Poverty and illiteracy, our biggest challenge – Asamoah Boateng

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kofi 10 years ago

this is exactly what ndc loves so much about their voters so that they cant criticize them when they create loot and share whilst poverty is rampaging the north,volta and central regions which are their stronghold......they w ...
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this is exactly what ndc loves so much about their voters so that they cant criticize them when they create loot and share whilst poverty is rampaging the north,volta and central regions which are their stronghold......they want to keep us poor and illiterate in order to pay fake judgement debts, subah gyeeda, etc etc......we are dead in their hands bcos even their strongholds are not questioning their thievery......ide biii keke
Cecil 10 years ago

Look at you.....NDC loved dat, right??? Sit there and let politicians use you.....Kwasia ooen your mind and eyes

Look at you.....NDC loved dat, right??? Sit there and let politicians use you.....Kwasia ooen your mind and eyes
kofi 10 years ago

just reason and ask urself the common sense in overspending by 8.7 billion ghc in 2012 only to render ghana poorer this 2014 so that john mahama could win elections....kwasiaaaaaaa....

just reason and ask urself the common sense in overspending by 8.7 billion ghc in 2012 only to render ghana poorer this 2014 so that john mahama could win elections....kwasiaaaaaaa....
Cecil 10 years ago

See who is talking???? Anoda disgraceful crook who asked the poor to go and eat kokonte and drink gutter water.....Ewuradi yesu

See who is talking???? Anoda disgraceful crook who asked the poor to go and eat kokonte and drink gutter water.....Ewuradi yesu
Ataburu 10 years ago

I billy you, now that you are tasting the bitter part of hell, that is why you and people like fock ,dan and co ,are seeing the light. We were eating acheke and drinking minerals at trechvelli, youcpogon and Marcory in Abidja ...
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I billy you, now that you are tasting the bitter part of hell, that is why you and people like fock ,dan and co ,are seeing the light. We were eating acheke and drinking minerals at trechvelli, youcpogon and Marcory in Abidjan , praticing tækwando together, when you became a minister, you told capt Duah and some of us to book appointment before we can have audience with you,
This world is a small place, were is your prety eyes lady, i hope she would not change her mind. On the way up a mountain, be nice to friends, because you will meet the same friends on your way down. Read more bible , and get wisdom Amen!
Ali 10 years ago

It does not mean that you can speak English at the radio stations, you are literate. He is half literate and that is far more dangerous than some one who is illiterate.

It does not mean that you can speak English at the radio stations, you are literate. He is half literate and that is far more dangerous than some one who is illiterate.
ABU 10 years ago

I wish he has changed to be a genuine politician today rather than the politicians we know only verbally bringing out the best in them whilst in opposition.

I wish he has changed to be a genuine politician today rather than the politicians we know only verbally bringing out the best in them whilst in opposition.
KANE 10 years ago

HERE'S ASABEE WHO WENT ON A LOOTING BINGE AS A MINISTER UNDER CROOK KUFUOR.

NOW ASABEE IS PREACHING VIRTUE WHILE HE PRACTICED VICE WHEN HE HAD THE CHANCE TO ERADICATE POVERTY AND ILLITERACY IN GHANA.

WONDERS, THEY SAY, ...
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HERE'S ASABEE WHO WENT ON A LOOTING BINGE AS A MINISTER UNDER CROOK KUFUOR.

NOW ASABEE IS PREACHING VIRTUE WHILE HE PRACTICED VICE WHEN HE HAD THE CHANCE TO ERADICATE POVERTY AND ILLITERACY IN GHANA.

WONDERS, THEY SAY, SHALL NEVER CEASE.
ME 10 years ago

Hit the nail on the HEAD

Hit the nail on the HEAD
Frank Agyena-Karikari 10 years ago

Asabee should just keep quiet because he was part of the problem. What did you do to help the poor when you were a minister? Just stupid display of arrogance. Do you remember when people complained of hardship, you told them ...
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Asabee should just keep quiet because he was part of the problem. What did you do to help the poor when you were a minister? Just stupid display of arrogance. Do you remember when people complained of hardship, you told them to eat Mango and Kokonte, not realizing that Kokonte is the traditional foo of some tribes in Ghana. Do you remember you were also involved in some fraudulent contracts.
KANE 10 years ago

INDEED, GHANA HAS A LOT TO THANK NKRUMAH FOR.

JESUS! WHAT WOULD GHANA BE LIKE TODAY IF WE HADN'T HAVE DR NKRUMAH OF BLESSED MEMORY?

THIS IS A QUESTION EVERY SENSIBLE GHANAIAN SHOULD ASK HIMSELF OR HERSELF.

INDEED, GHANA HAS A LOT TO THANK NKRUMAH FOR.

JESUS! WHAT WOULD GHANA BE LIKE TODAY IF WE HADN'T HAVE DR NKRUMAH OF BLESSED MEMORY?

THIS IS A QUESTION EVERY SENSIBLE GHANAIAN SHOULD ASK HIMSELF OR HERSELF.
kofi. mozano 10 years ago

Very insightful. I can't imagine with these bunch of law makers running the affairs of this nation if Nkrumah had not sacrificed.

Very insightful. I can't imagine with these bunch of law makers running the affairs of this nation if Nkrumah had not sacrificed.
Kataweri 10 years ago

I wish and hope that the other politicians will learn from this wonderful contribution.Well done

I wish and hope that the other politicians will learn from this wonderful contribution.Well done
Paul Amuna 10 years ago

What a hypocrite. This is a politician who came from a very poor background and succeeded because of the huge sacrifices his mother made to educate him, found himself in the UK 'hustling', then eventually came back to Ghana a ...
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What a hypocrite. This is a politician who came from a very poor background and succeeded because of the huge sacrifices his mother made to educate him, found himself in the UK 'hustling', then eventually came back to Ghana as a "politician". Sadly NOTHING he did as a politician reflected this rather sombre and passionate plea for us to focus on the POOR and ILLITERACY.

If anything, Asamoah boateng the politician carried himself about as if he was himself from a rich home and his extreme arrogance, penchant for explatives and rather crude insulting behaviour was there for all to see. He abadandoned his constituents to seek his own personal political and financial interests, becoming very lavish in his own spending.

Is Asabee just waking up to 'smell the coffee of poverty and illiteracy' in our country? I thought he was one of those who believed he was "self-made" and who believed everyone had to fight their way through life and not expect government or others to transform their lives!!! I thought his was borne out of his love for capitalism and the 'good life' as a mark of his own 'apparent success'.

The fact that his own constituents rejected him says it all,that this man has not learned anything. To me personally his statements run hollow and are downright hypocritical, however true what he is saying here is. I still recall his arrogance when he came to visit 'Ghanaian Diasporians' in London sometime in 2001 as "presidential spokesman". After keeping the crowd waiting for more than 3 hours to make his appearance and without the curtesy even to apologise, he started to throw his weight about, in front of some very well experienced and much older folks who were in the crowd and when they gently tried to point out to him his ignorance, he seemed to take offence and didn't much enjoy the attempts by some to remind him of his own familiarity with the crowd when people started to address him as "ASABEE".

If among your own peers you take objection to simple familiarity, how can you even feel for the poor? Some of us have consistently argued that what Ghana needs are selfless, serious, honest politicians of integrity to put our nation and all of our collective interests above anything partisan or otherwise and to work together for a 'better Ghana' (my own choice of words, not the governments so-called Better Ghana Agenda). I very much doubt if Asamoah Boateng truly understands what he is saying here himself because his life, attitude and stewardship do not bear any resemblance to anyone who truly has the poor and need "illiterates' of our system at heart.

I sincerely hope I am wrong and thathe has truly been 'converted', after all Saul saw the light and became Paul on the road to Damascus. Miracles do happen and might well do to Asabee but I very much doubt it. You can call me a skeptic if you will, but this is based on evidence of Boateng's own track record which is in the public domain.
Johnny USA 10 years ago

was he the one from jail .

was he the one from jail .
Jeff, UK 10 years ago

He is right. The filth and all that would disappear if you have people who understand what filth can do to mankind. Poverty should not stop you from keeping a clean environment though

He is right. The filth and all that would disappear if you have people who understand what filth can do to mankind. Poverty should not stop you from keeping a clean environment though
Osei Yao 10 years ago

To many illiterate graduates in this country.He foolishly cited Germany as his example of proper education. He forgot to tell his readers that in Germany anyone who could not read the German Language is illiterate. How many o ...
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To many illiterate graduates in this country.He foolishly cited Germany as his example of proper education. He forgot to tell his readers that in Germany anyone who could not read the German Language is illiterate. How many of the so-called "educated'" Ghanaians can read and write their own language. As long as we read books written by foreigners in their language to "educate" our children, we cannot develop. .
Yaw 10 years ago

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Agbee 10 years ago

Hon. Asamoah Boateng is become a seasoned kind of politician we need in Ghana. and as he put it the failure of one government affects all of us.

Hon. Asamoah Boateng is become a seasoned kind of politician we need in Ghana. and as he put it the failure of one government affects all of us.
Boateng 10 years ago

We always hear about the problems. We all know what the problems are.

What are the solutions? How are you able to resolve the problems of poverty and illiteracy?

By the way, how do you keep the educated employed and ...
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We always hear about the problems. We all know what the problems are.

What are the solutions? How are you able to resolve the problems of poverty and illiteracy?

By the way, how do you keep the educated employed and inside the country? That is the big problem.
Jojo 10 years ago

WAS HE NOT AWARE OF THE SITUATION IN GHANA WHEN HE WAS IN THERE TO DO POLITICS AS A MEMBER OF NPP GOVERNMENT.

THE STATE FUNDS HE POCKETED FOR HIS POWN SELFISH INTEREST COULD HAVE BEEN INVESTED TO CONFRONT POVERTY AND ILLIT ...
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WAS HE NOT AWARE OF THE SITUATION IN GHANA WHEN HE WAS IN THERE TO DO POLITICS AS A MEMBER OF NPP GOVERNMENT.

THE STATE FUNDS HE POCKETED FOR HIS POWN SELFISH INTEREST COULD HAVE BEEN INVESTED TO CONFRONT POVERTY AND ILLITERACY IN THE COUNTRY.

HE SHOULD BE ASKED TO ''DEFINE'' WHY A COUNTRY IS POOR.

LET US STOP THESE JUMGLE HYPOCRICYS.
Aluta Graduate 10 years ago

As much as he was a student leader during Rawling's second coming, Asamoah Boateng was not a student leader during the Acheampong era. He saw very little of the fight against Union Government. I even doubt his contribution to ...
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As much as he was a student leader during Rawling's second coming, Asamoah Boateng was not a student leader during the Acheampong era. He saw very little of the fight against Union Government. I even doubt his contribution to the 'let the blood flow' chanting crusade. Our journalists must not twist history so soon!!
JAYE MENDS 10 years ago

Mr Former Minister, where were you when your boss, president kuffour took our money to buy a $64,00.00 gold necklace as an award for himself? such a selfish man, he never thought of the poor in his backyard. i wish you could ...
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Mr Former Minister, where were you when your boss, president kuffour took our money to buy a $64,00.00 gold necklace as an award for himself? such a selfish man, he never thought of the poor in his backyard. i wish you could go and advice him.
oyinasky 10 years ago

You are right Asamoah Boateng. This is so true

You are right Asamoah Boateng. This is so true
KWAA 10 years ago

How can you help people who hate to be educated?Ghanaians prefered "edee bii keke"to free education.
Our problem is mental laziness,we don't want to use our God giving brains,we don't want be responsible for our own lives.M ...
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How can you help people who hate to be educated?Ghanaians prefered "edee bii keke"to free education.
Our problem is mental laziness,we don't want to use our God giving brains,we don't want be responsible for our own lives.Most Ghanaians will rsather rely on Pastors or Mallams to tell them what to do.
Besides,even those so called educated Ghanaians,what do they do with that education,insults,by reading comments on Ghanaweb,you will know what i mean.Every second comment is an insult.
Education should be the key out of poverty,but education is expensive,and most Ghanaians don't want free education.
Suf 10 years ago

How on earth can you now recognised the need to eradicate illiteracy and Poverty. Was it not the same guy who said GHANAIANS should eat gari and konkonti when things were tough during the NPP time? Now YOU ARE IN OPPOSITION ...
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How on earth can you now recognised the need to eradicate illiteracy and Poverty. Was it not the same guy who said GHANAIANS should eat gari and konkonti when things were tough during the NPP time? Now YOU ARE IN OPPOSITION YOU ARE REALISING THE IMPORTANTANCE OF HELPING BUILD A BETTER GHANA. Shame on you
still rastafari 10 years ago

you rudely asked us to eat kokonte...as minister what was your contribution

you rudely asked us to eat kokonte...as minister what was your contribution

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