We’ve blown our opportunity with the oil find – MP laments

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vivian 9 years ago

WE INVESTED WITH IT

WE INVESTED WITH IT
Osei-wusu 9 years ago

I doubt Vivian understands the investment.

I doubt Vivian understands the investment.
Osei-wusu 9 years ago

I doubt Vivian understands the word investment unless of course she means Ghanaian understanding of the word.

I doubt Vivian understands the word investment unless of course she means Ghanaian understanding of the word.
OSEI TAWIAH 9 years ago

KUFFOUR BLOWN THE MONEY NOT NDC: THE OIL WAS NOT THERE BUT KUFFOUR USED IT TO GO FOR LOANS:

KUFFOUR BLOWN THE MONEY NOT NDC: THE OIL WAS NOT THERE BUT KUFFOUR USED IT TO GO FOR LOANS:
OSEI TAWIAH 9 years ago

KUFFOUR BLOWN IT OUT BEFORE MAHAMA CAME TO POWER

KUFFOUR BLOWN IT OUT BEFORE MAHAMA CAME TO POWER
OMANBA 9 years ago

Kuffuor left empty state coffers when he left office.When the economy was on its knees he introduced populist policies which the economy could not support.What did the nation gain from the staging of the Africa cup finals in ...
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Kuffuor left empty state coffers when he left office.When the economy was on its knees he introduced populist policies which the economy could not support.What did the nation gain from the staging of the Africa cup finals in Ghana?They spent an enormous amount of money to celebrate Ghana's 60 years independence when the economy was on its knees.The NPP should know that Ghanaians are not stupid.
PRINCE KWASI ADADE 9 years ago

AUTHOR: EBO QUANSAH---------------Dear reader, forgive me for diverting from the topic I promised yesterday. I have been compelled by Jerry Rawlings’ outburst in Nigeria about corruption, as if he himself is a saint. I am c ...
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AUTHOR: EBO QUANSAH---------------Dear reader, forgive me for diverting from the topic I promised yesterday. I have been compelled by Jerry Rawlings’ outburst in Nigeria about corruption, as if he himself is a saint. I am compelled to do this expose on the former junta head for those who do not know his role in promoting corruption as a national concept. Read on!
In June 1979, eight top military officers, including three former heads of state, were lined up and executed at the Teshie Military Firing range in two batches. Gen. Ignatius Kutu Acheampong, Gen. Frederick William Kwasi Akuffo, Gen. Robert Kotei, Lt-Gen. Akwasi Amankwaa Afrifa, Rear Admiral Joy Amedume, Air Vice-Marshall George Yaw Boakye, Emmanuel K. Utuka and Colonel Roger Felli were accused of corrupting the body politic.
In an interview with New Nation, a monthly magazine circulating in Nigeria and now defunct, the Chairman of the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council, which supervised over the most famous case of extra-judicial killings in the history of the political evolution of Ghana, justified the action of his military junta as a necessary action to rid the body politic of corruption.
“They were jumbo-sized armed robbers whose killings left the world smelling nicer,” Flt-Lt. Rawlings was quoted by the magazine as saying in explanation.
Jerry Rawlings said the officers had to be killed, “because Ghana was faced with their type of thievery breed of criminals who were worse than Nigeria’s armed robbers” in the 1970s.
“Now, I’ll tell you what we have here. We have a breed that is, perhaps, worse than your armed robbers,” he told reporters of the New Nation in an exclusive interview. “They are the pen robbers. These species of vermin have for long perpetrated corruption with impunity.
“They have not only bled the nation white, but as a result of their thievery, Ghana has suffered hunger, loss of national spirit, loss of pride and respect in the military uniform. So, as you can see, while Nigerians have perceived their main social problems to be the proliferation of six Naira armed robbers, we, in Ghana, think that our problem is that of people who take widow’s mite from a bankrupt nation.”
In the words of the ex-junta head: “While you (Nigeria) content yourself at the Bar Beach by watching the executions of mal-adjusted labourers, mechanics or clerks, we in Ghana, have killed the jumbo armed robbers, call them generals or brigadiers – whose going to leave the world smelling sweeter.”
One interesting thing about this claim is that Jerry Rawlings and his righteous AFRC members could not account for monies lodged in AFRC Account 48, which was specially created to lodge huge monies paid by businessmen and other persons and institutions found guilty by a so-called people court to have corrupted the system. Monies from seized goods auctioned to the public at so-called control prices were also lodged in the account.
When President Hilla Limann took power after the AFRC had left the scene on September 24, 1979, the new Head of State complained that there was nothing in the coffers, insinuating that the famous Account 48 could not be traced.
When Flt-Lt. Rawlings, who had refused to accept the new government’s offer to go on course abroad, was questioned on the disappearance of the huge lodgings in the account, he replied that he was not an accountant. Incidentally, the fate of PNDC Account 48, established by the second junta led by the same person, has not been accounted for as you read this piece.
One of the most interesting developments in Ghana’s political evolution was the decision to abolish the General Certificate of Examinations -Ordinary and Advanced levels- by the Provisional National Defence Council. The main reason given was that the old educational system had favoured only the children of the elite class.
At a time ordinary folks of the land were enrolling their children in what became known as the Junior and Senior Secondary schools, whose certificates -BECE and SCCE- were not recognised beyond the four corners of the country, Jerry Rawlings enrolled his children at the expensive Ghana International School in Accra to read subjects that qualified them to sit for the GCE Ordinary and the Advanced levels his PNDC administration had prohibited the mass of Ghanaian children from.
I do not believe corruption is only putting state money in one’s pocket. Exploiting state resources for one’s advantage could even be a worse form of corruption. That is why I have an axe to grind with Jerry Rawlings for enrolling all his children abroad to study with the GCE Ordinary and Advanced levels, acquired outside the formal sector in the country.
What I call Jerry’s Stupid Schools has debased education up to the tertiary level, where lottery numbers, other than real academic work, determines qualification at the first degree level.
To add insult to injury, when asked to tell Ghanaians how he was funding the education of all the three children -Ezanator, YaaAsantewaa and Kimathi- in expensive universities in Britain and Ireland, Jerry Rawlings looked at Ghanaians in the face and answered that unknown benefactors were picking up the bills for their fees.
The Almighty is a kind Lord. It emerged that companies the state of Ghana was dealing with and which were milking Ghana dry, were picking up the bills of Jerry Rawlings’ children. And such a person has the audacity to complain about leaders being corrupt.
I dare state that corruption was elevated into an art under Jerry Rawlings. The circumstances under which he transformed himself from a military dictator into a civil constitutional President smells of corruption all the way to the Castle.
After eleven and a half years of the ‘Gospel According to Jerry Rawlings,’ a period he himself identified as the ‘culture of silence’, Jerry Rawlings and those who claim to believe in him used the resources of state to convert his military oligarchy and the entire governance system into a political party. With the Electoral Commission and the entire process under his thumb, Jerry Rawlings exchanged his military garb for a description as Constitutional President of the Republic of Ghana. God Almighty should remain where he is.
The eight year administration he led, as Constitutional President of this Republic, eulogised corruption as a state-sponsored event. State asserts were transferred to cronies under the guise of divestiture. As you read this piece, Nsawam Cannery, one of the flagship projects of the now defunct Ghana Industrial Holding Corporation, belongs to Caridem, a company floated by Mrs. Rawlings’ 31st December Women’s Movement, in a purchasing agreement that parceled the company to Caridem for a pittance.
Under the Government of the National Democratic Congress Mark One, corruption festered on a large scale. It would take volumes to chronicle corruption under the NDC. But four prominent issues stand out. Getting to the end of the first term of office, newspapers that had been freed from the bondage of the culture of silence began chronicling evidence of corrupt deals by leading members of the regime.
In 1996, the Commission for Human Rights and Administrative Justice investigated one matter and established massive corrupt deals against Ibrahim Adam, then Minister of Agriculture, Colonel E.M. Osei Owusu, a former Minister of the Interior, P.V. Obeng, a Presidential Staffer, and Dr. Adjei Marfo, a Chief Executive Officer of a state-run company.
Instead of prosecuting them, the Government of Saint Rawlings rather issued a While Paper exonerating the corrupt elements, and rather indicted the media for highlighting the issue.
In Britain, Mabey and Johnson was prosecuted not too long ago for corruptly influencing Ghanaian politicians between 1994 and 1999 to gain bridge contracts, The news in these contracts is that barely one year after completing two bridges in Ghana, including one over River Oti, the Ghana Government had to contract experts from Britain to repair them as they threatened to cave in.
In 2002, the former Managing Director of Ghana Rubber Estates Limited, Mr. Etienne Arthur Marie Popeler, told an Accra Fast Track High Court that he gave millions of dollars to Mr. Dan Abodakpi, then Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry, Ms. Shirley Ayittey, then Treasurer of the 31st December Women’s Movement, in bribes before his French company, SIPH, could secure GREL.
The case of Ms. Cotton, an unemployed American, secured $20 million of scarce state cash from compromised state officials, ostensibly to grow rice for Ghanaians at Aveyime in the Battor area of the Volta Region. Even when Ghana’s Ambassador to the United States had sent a warning letter about the background of Ms. Cotton, and intimating that she was incapable of undertaking the task, state officials paid the money. As it turned out, the main motivating factor was the cut they all stood to make.
If corruption is endemic in the body politic after the so-called June 4, uprising, the genesis could be traced to Jerry Rawlings who executed eight Ghanaians officials on unproven trivial charges, and out-doored full- blown corruption as a state policy.
In other exposé next week, I intend to draw the link between the free for all looting that assails the body politic in the Mills-Mahama regime, and the adventure of Jerry John Rawlings as Head of State of this Republic. I shall return!
jj Rawlings 9 years ago

The killing of military officers by jj Rawlings was justified because of corruption.So Ghana can smell better? Well he jj Rawlings brought the shame in the neighborhood. Now we ghanaians want to shame him.

The killing of military officers by jj Rawlings was justified because of corruption.So Ghana can smell better? Well he jj Rawlings brought the shame in the neighborhood. Now we ghanaians want to shame him.
evil lies without a shred of evidence 9 years ago

evil lies without a shred of evidence

evil lies without a shred of evidence
TEE 9 years ago

MAHAAM STLOEN GHANA TO DUBAI IRAN TURKEY SIUTH AFRICA SIUTH AMERICA, AM I LYING PERIOD

MAHAAM STLOEN GHANA TO DUBAI IRAN TURKEY SIUTH AFRICA SIUTH AMERICA, AM I LYING PERIOD
Emmanuel 9 years ago

kwaseabi nti our cedi is falling. if Kuffour blown it out as you claim where this kwaseafou get the money to Wayome for not work done.

kwaseabi nti our cedi is falling. if Kuffour blown it out as you claim where this kwaseafou get the money to Wayome for not work done.
I say 9 years ago

Eii - nkwasiafo plenty. So NDC got the money but kuffour spent it?

Eii - nkwasiafo plenty. So NDC got the money but kuffour spent it?
OSAGYEFO 9 years ago

SO DO WE HAVE OIL? HMMMMMM

SO DO WE HAVE OIL? HMMMMMM
Kojo 9 years ago

I am suprise, NPP MP is talking about the oil money. This money was spent way before the current government took office. I think the MP has to check his part

I am suprise, NPP MP is talking about the oil money. This money was spent way before the current government took office. I think the MP has to check his part
DAUDA 9 years ago

WHAT DO EXPECT FROM A NPPIAN?

WHAT DO EXPECT FROM A NPPIAN?
commonman 9 years ago

they used the money for idey bii k3k3

they used the money for idey bii k3k3
KWABENA OHEMENG,LONDON 9 years ago

It appears our politicians did not learn any lessons from the economic downturns in Europe and America. Overspending by governments and bad bank practices were the causes of the economic problems Europe and America are curren ...
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It appears our politicians did not learn any lessons from the economic downturns in Europe and America. Overspending by governments and bad bank practices were the causes of the economic problems Europe and America are currently faced with. Even those who have not been to school to learn basic economics know that always spending above your income is a very bad financial management practice with disastrous consequences. Yes, we have crossed the 'red line and as a nation we are paying the price for it.This could have been avoided.
Whatever 9 years ago

Are these NPP MPs alright in their mind? And then they hail Kwesi Botwey, the man who landed Ghana into Bankruptcy in year 2000, the man they criticized to death under Rawlings reign. What a funny bunch

Are these NPP MPs alright in their mind? And then they hail Kwesi Botwey, the man who landed Ghana into Bankruptcy in year 2000, the man they criticized to death under Rawlings reign. What a funny bunch
Activist 9 years ago

Listen to this fool! What is he talklimg about! I wonder if they are afraid to confront Kufour the ugly dirty black thief. You mother fucker idiot should ask Kufour where he kept the 350 million dollars he took as commission ...
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Listen to this fool! What is he talklimg about! I wonder if they are afraid to confront Kufour the ugly dirty black thief. You mother fucker idiot should ask Kufour where he kept the 350 million dollars he took as commission from the oil! You are out of your mind! Insane idiots parading as politicians! Tell your foolish ugly Kufour to return the money to the nation! Stupid fool. If you people think this will win you power, then you lie very bad. Ghanaians are not very stupid and foolish like you. To the government communications teams, I say shame onto you equally foolish people. As to why Mahama is still keeping you mother fucker incompetent idiots, only heaven knows. It is like this criminal tribal party, npp has closed your smelling mouths, preventing you to talk and expose the dirty lies of these tribal bigots. Shame onto you people! Swines!
Death 9 years ago

The money was givenas

The money was givenas
OWURAT 9 years ago

YES A VERY GOOD QUESTION,MR MP PLEASE THAT IS THE SORT OF STUPID HYPOCRISY OF U WHO SHOULD KNOW BETTER.TELL THE WHOLE WORLD WHAT NPP DID WITH THE MONEY FROM VODAFONE(900M) AND THE 500M SALE OF AGC.MR A MANU,
COME AGAIN ! AND ...
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YES A VERY GOOD QUESTION,MR MP PLEASE THAT IS THE SORT OF STUPID HYPOCRISY OF U WHO SHOULD KNOW BETTER.TELL THE WHOLE WORLD WHAT NPP DID WITH THE MONEY FROM VODAFONE(900M) AND THE 500M SALE OF AGC.MR A MANU,
COME AGAIN ! AND COME WELL.
Dan 9 years ago

I am surprise the whole Chairman of Public Accounts asking such a question .if having gone through all accounts presented to him he cannot tell us what the money was used for he must resign from public accounts.He must tell a ...
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I am surprise the whole Chairman of Public Accounts asking such a question .if having gone through all accounts presented to him he cannot tell us what the money was used for he must resign from public accounts.He must tell all of us what public funds were used for .he should give us break.
GHANA FIRST 9 years ago

Knowing the problem ishalf the problem solved
But are we going to act on what we have known?
This is really our problem.With the knowledge we will sit down and talk and talk and propaganda and the problem will till be there ...
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Knowing the problem ishalf the problem solved
But are we going to act on what we have known?
This is really our problem.With the knowledge we will sit down and talk and talk and propaganda and the problem will till be there
Oh NDC if you do not have the guts tohold the bull by the horn leave the scene and let those who can do it come and do it.My believe in this 4yr democracy is waning.Why should Ghanaians "stand and stare" until after 4yrs when things are getting bad?
TEE 9 years ago

SO HE EMPTY ALL THE STATE COFFER AND NOW WE ARE BROKE PERIOD

SO HE EMPTY ALL THE STATE COFFER AND NOW WE ARE BROKE PERIOD
Dr Thomas 9 years ago

mahama spent the money foolishly

mahama spent the money foolishly

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