Gov't can’t create jobs; IMF freezes public employment - Napo

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Nana Ghana 10 years ago

WHAT IS WRONG WITH GHANA, IS IT A CURSE? GHANA HAS ALL THE NATURAL RESOURCES THAT MANY SO CALLED DEVELOPED COUNTRIES HAVE NOT GOT EVEN 50% OF THEM YET, NOTHING GOOD IS COMING OUT OF IT. GHANA, A SMALL COUNTRY AS IT IS SHOULD ...
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WHAT IS WRONG WITH GHANA, IS IT A CURSE? GHANA HAS ALL THE NATURAL RESOURCES THAT MANY SO CALLED DEVELOPED COUNTRIES HAVE NOT GOT EVEN 50% OF THEM YET, NOTHING GOOD IS COMING OUT OF IT. GHANA, A SMALL COUNTRY AS IT IS SHOULD HAVE BEEN ONE OF THE RICHEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD BUT WE ARE CONSTANTLY BEGGING FOR FOOD FROM THE OUTSIDE WORLD. GHANA HAS COCOA, GOLD, TIMBER, MASSIVE UNCULTIVATED LAND ,OIL, ETC BUT WE ARE DAILY CRYING OF POVERTY. IS IT A CURSE? WE ARE BLESSED WITH THE SUN 365 DAYS, WHAT IS STOPPING GHANA FROM INVESTING IN SOLAR ENERGY RATHER THAN RELYING ON THE AKOSMOBO DAM WHICH ENERGY SURPLY IS NOT SUFFICIENT AS WE ALL BEAR WITNESS FROM THE "DOMSO, DOMSO EXPERIENCE. AM I THE ONLY STRANGER IN JELUSALEM WHO DOESN'T GET IT? IS IT A CURSE? HMMMM.. ANYWAY, I'LL NOT GIVE UP, I'LL CONTINUE TO PRAY FOR GOD'S INTERVENTION
SGT ANANI FIADZOE 10 years ago

NDC corrupt, ghost names and poor economical strategy has brought our sovereignty hopeless and foolish.

Mahama though robbed the conscience of
the majority people of this nation by
influenced some people of this nation
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NDC corrupt, ghost names and poor economical strategy has brought our sovereignty hopeless and foolish.

Mahama though robbed the conscience of
the majority people of this nation by
influenced some people of this nation
to help him robbed Nana Akuffo Addo's
presidential position only to come and rob the State for their own selfish interest.

Ghana is a curse under NDC Mahama Government.
OLD SOLDIER 10 years ago

Author:-ELINAM...
These big and useless men increased fuel price to fatten their take-home salary that nobody knows about and reducing fuel price to reflect the current crude oil price means to reduce their salary in order ...
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Author:-ELINAM...
These big and useless men increased fuel price to fatten their take-home salary that nobody knows about and reducing fuel price to reflect the current crude oil price means to reduce their salary in order to make a profit.
This is the crust of the matter.
Mahmoud 10 years ago

Ghana epitomises much of the best of Africa, but also throws into relief the tragedy of the continent. It has maintained its higher education and has fewer extremes of wealth than elsewhere. But at independence in 1957, Ghana ...
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Ghana epitomises much of the best of Africa, but also throws into relief the tragedy of the continent. It has maintained its higher education and has fewer extremes of wealth than elsewhere. But at independence in 1957, Ghana was richer than Argentina, Brazil, Malaysia or Singapore. Today, those countries are at least ten times as wealthy.
Mahmoud 10 years ago

The opposition had won - an African country ... had shown that democratic change could be achieved peacefully. Kufuor's eight years as President saw economic growth of more than 70 per cent - the first prolonged period since ...
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The opposition had won - an African country ... had shown that democratic change could be achieved peacefully. Kufuor's eight years as President saw economic growth of more than 70 per cent - the first prolonged period since independence when Ghana was not getting poorer. But Ghanaians chose to exercise their democratic right to change and earlier this month narrowly elected Atta Mills.
Koj 10 years ago

NDC incompetence an understatement

Guys these comments are true and don’t be ignorant even as a NDC party member. Mr Mahama says so himself to reduce the wage to tax revenue to 35% as a recommendation of the ECOWAS. Reme ...
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NDC incompetence an understatement

Guys these comments are true and don’t be ignorant even as a NDC party member. Mr Mahama says so himself to reduce the wage to tax revenue to 35% as a recommendation of the ECOWAS. Remember in the past 2 years alone public salary rose by an average of 75 to 85% as a result.
Check this article and there are more on this government incompetence by observers abroad
August 5, 2014 7:30 pm
Ghana tarnishes ‘Africa rising’ story
This government is totally incompetent and came just to steal the coffers of the nation. They have borrowed as approved and recorded in the range of $65bn, as compared to NPP in the entire 8 years of $9bn and yet most of the public sector’s salary has still been frozen. This money was not invested in education, or any infrastructure, so where did the money go? Agriculture sector has suffered the most severe blow contributing a pittance of 19.9 per cent in 2014 from the 21.6 per cent it contributed in 2013, because we in the sector are getting no help from this government.

Ghana is now a sad economy being compared to that of Zambia, one of the worst in the world with the Cedi depreciating at an alarming rate more than 40% in just last year faster than any currency in the world and you still believe we have a government running this country. Kayayoo’s and ice water sellers could have done a better job than this God forsaking NDC government who has brought a curse on this nation. Ghana be wise and don’t allow ethnicity to ruin this nation.
Smart Frempah, UK 10 years ago

Nana Ghana, Ghana isn't cursed. Why should we be cursed? The truth about our underdevelopment and countries similar in our situation isn't far fetched.
When a country doesn't have the technological base, the inability to ...
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Nana Ghana, Ghana isn't cursed. Why should we be cursed? The truth about our underdevelopment and countries similar in our situation isn't far fetched.
When a country doesn't have the technological base, the inability to initiate good programmes and the stupid pride of not letting someone who knows how to do it do it for us, this is what happens. As we struggle to find the needed competence to forge ahead, our society is completely riddled with corruption, corruption that knows no bounds, corruption that has become a badge of honour in Mother Ghana.
The natural resources you have listed above can't by themselves give us prosperity unless we explore and convert them into marketable commodities but again we fall short in this area.
There are not even processing factories in Ghana. Timber logs shouldn't have been exported under any circumstances but unfortunately this is the trend. It deprives the country of employment....that is from the forest and to the port.
Coming to the curse you mentioned, God won't curse us. What have we done? If we don't open our eyes and see things in reality but resort to our problems coming from someone above us, we will never see the daylight of prosperity. When God made heaven and earth, He saw that it was perfect and gave it to man to have dominion over it. You can use your brain and sense to make or destroy. Most African countries have chosen the latter. That is the fact!!
Nana Ghana 10 years ago

Prempeh, you make sense, thanks. It's sad though!!!!!

Prempeh, you make sense, thanks. It's sad though!!!!!
OMANBA 10 years ago

What is wrong with these NPP MPS? They talk as if when the NPP was in power Ghana was a land flowing with milk and honey.How many jobs did the NPP create for the unemployed in the country?Did the NPP government lift the ban ...
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What is wrong with these NPP MPS? They talk as if when the NPP was in power Ghana was a land flowing with milk and honey.How many jobs did the NPP create for the unemployed in the country?Did the NPP government lift the ban on employment in the public sector to employ Ghanaians? Did the NPP fight for the interest of the ordinary ghanaian when it was in power? In pursuit of their so called 'property owning capitalism' they stole state lands and properties[houses] and sold them to themselves at ridiclously low prices.After all the NNP left empty state coffers to the late president Mills government.
OLD SOLDIER 10 years ago

BBC NEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WHERE DID GHANAIANS GO WRONG TO SUFFER LIKE THIS? YOU MAHAMA BUILDING YOUR HOTELS ABROAD, AFRIYIE ANKRA BUYING MANSIONS AT EAST LEGON, OKUDJETO ACQUIRING FILLING STATIONS ALL OVER, TOGBUI AF ...
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BBC NEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WHERE DID GHANAIANS GO WRONG TO SUFFER LIKE THIS? YOU MAHAMA BUILDING YOUR HOTELS ABROAD, AFRIYIE ANKRA BUYING MANSIONS AT EAST LEGON, OKUDJETO ACQUIRING FILLING STATIONS ALL OVER, TOGBUI AFEDE FILLING HIS BANK ACCOUNTS ABROAD< ASIEDU NKETIA SPREADING FILLING STATIONS ALL OVER BRONG AHAFO AND BUYING MANSION IN CALGARY CANADA, HANNA BISSIW ,OYI LITHUR ANITA DISOSO SPREADING MONEY AS IF GHANA HAS NO PROBLEM
masa 10 years ago

Govt are to create enabling environment for creating of jobs and not to create jobs.i don't no how politicians take us for when they need vote.stop this now , what a shame

Govt are to create enabling environment for creating of jobs and not to create jobs.i don't no how politicians take us for when they need vote.stop this now , what a shame
Speedy Gonzalez 10 years ago

I am patiently waiting for the day when,Napo and Co will make sense in our national debates.As the current leadership is transforming the economy,creative thinking and response is required from the MP for Manhyia and his coho ...
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I am patiently waiting for the day when,Napo and Co will make sense in our national debates.As the current leadership is transforming the economy,creative thinking and response is required from the MP for Manhyia and his cohorts.Their display of negativity is against the national interest.They have been doing this for a very long time in the history of our nation,they know no boundaries and national interest is foreign to them,they will travel overseas to sabotage mother Ghana just for their political interest.Napo,your job is to debate the government at parliament and the public will support you by your performance.This individual is meanwhile holding a safe seat but does nothing to improve the lives of his constituent,The occasional handouts seem to be working for him now but for how long?
Frank Agyena-Karikari 10 years ago

That is where Nkrumah went wrong. Governments are supposed to create conducive atmospheres for the creation of jobs by entrepreneurs.If governments embark on socialists agenda where government creates jobs and employs people, ...
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That is where Nkrumah went wrong. Governments are supposed to create conducive atmospheres for the creation of jobs by entrepreneurs.If governments embark on socialists agenda where government creates jobs and employs people, that is what happens. Even Red China now allows privatization. Cuba is following suite now.
Yes, IMF will put embargo on employment in the public sector because they give loans to countries to help create jobs but not to use loans to pay workers. IMF is no Father Christmas and only gives loans for interest. If you go for her loan, be ready to pay with interest and yield to their demands. Mahama made a mistake in going to IMF in the first place. The Population of New Delhi is more than that of Ghana but India is a force to reckon with.
Jake 10 years ago

Persons like this guy, are not worth being called Ghanaians. Always running down the country, the head of state and in their uncouth upbringing, insult all and sundry. SHAME ON YOU

Persons like this guy, are not worth being called Ghanaians. Always running down the country, the head of state and in their uncouth upbringing, insult all and sundry. SHAME ON YOU
JUSTICE, KNUST 10 years ago

Shout up. Napo is 100% correct. Are u not in Ghana? Why dont you like the truth? i tell you next year, Ghanaians will drop that YAM.... Your Annoying Mahama.

Shout up. Napo is 100% correct. Are u not in Ghana? Why dont you like the truth? i tell you next year, Ghanaians will drop that YAM.... Your Annoying Mahama.
Abua 10 years ago

If NPP stops burning down all key installations and Markets in the country, Government will not need to employ anybody in an already over crowded public sector.

If NPP stops burning down all key installations and Markets in the country, Government will not need to employ anybody in an already over crowded public sector.
AB 10 years ago

"SHOUT UP" really. Please concentrate on learning well rather than insulting the president. By the way it's shut up.

"SHOUT UP" really. Please concentrate on learning well rather than insulting the president. By the way it's shut up.
ugly akufo addo 10 years ago

idiot fool

idiot fool
Wisdom 10 years ago

i wonder what mahama will be telling Ghanaians especially de youth about unemployment in the next national state of address.those with de notion dat they want a young President shd know n note well dat,1 trait of a youth is t ...
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i wonder what mahama will be telling Ghanaians especially de youth about unemployment in the next national state of address.those with de notion dat they want a young President shd know n note well dat,1 trait of a youth is to get sth doing busy so as to hv money in his pocket always to put food on table for de families bt what do we see now??others turn to 'KPAKPAKPA' for survival.gh wnt an old person with expirience to rescue us not GOD!
kutsii. 10 years ago

Napo, have u removed the phlegms from ur nose b4 speaking nonsense. I can imagine how ur nose smells with all that ancient phlegms stuck in ur cleft nose. Do u kiss ur wife with the shit smell from ur fucking nose.

Napo, have u removed the phlegms from ur nose b4 speaking nonsense. I can imagine how ur nose smells with all that ancient phlegms stuck in ur cleft nose. Do u kiss ur wife with the shit smell from ur fucking nose.
A B Red south Africa 10 years ago

I remembered a year 2000 ,under kuffuor and npp government the youths of Ghana were forced to register their names for job anand we spend our time the the hole week for nothing because kuffuor is going to creat jobs but at th ...
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I remembered a year 2000 ,under kuffuor and npp government the youths of Ghana were forced to register their names for job anand we spend our time the the hole week for nothing because kuffuor is going to creat jobs but at the end of the day no job we known whom we living with sorry Napo
Contemporary Youth 10 years ago

8-) We’ll Reduce Wage Bill To 35% - Mahama B|

President John Mahama has said his Government is aiming at reducing the wage to tax revenue to about 35 percent to agree with ECOWAS standards.

Speaking at an investment f ...
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8-) We’ll Reduce Wage Bill To 35% - Mahama B|

President John Mahama has said his Government is aiming at reducing the wage to tax revenue to about 35 percent to agree with ECOWAS standards.

Speaking at an investment forum in Berlin, Germany where he is on a two-day visit, Mr Mahama said beside tackling some of the “short-term” challenges, “We’ll also continue to work to reduce the level of wages to tax revenue, which has been one of the major reasons for the economic challenges we have faced.”

“As a result of the implementation of a new wage policy, we suffered a wage spiral and wage to tax revenues went almost as high as 70 percent.

“We have consistently continued to bring this down, and as at last year, we had pushed it to about the 50 percent mark. The target is to bring it to 35 percent to tax revenue, which is the ECOWAS standard that is agreed and we are hopeful that in the period of the IMF porgramme by 2017, we should bring wages in sync with tax revenues,” Mr Mahama told investors at the forum Tuesday January 20, 2015.

In October last year, President Mahama said as a result of the migration of workers onto the Single Spine Salary Structure (SSS) and the subsequent clearance of all outstanding issues relating to the implementation, the public sector wage bill reduced from 73% to 57%.

He said, at the time that the progressive reduction of the wage bill could be put down to the payment of all salary arrears that accrued after the migration of various public sectors onto the single spine salary structure (SSSS), as well as the payment of all salary increments that resulted from the implementation of the SSSS.

“There are no arrears outstanding under the single spine and so you can notice that progressively, the wage to tax revenue bill is going down,” he told Ghanaians in London in October last year.
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We’ll reduce wage bill to 35% - Mahama

The huge public sector wage bills are not so much attributed to the single spine salary structure as would be hugely blamed on "ghost names" on payrolls. We are fed with the President and his Finance Minister blaming it on SSSS implementation. Why can't they listen and ensure that the rot from the Comptroller and Accountant-General's Dept is cleaned? For all one could care about there might be several party "foot-soldiers" who undeservedly are on gov't payroll. It is unimaginable the hesitancy in desiring to clean the system. Why should it take the IMF to insist on cleaning the payroll? The propaganda must stop.
k.boateng london 10 years ago

useless mahama.

useless mahama.
John 10 years ago

Please,Hon.Matthew Opoku Prempeh,a question for you,have you spoken about the IMF and the World Bank and their Conditionalities before when the NPP was in Power?

Please,Hon.Matthew Opoku Prempeh,a question for you,have you spoken about the IMF and the World Bank and their Conditionalities before when the NPP was in Power?
EZEKIEL 10 years ago

NORMALLY,govts DON'T create jobs. A govt makes the "industrial atmosphere" CONDUSIVE to business and thereby the CREATION of needed jobs!!
ONLY IMPORTING and SELLING will NOT develop the Nation!!!

NORMALLY,govts DON'T create jobs. A govt makes the "industrial atmosphere" CONDUSIVE to business and thereby the CREATION of needed jobs!!
ONLY IMPORTING and SELLING will NOT develop the Nation!!!
Y. GRUMAH 10 years ago

True explaination of NDC

True explaination of NDC
DOPE BOBA 10 years ago

are the youth have employable by public appointment alone, what happened to govt. setting up project or giving the private sector incentives for creating jobs rather than their penny-pinching forex laws that almost brought th ...
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are the youth have employable by public appointment alone, what happened to govt. setting up project or giving the private sector incentives for creating jobs rather than their penny-pinching forex laws that almost brought the country to a halt.
James 10 years ago

Is this MP of the right flame of mind? In every developed economy it the private sector that creates jobs not the government. Government's role is to create the environment for the private sector to set the job creation role ...
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Is this MP of the right flame of mind? In every developed economy it the private sector that creates jobs not the government. Government's role is to create the environment for the private sector to set the job creation role to get going.

The so called Ghanaian MPS are all singing one song.
Lord Tennison 10 years ago

A strong case for slashing the price of petrol further so the private sector can create jobs.

A strong case for slashing the price of petrol further so the private sector can create jobs.
NOBODY 10 years ago

The NPP simply wants to see the government fail, by its insistance that the IMF loan is a wrong way to go. When the NPP was in power, it executed numerous loans to aid in its development plans, and that was a good way to go. ...
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The NPP simply wants to see the government fail, by its insistance that the IMF loan is a wrong way to go. When the NPP was in power, it executed numerous loans to aid in its development plans, and that was a good way to go. Not so when the same involves the NPP's political opponent.
M.D 10 years ago

Napo we are a were of the NDC inconpetence come 2016 we will vote them out.

Napo we are a were of the NDC inconpetence come 2016 we will vote them out.

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