$7b ENI OCTP deal inflated by $2bn for kickbacks

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  • faithgrows 9 years ago

    well, ghana stinks!

  • Kwaku Tee 9 years ago

    If you give power to a poor man who don't know the value of money that's what happens.Most Ghanaians thought John Mahama was poor & a decent person not knowing he is a wolf in a sheep clothing.NDC will kill this nation.

  • NOTHERN GHANA 9 years ago

    It pains me when patriotic citizens turned against their own people and behave like power is everything!! What are the reasons for military interventions into governance ??? Corruption, hardships on civilians, turning deaf ea ...
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  • ENYONAM 9 years ago

    The level of corruption and incomptency going on in this John Mahama administration is unbelievable. How do you allow a contract to be overblown by $2billion. We dont have good roads, hospitals, kids etc. and the govt is only ...
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  • OLD SOLDIER 9 years ago

    AUTHOR : TIMBUKTU - - - - - -
    WHY DO I WANT NANA TO WIN? UNLIKE KUFFOUR, NANA HAS THE BALLS TO JAIL ALL THESE NDC CRIMINAL MOTHER-FUCKERS! Things are improving FAST in Tanzania, Nigeria, Rwanda, Ivory Coast, etc, because t ...
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  • PRINCE KWASI ADADE (OFIE P33) 9 years ago

    AUTHOR : TIMBUKTU - - - - - - WHY DO I WANT NANA TO WIN? UNLIKE KUFFOUR WHO JAILED ONLY 6 HIGH PROFILE NDC THIEVES , NANA HAS THE BALLS TO JAIL ALL THESE NDC CRIMINAL MOTHER-FUCKERS! Things are improving FAST in Tanzania, Nig ...
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  • OLD SOLDIER 9 years ago

    AUTHOR:-HON. DOE ADJAHO....
    “The terrorists are not very far from us; 27 people died at a Hotel in Burkina Faso. It has happened in Mali, Nigeria and Burkina Faso. We need to pray for this country. If there is any time we ...
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  • Ken Kweku Agyeman 9 years ago

    We can never have a Utopian society where everything works perfectly but it is sad when patriotic citizens make clueless and baseless accusations against a sitting President without core evidence. I bet you hardly listen to t ...
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  • NOTHERN GHANA 9 years ago

    Ghana is better under NDC? can you believe yourself? Ghana as a nation does nt produce only cocoa but is also blessed with numerous resources to drive the economy but what do we see. What achievements can the NDC government b ...
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  • PRINCE KWASI ADADE ( OFIE P33 ) 9 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 $325,47 ...
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  • Ken Kweku Agyeman 9 years ago

    Kwaku Tee, did you even read the story? Did you even check the source of the story? The NPP is at its best again. Speculating and peddling falsehood as usual.On what basis do you make such unfounded allegations against the ND ...
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  • Kofi 9 years ago

    Instead of investing this money in alternative energies the clueless blacks will always be backwards

  • DusTY-FooT-pHiloSophER 9 years ago

    "The overall investment on the project is estimated to reach $7bn. The World Bank is providing a partial risk guarantee for the project."

    So, let me get this straight, minority? The World Bank with her packed economic expe ...
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  • tontrobi 9 years ago

    Dusty, the way you have presented your comment tells me that you are an educated man.

    That being the case, do you want to tell me that you still continue to be conned by the spurious integrity of some of these global (par ...
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  • DusTY-FooT-pHiloSophER 9 years ago

    My friend, all the oil and gas deals were presented to the floor of the August House for approval. So, you need not refer to some John Bull's neocolonial long pages to justify this very blatant deceitfulness from the minority ...
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  • poseiden(Athens) 9 years ago

    DusTY-FooT I salute u,thank God GH still have one lyk u.blessed.

  • Asempa 9 years ago

    Amazing grace; your point is spot on. How can any sensible MP stoop so low and actually face the press with such garbage. Let me guess: the minority is raising the stakes in this project, in the hope they can secure a cut to ...
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  • simple asem 9 years ago

    You know the condition of Greece now right? You think IMF and World Bank didn't see the money being blown there but kept giving them? It makes them owners of Greece now. .for next 100 years and over they will take all they c ...
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  • DusTY-FooT-pHiloSophER 9 years ago

    Stop talking bullshit since you do not know what actually happened in Greece. Who ever told you that the IMF and The World Bank kept furnishing Greece with money uncontrollably whilst the latter goes on a free spending spree ...
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  • SD 9 years ago

    Dont mind them man. The ineptirude of most of these commentators on every nonsense spewed by the politician without even looking at what is being said, whwther it makes sense at all shocks me. Is S2 billion childs money for s ...
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  • KB 9 years ago

    Dusty-Foot good on you.

  • NPP SENIOR CITIZEN 9 years ago

    NPP monkeys on propaganda again.The fact is AKUFFO ADDO WILL NEVER BE A PRESIDENT IN GHANA.

  • Salifu 9 years ago

    The truth must be told :for if its true that some greedy people are taking $2billion then you don`t have to abuse Akffo Addo.Its only corrupt people like you who will not accuse these greedy Officials.Death is the answer.
    Pu ...
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  • GYAKARI 9 years ago

    GHANA IS RULED BY DOGS NOW!!!!!!!!

  • AkuffoAddo JUNKIE 9 years ago

    And your mother and father are the GREAT DANES in the dog clan abi. You see why NDC will still win the upcoming elections? Throwing up false stories will not win you power. IDIOTS!!!

  • RAPIST MAHAMAH. 9 years ago

    THE INCOMPETENT RAPIST PRESIDENT IS DESTROYING THIS COUNTRY WITH HIS LOOTING AND KNOW NOTHING ATTITUDE.EVEN WITH YOUR RIGGING AND INTIMIDATIONS CANNOT HELP YOU TO WIN THIS COMING ELECTION.AHBA SO CAN'T WE SPEAK ABOUT THE CORR ...
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  • kwame USA 9 years ago

    You think Ghanaians have their brains twisted in opposite direction like you motherfuckers.Wait.The right time will come.LIFE SENTENCING IS COMING RIGHT.JUST WAIT YOU NDC BITCHES.ANIMAL ASSHOLES ALWAYS THINKING AND POSTING FR ...
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  • okyere 9 years ago

    Your village parents are very stupid

  • KOFI BOY 9 years ago

    GYAKARI YOUR MOTHER IS BEEN FUCK BY DOGS

  • ORIGINAL VOICE OF REASON 9 years ago

    This is not surprising in the least.Now it is obvious to even a kindargarten kid that this low IQ pea brain buffoon Mahama rigged the 2012 elections so as to amass as much wealth as he possibly can for himself,his family & pa ...
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  • MAN 9 years ago

    `QUESS WHAT!!! I BELIEVE JB WAS KILLED TO CLOSE HIS MOUTH ON THESE FINDINGS IF HE WAS INVOLVED IN THE INVESTIGATION-- IF SO , WHO KILLED HIM ?`

    i believe the presidents I CAN KILL was a coded word in reference to anybod ...
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  • YGE 9 years ago

    Mr Man why don't you go & ask JB's Mrs. Trust me this killing is not political!!!!

  • Gasco 9 years ago

    You forgot when thief K4 and NPP gave our oil out to the U.S companies and Ghana got only 10%, while his two other friends got 3.5%?

  • AkuffoAddo JUNKIE 9 years ago

    Because they are thieves they think everyone is like them. We all recall the EO Group in 'TIFF' KUFUORS era.

  • STEVE WILLIAMS 9 years ago

    Minority Leader we are dealing with the law. Was due process followed? Was the contract entered into under duress? Is the contract a SOLE SOURCED contract? You the MPs have power not to approve the loan. Therefore do not tell ...
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  • RAPIST MAHAMAH. 9 years ago

    IT WAS WRONG TO PROVE SUCH A NASTY DEAL BUT WITH THE HELPED OF NATION WRECKERS NDC MAJORITY IN PARLIAMENT EVERY THING WENT THROUGH.DON'T SIT ON YOUR BIG BALLS AND PRETEND THAT YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT IS GOING ON IN GHANA.GHANA HA ...
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  • hawk 9 years ago

    CREATE ,LOOT,&SHARE AND IF EXPOSED REFUND PART LESS WITHHOLDING TAX , LESS VAT.AND BY INSTALMENT
    BE ASHAME OF NOTHING .
    FEAR NO BODY.
    SOLE SOURCING SHALL REIGN EVER.

  • kwame USA 9 years ago

    And Kufuor and NPP was not prosecuted till today Gasco.You guys are just stupid alliterates always posting from your motherfucker animal smelly anus.Prove your cases in courts.Kufuor and his team are in Ghana right now.Take t ...
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  • KWASHIE ADJAH 9 years ago

    THE NDC PARTY UNDER ATTA MILLS PROSECUTED 19 CASES AGAINST EX NPP MINISTER AND LOST ALL OF THEM, BECAUSE THERE WERE NO EVIDENCE OF CORRUPTION AGAINST PRESIDENT KUFUOR'S APPOINTEES. IF NDC THINKS THEY HAVE EVIDENCE THEY ARE I ...
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  • totokwa 9 years ago

    EMMANUEL BOTCHWEY OF REGIMANUEL ESTATE IS PART OF THE ENI DEAL. THIS MAN BREATHS MONEY. MONEY SI THE MOST IMPORTANT THING IN THIS MAN'S LIFE. SHAME ON NDC!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Kwaku Tee 9 years ago

    Everybody joining NDC does so to enrich himself/herself they don't think of mother Ghana.They steal without using their brain IDIOTIC STUPID THIEVES

  • GHANA FIRST 9 years ago

    Are you the (NPP) financial directors of ENI and knows that $2b has been added to the real cost? You always play games to tarnish Govt image and sow hatred for the Govt and the President. It will backfire and you will go down ...
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  • napari 9 years ago

    This guys should us the favour of given us details than just accusations. Just saying is bloated will not fly until am convinced. Most of such stories turned out to be hot air by the minority.

  • DR.J 9 years ago

    NPP will put out all kinda liars thinking that will win them power.

  • Julor Agyekum Kwakwe (JAK) 9 years ago

    They are all the same the Northerners and KU4'S EO Group.

  • NANA KOFI 9 years ago

    That so called Odwan funu.Hmmm mmm !

  • Roce Koran 9 years ago

    don't they(NPP) think that we know what they are up to. Approve Govt deals in parliament then go to the media and shout bad corrupt deal. Concocted lies wont win NPP elections

  • Edem 9 years ago

    Go and check those who voted for in the approval of the deal.. And u will know ur NDC parliamentarians voted in favour of such shoddy deals . It a shame.....

  • ORIGINAL VOICE OF REASON 9 years ago

    Not even Mahama,who is himself grabbing with both hands,greedy as he is.The Ndc know it themselves and It is for this reason that they go into panic mode at the thought of Nana Addo becoming president come 2017.

  • Ken Kweku Agyeman 9 years ago

    Panic mode? It's the NPP folks who are in panic mode and are back to their old tricks of peddling falsehood about JDM since they can't help it when they take a glance at the various developmental projects being undertaken by ...
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  • Dj Daabodaabo. 9 years ago

    The truth is that our own Ghana President vault Ghana crude oil at his home town when less painstakingly aware He diverted Bui road to Tamale. T.O.R failed. Finally, he declared every one can established his own. Now FPSO ...
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  • Edem 9 years ago

    So why is the black man greedy, French government is constructing a rail line from Ivory Coast through northern bukinafaso down to Benin at the coast of $2.5 billion . And we are here in Ghana can't even construct rail line t ...
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  • Makamaka 9 years ago

    It's is sad to note that the minority in parliament is raining this issue after the visit of the Italian prime minister to Ghana last week. There were the same people who discussed this contract at parliament and they were th ...
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  • ISSA ABONGO 9 years ago

    NDC WAS FOUNDED BY RAWLINGS TO STEAL FROM GHANA DRY OF ALL FINANCIAL RESOURCES. THE CORE MISSION OF THE NDC PARTY IS STEALING, THIEVERY OF STATE RESOURCES. VOTE THESE THIEVES OUT IN 2016, TO SAVE GHANA FROM DOOM, GLOOM AND DE ...
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  • ISSA ABONGO 9 years ago

    The National Communications Authority (NCA) has offered to explain the circumstances leading to the award of a monopoly licence to Afriwave Telecom Ghana Limited to operate the controversial interconnect clearing house (ICH) ...
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  • Awudu 9 years ago

    It is very big shame to always hear from state ministries all the time in corruption cases.Enough is Enough for Ghana .

  • Kwaku 9 years ago

    Did you ask Kufuor about his two percent that he is getting from our oil field?

  • temba 9 years ago

    Aaaaba! Mahama is a damn thief.

  • Jack 9 years ago

    you can't even get the spelling of thief right!!! another NPP gyimifo) who has forgotten how the NPP stole our monies to buy big mansions at airport

  • Hmmm 9 years ago

    4 more years for JDM continue the goodwork for Ghana,as for nasty people party they shall remain in opposition for good since they dont want to change their evil ways,always wishing bad things for Ghana,stop fabricating stori ...
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  • kwakyi Johannesburg. 9 years ago

    If you voted for poor man like mahama and co mini mini; thats the result. there is no sensible person now , all what they no is stealing .God punish these thiefs called ndc dogs party.

  • abrante papa ofori 9 years ago

    The citizens are to blame, you vote for bullies, those who can yell loud in their speeches, usually big and tall men. Thanks to Yaa, she confronted one of those men and exposed his foolishness. Politics is full of such men an ...
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  • hawk 9 years ago

    CREATE,LOOT & SHARE AND IF CAUGHT REFUND PART LESS TAXES.
    BE ASHAME OF NOTHING!,!!!!!


    ß

  • Hayford 9 years ago

    There NPP go again. You were in Parliament when the deal was brought and you approve of it only to turn around and out of political expediency aimimg at scoring cheap political points of election to say the deal stinks. Sha ...
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  • dedehene 9 years ago

    NPP: ENIMIES OF PROGRESS.THIS PARTY IS NOT READY FOR 2016.THEY HAVE NOTHING TO CAMPAIGN ON HENCE THESE LIES!

  • Marquis 9 years ago

    Any contract not signed by NPP is bad. Only a thief knows a thief

  • AFARTO 9 years ago

    this is the better Ghana they promise us,create loot and share.fire burn them

  • Mensah 9 years ago

    If the argument is being reduced to poor man, rich man, then I will vote for a poor man because the rich man already has so why give him the opportunity to amass more. More man too be person. No leader in our current times i ...
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  • DHURUWAH 9 years ago

    What is paramount here is longevity, not just how much oil and gas could be pumped per day but for how long. Twenty years is not worth the money to go ahead and drill. If the oil in the Arab states were to last thirty years, ...
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  • Nana Obiri Boahene junior 9 years ago

    Oh NPP u have really show how confused your party is or you think you warship with kickback collectors during your term in office NDC corrupt as corrupted your party government were? shameless NPP.

  • Ernest 9 years ago

    So where in this article a contract was bloated, mumu minority thinking opposing every government programs is what what win elections

  • Nana Obiri Boahene junior 9 years ago

    Now YOU bribes collector Justice Dairy the senior brother of ambrus Dairy who always sits on NPP cases against the government have been cutch red handed because of Anas, Now that's why your former NIB boss has continually loo ...
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  • NPP KWASEAFUO PARTY. NPP JIMIFUO KUO 9 years ago

    This is stupid, pedestrian, and infantile. When you make allegations like this, commonsense expects you to lay bare the supporting facts to support your position.

    This is a serious matter emanating from members of parliam ...
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  • Dessy 9 years ago

    SO what are the facts behind minority allegation of 2billion dollars shortfall for kickback;Let us not forget oil price has hit bottom of eye of the sparrow

  • NPP KWASEAFUO PARTY. NPP JIMIFUO KUO 9 years ago

    No facts, just suspicions.

  • NPP KWASEAFUO PARTY. NPP JIMIFUO KUO 9 years ago

    Where are the facts to support your claim? Where in this story is the a scintilla of evidence of a kickback?

    NPP is not doing itself any favour by engaging in Lies and Patapaa.

  • Add Phillips. 9 years ago

    I feel sorry for Npp and they will continue to be where they are until they start taken Ghanaians serious.
    They did it with EO group and shared the money among their criminal gangs so why not .

    It's only minors that you ...
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  • Fat 9 years ago

    is their business to see Ghana fail, they will steal everthing

  • Cool_It 9 years ago

    “As has been stated earlier by the communications directorate of the NPP, it does appear that the contract is bloated by between 2 and 3 billion US dollars to the disadvantage of Ghana,”

  • Akuffo Addo Retirement Party 9 years ago

    NPP has no policy agenda, no leadership and no functional ideas to move this country forward. They lose votes every day with their numerous display of ignorance press conferences.

  • Ali 9 years ago

    MAHAMA and NDC for u. Corruption super power in the world is NDC headed by his incompetent, MAHAMA.

  • Ken Kweku Agyeman 9 years ago

    Where are the facts to back these baseless and ill-informed claims? This is the main reason why Education remains the surest path to victory over ignorance, poverty and inequality. Where are the numerous Chrysler cars which w ...
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  • Ernest 9 years ago

    Our fellow Ghanaians in the Armed Forces are Brave Ghanaians who have pledged to give up their lives for our country. They are the most patriotic among us. They serve and protect us because they love our country unlike these ...
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  • Asempa2 9 years ago

    Since Ghana belongs to the Ashanti's anything else another tribe or rule will do is NOT good. Even if all Kumasi streets will be tarred with Diamonds will not be okay. This indeed say's how ungrateful the Ashanti's are. What ...
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  • ANKOBEA-HENE 9 years ago

    In the Middle East and Africa, kickbacks are the norms in corporate culture. This is directly opposite of what goes on in the western economies. If you happen to represent your firm from the West, will you offer a kickback to ...
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  • atinga frafra 9 years ago

    If we Northerners are not lucky, dis Mahama tiifing gang will spoil our name finish by the time dem get out of government. Everywhere you go, you hear dese Northerners are doing this, dese Northerners are doing dat. But i-be ...
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  • BABA 9 years ago

    Eeiii ghana politricksians, you ppl have short memories oo. Not long ago npp nd the leaders put Ghanatecom on silver plate to vodafone, now the same gangs criminalising ndc for this oil & gas to italians?

  • BABA 9 years ago

    What John k can do, John M can do better said by Peter Tosh.

  • Jack 9 years ago

    Those criticising the minority are animals. Is it not the same minority which detected the Smartty's Bus Branding corruption case? Was it not true? Some NDC people are so stupid that they always condemn the opposition for de ...
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  • Jack 9 years ago

    gyimi gyimi gyimi gyimofo) jack..
    where were u when ghana telecom was been sold?
    gyimifo) jack.....
    where na u d u when E.O group acquired shares in the jubilee field without black kufuor thinkin abt the ghanaian folks?
    t ...
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  • Yaw Kwarteng - Kumawu.Ashanti 9 years ago

    Did these minority team ever had the courage to check Kuffour/Edusei's deal on the oil the country first struck? These minority are the enemies of the nation and are jealous because they are not in power and so fear they will ...
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  • Adu Phillips 9 years ago

    Massa Yaw Kwarteng and they bribed their mp's to passed the sales without delay because there was no money to pay civil servants four months to the 2008 elections.

    This tells us that there was no money to pay the workers f ...
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  • Shadow Boxer 9 years ago

    Slash and burn politics.

  • papa nii 9 years ago

    Oooooh hooo ! NPP ! what at all are you about ? Indeed when you become power drunk and desperate, you would want to kill and even destroy to achieve your aim. NPP should know that their lies will not catch up because they wil ...
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  • ALHAJI ABASS 9 years ago

    WHERE THESE NPP CRIMINALS SLEEPING IN PARLIAMENT WHEN THE AGGREEMENT WAS SIGNED : WHY DID THEY NOT COMPLAIN : THEY ARE ALL PART OF THE LOOTING DEAL : IT ARACKET TO STEAL FROM THE PEOPLE OF GHANA : DO YOU REMEMBER THE TULLOW D ...
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  • SD 9 years ago

    Is it dirty politics as usual or what? Just to creat confusion? Where is the evidence before putting this information into the public domain? You tell us authoritatively that the deal is (not that you suspect) bloated by Ghs ...
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  • j.k. Atta 9 years ago

    Where was the paliarmentary committee when the $2billion was siphoned?

  • AFARI GYAN..ec office 9 years ago

    Abuakwa north mp is shot to death, why not Nana addo? nana addo is too ugly, is he from a family of monkeys and chimpanzees?

  • kehe 9 years ago

    Npp at what time did you realize that this deal was fraudulent?even a contract you approved in parliament is fraudulent .are you desperate to rule this country? NPP give us break.you sold jubilee oil field for only 10 % for g ...
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  • OMANBA 9 years ago

    NPP did the same thing when they signed the oil contract with Tullow.Miilions wre given to NPP officials and the monies described as gifts to those NPP officials.Ghanaians are not fools.

  • PATRIOT 9 years ago

    Kuffuor's EO group defrauded Ghana in millions.They took kickbacks on behalf of the NPP and had them described as gifts from the oil companies.

  • Fredd 9 years ago

    I feel that yes there will be a little presents. But 90 odd % will just be pure EBI taking thevpiss on Ghana as the people involved did not have a clue and just wanted there share of the loot . Works bank have a guarantee yes ...
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  • GIVE ME MY BALLOT PAPER 9 years ago

    When thieves rule....
    This is how thievery looks like.
    John"Ali Baba&the 40 thieves"Mahama has turned the Presidency of Ghana into the cave of thievery with the magical password open sesame for the family and friends thieve ...
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