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TUC strike is positive and timely - AFAG

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  • Antiochus - London 9 years ago

    The TUC should withstand any intimidations and carry on with the demo so that the world can hear their voice.

  • ZoRRo 9 years ago

    If you are suffering and you know it, join a demo and express your feelings to this clueless government. Maybe that will get them to act, knowing that we are now awake

  • adumtumi nyansafuo 9 years ago

    This demo is useless like you favorite president obama. Let me tell you something, Ghana belongs to the NDC okay. Rawlings and the PNDC killed for Ghana's liberation from Akan fools like you. This demo is crap. Where are you ...
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  • OLD SOLDIER 9 years ago

    Author: OYOKOBA.....

    How I wish I had the wherewithal to appoint this man, Amidu as the Attorney General again.

    John Dramani Mahama has no shame and no credibility otherwise he would have appointed this one and only goo ...
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  • PRINCE KWASI ADADE (OFIE) 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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  • BLACKMAN 9 years ago

    Fire will rain upon you Adumtumi Nyansafuo for insulting good people of Ghana. Please note, the police and the soldiers are in this economic predicament and nothing would happen to the demonstrators.

  • HolyGhost 9 years ago

    The bunch of useless group afag will support anything not npp

  • julu 9 years ago

    ghanaweb doesnt do news anymore, they only do propaganda.

    in 2002 in Ghana, things were really tough, and all i heard from Ghanaweb was that, NPP inherited a mess and they are doing great despite the tariff hikes and the 2 ...
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  • raxends,Amsterdam 9 years ago

    why do u talk like that?Everyone knows what is going on in the country right now even we who dont reside in the country are feeling it too.So dont sit there and insult akans,Ghana belongs to all of us.Be wise, this politician ...
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  • insight to the bone 9 years ago

    As the days go by more and more people wake up to the reality of the ndc anti Akan hate agenda and their deep rooted corrupt dark souls of evil .This was first initiated by the Ewes and through Mahama and his brothers being c ...
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  • DESTROYERS PARTY 9 years ago

    u are seriously sick go back to togo useless IDIOT

  • KOFI SEFA 9 years ago

    When a nation is in serious decline as we are experiencing in Ghana, the poor people are hit hardest. It is not the Ashantis who will suffer most. It is the very people the NDC purports to protect and support. It is the peopl ...
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  • AGYAAKU 9 years ago

    AFAG, being a political pressure wing of NPP will of course, support anything that seems to put this government into bad taste. Come to think of it, no one is disputing the fact that 'things are hard' in Ghana. But what reall ...
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  • KOFI SEFA 9 years ago

    The numbers you used in your comment do not make sense. Remember that out of the same population of 26 million people, what is the percentage of those who rule the state? Far Less than the number you quoted 600 000 organised ...
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  • Nat 9 years ago

    i think the president should heed to the call of AFAG and resign so we find a better person to manage our economy.Which Government will buy cars to distribute freely to people while student are out of class room because their ...
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  • adumtumi nyansafuo 9 years ago

    Mahama is an idiot when it comes to the economy. But, he did not commit any crimes therefore impeach will not be possible. SWINE.

  • KOFFI 9 years ago

    adumtumi nyansafuo, please learn to be a little civil in your suggestions. There is no earthly reason why you should insult somebody with a different opinion, that certainly will not make the person change his/her mind to agr ...
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  • insight to the bone 9 years ago

    this warrior is ever ready and is patiently waiting for the right time to deal with your promoters of the anti Akan agenda . as you organize your demonstration against the US embassy we are also sharpening our cutlasses , nev ...
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  • Remove Indemnity Clause 9 years ago

    Ghana has taken over from Nigeria as the number corrupt government in Africa.

  • THE CHOSEN ONE 9 years ago

    GOOD FOR NOTHING BLACK ASS GHANAIANS.
    THEY CAN STRIKE BUT CAN'T WORK HARD TO FEED THEIR FAMILY'S.
    ALL THEY CAN DO IS TO STRIKE AND AFTER STRIKE, WHAT?

  • Mankind 9 years ago

    Good TUC!! You need an Arab Spring to topple the government or a Military Coup D'etat. You have no other choice so far as Afari-Gyan is your E.C

  • Ephraim Commodore 9 years ago

    TUC is surpose to be a strong pressure group that should be able to bring the Mahama administration to order.But all that, they come with, was just words. I have known TUC in past who were on the government payroll. They talk ...
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  • kaketonti 9 years ago

    Its pity that men have lost their reason.Oh yes;The President comes from the North.Proud that he is a Ghanaian with a solid base.The demos,strikes etc tell more than economic mismanagement.Simply,its agitation for inter-ethni ...
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  • ISSAH MOHAMMED IKILIL 9 years ago

    THIS COUNTRY IS NO MORE IN THE HANDS OF A CERTAIN CLASS OF PEOPLE WHO IN THEIR WILDEST IMAGINATION THINK IT IS THEIR BIRTH RIGHT TO RULE BUT NOT TO BE RULED SO HELL MUST BREAK LOOSE.WE GHANAIANS BORE PATIENTLY WITH KUFFOUR'S ...
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  • KOFFI 9 years ago

    Are sure you were in Ghana In Kuffour's administration? Be honest for once and compare life in Kuffour,s era to this Mahama,s two years.
    There is no perfect government anywhere but at least we can compare living standards in ...
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  • Erico 9 years ago

    Mahama n his men must resign for being highly corrupt n failure

  • NANA ADDO 9 years ago

    WE ARE NOT FOOLS IN GHANA. JDM ALL THE WAY.

  • James Armstrong 9 years ago

    The activities of this card carrying NPP member is disturbing and not in the interest of Ghanaian workers and must be booted out he is shamelessly playing a political agenda for his pay masters

  • MAKAMAKA 9 years ago

    What a rotten piece of write up.

    AFAG is an NPP filled pack of liars and detractors.

    AFAG and their useless group of London based Ghanaians with no aim, are nothing but trouble makers.

    Sad to see they managed to g ...
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  • AAA 9 years ago

    TUC leadership is showing lack of intelligence. The cost of living in Ghana is getting harder each day due to depreciating cedi, why? Because Ghanaian workers love foreign goods. The TUC leadership can stop the depreciatin ...
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  • GHANANI 9 years ago

    Why not positive for after all the Amricans are financing you to destabilize Mahama's NDC government which America does not want to see in power in Ghana.They want your party NPP and their puppet Akuffo-Addo to be in power i ...
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  • mensa 9 years ago

    so this so called strikes, who loses more, the president or the citizens, funny.....

  • Dagbandow 9 years ago

    The strike being organised the TUC is unproductive. It is going to further hurt our economy.

  • A. Arthur 9 years ago

    Fully Support

  • Latory Perez (CHief 1) 9 years ago

    Word of wisdom, many in the ruling party NDC knew their man is not doing well but they can't say anything because we warn them and they refuse. But I am not disappointed because this is what I foresaw in J M and did not vo ...
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  • ATOOOO 9 years ago

    Why wouldnt it be timely? That is what you have been waiting for all this while. TUC is an appendage of NPP so this is a calculated and well thought out plan. Who does not know in this country where the leadership of TUC and ...
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  • GHANANI 9 years ago

    America is pure evil.With AFAG and other pro NPP groups and individuals they are fighting tooth and nail to destabilize and remove Mahama's NDC government.This is exactly what America did to Osagyefo and his CPP government.Am ...
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  • Jerry Sodeman 9 years ago

    I don't believe this. Can you prove any of it? America has done so much for Ghana and other countries. Why do people believe and repeat anti-American propoganda? Is it because of envy?

  • GHANANI 9 years ago

    What do you mean by envy? Just look at the destructive behaviour of America around the world.look at what is happening in Libya,Syria and all over the world.Wherever there is desrtruction and war America is there and behind t ...
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  • Bawa Abraham Norbert 9 years ago

    IT,s time Ghanaians address issues objectively denouncing our political affiliations.It is true that times are hard but does not means one should always take issues so personal to the extend of painting a gloomy picture of th ...
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  • Jerry Sodeman 9 years ago

    How is not working going to help? Working is one thing that can move Ghana ahead.
    Does President Mahama conrol everything in this country? How can he be blamed for every problem that there is here?

  • CK ARKAIFIE 9 years ago

    Good we are ready for action

  • National Patapaa Party 9 years ago

    This is all they know - strike! Lazy people always demanding but not working and giving!!!

  • Maa Adwoa 9 years ago

    Surely President Mahama must resign or be forced to resign. The Mahama government can be compared to a failed CEO. If a CEO fails to deliver he is removed in order to save the company.
    It is time for Mahama to do the right t ...
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  • AGYAAKU 9 years ago

    Get a copy of the constitution to read and let's see if you can come back here with with such a warped ideas publicly.

  • BOY GHANA 9 years ago

    AFAG must remember that their godfather Busia sacked thousands of worker for going on strike.You can go on strike as you wish but remember you can loss your job too.TUC has no authority to tell the President to resign,on what ...
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  • Nicholas Osei Kyeretwie-Chicago 9 years ago

    We are adding our voice to the call of AFAG urging organized labor to make resignation of this corrupt and incompetent government before it's too late an urgent priority. The people are dying of hunger and poverty. The econom ...
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  • BOY KOFI 9 years ago

    When George W.Bush sent Americans to stupid war in Iraq did somebody ask him to resign?Now I know that NPP is afraid of losing the next general election thus instigating all sort of rubbish,Arab spring,uprising,military coup, ...
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  • jessy 9 years ago

    what is Mr Rawlings doing in this case????????????????????????????????????

  • tamale 9 years ago

    THE PEOPLE OF GHANA VOTED NDC AND JDM INTO POWER SO THIS NPP GROUP OF SO-CALLED TUC SHOULD GIVE US A BREAK WE NEED PEACE,,
    JUST STOP WORSTING YOUR TIME AND ENERGY AND GO PRAY TO GOD

  • Kwamina 9 years ago

    AREN'T WE JUST SHORT SIGHTED ABOUT WHAT IS GOING ON? HAVE WE SAT DOWN JUST FOR JUST A MINUTE TO SEE WHAT WE CAN CONTRIBUTE TO HELP BRING ABOUT A CHANGE?
    OH! THE PROVERBIAL FOOL WHO ALWAYS SAYS THAT IT'S MY FRIEND NOT ME, TIL ...
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  • KT. OSEI 9 years ago

    GOOD COMMENT MY BOTHER. GOD BLESS YOU.

  • KT. OSEI 9 years ago

    IT IS UNFORTUNATE THAT THE SAME PEOPLE WHO COULD HAVE NEGOTIATED WELL FOR SALARIES TO BE INCREASED ARE DOING POLITICS. THIS ACTION IS NOTHING BUT POLITICS. WHAT WILL BE THE IMPACT OF THAT STRIKE. WE ARE DISAPPOINTED IN TUC.
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  • skunk 9 years ago

    politics will kill us Ghanaians.we politicised every single positive things that is supposed to make feel comfortable.After elections no politics.We are suppose to work together as a country and help the government not to dep ...
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