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Otumfuo influenced IMF aid to Ghana - Mahama

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  • sanjay - Abu Dhabi 7 years ago

    vote mahama for peace and development, long live mahama

  • RUTH 7 years ago

    JOHNMAHAMA IS EXTREMELY dangerous to the country and the future of the youths...... Useless JOHNMAHAMA, busy indulging in thievery and corruption through BUSREBRANDING THIEVERY, SADA GYEEDA, RLG ETC etc etc...... Yet northern ...
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  • insight to the bone 7 years ago

    We observe with great interest those who are so loud in the criticism of Ken Agyapong and notice they some how tend to be non Akans , minorities or proven slaves of this pepeni/ayigbe criminal organisation . Somehow this very ...
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  • Lantei 7 years ago

    Am happy majority of ghanains dont think like you,ur comments is divisive,ppl like u are the first to be slautered wen voilence comes.just sit therenad call for one

  • bashings 7 years ago

    You are doing the devil's bidding.

  • EDDIE, TARKWA 7 years ago

    Mahama should stop playing the Asantehene against his subjects and do the right thing to save Ghana from the pit we are have been plunge into.

  • AMUZU 7 years ago

    ASANTEHNE DOING THE JOB OF THE PRESIDENT,FOR THE SEEK OF MOTHER GHANA,ONLY UNDER NDC GOVERMENT.

  • SAY IT LOUD ! 7 years ago

    TWO FOOLS(PRESIDENT AND CHIEF) FOOLING THEMSELVES AND FOOLING 27MILLION OTHER FOOLS, TO SATISFY AFRICA'S NAZIS OF HOLOCAUSTON(EVIL EUROPE).

    ONLY A HENE WHO IS SO FOOLISH HE DOES NOT KNOW THE VALUE OF GOLD AND EVEN ITS MEAN ...
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  • Djan Techiman noy 7 years ago

    Mahama. Is a contuanation of NKRUMAH, Infrastructure first.

  • RUTH 7 years ago

    So we should not condemn JOHNMAHAMA simply because if you love Nkrumah vote JOHNMAHAMA?..... Hahahaaaa hahahaaaa hahahaaaa hahahaaaa........ JOHNMAHAMA IS just exploiting Nkrumah and his name...... JOHNMAHAMA IS CORRUPT EXTRE ...
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  • KWAME 7 years ago

    WE HAD TO MAKE DEEP RESEARCH TO FIND WHERE NKRUMAH CAME FROM. IT WAS ALWAYS GHANA FIRST AND MAYBE TOO MUCH OF AFRICA FIRST. BUT PLEASE, DON'T COMPARE MAHAMA TO NKRUMAH. IT IS JUST LIKE COMPARING KOOOSE AND ABE NKWAN.

  • aikins 7 years ago

    The same Otumfuor asked you to promote Kofi Boakye before you did so my question is why don't you hand over to Otumfuor to rule the country.

  • DR TRUTH 7 years ago

    IF A WHOLE ELECTED PRESIDENT OF A COUNTRY CANT NEGOTIATE DEALS WITH INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS SUCH AS IMF THEN HE MIGHT AS WELL RESIGN. HOW COME IT TOOK A TRADITIONAL CHIEF ALBEIT A POWERFUL ONE TO WHEEL & DEAL? IT IS AN AD ...
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  • AMUZU 7 years ago

    I HEAR YOU.

  • Egya Atta 7 years ago

    Don't say nana is a loser, nana is now the minjster of economic planning because the NDC government doesn't its left and right.

  • Abbe 7 years ago

    You should be ashamed to say Nana is a loser when IMF did not trust Mahama and required the intervention of Ottumfo to get a deal from IMF. A whole President and cabinet could not negotiate a deal and the president is not ash ...
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  • Kofi Totobi Kwakye 7 years ago

    Do you think things are moving in the right direction? Look at the environment, our rivers are dying, many animals are on the verge of disappearing, no more organic food in the country, "mankani" used to be everywhere but now ...
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  • GBODZROMODO 7 years ago

    STOP SACKING UP TO AND FAWNING OVER THE ASANTEHENE AND PROMOTING ASHANTI SUPREMACY. THESE PEOPLE ARE NATION WRECKERS

  • RUTH 7 years ago

    OTUMFUOR how many contractors have given you vehicle bribe to manipulate your conscience against the people of Ashanti and Ghana.......

  • RUTH 7 years ago

    OTUMFUOR........ Do you know of the extreme poverty of northerners which JOHNMAHAMA takes for granted?..... Useless JOHNMAHAMA, busy indulging in thievery and corruption through BUSREBRANDING THIEVERY, SADA GYEEDA, RLG ETC et ...
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  • Francis Dogbe 7 years ago

    Otumfuo influence is indeed bad.He is part of the reason why we are going through this economic hardship.Otumfuo and John mahama are all bad leaders.Otumfuo should have known better that IMF policies have never worked in any ...
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  • truth 7 years ago

    Not good advice to go for IMF.That is why IMF is ruling our country now.

  • Onipaba Of Akyem Maase 7 years ago

    So they found a more credible individual to guarantee IMF's deal? You have lied all life. Propaganda will surely kill you.

  • paul Kwao 7 years ago

    To Ruth president Mahama useful and better than all the men in your family including that bastard you call father

  • Brodie Mends 7 years ago

    So Otumfuo was the one who facilitated the IMF loan? Where was Mahama useless finance minister? OMG!!

  • Sam 7 years ago

    It is sad that some useless and ignorant Ghanaians always accused the Ashantis as nation wreckers forgetting themselves that they were schooled and enjoyed free education by Ashanti cocoa,timber and gold.Most of the things yo ...
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  • Big Dadi 7 years ago

    From the horse own mouth. NDC was not credible and no institution would believe them. Mahama and his corrupt NDC had to run to the most prominent citizen on the continent for assistance. Is Mahama not ashamed of himself?

  • RUTH 7 years ago

    JOHNMAHAMA IS EXPLOITING IGNORANT MASSES to loot loot loot...... Debt to GDP RATIO of above 72 %...... Hahahaaaa ide biiiiiiii Keke thieves in government......

  • Sam 7 years ago

    To whom much is given much is required. Borrowing has become rampant and unprecedented and the national debt have never been so high before but the government of NDC under the presidency of Mahama has left the nation with suc ...
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  • Chuck Wayo, DC 7 years ago

    Unlike Ghana, IMF is no corroupt. Ghana was eligible for the aid. Otumfuor had nothing to do with. Mahama is trying to stroke Nana's ego for sympathy votes.

  • maame 7 years ago

    Hatred, envy, jealousy, tribalism, selfishness, skin-pain, name it, are terrible diseases. You see nothing but negativity. Some of us need healing if not, we will be living dead. Why not be happy and appreciative of some ...
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  • Oko 7 years ago

    Is this an Archievement?

  • maame 7 years ago

    Without loan, I wouldn't have been able to build a school I started 6 years ago. My school is flourishing now. At times, it's necessary to take a loan

  • ctz 7 years ago

    What do you charge for school fees to pay back the loans. Get us full facts

  • Bossman 7 years ago

    mahama should stop talking crap. Kumasi should be (as of now) one of the modern cities in African (not even Ghana).
    70 percent asphalt on Kumasi city streets in 21 century is a complete bolona.

  • JOHN 7 years ago

    TELL ME WHAT KUFFOUR DID IN KIMASI

  • Oko 7 years ago

    It shows how incompetent Mahama Government is

  • JOHN 7 years ago

    NAME NPP ACHIEVEMENTS IN KUMASI AFTER 8 YEARS?

  • JOHN 7 years ago

    NPP WAS IN POWER FOR 8 YEARS BUT NEVER THOUGHT OF INTRODUCING IDENTIFICATION CARDS FOR GHANAIANS. U WANT NDC TO CHANGE SO MANY THINGS WHICH WERE NOT RIGHT BUT NPP FAILED TO DO. ALSO I WANT ANY ASHANTI MAN OR WOMAN TO NAME 3 ...
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  • Oko 7 years ago

    If not incompetence how can Otumfour intervened in IMF loan

  • Kofi (USA) 7 years ago

    If the country's precarious position and supporting documents are not adequate for a bailout unless otumfuo connection then ghana has credixecuted problem. We need overhaul of the country.

  • CLETUS ACCRA 7 years ago

    How many times did Mahama travel with Afari Djan? and how many times has he travelled with Charlotte Osei.Mahama slept with E C long time and nobody knows but she is married.If not her foolishness towards her behaviour, KEN ...
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  • Village Lass 7 years ago

    "intervention" what a cock and bull story.
    this is not an African institution where bribery/or influence is exerted. they deal with facts.
    if IMF assisted or loaned Ghana money it is because Ghana met a criteria.

    when wi ...
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  • Baam 7 years ago

    That nana Osei tutu is not ohene, he is a politician. Bad chief for Ashanti.

  • PAULO 7 years ago

    Mahama your photo with Otumfuo does not impressed any right thinking Ghanaian.
    Any king or Chief that the president call on will honour and respect the president,because you are the leader of Ghana and we respect our leader. ...
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  • Akonta Besi Fom 7 years ago

    The IMF is based in Washington DC,USA. For the Asantehene to make any direct input into obtaining assistance for Ghana from the IMF,he had to go to the USA personally. He cannot go to the USA since he is wanted there for cred ...
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  • Kojo Poku Canada 7 years ago

    The Asantehene has been travelling to the US as many as 6X since his accention.Don't lie if you don't know the facts.

  • Ad. 7 years ago

    Mahama must go.

  • oh boye 7 years ago

    Gets the ball straight - Otumfuo is there for every Ghanaian not NDC or NPP .

  • Victor Baidoo, South Africa 7 years ago

    Otumfuor played his part but it was for a loan that has enslaved children not yet born! MR PRESIDENT, DON'T TAKE PRIDE IN CONTRACTING LOANS! IT WAS NOT IN YOUR NDC MANIFESTO, NEITHER WAS WAS IT PART OF YOUR CAMPAIGN PROMISES ...
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  • Kojo Poku Canada 7 years ago

    Was it not Kuffuor who started the national ID cards in 2007? This hopeless NDC should have continued, bit for their evil intent, they refused to continue.

  • Amegah UK 7 years ago

    Yet they say Otumfuo doesn't know anything about Ghana politics. How about full bag of gold which was stolen from Otumfuo's hotel room in Norway or Denmark some time ago. Was the police able to catch the thieves or did the O ...
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  • Victor Baidoo, South Africa 7 years ago

    FELLOW GHANAIANS, PLEASE THINK OF THIS: "WHAT DOES THE FUTURE HOLD FOR CHILDREN OF A FAMILY WITH A FATHER WHOSE MAJOR SURVIVAL AND PARENTING SKILLS ARE BEGGING AND CONTRACTING LOANS? THIS FAMILY FEEDS, CLOTHES AND SURVIVES P ...
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  • Sena Hohoe 7 years ago

    You are fool chief stop your comment it's fair to put yourself to imf or rely imf? Any vision president don't realy imf

  • apuuuu 7 years ago

    We now thanks Otumfuo for his influence getting lmf aid and President John Ford Drama Mahama is incompetent this is the reason why the country is a laughing stock with economic hardship we needs change ap ...
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  • Sena Hohoe 7 years ago

    You can't pay bribe again to retain mahama you are crook chief

  • K Mensah 7 years ago

    Mahama is a failure and a despicable LIAR. Does the Asantehene control the IMF?

  • burga vim 7 years ago

    We're six n tired of this corrupt n myopic give it time to reserve them

  • Kwapps 7 years ago

    Well meaning Ghanaians, do not allow NDC to divert your attention from the Ford scandal. Be steadfast, resolute and defend the good name of Ghana against corruption in whatever guise it appears. Keep your eyes peeled.

  • burga vim 7 years ago

    I mean we the rational thinking people of this country are sick with this NDC govt.Even if Otomfuo she lead them in their campaign they will still lose

  • Kofigah Raphael 7 years ago

    stop insulting Nana Addo, tell Mahama Ghanaians are suffering crying jobless and starving to death.

  • Zenithnaija Blog 7 years ago

    Thank you Mr President for recognizing
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    Zenithnaija blog for Nigerian news and more

  • Nana Asenso 7 years ago

    Is the IMF bail out an achievement?

  • ctz 7 years ago

    Sorry polluted waters will the IMF Filter them does Ghana still have a share in our oldest mine having dropped from 51 to17 to 2%?

  • Py from kenyase 7 years ago

    So you are telling Ghanians that,otunmfour is now ruler abaaaaa Mr President huuuuuum,anyway your days are numbered.change is around the corner beware

  • spartacus 7 years ago

    Mahama stop belittling yourself and govt. Otumfour is only a tribal king. How does he influence IMF to get loan for Ghana? Oho

  • Oko 7 years ago

    Mahama has lost Direction

  • garby 7 years ago

    Oh Mr John stop I will do
    And do first
    Ah everyday promise
    I may tink dis promise u used to win urwife Me Me am Garby

  • ponowarzy 7 years ago

    Two nation looters chatting hapilly might be that they are planning for another roberry so Ghanaians b careful!

  • Mr Bond 7 years ago

    Folks president John Dramani Mahama is a pathological liar and lacks credibility.Otumfuor did not influence IMF bailout,It was dr Kwesi B that lead the negotiation and late p.v.obeng after his death the Senche report has drow ...
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  • Oh Ghana! 7 years ago

    Then hand over to Otumfuo to rule Ghana. So as President you could not have leverage with the IMF? That speaks a lot about how the international community see you.

  • Agbozo 7 years ago

    Loan,loan,loan,when are we going to pay these loans?Mahama is disgracing Ghana o.Where does d taxes,gold,petroleum and cocoa money go?40billion dollars and yet this clueless president is still looking for a loan to build gara ...
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  • OKOROMANSA 7 years ago

    THIS IS ANOTHER NDC COCK AND BULL STORY THAT WILL NOT BENEFIT MAHAMA IN ANY WAY. WHEN DID OSEI TUTU DELIVER THE IMF, AND WHY IS MAHAMA SAYING THIS AT THIS TIME? ALL BECAUSE OF VOTES, BUT MAHAMA IS A JOKER.

  • ABC 7 years ago

    How could Otumfuo influence the granting of IMF loans to a country? Tell this to kids in day nurseries not to adults.

  • Iddrusu, Nava-pio 7 years ago

    And he also influenced the 2012 election petition at the supreme court. Mahama Kanazoe owes you tons of gratitude.

  • Ben 7 years ago

    Chiefs should discourage politicians from consulting them on matters like going to imf
    Otumfour was not entitled to rule the whole of Ghana
    From what mahatma said without shame it means it is the advise from the king that ...
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  • Ayiboe 7 years ago

    He is a professional so tell him

  • Boamponsem 7 years ago

    Hmm, when the video went viral, some people thiught it was a photoshopped video. For how could the Asantehene be encouraging this stubborn bone-headedness Mahama was exhibiting?

    Odwanfun!

    Akoko ye den ara a, ennso akrom ...
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  • koo 7 years ago

    MAHAMA WHY DO NOT GO TO BOLA CHIF BUT OTUMFUO