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We tax the poor to feed the rich in Ghana - Jumah

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  • Sethoo 10 years ago

    Tony Aidoo's family members are now speaking sense,his nephew Kofi Jumah is for once also saying something sensible.I hope they have stopped their akpeteshie and the weed.

  • SHAMO 10 years ago

    NDC CLAIMED THEY CAME FOR THE POOR YET THE POOR SUFFERS THE MOST! HOPE EWES AND SOME NORTHNERS WILL FEEL IT HARDER OR AS USUAL IT WONT CHANGE ANYTHING SINCE THEY WERE BORN TO SUFFER? HAHAHAHAHAHA

  • pkirks 10 years ago

    you are a cursed and born to suffer so dont put your shallow minds on others. stupid name called SHAMO.

  • OPOKU 10 years ago

    Where from this hopeless man coming from? Look at this rapper, does he also care for poor when they were cheating the poor? Why does Ghanaweb always bring this very womanizer on net at all? Ghanaweb itself seems to be for NPP

  • SGT ANANI FIADZOE 10 years ago

    When a mad person is in lucid period s/he can speak sensible things. Just imagine the brilliant argument from Kofi Ghana. Perhaps he hasn't taken the stuff for a few days!

  • NII COMMEY 10 years ago

    THAT THIS IDIOTINC WANDERER FROM THE STREETS OF NY/NJ HAS A FOLLOWING IN GHANA EXPLANS WHY THE COUNTRY HAS MADE LITTLE PROGRESS SINCE NKRUMAH. LAZY GHANAIANS LOVE EMPTY TALK.

  • NII COMMEY 10 years ago

    USE YOUR BRAIN AND INITIATIVE TO CHOP SMALL AND STOP EXPECTING THE GOVT TO FEED YOU.

  • NDC SUCKS BLOOD 10 years ago

    KILLING OF JUDGES, WOMEN, TRADERS, BUSINESSMEN, ORDINARY PEOPLE, MILITARY MEN, DRIVERS FOR CROSSING JJ'S LIMOUSINE, CASTLE HAIR CUTS THUS NDC IS CURSED AND GHANA TOO CURSED FOR VOTING SATANIC PARTY INTO POWER.

  • Abongo 10 years ago

    What about beheading people to bury your dead chiefs

  • AbasZ 10 years ago

    Commy! Do you sleep on the pillow or you do not understand queen's language? Do you think at all? This man is well off and he is talking senses. Your name suggests that YOU ARE A BIG FOOL. Are you comfortable with the curre ...
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  • CLUELESS BAWUMIA 10 years ago

    ONLY IN NPP

  • KWADWO A 10 years ago

    Where is the editor of peacefmonline?
    The sentence should have been "the poor pay tax to feed the rich and not the riches."
    Secondly, Kofi Jumah, while you were in the USA, you worked as a taxi driver to make ends meet at t ...
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  • pkirks 10 years ago

    TRUE THAT. WEN HE WAS AN MP, WHAT DID HE DO TO HELP THOSE POOR HE IS TALKING ABOUT. HE HAD THE CHANCE TO EDUCATE THEM AND CREATE JOBS FOR THEM BUT INSTEAD, HE RATHER CHOSE TO WORK IN THE ASS OF WOMEN . INGLORIOUS BASTARDS

  • DI ASEMPA 10 years ago

    mr jumaah. you always come out with truth but Ghanaian'S don't want that.

  • Kb 10 years ago

    So any idiot in Ghana can grant an interview? Who's this Asante offspring of prostitution? Maybe he should join forces with the MP from Obuasi to explore ways of Taxing the prostitution of Asante women to fund the creation of ...
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  • ROSE 10 years ago

    Look at this stupid guy called kb, your people will continue to suffer without end since you were born to suffer so its nothing new to you.Ashantis are hard working so they wouldn't let any stupid entity with no vision, no pl ...
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  • dan 10 years ago

    i am no fan of juma but on this issue he is 100% right mahama and ndc are taxing us to death while all their rich allys are getting away with loopholes and other favortism

  • Dready 10 years ago

    African education is our problem. Z And this monkey thinks governments can employ fifty to eighty % of these graguates. U were Mp what did u do.Did yur gpov .employ all ! Stop your shito.do u hear news at all?ll

  • Akwatia Yaw 10 years ago

    What percent of graduates were employed under NPP? We need that to make any meaning out of what Jumah is saying. If the situation has deteriorated, then he has a point, if not then he is just propagandizing. They always se ...
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  • mathias 10 years ago

    how many graduates has Mahama led NDC employed?foolish people like you are always blind from the truth by politics.

  • Akwatia Yaw 10 years ago

    Jumah pronouncement is baseless if he cannot provide the statistic under NPP to compare with NDC's 2% he is quoting. We do not even know that his 2% is factual. Where did he get that from and did he quote the source or he c ...
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  • Zuri 10 years ago

    Stop your ignorance!.It is happening here in the US.Top 1% are rather taking everything.

  • somebody papapa 10 years ago

    So Zuri should we also follow suit? You are stupid idiotic fool that is why u can't come home. Shamoo

  • Zuri 10 years ago

    I can feed you & your family for the next 20 years,bitch!.You have no future,son of a bitch.

  • dan 10 years ago

    THE TOP 1% IN THE USA HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH THE99% THEY DONT NEED THE PEANUTS TO SUSTAIN THEM. IN THE USA YOU DONT PAY AS MUCH TAXES AS IN GHANA AND THE OPPOURTUNIY TO MAKE MONEY IN THE USA IS BETTER THEN GHANA AND IN THE ...
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  • the truth 10 years ago

    He never did once compare Ghana to the US. You are the one making this comparison. He is simply asking the question as where the tax money goes. It goes into the bellies of politicians their cronies and to by big expensive ca ...
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  • BAAKO 10 years ago

    you must stop the lies, millions of people have no place to sleep, people sleep under bridges and highways. in US, millions of people cannot afford to seek medical due to finance.

  • dan 10 years ago

    homelesness is not only a problem in the usa it is a problem world wide
    and as to your remarks regarding the usa many people are homeless by choice due to lazeness and due to alchol problems etc, no one said the usa is perf ...
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  • Ato 10 years ago

    Why do the media keep feeding Ghanaians with rubbish from this madman with syphilis-infested brain?

  • AYANYA 10 years ago

    Ato, I can see you are not ashamed of yourself.Are you happy with your people when they beg for alms ? Have you seen ndc sending kako, matches, oil, rice, ghc50 and inferior textiles to Ashanti to buy their concience ? I'm no ...
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  • Catapult 10 years ago

    You wanted e de bee k3k3 innit?

  • somebody papapa 10 years ago

    Oh kofi say it again ooo hm I want to cry mpo

  • ME 10 years ago

    JUMAH, GUESS WHAT? THE WHOLE WORLD,S ECONOMY IS IN A MESS TOO.

  • KOFI 10 years ago

    Honourable Kofi Jumah is absolutely right and precise to the point.The President,Ministers of State,MPs etc despite their huge salaries and emoluments,do not pay tax.They don't pay utility bills,don't buy fuel and are enjoyin ...
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  • ??? 10 years ago

    To all our leader,Yall PussyWull

  • Martin 10 years ago

    It is mind boggling that this former Member of Parliament, Maxwell Kofi Jumah doesn’t understand that paying taxes is a civic responsibility and not something prescribed by the scriptures. No wonder the country is in a ter ...
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  • Village Food 10 years ago

    Martin the problem in Ghana is not about paying taxes but rather where the money goes.you can use the whole of US budget to pay taxes to Ghana government and they will never to be able to account for it.If you are in America ...
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  • KWABENA ASARE 10 years ago

    I REALLY ADMIRE KOFI GHANA,HE IS PATRIOTIC AND TELLS IT EXACTLY AS IT IS. HE MARVELS ME, AS MOST OF THE TIME HIS IDEAS COINCIDES WITH MINE. BRAVO MY BROTHER, I LOVE YOU FOR YOUR TRUTH. THIS GOV'T IS EVEN MORE USELESS THAN THE ...
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  • Hmm... 10 years ago

    We know our weakness in this nation but don't want to make it strong. We gasp or pant as a woman in labour but fail to deliver the baby because we gasp a selfish gasp.

  • yaw 10 years ago

    Foolish talk!!! when did this IDIOT realize the poor are taxed to feed the rich in Ghana. Didn't he know or see this when they were in power.

  • mankind 10 years ago

    he is among those they feed with the poor man tax, how much was his grantia? stupid man.

  • Queen 10 years ago

    I AGREE 100%

  • Whatever 10 years ago

    Who is Kofi Jumah fooling?

  • JETMONEY 10 years ago

    HMMM God will Judge each and every one of this criminals,anyone who has stolen government money

  • Osofo 10 years ago

    You've been there and done that. Shame on you

  • pk 10 years ago

    It's not the government's responsibility to find jobs for graduates but rather create an enabling environment.

  • COS 90 10 years ago

    Mr. Kofi Jumah, if truly you are nationalist, love our dear country ghana, please return your ex-gratia to the state to prove ghanaians that you don't depend on tax from the poor.

    Now the ex-gratia is finished, look at the ...
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  • obibi j.k 10 years ago

    kofi jumah this is what you did in kumasi some time ago,you rob poor taxi driver in kumasi and gave them one bottle of coca cola at aseda house i do remember you well.

  • mafiola 10 years ago

    Ghanaians are rather naive and can't learn from their past experiences. All we need is to get the NDC out of office come 2016, for a more pragmatic and forward-looking party to take up the mantle. Sorry,am not advocating for ...
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  • ESI 10 years ago

    WILL SOME GET THIS SENSELESS NOISER OFF OUR BACK PLS. NPP SHOULD GET HIM A JOB. A LOSER WHO FAILED TO LEAD KMA, AND FAILED TO HOLD HIS SEAT IN PARLIAMENT HAS NOTHING TO OFFER.

  • CLUELESS BAWUMIA 10 years ago

    Ahhh K gubak or gyumbah as they call him

  • catho 10 years ago

    True talk, politicians never think about the poor,God is watching

  • Mankind 10 years ago

    Thanks Kofi. I wish Mahama the corrupt thief will read this with his buga! buga! followers.

  • Apostle 10 years ago

    Politicians, they are all evil

  • Asan 10 years ago

    We tax the poor to feed thieves Politicians in Ghana

  • RICHARD 10 years ago

    when politicians are in opposition,there they feel for ordinary ghanaians.dont mind him he coward.note this down today ,if he comes to power see whether he support ur plight.fire bon u all

  • freda 10 years ago

    Kofi you are absolutely right. it is such a shame how bad the Ghana economy is going. I think the government has to do something about this tax issue whereby the poor will benefit from the countries tax than to fed the rich w ...
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  • UNITE 10 years ago

    Bob marley wrote a song about the babylonian system in our present time as a vampire sucking the blood of the sufferers.......building universities and big churches but with no equal opportunities. Our big mouth politicians t ...
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  • Johnny USA 10 years ago

    THAT GUY ALSO TALKING ABOUT UNEMPLOYMENT TWEEAN!!!! LIKE THAT. USELESS GUY JUMAH. NOW THEY ARE POOR HAS NO LOOTING GOV MONEY THEY ARE CRYING.MY WISH IS PREZ MAHAMA WILL DO WELL TO KEEP THIS EVIL LOOTERS IN OPPOSITION FOR LONG ...
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  • koffio 10 years ago

    out of Ghana's population, only about 5% are above the middle income level. so how does he expect the government to find money?? These politicians connive with journalists to brain wash us.

  • Paa Kodwo 10 years ago

    WHAT FOR A NOISY SO CALLED ''POLITICIAN''' WHO DOES NOT KNOW HOW A NATION IS DEFINED.

    IN THE FIRST PLACE, WHY DID HE FAIL TO HAVE THE MANDATE OF HIS CONSTITUENCY.

    SECONDLY WHAT HAS BEEN HIS CONTRIBUTION IN THE PRACTIC ...
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  • DUNAA, Chorkor 10 years ago

    Yes, the poor is taxed to the supply comfort to idiots like Kofi Jumah when he pretended to be a parliamentarian. He was paid like a formula 1 super champion even though he was a useless lawmaker. Such ugly noise from a poopo ...
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  • TOHUGU 10 years ago

    The poor in the UK & US along with all the nations in the so-called Democracy are the ones whose taxes keep the rich living opulently. Just take a look at the Queen. Stolen gold from Ghana and other British colonies on the ba ...
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  • Half Gorilla Half Man 10 years ago

    your king dies. That's not fair.

  • ASIEDU NKETIA 10 years ago

    This is good advise for akonfem mahama and his gyeeda loot and share boys. Milking the poor to fatten the rich.