Ghana among newest arms buyers from Russia – Report

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  • RAW 11 years ago

    NOW THAT GHANA IS TURNING INTO A COUNTRY OF ''EVERYMAN 4 HIMSELF'', THE COMMON MAN MUST BE BATTLE READY. I WILL GET MINE TOO.

  • insight to the bone 11 years ago

    jj and all these foolish criminal ndc politicians again are trying to create a diversion and throw smoke screens in our eyes on the issue of corruption . our corruption is a different kind especially when is rooted in some mi ...
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  • Asonaba 11 years ago

    INSIGHT,I am extremely disappointed in your take of this issue.If you are going to allow unresolved tribal issues to cloud your judgment on vital issues such as national security then you must relinquish the name INSIGHT.Ther ...
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  • insight to the bone 11 years ago

    i doubt the authenticity of this story mainly because pepeni is too incompetent to even organize that talk less of the motive of waging war against his own citizens or the Akans. the ndc lives in many follies and fantasies so ...
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  • Branaboy 11 years ago

    Ghana's Russian arms purchases have primarily centered around the purchase of Mil 171 transport helicopters. The Ghana Armed Forces started purchasing these tried and tested machines during the Kuffuor regime. The Mills NDC g ...
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  • GHANABA 11 years ago

    sometimes you talk a lot of sense,but on this one you have failed miserably.Lambasting Nkrumah for nothing.Nkrumah"s party was the most representative of Ghana.

  • KUMASI TRUTH 11 years ago

    NDC AT IT AGAIN...SMH

  • KMAN 11 years ago

    THE PEOPLE NEED JOBS!

  • ROB 11 years ago

    When your anus is being poked with the barrel of a shotgun and armed robbers are molesting your wife and daughter with their gun barrels and you called the police and they said they don't have enough weapons, that is when you ...
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  • Asembebadabi,Tema 11 years ago

    These are security matters ignorant Ishmail. Take your diabolic hands from this issue you nation wrecker.

  • Aketekyie 11 years ago

    Ghana has the capacity to produce its own arms including nuclear war heads, torpedo, aparche missiles, tank propeller missiles... Recently Apostle Kwadwo Safo had his own version of such... i believe the defence council can h ...
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  • Frank Agyena-Karikari 11 years ago

    HAHAHA. WHEN WE ALWAYS HAVE BAD LEADERS AND EVEN HAVE TO IMPORT TOOTH PICK?

  • Aketekyie 11 years ago

    but you can trust me i have a stockpile of defence ammunitions just for the hooligans, Americans, NPP, British and Boko Haram..... its underground...

  • Frank Agyena-Karikari 11 years ago

    Well, we need a strong defense but we also have to know we are BROKE and should know how to handle issues

  • jake 11 years ago

    Hey Karikari, you don't usually talk any sense, not yesterday, day before e.t.c always trawling this site itching for a fight, what changed? The Ogogolo has not started working yet?

  • Abongo 11 years ago

    And so what

  • Aketekyie 11 years ago

    NPP are dead.... now the gov't have stockpiles of weapon to dismantle them... now joke and you will see missiles in your ass.....

  • TEE 11 years ago

    REALLY IN MY LIVE TIME I HAVE NEVER HEARD A NEWS ABOUT GHANA BUYING ARMS BEFORE. THIS IS THE FIRST TIME EVER. WHAT ARE WE USING THESE ARMS FOR AND TO WHOM ARE WE GOING TO FIGHT, I NEED AN ANSWER FROM WHOM IS CONCERNED. SECOND ...
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  • TEE 11 years ago

    WHOM ARE WE GOING TO GING, WHILES OUR CHILDREN ARE DYING FROM FAKE MEDICINE FROM INDIA, NO SCHOOL, ELECTRICITY, WATER, NO BENEFIT FOR OUR OLD PEOPLE AND USING OUR RESOURCE MONEY BUYINY ARMS FOR DECORATION IN MAHAMA SITTING RO ...
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  • Nyamekye 11 years ago

    I believe you are confused about the duties of a free economy government. National security is the sole responsibility of the government while the manufacturing and distribution of consumer services and products originate fro ...
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  • jake 11 years ago

    Well put, unfortunately TEE has very limited if any education. He can still set a school though. TEE is among those who can not think for themselves and by extension have no reasoning mind of their own.

  • Danso 11 years ago

    Look to your West and listen to what the war monger Outtarra has been saying about Ghana on their national media since he was installed.His obvious envy and threats are accompanied by his disputing Ghana's,ownership of our oi ...
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  • EKOW 11 years ago

    SOME GHANAIANS LIKE @TEE, ARE WASTING SPACE N GHANA'S RESOURCES

  • Owusu 11 years ago

    Tee, if you don't know the benefits of properly equipping our security services then you and your family don't deserve the peace and national security you take for granted.

  • AMPUKYEKYE 11 years ago

    I GUESS THE MALIANS FELT THE SAME WAY AND REFUSED TO PREPARE TO PROTECT THEIR NATIONAL SOVEREIGNTY TILL THE TERRORISTS SHOWED UP AT THEIR DOOR STEP.

  • Sethoo 11 years ago

    Ghana can never be the second largest arms buyer from Russia,do we have money?Read the article again please.

  • ROB 11 years ago

    If Ghana were the 2nd largest arms buyer from Russia, every Ghanaian man over would have 2 or 3 AK47s in his bedroom. In fact it would make Afghanistan look peaceful when compared.

  • Analyst 11 years ago

    Dear Tee, even though you have not heard Ghana buying arms before, I am sure you have at least seen Ghanaian soldiers or policemen holding guns before - these guns were bought.
    Let me also explain to you that the "second" th ...
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  • Ya Na 11 years ago

    not Arms. Its the 10% Commission going to Mahama and his cronies that is fuleing Ghana's arms purchases. Its health and education that should be a priority not arms!

  • NAKED 11 years ago

    Thanks my brother for your understanding and insight, is my prayer that God should help you to achieve your dreams. Although the road to success is crooked but we will succeed even Heaven knows that, if it took Alexander the ...
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  • AK47 IS MY FUCKING ADDRESS 11 years ago

    IVORY COAST TRYING TO CLAIM GHANA OIL AND GAS THEREFORE WE NEED QUALITY WEAPON FROM BRITAIN AND THE U.S. A TO DEFEND OUR TERRITORY.

  • Who wants that weed smoker as a Prez? 11 years ago

    Abua bah

  • Who wants that weed smoker as a Prez? 11 years ago

    Hahahahaah

  • Baaba 11 years ago

    Idiot, Go and wipe yourself from the surface of the earth

  • Amadu 11 years ago

    Why are you wasting your time on this dithering idiot whom for all we know may even be a foreign saboteur.

  • abuzzo 11 years ago

    WHY IS GHANA BUYS USLESS RUSSION WEPONRY? WHY IS OUR GOVRENMENT SO STUPID TO SPEND SO MUCH MONEY ON ARMS
    RATHER THEN BUILD ROADS ,HOSPITALS AND SCHOOLS ,WHERE IS THE PRIORETY? WHO IS IN CHARGE OF GHANA TODAY?IS TOGO TRYING ...
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  • Sethoo 11 years ago

    You are an illiterate go to school China,India,South Africa,Brazil,Egypt and even the UN are all buying arms from Russia.

  • abuzzo 11 years ago

    and we are not under any danger from any attack of the countrys around us and just becuse the world is buying from russia we dont have to be followers we can be leaders instead

  • abuzzo 11 years ago

    and we are not under any danger from any attack of the countrys around us and just becuse the world is buying from russia we dont have to be followers we can be leaders instead

  • abuzzo 11 years ago

    and we are not under any danger from any attack of the countrys around us and just becuse the world is buying from russia we dont have to be followers we can be leaders instead

  • Open 11 years ago

    You don't even know English and you want to insult. Go back to P6 before you are able to contribute on this platform

  • EKOW 11 years ago

    THINK TWICE

  • Ojahkroweb 11 years ago

    Brazilian Embraer troop transport planes
    Spanish military helicopters

  • Kobby 11 years ago

    Every nation protects its borders with arms.
    Anyhow, Akwei read yourself well. 'Ghana has been added to Russia's growing list of arms customers'
    How does this statement make Ghana one of the biggest arms buyers from Russia? ...
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  • Lord Tennison 11 years ago

    Please Mr ,Afari-Gyan/Atubuga, President we need you to confirm or deny this publication.The pen is mightier than the sword.Why are you buying arms when our children go to school under trees and the school leavers are unemplo ...
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  • KRETZ - D 11 years ago

    Do we really need arms at this time when our economy is in it's rotten state? What's wrong with our leaders? Instead of the government to reform our education, health, manufacturing, agriculture etc they are thinking of buyin ...
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  • KALAQ-KUWA 11 years ago

    DON'T BELIEVE EVERYTHING THESE JOURNALIST SAY.THEY LIE AND COULD BE OVER SENSATIONAL. THERE ARE MANY ISSUES GHANAIANS DO NOT KNOW ABOUT THE MILITARY AND GHANA. IT IS ON RECORD THAT GHANA HAS THE LEAST MILITARY SPENDING IN THE ...
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  • Hear it Clear 11 years ago

    The government should think about how to provide jobs for the people of Ghana rather than the notion of aquiring arms from Russians who are seeking their economic and plitical interest. It is only leaders who are ignorant wil ...
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  • Hear it Clear 11 years ago

    The government should think about how to provide jobs for the people of Ghana rather than the notion of aquiring arms from Russians who are seeking for their own economic and political interest. It is only leaders who are ign ...
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  • RAY 11 years ago

    Why ARMS and not JOBS,we should think about the people who elected you into office rather than protecting you and your cabinet.Arms don't create Jobs, Arms KILLS the people you want to rule

  • CONTEMNOR 11 years ago

    GREAT NEWS, WE NEED POWERFUL ARMS TO FLUSH OUT THE BOKO HARAMIANS FROM YOU KNOW WHERE, WHEN THE NEW ROBUST ACO LAW INITIATED BY THE GREAT DR. KOFI ABREFA BUSIA TAKES EFFECT IN EARLY 2015. NO PLACE TO HIDE FOR THE 419 SCAMMERS ...
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  • braveman 11 years ago

    africans purchase arms they may use to kill themself or create war.

  • wise 11 years ago

    i wonder stupid some african countries are, you buy arms only to use to yourself what then they also buy from you. africa leaders think.

  • Agyeman 11 years ago

    This is just sensational journalism by a fake newsman.Ghana doesn't have the spending power to even crack the top ten of Russian arms buyers.The headline gives the wrong impression and the only sentence to support that claim ...
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  • Ewe pride 11 years ago

    True dat.Hard to believe these liars posing as journalists with stories that don't add up.

  • Baffour 11 years ago

    This make-belief heresy should be taken with a pinch of salt until the writer provides the internet link to the source of his information. We can then make our own judgment on the matter. Gone are the days when spoilers conco ...
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  • Ewe pride 11 years ago

    You're right.Its a suspicious half baked story.

  • Hazor 11 years ago

    President Mahama has instruct the police to arrest all local guns manufacturals and jail the years in prison and rot with their technologies and waste billions of dollars to import arms into the country here we have the knowl ...
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  • Nat 11 years ago

    I am afraid that our country has more on its plate to deal with than thinking about arms from no other place but Russia. Libya, Iraq and Syria are a testimony of buying inferior Russian arms. Africa does not need arms. Africa ...
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  • USMAN 11 years ago

    Mahama is failing because he has surrounded himself with academicians. Eg Prof Jane Naana Opoku Agyeman, Dr Raymond Atuguba, Dr Apaak, Dr Tony Aidoo, Nana Oye Lithur, Veep Amissah Arthur etc. Mahama will fail like Prof Busia, ...
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  • BRO DAN- TRC 11 years ago

    DIGNIFIEDPEOPLE OF THE NATIONS OF THE WORLD, LIKE THE GREAT NATION OF -BRAZIL- WHICH GATHERS -HUMANITY- ON HER SOIL FOR -JOY- IN THE STEAD F TEARS, MAY I DECLARE WHO THE GREAT NATION OF -RUSSIA- TRUELY IS. BLESSED ONES, -RUSS ...
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  • YOU AND I 11 years ago

    WE COULD'T MAKE THE LIST WITH JUST 2 AK-47S

  • asase ba 11 years ago

    How can a country with such poor infrastructure and lack of food afford weapons?

  • Wofa Koo 11 years ago

    Russia has realized Ghana is another foolish country to make easy money. If semi-educated Chinese are able to invade the nations doctorates and government mind in taking over the nations rich farm lands for illegal mining why ...
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  • HABLUTA SENYO 11 years ago

    READY FOR NPP NONSENSE