Pass the RTI Bill - World Bank

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• cha 9 years ago

  Ghanaians must wake up- KICK OUT NDC

  Ghanaians must wake up- KICK OUT NDC

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• DAVI 9 years ago

  NO WAY,THE NDC WILL NEVER TAKE THIS ADIVCE.PRESIDENT MAHAMA HAVE TO BUILD MORE MOTOWAYS ON WOYOME'S HEAD

  NO WAY,THE NDC WILL NEVER TAKE THIS ADIVCE.PRESIDENT MAHAMA HAVE TO BUILD MORE MOTOWAYS ON WOYOME'S HEAD

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• BerylRichards 9 years ago

  The WB should shut up.
  We will do what is good for us, at our own time.

  The WB should shut up.
  We will do what is good for us, at our own time.

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• Alex London 9 years ago

  Beryl
  
  Tell us what good has been done? high inflation, power outage, high interest rates, huge fiscal deficit and a many more. I am on my knees praying to God for rain fall as we have asked by the Energy minister. Beryl ...
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  Beryl
  
  Tell us what good has been done? high inflation, power outage, high interest rates, huge fiscal deficit and a many more. I am on my knees praying to God for rain fall as we have asked by the Energy minister. Beryl are you doing your bit?

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• Mohammed Yakubu 9 years ago

  The World Bank shd also put presure on this govt to stop dev themselves and pay contractors.The Getfund contractors are dying but the Getfund boss is buying and building houses everywhere in Ghana in funny names and tittles.I ...
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  The World Bank shd also put presure on this govt to stop dev themselves and pay contractors.The Getfund contractors are dying but the Getfund boss is buying and building houses everywhere in Ghana in funny names and tittles.Investigate him.

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• Osei Yao 9 years ago

  DO NOT LET ANYONE DICTATE TO US WHAT WE SHOULD OR SHOULD NOT DO. DEVELOPMENT INCLUDES MAKING YOUR OWN MISTAKES AND LEARNING FORM THEM.

  DO NOT LET ANYONE DICTATE TO US WHAT WE SHOULD OR SHOULD NOT DO. DEVELOPMENT INCLUDES MAKING YOUR OWN MISTAKES AND LEARNING FORM THEM.

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• G. K. Berko 9 years ago

  Osei, haven't we made more than enough errors already to have learnt the lessons we need to put the Nation back on track? How many more mistakes do we need to allow before we know what to do for the better?
  
  Surely, we must ...
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  Osei, haven't we made more than enough errors already to have learnt the lessons we need to put the Nation back on track? How many more mistakes do we need to allow before we know what to do for the better?
  
  Surely, we must guard against being dictated to by outsiders. But when we neglect our own responsibilities for way too long, forcing us to solicit the same outsiders we are trying to keep out of our affairs for Financial Assistance, we give them the chance to offer suggestions as this.
  
  Not every Foreign entity is predatory to us. Not every Foreign entity is inimical to our progress. Not every Foreign entity wishes us to remain in pre-historic primitivity. We must be astute enough to rightly filter the lot out there for those who genuinely mean well, and humble enough to consider their suggestions. We cannot continue to turn our heads to let our leaders loot us, left and right, to empty our Treasury, and arrogantly claim we do not need any outsider to dictate to us, and then run right back to the same outsiders to beg them to lend us money to buy our babie's diapers, Sugar, Milk, Gas (Petrol), Kerosene, etc.
  
  We must not naively believe some of our own folks can never hurt us, or all our folks look out for our collective good. If it were not for Foreigners, for example, we could still be under the Shackles of Slavery.
  
  So, chill out, brother! Be pragmatic even as you dream big for our Nation. The Freedom of Information Bill is increasingly becoming a necessity in any arsenal we could muster for effectively controlling Corruption. That Bill plus the stripping of our Constitution of immunity Clauses that shield powerful Politicians, like the President, must be duly promulgated promptly--if we ever want to be really free. We may have our Political freedom, but not Economic Freedom from both within and without. We did not push the Brits out of our Land only to have some of our own impose on us, or milk us at will.
  
  May the Lord help us all!
  
  Long Live Ghana!!!

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• G. K. Berko 9 years ago

  Fellow Ghanaians, we cannot deny the obvious, now. When we have a guy called "Crooke" and another called "Bishop" collaborate to push the Government for more transparency by passing the stalled RTI, we must not let the hint b ...
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  Fellow Ghanaians, we cannot deny the obvious, now. When we have a guy called "Crooke" and another called "Bishop" collaborate to push the Government for more transparency by passing the stalled RTI, we must not let the hint be lost on us.
  
  We are in deep sh*t! If the International entities like Mr. Crooke's are now pushing the Government to be more transparent, we better rest assured that lots of heinous dirty secrets regarding why our Nation is cruising faster and faster into an Economic abyss exist.
  
  Let's see if the Mahama Administration would have the b*lls to request that the Parliament immediately pass the RTI. And by the way, doesn't it seem the Parliament itself is scared of its own shadow? It does not have to wait for some Mr. Crooke and Mr. Bishop to prod it to pass the Freedom of Information Bill that has for ages been ignored.
  
  It smacks of grotesque self-preservation at the expense of all other Citizens that the Parliament would deny us that Bill. I would suggest that all true patriots start considering soliciting the Wikileaks and other progressive intrusive Data Mining entities with the necessary capabilities to come to our aid by digging up the deepest hidden atrocities our leaders are perpetrating against us.
  
  I have long suggested that we ought to find a reputable Legal entity to lead us solicit the Hague, (World Court), for making the massive Corruption that plague us a crime against Humanity. I know that is a tall order to pursue. But we must try to make our point clear.
  
  We are tired of how one Political camp charges its incumbent opponent for crimes against the State. But when it comes to Power it does the same crap that it has been charging the other of, and nothing gets done to change the course for the better. Our Politicians have no excuse to keep us in the doldrums for so long, while they lift themselves up with our resources.
  
  Our People are played like clueless kids in kindergarten. The Politicians know most of us are not knowledgeable enough and hardly know, for example, the difference between Futures and Stocks, let alone understanding how, say, Procurement, is supposed to work. So, they always easily devise new schemes to milk us dry, and we would not know until the effects of their malevolence rear their heads as in the current case of hard times.
  
  Wake up, Ghana!! Let's get busier scrutinizing every State Pesewa earned, borrowed and spent. Let's demand to know how our Assets are dispensed of. We have the Web to assist us peep through the dark crevices. Let us find our lost treasures and make relentless efforts to retrieve them. Let us begin to tightly hold on to our Natural Resources. How many of us know how our Oil Blocks, for instance, were sold off to various firms? Or, we do not need to know?
  
  Folks, Democracy does not start and end with only Voting. But that is our current clique of Politicians would rather have us believe. Aquiescing to them, we give up our birthrights for only their existential comfort. We deserve better, Folks. We deserve better.
  
  Long Live Ghana!!!

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