'Africa wonderful at wasting our resources' – Mo Ibrahim

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PRINCE KWASI ADADE ( OFIE P33 ) 7 years ago

THERE IS NO ERROR ANYWHERE. MAHAMA IS CHARGING YOU HIGH ELECTRICITY TARIFF. DO NOT ALLOW NDC TO FOOL YOU BY TALKING ABOUT SOFTWARE ERROR. MAHAMA IS JUST A FAILED PRESIDENT. IF ERROR HAS BEEN DETECTED, THEN BIG REFUND IS DUE T ...
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THERE IS NO ERROR ANYWHERE. MAHAMA IS CHARGING YOU HIGH ELECTRICITY TARIFF. DO NOT ALLOW NDC TO FOOL YOU BY TALKING ABOUT SOFTWARE ERROR. MAHAMA IS JUST A FAILED PRESIDENT. IF ERROR HAS BEEN DETECTED, THEN BIG REFUND IS DUE TO ALL CONSUMERS. CAN MAHAMA PAY??? BLOODY NDC THIEVES! !!!!!!!! WHEN PROPHET BAWUMIA RAISED THE ISSUE ABOUT THE STUPID AMERI AND KARPOWER DEALS, FOOLISH NDC FOLLOWERS INSULTED HIM. NOW THE PROPHET BAWUMIA'S FEARS ARE NOW FULFILLED. SO GHANAIANS WANT TO TELL ME THEY CAN'T SAY TO MAHAMA AND HIS CORRUPT NDC, THAT, ENOUGH IS ENOUGH? ??????
YAA-YAA 7 years ago

It's only fools who believe ndc..... Even under ndc under JJ, Ghana was fined 20 million dollars for falsifying information on our economy...... Fined by IMF or world Bank..... Ndc thieves are robbing Ghana big time through c ...
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It's only fools who believe ndc..... Even under ndc under JJ, Ghana was fined 20 million dollars for falsifying information on our economy...... Fined by IMF or world Bank..... Ndc thieves are robbing Ghana big time through contract sole sourcing which has led to huge billions of dollars being paid to contractors and later shared by the ndc government thieves...
Sam 7 years ago

Nothing will change in Africa until the average citizen starts demanding accountability from the corrupt leaders, attack their homes and cars, their fart fed daddy bee kids, chase them and call them thieves instead of singing ...
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Nothing will change in Africa until the average citizen starts demanding accountability from the corrupt leaders, attack their homes and cars, their fart fed daddy bee kids, chase them and call them thieves instead of singing praising on them.
YAA-YAA 7 years ago

NDC government has destroyed Ghana completely with tribalism in politics so ewes and northerners etc don't want to hold ndc accountable for their corruption and thievery....... So ndc is emboldened to continue create loot and ...
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NDC government has destroyed Ghana completely with tribalism in politics so ewes and northerners etc don't want to hold ndc accountable for their corruption and thievery....... So ndc is emboldened to continue create loot and share......
Canada 7 years ago

Funny how if someone steals food or cell phone they get beat in the street. Yet politicians steal millions and they ppl don't rise up.

Funny how if someone steals food or cell phone they get beat in the street. Yet politicians steal millions and they ppl don't rise up.
Jake 7 years ago

Is it Mahama charging the electricity bills?. Or because you didn't go to proper school , you don't know that, there exist some body called ECG.
Idiots like yo complain when you have constipation. In your warped mind, Mahama ...
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Is it Mahama charging the electricity bills?. Or because you didn't go to proper school , you don't know that, there exist some body called ECG.
Idiots like yo complain when you have constipation. In your warped mind, Mahama caused it.... Aboa bi ba
YAA-YAA 7 years ago

NDC government is toooooooooooo criminal indeed and wickeeeeeeedddd...... Ndc government conspired with fforeigner, we Waterville, isofoton, etc and paid them dubious judgment debts which are later share...... MMeanwhile kids ...
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NDC government is toooooooooooo criminal indeed and wickeeeeeeedddd...... Ndc government conspired with fforeigner, we Waterville, isofoton, etc and paid them dubious judgment debts which are later share...... MMeanwhile kids in ndc strongholds are lacking ffurniture in classrooms.. So kids lie on their you tummies on the floor to learn and write....... Hahahaaaa ide biiiiiiii Keke thieves in government.......
Ben Jason 7 years ago

following the albinos blindly.
mental slave! there is nothing like whiteman. they're ALBINOS born by blackman. the same people Africans kill for rituals (juju) we are better than them but because of blackman ignorance, we se ...
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following the albinos blindly.
mental slave! there is nothing like whiteman. they're ALBINOS born by blackman. the same people Africans kill for rituals (juju) we are better than them but because of blackman ignorance, we see them like God and kill the same albinos in Africa. the Asians are the first to leave Africa and the soo call white which is albinos are last to leave Africa because of the heat in the African continent.
empower your mind blackman! God created man and woman which is blackman only . (ADAM and EVER)
nothing like Whitman then.
blackman choose to ignore his own existing and focus more time in learning the albinos (Whitman) cultures, forgetting that those cultures were steal from them and modified, the albinos (Whitman) tried every means to demonizes blackman and their truthful cultures, religion and they succeeded convincing the blackman. the ignorance is really killing Africa! this is the anger GOD have for blackman. until blackman realize that their the MASTERS
in this earth and change their mind to the truthful God, we would still remain the 3rd class human on earth.
open your mind believe yourself and you would see the real you and what you can do. you are more than what you think.
Jake 7 years ago

Your spelling tells your mental age....please get out of here

Your spelling tells your mental age....please get out of here
Paa Joe 7 years ago

MO IBRAHIM,YOU SHOULD HAVE KNOWN THIS MANY YEARS AGO.

WHY IS AFRICA WASTING NATURAL RESOURCES, IT IS BECAUSE,THE SO CALLED EDUCATED AFRICANS WITH DEGREES AND PHD TITLES, DO NOT HAVE HANDS ON SKILLS IN THE TECHNOLOGY,SCIENT ...
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MO IBRAHIM,YOU SHOULD HAVE KNOWN THIS MANY YEARS AGO.

WHY IS AFRICA WASTING NATURAL RESOURCES, IT IS BECAUSE,THE SO CALLED EDUCATED AFRICANS WITH DEGREES AND PHD TITLES, DO NOT HAVE HANDS ON SKILLS IN THE TECHNOLOGY,SCIENTIFIC INNOVATION AND CREATIVITY TO TURN THE WHEELS OF INDUSTRIALIZATION AND TO PROPEL ECONOMIC GROWTH,EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES,INCOME AND CONSUMER SPENDING ON THE CONTINENT.

THE CONTINUED WASTE OF RESORECES WILL CONTINUE FOR THE NEXT HUNDRED YEARS WHEN AFRICANS ONLY CONTINUE TO PREACH AND CRITICISE WITHOUT THE APPLICATION SCIENTIFIC INNOVATION, INVENTION, DISCOVERY, CURIOUSITY AND EXPOLRATION.

MO IBRAHIM ,IT IS TIME YOU KNOW WHY AFRICA IS ECONOMIC BACKWARD, UNDERDEVELOPED AND POOR.
Dzunenyo 7 years ago

If Africa Leaders cannot allow their own citizens choosing Competent and qualified Leaders into offices, they would always face the same problems. Having unanbitious,Visionless Leaders would always be Africa's downfall. Onlyt ...
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If Africa Leaders cannot allow their own citizens choosing Competent and qualified Leaders into offices, they would always face the same problems. Having unanbitious,Visionless Leaders would always be Africa's downfall. Onlything we are proud is:borrowing monies from Others with high rate and Put into Officials' pockets without using it for real developments.
mimosa 7 years ago

the problem is bad leadership. Leaders who are of no use to their countries except to themselves and the western countries that prop them up and protect the properties and monies they steal from their countries.

the problem is bad leadership. Leaders who are of no use to their countries except to themselves and the western countries that prop them up and protect the properties and monies they steal from their countries.
Kwabena Yeboah 7 years ago

The principal flaw in the African brain is unquestionably management acumen. Truly Africans are not endowed with management acumen, irrespective of the fact that management is a learned behaviour - we learn management science ...
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The principal flaw in the African brain is unquestionably management acumen. Truly Africans are not endowed with management acumen, irrespective of the fact that management is a learned behaviour - we learn management science in school, and still come out empty.

Our country is suffering through inefficiency in government and in our individual daily acts. The remedy for this inefficiency lies in systematic management, and unless we understand that management is a true science resting upon clearly defined rules and principles as a foundation, Ghanaians and Africans for that matter will fail many times over in our institutions and in our individual lives.

The African is yet to understand the two main pervasive principles in management science - 'Build and Conserve'. Africans do not build, and do not conserve, and that is why the Chinese can come to Ghana and exploit gold and diamond under the watchful eyes of our government.

While other races would go to war to defend their inalienable rights over land and property, (for instance, the Falkland Islands war between Britain and Argentina in 1982), the African is content in giving away its national heirloom, just as JA Kufuor gave away Ashanti Goldfields Ltd. to Anglogold in 2003 for peanuts. Africans are not predisposed to build and conserve, we would rather please a colonial power at the expense of our own peoples' welfare.
T'pau 7 years ago

@Kwabena Yeboah, it all boils down to our mentality. Our self-seeking and greedy attitude. Government institutions can go to rot, so long as I am able to loot what I want and enrich myself and my immediate family, period. Unt ...
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@Kwabena Yeboah, it all boils down to our mentality. Our self-seeking and greedy attitude. Government institutions can go to rot, so long as I am able to loot what I want and enrich myself and my immediate family, period. Until our mindsets are refabricated right from our mothers' wombs, nothing good can come out from an African charged with an African responsibility.
Kwasi 7 years ago

https://grantstandblog.wordpress.com/2016/06/07/legacy-of-the-enigma-that-is-rawlings/

https://grantstandblog.wordpress.com/2016/06/07/legacy-of-the-enigma-that-is-rawlings/
Jojo 7 years ago

MR MO IBRAHIM,

PLEASE, IT IS TIME YOU PEOPLE DO NOT PRENTEND AS IF, YOU DO NOT KNOW WHY AFRICA CONTINUES TO EXPORT RAW MATERIALS FOR CHEAPER PRICES IN THE WORLD.

WE ARE STILL ECONOMIC BACWARD AND UNDERDEVELOPED BECAUSE ...
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MR MO IBRAHIM,

PLEASE, IT IS TIME YOU PEOPLE DO NOT PRENTEND AS IF, YOU DO NOT KNOW WHY AFRICA CONTINUES TO EXPORT RAW MATERIALS FOR CHEAPER PRICES IN THE WORLD.

WE ARE STILL ECONOMIC BACWARD AND UNDERDEVELOPED BECAUSE THE NOISY EDUCATED IN AFRICA DO NOT HAVE A SINGLE PRACTICAL TECNICAL KNOWLEDGE IN TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION AND TO TURN THE NUMEROUS MINERAL RESOURCES INTO FINISHED PRODUCTS AND FOR VITAL SERVICES ON THE CONTINENT.

THE AFRICAN EDUCATED STILL IDLE AT THE PUBLIC SECTOR AND DO ENGAGE I POLITICS BECAUSE IT IS THE EASIEST WAY FOR THEM TO MANIPULATE, EMBEZZLE AND STEAL BECAUSE, THEY ARE STILL NOT IN THE POSITION ON HOW TO BUILD INDUSTRIAL PLANTS FOR MANUFACTURING ANS PROCESSING.

IN ACTUAL FACT, NO AMOUNT OF THESE CONFERENCES WILL SET THE BALL STRAIGHT IN AFRICA, UNLESS THERE IS STRUCTURAL MEASURES THAT PRESSURES THE AFRICAN NOISY EDUCATED TO BE PRODUCTIVE
OPANIN KWAKU ATTA 7 years ago

SIR,YOU TALK TOO MUCH AND WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO HELP AFRICAN YOUTH?

SIR,YOU TALK TOO MUCH AND WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO HELP AFRICAN YOUTH?
Sly 7 years ago

True leaders do the job even to their own hurt,if necessary but not African Leaders.

True leaders do the job even to their own hurt,if necessary but not African Leaders.
kkm 7 years ago

You right because we have criminals in control

You right because we have criminals in control
Nana Bodua 7 years ago

Where was our president?
The chief waster

Where was our president?
The chief waster
Mr Bond 7 years ago

Our president John Dramani Mahama the most useless president ever in the history of the universe,allows Chinese immigrants who has come to the country mining our gold illegally and polluting our rivers that serve as drinking ...
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Our president John Dramani Mahama the most useless president ever in the history of the universe,allows Chinese immigrants who has come to the country mining our gold illegally and polluting our rivers that serve as drinking water and also destruction of the ecosystem proclaim that those immigrants are doing business for living can you imaging that.Can you believe that Almighty God has bless Ghana with inventors than most African countries but instead of his really behind and support them he rather steal Ghana money to satisfy his insatiable quest to all the money in the world and recent he tour Japan and telling that he does not need sympathy but opportunity while opportunity stir at his face because he only think of how to steal any money that come to his hand.
Osmanu Amadu 7 years ago

I could not agree more.. I very much believe that both private and the state must do more to empower the youths of Africa.

I could not agree more.. I very much believe that both private and the state must do more to empower the youths of Africa.

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