IMF cites ‘dumsor’ as adversely affecting Ghana’s economy

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  • CHA 10 years ago

    Ghanaians wake up Nigeria show us how to do it NDC must go

  • Close Observer 10 years ago

    They are both led by useless young presidents. These young men celebrate their positions like movie actors. VERY CLUELESS AND NO VISION YOUNG MEN.
    VOTE THE USELESS NDC GOVERNMENT THAT HELPED WAYOME TO DUPED GHANA OUT IN 2016 ...
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  • Kwame 10 years ago

    But if we have to do it like Nigeria ...then we will also vote for some one older and has experience in running a government..not someone who has experience in running a drug ring like your dwarf Addo

  • Close Observer 10 years ago

    MY PRAYER FOR CRIMINAL POLITICIANS LIKE YOU WHO WANT TO KEEP THE STATUS QUO AND FOOLISH VOTERS:

    O Lord I pray for Mother Ghana, that you reduce the number of FOOLISH VOTERS in 2016. Father the small number that will be lef ...
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  • Saint Ghfuo: nyantakyi must GO! 10 years ago

    THE ELECTRICITY IS USED TO DRILL OIL IN GHANA....DATS WHY GH HAS TO RATION ELECTRICITY...

  • KEKELI 10 years ago

    Wa Bo dam.

  • Close Observer 10 years ago

    IT IS TIME WE BRING SOME RESPECT TO THE LEGISLATIVE ARM OF GOVERNMENT. NDC/NPP aside, let us encourage intelligent and decent people to represent us. We are talking about discussing and passing legislation, it is not somethin ...
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  • Concerned 10 years ago

    Bawumia and hundreds of businesses have been mentioning the obvious to this government for ages. They refuse to spend on gas to power our generators because of cost but when a donkey is in charge the concept of cost doesn't i ...
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  • Dogg 10 years ago

    This should be common sense to all our so-called educated leaders.

  • KWAA 10 years ago

    In today's World,apart from the NDC Government who doesn't know that energy,especially electricity is the life wire in any society?So should the IMF come and tell us before we realize this one?So what at all can we do on our ...
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  • Kwadwo 10 years ago

    Do we need IMF to tell us we has to tackle the power crises? We spend more time debating than fixing. Not to talking of the million promises. Mahama and crew, pls do something today and not tomorrow on dumsor

  • Kwadwo 10 years ago

    We have* (brufoyedu)

  • Kofi Ata, Cambridge, UK 10 years ago

    Is IMF telling Ghana government and Ghanaians that they do not know that dumor has seriously affected economic activities and performance adversely? That is common knowledge and every damn fool knows it. Except perhaps, some ...
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  • Kwame 10 years ago

    Mahama Aponkye will lose the elections mark it on the wall. upon all the stealing from ec the margin was still small this time new voters register n we will c how Gen g string mosquito will say.

  • dani 10 years ago

    THEY REFUSE TO LISTEN OR DO ANYTHING ALL THEY CARE IS LUXERY CARS

  • jerry 10 years ago

    he is busy travling in the world and head the African union Ghana is not his 1st priorety

  • Kweku 10 years ago

    Mahama is a thief he is stealing all Ghana money for his children. God will punish him. He will die.

  • Jim 10 years ago

    My question is if it make sense for us as a nation to sit down for someone to be telling us such things? yet we have those misleaders who call themselfs leaders what a pitty. again i ask dont we need another 1979?

  • Alovor 10 years ago

    JUST PLAIN STUPID AND USELESS GROUP OF PEOPLE MANAGING THE GHANAIAN ECONOMY. JUST A GLIMPSE AT THEIR BLACK UGLY FACES SHOWS HOW PLAINLY STUPID SOME OF THE GOV'T OFFICIALS ARE. I FEEL LIKE VOMITING. CAN GHANAIANS BE SO VULNERA ...
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  • ZAC 10 years ago

    IMF have done Ghana a disfavor. Now Mahama and his corrupt NDC party have more money in the state coffers to siphon. There will be double stealing in the NDC.
    Mahama will be singing all the way to BoG.

  • adanko 10 years ago

    but the bottom line is the corruption and misuse of public funds for unnecessary things by the Mahama led NDC and the dead goat syndrome.

  • abena kwabena 10 years ago

    The excuse given by the government is annoying because it is insulting. If they did not know 10 years ago that more and more people would own cell phones, then they do not deserve to be in the positions they occupy today. Mor ...
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  • BBC 10 years ago

    Finance Minister,this is the moment to pay railway workers off.Enough of the punishment and politics.How can a worker be in present day Ghana for 3 months without salary?
    Enough,enough,enough.Mr.Finance Minister.

  • ZoRRo 10 years ago

    IMF prefers to use the word "exogenous shock" instead of corruption. Let's call a spade a spade, not a big spoon. It's the fucking CORRUPTION AND LAZINESS OF GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS that has brought us here ! And we are sinkin ...
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  • mimosa 10 years ago

    with all these problems looming over our heads mahatma's priorities still remain building his international airport at Tamamle and aerodomes all over the North (with monies from the South, of course) in addition to all the mo ...
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  • if the lone c isrusader 10 years ago

    Is it not a shame?upon all this booklong nonsenses a chineese has to come and poit to you your problem wow.m.g..when you give the helms of a nation like gh. To communist rats and nigerian scholars this is what you get sas.

  • ARREST THAT MAGGOT MAHAMA 10 years ago

    THIS FUCKEN ASS HOLE MAHAMA; LOOK AT HIS FACE AND HIS TEETH SO NASTY: THIEF USELESS FOOL LIKE YOU MAHAMA: SUCH A MAGGOT NEED TO GO BACK TO THE NORTH AND EAT UR DOG MEAT OK:FUCK YOU ALL U CAN DO IS LICK MY ASS OK:

  • Lazy Ant 10 years ago

    Did I read rightly that public debt has reached 'unsustainable' levels? And what will Fifi Kwetey say to this? Did Dr. Bawumia say it differently?

  • Kofi from Ghana 10 years ago

    Youth are travelling outside to seek greener pasture

  • KOKOASE ABRENTIE 10 years ago

    IMF CITES´DUMSOR AS ADVERSELY AFFECTING GHANA´S ECONOMY,IT IS REAL BUT THESE FOOLS LIVE ON PROPAGANDA AND ALWAYS LIE TO GHANAIANS THAT EVERYTHING IS OKAY INCLUDING THE ECONOMY DESPITE THESE DAIRLY LIGHTS OUT.VOTE THESE IDIO ...
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  • JOHN ASAMOAH AKA SIR JOHN 10 years ago

    GHANAIANS ARE WISE*WE WIL VOTE WISELY*POLITICIANS ARE LIARS*GOD WILL PUNISH THEM ALL*A 27YRS SHS GRADUATE IS LUKIN 4 A FEMALE FRIEND*PLS CAL 0200677434

  • Animal Farm 10 years ago

    Which leader in his right Economic sense will borrow to build markets and an airport in the desert and supply shoes,computers and luxury vehicles for free when our Economy is in a mess .

  • Crusher of Corruption 10 years ago

    "Strict containment of expenditure, in particular of the wage bill" will require government first reduces its own size by getting rid of redundant members such as Amissah Arthur, as well as curtailing the fat salaries it misa ...
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  • Evans Mensah 10 years ago

    What is 918 millons to Ghana, Even our oil can give us that money, Ndc is a disgrace, Npp vice told ghanaians last month and people where Call him some mames, are we fools? to sit down and look at this fools to chop
    our mon ...
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  • ataa 10 years ago

    Ghanaweb stop your politics. who doesnt know that power crisis is a challenge?

  • Dr Robert K Glah 10 years ago

    IMF: Ghana public debt has risen to “unsustainable” levels.

    That means the economy has been badly managed by the NDC Administration inspite of the army of public servants advising the President with hefty salaries. Are ...
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  • Gaddaffi 10 years ago

    Why we can't manage our economy.After longer year of independence from British.

  • Kwame Côte d Ivoire 10 years ago

    How on earth should Ghanaians tolerate such a disgraceful government. I wonder how some men and women of this disgraceful party courageously take its defence. They are violent and behave like an opposition party,why?

  • kiki 10 years ago

    Wait for IMF to state the obvious.

  • Reasonable Kwame 10 years ago

    Monsieur Kwame where are the old wise men we yearn to vote for,have you forgotten that (P)NDC out of hatred assassinated Akuffo,Afrifa,Acheampong. Do we kill human beings or we change a system to attain development ?Strong me ...
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  • karl 10 years ago

    Shameful country every body go see us

  • RerALI MANHAMA 10 years ago

    MAHAMA and his crooks not agree to this IMF report

  • ataa 10 years ago

    If Ex Pres Kuffour and the NPP had done their risk analysis well and had opted for a thermal plant like Jerry did, instead of Bui which is hydro and on the same water source as Akosombo, we wouldnt hzve been here.

  • Kusi Ba 10 years ago

    You think thermal is cheap. How about wind? How long has NDC been in power since NPP left the scene to them and they could not plan for the future? The governments have no future planning. The present US president will send b ...
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  • fred 10 years ago

    These indiscipline people can never make the program successfull, all they are interested in is excessive spending to cripple the economy. Building 200 senior high school, aba!! are u serious? All because of political power. ...
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  • ataa 10 years ago

    education is the future

  • KnYc(USMC) 10 years ago

    It doesn't take Einstein to figure this one out. But the useless NDC government have to go to Foggy Bottom in Washington D.C. For interns to tell them that. What a shame.

  • Kwawu Agbemenu 10 years ago

    Should it take an outsider institution to tell us this? Who knows -- may be the authorities (who lap at the feet of outsiders) will now realize the rub they've been griming on the country! Can we hope they'll now wake up fr ...
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  • Yussif 10 years ago

    It's only a naive government and a lazy one as such who ll down play the impact of the dumso on the economy,all this has already been said by Dr Mahamudu Bawumia on many intellectual platforms.How is government going to raise ...
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  • obodai Tetteh Sai,Assin Foso 10 years ago

    Dead Goat Mahama,go for the money and share it with your stupid Felix Ofosu Kwakye.Useless administration headed by visionless Mahama

  • GBEWAA 10 years ago

    The former Deputy Governor of the Bank of China, however, lauded efforts of government in adjusting expenditures to mitigate the shortfall in oil revenue “and avoid a larger debt build-up”.

    ANOTHER DUMMY EX-GOVERNOR OF ...
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  • GHANANI 10 years ago

    It is the same old story whenever the IMF steps in.It is austerity,unemployment and economic hardships for ghanaians.It is doom and gloom for ghanaians.

  • kweks 10 years ago

    We all know that dumsor is slowing us down as individuals and as a nation and the Govt must keep pushing to resolve it. The bank is another problem. tgey are posting huge profits. their interest rate is too high and killing u ...
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  • Mike Segbafah,Accra. 10 years ago

    IMF is saying things have known and brought upon themselves in the name of partisan politics or bloody- mindedness. Most recent instances are organised labour's insistence on undeserved market premium virtually across board, ...
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  • Mike Segbafah,Accra. 10 years ago

    CORRECTION.Read IMF is saying things GHANAIANS have known and brought upon themselves ……