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Resign or be sacked – Gov’t to Power Minister

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  • LAST DON 8 years ago

    This confirms what Jesus said in the Bible when he was been accused by the Sadducees about his Miracles.

    And the scribes who came down from Jerusalem said, “He has Beelzebul, and by the ruler of the demons he casts out d ...
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  • KFK 8 years ago

    NDC represent broken promises so please spare us with this long sermon. Jesus is the truth but NDC is not

  • OLD SOLDIER 8 years ago

    Author:-ADANKO...
    Don't go far to punish an innocent person. Mahama is the brain behind it.Asiedu Nketia brought the idea and supported byNDC national council. It is a way to get money for their party.

  • PRINCE KWASI ADADE (OFIE P33) 8 years ago

    AUTHOR: STEVOO-------
    GOD ISNT STUPID LIKE US, WE REAP WHAT WE SOWED,,,,WE SOWED FAKE JUDGEMENT DEBTS, ALMOST ONE BILLION DOLLARS....WE SOWED WOYOME 45 MILLION DOLLARS, WE SOWED WATERVILLE 46 MILLION DOLLARS, ISOFOTON $325,4 ...
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  • Nii Teiko 8 years ago

    For the NDC the word Sack or Resign mean reshuffle or reassignment. Example, Afriyie Ankrah after his unconditional resignation was immediately assigned as a presidential staffer. So do Kojo Adu Asare, Victoria Hummer of Vick ...
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  • WISEMAN 8 years ago

    May the 99 Gods of antoa strike your anus with mega piles. Son of a bitch


    Wo maame tweasi wai

  • SENKOAAH. 8 years ago

    BUSH NAUGHTY DUMMYMAN.WHAT MAKES YOU WISEMAN?.I AM SORRY FOR YOU,YOUR HEAD-LINE SHOW THAT YOU AND HEADLESS LAST DON BUT NOT TO MENTION THAT DIRTY DUSTY FEET ARE THE MOST STUPID BEINGS ON THIS FORUM.

  • Mia 8 years ago

    Dr Donkor has done well and Mahama knows that. Trust me we will make sure he is in post.

  • daladam 8 years ago

    HE IS ALOSER AND GOT TO GO AND HE KNOWS IT

  • Anonymuos Coward 8 years ago

    One has to be a fool to believe that Dumsor is finally over. We cannot pay our gas debt we owe Nigeria Gas but capable of re-branding buses and chocolates with stolen monies. Ghanaians are by nature very corrupt, dishonest, l ...
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  • jumbo 8 years ago

    The NDC govt must be wary of NPP diabolical plot and their wicked machinations at planting and shapping public agendas.They did it before.

    NPP was successful in ploting an evil wedge between the late Attah Mills and our fo ...
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  • DusTY-FooT-pHiloSophER 8 years ago

    The Chief Executive Officer of GRIDCO William Amuna in an interview with JoyNews’ Francis Abban on Multi TV’s news analysis show The Pulse said that enough provision has been made to meet the power demand.

    HE WOULD NOT ...
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  • Pokah 8 years ago

    All the NPP has is Dumsor so they have the need to keep it alive. These evil people who want Ghanains to suffer for their political gains should be shunned.

  • GOD SAVE GHANA 8 years ago

    Wait and see. The NPP said the problem is money(CASH).So where is the lies?Why did The NDC went in for over 10% interest rate Eurobond in this day and time 2015,when most of the banks in the west are given loans for under 5%. ...
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  • jumbo 8 years ago

    thank you brother.You have made my year to end on the positve note.

  • Kole Mappel 8 years ago

    Its Rev. Owusu Bempa's time, 31st night, to prophesy DEATH to his political ENEMIES and praise NPP to win. Please no radio station(s) should give him audience this time, to spew this unGodly, divisive, evil, demonic, unbibil ...
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  • VVIP + NDC =COCAINE 8 years ago

    I DON'T LIKE REPLYING TO PEOPLE, BUT FROM YOUR BAD ENGLISH WRITING, I CAN REALISE THAT THERE IS SOMETHING WRONG WITH YOUR BRAIN.
    WHAT HAS KWABENA DONKOR GOT TO DO WITH NPP.
    THE JOB WAS GIVEN TO HIM BY NDC/MAHAMA GOVERNMENT. ...
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  • OLD SOLDIER 8 years ago

    Author:-DerDieDas.@KÖLN...
    Mahama corruption lagacy has yielded food and the results are: Ameri deal, Kumasi Airport, Rattary Park, MetroMass Bus rebranding, Sada, Geeda, Wayomi 50 Million cedis. All of the above money sto ...
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  • LAWYER 8 years ago

    TRUST ME

  • MAD COBRA 8 years ago

    Poor fish







    and an illeterate Lawyer like you so NPP is behind NDC's incompetence and lies?A fool like you will vote foolishly because you want to stay in darkness and in hardship.

  • Pokah 8 years ago

    NPP' s big problem is the supporters who think they can insult people of other ethnic origins and still ask them for their votes! Because they have Antony karbos and BAWUMIA in their party. Ha ha ha!

  • aikins 8 years ago

    I am sorry but you are not making any sense.

  • Las 8 years ago

    And u r behind what

  • Concern Citizen 8 years ago

    How can thngs work well under" DEAD GOAT" President?.
    Now u turn to blame NPP who don't control the nation's resources.NDC are behaving like an animal caught in a trap.

  • Bernice, USA 8 years ago

    Nonsense! Did NPP give the power minister his appointment? Use your brain for once because your ignorance is showing. Crazy!

  • Purest 8 years ago

    And you think your English is impeccable?

  • Dokunu 8 years ago

    Bro am Npp buh seriously ur english sucks big time. How u say "I can Realise" lol

  • sunday 8 years ago

    oh it appears just yesterday there was this official announcement pertaining to the end of dumsor,why this 90 degrees turn around,Eei NDC. so with this front and backwards movement can we ever see the end to dumsor.now it is ...
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  • DusTY-FooT-pHiloSophER 8 years ago

    Below is the real statement of the head of GRIDCo William Amuna further echoing the power minister Dr. Kwabena Donkor's statement earlier on.

    Bulk power distributor Ghana Grid Company (GRIDco) has indicated that the curren ...
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  • d'Signstyle 8 years ago

    Ungratefulness.. Ghanaians should lower their expectations .. The nations problem can't solve in the twinkle of an eyes.. If 75% of the nations enjoy power, let us be glad and continue waiting for the rest of the country to b ...
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  • THEY SAY MAHAMAH IS AN INCOMPETENT. 8 years ago

    MOMONE!.YOU ARE STUPID AND NONENTITY.WHAT WAS YOUR INCOMPETENT MAHAMAH'S PROMISE.HE WOULD NOT MANAGE IT BUT SOLVE IT,BUT ALMOST 4YEARS HE HASN'T BE ABLE TO MANAGE IT,KWASEATO PRESIDENT LIKE HIM,HE THINKS THAT THE SEAT IS FOR ...
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  • boat 8 years ago

    Because 75% are enjoying power so he must not be accountable for his own words? My sister, they are taking we for granted and never again. Travel just around Zimbabwe, I mean Mugabe's Zimbabwe and find the entire nation are e ...
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  • Nana Yaw 8 years ago

    What has this got to do with the NPP? You are just misleading people from the realities and the facts of the incompetence of the NCD government. Is the power ministry not in consideration with the President b4 it comes out an ...
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  • vb 8 years ago

    he is right there, go behind it and you see that npp is behind such news,.

  • vb 8 years ago

    the same npp lies everyday

  • kko 8 years ago

    What is the linkage ? it is wise to understand the issue before making contribution.

  • kwame USA 8 years ago

    This motherfucker,son of s bitch,crazy asshole born from animal prostitute always think and write from his smelly anus.He keeps on posting his rubbish every second on this web.Motherfucker who lives in the animal jungle will ...
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  • I & I 8 years ago

    Last Don, you are confused and crazy.

  • Kapone 8 years ago

    Stupid fool...
    What's the justification for rubbish you spewing out . indeed you are the last twerp.....

  • intelligent npp 8 years ago

    Mr Don what do u actually mean in ur article it's meaningless it seems u were not clever in school Nana ado is akyem but look at the support he is getting from the ashantis why is the ndc afraid of Nana don't worry ur corrupt ...
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  • NDC ARE NATION WRECKERS 8 years ago

    IT IS NOT ONLY KWABENA DONKOR THAT SHOULD RESIGN; THE ENTIRE GOVERNMENT HAS BEEN INCAPABLE OF SOLVING THE ENERGY/POWER PROBLEM.

    THE GOVERNMENT SHOULD HAVE SORTED THIS PROBLEM OUT LONG AGO. ONE PERSON CANNOT BE RESPONSIBLE; ...
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  • Nana Yaw Afriyie 8 years ago

    Only NPP will not see what the power minister has done.

  • YB 8 years ago

    This is not about NPP. Let us not glorify mediocrity. In any civilized country, Mahama would have resigned long ago but not Ghana because we have many citizens who love their political parties more than theselves and their fa ...
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  • BOY KOFI 8 years ago

    When we have installed generation capacity above the average required capacity,then ofcourse there should be no more dumso.Now our attention must be on the supply of gas and light crude oil for the thermal plants to operate n ...
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  • intelligent npp 8 years ago

    oh afriyie do u want to tell me that the ndc supporters r so stupid u don't even know when there is light off .this shows. npp r wise people

  • Koran teng - Virginia USA 8 years ago

    Should be sacked

  • obiba Broke 8 years ago

    The power minister should resign or be fired by the end of the day 31st Dec 2015 He is a liar and a thief. Dumsor is alive and well all over the nation

  • BOY KOFI 8 years ago

    The arrival of some 2 big power barges in the country is a testimony of the Power Minister's determination to end dumso.On the technical aspect of the energy crisis,we can say dumso is over because we can now produce enough p ...
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  • Reece 8 years ago

    So they can destroy the equipment and blame it on him

  • He who 8 years ago

    I hv bn telling people abt this imbercile called last don who is even ready to lick the anus of his president what we as ghanaians are going thru he doesnt feel it, kobena donkor said he will resign if dumsor is not stopped u ...
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  • BOY KOFI 8 years ago

    When you have installed many thermal plants and you have also the hydro put together;the dumso is over automatically.The question now is can we feed all the thermal plants with gas or light crude all the time?If yes,then dums ...
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  • kwame USA 8 years ago

    These senseless NDC folks with their brains totally switched in an opposite directions, will leak the smelly anus of the president even the nation is offered for sale.CRAZY MOTHERFUCKERS WITH CRAZY ASSHOLE LEADERS.

  • K Man 8 years ago

    I agree with what you are saying but industries are on break and there has been no consistent supply of energy to show (over a sustained period) that dumsor is over.

    Ghanaians should hold politicians to the highest accoun ...
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  • aziz 8 years ago

    I Told you so! NDC will do propaganda with everything.. Fools...

    We live to see...

  • Iwan 8 years ago

    The one who cooked out this story must be ashamed of self. I hope one day some organisation will survey the most lying country to see where we place.

  • BOY KOFI 8 years ago

    Dr Kwabena Donkoh has done his very best and I congratulate him for that.As from today,Ghana has the capacity to produce the power that we need.There must light everyday if there is gas and light crude oil for all the thermal ...
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  • SARPONG 8 years ago

    Ghana already had 2800 megawatts capacity in 2012 and our peak time demand is 2400 megawatts so it was not lack of energy generation capacity that was causing the problem. It was lack of fueling and maintenance problems.

    I ...
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  • BOY KOFI 8 years ago

    Now tell me,where did we get the 2800 megawatts from?Please break it down for everybody to see.Happy New Year.

  • kweks 8 years ago

    Pres JM has said nothing. No warning anywhere biaaaa. Saboteurs and doom mongering npp.

  • Michael 8 years ago

    We are destroying our country with TRIBALISM. We only vote base on Tribe and later blame government. The word government is one common word tons find it difficult to UNDERSTAND. Go school PEN is too Heavy.

  • kojo nzo ekangaki 8 years ago

    Power Minister,Dr Kwabena Donkor deserves commendations and not a sack,he has helped to improve the power situation remarkably.It's only a blind person who would nt appreciate that.....

  • Bright K 8 years ago

    Repent from your sins and take the Free gift of salvation by believing on Jesus Christ as your Lord and personal saviour and you shall be saved. Heaven and Hell are real. Where will you spend eternity. Choose heaven.

  • BOY KOFI 8 years ago

    If all our Ministers can come out boldly and say I am going to solve this problem once and for all,Ghana will be a better place to live.Kudos Kwabena Donkoh.

  • SORBIBOR- ORIGINAL 8 years ago

    u see why u shouldnt talktoo much?? Who forced this man to promise koraaaa??? hmm that promise is nowhis nemesis. Silence is golden i guess. Let your work do the talking

  • Purest 8 years ago

    He had to give us hope with the promise and indeed he did.

  • Ssali 8 years ago

    l agree with Boy Kofi. Kwabena Donkor has done well and l don't agree with those calling for his head. After all we have seen a very great improvement in the power crisis. He should be allowed to do his work.

  • VOLTA YOUTHS- MAWULE KORKU 8 years ago

    NO VOTE WITHOUT THE VICE PRESIDENT CHANGED

  • Amega 8 years ago

    Then you won't vote.

  • VOLTA YOUTHS- MAWULE KORKU 8 years ago

    YEA! WE ARE WISE NOW,WE ARE NOT VOTING FOR MAHAMA,BECAUSE HE IS NOT LISTENING

  • STEPHEN OSEI,NORWAY 8 years ago

    ONLY 4X4 OUR LEADERS KNOW

  • VOICE OF REASON 8 years ago

    Oh Ghana you have suffered at the hands of a pea-brain corrupt buffoon who knows he has no brainpower for the job yet used state resources to rig 2012 elections to foist his useless self on us....now even kids don't respect h ...
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  • kweks 8 years ago

    When in a race and your man is getting tired towards the end, you cheer him on. You sing and cheer till he breasts the tape. In Ghana you will rather be insulted. What kind of people are we? NPP like character

  • Ghana must know. 8 years ago

    Whether you sack him or he resign, Ghanaians will sack John Mahama and his incompetent thieves for the UNPRECEDENTED hardships they've been through due to their CREATE, LOOT AND SHARE GOVERNANCE. WAKE UP GHANAIANS.

  • Janet, Tema 8 years ago

    Why should Kwabena Donkor resign. Dumsor is different from load shedding, simple English. He has explained the two. Pls let's encourage each as move into the promising year 2016. Na lie.

  • yoo mone 8 years ago

    all the ministers should be sacked

  • VOICE OF REASON 8 years ago

    Beginning Jan 1,there will be a daily countdown to Nov 7.....the day we've all been waiting for to tell this pea-brain incompetent buffoon to go into cattle farming,where his pea-brain is needed.NOT THE PRESIDENCY !

  • Janet, Tema 8 years ago

    Why should Kwabena Donkor resign. Dumsor is different from load shedding, simple English. He has explained the two. Pls let's encourage each other as we move into the promising year 2016. Na lie.

  • George Nutsugah 8 years ago

    Some of us youth from the Volta region have had enough of the lies from the NDC. Lies upon lies. Where is the eastern corridor road? Everyday lies upon lies. Why oh why? We shall not vote for the NDC in 2016.

  • Yaw Mene 8 years ago

    This is platent lie.

  • d'Signstyle 8 years ago

    This is just a fabrication

  • ADAM SOULE-MAN 8 years ago

    WHY IS IT DIFFICULT TO RESIGN ,ADMITTING INCOMPETENCE IS THE BEST WAY TO PACK AND GO POSTMASTER JOB WHERE YOU CAME FROM.
    POWER MINISTRY MUST BE ASSIGN TO THOOSE WHO CAN DO THE JOB BIPARTISAN

  • DEAD GOAT 8 years ago

    OF COURSE, A SCAPE-GOAT OR MAYBE A SCAPE-CAT.
    THE ENTIRE TEAM IS INCOMPETENT AND MUST RESIGN

  • Oldboy 8 years ago

    Shame you are lying, kudos Dr Kwabena Donkor.Your dumsor campaign has been foiled.

  • Citizen, Ghana 8 years ago

    This ultimatum for his resignation by the Government has even been too long in coming. Kwabena Donkor should have been sacked a long time ago for belittling the intelligence of Ghanaians, and taken us for a joke.

  • Yussif 8 years ago

    Why power ministry in the first place?duplication of roles,this kwabena Donkor guy was just used to get money for elections,he also took the pressure away from the energy minister who was goofing all over the place.But I agre ...
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  • salam 8 years ago

    the president himself is as useless as the power minister. he should resign along with him

  • NORTHERN GHANA 8 years ago

    Mahama and NDC is going to lose big time as we are fed up with curruption, dumsor, inflation, increase in tarrifs, high cost of living. We will not stick to Tribal policts anymore. Ghana is bigger than any political party.
    M ...
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  • SAYASTIS 8 years ago

    Though not in the flagstaff house, I can bet that STARR is being mischievous. Dr.Duffuor,your son has been short changed by shrewd Bola Ray to invest in the station to chop some of your hard earned money. I thought the statio ...
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  • dunaa 8 years ago

    Kwabena Donkor may have been bitten by the spirit of "chop chop", and therefore does not see the honor of resignation. The most dishonourable group of human beings in Ghana are the ones to are routinely referred to as "honour ...
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  • james asamiah 8 years ago

    If he was an ewe or Northner he will not be given the ultimatum

  • yaw Gyamfi 8 years ago

    You and your President have failed....

  • pope 8 years ago

    the insult is too much please,let respect our elders small please.

  • ABAAH. 8 years ago

    DO YOUR SO CALLED ELDERS REALLY RESPECT THEMSELVES.IF A PRESIDENT COULD COME OUT CALLING PEOPLE DIFFERENT NAMES WHAT DO YOU EXPECT FROM US?.MAHAMAH HAS MAKE THE PRESIDENCY USELESS THAT IS WE WILL VOTE TO SEE HIS EXIT.

  • pope 8 years ago

    hmmmm,he should do the honest thing

  • Kwabena UK 8 years ago

    Does he hold a PHD at all?

  • TANKO 8 years ago

    Mahama lacks intelligence to rule a nation. He's the reason y there's so much hardship in the country. Now everyone has seen it clearly that the future of Ghana can't be put in his hands. We must all vote him out. 7 yrs in po ...
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  • daladam 8 years ago

    IT WAS UNDER YOU THAT WE HAD MORE DUMSOR THEN EVER B4 IN GHANA HISTORY
    GO HOME MAN YO ARE DONE

  • Skiper 8 years ago

    By listening to all those comments it simply tells me Ghanaians have wised up and won't take no for an answer. As the same time the power minister has already started the job, forcing him to resign will further worsen the sit ...
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  • Adamu 8 years ago

    The Akans must learn to realize they don`t belong to NDC. The ewes are shamelessly and audaciously criticizing Amissah Arthur`s position for their kind and now power minister must resign or be sacked, what tribal party NDC ca ...
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  • NANA OKUMKRAA AKA TERMINATOR 8 years ago

    Does John Mahama and his Power Min Kwabena Donkor understand what it means when they claim load shedding is over?
    I repeat the question once again. Does John Mahama and his Power Min Kwabena Donkor understand what it means ...
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  • stevo 8 years ago

    when wl de president also resign? He is not diffrent from those he peceived to be incompetent. God hv mercy

  • Sonkronsuo 8 years ago

    I always say that NPP is full of devils who don't want anything good for Ghana. What is there problem if the power crisis is over? For me, NPP can't win my vote base on the power crisis because Akufo Addo can't urinate in Riv ...
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  • Abdulhamid 8 years ago

    these politicians should stop playing wif our minds fools u are sayin dumsor is over while we are still experiencing dumsor, as am speaking now we are in dumsor at salaga East gonja district northern region, please please Mr ...
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  • Concern Citizen 8 years ago

    Abdulhamid, we are equally in the dark in Kumasi.
    That is why we must vote NDC out in the next election.
    They cannot better the lives of Ghanaians; if given even 100years.
    Is this the BETTER GHANA they promised?

  • Kay 8 years ago

    Time will tell

  • Mahoman 8 years ago

    Oh Mahama please have mercy on him, he has ended dumsor.

  • omono 8 years ago

    You must be kidding. When did failed promises become a crime punishable by resignation? Prez. Mahama shd have resigned a long time ago. Dr. K. Donkor all the way.

  • Alhassan Walla 8 years ago

    I am neither a fan of Dr. Kwabena Donkor nor that of the den of shameless and incorrigible corrupt buffoons, the NDC. However, I bet that Dr. Donkor has performed a million percent better than that unintelligent philanderer a ...
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  • Joe 8 years ago

    Scapegoat, Mahama should also resign because he has made so many promises but failed to honor them. How can he solved this energy crisis without the government purchasing renewable energy to the country. Can a minister only r ...
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  • STEPHEN ASAMOAH 8 years ago

    I had rather the President left the Minister alone to continue his work. Although he needed to get his PR right to some degree, the explanation he has given recently on the curtailment of DUMSOR and the possible continuation ...
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  • Whatever 8 years ago

    The announcement that the load-shedding is over came from the Govt so how could the same Govt be telling the power minister today to resign? The media (some of them) in this country should learn to show some credibility.

  • Mr. Concern. 8 years ago

    As at the time the news of the end of loadshedding was being aired the light went off till dawn so has it really ended or he just said it to keep job?

  • VVIP 8 years ago

    NDC,KWA NKOR AND MAHAMA MUST RESIGN ELSE CHARLES ANTWI WILL COME AFTER YOU.

  • eD 8 years ago

    MAHAMA IS SIMPLY A WEAK AND BALONEY PRESIDENT, A LEADER OF CROOKS AND THIEVES



    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.
    ...
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  • nkukukaka 8 years ago

    I often do not comment on political issues but with the spiral of arguments out there calling for the immediate firing of the power minister,I'm forced to come out also say this.In my opinion Kwabena Donkor should not be fire ...
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  • somewherein.USA 8 years ago

    idiot muderfucker

  • Kwaku Bio 8 years ago

    Why are people calling on the Energy Minister to resign from his post. Allow him to be there and call him incompetent minister.

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  • Moshie Kokonte 8 years ago

    Seriously, how many people in government have set specific goals with time table and made it known to the public and put themselves in a position to be held accountable for meeting or not meeting the goals. It is from this p ...
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  • sid 8 years ago

    How about the president himself ?which of his promises has he full field?who is to blame the appointee or the one who appoints them?

  • RICHIE 8 years ago

    sure! I believe in someone who stand for the truth. The Minister had no stand to make that pronouncement. He foresaw the end of the year to be too long to solve such crisis.
    He has failed to fulfill promise & need to be int ...
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