Ghana’s gov’t “busy tickling” with corruption – GII

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LAWYER NB 8 years ago

IT IS IN OUR BLOOD NOT CHARATER ALONE

IT IS IN OUR BLOOD NOT CHARATER ALONE
TT 8 years ago

DEATH

DEATH
OLD SOLDIER 8 years ago

Author:-Kasapa...
My friend, picture no lie. Or the picture too has been fabricated? This government is the most hopeless one in the annals of this country. How can you boast about your popularity and still be resorting to ...
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Author:-Kasapa...
My friend, picture no lie. Or the picture too has been fabricated? This government is the most hopeless one in the annals of this country. How can you boast about your popularity and still be resorting to these communist-inferior tactics?
olu 8 years ago

it not an easy task for stop corruption in ghana. but with some tactics, l hope it will be reduced. the fast means is not sweetable in Democracy system. death sentence.

it not an easy task for stop corruption in ghana. but with some tactics, l hope it will be reduced. the fast means is not sweetable in Democracy system. death sentence.
OLD SOLDIER 8 years ago

When Kwaku Baako informed us about the atrocities of Kwesi Pratt during PNDC Regime, some of us did not believe until the truth was confirmed during the NRC. Kwesi Pratt is the most dangerous Journalist Ghana had ever have, h ...
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When Kwaku Baako informed us about the atrocities of Kwesi Pratt during PNDC Regime, some of us did not believe until the truth was confirmed during the NRC. Kwesi Pratt is the most dangerous Journalist Ghana had ever have, he had the gut to recommend his fellow journalists to be executed by PNDC. Pratt even recommended Baako to be killed by the regime, thank God Baako was instead touchered violently and severely but his life was spared. This is what Kwesi Pratt can do. Now Pratt is a secret agent to NDC and US Embassy in Ghana. May God forgive Pratt and spare him the untold evils that will come upon him and his generations. The souls of those journalist killed through Pratt's recommendations to PNDC will never forgive Pratt. Now Pratt has the guts to take Diplomatic Passport and smuggled his weak-headed children to work at the Ministries under Mills NDC, may God forgive Pratt and his dependance and spare them of the evils ahead of them...
alexis 8 years ago

Talk of HIV disease and you'll know that it is not in every Ghanaian blood, though it's a pandemic. Corruption is rife I in Ghana but not all are corrupt. AIDS is, as a disease, tackled from known affected. The gov't shd hold ...
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Talk of HIV disease and you'll know that it is not in every Ghanaian blood, though it's a pandemic. Corruption is rife I in Ghana but not all are corrupt. AIDS is, as a disease, tackled from known affected. The gov't shd hold the bull by the horn: punish corrupt officials and not promote them.
OLD SOLDIER 8 years ago

Author:-PRINCE KWASI ADADE (OFIE P33)...
GHANA'S MEDIA, CORRUPT & STUPID!! LOOK AT THE WAY MAHAMA WAS INTERVIEWED IN GERMANY. THE QUESTIONS WERE UP TO THE POINT AND IT FOUND MAHAMA SHAKING AND SWEATING. IT WAS PURELY ON THE ...
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Author:-PRINCE KWASI ADADE (OFIE P33)...
GHANA'S MEDIA, CORRUPT & STUPID!! LOOK AT THE WAY MAHAMA WAS INTERVIEWED IN GERMANY. THE QUESTIONS WERE UP TO THE POINT AND IT FOUND MAHAMA SHAKING AND SWEATING. IT WAS PURELY ON THE ECONOMY AND THE MAN POINTED OUT TO HIM THE FEELING OF HOPELESSNESS AND DESPONDENCY ON THE PART OF GHANAINS UNDER HIS INEPT & CORRUPT NDC GOVERNMENT. THE JOURNALIST WAS A WHITEMAN!!! HE DOES NOT LIVE IN GHANA!!! BUT COME TO GHANA, WE HAVE OVER 80 MINISTERS REPRESENTING VARIOUS SECTORS OF THE ECONOMY. THIS SO CALLED RADIO PRESENTERS AND JOURNALISTS ARE UNABLE TO CALL THEM AND ASK THEM RELEVANT QUESTIONS AS TO HOW THE COUNTRY IS MOVING FORWARD OR BEING DESTROYED, THEY PREFER TO CALL ASIEDU NKETIA, KOKU ANYIDOHO, ANITA DE SOSO, AKUA DONKOR OR KOFI ADAMS TO ASK THEM WHOM THEY HAVE MANAGED TO INSULT IN THE NPP. LOOK!!! 4 YEARS OF DUMSOR, THE CEDI HAS TAKEN A NOSE-DIVE, NDC STEALING OUR MONIES, MASS UNEMPLOYMENT, UNPAID WAGES AND SALARIES: --- BUSINESSES, NHIS, MASS COCOA SPRAYING, SCHOOL FEEDING PROGRAM ETC. ETC. ALL COLLAPSED AND OUR SO CALLED JOURNALISTS JUST DISGRACING THEMSELVES. WHAT A COUNTRY????????
VICTOR CARRILLACE OFINAM-ANTWI 8 years ago

FOR PRESIDENT NAHAMA TO HAVE ACCEPTED TO LEAD THIS COUNTRY, HE MUST OPEN UP TO EFFECTIVE CRITICISM. RATHER THAN LOSE HIS COOL, HE SHOULD EXAMINE ALL THAT IS BEING SAID ABOUT THE PREVALENCE OF CORRUPTION IN THE COUNTRY UNDER H ...
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FOR PRESIDENT NAHAMA TO HAVE ACCEPTED TO LEAD THIS COUNTRY, HE MUST OPEN UP TO EFFECTIVE CRITICISM. RATHER THAN LOSE HIS COOL, HE SHOULD EXAMINE ALL THAT IS BEING SAID ABOUT THE PREVALENCE OF CORRUPTION IN THE COUNTRY UNDER HIS ADMINISTRATION AND DO SOMETHING DRASTIC ABOUT IT, BEGINNING FROM HIMSELF AND HIS OPERATIVES. THERE IS NO SMOKE WITHOUT FIRE. NO SANE GHANAIAN WILL SAY HE IS SMARTLY DRESSED WHEN HE IS ACTUALLY NAKED. BITTER DRUGS OFTEN TURN OUT TO BE POTENT.
TT 8 years ago

WE ARE SICK IN CORRUPTION:

WE ARE SICK IN CORRUPTION:
BB 8 years ago

We need people like the new Tanzanian President (Magulufi). Unfortunately Most Ghanaian politicians are too corrupt to fight corruption

We need people like the new Tanzanian President (Magulufi). Unfortunately Most Ghanaian politicians are too corrupt to fight corruption
Kwaku Gbloenawo 8 years ago

Any leader who tells you he is inhibited in taking swift action on corruption because of the democratic system is the biggest thief of all. Isn't democracy being practiced in Nigeria or Tanzania or the US for that matter? Sha ...
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Any leader who tells you he is inhibited in taking swift action on corruption because of the democratic system is the biggest thief of all. Isn't democracy being practiced in Nigeria or Tanzania or the US for that matter? Shame on Mahama and Batidam.
Buying time to cover up is what Mahama is good at!!!!
THOMAS DUKORMEVI 8 years ago

Masar, mahama no go listenooo. u dey spoil his looting spree. he is only concerned about winning d next election fair or foul.

Masar, mahama no go listenooo. u dey spoil his looting spree. he is only concerned about winning d next election fair or foul.
.USMAN. 8 years ago

Mahama is so heartless, wicked and corrupt that he wouldn’t blink stealing from an orphan. Please read the following:
Ghana’s President Hurls Insults At Obasanjo At African Forum In London-bloomberg

There was near pan ...
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Mahama is so heartless, wicked and corrupt that he wouldn’t blink stealing from an orphan. Please read the following:
Ghana’s President Hurls Insults At Obasanjo At African Forum In London-bloomberg

There was near pandemonium and confusion at the Annual Global African Investment Forum held in Westminster, Central London after a heated exchange between Ghana’s President John Mahama and former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo degenerated into open insults.This was due to General Obasanjo openly accusing the Ghanaian president and his government of blackmailing and collecting bribes from Nigerian businessmen in Ghana, buying numerous properties in Nigeria and South Africa and financially contributing 12 million dollars to Goodluck Jonathan’s campaign last year. This infuriated President Mahama who lost his temper and pointing his finger, called General Obasanjo an ” idiot” and a “silly buffoon”.It took other ministers present as well as Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni to calm tempers and usher President Mahama to a nearby room. The forum, which takes place from 1st to 3rd December is attended by African Heads of States Ministers, Private equity firms and investors to discuss opportunities for investment and development in African Economies.

Source: Bloomberg
EDUARDO DOMINGO 8 years ago

MR PRESIDENT PLEASE DO NOT DISAGREE WITH GHANA'S CORRUPTION PERCEPTIONS, BECAUSE IT IS REAL, DON'T YOUR EXCELLENCY GET IT? LOOK ALL THE OTHER CORRUPT PRACTICES BEING UNCOVERED IN GHANA IN TOTAL DOES NOT MATCH THE JUDICIARY CO ...
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MR PRESIDENT PLEASE DO NOT DISAGREE WITH GHANA'S CORRUPTION PERCEPTIONS, BECAUSE IT IS REAL, DON'T YOUR EXCELLENCY GET IT? LOOK ALL THE OTHER CORRUPT PRACTICES BEING UNCOVERED IN GHANA IN TOTAL DOES NOT MATCH THE JUDICIARY CORRUPTION EVER! I WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT THE JUDGES AND THE POLICE ARE THE MAIN ENCOURAGEMENTS FOR CRIMINALS IN THIS COUNTRY AN THE MOST POTENT BAROMETER FOR JUDGING CORRUPTION!.AND SINCE YOU GUYS IN AUTHORITY HAVE CHOSEN TO PLAY WITH THE COMMON MAN'S FEELINGS BE READY TO REAP THE WHIRLWIND OF YOUR ACTIONS. NOW YOU SACKED THEM AND PAY THEM UP IS IT NOT SO? GOOD, AND THEY HAVE ANOTHER CHANCE TO DESTROY THE COMMON MAN AGAIN? THANKS TO YOU AND YOUR LAWS, WHICH HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH JUSTICE!!I TELL YOU FROM EXPERIENCE YOU ARE GOING TO CREATE ANOTHER CHEZ GUEVERA IN GHANA . NOW THE COMMON PEOPLE KNOW WHAT THEY SAW IN ANANS EXPOSE, AND THEY ARE SEEING HOW YOU DEAL WITH IT! DON'T WORRY TODAY IS FOR EVER. CARRY ON AND TELL THEM GHANA IS NOT CORRUPT, ALL THE OTHER CRIMES ARE NOTHING COMPARED TO WHAT THE JUDGES DID!!!!
BENTLEY 8 years ago

The defensive comments coming from the president clearly illustrates his total lack of will power to deal with corruption. The perception of the people is reality and this he must understand clearly. I think he is sitting on ...
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The defensive comments coming from the president clearly illustrates his total lack of will power to deal with corruption. The perception of the people is reality and this he must understand clearly. I think he is sitting on the most corrupt government ever in this country.
Efo Kwaawaaku Canada 8 years ago

Instead of Mahama calling those involved in corruption to resign and allow the police to open investigation against them and prosecute culprits at Law courts, Mahama government will choose to use committee and throw out the f ...
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Instead of Mahama calling those involved in corruption to resign and allow the police to open investigation against them and prosecute culprits at Law courts, Mahama government will choose to use committee and throw out the findings and turn around and tell Ghanaians I'm fighting corruption thinking Ghanaians are idiots but time will tell, Mahama himself is corrupt Atta Mills was investigating his vice-president about corruption and Aseidu Nketia the village crook and witchzard and Mahama killed professor Mills, ndc fools party know what they are doing looting and share is arterial idea of ndc criminals led by useless Mahama
Zip UP 8 years ago

It feels good that we now start to realise the root cause of corruption in our Ghanaian society as Government base infrastructures, ( State Own Corprates And Institutions ) Chiefs and Kings maintaining that demanding and taki ...
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It feels good that we now start to realise the root cause of corruption in our Ghanaian society as Government base infrastructures, ( State Own Corprates And Institutions ) Chiefs and Kings maintaining that demanding and taking cola from their subjects is a matter of culture instead of being the main breeding source of corruption and many other culture mal-practices in our society. I think the answer to this corrupt-anarchy situation in our todays Ghana is to first and most give some sort of education to our indigenous Kings and chiefs so as to learn them how to submit to the rules and laws of Republic Of Ghana, and we should also try to privatise almost all our unproductive over staff Government Corprates including sector of the Police ,the Prisons, Revenue,Customs and Exercises and also try to engage our huge Military personnels into gainful services like construction- building of our roads infrastructure etc etc, I see these as some of the steps that can be applied to eradicate the root cause of corruption in our today Ghanaian society. so let us be bold and stand tall against the fabric of corruption in our Ghanaian society once and for all.
DROSSMANI JNR 8 years ago

HEI, MAHAMA FOR CAPACITY BUILDING IN CORRUPTION COMBAT?

THE MAN IS DEAD CORRUPT,LOVES CORRUPTION AND DRINKS CORRUPTION. HE LIVES WITH THEM AT FLAGSTAFF HOUSE (AFRIYIE ANKRAH), THEY REPRESENT HIM ABROAD (GILBERT IDDI, AKUA ...
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HEI, MAHAMA FOR CAPACITY BUILDING IN CORRUPTION COMBAT?

THE MAN IS DEAD CORRUPT,LOVES CORRUPTION AND DRINKS CORRUPTION. HE LIVES WITH THEM AT FLAGSTAFF HOUSE (AFRIYIE ANKRAH), THEY REPRESENT HIM ABROAD (GILBERT IDDI, AKUA SENA DENSUA, ETC)
Whatever 8 years ago

Has this Azeem actually been living in Ghana at all?

Has this Azeem actually been living in Ghana at all?
No name 8 years ago

We have a president who is driving the corruption. Unfortunately Ghanaian should brace themselves for more scandals

We have a president who is driving the corruption. Unfortunately Ghanaian should brace themselves for more scandals
THE PROBLEM 8 years ago

Countries past and present that have witness tremendous socioeconomic gains have natural leaders who are selfless,incorruptible with great empathy for the poor.Very few leaders in this world have passed this litmus test parti ...
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Countries past and present that have witness tremendous socioeconomic gains have natural leaders who are selfless,incorruptible with great empathy for the poor.Very few leaders in this world have passed this litmus test particularly in third world countries and specifically in Africa who badly need such caliber of leaders.Rapid socioeconomic gains in countries like Bolivia,venezuela,Brazil and even Cuba have to do with good socialist leaders who enforce policies in the interest of the majority poor.The hallmark of social justice is when there is equity and fairness in the distribution of resources with strict measures put in place to prevent cheating.In the case of Ghana it is certainly a daunting task because our leaders are the forerunners in the corruption syndicate.Individuals in position of responsibility both in government and civil service are only interested in how they can outsmart the system to amass as much wealth as possible.The corruption network is huge and complex involving high profile public servants and government functionaries who gang up to rid the state of huge sums in millions of ghana cedis for their selves and their families.You only have to look at businesses and properties owned by these crooks to make an inference.We are now in a situation of uncontrolled corruption with impunity informed by overt incompetence,gross irresponsibility,negligence and lack of moral conscience.You certainly cannot fight corruption when you have corrupt leaders both in government and state institutions who condone and connive in it.You cannot fight corruption if you have leaders whose only preoccupation is to short circuit the system to illegally amass wealth for themselves and their immediate families.You cannot fight corruption when corrupt leaders put incompetent hands in position of responsibility to handle important national projects and programmes.You cannot fight corruption if you have corrupt leadership who believe in 'hand go' ,'hand come' business of jobs and contracts for huge kickbacks.You cannot fight corruption when sexual favours not competence, inform important decisions by lustful and morally weak leadership.You cannot fight corruption when state institutions including law enforcing agencies are manipulated and monopolized by government.I have made the argument before that the best socialist leaders sensitive to the plight of the poor particularly in West Africa are nearly all military men and revolutionaries.Talk about Jerry Rawlings,Thomas Sankara and Gen.Buhari himself.They paid huge prices for rising up against corruption.One of President John Mahama's right hand man ,journalist Alhaji Bature admitted Jerry Rawlings fought in vain to cleanse the country of the dreaded canker.What he failed to admit was the stark betrayal Jerry Rawlings suffered in the hands of people he thought were committed and loyal to the course of the revolution in cleansing the country of corruption and thievery.Some of the corrupt NDC gurus still lingering on in this government were wolf in sheep clothing only interested in their personal gains other than the objective or ideology of the NDC as a Social Democratic Party that stand for social justice and equality in the interest of the poor,suffering masses.The corruption machinery is a huge conspiracy and deception that find a way of suppressing or exterminating any opposition to it.The likes of Jerry Rawlings and General Buhari have been lucky to be alive.The Great Thomas Sankara demise is a good example of how the corruption machinery in Africa backed by international conspiracy work to keep Africa perpetually corrupt, impoverished and dependent.The western backed ICC instead of witch hunting great socialists and Pan-africanists like colonel Gadaffi and Laurent Gbagbo should help institute serious anti-graft measures and severely punish African Governments that preside over corruption.The IMF and World Bank should make corruption and fiscal discipline a top priority in its dealings with African Leaders who simply don't care about the poor,deprived and destitute people they rule.Western backed democracy in Africa can only be of true value to the people if transparency and accountability is enforced.In my view democracy go beyond winning a multi-party democratic election certified as peaceful,free and fair.It is about empowering people not using political power to exploit,impoverish and disempower people.
SANK 8 years ago

MY OPINION OF VITUS AS A CORRUPTION CRUSADER IS VERY BLUR. FROM THE UPPER WEST REGION TO GREATER ACCRA REGION I CANNOT POINT ON ONE THING THAT HE HAS DONE AS EVIDENCE OF OR SUCCESS OF HIS WORK.

DURING THE NPP ERA VITUS AZE ...
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MY OPINION OF VITUS AS A CORRUPTION CRUSADER IS VERY BLUR. FROM THE UPPER WEST REGION TO GREATER ACCRA REGION I CANNOT POINT ON ONE THING THAT HE HAS DONE AS EVIDENCE OF OR SUCCESS OF HIS WORK.

DURING THE NPP ERA VITUS AZEEM AND HIS GII WERE VIRTUALLY NON EXISTENCE. IT ONLY CAME ALIVE IN MARCH 2009.

FIGHTING CORRUPTION IN CORRUPT WAYS ( IN POLITICAL COLOURS) IS MORE CORRUPTION THAN ANY FORM OF CORRUPTION.
AZEEM AND GII NEED TO LOOK AT THEMSELVES VERY WELL IF THEY WANT PEOPLE OBJECTIVE MINDS TO TAKE THEM SERIOUS.
Kofi Subah 8 years ago

African politicians have no political will to tackle corruption. Soon the Western governments will tackle the issue for them. They are not going to sit down for mass migration of Africans to European shores because of corrupt ...
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African politicians have no political will to tackle corruption. Soon the Western governments will tackle the issue for them. They are not going to sit down for mass migration of Africans to European shores because of corrupt inefficient African govts.
2016 8 years ago

For anybody to suggest John Dramani Mahama-the personification of corruption to fight corruption is on a wild goose chase, a fanciful mirage, because there is absolutely no way John Dramani Mahama the leader of the NDC party ...
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For anybody to suggest John Dramani Mahama-the personification of corruption to fight corruption is on a wild goose chase, a fanciful mirage, because there is absolutely no way John Dramani Mahama the leader of the NDC party in gov't can fight corruption.
Ghana can begin to fight corruption by firing the corrupt John Mahama-led NDC gov't at the ballot box in 2016, and resolving to end the corruption chain just as the good people of Nigeria resolved to do, by ushering in the Presidency of Muhammudu Buhari.
Ghana must punish corruption at the ballot box massively in 2016.
CONCERN 8 years ago

This is why Mahama government is corrupt he does not see anything wrong of corruption. The government would prefer Ghanaian citizens to lie about corruption. I mean Mahama wants Ghanaians to say everything is fine whiles is n ...
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This is why Mahama government is corrupt he does not see anything wrong of corruption. The government would prefer Ghanaian citizens to lie about corruption. I mean Mahama wants Ghanaians to say everything is fine whiles is not, just like the energy situation. Yes there are too much corruption in the system.
duke 8 years ago

LEARN FROM THE KENYANS PROTESTING AGAINST CORRUPTION AND GETTING POLITICIANS PROSECUTED. IF MAHAMA WONT DO IT RISE UP AND THINGS WILL CHANGE COWARDS YOU ARW GHANAIANS

Let the facts speak and Ghanaians make up your minds ...
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LEARN FROM THE KENYANS PROTESTING AGAINST CORRUPTION AND GETTING POLITICIANS PROSECUTED. IF MAHAMA WONT DO IT RISE UP AND THINGS WILL CHANGE COWARDS YOU ARW GHANAIANS

Let the facts speak and Ghanaians make up your minds about who is fooling who and whether you continue to sit on your arses and be fooled.

Twenty Richest People In Ghana For 2013
1. Ibrahim Mahama -$1.9 billion /Businessman , Brother of the current President of Ghana. Only Ghanaian to own a private jet.

2. Alfred Mahama -$1.3 billion./ Businessman, brother of the current President of Ghana.
3. Roland Agambire – $1.1billion/ RLG (eBay type of business) (Business man )
4. Joseph Agyepong – $1.05billion/Businessman (Zoomlion waste management company and other businesses)….. title=”Company banned by World Bank in Liberia” target=”_blank”>
5. John Mahama – $900 million/President of the Republic of Ghana, Politician.
6. Alhaji Azuma Banda – $724 million./Businessman, owner of antrak air.
7. Ato Ahwoi – $684 million/ Politician, Businessman.
8. Dr. Sam Jonah – $430 Million/Businessman (Executive Director of Jonah Capital, Equity in Johannesberg, south Africa)
9. Haruna Iddrisu – $300million/Politician, Minister of Trade.
10. Alex Mould – $282 million/GMPC
11. Dr. Kwame Addo Kufuor – $250million./ Physician, Politician.
12. Tsatsu Tsikata – $245million/Lawyer, Businessman and Politician
13. Elvis Afriyie Ankrah -$112 million./ Minister of Youth and Sports, Politician.
14. Dr. Kwesi Nduom – $110 million./ Businessman and Politician.
15. Ken Agyapong – $104 million/Politician/Businessman
16. Prince Kofi Amoabeng – $98million/ CEO, UT Bank…… title=”He has an ongoing fraud case gaianst him” target=”_blank”>
17. Asiedu Nketiah – $89million/Politician, Secretary of the ruling NDC Party.
18. Alfred Woyome – $75million/Politically connected Businessman.
19. Tony Lithur – 30million/ Lawyer
20. Baba Kamara – $ 11million/ Politician (Commissioner to Nigeria)

Source: Forbes Ghana

The full list of the 20 Richest in Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa, Ghana, Cote d’ivoire and Morocco would be published in the December 2013 Edition of Forbes Africa

Ghana’s gov’t “busy tickling” with corruption – GII

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