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Gov’t spends $176 million oil money unlawfully

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  • the truth 9 years ago

    where is the opposition, NPP, this is their job. This is the problem Ghana is facing at the moment, with a weak opposition the government has a licence to kill

  • PRINCE KWASI ADADE 9 years ago

    WE KNOW ONLY TWO NAMES, NANA ADDO & BAWUMIA. NANA'S LEADERSHIP WITH BAWUMIA IS EXCELLENT. NANA IS OUR POLITICAL MESSIAH!! WE WILL PATIENTLY WAIT FOR HIM TO COME AND LIBERATE US FROM OUR ECONOMIC OPPRESSORS.WE CAN'T PUT OUR TR ...
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  • Sumanguru 9 years ago

    It wouldn't be surprised if we wake up one day as slaves. These corrupt leaders will sell the country itself. What at all is happening? Mahama is behaving like a headless chicken. Please wake up and provide the kind of leader ...
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  • UHF 9 years ago

    It's ok to spend any amount of $ on Ghanaians if $176m was well spent that's great the NDC must be brave to spend ghanas $ however any money spent must be accounted for and it must be in the interest of Ghanaians we must not ...
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  • KOLA INSIDE LONDON 9 years ago

    Government spent money from the fund so what is the big deal?

    NDC Government spends money for meaningful cause and will not leave it for the opposition NPP thieves.

  • Allottey 9 years ago

    Mahama has no respect for parliament.

  • Gary 9 years ago

    Summon the president to the parliament to explain

  • Ghfuo, RIP Maya Angelou! 9 years ago

    Parliament should stop functioning then. Don't even attend sessions.let mahama be is own judge and jury.

  • Babatunde London 9 years ago

    Please just mention a project this money was spent on to substantiate was claim.

  • KOLA,LONDON MAIN 9 years ago

    When this writer said 'spent', did it not occur to you to ask him what the expenditure was/is?

    Spent on what? Propaganda?

  • The Mask 9 years ago

    The President cannot spend money without the prior approval of parliament. MPs must take the President to the supreme court.

    The Bank of Ghana (BOG) has no Eastern Regional headoffice. I don´t believe that the BOG has acc ...
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  • Enyonam 9 years ago

    No wonder Mahama told Ghanaians thats is left with only the"BONES" that means he knows what he's doing. What other Institution is the Government stealing from. Ghanaians are very grateful for letting us know the truth Dr.Amin ...
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  • Ghfuo, RIP Maya Angelou! 9 years ago

    So useless and irresponsible. Like u don't have a deficit to pay. Like u shouldn't fix and repair infrastructure

  • tragic country lover 9 years ago

    Kola inside London, i am afraid you got issues bigger that what is being discussed on this platform. Please do me a favour and take the blinkers. Off .will ya?

  • TEE 9 years ago

    WE HAVE BEEN SAYI G IT FROM DAY ONE MAHAMA AND HIS CROOKS ARE CHOPPING THE OIL MONEY, PROBE MAHAMA NOW NOT LATER

  • Foxnews 9 years ago

    @the truth l support you 100% Npp are in bed with the government,l mean NPP members in parliament,they are even worst than NDC parliamenterians.

  • insight to the bone 9 years ago

    We Akans as a people have competent , knowledgeable expertise and capable individuals who can not only manage Ghana but even the USA or any country for that matter. As long as we tap into the resources of both the diaspora an ...
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  • Eye Yen Dargartefor 9 years ago

    Insight, you have a strong supporter here. Ghana should split with all Akans on one side. It's just unheard off that the area where all these natural resources come from enjoys nothing and the North enjoys scholarships, are g ...
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  • MR OBJECTIVE 9 years ago

    THE OPPOSITION PARTY IS COWARD AND IN SIDELINE/GAYISMIZED WITH JOHN DRAMANI.

  • Americano 9 years ago

    It is not a shame to hang the gloves Mr mahama. you have failed! you are rich now with oil money. shame!

  • Pelicles 9 years ago

    Remember that NDC has the majority in parliament and no matter what the opposition do, in the end, when it comes to vote, their hands are tied. Look at the $3 billion loan from China. The opposition cautioned about it but i ...
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  • SHOGGOLOGGOBANGGOSHIE 9 years ago

    WHO IS TO BLAME,
    A) NATIONAL DESTROYERS CONGRESS(NDC)
    B) NANA AFARI AGYAN BONSAM
    C) SUPREME CULTIST (ATUGUBA)

  • PRINCE KWASI ADADE 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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  • Agya 9 years ago

    isn't this Mahama supposed to be fighting corruption? Just lip service?

  • Odd 9 years ago

    Dr Asenso is an embarrassment to the country, if all he takes his monthly wages and per deem is for defending , the un defenderable , and sits as a top official of ministry of finance . Shame to his knowledge. We talk and pro ...
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  • BALLOT PAPER 9 years ago

    It is clear that the Mahama led NDC gov't is hell bent on burying the country perpetually in the doldrums of retrogression and stagnation with no accountability, no transparency, recklessness and lawlessness at it's apologeti ...
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  • NAKED 9 years ago

    Thank God that i am not a ghanaian who are fools without head to think and reason.

  • Charles Agbenu 9 years ago

    parliament must check the reckless Mahama marauding gang

  • Ugly Akufu Addo 9 years ago

    Stupid fool

  • BOY KOFI 9 years ago

    Oil cash brews problems and the earlier we find a remedy the better.I think the monitorig organisations should sit right here in the Western region but not in Accra so that tranparency will work.There are too many bad deals i ...
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  • Ugly Akufu Addo 9 years ago

    Put ur mind there in solving ur problems

  • hoot 9 years ago

    We have all these people. Bitch Giant's problem is every ghanaia's problem not just a party...there will be a time a group will claim part of ghana and your ceremonial special forces cant do nun. Hope u paying attention to N ...
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  • J.O 9 years ago

    He has done it again

  • KOMOO FRANCE. 9 years ago

    mahama must be shot.Where is the bastard Rawlings?

  • Kofi Mensah 9 years ago

    Simply tell the truth and find out what the money has been used for. It could have found its way into paying judgement debts like the one paid to the foolish Mr. Woyome who is raping his own country. They will not tell you.

  • BENNETT 9 years ago

    ...THIS MAN HAS SPENT MONEY WITHOUT APPROVAL. WHETHER IT WAS USED TO DO THE RIGHT THING DOESN'T MATTER. IT WAS NOT APPROVED.

  • BENNETT 9 years ago

    SORRY

  • Papa Yaw 9 years ago

    No

  • BENNETT 9 years ago

    ELSEWHERE WHEN YOU DO THIS YOU WILL BE SACKED.

  • togbe Amuzu Dzakpatsu 9 years ago

    The main reasons for Ghana’s Economic woes
    Careful analysis of the prevailing economic conditions in Ghana reveals the following:
    An increase in salaries that does not matct with an increase in productivity automatically ...
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  • Alhaji Brutus Germany 9 years ago

    IF GHANA A THIRD WORLD COUNTRY IS HAVING MORE SUVS THAN GERMANY THE OASIS OF EUROPE THEN WE GHANIANS HAVE A LOT OF QUESTIONS TO ASK THIS NDC LED GOVT:

  • Blacks Monkey 9 years ago

    This is a speech made by former South African President P.W Botha to his cabinet about 27 years ago. It was reprinted by David G Mailu for the Sunday Times, a South African newspaper, in 1985.
    I quote…” We are not oblige ...
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  • kobina 9 years ago

    So where are Botha and his ilk now? His surviving woe-begotten misguided racist compatriots are now effectively living under black rule. Isn't that ironic?

  • Meshack 9 years ago

    Nkwaseafoo bi nti...my beloved Ghana is dying from economic asphyxiation!!!

  • S.N.OWUSU 9 years ago

    President Mahama,do the right thing to salvage your name,family,and your congregation and remember that it is appointed for a man to die and after death judgement.Read the Bible everyday so that you make a wise decisions.(JOS ...
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  • ABBA 9 years ago

    THE SPIRIT OF JUNE 4TH 1979 REVOLUTION IS TOTALLY DEAD BECAUSE MAHAMA LED NDC HAS LOOTED THE COFFERS OF THE NATION. NOW IT IS OBVIOUS THAT THE BLOOD OF THOSE WHO WERE EXECUTED ARE INNOCENT.

  • ABBA 9 years ago

    EVEN THE OIL DESCOVERY HAS BEEN THE PERSONAL PROPERTY OF NDC CRIMINALS.

  • TEE 9 years ago

    MAHAMA HAS NO FEARS TO CHOP THE STATE COFFERS, AH NDC HMMMM

  • Whatever 9 years ago

    Even when the ministry of finance produces counter- evidence to disprove his bogus claim, he still holds on to it. Is ACEP a rational entity?

  • Akans Prophecies 9 years ago

    Mahama has it all written on the wall. His first coup d'etat !He even made the death of President Atta Mills served as the re_unification for their usurpation club, but the strategy is, laying hands on everything for absol ...
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  • Oso 9 years ago

    Ghanaians are continually being taken for fools.What is the current govt doing and telling us? Where do our resources going when they come in?
    Mahama and NDC go back to Atuguba and tell him his throat-clearing judgement has ...
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  • GHANA IS DOOMED 9 years ago

    GOVT'S TAKING MONEY FROM BOG WITHOUT PARLIAMENTARY APPROVAL IS NAKED STEALING BECAUSE THIS GOVT HAS MAJORITY IN PARLIAMENT. OVER THE YEARS, THIS IS HOW NDC HAS STOLEN GHANA'S MONEY; THEY LACK THE SMALL COMMON SENSE THAT, 'IF ...
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