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Mahama to blame for low offertory, funeral donations – NPP

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  • Nun 8 years ago

    It is difficult to understand why we spend so much money on funerals. Do we want show we care for the victims' family or we want to show off our wealth? We have really lost the whole essence of funerals.

  • PRINCE KWASI ADADE (OFIE P33) 8 years ago

    SOURCE: myjoyonline.com------Executive Director of the National Anticorruption Action Plan (NACAP) says they would be compelled to go to court to demand accountability from government over its failure to retrieve monies wrong ...
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  • Sam 8 years ago

    So was Mahama wrong to say these guys sleep on the job?

  • Kwabena Larbi 8 years ago

    CUT YOUR COAT ACCORDING TO YOUR CLOTH. GHANAIANS ARE DISPLAYING PRUDENT FINANCIAL WISDOM!

  • mRNA + tRNA 8 years ago

    Sure Mahama should be blamed for you being stupid and lazy

  • Respect 8 years ago

    Ask again.

  • Great Mind 8 years ago

    King of sleaze,reading the bible upside down even when carries a Dr on his lapels.He should tell this nation how church offertory benefits us, or what economic benefits there are for thousands of corpses held in refrigerators ...
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  • Black Star! 8 years ago

    Just listen to their childish talk!

  • Big J 8 years ago

    Oh Dr!, you too? You are supposed to be learned and not speak like an illiterate. Don't you think people are giving less offertry because they have become wiser after seeing the lifestyle of most self-acclaimed men of God?

  • ahmed 8 years ago

    You talk true oòo

  • bitter truth 8 years ago

    Some of these political leaders don't think at all because they are are blinded by their political ambitions. the so called church contributions and extravagant spending on funerals are some of the major causes of poverty and ...
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  • Will 8 years ago

    all these talks makes the npp a laughing stock...Hw can u as a serious political party be talking nonsense all the tym...npp is not just serious...ndc till till till....

  • kwTgia eks 8 years ago

    look at this man too

  • Abui 8 years ago

    Even if someone constipates it is Mahama. Poor Mahama.

  • Abui 8 years ago

    If NPP comes to power everything will be freeeeee. Amen

  • Nii 8 years ago

    Oh Doc! Please don't do this kwraao! I don't want people to spew garbage about you. You are dear to my heart.

  • West Side 8 years ago

    This statement adds no value. People just talk rubbish to gain attention. There's a lot of other more important issues he could have commented on. We are responsible for high cost of funerals, we have our priorities backwards ...
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  • Bfire 8 years ago

    The Ghanaian tax payer is spending much on this MP to come out with wise and tangible arguments to find solution to our problems, instead he is talking of church collection and funeral donations. Waste of space and resources. ...
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  • ready 8 years ago

    fooooool at 40. talk sense gyimi ni. can npp save gh with this low mind?

  • Jane 8 years ago

    You people are planning to use our funds to pay church offertory and funeral donations? You guys are not serious!

  • Nana kwesi 8 years ago

    You will even blame Mahama for your impotency.

  • Anas is unstoppable 8 years ago

    This is shallow mindedness on the side of the mp. How can ppl like this make laws that will move the country forward?

  • KOOMSON 8 years ago

    Stupidity.funerals are your problem.dead bastards body is not our problem in Ghana.:"MPENAMMA " dead body.what happens at the funeral is just evil that is why God is not ready to help again.

  • bright 8 years ago

    Another stupid talk from person like this.

  • Mensah 8 years ago

    How STUPID can the NPP be? What level of desperation is this.They have reduced the issue of governance to funeral donations and church offertory. How can these activities help in our economic growth. And these characters want ...
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  • Che Andrew 8 years ago

    So the NPP has reduced the economy of the country to the amount of money donated at funerals and in churches! Now we know who should be called 'incompetent"

  • Yaw 8 years ago

    Ghanaians and love for funerals.

  • DDT 8 years ago

    This comment shows how stupid Npp members are. You waste money on dead body but ignore him when he was alive. Stupidity in it highest degree.

  • KD 8 years ago

    Stupid talk

  • Cojo, Germany 8 years ago

    AS an MP you should have said something better to convince the people of Ghana and not offertory and funeral donations.

  • Che Andrew 8 years ago

    Now all Ghanaians understand why the president rightly described the NPP MPs as sleeping dummies in parliament. How can a whole Dr. speak this way if he was not sleeping and suddenly woke up to make such a stupid statement?

  • Aprukusu 8 years ago

    People with doctorate degrees talking unadulterated trash !!. There is a huge deficit of common sense and wisdom among some of our politicians and you sometimes wonder how they got elected or how they got their degrees!

  • GoodMan 8 years ago

    This is the npp style.Very childish at this modern age when people are advancing they are still in their old age style.They should note that Ghanaians have never been satisfied since the time of Kwame Nkrumah.This type of tal ...
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  • mahama 8 years ago

    Am surprise @ this Doc, no wonder. If having A4 sheet is different from being a man who is pragmatic. there are various various ways to get the A4 sheet

  • mahama 8 years ago

    Am surprise @ this Doc, no wonder. Having A4 sheet is different from being a man who is pragmatic. there are various various ways to get the A4 sheet but lack of competency

  • Aliu 8 years ago

    Its very true funeral donations has. gone down. Yes, even after Abubakari saddiq sacrifices his life for akufo addo and Npp .akufo Addo can only donate Gh¢ 2,500 for his funeral as his end of life benefit

  • GoodMan 8 years ago

    So is this why your constituency voted for you?Talk about poverty alleviation,reducing ignorance and developing your constituency not this cheap talk/politics.Anyway this is all that majority of out politician know.HE ONLY WA ...
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  • PRAYERLINE 8 years ago

    My heart bleeds for the few fine brains in NPP. What a talk-

  • samantha 8 years ago

    Is this guy an hournary doctor or a proper one? if yes where did he study? Poland?

  • Tumkumsa 8 years ago

    Why not your Legon or KNUST

  • BEN 8 years ago

    WHAT A BRAIN DEAD.

  • #Kwaseabinti. 8 years ago

    What type of illiterate logic is this? We've all these petty-minded people in our parliament, how can anything good come from that house. What a shame !

  • Oroko 8 years ago

    This fool has a doctorate and makes analysis like a five year old. With such people how can this nation ever progress. It's sickening and pathetic, absolutely no brainer comments.

  • sul 8 years ago

    WE LIVE IN A FREE COUNTRY SO ANY FOOL CAN SAY WHATEVER HE / SHE WANTS. TALK IS CHEAP.
    ONLY FOOLS WILL SUPPORT YOU MR. NO-SENCE

  • Dady 8 years ago

    IGNORE THESE PEOPLE. THEY WANT TO BE HEARD, WE HAVE, BUT YOU ARE NOT RELEVANT. THIS IS NOT COMING FROM SENSIBILITY.

  • Koo nimo 8 years ago

    Dr spoke about real issues. This was just in gist

  • Oboe 8 years ago

    HOW can an educated MP talk like this? Unless HE IS SLEEPING

  • ---------- 8 years ago

    NPP NEVER CEASES TO AMAZE ME.

  • OSAMAN BIN KARIM 8 years ago

    MY GOODNESS,NPP MPs HAVE NOT ONLY BEEN SLEEPING ON THE JOB, THEY HAVE GONE GAGA! HAS GOD BEEN COMPLAINING OF GOING BROKE? OR THEY (NPP MPS) SUPPLEMENT THEIR SALARY BY OFFERTORY IN THE GOD-BUSINESS THEY RUN? SHAME , SHAME ,SHA ...
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  • boobo 8 years ago

    that us y u people want kill everybody in the country? shameless npp

  • kwasi 8 years ago

    Nonsense

  • AMA 8 years ago

    I don’t know when this MP (or whoever he is) was born but people have always had problems with rent. Long before even Rawlings came on the scene, people were crediting ‘yo ke gari’. Workers in the offices were credit ...
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  • k. Germany 8 years ago

    this those who sit at parleament? God save us. Adwene biara nni ne tirimu. Funeral? Who told him people have to donaote for the dead? Stupid copy . Look at Vice President Akaah funeral and learn form it. Now some are now even ...
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  • akuffp addo retirement party 8 years ago

    I repeat, you must be brain dead with a tinge of stupidity in your dna to be allowed to communicate for the npp. With people like these in our legislature, no wonder there is no forward progress.

  • Osono 8 years ago

    No wonder. A bunch of them are coming from Ashanti region where funeral is merry making. U people will cause Akufu Addo's defeat. U r becoming so irresponsible and useless with cheap politics.

  • Efua Kissinbird 8 years ago

    Offectories and funeral donation going dow,. This is good news. Ghanaians are finally wiseing up. I predict the end of expensive funerals by 2020. Everything in its own time.

  • Mr Jaro 8 years ago

    Since Mahama took pver , even pussy price has gone up. Our sex workers are fighting each other for business.

  • FUGU 8 years ago

    it makes respected and knowledgeable people like this dr. Mark to loose respect and make foolish, unsubstantiated, FALSE,ignorant and non-research supported statement in NOT any other place but PARLIAMENT. It is indeed SAD t ...
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  • Koo Sigi 8 years ago

    What a shame Aselby Yeboah. Think about better things and stop making mockery of yourself. Low offerer at funerals? Oh nooooooooooo, that's below the belt. Come again with something sensible mannnn.....

  • Ghanaman THE REAL 8 years ago

    If Ghanaians are now wisening up and using their hard earned moneys prudently, then what is your beef Mr shallow minded MP? If it takes the current economic hardships to change some of our silly habits the so be it! The churc ...
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  • seeMe 8 years ago

    It is an embarrassment to see people referred to as Dr. so and so making these kinds of statements in the Ghanaian Parliament. Where is the PhD mindset behind such utterances? I don't see it.

  • LAST DON 8 years ago

    They have nothing constructive to offer, their stomach is their benchmark after that the rest of Ghanaians can go to hell.
    What reckless generation are these? They live their lives by scheming evil and becoming overlord in c ...
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  • Kofi Kranbor 8 years ago

    Ohhhh! Am so disappointed to hear a thing from a very learned or educated legislator. he seems not to know how expensive funerals are these days and how churches are ignorantly milking the resources of the masses and the comm ...
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  • Atoklo 8 years ago

    It is a disgrace to our country Ghana and to our Parliament for such people to be elected as legislators. Is this doctor real? Has he ever thought that when it comes to funerals we have got our priorities absolutely wrong? Wh ...
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  • Akora 8 years ago

    How can a so called doctor open his mouth to a certain radius to spew this garbage in our parliament? Yet he is an Honourable man. What a waste!!!

  • Gazzy 8 years ago

    If this assholes who priorities funeral and church donations are the ones we expect to govern us, then It will take 3 generations of 26million Ghanaians to differentiate between good and bad!

  • NHYIRABA GHANANIBA 8 years ago

    this shows the NPP is not ready to rule Ghana but rather to pay money during funerals,the man needs overhauling in his brain,

  • Akyem Okyere Manu 8 years ago

    Ashantis like to make money when someone dies .

  • SEEK- BEREKUM 8 years ago

    I FIND IT EXREMELY DIFFICULT TO UNDERSTAND WHY THESE NPP PEOPLE ARE SO STUPID?
    THIS IS ONE OF THE MOST STUPID STATEMENTS EVER MADE ON THIS PLANET.

  • j.k. Atta 8 years ago

    May be Ghanaians for once have better use for their money than to donate it to charlatans and thieves.If that's the case all well and good

  • ABAGUBA 8 years ago

    U need not to be mp

  • DAVID TEMA. 8 years ago

    Use your time and education to teach Ghanaians on how to desist from spending their money stupidly and lavishly on unnecessary things and stop blaming govt. I wonder how with your degree you can talk like this. This brings to ...
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  • Ghanaian 8 years ago

    I don't blame him he would always get people to be in the scorching sun to vote for him, they are the people creating the impression that Ghanaian professional are only title holder, rather than solving problems, giving you o ...
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  • amoah w. 8 years ago

    i consider that as good omen
    as both practices are the downfall of our economy.

    if we banned donations at churches and funerals, the common man can afford to buy a fowl for the Yuletide

  • Kodjo 8 years ago

    Par

  • Kodjo 8 years ago

    Party of intellectuals indeed!!!

  • anormah issaka 8 years ago

    we are fed up with ur stupid blame game

  • anormah issaka 8 years ago

    we are fed up with ur stupid blame game.npp

  • Laar 8 years ago

    Empty headed Mongol. What at all can he possibly contribute to mother Ghana than to wait and take his ex gratia. we don't want jokers like u in Parliament