Gov’t ‘poised to deliver’ in 2014

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Zoobie-Zoobie 10 years ago

nothing much will happen in 2014

nothing much will happen in 2014
MR OBJECTIVE 10 years ago

EVEN THE SAINT "mills(the dead president in mahama's 1st coup d'état)COULD NOT COMMAND 'manar' FROM HEAVEN;how much the EVIL-corrupt,mahama john.JOHN,president MAHAMA,excelent-corrupt,DRAMANI crowned his 2013 drained-chop-ch ...
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EVEN THE SAINT "mills(the dead president in mahama's 1st coup d'état)COULD NOT COMMAND 'manar' FROM HEAVEN;how much the EVIL-corrupt,mahama john.JOHN,president MAHAMA,excelent-corrupt,DRAMANI crowned his 2013 drained-chop-chop on his multi-chained family(including his dogs/cats/'nkomfém)to Dubai."sika-di-four","apoo-bo-ni"JOHN de president.
SGT ANANI FIADZOE 10 years ago

Kwakye Ofosu, the people of Ghana are not foolish as you think. We are not surprise corrupt and loot and share Mahama and his incompetent administration can tell the majority people of this nation Ghanaian people forgets iss ...
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Kwakye Ofosu, the people of Ghana are not foolish as you think. We are not surprise corrupt and loot and share Mahama and his incompetent administration can tell the majority people of this nation Ghanaian people forgets issues so soon, if that is not correct, who at all will think of drop even one single ballot paper into a box for NDC for an idiot cow like you to come and tell the civilized Ghanaian People your stupidity and empty promises.

Do you think we haven't heard all these your nonsense before?

Or is it a new stealing strategy you
are going to put on the head of Ghanaian People? Swine you.
Don Blunt 10 years ago

At the end of the year, Gov't will be poised to deliver in 2015

At the end of the year, Gov't will be poised to deliver in 2015
princewilly@ymail.com 10 years ago

A poor man was poaching Tilapia at a beach on New Years Eve. A game warden, his first day on the job, saw him and said: ‘I’m going to have to arrest you. Poaching is illegal.’ ‘I’m not poaching Tilapia,’ the man s ...
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A poor man was poaching Tilapia at a beach on New Years Eve. A game warden, his first day on the job, saw him and said: ‘I’m going to have to arrest you. Poaching is illegal.’ ‘I’m not poaching Tilapia,’ the man said. ‘These are my pets. I’m exercising them. I throw them into the sea, then whistle, and they come back.’ ‘Show me,’ the warden said in disbelief. The man threw the Tilapia into the water and started to walk away. ‘Wait!’ the warden shouted. ‘Don’t you have to whistle to call your Tilapia back?’ The man looked at the warden, paused, and said, ‘What Tilapia?’

THE YEAR HAS ENDED AND NOT A SINGLE GHANAIAN CORRUPT POLITICIAN HAVE GONE TO JAIL.
WILL WE BE IN THE SAME MESS AGAIN?
MISTER KOBINA 10 years ago

The police cannot police the police. It is a circus of who can bite the most of the pie - no time for the welfare of the public, prosecution of corrupt officials or serious judicial considerations. All investigations are poli ...
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The police cannot police the police. It is a circus of who can bite the most of the pie - no time for the welfare of the public, prosecution of corrupt officials or serious judicial considerations. All investigations are political and meaningless. The NPP did it, The NDC is doing it and ,in fact, the chief of the gang himself was targeted for investigation. How on earth would any sane mind expect any good prosecution out of anything ? It is a drumbeat of nonsense composed to lull the subtle Ghanaian minds. That one man committee to investigate or dig into political closets and a host of taxpayer-money-wasting frontal investigations tell it all. We have a long journey to travel in 2014.
KANAWU 10 years ago

ARE YOU GUYS TRYING TO PUNISH THE ASHANTIS?

ARE YOU GUYS TRYING TO PUNISH THE ASHANTIS?
KANAWUNUA.... 10 years ago

ARE YOU GUYS TRYING TO PUNISH THE ASHANTIS? Hell what do you expect we have been punished for much so long, the health insurance capitation,free education in the North and prohibited in the south,bad roads poor sanitation,rem ...
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ARE YOU GUYS TRYING TO PUNISH THE ASHANTIS? Hell what do you expect we have been punished for much so long, the health insurance capitation,free education in the North and prohibited in the south,bad roads poor sanitation,removal of free school feeding program from the city and numerous problems we could list.Let us be bold and hit the nail on the head.We need a federal system to create competition our everyday politics almost every Ashanti wants that but they have no courage to discuss.Freedom of speech is entrenched the constitution.Let us form associations to champion this cause,it is the only way out since some of our leaders are in bed with oppressors,we sat and watched the execution of Gen, A.A.Afrifa and others,how long should we wait?Action speaks better than words.Freedom now or never.
Paul 10 years ago

Mahama is a joke for appointing all these people as ministers. There is no personal qualities in this guy to convince me that something good will come from this government. REAL JOKERS.

Mahama is a joke for appointing all these people as ministers. There is no personal qualities in this guy to convince me that something good will come from this government. REAL JOKERS.
Pelicles 10 years ago

You make my day. I have said before that the NDC party is full of "truants". None of the so-called government appointees have any credibility. They have been in power for some years and still, they blame the opposition for t ...
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You make my day. I have said before that the NDC party is full of "truants". None of the so-called government appointees have any credibility. They have been in power for some years and still, they blame the opposition for their recklessness and abysmal performance. They think governing a nation is just to propagate lies. They do not have the men with the brains to put things together to spur the economy. 2014 will be worse than 2013.
DABI AS3M NTI 10 years ago

NPP are to blame.They messed up their adminstrative period and allowed another party to take over.Now they are crying over spilled milk.

NPP are to blame.They messed up their adminstrative period and allowed another party to take over.Now they are crying over spilled milk.
BUGA BUGA ATUGUBA 10 years ago

Owusu Kwakye stop the propaganda and admit that your president is corrupt and no brainer. He himself has admitted that there were challenges in 2013. The root cause of the challenges is inept and theoretical policies that do ...
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Owusu Kwakye stop the propaganda and admit that your president is corrupt and no brainer. He himself has admitted that there were challenges in 2013. The root cause of the challenges is inept and theoretical policies that do not reflect the realities of the Ghaian situation. You and your colleagues in the NDC have perfected the art of propaganda and deception. Enough of the propaganda. The do not solve problems but compound problems and the disenchantment of Ghanaians. Advise your president to go for a brain transfusion to strengthen his intellectual and moral capacities to confront the myriad corruption and socio-economic problems that have bedevilled his administration and the country.
BUGA BUGA ATUGUBA 10 years ago

Owusu Kwakye stop the propaganda and admit that your president is corrupt and no brainer. He himself has admitted that there were challenges in 2013. The root cause of the challenges is inept and theoretical policies that do ...
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Owusu Kwakye stop the propaganda and admit that your president is corrupt and no brainer. He himself has admitted that there were challenges in 2013. The root cause of the challenges is inept and theoretical policies that do not reflect the realities of the Ghaian situation. You and your colleagues in the NDC have perfected the art of propaganda and deception. Enough of the propaganda. The do not solve problems but compound problems and the disenchantment of Ghanaians. Advise your president to go for a brain transfusion to strengthen his intellectual and moral capacities to confront the myriad corruption and socio-economic problems that have bedevilled his administration and the country.
KANAWUNMAAME. 10 years ago

ONE DAY ONE GHANA WILL WAKE UP DIVIDED.

ONE DAY ONE GHANA WILL WAKE UP DIVIDED.
BY YOUR FRUITS......... 10 years ago

LOOK AT THE NOSE OF THE GUY WHO INSULTED NANA ADDO.WE THOUGHT YOU WERE GOING TO DO BETTER ,ARE YOU NOT SHAMED OF YOURSELVES?WHERE ARE THE JOBS CREATED BY THE PROF ACCORDING TO ABRAKWA,ONE MONKEY TO A BASTARD.

LOOK AT THE NOSE OF THE GUY WHO INSULTED NANA ADDO.WE THOUGHT YOU WERE GOING TO DO BETTER ,ARE YOU NOT SHAMED OF YOURSELVES?WHERE ARE THE JOBS CREATED BY THE PROF ACCORDING TO ABRAKWA,ONE MONKEY TO A BASTARD.
OBURONIBA FITAFITA 10 years ago

Ghanaian leaders are accustomed to delivering honey speeches laden with vain optimism and promises. What they lack is commitment to look down on the ground to trace where the footsteps they provide lead the nation.

It is i ...
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Ghanaian leaders are accustomed to delivering honey speeches laden with vain optimism and promises. What they lack is commitment to look down on the ground to trace where the footsteps they provide lead the nation.

It is indisputably clear that we are a failed nation by comparison to others.It is also factual that our appointed officials lack the vision and requisite knowledge to promote progress for the nation.

Ghana shall never restore itself out of these snags unless we strictly change our constitutional and governing behaviour, bring to justice politicians who stole billions of dollars from this country - some of whom own multiple homes and incredible numbers of expensive cars parked in their driveways. Go to Regimanuel Estates, Manet Court, Trassaco Estate : you will be shocked. There, you will see where your money goes. Past and present officials have bought expensive homes with multiple cars parked in their driveways- some with as many as six to twelve expensive cars. Thieves ! Where is the BNI ?

I quote some beautiful writing by a very good and devoted fighter for justice and progress in Ghana :

"Fellow Ghanaians,

We have heard these stories before. A few years ago we heard of the Police Hospital with no water and even 37 Military hospitals where a toilet leakage and overflow in the bathroom was not cleaned up for days and patients wading through in order to use the bathroom. We have heard of patients detained at some regional hospital for inability to pay. We have heard of dead bodies left with no markings at mortuaries. We have heard of electricity interruptions at Korle Bu and other hospitals where doctors in the middle of a surgery have had to use the light form their cell phones to complete a medical procedure.

For God’s sake, when are we all going to say enough of this disgrace!

It is time we cared enough about our nation to stand up and speak up! We need to have enough love for ourselves and others to call our MPs and Ministers and push for them to do the right thing by our people! We need to have courage enough, those of us who have had the opportunity to be in the same schools and Universities with these our colleagues, to call them to order. Ghana has suffered for far too long under the greed and selfishness of a few who took over the nation under the guise of a revolution. It’s been over 30 years and no meaningful change seems in sight enough to keep pace with human population growth. Ghana today is still rationing water and electricity despite our gold, mineral, cocoa and oil wealth, and there is no excuse! President after President promises and never delivers! Why did we fall behind in the supply of these basics when these leaders were cutting $50,000 for their personal vehicles and $30,000 for their housing and huge travel per diem and sitting allowances from the public purse!

Public service is public service and not a reward for political participation. No! The President must step up effort to reduce the estimated 70% of the public employees being on government payroll. The productivity is simply abysmal and not justified. Ghana imposes 45% to sometimes 200% duties and taxes on all imported goods including 12.5 to 15% Value added tax and 2.5% for health insurance. Of the estimated $13.5 Billion collected at the ports alone in 2012, the 2.5% would amount to $337.5 million! How much of this money is allocated to our hospitals to pay Doctors and Nurses and provide state of the art equipment, maintenance and cleanliness? Why do MPs and executive member of our government travel overseas for medical care if we in fact are collecting such amounts for our health care facilities? Should these legislators not be ashamed for acting like the Colonial masters? Collecting thousands of dollars allowances for attending meetings and conferences!

Every human being will die one day but good health care can prolong life. Most of the 100,000 estimated deaths due to malaria every year could perhaps be avoided if our leaders and Ministers cared enough. President Mills died in a mysterious manner part of which can be attributed to poor care during his last days. Our friend’s father perhaps passed through a similar phase of poor care.

Fellow Ghanaians, let us exercise courage to confront our elected and appointed officials besides the aggravating talk on Radio talk shows. Democracy works with citizenship participation. Our constitution is defective, giving all powers to the President for appointing all agency heads, regional, district, and town chief executives. Until that is changed the blame should be on the President, currently John D. Mahama. We should call the President’s office and his officials for needed change! If calls don’t go through people should have time to march to Parliament and to the offices of the Ministries and even the President to demand explanation for water and electricity rationing over the years and the unclean and poor service conditions of our hospitals, our roads and highways! Let us love our nation enough to stand up! Stand up and ask and demand change! If we do, there is no doubt our President and his Ministers and the MPs are human also, and will do something about the deteriorating human and infrastructural conditions of our nation.

Nobody knows what will change the hearts of our law makers to do the right things. The members of Ghana’s Parliament and the President of Ghana seek their personal interests, but in a democracy it is not the all-night prayers that changes politicians. Most of them who were mature enough and grew up in Ghana in the early to mid 1960s will remember the beautiful clean hospitals, the factories making products for our retail stores, the initial beginning or our Tema township, the Harbor, the Motorway, our beautiful high schools and premier Universities with the fish ponds and swilling pools. For God’s sake we can do better today! Let us call and push our leaders to provide a clean environment for human habitation eliminating the open gutters and environmental disasters such as Agbogbloshie, and provide our people with clean health care facilities and better and more human service with our own moneys!!

We are human like everybody else and we have seen the best around the world!

Yes, we can do the same!

Dr. Kwaku A. Danso

President, Ghana Leadership Union NGO and GLU global Forum"
Mustapha Dodze 10 years ago

I always drive by in Taxi through Manet Court and wonder how one person could own so many cars in his house while millions of Ghanaians are suffering till I was told the owner was a politician or some former ambassador. I sho ...
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I always drive by in Taxi through Manet Court and wonder how one person could own so many cars in his house while millions of Ghanaians are suffering till I was told the owner was a politician or some former ambassador. I shook my head and blamed the government for allowing this type of thing to continue.

It will be hard to convince many Ghanaians that these many cars were bought genuinely with his salary.
MISTER KOBINA 10 years ago

You envy him. Democracy my friend. You can do what you want. Go fight your own and shut up.

You envy him. Democracy my friend. You can do what you want. Go fight your own and shut up.
MISTER KOBINA 10 years ago

You blame NDC for all corruption. I learn he was a former ambassador appointed by Kufuor. So what is new ? Put him and all his NPP thieves in jail. Who cares ?

You blame NDC for all corruption. I learn he was a former ambassador appointed by Kufuor. So what is new ? Put him and all his NPP thieves in jail. Who cares ?
JANE AKPAFUL 10 years ago

Only in Ghana is it possible for past and present diplomatic personnel to own passports of other countries besides their own countries. Usually they do so to run away from justice whenever they are caught in attempt to escape ...
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Only in Ghana is it possible for past and present diplomatic personnel to own passports of other countries besides their own countries. Usually they do so to run away from justice whenever they are caught in attempt to escape the country. The question is how does that happen ? Is it not treasonable for a diplomat who has sworn to protect and uphold the laws of his country to secretly trade allegiance with other nation ? Past Deputy Ambvassadors and officials who owned British and other national Passports purposely to use when their diplomatic passpoerts were seized or surrendered must be investigated rigorously. How did they arrive at such citizenship, their background dealings that prompted such shifts, their involvements and acquisitions. Where is the BNI on these issues ? Ghana is tired of these corrupt officials who use our money mostly on ostentatious wealthy belongings like cars,huge homes and run to other nations under guise during investigation. Bring them to justice.
JOMO 10 years ago

I DON;T THINK PRESIDENT MAHAMA IS FAITHFUL CHRISTAIN TO HELP GHANAIANS,

I DON;T THINK PRESIDENT MAHAMA IS FAITHFUL CHRISTAIN TO HELP GHANAIANS,
Kwaku Yaw 10 years ago

Yes, he might be helpful if we minimized the insult

Yes, he might be helpful if we minimized the insult
Nana Kasa 10 years ago

They will do everything possible to drag the country backwards; particularly the useless sir john

They will do everything possible to drag the country backwards; particularly the useless sir john
AKONFEM JDM CORRUPT 10 years ago

GIRLS ARE CRYING,BOYS ARE TALKING,MAHAMA ANANSE GOVT,CORRUPT MAHAMA EVIL JUJU CRIMINALS,KILLED MILLS FOR POWER,HMMMM GOD WILL PUNISHED U ALL ONE BY ONE,PERIOD

GIRLS ARE CRYING,BOYS ARE TALKING,MAHAMA ANANSE GOVT,CORRUPT MAHAMA EVIL JUJU CRIMINALS,KILLED MILLS FOR POWER,HMMMM GOD WILL PUNISHED U ALL ONE BY ONE,PERIOD
sammy 10 years ago

you better work on social intervention programmes to benefit the masses especially those in rural areas instead of these things you talking about.

you better work on social intervention programmes to benefit the masses especially those in rural areas instead of these things you talking about.

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