Strike set to enter third week

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Onipaba Of Akyem Maase 9 years ago

I think it is time to reflect on the death of Prof Mills. His death may not be natural because certain incidences make it seem like his death was to serve some purpose among NDC gurus. In the first place, this man had some le ...
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I think it is time to reflect on the death of Prof Mills. His death may not be natural because certain incidences make it seem like his death was to serve some purpose among NDC gurus. In the first place, this man had some level of dementia. He could not fully apply his faculties efficiently. At the time of the NDC primaries, only evil mined individuals would push this man to contest. Yet this man surprisingly chose a transient fame over his continuously ailing health. Thanks to the propaganda which he supervised himself. Do we remember Froggy Anyidohu, who said Mills will only wave his hands at rallies but will not give speeches? How possibly could that win an election when there was nothing to show? Mills must have been forced to either refuse to step down to gain his life or go ahead to contest at primaries to worsen his health and ultimately die to serve the interest of some NDC elements. What motive was behind his death? I think Mahama was a beneficiary. God willing, the truth can never be concealed. The evil that men do…
PRINCE KWASI ADADE (OFIE) 9 years ago

AUTHOR: MR. FIGURE-OUT----------------
It is only in Ghana would such a dishonorably idiot be on the government pay roll. Professor Mill should be solely blamed for imposing those criminals on us. After Mills found Betty Mou ...
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AUTHOR: MR. FIGURE-OUT----------------
It is only in Ghana would such a dishonorably idiot be on the government pay roll. Professor Mill should be solely blamed for imposing those criminals on us. After Mills found Betty Moulds guilty of judgement debt payments the only thing he could do was to move her to the Education dept to continue her looting. Readers would recall that Betty Mounds was the one who awarded SCHOOL building contracts at a triple price of the existing contract sum of some GH 80,000.00. And this happened at a time when they claim inflation was in the single digits. Could you imargin how foolish these criminal liars were. Kuffour built similar structures with 80,000 at a time when inflation was around 14.8% and under Mills it was 240,000 at a rate of 8.8%. And these buffoons turn around to blame the fall of the cedi on some mysterious dwarfs. I don't blame those African countries that have been ripped apart by civil unrest because if you have such buffoons in power who always turn our local elections into a West Africa one
by contracting Togolese Trokosis, Burkinabe and Wangaras from La Cote D'ivoire to vote for them, the " Road To Kigare", is sometimes, a likely option to kick their ass from power.
Ugly Akufo Addo 9 years ago

Old without no brain

Old without no brain
Close Observer 9 years ago

O Lord I pray for Mother Ghana, that you reduce the number of FOOLISH VOTERS in 2016. Father the small number that will be left, wash their faces with sea sand so that they would be able to see the predicament they have put G ...
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O Lord I pray for Mother Ghana, that you reduce the number of FOOLISH VOTERS in 2016. Father the small number that will be left, wash their faces with sea sand so that they would be able to see the predicament they have put Ghana in through their foolish action, and change for the better. I pray that you let them vote this USELESS and CLUELESS GOVERNMENT out. Let those who these FOOLISH VOTERS envy because they are prospering as a result of which they vote foolishly so that they will be equal with them prosper even more. Father let those who are sympathetic to these USELESS VOTERS stop giving them money when they come begging, so that they will realize 'Ghana is hard', and vote wisely this time round. Lord, there are too many office to office beggars in Ghana, that is a sign of poverty, kick those who encourage this out of office. Merciful Father, too many FOOLISH VOTERS who have no sense of dignity are rewarded with trips to soccer matches only to go and sleep on the floor in foreign land, and eventually seek asylum, stamp that disgraceful spirit out of Ghana. Lord, you have blessed us with everything that can make us rich, but you seemed to have forgotten to protect mother Ghana from greedy politicians and thieves; we call on you to rise and let these nation wreakers scatter in 2016. Amen
Close Observer 9 years ago

A FOOLISH VOTER is one who does not care what the person who he/she has voted for do with that mandate. Good or bad that politician will still get his/her vote always. Is that what it is supposed to be? Will malpractice ever ...
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A FOOLISH VOTER is one who does not care what the person who he/she has voted for do with that mandate. Good or bad that politician will still get his/her vote always. Is that what it is supposed to be? Will malpractice ever get out of Ghana with people who support political parties like one supports HEARTS OF OAK or KUMASI ASANTE KOTOKO? All those who are incapable of assessing the performance of political office holders before voting for them again are the cause of Ghana's problems, not necessarily the politicians who steal, because they are thieves anyway; and what does a thief do? So you see why I call them FOOLISH VOTERS?
ANABA 9 years ago

ABOA BA!!!

ABOA BA!!!
AKASI MARTHA NZEMA 9 years ago

STRIKE OR NO STRIKE NANA WILL LOOSE 2016

STRIKE OR NO STRIKE NANA WILL LOOSE 2016
MENSA 9 years ago

MAHAMA GOT TO GET THE MESSEGE THAT PEOPLE ARE SICK OF HIS BULL SHIT AND VOODO ECONOMY THAT IS DESTROYING GHANA

MAHAMA GOT TO GET THE MESSEGE THAT PEOPLE ARE SICK OF HIS BULL SHIT AND VOODO ECONOMY THAT IS DESTROYING GHANA
SIMPLY RUTHLESS 9 years ago

The govt must sit on their salaries because they don't show patriotism hence they are rather punishing the poor and the ordinary Ghanaians and all said and done, the gods of the land will punish Akufo-Addo and the NPP severel ...
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The govt must sit on their salaries because they don't show patriotism hence they are rather punishing the poor and the ordinary Ghanaians and all said and done, the gods of the land will punish Akufo-Addo and the NPP severely in the 2016 elections for supporting the striking workers.
dani 9 years ago

THIS IS NOT ABOUT MONEY IT IS ABOUT STANDING UP AGAINST INJUSTICE YOU ARE IGNORATE BROTHER,MONEY IS NOT THE MOST IMPORTANT THING IN THE WORLD ,SOMETIME A MAN MUST STAND UP TO INJUSTICE UOU FOOL

THIS IS NOT ABOUT MONEY IT IS ABOUT STANDING UP AGAINST INJUSTICE YOU ARE IGNORATE BROTHER,MONEY IS NOT THE MOST IMPORTANT THING IN THE WORLD ,SOMETIME A MAN MUST STAND UP TO INJUSTICE UOU FOOL
dani 9 years ago

this is about standing up against evil and injustice of govt against the people ,where have you been when god gave barin

this is about standing up against evil and injustice of govt against the people ,where have you been when god gave barin
daladam 9 years ago

you got zero support in Ghana we say no more taxes,no more vats&fees no more to your job killing no more to slave wages god bless the brothers and sisters that are striking with courage and stand up to injustices

you got zero support in Ghana we say no more taxes,no more vats&fees no more to your job killing no more to slave wages god bless the brothers and sisters that are striking with courage and stand up to injustices
Papa yaw 9 years ago

No

No
KILLER 9 years ago

WE ALL KNOW THAT ALL THE EVIL THINGS THAT IS GOING ON IS BEEN ENGINEERED BY THE NPP. CONTINUE AND YOU WILL BE REWARDED SOME DAY.

WE ALL KNOW THAT ALL THE EVIL THINGS THAT IS GOING ON IS BEEN ENGINEERED BY THE NPP. CONTINUE AND YOU WILL BE REWARDED SOME DAY.
PRINCE KWASI ADADE (OFIE) 9 years ago

MAHAMA MUST TELL THE WORKERS WHERE
THE MONEY IS. THE WORKERS ARE NOT AFTER POWER.

MAHAMA MUST TELL THE WORKERS WHERE
THE MONEY IS. THE WORKERS ARE NOT AFTER POWER.
TRUTH TELLER 9 years ago

THE MONEY IS IN THE HANDS OF CORRUPT FORTIZ! KINGSLEY FLETCHER AND ALL THOSE WITH HIM TOOK THE PEOPLES MONEY FROM FIRST BANC SSNIT TRUSTEE AND BOUGHT A BANK WITH IT! THINK ABOUT IT - THAT'S WHY THE GOVT WANTS IT TO GO ONE WAY ...
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THE MONEY IS IN THE HANDS OF CORRUPT FORTIZ! KINGSLEY FLETCHER AND ALL THOSE WITH HIM TOOK THE PEOPLES MONEY FROM FIRST BANC SSNIT TRUSTEE AND BOUGHT A BANK WITH IT! THINK ABOUT IT - THAT'S WHY THE GOVT WANTS IT TO GO ONE WAY, TO PUT THE MONEY BACK
kk 9 years ago

We should not stand idle for Mahani to cheat our brothers and sisters whose future is being toiled with. The strike should continue as long as the government has not released the money to them. Even if there the law allows th ...
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We should not stand idle for Mahani to cheat our brothers and sisters whose future is being toiled with. The strike should continue as long as the government has not released the money to them. Even if there the law allows the government to select the trustee, workers should force Mahana to change it, and now.
The mask 9 years ago

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

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

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HAWA YAKUBU 9 years ago

Vote CPP 2016 this will stop all mess

Vote CPP 2016 this will stop all mess
AYRIGA 9 years ago

The unions want government and the National Pensions Regulatory Authority (NPRA) to transfer the funds, which are currently held in the vaults of the central bank, to their own privately-chosen trusts for management.

SO WH ...
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The unions want government and the National Pensions Regulatory Authority (NPRA) to transfer the funds, which are currently held in the vaults of the central bank, to their own privately-chosen trusts for management.

SO WHY CANNT MAHAMA DO THIS? WHAT STOPS THEM? THIS GIVES THE OPPONENET ALL KIND REASONS TO PEDDLE FALSHOOD. PLEASE TRANFERS THE MOENY
ANABA 9 years ago

MAHAMA SHOULD DISSOLVE PARLIAMENT AND CALL FOR ELECTIONS.WHAT A BUFFOON!!!

MAHAMA SHOULD DISSOLVE PARLIAMENT AND CALL FOR ELECTIONS.WHAT A BUFFOON!!!
KOKOLIKOKO 9 years ago

Obviously, the workers do NOT trust the government; they don't trust them to either keep their pension funds safe or manage them efficiently! That's why the workers want to remove the funds from the hands of the government an ...
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Obviously, the workers do NOT trust the government; they don't trust them to either keep their pension funds safe or manage them efficiently! That's why the workers want to remove the funds from the hands of the government and keep them in their own determined accounts and choose their own trustees to manage those funds! This is indeed one of the 'highest' expressions of distrust of the government!

The workers' position is fully understandable - and, I dare add, fully justified!!! With the increasing large number of cases of corruption and embezzlement involving huge, huge sums of money being unearthed in the public sector, you must be a fool to entrust your pension funds, which is your future, to kleptocrats for safe-keeping! No-one tempts the devil that much! To make make a thief keep watch over your money is unadulterated foolishness! And given the absolute recklessness and bankruptcy in the management of finances in government and public sector as a whole, only an idiot will expect government to manage efficiently his or her pension funds!

There's, thus, no denying here that workers have a very, very strong argument, which makes their position very strong and reasonable!

Those workers unions on strike are real heavyweights: they comprise nurses, doctors, teachers, educational workers, judicial staff, pharmacists and others! And they have numbers! Their continued stay out of work poses danger to the nation as a whole! You can't easily bully them back to work with some legal action! In any case, this government has proved that it wields no balls for confrontation!

What government need to do now, and need to do it quickly and fast, is to sit down with the workers and, first, show them where their funds are, then, agree with them on how go about the management of the funds! The relative power of the workers in this bargaining/negotiation is stronger than the government's!
ALHASSAN 9 years ago

The Mahama/Amissah Arthur led NDC gov't have looted the tier-two pension funds involving SSNIT, BoG, Fortiz, First Banc, Ibrahim Mahama, Tony Lithur, NPRA to buy merchant bank, at the expense of the investment of the tier-two ...
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The Mahama/Amissah Arthur led NDC gov't have looted the tier-two pension funds involving SSNIT, BoG, Fortiz, First Banc, Ibrahim Mahama, Tony Lithur, NPRA to buy merchant bank, at the expense of the investment of the tier-two pension funds of hard working Ghanaian taxpayers in the NDC policy of create, loot and share of the Mahama NDC family and friends looting brigade.
Labour should insist the NDC gov't transfer the looted funds from wherever they have taken it to the schemes of their choice per the law. The continuous stay of the transfer is money that Ghanaian workers are losing from the already looted funds, and the NDC gov't should be held strictly accountable.
CHOO 9 years ago

DON'T PAY THESE WORKERS FOR THE SENSELESS STRIKE. NPP IS BEHIND THESE UNPATRIOTIC ACTS. THEY ARE FULL OF NEGATIVES.

DON'T PAY THESE WORKERS FOR THE SENSELESS STRIKE. NPP IS BEHIND THESE UNPATRIOTIC ACTS. THEY ARE FULL OF NEGATIVES.
Samuel Ablake 9 years ago

Yes don't pay them, just give them their money, keke that 's all.

Yes don't pay them, just give them their money, keke that 's all.
KWESI Acheampong 9 years ago

dear Ghanaians
let's not unduly politicize the strike by public sector workers as if to say that they're are not sensible.
Government seem not to have the plight of workers at heart calling it better Ghana.
The unions hav ...
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dear Ghanaians
let's not unduly politicize the strike by public sector workers as if to say that they're are not sensible.
Government seem not to have the plight of workers at heart calling it better Ghana.
The unions have had several discussion s wit government over the 2nd tier and has not minded the unions for only God knows how long.
if they're saying the money is wit bank of Ghana release it to the owners to manage it themselves. what is the problem? we'll strike until we get our money back. No second tier no work. we can't be fooled anymore.
Kwaku 9 years ago

It is not a strike that we enjoy but we will continue to do that until the govt come back to his senses and respect the laws of the land

It is not a strike that we enjoy but we will continue to do that until the govt come back to his senses and respect the laws of the land

Strike set to enter third week

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