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Mahama 'lied' over no job cuts - Afenyo-Markin

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  • Kwame 9 years ago

    This woman is saying that it will take the government and unions more than one year to negotiate the severance of the workers, which has not been decided, then on what basis will the government present budget for their retren ...
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  • John,Tema 9 years ago

    You don't have to wait till 2017 budget to be read to know this IMF has boldly come out with it.For me I am not surprise,every womanizer is a pathological liar and since JDM loves that game he's also a liar.

  • Close Observer 9 years ago

    WE DON'T WANT PEOPLE WHO HAVE PLANS TO BANK MILLIONS OF DOLLARS BEFORE THEY QUIT POLITICS TO LEAD YOU; they won't have time for you, they will be taking care of their own.
    NEITHER DO YOU WANT PEOPLE WHO WILL WEAR LADIES GARM ...
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  • Zamzu 9 years ago

    Who else believes lair, highly corrupt, thief, womanizer and father of 18 children John Dramani Mahama? How many times has he spoken the truth? Didn't balawo Mahama assure us his govt won't go for IMF loan? Why push workers " ...
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  • BARIMA BEDIAKO 9 years ago

    WO MAAME TWE IS NOT BETTER THAN AKUFO FIVE GIRLS FROM FIVE WOMEN INCLUDING AGBMOSHO GIRL WO MAAME TWE SAMZU

  • fatman 9 years ago

    JUST LIKE NPP ALWAYS TELLING GHANAIANS LIES ABOUT THE ECONOMY. We shall see

  • ato 9 years ago

    From ur submission, ur old power drunk will b worse than liar. Apooo

  • fatman 9 years ago

    That womanizer is wining again. Was Markins the only person in the discussion???. What was the reaction from Felix?. This is a one sided reportage

  • PUMA 9 years ago

    John Mahama is a pathological liar because every womanizer is a liar If ndc can't understand this they can go to hell with their dead goat president. John Mahama lied to Ghanaians he will never send the country to the IMF and ...
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  • iLiveNews@!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.de 9 years ago

    Mathematician: Evaluating Ghana from Mills - Mahama Gov't = Zero development (0). Borrow from IMF, creat looth and share. Therefore: vote Ndc out and replace Npp come 2016

  • Concerned 9 years ago

    When a future event is going to happen but you don't know exactly how much it's going to cost, you make a provision for it based on best estimates. As for the issue at hand, how many times does your idiotic president have to ...
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  • KWAA 9 years ago

    Can this Government,undertake any project without seeking for loans somewhere?

  • Addo Adu 9 years ago

    Yes, like any country or business, you need to generate capital to undertake projects of social and economic nature to benefit a cause be it national or private. I would like to stress that if the loan cannot be employed/used ...
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  • goodluck 9 years ago

    Ma friend u go for loans invest the money and then make payments for d loan and also profit from ur investment...you don't jus go for loans cus everyone goes for loans...black ppl kwraaa do u use your brain...jus go for loans ...
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  • ernest 9 years ago

    I watched the program this morning and Honorable Alex Afenyo-Markin couldn't be specific. The budget issue of statistical service department was about reorganization and not retrenchment, and this was in 2013 long before Ghan ...
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  • Osofo 9 years ago

    Did you expect the president to say that people were going to be fired just before elections? You should fear these NDCeivers

  • Ugly akufo addo 9 years ago

    This idiot should tells us where his father is

  • JDiM 9 years ago

    NDC has lost the 2016 elections already and Nana is the newly elected PRESIDENT.Hurray!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.

  • Obournana 9 years ago

    Does this dishonorable MP know how the Public sector drain the country's resources? Does Afenyo Markin see it prudent for the few workers to receive about 70% of the nation's revenue at the expense of all Ghanaians? A lot of ...
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  • SARPONG 9 years ago

    Obournana, then why is the government lying about it? It should come out and boldly tell Ghanaians there are too many government workers and some of them have to lose their jobs.

  • Obournana 9 years ago

    Sarpong, you have a point there. My concern is that as an MP, Afenyo Markin has all the informtion. If the president is lying he should be bold to provide the document to prove his point. He made a political comment if you kn ...
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  • Israel Jude 9 years ago

    It matters in this case, after all are not JDM-NDC thieves creating, looting and sharing? You know few workers take 70% of budget and don't know few thieves in JDM-NDC are 60% who hold national offices? Ask JJ, Wayome alone i ...
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  • Kay Agyapong 9 years ago

    You are silly enough.how would u feel if the retrenchment hits you or your relative?If a retired nurse,after servicing for over 30years got GH3,000,then how much will a compensation for been fired amount to?

  • kwaku 9 years ago

    who is dis Afenyo at all? was he not the one who sign post dated cheques for student so they could vote for him in 2012 elections and after winning told them not to go the bank? how could you talk like dat to the president?. ...
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  • Israel Jude 9 years ago

    Stupid kwaku idiot. He's the one who won a case against stupid JDM-Afari Gyan's EC. Get off with useless comments

  • John Dukkus 9 years ago

    That Afennyo Markin must smell pepper in the coming elections. We know what "they" did to turn the 2012 elections. Unless he steps down we will show him we are true and indigenous politicians of the land

  • Okyesco 9 years ago

    Why should our President lie to us, after-all we know he is non performing and going to IMF is some thing we know will bring untold hardship on us, so why lie to us.Mr President come clear.

  • Kukuu 9 years ago

    Attention Ghanaians! Know that the IMF bailout does not come with golden spoons.Job cut is the number condition, just sit and let the stupid president tune your motherfucking minds.At the end of the day it is the poor civil a ...
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  • George 9 years ago

    We have a president whose yes=Big NO & small no = BIG YES

  • Dr.William Acquah 9 years ago

    Who believes this very incompetent Mahama? Only idiots do.He never tells the truth. It is time he is axed!

  • Israel Jude 9 years ago

    When the prez lies to the good people of this country, he has betrayed and violatethe sacred constitution of this country and the trust of the people reposed in him at both the election and subsequent swearing in as prez! It' ...
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  • HAZOR 9 years ago

    Credibility issue is Mahama problem period.He lied about going to IMF of bailout and what did we see and hear?Have we forgotten Cuba doctor trainee fees and embraer plane purchase and more over we did not know what happen to ...
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  • bashings 9 years ago

    after insulting your president what do you expect? NPP will come into power and the cycle will continue! as a nation we cursed because of party politics!

  • BRENYA,CAL.,USA. 9 years ago

    THIS MAN,NAHAMA,IS SO USED TO LYING THAT HE NO LONGER REALIZES WHEN HE'S LYING.HE LIED ABOUT EVERYTHING TOO MANY TO MENTION AND GHANAIANS ARE SO SICK AND FED UP OF HIM THAT PEOPLE DO NOT WANT TO SEE OR LISTEN TO HIM ANYMORE B ...
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  • cha 9 years ago

    We are really tired of this lieing mahama. Is about time the people wake up and push them out next year

  • USMAN 9 years ago

    Mahama was able to bribe AfDB to lie.

  • KOFFIE WALLACE 9 years ago

    THIS MP IS TOO KNOWM. HE TALKS AS IF HE KNOWS EVERYTHING IN GOVERNANCE PROCESS

  • Cee 9 years ago

    Ghanaians never want the truth to be told. The MP is more honest than your foolish president, aboa.

  • Kay Agyapong 9 years ago

    He is talking according to what happened in PAR-LIAR-MENT.beware because it will come and this our small world,one of your family members may be a victim.

  • Loway 9 years ago

    I can help you solve all your problems

  • KWAME 9 years ago

    The President we have currently is a liar in the true sence of the word. It is sad to say this but that is the impression I have of him.Many of the things he said in the past hen matched to the reality have not been true.How ...
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  • Appreciation 9 years ago

    you and the President who should we believe? You were not part of the negotiations yet you claimed to know better. This is not district assembly elections. Another desperate elephant looking for campaign message.

  • Atongo Baba 9 years ago

    This guy is expert in writing anonymous letters instead of being bold as a lawyer or is he also a certificate less lawyer? Time will tell

  • DB 9 years ago

    Certificate less lawyer? Go and ask Afari Djan who this man is. Asking such a foolish question only goes to show you gdon't even know what is going on in Ghana.

  • xoxo 9 years ago

    Your mother and father watti. Does your stupid father have any academic credentials? Animal like you

  • Big man 9 years ago

    NDC is full of liars they know nothing

  • a.k, amsterdam 9 years ago

    Mahama knew why he is hiding the real truth from Ghanaians so Ghanaians must be extra careful else they will weep after 2017 if they maintain NDC government.

  • KWASHIE ADJAH 9 years ago

    JOHN MAHAMA, THE YAM CANNOT HACK IT, AS PRESIDENT AND HE IS LYING TO COMPOUND THE SUFFERING OF GHANAIANS. DROP THE YAM AND SET GHANA FREE, FROM STEALING, CORRUPTION AND INCOMPETENCE.

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  • Nana Boakye Agyemang 9 years ago

    That's why NDC going down come 2016 in a Landslide fashion

  • Kosi Ametefe Dogbe 9 years ago

    nana,
    though majority of ghanaians would want a change in govt based on the current level of frustration from economic mismanagement, dumsor etc, it is not certain their intentions will be realized in the elections

    this g ...
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  • TT 9 years ago

    If the government has nothing to hide why can it show the Ghanaians the whole IMF document so we can see and analyze for ourselves.By keeping it a secret, what else do you expect Ghanaians to say. Remember in this digital wor ...
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  • ogyam 9 years ago

    I am not an economist. The simplest word i want to know from those who are managing the purse of ghana is ; do they think we shall be fools forever. Disgrace to Dr Kwame nkrumah and so many of our fore fathers.
    IDIOTS.

  • gadanga john 9 years ago

    thank u mr president for setting the records straight. continue the good works yr detracters will bow their heads in shame

  • ato 9 years ago

    This markin man has a big problem. Doom monger.

  • Govena 9 years ago

    The president who has the power to carry out the so called retrenchment exercises says he is not going to do it yet bcos of political expediency this Afenyo guy calls him a liar. Afenyo eeee!!!! you are becoming somethn else ...
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  • Kofi 9 years ago

    The same president who has the power not to go the the IMF told the nation, we were not going to the IMF. What happened next? Please, don't trust your president too much for he does the very thing he promises not to! You reme ...
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  • Menfele 9 years ago

    My brother Markin you talk too much and most of them have no barkings. Have they read 2017 budget? You are a good future material, stop gathering dust in your warddrope. Do not do all the dirty jobs.

  • SON OF MAN 9 years ago

    BE WARNED JOHN DRAMA, GHANAIANS ARE NOT YOUR CHILDREN.
    THERE ARE MORE ELDERLY PEOPLE THAN YOU IN THIS COUNTRY.
    LIES WILL NOT WIN 2016 ELECTIONS FOR YOU.
    YOU DAYS ARE NUMBERED SO GET READY.

  • Kwesi USA 9 years ago

    Redeployment, retrenchment, and now rationalization. Playing with words and the gullible will swallow it hook, line and sinker. poor Ghanaian worker.

  • Kofi 9 years ago

    The man has been lying about everything. That is all he does. I'm not surprised again. I'll rather be surprised if he does not lie!

  • Joe 9 years ago

    Mahama and his NDC government have been lying to Ghanaians ever since they came to power and still telling liars. But time will tell.

  • Oware - NPP 9 years ago

    Markin you nothing a pathological liar.

  • PUMA 9 years ago

    A thief is always a thief. You are a thief for stealing Oware,do you know what that stands for ?idiot be proud of yourself and your name, did an Ashanti advised you to take an akan name to lower your self ? Or did any akan ad ...
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  • Kpeblo 9 years ago

    There are a whole lot of things going on that the public need to know. How come teachers,nurses and others are not getting paid for the work they have done. Some have not been paid 1-3 months so when strikes start how can we ...
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  • Kay Agyapong 9 years ago

    Getting loans to enhance unemployment!!!!My goodness.THE NDC has conived with the IMF to loot and share and after all,cause a high rate poverty as well as unemployment at its peak to our dear nation.Pity...

  • Charles Osei. 9 years ago

    So whatb does this wannabe so called lawyer wants us to do? To kill the president or to tell Kufour the thief to give us our oil money back? This guy is irrelevant there. He has never spoken a single sense.Always attacking th ...
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  • T PEN 9 years ago

    MAHAMA IS A THIEF.HE WANT TO SELL GHANA OIL TO IVORY COAST AND FRANCE. HE WENT TO SWITZERLAND TOGETHER WITH OUATTARA TO NEGOCIATE OVER THE OIL FIELD.

  • TEE 9 years ago

    MAHAMA APUUUUU ABOA

  • Agbo 9 years ago

    He lied to us 4 years ago and it is now that Ghanaians are realising his personality.

  • TEE 9 years ago

    MAHAMA IS JUST A TALKATIVE CLUELESS INCOMPETENT

  • Dessie 9 years ago

    Any redundant workforce that do not benefit the nation must be shutdown; retrench the public workforce; make it become a quality workforce, let any public worker who is not ready to provide quality and honest job must go home ...
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  • Adjabitiase 9 years ago

    Every body should read the book entitled"Animal farm"and compare it to Ghana

  • Akans Prophecies 9 years ago

    Hopeless NDC. Someone must die or be killed before they assumes power. Ingrates of dirty, wicked souls, among a perfect human society. I still wonder why idiots keep worshipping this monstrous organisation. Great hate on a ...
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  • fatman 9 years ago

    NPP is full of liars. DOOM MONGERS. GOD WILL ALWAYS BLESS GHANA

  • Baba 9 years ago

    Stupity in highest order. you dont have the facts, yet you say the president lied. what kind of logic is that

  • nana addo 9 years ago

    So people still hope nana will become a president?

  • BBC NEWS! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 9 years ago

    True liar!

  • Andani 9 years ago

    Mahaman should better tell us the true than thise misleading useless goverment

  • salam 9 years ago

    What kind of nonsense is this, what do you mean by the president is not telling the truth, i will simply describe you as a stupid man.

  • Samuel 9 years ago

    You think u are the only intelligent person in Ghana. Becareful the way u talk about the president.

  • Kofi 9 years ago

    Samuel, I think you are stupid!

  • Galbose 9 years ago

    Alwaz lying.Ndc is asking all MMDCE to pay parr of their common fund into a special accounts
    Where did we go wrong? Aaaba.What at all is happening in Ghana? A typical womanizer made a president in Ghana. stealing,lies and mo ...
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  • Omono 9 years ago

    If you have a bunch of people whose expertise is talking - propaganda, even right with the leader, the best you can get is mediocrity. Our president talks 'too much' and so he could easily slip or be tempted to hide some of t ...
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  • CAO 9 years ago

    ghana

  • CHRIS 9 years ago

    As for back as 2008 the Statistical Service started work on a rationalisation document and as parts of the efforts at rationalisation asked government and the world Bank to assist it to lay of staff whose services were no lon ...
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  • CAO 9 years ago

    GAHAN

  • Dd 9 years ago

    U mean u are tellin fe truth.sorry