akomfem, Woyome, Waterville, Isofotone, etc? Use you brain for once and stop supporting the greedy bastards to loot your motherland. If Ghana develops, your colleague fool soldiers may stop chasing after public toilets.
Efe Jburg 10 years ago

Who is this invincible author? can this skeleton really drill crude or palm kennel?

Who is this invincible author? can this skeleton really drill crude or palm kennel?
sulamana 10 years ago

IF THE DRILLSHIP WAS NOT SOLD TO SETTLE THE DEBT, THEN WHY WAS IT SOLD AND WHERE IS THE SALE MONEY? WE NEED TO GET TO THE BOTTOM OF ALL THIS MESS FROM TSATSU TO KAN-DAPAAH - KT HAMMOND!!!

IF THE DRILLSHIP WAS NOT SOLD TO SETTLE THE DEBT, THEN WHY WAS IT SOLD AND WHERE IS THE SALE MONEY? WE NEED TO GET TO THE BOTTOM OF ALL THIS MESS FROM TSATSU TO KAN-DAPAAH - KT HAMMOND!!!
kpata 10 years ago

Mr. Tsikata has nothing doing with the sale

Mr. Tsikata has nothing doing with the sale
fine boy 10 years ago

where is sharp teeth ablawkwah, he's gone very quite.
we need more judgment debt from him

where is sharp teeth ablawkwah, he's gone very quite.
we need more judgment debt from him
PAT 10 years ago

What has this got to do with Ablakwah

What has this got to do with Ablakwah
Corrupt Justice 10 years ago

What a conjectured write up from a discredited newspaper.

What a conjectured write up from a discredited newspaper.
Albert 10 years ago

Thieves will always claims facts to be doctored stories. And this Ken dapaah man was PAC committee chairman.Unbelieveable!

Thieves will always claims facts to be doctored stories. And this Ken dapaah man was PAC committee chairman.Unbelieveable!
Say the TRUTH 10 years ago

IF YOU SEE AN INTERNAL MEMO ON A SUGGETED OR OUR OFFER RANGE OF OFFER IN A NEGOTIATION WITH A THIRD PARTY CREDITOR --- DOES THAT MEAN THAT WAS THE FINAL AMOUNT AGREED UPON????

HOW CAN THESE RENTED NDC NEWSPAPERS BE SO SO S ...
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IF YOU SEE AN INTERNAL MEMO ON A SUGGETED OR OUR OFFER RANGE OF OFFER IN A NEGOTIATION WITH A THIRD PARTY CREDITOR --- DOES THAT MEAN THAT WAS THE FINAL AMOUNT AGREED UPON????

HOW CAN THESE RENTED NDC NEWSPAPERS BE SO SO STUPITY WITH THEIR MODE OF CRITICAL THINKING!!!!!!

NO WONDER THEY ALWAYS PUSH THIS NDC GOVERNMENT TO GO TO COURT TO LOOSE CASES.
KOO 10 years ago

The Herald and Informer come up with sensational topics only to write nonsense thereafter.

The Herald and Informer come up with sensational topics only to write nonsense thereafter.
APOLLO T 10 years ago

THE DIFFERENCE FROM 43M$ TO 47M$ IS INTEREST ACCRUED.FOOLISH! GO FOR THE MONEY THAT JUDGEMENT HAVE BEEN GIVEN..THEY CREATED,LOOTED AND SHARE.THAT ONE IS CERTAIN.

THE DIFFERENCE FROM 43M$ TO 47M$ IS INTEREST ACCRUED.FOOLISH! GO FOR THE MONEY THAT JUDGEMENT HAVE BEEN GIVEN..THEY CREATED,LOOTED AND SHARE.THAT ONE IS CERTAIN.
KOBLA ZEGO 10 years ago

KUDOS NPP. WITH THE YIELD FROM THE DRILL SHIP, NPP CAN CONTEST E,LECTIONS IN GHANA FOR THE NEXT TWENTY YEARS. THANKS FOR THE LOOTING FORESIGHT.

KUDOS NPP. WITH THE YIELD FROM THE DRILL SHIP, NPP CAN CONTEST E,LECTIONS IN GHANA FOR THE NEXT TWENTY YEARS. THANKS FOR THE LOOTING FORESIGHT.
STAPH-PHILADELPHIA 10 years ago

Those shouting doctored, propagander, gutter paper etc. Let the ones being purpoted to have written such memos or letters go to court and sue the Herald and stop the nonsense! The facts are coming out clearly but you are bent ...
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Those shouting doctored, propagander, gutter paper etc. Let the ones being purpoted to have written such memos or letters go to court and sue the Herald and stop the nonsense! The facts are coming out clearly but you are bent on refusing to accept what as been found. If you guys don't know, that is an excellent display of investigative journalism.
Remember, the article talks about 'see attached', that is where the bomb itself is. Why quickly jail Tsatsu then when he could have also easily negotiated for probably a lesser than $10 million? The answer is simple; to pave way for the rot (kickbacks)that is now haunting all those in the circle. Greedy and selfish beings who call themselves leaders.
james brown 10 years ago

show as the copy of the document

show as the copy of the document
sey 10 years ago

Where is K.T. Hammond,he always use this words "kankan ne proye"since ndc came to power,I want him to use this words again.

Where is K.T. Hammond,he always use this words "kankan ne proye"since ndc came to power,I want him to use this words again.
Corrupt Justice 10 years ago

If the west is not good to you, why are you in Germany?

If the west is not good to you, why are you in Germany?
Kwame Addo 10 years ago

If Kwaku Baako and his Crusading Guide could publish fake documents/evidence to tell Ghanaians that K.T. Hammond paid $19.5 million to SG and if it turned out to be fake, National Media Commission should banned this newspaper ...
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If Kwaku Baako and his Crusading Guide could publish fake documents/evidence to tell Ghanaians that K.T. Hammond paid $19.5 million to SG and if it turned out to be fake, National Media Commission should banned this newspaper outright. Kwaku Baako and Kwesi Pratt have made themselves the yardstick to measure the intelligence of 24 million Ghanaians and want to dictate for us what's good and bad. It's high time they shut up and stop telling us what they don't know.
NPP doesn't have any good plan for Ghanaians and we saw how corrupt JA Kufour government was. They are now telling NDC of being corrupt while they are rather corrupt. At the end of the day, the future generation will be the witness.
Osofo 10 years ago

This is poor reporting. Please show us the document so that we can review it ourselves.

This is poor reporting. Please show us the document so that we can review it ourselves.
NAA4U 10 years ago

ASIDE ALL POLITICAL CONNOTATIONS, IF THIS STORY IS TRUE, IT IS VERY SAD THAT PEOPLE OF SUCH CALIBRE ARE ENGAGED IN SUCH ROT. IT IS SURPRISING HOW KUFOUR IS NAMED IN ALL ROTTEN DEALS. TSATSU WAS JAILED ON GNPC ISSUES. WHAT WI ...
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ASIDE ALL POLITICAL CONNOTATIONS, IF THIS STORY IS TRUE, IT IS VERY SAD THAT PEOPLE OF SUCH CALIBRE ARE ENGAGED IN SUCH ROT. IT IS SURPRISING HOW KUFOUR IS NAMED IN ALL ROTTEN DEALS. TSATSU WAS JAILED ON GNPC ISSUES. WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THOSE CITED IN THIS ARTICLE?
Bomfaboy 10 years ago

This piece of junkmis full of contradictions. Who is the Herald trying to fool? Why can't you wait till Kan Dapaah and KT Hammond speak fort themselves ? A piece of junk indeed.!

The facts are indisputable: 1. That GNPC u ...
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This piece of junkmis full of contradictions. Who is the Herald trying to fool? Why can't you wait till Kan Dapaah and KT Hammond speak fort themselves ? A piece of junk indeed.!

The facts are indisputable: 1. That GNPC under Tsikata went into a hedging agreement with SG . 2. That the Drill Ship was used as collateral. 3 . That the deal fell through and GNPC under Tsatsu had incurred a debt of 40M Dollars plus an accrued interest of $7M. 4. That there was a court process initiated. 5. That the Kuffour government decided to restructure and make GNPC go back it's core function and to mitigate it's loses. 6. That this saga was taken out of court and negotiated. 7. That they managed to beat the debt down from $47M to $19.5M, and $1M legal fees. SG knows they were paid. Now the question that must be asked are, 1. Why was the hedging needed? 2. Why did Tsatsu mortgage the Drill Ship? 3. Why was KT Hammond the one to lead the negotiation? 4. Where is the remaining $3.5M?
mr Tina 10 years ago

Kufour face alone shows how evil he can be.

Kufour face alone shows how evil he can be.
Afua Howard 10 years ago

is that all NDC has on the NPP? You mean only this ship issue? what about the millions of dollar you NDC can not account for? even Woyome alone.
OH GHANA

is that all NDC has on the NPP? You mean only this ship issue? what about the millions of dollar you NDC can not account for? even Woyome alone.
OH GHANA
Justman 10 years ago

MINISTERS PUT IN POSITIONS OF TRUST MUST REMEMBER TO WORK WELL.EVERY LABORER PLAY UR PART VERY WELL. PEOPLE KNOW THEY ARE THE CAUSE OF OUR ECONOMIC WOES BUT THEY SEEK TO DIVERT ATTENTION FOR EVERYBODY TO BELIEVE THAT AN INNCE ...
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MINISTERS PUT IN POSITIONS OF TRUST MUST REMEMBER TO WORK WELL.EVERY LABORER PLAY UR PART VERY WELL. PEOPLE KNOW THEY ARE THE CAUSE OF OUR ECONOMIC WOES BUT THEY SEEK TO DIVERT ATTENTION FOR EVERYBODY TO BELIEVE THAT AN INNCENT PERSON ELEECTED YESTERDAY IS THE CAUSE OF OUR HARDSHIP
PROPAGANDA 10 years ago

"I still want to believe that there is scope to negotiate for a figure between $5 and $10 million. In this connection I propose that a team comprising the following is set up to negotiate with Mr. Mends tomorrow : ........... ...
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"I still want to believe that there is scope to negotiate for a figure between $5 and $10 million. In this connection I propose that a team comprising the following is set up to negotiate with Mr. Mends tomorrow : ............ "the committee's FINAL OFFER would be cleared with Your Excellency before a deal is struck with Societe Generale".
So which part of the memo says that the final offer was $10 million and not $19.5 million???
Is the Editor of the " Herald" an illiterate in need of free education ? IT APPEARS SO !!!
kj 10 years ago

I see no skeletons in this article. You're just trying to make a mountain out of a pile of sand. So what if KT Hammond said they negotiated in July and the final sale was in August. You're only talking about a few days or wee ...
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I see no skeletons in this article. You're just trying to make a mountain out of a pile of sand. So what if KT Hammond said they negotiated in July and the final sale was in August. You're only talking about a few days or weeks for completion of a multimillion dollar transaction. The money was paid off in sections because Ghana can't pay its bills. Nothing new there..Apart from the nurses and teachers, I hear MP Alidu owes the waakye seller 4,000. The people you want to question are all ready and waiting. Meanwhile just collect all the Woyome Cedis.
Aj USA 10 years ago

Put NPP and NDC a side this is our money, let us find the truth about this one, and put the Corrupt one's in jail.

Put NPP and NDC a side this is our money, let us find the truth about this one, and put the Corrupt one's in jail.
Whatever 10 years ago

caused by fortuitous Greed

caused by fortuitous Greed
Yaw Adu-Asare 10 years ago

I have stated several times on this website that Kan-Dapaah knows more than he is letting out.

Kan-Dapaah acted as the lead dog in the Kufuor administration who attacked Tsatsu Tsikata's actions in connedtion with the tran ...
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I have stated several times on this website that Kan-Dapaah knows more than he is letting out.

Kan-Dapaah acted as the lead dog in the Kufuor administration who attacked Tsatsu Tsikata's actions in connedtion with the transaction involving the drill ship D511.

Kan-Dapaah's attack was meant to throw sand in the eyes of Ghanaians while the proceeds from sale of the ship disappeared.

We need to dig deeper until we find out what happened to the proceeds from the sale of the drill ship.

Who is more corrupt Kufuor & Co or the NDC guys.
OWEN, NEW YORK 10 years ago

Did Nana Akufo Addo pocketed some of the sales money as Kobby Acheampong was claimed some few days ago? I know Nana Addo will never take any bribe nor stoop so low to corruption in his life.

Did Nana Akufo Addo pocketed some of the sales money as Kobby Acheampong was claimed some few days ago? I know Nana Addo will never take any bribe nor stoop so low to corruption in his life.

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