Ghana’s Total Debt: BoG Governor contradicts Seth Terkper

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Kontopiaat 10 years ago

Time and again, many people have wondered about the competence of Seth Terkper who is not an economist but a commerce major. Who are we fooling, but ourselves.

Time and again, many people have wondered about the competence of Seth Terkper who is not an economist but a commerce major. Who are we fooling, but ourselves.
Bohyeba Kojo 10 years ago

How can we succeed as a nation when our leaders only use propaganda as their sock in trade instead of sound judgement and honesty?

How can we succeed as a nation when our leaders only use propaganda as their sock in trade instead of sound judgement and honesty?
Togbui 10 years ago

My fellow Ewes, please lets learn sense for once!!! Mahama does not govern!!! He enriches his family and tells us lies!!! PROPAGANDA IS NDC & MAHAMA IS FULL OF CORRUPTION. Just look at Aflao-Denu road. UNTIL WHEN?????

My fellow Ewes, please lets learn sense for once!!! Mahama does not govern!!! He enriches his family and tells us lies!!! PROPAGANDA IS NDC & MAHAMA IS FULL OF CORRUPTION. Just look at Aflao-Denu road. UNTIL WHEN?????
insight to the bone 10 years ago

and bring back npp, drugs, waawaa hotels & malls, and enough money for you to put a couple of gold chains around your neck!!!

and bring back npp, drugs, waawaa hotels & malls, and enough money for you to put a couple of gold chains around your neck!!!
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 ne ...
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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 next flag bearer of the Party by excluding them even before the mortal remains of the demised President were interred. It is also symptomatic of how political party elites in Ghana and Africa worm their way into the confidences of persons perceived as likely to ascend to power positions for purposes of eventual personal economic gain at the expense of the generality of the mass of Party members and the Nation which every President swears to serve under the Constitution...
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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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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, he had the gut to recommend his fellow journalists to be executed by PNDC. Pratt even recommended Baako to be killed by the regime, thank God Baako was instead touchered violently and severely but his life was spared. This is what Kwesi Pratt can do. Now Pratt is a secret agent to NDC and US Embassy in Ghana. May God forgive Pratt and spare him the untold evils that will come upon him and his generations. The souls of those journalist killed through Pratt's recommendations to PNDC will never forgive Pratt. Now Pratt has the guts to take Diplomatic Passport and smuggled his weak-headed children to work at the Ministries under Mills NDC, may God forgive Pratt and his dependance and spare them of the evils ahead of them...
KB 10 years ago

Both the Minister and the Governor are jokers. They dont just know what they are talking about. The minister is just a fool. He must resign.

Both the Minister and the Governor are jokers. They dont just know what they are talking about. The minister is just a fool. He must resign.
AKONOBA 10 years ago

If you have an Akonfem President this is what you get from the Akonfem appointees. More Vicky Mahamas in Mahama's govt.

If you have an Akonfem President this is what you get from the Akonfem appointees. More Vicky Mahamas in Mahama's govt.
AGYAAKU 10 years ago

STATESMAN surely might have noticed the key words "PROVISIONAL ESTIMATE" as presented by the minister in his presentation. This fact seems to have been lost on the STATESMAN so that someone could carry out the propaganda to c ...
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STATESMAN surely might have noticed the key words "PROVISIONAL ESTIMATE" as presented by the minister in his presentation. This fact seems to have been lost on the STATESMAN so that someone could carry out the propaganda to cast the figures into doubt.

Ghana´s growth will forever be stunted with such journalism leading in the formation of public opinion.

We surely have got a long way to go in this nation with this entrenched politicization of everything in this country.
JUSTICE LEADER 10 years ago

ANIMALS COUNTRY WITH ANIMALS LEADERSHIP

ANIMALS COUNTRY WITH ANIMALS LEADERSHIP
KOO 10 years ago

Hi brother EWE,
Do not rely solely on the Government for better Roads and rural developements. Some tribes in Ghana including the Kwahus do not rely on the government for the development of their communities. They use their ...
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Hi brother EWE,
Do not rely solely on the Government for better Roads and rural developements. Some tribes in Ghana including the Kwahus do not rely on the government for the development of their communities. They use their own acquired wealth/money to develop their rural areas including road building, schools buildings, hospitals and so on and so forth.I will mention some of these people to you... Mr Anim Addo, Ebenezer Agyako Saka of Abetifi Kwahu, Mr Kwame Nkrumah Kwahu and D.K. Nyarko of Obo Kwahu, Mr W.A. Wiafe Mpraeso just a few to mention. There are a lot of EWE rich peoples who can help you the EWES out. Some of these people includes Rawlings, the Tcikata Family, the Tekpes and I think you know them all. I am using you as a linguist if I may to delivering this message to our brothers EWES who hail from the volta region that we are all aware of the tricks even before you made mention of Mahama taking the EWES for a ride. You the EWE and for that matter volta region as a whole voted for Mahama to win the 2012 election with the notion that he will do whatever you ask him to do.You see he has fun full you people. Vote for someone who will grant free education for your children but not the one who will solidify the scholarship scheme to the northerners alone and vote money for the upkeep of NKONF3M. Excuse me to say "mo ahu mo kwasea a moaye????????" I wish he will responds to your cries.
THOMPSON 10 years ago

this people will wast time to debate about it for one mounth. this is not a big deal. it happened any where.

this people will wast time to debate about it for one mounth. this is not a big deal. it happened any where.
Kwaku Bonsu 10 years ago

STOP THE MISLEADING NONSENSE. THE TRUTH IS WHAT MATTERS. ARE CONDITIONS THE SAME IN GHANA AS IN US, UK, GER.
STOP THE PROPAGANDA NONSENSE.

STOP THE MISLEADING NONSENSE. THE TRUTH IS WHAT MATTERS. ARE CONDITIONS THE SAME IN GHANA AS IN US, UK, GER.
STOP THE PROPAGANDA NONSENSE.
Ada Boy 10 years ago

National debt and percentages change by the minute and it is absurd trying to castigate the two for giving slightly different figures.The FED (USA) and the OMB (USA)could have the same problems on numbers depending on methods ...
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National debt and percentages change by the minute and it is absurd trying to castigate the two for giving slightly different figures.The FED (USA) and the OMB (USA)could have the same problems on numbers depending on methods used to project the deficit.We are alarmist by nature,even when we dont understand!
SGT ANANI FIADZOE 10 years ago

Fellow country men and women, Nananom
if you continue to trust Dramani Mahama and his NDC bunch of criminals,
Ghana will never sustain any growth but would sink like a fleet of ships on high seas.

We are in this country, ...
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Fellow country men and women, Nananom
if you continue to trust Dramani Mahama and his NDC bunch of criminals,
Ghana will never sustain any growth but would sink like a fleet of ships on high seas.

We are in this country, Mahama helped
Alfred Agbesi Woyome to rob the people of this country an amount of $52 million dollars for free, $87 million dollars to GYEEDA, $47 million
dollars to Isofotone as judgement debts, fucking women MPs and offer them Deputy Ministerial Appointments,
how come his Lawyer Tony Lithur be
assigned to three democratic institutions? Oh! Ghana fo monhwe yiye oooo, about this corrupt Mahama
and his NDC crooks.

Today,Pensioners has to bribe their way out before their little pension
allowances are paid to them, how can
such an issue be happening in our country, fellow Ghanaian People. girls
have to be raped before be offered for
employment and girls at the age of 7
instead of going to school has to be
resorted to a prostitutional trade,
where is this country heading up to?

Our nation Ghana is now a hopeless State under Mahama NDC bunch of useless and idiot cows. How can a Bank belongs to the people of this nation be sold, NDC administration is
to destroyed but NPP is to build.

GHANA FO MONHWE YIYE OOOO, NDC IS NOT
A CREDIBLE POLITICAL PARTY SO THOSE IN
IT ARE NOT CREDIBLE POLITICIANS.
NII QUARTEY 10 years ago

FOOLS!! UNDERSTAND THE WORD "PROVISINAL"
READ AGAIN.

FOOLS!! UNDERSTAND THE WORD "PROVISINAL"
READ AGAIN.
Kobia Amenfi Oti Akenten 10 years ago

The Finance Minister should be a man who is a specialist or expert in the discipline of economics and not a pedestrian or peripheral economist.

The Finance Minister should be a man who is a specialist or expert in the discipline of economics and not a pedestrian or peripheral economist.
Ada Boy 10 years ago

What is your point?

What is your point?
Tokugawah 10 years ago

How on earth would they know. There has to be good efficient record keeping and what is it that Any government in Ghana does efficiently? Even state enterprises including SSNIT are known not to file accounts for at least 3 ye ...
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How on earth would they know. There has to be good efficient record keeping and what is it that Any government in Ghana does efficiently? Even state enterprises including SSNIT are known not to file accounts for at least 3 years contrary to the company laws in Ghana. They do not have proper records to determine the level of debt, it is all guess work. Why we think every senior position has to be occupied by a Ghanaian, God knows. The Governor of the Bank of England is Canadian, is it because there is no experienced person in the UK to do the job? New blood is often a good thing but NO not for us because we are very special and going nowhere very fast.
NAKED 10 years ago

Good one there at least I have seen a sensible person who can reason and think, first and foremost, what is education at all? In a country where I come from, they defined education as anyone who can read and write English lan ...
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Good one there at least I have seen a sensible person who can reason and think, first and foremost, what is education at all? In a country where I come from, they defined education as anyone who can read and write English language that is how they defined education in Ghana. A country where a lot of people look down upon those who can't speak and write English language do you think such country can develop no wonder Ghana is a country with good resources but the citizens are mentally weak unable to think and reason as well, they are still slaves to the so-called Europeans. They are still colonized mentally and physically but the reason is that they don't know that they are still under colonization. So in s nutshell that is how illiteracy is defined in Ghana. Then one may ask that how about the countries who are using their own language to study are they illiterates? a country like France, Germany, Japan, South Korea, Finland, Norway, China etc can we classify their education system as substandard because they are not using English language to teach in their institutions? Africans will always embraced everything from west and east without thinking deep and its side effect in the future and we hate our own things so tell me are we humans? We always lionize the oppressors and disowned ours and we called ourselves educational elites now listen to a proverb from Europeans to Africans “you can take a monkey from bush but you can't take bush from monkey" how are we going to interpret it? it's simple to Europeans, Africa is bush let's see how they describe Africa they use the word Sub-Saharan and the question is do we have sub-Europeans or sub-Asians or sub-Americans, etc look how they have cited Africa in a World map, Africa as a continent is always at the bottom of the World map, the question is why they didn't cite Europe, Asia, America and Australia at the bottom but only Africa think about it brothers and sisters, the proverb means an African a monkey can come to western or eastern country to study or do anything but because he/she is from Africa you can't take Africa mentality from him or her then the stereotype goes, they are less humans, they don't have food to eat, always fighting among themselves etc so why Africans shouldn't cling to their own and abandoned their stupid act but yet still Africans are upholding their language and their barbaric culture, 500 years we are still slaves so when are we going to emancipate ourselves as a people created by YHWH.
The time has come for Africans to come together as one people and put their difference away and unit as people it has been a long time in slavery and colonization. The time has come for Ghanaians to put away their difference and unit to develop their nation it has been a long time in slavery and colonization.
God of our fathers have mercy on us especially banana republic of Ghana. Ghana, Ghana a country with good resources I had wanted to gather my people under one canopy as hen gathered it chicks but my people have abandoned their wisdom through thinking and now following the way of westerners through their devilcracy which is called democracy so now my people cannot be able to manage their own affairs, my people do not appreciate things manufactured in their country, my people preach devilcracy and practice vices, my people preach patriotism but they are not patriotic, my people have lost their sense of judging and now we are in a doom state they can't differentiate good things from bad ones and now engulf with tribalism which has become a canker in the country through bogus so-called educational elites and stomachticians who called themselves as politicians to separate the people in other not to come together to fight against their evil planning. A voice calling from within shouting my people, my people come together to build your nation we were created in the same image not let this stomachticians separate you they are doing it for their own selfish gain so wise up, awake from your slumber, the day is far spent and the night is near so let's ignore all these tribalism stuffs and come together as one people because together we can build a better nation.
The only way Africans can develop is to use their own language to study and do everything and stop patronizing anything from east or west, a small country like Ghana we can’t develop it why? Because we have pseudo intellectuals who always claims that they are the best but in reality they are at the bottom of the pit, our education system is not good, our education system does not allow us to think inside and out outside the box so for Ghana to develop it needs critical thinkers and nature incliners who can put things together other than that it will take millions of years we will still be where we are. Anyone who wants to study Nature University can contact me wellsbrains2000@yahoo.com, whatspp 008613566124757 when you contact me tell me which my article that you are interested so we can discuss it deeply because I have presented numerous articles on this web
John Asankomah Quarshie 10 years ago

WE ARE FED UP WITH YOUR EVERYDAY BOOKISH ECONOMIC GROWTH .....WE WANT GROWTH IN REALITY.... INCOMPETENT GOVERNMENT.....GV US A BREAK.....

WE ARE FED UP WITH YOUR EVERYDAY BOOKISH ECONOMIC GROWTH .....WE WANT GROWTH IN REALITY.... INCOMPETENT GOVERNMENT.....GV US A BREAK.....
Patriot 10 years ago

And these two senior government officials happen to have been educated in the best schools in the world... What a crock of crap NDC is giving Ghana!!!

And these two senior government officials happen to have been educated in the best schools in the world... What a crock of crap NDC is giving Ghana!!!
Patriot 10 years ago

If you want to know the depth of Tekper's expertise find out from the Sakumono Presbyterian Church of Hope where he used to be a member of the financial committee under Rev. Odonkor.

If you want to know the depth of Tekper's expertise find out from the Sakumono Presbyterian Church of Hope where he used to be a member of the financial committee under Rev. Odonkor.
Ras Serious 10 years ago

De evil dat men do live with Dem.oboy Mahama y3 study

De evil dat men do live with Dem.oboy Mahama y3 study
Nana Ben 10 years ago

Incompetent economic managers:
1 Mr President
2 Minister of Finance
3 Governor of Bank of Ghana
4 Some of the Cabinet Ministers
5 Most of the Deputy Ministers
6 90% of NDC MPS only for yea yea

Unto Ghanaians incompet ...
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Incompetent economic managers:
1 Mr President
2 Minister of Finance
3 Governor of Bank of Ghana
4 Some of the Cabinet Ministers
5 Most of the Deputy Ministers
6 90% of NDC MPS only for yea yea

Unto Ghanaians incompetent economic managers have stolen our verdict hence what we see now.
Citizen 10 years ago

Missmanagement and corruption make up a high percentage of the national debts.

Missmanagement and corruption make up a high percentage of the national debts.
NAKED 10 years ago

Good one there at least I have seen a sensible person who can reason and think, first and foremost, what is education at all? In a country where I come from, they defined education as anyone who can read and write English lan ...
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Good one there at least I have seen a sensible person who can reason and think, first and foremost, what is education at all? In a country where I come from, they defined education as anyone who can read and write English language that is how they defined education in Ghana. A country where a lot of people look down upon those who can't speak and write English language do you think such country can develop no wonder Ghana is a country with good resources but the citizens are mentally weak unable to think and reason as well, they are still slaves to the so-called Europeans. They are still colonized mentally and physically but the reason is that they don't know that they are still under colonization. So in s nutshell that is how illiteracy is defined in Ghana. Then one may ask that how about the countries who are using their own language to study are they illiterates? a country like France, Germany, Japan, South Korea, Finland, Norway, China etc can we classify their education system as substandard because they are not using English language to teach in their institutions? Africans will always embraced everything from west and east without thinking deep and its side effect in the future and we hate our own things so tell me are we humans? We always lionize the oppressors and disowned ours and we called ourselves educational elites now listen to a proverb from Europeans to Africans “you can take a monkey from bush but you can't take bush from monkey" how are we going to interpret it? it's simple to Europeans, Africa is bush let's see how they describe Africa they use the word Sub-Saharan and the question is do we have sub-Europeans or sub-Asians or sub-Americans, etc look how they have cited Africa in a World map, Africa as a continent is always at the bottom of the World map, the question is why they didn't cite Europe, Asia, America and Australia at the bottom but only Africa think about it brothers and sisters, the proverb means an African a monkey can come to western or eastern country to study or do anything but because he/she is from Africa you can't take Africa mentality from him or her then the stereotype goes, they are less humans, they don't have food to eat, always fighting among themselves etc so why Africans shouldn't cling to their own and abandoned their stupid act but yet still Africans are upholding their language and their barbaric culture, 500 years we are still slaves so when are we going to emancipate ourselves as a people created by YHWH.
The time has come for Africans to come together as one people and put their difference away and unit as people it has been a long time in slavery and colonization. The time has come for Ghanaians to put away their difference and unit to develop their nation it has been a long time in slavery and colonization.
God of our fathers have mercy on us especially banana republic of Ghana. Ghana, Ghana a country with good resources I had wanted to gather my people under one canopy as hen gathered it chicks but my people have abandoned their wisdom through thinking and now following the way of westerners through their devilcracy which is called democracy so now my people cannot be able to manage their own affairs, my people do not appreciate things manufactured in their country, my people preach devilcracy and practice vices, my people preach patriotism but they are not patriotic, my people have lost their sense of judging and now we are in a doom state they can't differentiate good things from bad ones and now engulf with tribalism which has become a canker in the country through bogus so-called educational elites and stomachticians who called themselves as politicians to separate the people in other not to come together to fight against their evil planning. A voice calling from within shouting my people, my people come together to build your nation we were created in the same image not let this stomachticians separate you they are doing it for their own selfish gain so wise up, awake from your slumber, the day is far spent and the night is near so let's ignore all these tribalism stuffs and come together as one people because together we can build a better nation.
The only way Africans can develop is to use their own language to study and do everything and stop patronizing anything from east or west, a small country like Ghana we can’t develop it why? Because we have pseudo intellectuals who always claims that they are the best but in reality they are at the bottom of the pit, our education system is not good, our education system does not allow us to think inside and out outside the box so for Ghana to develop it needs critical thinkers and nature incliners who can put things together other than that it will take millions of years we will still be where we are. Anyone who wants to study Nature University can contact me wellsbrains2000@yahoo.com, whatspp 008613566124757 when you contact me tell me which my article that you are interested so we can discuss it deeply because I have presented numerous articles on this web
Ras Serious 10 years ago

De evil dat men do live with Dem.oboy Mahama y3 study na boys Abr3

De evil dat men do live with Dem.oboy Mahama y3 study na boys Abr3
Management 10 years ago

At least these two fools should make it a point to COORDINATE regularly for ACCURACY and UNIFORMITY of numbers before going out to tell the world.
What incompetence!

At least these two fools should make it a point to COORDINATE regularly for ACCURACY and UNIFORMITY of numbers before going out to tell the world.
What incompetence!
Koforidua Flowers (fr) 10 years ago

A USELESSS GOVERNMENT WHERE FIGURES HARDLY MEET.WHO IS WHO?? BoG GOVENOR OR FINANCE MINISTER.SIMPLE CALCULATIONS, PLEASE CALL ON DR BAWUMIA FOR ENLIGHTMEN ON FIGURES CONSTRUCTION AND CALCULATIONS.GROSS INCOMPETENCE AND FINANC ...
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A USELESSS GOVERNMENT WHERE FIGURES HARDLY MEET.WHO IS WHO?? BoG GOVENOR OR FINANCE MINISTER.SIMPLE CALCULATIONS, PLEASE CALL ON DR BAWUMIA FOR ENLIGHTMEN ON FIGURES CONSTRUCTION AND CALCULATIONS.GROSS INCOMPETENCE AND FINANCIAL ASSASSINATION IN THE COUNTRY.
Management 10 years ago

FOOL, how is Bawumia better?
Are they not all the same stupid book Ph Ds?
How is Bawumia more enlightened than Tekper or Wampah?
IDIOT, love your country, not your stomach.
Wsa Bawumia not once in charge of the Bank of G ...
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FOOL, how is Bawumia better?
Are they not all the same stupid book Ph Ds?
How is Bawumia more enlightened than Tekper or Wampah?
IDIOT, love your country, not your stomach.
Wsa Bawumia not once in charge of the Bank of Ghana?
How reliable were our statistics during his time?
SHAKAMORA 10 years ago

nkwaseafuo 3bu oman ndc

nkwaseafuo 3bu oman ndc
Owusu 10 years ago

Either way nothing happens. If the debt is $1 Billion or $200 Billion, no one will do anything about it and no one is held responsible. Things slugs on as usual

Either way nothing happens. If the debt is $1 Billion or $200 Billion, no one will do anything about it and no one is held responsible. Things slugs on as usual
Meshack 10 years ago

Kutu Acheampong's government portrayed more intelligence and wisdom than these idiots and someone wants me to waste my time and energy praying for an ignoramus and an idiot who has no clue how to run a country. Ghanaians have ...
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Kutu Acheampong's government portrayed more intelligence and wisdom than these idiots and someone wants me to waste my time and energy praying for an ignoramus and an idiot who has no clue how to run a country. Ghanaians have not seen anything yet...
KUTRIKU 10 years ago

HOW DO U EXPECT ANYBODY IN THIS GOV'T TO TELL THE TRUTH WHEN THE MOST CORRUPT PERSON IN THE COUNTRY IS THE PRESIDENT WHO LEADS THE GOV'T? LIES, INCOMPETENCE AND CORRUPTION GALORE. AFTER BRIBING ATUGUBA FOR THE PRESIDENCY NO U ...
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HOW DO U EXPECT ANYBODY IN THIS GOV'T TO TELL THE TRUTH WHEN THE MOST CORRUPT PERSON IN THE COUNTRY IS THE PRESIDENT WHO LEADS THE GOV'T? LIES, INCOMPETENCE AND CORRUPTION GALORE. AFTER BRIBING ATUGUBA FOR THE PRESIDENCY NO USEFUL THING ELSE
Otsibu Darko 10 years ago

Hey, Guys, stop the quarrelling and name-calling, you should have realiaelzed by now that this is the age of "electronic and digital thievery and robbery" pretty soon the difference will be in one of them's account in oversea ...
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Hey, Guys, stop the quarrelling and name-calling, you should have realiaelzed by now that this is the age of "electronic and digital thievery and robbery" pretty soon the difference will be in one of them's account in overseas and in 2 years time one of them will be a multi-millionaire, sadly, you and I will be the culprits to pay for their enjoyment and happiness;note also that since independence no one knows the exact total of Ghana's domestic and international debt, that's why 90%of Ghana's population is poor, if you don,t believe, look at our hospitlas and schools, yet the politicians send their children to school overseas, when they are ill/sick they go to overseas for treatment, what about you and me, any wonder why we die so young these days? Tell me where did JJ Rawlings get all the money to educate his children overseas, so brothers let's stop 'fighting', let's find a means to make Ghana a better place for us all- the power lies with we the down trodden citizens, Thank You All!
ROMEO 10 years ago

EI.. A HUGE BOMB IS ON THE WAY COMING

EI.. A HUGE BOMB IS ON THE WAY COMING
ROMEO 10 years ago

GHANA IS DOOMED

GHANA IS DOOMED

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