Gov’t pumps US$750 million into water supply - Minister

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KWAA 11 years ago

We were told the samething about electricity,that DUMSO DUMSO will end in 2013.But it seems it has just started.
Why is this Government talking too much like this?
Just implement your Programmes,people will see and talk ab ...
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We were told the samething about electricity,that DUMSO DUMSO will end in 2013.But it seems it has just started.
Why is this Government talking too much like this?
Just implement your Programmes,people will see and talk about it,but all the time we have done this,we are going to do that,yet everything is in short supply in the Country.Just do it and stop talking.
AKONOBA 11 years ago

Mahama is clueless.Mahama is a disaster. It was unfortunate Ghanaians went for a slogan of edey be keke rather than Nana's policy of transformation of the economy and free SHS. Mahama's edey be is not a policy.Mahama=policyle ...
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Mahama is clueless.Mahama is a disaster. It was unfortunate Ghanaians went for a slogan of edey be keke rather than Nana's policy of transformation of the economy and free SHS. Mahama's edey be is not a policy.Mahama=policyless=cluelss=visionless=focusless=brainless=directionless=corruption.
SHAMO 11 years ago

AT THE END OF THE DAY WE WILL HEAR A ANOTHER STORY FROM FELIX OFOSU KWAKYE THE NDC BIG MOUTH DEFENDER

AT THE END OF THE DAY WE WILL HEAR A ANOTHER STORY FROM FELIX OFOSU KWAKYE THE NDC BIG MOUTH DEFENDER
Marlowe 11 years ago

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BBC NEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 11 years ago

Shame unto that tribal bigots kofi nyaku in Holland for criticizing Ghanaians , especially the NDC sympathizers on his akan's npp radio show in abroad to certified his akan's npp party. We can listen to u from far here in Gha ...
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Shame unto that tribal bigots kofi nyaku in Holland for criticizing Ghanaians , especially the NDC sympathizers on his akan's npp radio show in abroad to certified his akan's npp party. We can listen to u from far here in Ghana. Go ahead and heckle them anytime they call your Tweeeeeaaaaa!! Show to contribute, your akan's npp party will lose again in 2016. If you know better , u must advise your uncle nana binladdo and your npp party to stop terrorising mother Ghana.
Gye Nyame 11 years ago

And still no water? Just money flushed down the drain. What a waste!

And still no water? Just money flushed down the drain. What a waste!
FOLAKE 11 years ago

Mahama, his famly and friends will steal not less than 75% of the money. Mark my words that after the money has been spent, there will nto be an improvement in water supply in the areas that this money is supposed to provide ...
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Mahama, his famly and friends will steal not less than 75% of the money. Mark my words that after the money has been spent, there will nto be an improvement in water supply in the areas that this money is supposed to provide the water for.
GURUNDA 11 years ago

STOP TALKING AND START DOING. WE WILL SEE FOR OURSELVES IF YOU DO IT. TALK-TALK IS TOO MUCH.

STOP TALKING AND START DOING. WE WILL SEE FOR OURSELVES IF YOU DO IT. TALK-TALK IS TOO MUCH.
Sheikh 11 years ago

"He said it remained focused on the job of making things better and spoke of various interventions to create jobs, improve the health, energy, education, agriculture and other sectors of the economy." Stop talking and CREATE ...
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"He said it remained focused on the job of making things better and spoke of various interventions to create jobs, improve the health, energy, education, agriculture and other sectors of the economy." Stop talking and CREATE the jobs if you know how. So don't you guys have a sense of SHAME? People are suffering. Fix the problem and stop the stupid POLITICS. I don't blame you, I blame the one who would NEGATIVELY respond to this humble appeal.
de 11 years ago

It sounds quite absurd for gov't of Ghana to be quoting figures of expended monies on projects in US dollars when they, at the same time are fighting against a dollarised Ghanaian economy. I hope Mahama-Amissah-Arthur gov't w ...
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It sounds quite absurd for gov't of Ghana to be quoting figures of expended monies on projects in US dollars when they, at the same time are fighting against a dollarised Ghanaian economy. I hope Mahama-Amissah-Arthur gov't will listen to call made today by the Governor of BoG.
GAbaa 11 years ago

When and where has this huge sum been spent. These.. people think we are fools. A full quarter of a billion $$

When and where has this huge sum been spent. These.. people think we are fools. A full quarter of a billion $$
Pontius Pilate 11 years ago

my brother they don't think we are fools. indeed they know we are fools to be so dormant watching them dissipate our resources with impunity.

how can they dash our monies to cronies in the name of judgement debts, buy 4X4s ...
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my brother they don't think we are fools. indeed they know we are fools to be so dormant watching them dissipate our resources with impunity.

how can they dash our monies to cronies in the name of judgement debts, buy 4X4s for chiefs at our expense, buy hyundai i10 for university girls and still get people shouting halelujah and they will not think you we are fools. they don't feel accountable to anyone and you can feel that in their tone.

infact i want to see an itemized expenditure on the so called water projects, when they were started, where they are located and the original estimated costs with the level of completion. that is accountability not branding some vague figures around. tweaaaaaaa!!1
Whatever 11 years ago

We need to raise the cedi. Government must lead and not become part of the problem. Good reminder

We need to raise the cedi. Government must lead and not become part of the problem. Good reminder
Freeman 11 years ago

Is this announcement for the min of information?

Is this announcement for the min of information?
Kofi B 11 years ago

Stop talking about what the government has done and let's see the results. It's too much now.

Stop talking about what the government has done and let's see the results. It's too much now.
Solomon 11 years ago

750 for water 20 to rescue the cedi intersesting choice

750 for water 20 to rescue the cedi intersesting choice
SHOOTER 11 years ago

The propaganda has started again. Can Kwakye Ofosu give a detailed breakdown of exactly how the 750million dollars has been pumped into water supply, because, the provision of water and it's supply doesn't in any way, shape o ...
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The propaganda has started again. Can Kwakye Ofosu give a detailed breakdown of exactly how the 750million dollars has been pumped into water supply, because, the provision of water and it's supply doesn't in any way, shape or form depict, show or manifests the pumping of 750million dollars and not cedis, dollars into water supply sector. We are all witnesses to the news report of Atua Hospital buying sachet water for their surgical procedure. Again, we are all witnesses to the nations premier hospital-Korle Bu lacking water with it's attendant problems. We are again witnesses to the same issue in KATH, etc, etc,.
The period where he just said anything and everything is over. The days of propaganda, lies and deceit which is their stock in trade are over. Felix"rottweiler"Ofosu kwakye should give the exact breakdown of the pumping of 750million dollars into our water supply system and the think tanks, civil society organizations, media, independent bodies and organizations involved in our water sector, the parliamentary oversight committee on works and housing, government accountability and transparency organizations, etc, etc, should independently verify this information and ensure that, the funds ie 750million dollars, so stated if pumped into the water supply sector, yields the desired and needed results by the 2015 deadline. Again, Ghana should demand specifics about the exact timelines, which month in 2015 and the exact date, because the propaganda is not going to cut it this time around.
Joe 11 years ago

90% of it went to few people's pocket

90% of it went to few people's pocket
Moses 11 years ago

What and where is $750m being spent? Are we spending $75m on average for each region?
The government is out again to cover up some rot!
And by the way where will the gov't get this money from? PROPAGANDA!

What and where is $750m being spent? Are we spending $75m on average for each region?
The government is out again to cover up some rot!
And by the way where will the gov't get this money from? PROPAGANDA!
Whatever 11 years ago

Don't stop there though

Don't stop there though
sly 11 years ago

this a lie all ndc people all they do is talk

this a lie all ndc people all they do is talk
Queen 11 years ago

CAN YOU PEOPLE STOP WASTING OUR EARS. PUMP WWHHAATT? PUMP AND CHOP.YOU ARE ALL GOOD FOR NOTHING.KEEP ON STEALING. ONE DAY GOD'S WRATH WILL DESCEND ON YOU ALL.

CAN YOU PEOPLE STOP WASTING OUR EARS. PUMP WWHHAATT? PUMP AND CHOP.YOU ARE ALL GOOD FOR NOTHING.KEEP ON STEALING. ONE DAY GOD'S WRATH WILL DESCEND ON YOU ALL.
Johnny USA 11 years ago

THANK PREZ MAHAMA. FOR WATER IT SHOULD BE AVAILABLE TO DRINK EVEN IF WE ARE HUNGRY.MISTER IN CHARGE OF WATER TO ABOLISH THAT PRE-PAID METER POLICY BEFORE IS TO LATE.

THANK PREZ MAHAMA. FOR WATER IT SHOULD BE AVAILABLE TO DRINK EVEN IF WE ARE HUNGRY.MISTER IN CHARGE OF WATER TO ABOLISH THAT PRE-PAID METER POLICY BEFORE IS TO LATE.
KKB 11 years ago

Enjoy your 24/7 electricity. Because of party politics. You can't see the light.

Enjoy your 24/7 electricity. Because of party politics. You can't see the light.
peace 11 years ago

better ghana agenda on course

better ghana agenda on course
Akadu Mensema 11 years ago

NDC people are funny indeed! Tell lies and benighted Ghanaians love it!

NDC people are funny indeed! Tell lies and benighted Ghanaians love it!
Santino 11 years ago

This government is in arrears of statutory payments like GETfund, MP's Common fund, NHIA etc and you think they can easily dole out $750m for just water expansion? This boy is a rat and his time will come.

This government is in arrears of statutory payments like GETfund, MP's Common fund, NHIA etc and you think they can easily dole out $750m for just water expansion? This boy is a rat and his time will come.
Kodwo 11 years ago

Fool, you are quoting in dollars, instead of Cedis and yet those with dollar accounts are being told they should take cedis for their dollars.

What an animal.

Fool, you are quoting in dollars, instead of Cedis and yet those with dollar accounts are being told they should take cedis for their dollars.

What an animal.
SHAKARA 11 years ago

WE NEED THE WATER NOW NOT 2015

WE NEED THE WATER NOW NOT 2015
Asuo-Amponsah 11 years ago

Be surprised if a big chunk of this gargantuan sum of money has actually been used for the importation of faulty pre-paid meters to rip off customers like the ECG did some years back!
$750 m should make some appreciable imp ...
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Be surprised if a big chunk of this gargantuan sum of money has actually been used for the importation of faulty pre-paid meters to rip off customers like the ECG did some years back!
$750 m should make some appreciable impact on the provision of good and clean water in this country. Felix,when can we expect to see concrete results?
DONBOLI 11 years ago

Are we going to use this drinking water for our farms and our animal rearing. We dont want under ground, we want water we can see. Dam the rivers and make channels. The money is for boreholes, why boreholes when water is supp ...
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Are we going to use this drinking water for our farms and our animal rearing. We dont want under ground, we want water we can see. Dam the rivers and make channels. The money is for boreholes, why boreholes when water is supposed to be indoor. Get as the Dams and we put pipes into our houses. Boreholes are not the answer to the problem with lack of water. Water underground is never your water, water in a Dam is you water. You can fetch water by walking, but cant dig for water.
There should be water all over the year in every part of ghana. The government should start from the north where is very dry. If the north can have water all round the year we will be complaining. Build Dams.
KnYc(USMC) 11 years ago

What borehole? I like your idea, just basic water is a problem. Maybe that pastor should have wasted his time on this subject. Just a common thing, where by I take a shit with everyday. Why won't the Cedi fall. If gov't can't ...
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What borehole? I like your idea, just basic water is a problem. Maybe that pastor should have wasted his time on this subject. Just a common thing, where by I take a shit with everyday. Why won't the Cedi fall. If gov't can't provide Water, Electricity, roads, than what is gov't for?
Mr. Questions 11 years ago

LIVING IN DREAM LAND.
THIS IS PLANET EARTH AND NOT MARS OR JUPITER. THE EARTH IS INHABITED BY HUMANS .... WHO ARE SUPPOSED TO USE GOOD DRINKING WATER 24/7.

IT IS NOT HAPPENING IN ACCRA, KUMASI, HO, NALERIGU, WA.
AKONFEM ...
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LIVING IN DREAM LAND.
THIS IS PLANET EARTH AND NOT MARS OR JUPITER. THE EARTH IS INHABITED BY HUMANS .... WHO ARE SUPPOSED TO USE GOOD DRINKING WATER 24/7.

IT IS NOT HAPPENING IN ACCRA, KUMASI, HO, NALERIGU, WA.
AKONFEM ENTERPRISES,
Kyekyeku 11 years ago

You quote everything that you do in dollar, you are the problem. And by the way, where is that water

You quote everything that you do in dollar, you are the problem. And by the way, where is that water
prempeh 1. 11 years ago

Could people like these be able to rule a nation like Ghana? A nation of about 25 million people., No wonder we are heavely suffering.

Could people like these be able to rule a nation like Ghana? A nation of about 25 million people., No wonder we are heavely suffering.
koo 11 years ago

stop using the dollar and quote the cedi.

stop using the dollar and quote the cedi.
kofi konadu 11 years ago

you are the cost of the falling cedis.the estimated cost of a project (in Ghana)in foreign currency what happen to your cedis mr. minister, come again?

you are the cost of the falling cedis.the estimated cost of a project (in Ghana)in foreign currency what happen to your cedis mr. minister, come again?
DENNIS ADJEI-BRENYAH ESQ 11 years ago

SO.....WHERE IS THE EVIDENCE.......A BUNCH OF HARD CORE THIEVES.....

SO.....WHERE IS THE EVIDENCE.......A BUNCH OF HARD CORE THIEVES.....
Nana Egyir Aggrey 11 years ago

Another ruse to rob the citizens. Mister Mahama,- what makes you and your tribesmen think, you can solve the problems facing Ghana, while guinea fowl war between Ayariga's mamprusis and dagartis has not been solved? Ya Na's i ...
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Another ruse to rob the citizens. Mister Mahama,- what makes you and your tribesmen think, you can solve the problems facing Ghana, while guinea fowl war between Ayariga's mamprusis and dagartis has not been solved? Ya Na's issue has not been solved either,-that issue will be revisted hopefully in the next general election, with the help of the corrupt Afari-Gyan. You and your tribesmen have a long way to go. While your tribal folks are drinking guinea worm infested water from lakes and ponds, you jokers are having a hell of good time in the capital. I do not blame you, i blame J.J Rawlings who created the greedy monsters which are devouring the pitiful citizens. The NDC motto is,-'make hay while the sun shines. Power at any cost even if we have to kill for it because we are poor and we cannot fend for ourselves, we are still struggling to pay the student loans. Atta Mills, the benevolent Robin Hood; the student politicians will always remember you.The bogus president Ghana has ever had. Wake up people, and let your voices be heard, nobody is going to get you out of the mess you are in except your selves. Forward ever,Backward never.- Nana Egyir Aggrey Snr citizen
KnYc (USMC) 11 years ago

The guinea fowls visa has expire, so now they are on deportation list. Only in NDC gov't will a guinea fowl can get a visa to upper Volta. Ghana we are becoming a country of ..........

The guinea fowls visa has expire, so now they are on deportation list. Only in NDC gov't will a guinea fowl can get a visa to upper Volta. Ghana we are becoming a country of ..........
WARD GDX - WE THE PEOPLE 11 years ago

He is the most lying despicably horrifying character of this propaganda choir of hollow head zombies

Bagdad Bob was not even that worse of a liar than this mumu face buffoon

Ghana has gone to the dogs

He is the most lying despicably horrifying character of this propaganda choir of hollow head zombies

Bagdad Bob was not even that worse of a liar than this mumu face buffoon

Ghana has gone to the dogs
john atta mills 11 years ago

What do we have to show for it? We still have water shortages and unclean water. Reason being 90 PERENT OF THAT MONEY WENT INTO DIRTY NDC POCKETS. I would have felt better if you hadn't told us you spent such a huge amount of ...
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What do we have to show for it? We still have water shortages and unclean water. Reason being 90 PERENT OF THAT MONEY WENT INTO DIRTY NDC POCKETS. I would have felt better if you hadn't told us you spent such a huge amount of money on water we still don't have.I always thought our water problems were due to lack of financial resources. 750 million and no water! Man! what is worse? no akomfem, no trees or no water? These guys came to steal and pillage and there is no end in sight and sadly enough they will steal their way back tom power in the next election.
GURUNDA 11 years ago

THIS GUY WILL ALWAYS SAY GOOD WHEN THINGS ARE ACTUALLY BAD. TALK-TALK BUT NO REDEMPTION.

THIS GUY WILL ALWAYS SAY GOOD WHEN THINGS ARE ACTUALLY BAD. TALK-TALK BUT NO REDEMPTION.
Kofi Sammy 11 years ago

BRAVOO! His new boz has sent him on a lying sprey,jx luk @ his mouth.dis boy can lie papa,how much was pump into de bui dam?but i dn't blame dis idiot,Mahama appointed a PR gimist wen de Economy is in trouble.BIG JOKERS.

BRAVOO! His new boz has sent him on a lying sprey,jx luk @ his mouth.dis boy can lie papa,how much was pump into de bui dam?but i dn't blame dis idiot,Mahama appointed a PR gimist wen de Economy is in trouble.BIG JOKERS.
Patriot 11 years ago

Is this another lie? Where did the money come from. Come on be a little truthful, guys.

Is this another lie? Where did the money come from. Come on be a little truthful, guys.
thefang 11 years ago

If 750m dollars has been pumped into the water industry and people still buy water in many parts of Accra, and elsewhere, it only means that the nkomfem have been drinking the water up in the air, between Burkina Faso and Gha ...
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If 750m dollars has been pumped into the water industry and people still buy water in many parts of Accra, and elsewhere, it only means that the nkomfem have been drinking the water up in the air, between Burkina Faso and Ghana!

Meanwhile, the 750m has flown to overseas money safe havens, leaving the Bank of Ghana flaffing around to reintroduce exchange control and import licensing. Liars die many times before their deaths -- and so it will be with the NDC thieving-lying machine.
KKB 11 years ago

You call this a gov't. I just called Mc Cathy hill and asked is the water flowing. No. How are we suppose to invest in our own country if electricity and water are hard to come by. Thank God to globalization, I can put my mo ...
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You call this a gov't. I just called Mc Cathy hill and asked is the water flowing. No. How are we suppose to invest in our own country if electricity and water are hard to come by. Thank God to globalization, I can put my money anywhere I want to.
KnYc 11 years ago

There are so many reasons why the Cedi is falling. Just a basic thing like Water & Electricity is the reason why an investor will not show up in your door step. How is the Cedi going the rise if you don't have these basic thi ...
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There are so many reasons why the Cedi is falling. Just a basic thing like Water & Electricity is the reason why an investor will not show up in your door step. How is the Cedi going the rise if you don't have these basic things. We can pray all you want, basic is basic. If they are moving their money out of the country, who else should put their money in. Just for the love of country. Fu...ck that.
richard / london 11 years ago

this stupid minister when he speaks he make me go mad

this stupid minister when he speaks he make me go mad
richard / london 11 years ago

how can this ten year boy like ofosu kwakye be a minister

how can this ten year boy like ofosu kwakye be a minister
pk 11 years ago

Provision of water and good sanitation are economic necessities. Huge savings on the health budget as less expenditure to treat water-borne communicable diseases. The target should be water for all by 2015. Everyone needs goo ...
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Provision of water and good sanitation are economic necessities. Huge savings on the health budget as less expenditure to treat water-borne communicable diseases. The target should be water for all by 2015. Everyone needs good drinking water. What should the remaining percentage drink. It should be the government's number priority. Even if it's what the government will achieve in its term, so be it. Direct some health budget to provide water and improve sanitation for ALL. The outcome, reduced need for the health sector to purchase large quantities of drugs to typhoid fever, cholera, malaria etc etc.
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