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Car gift saga dents Ghana’s image – Short

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  • insight to the bone 7 years ago

    The country has been mismanaged for so long that the only way to rest affairs and put things in the right direction is unfortunately through war . Our gold and all natural resources are of no benefit to the people despite ove ...
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  • NPP SENIOR CITIZEN 7 years ago

    What is wrong from accepting a gift short minded (Emile Short.) This issue will end up nowhere.

  • Akans Prophecies 7 years ago

    Rubbish ! You think it is right also for 32 judges to be sacked for recieving gifts ? You idiots illiterates lack logic reasons .Mahama is but a civil servant. He is under the oath , that prevent him from using his position ...
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  • TRUE - NPPAIN 7 years ago

    LETS GO FISHING WEERE WE GET FISH BIG FISH AND STOP FISHING WERE THERE ARE NO FISH TO CATCH: IF MAHAMA HAD A CAR GIFT FROM A CONTRACTOR AND SO WHAT? WE ALL KNOWS THAT JJ TOOK GIFTS; KUFOUR TOOK GIFTS; OBAMA TAKES GIFTS; SO L ...
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  • AGBESI KWESI 7 years ago

    How can Mahama and the NDC hand over juicy contracts to a Burkinabe contractor whilst our local contractors have no jobs.
    Remember the UMB, AMERI, KARPOWER and UBA stinky deals all had something to do with the stashing away ...
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  • Omanba Pa, Islington-London! 7 years ago

    NDC AND JOHN DRAMANI MAHAMA ARE SO DISGRACE TO THE WORLD. I AM SAD TO BE A GHANAIAN FRANKLY SPEAKING.

  • akonoba 7 years ago

    JDM will resign before July ending. NDC will organize a congress to elect a new candidate. JDM is not electable in Nov. 7.

  • l.l. 7 years ago

    BY ADDING THAT BRIBE CAR TO THE PRESIDENTIAL POOL OF CARS, MAHAMBOLE HAS INFESTED ALL GHANAIANS WITH HIS GENETIC DISHONESTY. HE SHOULD RESIGN

  • KOKU AMAGAFIO 7 years ago

    NPP SENIOR CITIZEN, you are surely VERY LITTLE educated and very ignorant. That is why you do not see the issues at stake. I pity your poor brains and do quite well understand why you cannot get the crucial point in Mr. Short ...
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  • NII 7 years ago

    My friend everything is wrong for the president to receive gifts especially from a contractor who one way or the other awarded various contracts from the Nation.Don't you think this is with an ulterior motive? It is against g ...
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  • vigour 7 years ago

    Instead of making noise about what is and what is not, the country needs laws on gift to civil servants and the President. We have them in Europe and America

  • HONESTY 7 years ago

    You people must stop deluding yourselves and start building a better image for Ghana.

    What image? Those days of Kofi Annan are gone. Other nationals treat us like shit everywhere we go and you call this image.

    The best ...
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  • BADWAM KRAKYE 7 years ago

    Where in Europe do you see Presidents or Heads of gov't receiving gifts like you nonentities do in Ghana?

  • HONESTY 7 years ago

    He is right, they call it lobbying. Do you think it is free? They might have too many cars to be that stupid but bribe comes in many forms.

    The so called NPP should tell us where all the money in the Kufuor family accounts ...
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  • Kojo 7 years ago

    Vigour. It is already there in the code of conduct policy for public officials

  • SAMMY 7 years ago

    Hubris! You actually wasted energy to write this shit.

  • Ewugyadze desperate John Mahama 7 years ago

    You might have a good point but you copying and pasting this everywhere isn't the solution. I know you haven't come to terms yet of what the devastating effects of a war is .Think far and find a way to make a lot of sense bec ...
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  • DR TRUTH 7 years ago

    JUST A HINT OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY BY THE VISIONARY NPP LEADER NANA AKUFFO ADDO AND THE WHOLE COUNTRY HAS GONE BALLISTIC. THIS IS AN EPITOME OF FANTASTIC INGENUITY ON THE PART OF NANA ADDO. EVERYONE SEEMS TO BE GRAP ...
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  • PRINCEWILLY@YMAIL.COM 7 years ago

    FUCK YOU,KISS MY FUCKING ASS,TELL YOUR WHORE MAMA TO RESIGN FROM THE KEJETIA MARKET OF PROSTITUTION WHERE SAHE PRY'S HER TRADE IN THE NIGHT.

  • URSULA OWUSU 7 years ago

    When the late Muammar Gaddafi donated the limousine car to the then president, NPP people never saw anything wrong with it. NPP will wallow in opposition forever.

  • Concerned 7 years ago

    Protecting a thief because he belongs to your party is fueling corruption and directly resulting in death because we can't afford to run our health service. So it's ok for mahama to get $100k in order to give a foreigner mill ...
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  • BADWAM KRAKYE 7 years ago

    GADAFFI GAVE THE LIMOUSINE TO THE STATE AND NOT TO KUFFOUR. THERE IS A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN GIFTS TO THE STATE AND TO PUBLIC OFFICIALS

  • Dagadu 7 years ago

    Hahahahahahaaaa! An imbecile hiding under the name of Ursula Owusu to type his headache. Did Ghadhafi seek any contracts from K4? Did K4 ever intend to give a road-construction contract to Ghadhafi? Anyway, being stupid is no ...
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  • volta region. 7 years ago

    u are funny,are u de only one voting in gh.if u want u can still for mahama again to win.

  • Alex at K.Danso 7 years ago

    You so called Urslula Owusu did kuffour contract Gadaffi? Or Gadaffi contracted Kuffour? What is the contract sum? Let me tell you hypocrite Kuffour's dedication and work gingered Gadaffi to award him with such luxurious vehi ...
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  • GBODZROMODO 7 years ago

    BECAUSE THE NPP AND ITS MEDIA WHORES ARE BLOODY MINDED FOOLS AND TRAITORS. THEY DON'T GIVE A SHIT ABOUT GHANA. ALL THEY WANT IS THE POWER TO LOOT AND SELL GHANA OFF. WHAT A BUNCH OF ANIMALS

  • Oko 7 years ago

    Most people within NDC brain needs checking. A businessman give such an amount as a gift fools

  • Oko 7 years ago

    Very poor judgment, greed greed greed

  • Oko 7 years ago

    Mahama must speak up now

  • Oko 7 years ago

    Mahama must Clear the air

  • ASEMPA 7 years ago

    silenceoo???? it means concern, Mahama is a thief waaaa!!!!!

  • Amidini 7 years ago

    PPP can go to superior court. I wonder what journalism Manassed is practicing, this boy has his own agenda and personal interest. Manassed should think of his background first.

  • Alex at K.Danso 7 years ago

    Manasseh Azuri is a true state man not tribalistic and professional ethical being unlike cheep mahama. Mahama and some officials of NDC are preparing Paradise in jail.

  • Yellow man 7 years ago

    There's an old ibo saying that when a man fouls the air on top of a palm tree the fly down at the bottom becomes confused.Mahama has fouled the air so many times that we are no more confused but has accepted it as part of the ...
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  • Amidini 7 years ago

    Yellowman, what is the proved that prez Mahama has fouled ?

  • E. T. Mensah 7 years ago

    The image is further dented by the fact that the car was used one and repaired at a wayside shop in Bole before being taken to Accra. The first time the president rode in this car, he and his family were going to church.

  • NANA KOFI 7 years ago

    Ford Mahaani John , you're a disgrace to Ghanaians.

  • Yahaya Hamidu 7 years ago

    That is the opinion of Emile Short of the NPP and not the opinion of a vast majority of Ghanaians.Intellectualism failing Ghanaians.Very sad.

  • Odoi 7 years ago

    Shut up and use your head. You die hard blind SUPPORTER.

  • AG 7 years ago

    Mr Odoi, if found the prex wrong side of the law. you can make a case against in superior court. Some of you allowed yourselves to be used selfish politicians.

  • AGBESI KWESI 7 years ago

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

    There ...
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  • Kweku, Akyem 7 years ago

    jhgtfrdes

  • Yemo Jupiter 7 years ago

    A gift to a president by who ever is it is not a crime nnighter receivingb it is a acrime. The idea behind the giit and the situation in which the gift was giving makes it suspicious. However president's do received gifts.

  • killer beam 7 years ago

    Gaddafi donated Benz cars to the state but not president kuffour

  • SAM 7 years ago

    People without aim. What is this one too saying? Where was he when the foolish and dirty Kufour was taking bribes? I am happy this thing too did not say bribe but a gift.Give us a break. Nom matter what Mahama will win the el ...
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  • Alex at K.Danso 7 years ago

    Are you a Ghanaian born and breath ,cultured in Ghana? Let me tell you that we did not see or hear of GEDA, SADA, SUBA AZONTABA BUSS BRANDING WOYOME etc... But rather we saw positive things like NHS, Free maternal care, youth ...
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  • Jay 7 years ago

    You are a fool and the worst chraj boss ever. Kindly shut up and let's think.

  • AG 7 years ago

    Jay boy/girl never make any useful comment on social media before only insult it knows. Jay, you are brainless !

  • Luze 7 years ago

    Emile Short, you were the head of the commission for several years and there were such gifts to former presidents and many public servants, but you didn't see anything wrong with it. Master stop the nonsense, please.

  • adanko 7 years ago

    I THINK THE EQUALIATION MUST STOP . WE MUST COME UP WITH CLEAR CODE FOR OUR PRESIDENTS , VICE PRESIDENTS , CHIEF JUSTICES AND SPEAKERS OF PARLIAMENT WHAT GIFTS ARE ACCEPTABLE, FROM WHAT TYPES OF PEOPLE AND WHAT SHOULD BE DON ...
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  • Yemo Jupiter 7 years ago

    My friend the law and principles are there for the president and those who works with him but no body cares to inprement it cos everyone wants to be rich quickly before something happens. They eat with both hands. Those in op ...
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  • Odoi 7 years ago

    With Atuguba as judge?

  • Montana 7 years ago

    Ahhh the editors at ghanaweb kraaaa why????are you people soo stupid like that???? Is it by force for us to keep reading this cock and bull story over and over again......i just dont understand why u are trying soo hard to pu ...
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  • Peepeeni-Abooaaaa 7 years ago

    John Ford Mahama is a disgrace to Ghana

  • shame on Mahama 7 years ago

    Very disappointing

  • KK Kobby 7 years ago

    PPP should take the matter to CHRAJ as they've indicated. We need to test the efficacy of our institutions to deal with matters that affect high ranking public officials. We cannot make laws, code of ethics and a constitution ...
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  • INDIAN SPRITUALIST IN GHANA 7 years ago

    hi there is indian spritualist in the wold call for all spritual problem money charm locket
    and knws that this year is for the lord lucifer a lot will happen in 2016 just calculate
    666+666+666+6+6+6 give the answer is ...
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  • Yussif 7 years ago

    Evidence Bagbin said?when he took former president Kufour to CHRAJ did he thought of evidence?from the beginning of Mahamas administration when he insulted them,did he need post to keep quiet or shut up?our elders say when yo ...
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  • FORMER ADMIRER 7 years ago

    Bagbin, you have lost the respect I had for you by trying to denied there corrupt nature of the gift the President received from an ordinary Burkina citizen. Kanazue or whatever he calls himself is not the President of his co ...
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  • BOY KOFI 7 years ago

    Unless somebody can tell me the active role the president played in any of these contracts won by the Burkinabe contractor,the whole story is bogus.
    I want to see where the president abused power or influence with dates and ...
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  • Yemo Jupiter 7 years ago

    Every President accept and receive gifts but our African Presidents are soo much corrupted that even if a gift is of a genuine intention we still doubt its genuiness. The reason behind all our African Presidents corruption is ...
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  • kutsii 7 years ago

    Emile Short, what image are u talking about? Used car that the president can't buy? Don't u know u are rather disgracing urticaria self and the nation that ur president has taken a used car as bribe?

    have u also become f ...
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  • JM WILL LOSE 7 years ago

    The "Kanazoeing" of the Presidency and John Dramani Mahama is further proof and example of the how the John Mahama's NDC gov't took the rather unenviable, reckless and irresponsible position of the 2nd most corrupt gov't in A ...
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  • Kwasi 7 years ago

    https://grantstandblog.wordpress.com/2016/06/20/will-the-real-fathers-please-stand-up/

  • E. Amponsah(amponsaheli23@yahoo.com) 7 years ago

    Journalist should be shown the car among the fleet of presidential cars as is been made to believe.

  • KWESI AHENKORA,MIAMI-FLORIDA,USA. 7 years ago

    GHANAIAN LEADERS AND INDEED,MOST GHANAIANS,ARE SO STUPID,THEY COULD NOT READ THRU THE MEANING BEHIND THESE GIFTS THAT THEY ARE IÑSULTS TO THE LEADERSHIP AND INDEED ALL GHANAIANS.THIS SIMPLY SHOWS WE ARE SO POOR WE CANT AFFOR ...
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  • kwame 90 7 years ago

    We need credible register madam Shallotte Osei.

  • Akwasi Ernest 7 years ago

    Cheap president Mr Bole second hand car for contract.eeeei Bole people

  • jb amoateng 7 years ago

    Honorable Bagbin must be the man he is and condemn this horrible situation the president finds himself in. Senior Bagbin must call for the impeachment of the president.If he does so,his name will be written in gold in Ghana's ...
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  • Boyz Abr3 7 years ago

    Mahama must go period. He is very very corrupt and thief.

  • King, London 7 years ago

    Dear readers, when kufuor bought hotel for his son, did you impeach home? Nonsense and concert.

  • King, London 7 years ago

    Dear readers, when kufuor bought used state money to buy a hotel for his son, did you impeach him? Nonsense and concert.

  • Whatever 7 years ago

    Mahama is TOTALLY CLEAN

  • Whatever 7 years ago

    yeah

  • Charles 7 years ago

    Leaders of countries should display sound judgement. The problem with Mahama is that he is flippant in his attitudes. Sadly that is what seems to have caught up with him. Even if his intentions were genuine he should not expo ...
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  • Dr. Daniel A cka hMr. Prat, 7 years ago

    There is absolutely nothing to make out of this. Any one who would pursue this case as far as adjudication would be foolish. This alone is a wast of the state's money. I want to know if Short understands "What a benevolent me ...
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  • Davidt 7 years ago

    You are disgracing Ghana with spurious accusations

  • Don Basket 7 years ago

    Where is the money in NPP account before Mr Afoko was fired?U see Nana Addo keeps saying President is corrupt n he NANA is not.U cant even manage your Party.Npp will stay in opposition again.Long Live Mahama