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Kofi Annan slams corrupt & foreign investors

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  • Nii 9 years ago

    A typical example is the proposed port at Atuabo by this government and their cronies in the person of Lohnro, Tiny Rowland. This country has no future.

  • TT 9 years ago

    BLAME THE WHITE MAN WHO CAME TO AFRICA WITH HIS CULTURE AND IDEAS

  • NANA 9 years ago

    ALL THESE ARE BROUGHT TO US FROM OUR MASTERS:

  • insight to the bone 9 years ago

    This ploy to entice naive new sucker investors to come so these corrupt govt officials can blackmail into giving bribes or fleece them is an old trick that only an idiot will fall for . imagine the nerve of trying to force ...
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  • kim 9 years ago

    A FOOL ALWAYS BLAMES THE WHITE MAN and Christianity. WHO LIVES IN THE HOUSE (Afica)? Who owns the domiciliary rights? Always blaming the white man for your stupidity, laziness and so you remain backward because you never lear ...
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  • A citizen. 9 years ago

    You`re more than the word you used for this humble man. He isn`t perfect but he`s telling the truth. If the black skin man is wise enough, he`d know that he shouldn`t sell his brain to the white man. But because he is more th ...
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  • Mac Darling 9 years ago

    Mr Kofi Annan, please use the insightful knowledge gleaned from working with these white investors to educate Ghanaian leaders.
    We have become all too trusting and subservient to foreign ideologies. It's about time Ghana cha ...
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  • Okofo 9 years ago

    Has Kofi Annan forgot that his son is part of the problem? If he really has the nation at heart, then he has to dissuade his son from aiding and abetting---because, his corrupt son has his hands deep inside the oil industry!

  • A citizen. 9 years ago

    what`s `has forgot`

  • Ghanaba, USA 9 years ago

    I wish you will form a NEW party and invite qualified Ghanaians at home and abroad to join (not these old corrupt and selfish NDC and NPP people).

  • ZoRRo 9 years ago

    Kofi Annan has been saying correct things of late -- impressive.

  • Zach 9 years ago

    There is a cancer eating at Ghana right now and it is corruption.

  • Real Black Man 9 years ago

    I will be the first person to be member of this party :).

  • Real Black Man 9 years ago

    He has not blamed the white man. He has just criticized Goverments of Africa not doing enough to abolish poverty. Beside he pointed out people performing illegal fisheri. That is a fact! Should he kept his mouth shut, just be ...
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  • Jacky 9 years ago

    that is it

  • Kofi Ata, Cambridge, UK 9 years ago

    It's African leaders, especially in Ghana who connive and collude with foreign investors to loot the resources of Africa out of the country. For example, in Ghana, it is politicians and civil servants who agree to be used by ...
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  • FACT 9 years ago

    WORSHIP OF GOD IS PART OF THE COLONIZATION AGENDA.

  • VOTLA 9 years ago

    DOUGLBE PACK; GOOD AND BAD TOGETHER

  • NANA 9 years ago

    BUY ONE A GET ONE FREE

  • Peace 9 years ago

    Kofi Annan has spoke corrupt officials .and foreign investors are our their country and greedy politicians are also killing local investors prosterity will judge them!!!!!!!!!! Bravoo !!! Kofi Annan

  • THE ONE AND ONLY WAHJAHKAMAN 9 years ago

    African political leaders have failed their people,because they don't have foresight and the interest of the masses at heart.Most of these political leaders are criminals,greedy and have no clue as to how to bring about re ...
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  • NzemaK. 9 years ago

    When Kofi Annan was asked if he would like to be prez of Ghana he replied that africa politics is dirty (insult and character assassination etc). So now you leave all these fine ideas to the thieves and stand at the edge to c ...
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  • John- USA 9 years ago

    It is so true that our leaders are greedy bastards but it seems like we've accepted them and continue to follow them.

  • TT 9 years ago

    THOSE WHO BROUGHT JESUS TO AFRICA BROUGHT CORRUPTION TOO

  • TT 9 years ago

    LETS BLAME THE WHITEMAN FOR CORRUPTION:

  • Arny 9 years ago

    Let’sblame the whiteman for everything.

  • APA 9 years ago

    KOFI ANNAN, BLACKMAN IS NOT CAPABLE OF MANAGING HIS OWN AFFAIRS.

  • KOOBAAH. 9 years ago

    PAPA KOFI/GLOBALLY YOU ARE RESPECTED,BUT YOUR SON IS TRYIGN TO DETROY YOUR IMAGE.THIS IS HIS SECOND TIME/RECENT.WE DONT WANT HIM TO DETROY OUR KOFI ANAN,WHO WAS ONCE MOST POPULAR CIVIL SERVANT AROUND THE GLOBE.THANK YOU:KOOBA ...
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  • Tijani 9 years ago

    everyone knows that your eight years as UN secretary did not benefit Africa or Ghana in anyway. you could have said this when you were the general secretary, but you didn't. we all know that part of our underdevelopment is ca ...
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  • Papa Yaw 9 years ago

    How

  • AGYABA 9 years ago

    GM Sir, well said but Africans have to blame ourselves. These corrupt foreign investors so called are able to dup Africa and Africans becauese our corrupt, inept and incompetent leaders and their appointees conive with them t ...
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  • Cantankerous 9 years ago

    Surely foreigners cannot rob us without our leaders allowing this to happen.Corruption by Ghanaians placed in positions of responsibility plays a critical role here. Just like in the days of slavery,white people could not hav ...
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  • Jason 9 years ago

    We love our dear country man...but lets be honnest his songs are the same and he keep repeating himself without any concrete actions.

    These African leaders he is calling to act are weak. He himself knows that.

    I think ...
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  • still rastafari 9 years ago

    politicians & chiefs killing GH & Africa

  • still rastafari 9 years ago

    politicians & chiefs a bane to Africa

  • Ralph 9 years ago

    Africans are ignorant.

  • Inspct..Kobilla 9 years ago

    GHANA HAS BEEN RAPED BY NDC IDIOTS. WE DO NOT NEED ANY NATIONAL ECONOMIC FORUM, WE NEED A NATIONAL COURT OF JURISDICTION TO PUT MAHAMA AND HIS CABINET ON TRIAL. GHANA'S HOPELESS ECONOMIC SITUATION, TODAY, IS TOTALLY UNACCEPTA ...
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  • MAHAMA MUST BE JAILED BY ALL MEANS 9 years ago

    GHANA HAS BEEN RAPED BY NDC IDIOTS. WE DO NOT NEED ANY NATIONAL ECONOMIC FORUM, WE NEED A NATIONAL COURT OF JURISDICTION TO PUT MAHAMA AND HIS CABINET ON TRIAL. GHANA'S HOPELESS ECONOMIC SITUATION, TODAY, IS TOTALLY UNACCEPTA ...
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  • ballba 9 years ago

    Greed is the main feul of corruption. Over the years our greed has become part of a norm allowing corruption as a way of life. Maybe its time to go to the blackboard and introduce a new way of installing some moral ethics to ...
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  • Cantankerous 9 years ago

    Mr Kofi Annan must remember that these foreign companies and financial institutions would not have been able to take advantage of this country and its resources WITHOUT THE ACTIVE CONNIVANCE OF OUR OWN PEOPLE PLACED IN POSITI ...
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  • say it loud 9 years ago

    hmmmm thatis a revelation our leaders are disappointing us... w pray that god will us the grace that we take up the mantle we wont behave like they are doing

  • bus driver 9 years ago

    a revelation? Goodness gracious - Where have you been?

  • Ntim Gyakari 9 years ago

    YOU WORK FOR THE WHITEMAN TO BRING POISONOUS GMO TO AFRICA. TOO LITTLE TOO LATE SO SHUT UP!!!

  • Kotoua Selira 9 years ago

    How on earth will foreign business men give 20 % to a country and take 80% for the resources of a country that they do not owe? Many African countries are suffering from poverty because of this bad business practices and Ghan ...
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  • Fiifi 9 years ago

    Its not 20% it is 3-5%. Blame all the govts in the 4th republic. useless PNDC started it then NDC, NPP and now NDC again. There is hopelessness in the country.

    Bolivia President told these foreign companies; that its "eit ...
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  • Paa Baah 9 years ago

    We need people like Kofi Annan to lead Ghana.

  • marfo 9 years ago

    BLAME THE GOVERNMENT IN POWER NOT THE INVESTORS

  • blackstar 9 years ago

    Hes a smart man and trust worthy.

  • Lloi 9 years ago

    This is what I expect from states men.
    To stand and speak for the ones that can't .
    Kofi what you have said wont go down well with your former pay masters,but you have stood for what many of your kind wouldn't dare speak ab ...
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  • Apart 9 years ago

    It's taken the average Ghanaian so long to figure this out?

  • Odeneho K D 9 years ago

    Many thanks Mr.Annan for saying something positive.This should be a lesson to all Africa leaders.But our Ghana is the worst of all,especially by this ruling NDC Government

  • ISRAEL SETS EXAMPLE - GHANA MUST FOLL 9 years ago

    GHANA TO FOLLOW THEN REST OF AFRICA

  • Osimandias Konfankoh Methusalleh 9 years ago

    KURT WALDHEIM WAS THE 4TH SECRETARY GENERAL OF UNITED NATIONS.THIS GUY DID SO MUCH FOR UN. NOT ONLY THAT,HE BECAME THE PRESIDENT OF AUSTRIA FROM 1986 -1992, AND DID SO MUCH FOR AUSTRIA.HE USED HIS INFLUENCE FOR HIS COUNTRY. ...
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  • Jojo 9 years ago

    EGYA KOFI ANNAN.

    PLEASE,WERE YOU NOT AWARE OF THESE CRIMINAL ACTS WHEN YOU OCCUPIED THE HIGHEST OFFICE AT THE UNITED NATIONS.

    WHY DO WE STILL HAVE CORRUPT OFFICIALS, BECAUSE, WE CANNOT INNOVATE AND THIS HAS GIVEN CAUSE ...
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  • Roland 9 years ago

    The only solution to African problem is
    the leaders must revisit Dr. Kwame Nkrumah's Africa Unit Speech

  • Alex Kojo Sammy-Paris!. 9 years ago

    Amen nd Amen! with......its Samms!..

  • Whatever 9 years ago

    Africans need to be very very afraid of this so called foreign investors. They will milk your people dry for them to die premature whilst they live on with their loot and plunder from the exploitation of your resources

  • Ahenfo 9 years ago

    I need someone to tell Kofi Annan to shut up on the economy affairs of Ghana. How many investors did he lure to Ghana during his term as UN Secretary General. He never thought about his country when he was in the position to ...
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