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Drillship saga: Evidence prove US$3.5m was deposited in UK bank

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  • Jeff, UK 10 years ago

    Not just that. Was there any justification for the payment? You would wonder why some would accept $19million as against an initial demand of $40million. This guys didn't know what they were doing. I would guess it was all ab ...
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  • kusasi 10 years ago

    jeff, you right. look at what baako is telling as,tsatsu said it that no justification for the payment it also exposed their intentions

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  • OLD SOLDIER 10 years ago

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    OOO FATHER FORGIVE HIM FOR HE KNOWS NOT WHAT HE IS DOING.
    A hallmark of any incompetency is an excuse, which by the way is a trademark for Mahama’s Administration an extension Mill’s inability to ...
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  • Obournana 10 years ago

    Kweku Baako will always defend NPP crooks. He did not go to school so he does not know how to critically analyze issue. His critical thinking is lacking so he just look at the face value go according to his pay masters, the N ...
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  • Ben K 10 years ago

    The issuance of a banker's draft and transmission from bank to bank do not address the issue of what happened to the money. Where is the final resting place of the $3.5 million? Is the money still in the banking system? Pl ...
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  • Roy Rogers 10 years ago

    Akufo Addo should quickly come out if he has a case. People's impatience is growing too much.

  • NANA KUFUOR 10 years ago

    Some of you have eaten too much banku or fufu that you cannot think. First, this stomach journalist Kweku Baako said the cheque was paid into Chase Manhattan bank, next to Accountant Generals Department and then to Chris Kpo ...
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  • The Israelites 10 years ago

    Roy Rogers! Your impatience will grow till you get cardiac arrest. I am alright. Nana ia not corrupt. That is the truth!!!! The trith hurts... ha ha ha ha ha

  • The Israelites 10 years ago

    Roy Rogers! Your impatience will grow till you get cardiac arrest. I am alright. Nana is not corrupt. That is the truth!!!! The truth hurts... ha ha ha ha ha

  • seisek 10 years ago

    Jeff, Thank you so much. I wanted to know if there was any right for the account to be opened in the name of Emmanuel Bani. These are crooked means of denying Ghana and it's people their rightful issues. who can withdraw this ...
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  • BOB CAT ASD 10 years ago

    YES TSATSU,AS YOU INDICATED IN YOUR COMMENT IS REALLY SCAVENGER AS A DOG.HOW CAN YOU GAMBLE WITH GHANA´S PROPERTY.YOU PEOPLE MUST FACE FACTS THAN SAYING STUPID THINGS,YOU HAVE MADE THIS UGLY GUY SEEMS TO BE UNTOUCHABLE.ANY S ...
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  • Vodoo Xebieso 10 years ago

    Stark illiterate. Read again Jeff's post to get what he means.

  • DusTY-FooT-pHiloSophER 10 years ago

    No comment.

  • TEE 10 years ago

    SO NOW IS YOUR TURN, RAWLINGS MAHAMA AND 9 JUDGES. LET HEAR FROM YOU THIEVES, GOD WILL PUNISH YOU ALL FOR THE STATE COFFIN HAVE SPENT

  • Nicholas J Bedzo 10 years ago

    Empty publications has no meanings

  • kusasi 10 years ago

    what is wrong with you baako?let in investigations prove all this to us but not from your editorial chair

  • Repugnant. 10 years ago

    Baako is trying to preempt the sole commissioners mandate, why does he have all the evidence. The fool must be arrested, he has a listening device he uses to listen to other peoples phone conversations.

  • OLD SOLDIER 10 years ago

    Author: OYOKOBA...

    The truth must be told, anokware John Mahama cannot do the job.

    This guy came to the job offering no real vision for the nation, instead he only served up absolute nonsense - Ede be keke - which for s ...
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  • Respect 10 years ago

    I think Kwaku chop this drill ship money with them

  • OLD SOLDIER 10 years ago

    AUTHOR: MARTIN A.B.K. AMIDU....

    It would appear that those in control of the NDC, for the time being, were bent on excluding other bona fide members of the Party who may wish to lay democratic claims to who becomes the nex ...
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  • OKOE 10 years ago

    THE TRANSACTION WAS HANDLED BY MR .HAMMOND. WHY DID HE ALL THIS TIME SAY WHERE THE REMAINING MONEY WAS DEPOSITED. THE PUBLIC WOULD NOT BE SAYING WHAT THEY WERE SAYING IF THE FACTS WERE KNOWN FROM EITHER MR. DAPAAH OR MR. HAMM ...
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  • Chris 10 years ago

    Kweku,we can't believe you. Just scan all the documents and put them on the net.We know how to read.
    But why can't those involved produce the same document??
    I think that is why they appeard before the commission.

    .

  • KKK 10 years ago

    NEXT TIME WE WILL KNOW OF JDM DEALS

  • OLD SOLDIER 10 years ago

    When Kwaku Baako informed us about the atrocities of Kwesi Pratt during PNDC Regime, some of us did not believe until the truth was confirmed during the NRC. Kwesi Pratt is the most dangerous Journalist Ghana had ever have, h ...
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  • KING DAVID 10 years ago

    Yes you have published the evidence of the 3.5 million Banker's Draft,but let me ask you, (i) where is the money? (ii) how was the money spent? and (iii) who spent the said money?. I think you can published your answers in yo ...
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  • Koo 10 years ago

    Why was special account created for Only $3.5m? and when they finish chopping the money the closed the account.
    If Mr Baaku is claiming he has the evidence, he should just tell the whole world how the money was spent

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    Eiii Ghana woyomi 52 mill.

  • KOFI LAWER 10 years ago

    I suspect malik kweku baako knows the whereabouts of the cash. invite him to appear b4 the commission. he is always defending the indefensible.

  • Papa Yaw 10 years ago

    How

  • NII LARTEY NARTEY 10 years ago

    The drillship brouhaha is just another cheap NDC propaganda to distract the suffering masses of the country from important substantive social economic issues, the killer budget with huge unexplained deficit and gargantuan cri ...
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  • SAMMY 10 years ago

    Nkrumah was the only person to be trusted because he was incorruptible and he worked in the interest of Ghana and Ghanaians.
    As to the integrity of the others, your guess is as good as mine.

  • Stafford 10 years ago

    Our attitude towards others determines their attitude towards us and Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time. We should not be debt collectors for foreign companies just because of ...
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  • Bernard 10 years ago

    Unbelievable Kweku Baako cannot stop lying. This trash he put out here, is the work of an insider of Ghana International Bank, London and Ghana High Commission, London to throw dust into the eyes of unintelligent Ghanaians. ...
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  • Anokware 10 years ago

    WHAT DOES THIS MAN TAKE GHANANIANS FOR? ONE TIME THE MONEY WAS BROUGHT BACK TO GHANA AND PAID INTO CONSOLIDATED ACCOUNT, SECOND TIME IT WAS PAID INTO AN ACCOUNT IN NEW YORK, THIRD TIME IT WAS PAID INTO BARCLAYS BANK ACCOUNT ...
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  • Bagobila Busanga 10 years ago

    I guess it is the editor of the New Crusading Guide who is in possesion of the said papers. The relevant information needed is:
    a. The source of the US$3.5m?
    b. Who from the commission signed for the account opened?
    c. The ...
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  • Kokonte 10 years ago

    Why should state funds be deposited in a private individual's name?

    Are these people taking us for fools?

  • Roy Rogers 10 years ago

    So is the money in the account? if yes then fine, but if no, then who authorised its spending?

  • NiiBi 10 years ago

    In the much publicized interview mr. KT hammond said "I personally brought the cheque in a suit case to the president"

    Pls stop the PR work for these stinking politicians.

  • ADWOA DOMBOFO 10 years ago

    Is this the son of the venerable CPP's Kofi Baako?Your father lived and died for Ghana,never amassing wealth for himself.Why has his son so unashamedly sold his conscience to his paymasters and why for God's sake does Kweku B ...
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  • PROSPER 10 years ago

    The Judgement Debt Commissioner must invite Mr Chris Kpodo who was Ghana's Acting High Commissioner in London at the time to throw some light on the High Commission's handling of the balance of US$3.5 million. Although he is ...
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  • myles mawufemor 10 years ago

    dus Kwaku Baaku for u.if he doesn't do this 4 NPP, who will? and he call himself an astute seasoned journalist.God save journalism in Ghana. If the astute ones are like this, only heaven knows how the stupid ones are.He goes ...
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  • uhuru 10 years ago

    then we're's the money

  • uhuru 10 years ago

    Baako,in fact u r de most selfish journalis 've ever see. if u really luv ur country u'll stop this stomach politics nd tell de truth shame

  • JOJOO WILSON 10 years ago

    I think Mr Bani has to appear before the COmmissiontion to answer the following questions:1.whether approval was sought from the Controller and Accountant General's Department before the new account was opened 2.whether the H ...
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  • nii 10 years ago

    Kweku Bakoo, p;ease keep quite.

  • Senior citizen Bs. Germany 10 years ago

    This is not the first time Mr Kweku Baaku has put forward to discount the believe of some menbers of the public of accusing ministers of the estwhile Govt of NPP include Nana Akuffo Addo and the ex president ,Kuffour of malf ...
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  • nunana 10 years ago

    Kwaku Baako cannot give us any evidence because he has non...let Mr Kan Daapah and K.T.Hammond tell us...
    Kwaku Baako should know that K.T.Hammond informed the whole world that after he wind up in the UK he came to Ghana an ...
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  • JAGBELE 10 years ago

    kweku you are too good

  • Whatever 10 years ago

    According crusading Guide, the account that this $3.5mill was deposited into was in the high commissioner's name... Lord have mercy... PERSONAL ACCOUNT?

  • abbas, london 10 years ago

    kt hamond PR

  • me 10 years ago

    NDC, known national stealers, think that everybody is like them. Time will expose them and God will send them to where they belong.