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Dr. Botchwey admits: “Ghana is going for a full blown IMF Programme”

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  • Viv 9 years ago

    Going for IMF means ghana is sold & the sad part is that these same politicians will share most the funds among themselves.

  • Abena 9 years ago

    Hmm, so the term for the loan could impose hardship for the already poor & suffering Ghanaians? Appalling!

  • ZoRRo 9 years ago

    We need relief, not more suffering. We also don't want a bail out program that would encumber future governments. This is why Parliament must review this IMF "Suffer-Suffer" program and vote on it, for the people.

  • OTCHERE DARKO 9 years ago

    IF "WE NEED RELIEF, NOT SUFFERING", THEN WE MUST BACK OUT OF THE "IMF BAILOUT".

    EITHER WAY, THE CONSEQUENCES WILL NOT BE "RELIEF".

    We are in a "no-win" scenario. We have "chopped-chopped" our economy into a Pandora's bo ...
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  • ZoRRo 9 years ago

    Unless we identify and fix the lapses that brought us to this point, this IMF bailout will only be a temporary fix. Ghanaians must RESIST making any more sacrifices unless the main problem of CORRUPTION is recognized and dea ...
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  • ZoRRo 9 years ago

    Any more sacrifices should come from the government officials and their cronies, for the poor have done their part.

  • onetribe 9 years ago

    Next question! How did they do this? Woyome,Sada , Gyeeda, NSS........

  • Ghfuo: hang nyantakyi! 9 years ago

    Just are already in pain and hardship. IMF bailout will only give you short term relief and longterm pain. So find the relief internally and make drastically monetary, cost.cutting decisions instead. Just don't care about the ...
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  • Dessy 9 years ago

    Silly, Korea is a Korea today because of IMF

  • Mr Bond 9 years ago

    Of course! Because Ghanaians are cowards
    to stand up to these thieves like other countries have done and are doing.

  • CRAZY 9 years ago

    OH GHANA...this is HIPC in disguise. What is wrong with our nation. Only this time the hardship will hit the people more. Don't we have people to sort out this economic mess in Ghana. Why do we always have to go to the WB or ...
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  • CRAZY 9 years ago

    Hopelessly Idiotic Persistent criminals (HIPC).

  • amenye 9 years ago

    We have gold, diamon, boxite, oil n gas, coco, timber, sea, rivers, good land for agric etc but till all these problems.

  • Dessy 9 years ago

    Ha, Ghana, we are no near to what happened to Greece..thank God out country is not bankrupt and out credit rating has open door for bailout

  • Abraham Jones 9 years ago

    Again???? when will it end. We suffered a lot. God help us amen

  • Kay 9 years ago

    Amen! This is a sad situation for our country, and Africa as a whole. Poor leadership, ineffective institutions and governance systems, unsupportive attitudes, underpinned by the lack of commitment on the part of the politici ...
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  • Greg 9 years ago

    We have failed to manage so we need an expatriate to assist us plan and manage.

  • Nii-aku 9 years ago

    Sacrilege! !! THE BLACK MAN IS CAPABLE OF MANAGING HIS OWN AFFAIRS! !!! NO?
    Well, comments are free facts are sacred. The facts speak for themselves isn't it?

  • PRAGMATIST 9 years ago

    Really?? With all the fiscal waste ignored. It looks like we are very serious people.

  • ZoRRo 9 years ago

    One may ask the current Govt: "Where is the better Ghana we were promised." Why have we discovered oil but still have to go through hardship ?

  • SBD 9 years ago

    I am not a supporter of any political party, but I believe there should a change in regime. These idiots must go and a lot of the officials should be prosecuted and jailed.

  • GHANAVIA 9 years ago

    Ask yourself who supports the NDC to the core. Do you now see your wisdom?

  • ZoRRo 9 years ago

    ZoRRo supports no political party; for they are all non-performers and have too many Greedy Bastards.

  • NDC SUPPORTER 9 years ago

    The ordainary Ghanaian will suffer meanwhile it is the incompetence of the President and his advisors who got us into this mess without being able to effectively forsee the danger ahead and put in the appropriate course so t ...
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  • KAPUU TEMA 9 years ago

    THE CORRUPTION AND INCOMPETENCE OF MAHAMA HAS LEAD GHANA TO IMF BAILOUT AND MAHAMA KEEP TELLING US LIES THAT GH WILL BE OK BUT GH IS GOING TO SUFFER MAHAMA IS BRAINLESS

  • AKOKO DARKO (USA) 9 years ago

    The truth can never be hidden. During his time in office what did he and Rawlings offer us apart from selling our resources and factories.
    We have not seen nothing yet. From P. V. Obeng to Kwesi Botchwey what good can come ...
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  • NII KOLIKO 9 years ago

    MY BROTHER YOU ARE 100% RIGHT. THESE OLD NDC GUYS ARE BACK TO STEAL ALL THE MONEY AGAIN. KWESI BOTCHWE3, DAN ABUDAKPUI, KOFI KPORTUHEY ETC, ETC. LUCKILY THE OTHER THIEF P.V. OBENG DIED LIKE A DOG ON THE STREET OF ACCRA. THESE ...
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  • OWEN,NEW YORK. 9 years ago

    They insulted him and called him names.Now the day has come.Over to you Ghanaians at home, who voted for this clueless party again.

  • DY-ANA ADWOA AMPOMA 9 years ago

    IS THAT ALL KWASI BOTCWEY CAN DO AFTER MAHAMA MESSED UP THE ECONOMY WE NEED MORE JOBS ACT NOW FOR OUR GRADUATE CHILDREN

  • Concerned 9 years ago

    What brought us to the IMF? We still have woyome walking free with every penny of his loot. Zoomlion, rlg have all not repaid a penny of the money they stole from the state. We have idiots like anita ashawo and Kobby the poof ...
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  • Francis C. Quainoo 9 years ago

    If truly Kwesi Botchway had all this time been an Economic Advisor to DULLARD MAHAMA ( but hasn't just arrived from the MARS) then I think he deserves to consult a well qualified PSYCHIATRIST.

    Otherwise, could he please te ...
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  • Dessy 9 years ago

    You know what,if he is your family member,you won't insult him and woe unto those who insult elders..Kwasi botchwey is a PHD holder..a doctorate..he is a renown economist and internationally accredited like Karl Hans Straus ...
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  • sir 9 years ago

    this dessy is crazy. you maybe on the pay list of mahama but not too long.

  • KWASI IN EUROPE 9 years ago

    This Kwasi Botchway introduced IMF PAMSCAD in the 1980s causing many people to lose their jobs. He is back again to make things worse. Where was this Mahama in the 80s? Brainless NDC.

  • Dessy 9 years ago

    Better we get rid of goes names in our pay system..The Bail out will help

  • Kwaku 9 years ago

    Here you are. Ena eda ho no! Sii Kye na. Need I say more?? Naaaaaaa!

  • Serwaa 9 years ago

    Well I guess if they're going to relinquish power to the IMF, why not sacrifice the very poor. After all, the headaches to come as a result of this loan won't affect the very corrupt politicians.

  • Commonsense 9 years ago

    But that idiot Mahama told us something different. What can IMF do that NDC couldn't do? Does it means NDC has nobody with brains? I cannot believe this shit. What are all the millions Wayome and Mahama and the NDC have stole ...
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  • NII KOLIKO 9 years ago

    CAN SOMEBODY SLAP THIS GOMOA THIEF-MAN KWESI BOTCHWE3 FOR ME? THESE ARE THE CROOKS ALWAYS MILKING GHANA INTO THIER DIRTY POCKET. YOU'VE SERVED AS THE FINANACE MINISTER FOR 13 YRS. YOU AND JJ RAWLINGS ONCE TOOK GHANA TO THE ...
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  • FUNNY THAT 9 years ago

    You are very right. I wuold certainly have slapped him for you if I were near to him. So could Mahama not take any better economic adviser than this worn out corrupted rat Kwesi Botchay?

  • YAMIKA 9 years ago

    THIS IS NOT HIV BUT FULL BLOWN AIDS
    GHANA IS IN INTENSIVE CARE UNIT
    COMATOSE. OH NDC

  • MULLER 9 years ago

    Mahama must be impeached before the outbreak of financial constraint drive all ghanaians to the reals of financial insanity. So what happened to all the oil, gold, and all the natural resources the country is endowed with an ...
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  • JA 9 years ago

    The current scenario was clear a whole year ago but the NDC kept denying that the gov't was going to IMF for a bail-out but only to present their home grown policies for support. This sort of ...
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  • My name is I m f 9 years ago

    That is after the money has been shared among yourselves .we know that already you need not to tell us.Thank you.

  • Prof 9 years ago

    You this man again. You were finance minister for almost 2 decades. You sunk Ghana economy and eventually resigned.

    You went for IMF loan but you could not turned the economy around. With this big empty head as a professor ...
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  • NII KOLIKO 9 years ago

    HE IS ONE OF THE EWE GUYS WHO DON'T WANT GHANA TO DEVELOP. WE BETTER ARREST THIS THIEF KWESI BOTCHWE3 RATHER THAN GIVING HIM A POLITICAL ADVISER POST.!!!!FOOOOOLS

  • ONE OF YOURS 9 years ago

    taken a bailout from imf is not a crime.individuals takes money from banks to expand their businesses,it works.gov't can go ahead quickly to turn things around.

  • OTCHERE DARKO 9 years ago

    "Dr Kwesi Botchwey, an economic advisor to the President, has finally admitted that Ghana is going for a full blown IMF programme which would have conditionalities.

    He did not disclose the conditions attached to the progra ...
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  • Gaisey 9 years ago

    Kwesi Botchwey is the reason Ghanaians are suffering

  • Kwame 9 years ago

    Dr Kwesi Botcwey is a one of the most corrupt guys in ghana now. He appears holly in public but if you ever get close to him, you'ld know that this man does not mind selling Ghana. He and Thief Sipa Yankey are the main reason ...
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  • C.Stephen Sackey 9 years ago

    Is this guy fucking serious- excuse my French but am passed off to kingdom come.?
    Here is an economic advisor who mortgaged Nkrumah's visionary heavy industrial base - the Republic's heir looms ,for pennies on the dollar to ...
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  • candy wiafe 9 years ago

    where are the ndc foot-soldiers who have been shooting idey bee k3k3? .now they have all coiled into their shelves suffering with the masses. next time these fool soldiers will wise up, supporting criminal syndicate is the r ...
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  • DONBOLI 9 years ago

    Why is John Mahama and his government so small with the truth. Ghana govt is call IMF and EU, twenty years loan sign by John Mahama on behalf of ghanaians in a secret without ghanaians debating it, three years IMF programme r ...
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  • The African Patriot 9 years ago

    If these leaders are being followed by people then it is because their intention to reduce the education of the mass to able to infiltrate their tribal politics whiles rubbing the country dry. Considering if all the loopholes ...
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  • Maame Abena 9 years ago

    He did not disclose the conditions attached to the programmes, but calmly accepted that some of them could impose hardship on the people.

    And I told you so that the well planned schemed steal the from the coffers and the ...
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  • PEACHES 9 years ago

    So beggars don't have any choices ah? IMF is an organization for the very rich, it's motto is to further make developed countries even poorer. Their outrageous conditions imposed on poorer countries is a modern day slavery. T ...
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  • ROGUE LAWYER 9 years ago

    honestly speaking if Ghana would be a cocaine Country to reduce These IMF hardships ,i will vote for cocaine bailout as against IMF hardship.

    why is IMF always dictating to poor countries? to broading their already high ...
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  • Ernest 9 years ago

    Ghanaweb should probably edit things folks put on this forum. The insults and ignorance are becoming too sensitive to some of us who take non polically liberal views of the country's current challenge. Look at Egypt, Cote D'v ...
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  • Mallam Tula 9 years ago

    GOOD MINDED PEOPLE LIKE ME TOLD GHANAIANS A LONG TIME AGO WHEN THIS IMF ISSUE CAME UP ; WE TOLD GHANAIANS THAT JON MAHAMA WILL END UP WITH A BEGGING BOWL AT THE IMF BUT THERE NDC WISE GUYS WHO SAID JON MAHAMA WAS THE GREATES ...
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  • Jay london 9 years ago

    NDC:THEY NEVER TELL THE TRUTH. THE TRUTH IS ANATHEMA TO NDC.

  • Tuga London 9 years ago

    Your NDC founder and forme president of Ghana JJ Rawlings came to kill people mercilessly because of coruption and had the chance to rule the nation for 19 good years. Now he is rich and his party are very corrupt and is a s ...
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  • puley 9 years ago

    I have gone through all the comments and haven't seen a single message from those stupid, dog and cacophony NDC and mahama supporters who does nothing but to rain insults any time NAna Addo speaks. I guess they can now see w ...
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  • CC 9 years ago

    IF LAYING OFF IS PART OF THE CONDITIONALITIES,THEN THE PRESIDENT AND HIS TEAM MUST GO FIRST.SINCE THEIR ADMINISTRATION CONTRIBUTED TO CORRUPTION THAT HAS BROKEN THE NATION.KUFFUOR LIFTED GHANA TO SOMEWHERE WHICH WE ALL APPREC ...
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  • The mask 9 years ago

    The economy is hitting workers hard and many families have run out of ideas.

    Boachsoft Finance 2012 software, developed in East Akim Municipality (Akyem-Maase and Bunso) in the Eastern Region of Ghana and in Accra/Sakumono ...
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  • CALABASH 9 years ago

    When Ghanaians with their heads screwed on right and thinking very hard and fast through the very issues which had brought Ghana to this very place, which is a "completely fully blown economic collapse" and that this IMF bail ...
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  • Mars1 9 years ago

    There have always been conditions attached to any financial assistance/loan on this earth. To think there is none particularly from the IMF is naif or, simply put, ignorant of the workings of world financial institutions. The ...
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  • Wiseone 9 years ago

    My friend, stop defending this useless government. We all know loans comes with conditions but IMF always have the most outrageous conditions on poor people. I don't see any benefit going to them.

  • KING 9 years ago

    YOU LAZY FOOLS WERE TOO LAZY BLAMING NIGERIANS, LAUGHING AT NIGERIANS..NOW WHILE NIGERIA IS BLAZING FAST AS THE BIGGEST ECONOMY IN AFRICA, GHANA IN THE OTHER HAND IS BECOMING ANOTHER ZIMBABWE. I AM COMING TO GHANA SOON TO BUY ...
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  • Tuga London 9 years ago

    king because your women are stinky

  • ROCKET PROPELLED GRENADE LAUNCHER 9 years ago

    The masses should be gearing up to resist the imposition of any hardships brought about as a result of the looting and thievery of the Mahama NDC gov't, which has occasioned this full blown IMF programme. The Mahama NDC gov't ...
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  • Abu Samson 9 years ago

    Our economy need some intervention from somewhere! Akwasi, what brought us here is what is needed to fix. You have been with this NDC administration for almost 3decades and this is our destination.Ghana is bankrupt but Akwasi ...
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  • Jo 9 years ago

    so who was Mahama lying to, thinking that every ghanaian is a fool?

  • ALL ALONG 9 years ago

    Mahama is not just a manufacturer of empty promises, he is also the father of all liers. What did he intend to gain from all the lies he fed Ghanaians about the IMF programme his rotten Government is seeking?

  • K. Baffour, Germany 9 years ago

    Why many people are insulting Mr. Mahama , Mr. Kuffour, Pro.Mill and the rest? We are BLACKS and we should know this before we fought for total independence. Better we could fight for together governing and to learn more from ...
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  • C.Stephen Sackey 9 years ago

    I shudder to think how people like this writer see when they look in the mirror?

    If one has such low opinion of self how in Gods name can you contribute to the onward march to civilization?
    Please believed in self knowi ...
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  • K. Baffour, Germany 9 years ago

    For eg. what have we achieved since 57 yrs of gh. independence? You`re talking about civilization? Do you really know what it means? I will never insult you but please accept that we cannot. We must first learn well economic ...
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  • Dessy 9 years ago

    Doing nothing is worse off doing something

  • A light of the Black star 9 years ago

    There are no real economists in Ghana. Only paper pushers like Kwesi who cannot connect the real populace economic prowess with their programs so their quick way is to quickly ran to the IMF for solutions which don't help any ...
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  • Anthony 9 years ago

    Ghanaians should weep that Dr Kwesi Botchwey is advisor to our president and head of team negotiating with IMF. Botchwey's record with Economic and Finance management are unimpressive. He has taken Ghana to IMF before and cau ...
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  • Araba AMIYGE NAGAH 9 years ago

    Will Ghana do what Turkey and Brazil Did?

    Skepticism!!!

  • JAA 9 years ago

    Very Sad!. Botchwey nevertheless envisages that an external agency will come in to help alleviate the economic challenges. Excuse us professor, you know that the post IMF market paradigm will not and cannot bring any comfort ...
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  • SAM 9 years ago

    NEVER THOUGHT MAHAMA WILL BE SUCH A USELESS PRESIDENT- AN MP, VICE P AND NOW PRESIDENT AND THIS IS YOUR SHOW? VERY VERY APPALLING. I DON'T THINK NPP'S KAPUEPUE EVEN HAS TO CAMPAIGN FOR 2016-SILVER PLATER FOR SURE. RESIGN MAHA ...
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  • Samuel Asare-Nkansah(USA) 9 years ago

    I have emphasized in my previous article that this 'money' from this so-called IMF has a price tag attached to it and that if the money is not managed well which has a high probability and likeliness associated, will send Gha ...
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  • OKYENANTI. 9 years ago

    GREEDY BASTARDS.GREEDY BSTARDS,GREEDY BASTARDS.

  • de 9 years ago

    Why does Gov't continue to tell lies to Ghanaians about IMF bail-out and its strings? Why the persistent lies from Gov't communication machinery? When has IFM ever bailed out any country without conditionalities? Such dishone ...
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  • Time Will Tell 9 years ago

    Mahama is a Cyto President....the mess is too much... Is this the Ghana Kuffour and the NPP handed over to the NDC???

  • NON ALIGNED 9 years ago

    NKRUMAH warned against dependence on capitalist global institutions such as the Bretton Woods institutions such as the IMF and World Bank. Of the UN he reminded us that the UN is the tool of the elite states which control th ...
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  • Gye Nyame 9 years ago

    Go and read your sucky Ghana history and you will see that in 1965 Nkrumah had to get a bail out from the IMF and on top of that wrote a bogus contract with Kaiser to build Akosombo etc. When the economy was failing Nkrumah t ...
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  • NON ALIGNED 9 years ago

    A name like yours should reflect TRUTH and not the distortion of historical facts................or if I amy be blunt - LIES!!!!!

    I would not be surprised if you are a descendant of one of his traitors.
    You lot are hell-b ...
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  • Zirbure 9 years ago

    where are the political infants :fifi kwetey,ablakwa and felix k. fosu? when brainy people like Dr. bawumia were warning the gov't this 3 guys who analyse things with their stomach insulted him day in day out. where are we no ...
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  • John Musah 9 years ago

    Dr. Biotchway used the same words in 1983. For those who do not know, his justification is the same. This man is not even creative. Cannot learn new words, and has a habit of presenting himself as the nation wrecker that he r ...
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  • Blagodzi 9 years ago

    We said it. No surprise there. Just like his name Botchway, this man will botch everything. Cant even organise a lunch party for the kids. Typical. We said that with all his skills and experience he would achieve and deliver ...
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  • Lord Tennison 9 years ago

    You have a change of heart now.You have decided to tell Ghanaians the whole truth,nothing but the truth.Are the days of blatant lies over?
    It is an open secret that only countries which are broke and desperately need financi ...
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  • Nana duna 9 years ago

    It is only in Ghana where an idiot like Kwesi Botchway will be allowed to walk the street for free. 13 years as economic blah blah blah and we are still borrowing. This same idiot is here after 20 years to tell us nothing has ...
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  • Kofi Thomas, Cape Coast 9 years ago

    you are just back in Ghana to die. You want a state burial, but I bet you will never have one. You supervised literally the stealing and sharing of all national assest among PNDC/Transition Govt/NDC1/NDC2. You think you posse ...
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  • oor 9 years ago

    This mad so called dr should should be barn from ghanas purse either than that he willbring back the inflation this time to 1000 percent blame this bongno faced so called dr impart for that crookerd constitution lmposed on ou ...
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  • Otsibu Darko 9 years ago

    D. Botchwey we understand you're an economic wizard and with your statement does this 'bode' well for
    for Ghanaians; for how long should we be slaves in own country. When Nigeria discovered oil, the economy was booming and ...
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  • Yaa 9 years ago

    Is this not what Honorable Akoto Osei talked about? Are we not right back to HIPIC? And these are the people who promised us milk and honey and a Better Ghana? Tweaaa.