Even Pampers have taxes on them – Nana Konadu

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  • kofikofi 10 years ago

    You can do better. Ghanaweb. Nana Konadu said more than what you choose, cut and paste. Shame unto you. Partisan ghanaweb.

  • PRINCE KWASI ADADE (OFIE P33) 10 years ago

    OMAN FM TACKLES ISSUES ABOUT NDC FOOLISH GOVERNANCE THAT HAS PARALYSED GHANA'S ECONOMY. MONTIE FM IS JUST ABOUT THREAT TO KILL. ---- NANA IS MOST OF THE TIME THE MAIN TARGET. IS NANA ADDO THE MAN WHO BRANDED THE BUSES?? IS NA ...
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  • Saint Ghfuo: Mediocrity Stinks Cuuuhh 10 years ago

    When u were scrubbing ur cunt in jacuzzi did u think of providing free diapers or free formula for new mothers? 21yrs as first lady what social program did u champion for new mothers? Every nation that impose taxes on their p ...
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  • They Say They Say 10 years ago

    This guyyyy!!!!!

  • OLD SOLDIER 10 years ago

    Author: facts.....
    Koku Anidaho must stop the story telling and come out with the realities. Ghana will be like Kenya,Segbefia and Carl Wilson and the car robbery syndicate, Mahama plane purchase failures and state loses of ...
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  • Kwame Anshong 10 years ago

    Mahama is one of the Best President Ever.

    The NPP administration in their eight (8) years in office never constructed one single Regional Hospital ..... but four (4) Regional Hospitals in Accra, Kumasi, Wa, and Bolgatang ...
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  • Nana. 10 years ago

    Some one should tell this greedy woman to go and solve her husband's ABACHA MONEY and leave us alone.

  • Kwame Anshong 10 years ago

    Mahama is focused on transforming Ghana and will not allow things like this to distract him.

    The NPP government in their eight (8) years in office never established one (1) single public university ........ but the NDC gov ...
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  • Chidi 10 years ago

    You a hypocrite and a liar. Making it seems taxes on items are a bizarre. Ask your daughters and son who schooled abroad and they will tell you even tissue to blow your nose is taxed. Even toothpicks are taxed. I wish I can p ...
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  • APONKYE 10 years ago

    JJ's $5m bribe from Abacha is unNDC-like. Such behaviour is typical of NPP members, not NDC. JJ should therefore refund the money to Nigeria or leave NDC and go and join NPP where the corruption experts are.

    But JJ must r ...
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  • CAST-THE-FIRSTSTONE 10 years ago

    Always repeating your comments and you will never think outside the box. Smh! In the US/Europe everything is taxable even water sold in shops. UK for instance develops it's country through tax eg VAT 20% since 2011. How much ...
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  • SARPONG 10 years ago

    Where in Europe do you pay the 35% tax, England, Germany or where? Do you know what you get for your 35% tax? I will give you few benefits you get for your taxes that Ghanaians don't get.

    You get free medical care for thos ...
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  • abongo 10 years ago

    Sarpong you are very stupid if not retarded. You give someone 35ghc to cook and another 15ghc to cook the same food. Do you expect to have the same food taste? It seem you don't know how much taxes Ghanaians pay that's why yo ...
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  • Kofi, USA 10 years ago

    Idiot, you are the one retarded. You are not making any sense. Sarpong makes more sense than your foolish comment. What are you trying to say assuming if you have not lost your mind already.

  • Abdul 10 years ago

    Please tell me how many people paying their tax in Ghana. You complain about paying tax but you don't benefit. The reason is only 20%of Ghanaians paying their tax how can benefit over 26 million people. Please let us make goo ...
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  • James 10 years ago

    Thank you Abdul! Say it again bro. Compare this to Europe where over 85% pay taxes ranging from 30% to 45% and even higher for those who earn far more than the threshold. Every item you buy in Europe attracts a 25% tax. This ...
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  • YAW 10 years ago

    HAHAHA....! Sarpong, ask your friends who live in Europe, especially in the Scandinavia and you will know.

  • Tina Uk 10 years ago

    Sarpong, sorry those countries you're talking of, went through what Ghana is going through now to arrive at those benefits you're talking about. Remember, Rome was not built in a day. We may not enjoy the sacrifices we are ma ...
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  • AMU 10 years ago

    Tina you are just being nice with Sarpong. Sarpong is brainless. He should check the facts. If he lives in any of these countries he mentioned, he must be jobless and taking social benefits from the government.

  • PRINCEWILLY@YMAIL.COM 10 years ago

    Do Ghanaian whores pay taxes?
    How will they get benefits if they keep stealing from the Government?
    Ask that Konadu Rawlings whether my second cousin Rawlings paid taxes on the 2 million dollars he got from Abacha?

  • Agbeli Kumordzi 10 years ago

    Every part of the world people buying pampers pay tax. Konadu have to understand that after having used those pampers is the city workers are responsible for the clean up

  • Kojo 10 years ago

    It's called sales tax, dummy!!

  • Adam 10 years ago

    Madam even sugar, biscuits and water attract taxes in some advanced and very rich countries in this world. So please stop this cheap politics of yours. No one will vote for you. You are just nothing minus your husband. Don't ...
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  • John mahama Dzifa Attivor Vicky Hamma 10 years ago

    That Avukoklo president must go. A class 3 school prefect would be better than him. Incompetent Odwanfunu-man! !!!

  • AMB 10 years ago

    Stupid comment

  • paparazi 10 years ago

    thank God he sensible than ur entire family. hihihi

  • Kwame Anshong 10 years ago

    Mahama is very Competent he has brought a lot of projects to Ghana.

    The NPP administration in their eight (8) years in office never upgraded one single airport to the International status ...... but both the Tamale and Ku ...
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  • say it loud 10 years ago

    I do not agree with some preceding comments. Those indicated facts that in Europe and other advance countries taxes are paid on what have you. The issue is Ghana has not yet reached that stage. Please read the historiy of the ...
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  • paparazi 10 years ago

    how long shd we wait. shut up there!

  • James Mahmoud Awotwe-Braun 10 years ago

    to get to where Europe has reached.

    Raw tax Germany collected amounted to 19 Trillion Euros in 2105 alone, because w pay as much as 19% tax on pampers!

  • PRINCEWILLY@YMAIL.COM 10 years ago

    Politicians are like diapers.

    They should be changed frequently ... and for the same reason.

  • NPP KWASEAFUO PARTY. NPP JIMIFUO KUO. 10 years ago

    Someone tell the bitch that even when her husband the bribe-taker was president, pampers attracted tax. The hypocrisy and amnesia must stop.

    This greedy arsonist bitch and her bribe-taker husband must be arrested and disp ...
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  • Opanin 10 years ago

    No diversion, Konadu.

  • JOHN 10 years ago

    THIS MURDERER AND A THIEF HAS BEEN ABLE TO COME OUT FROM HER SHELL AGAIN?. I THOUGHT HER HUSBANDS BRIBE WILL SILENCE HER. AWI KOKROKOO. NSAWAM CANNERY THIEF, GNTC HOUSES THIEF, GOVT LANDS THIEF. THIS WOMAN DESERVES TO BE SHOT ...
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  • Jackie 10 years ago

    U. N ur. Husband too. Smart. Right

  • Bishop Blay 10 years ago

    Shut up! You have no right even to pontificate to Ghanaians, after you and your holier than thou husband has fleeced us to our skins.

  • usa 10 years ago

    Useless woman

  • M. O. Appantey 10 years ago

    She said: “I will not sit back and do nothing while the gap between the rich and poor grows wider”. Who are you? Please stop this confused and empty talk and let us have our peace of mind.

  • mr true sa 10 years ago

    This woman really knows nothing about tax and u want to be a president of Ghana for what ?

  • Eric Asamoah USA 10 years ago

    No country can develope if government do not post taxes,travel to USA and see it for yourself.And you were a First Lady you should know better

  • Ernest 10 years ago

    The IEA forum now has become a dongomi one. Why have they kept on postponing Nana Addo's appearance or has NPP withdraw their participation. Tweaaaa!

  • KATE 10 years ago

    If you do not understand the reason behind taxes, you make ignoramus comments such as pampers being taxed.
    Do the business men or importers importing pampers make profit from the importation of pampers?
    Nana Konadu, somebo ...
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  • James .Adenta 10 years ago

    Oh where is the 2 million dollars you and your husband took from Abacha
    You always hit at the current NCC administration yet you kept quite on the 2 million Usd issue .What a hypocrite

  • Efo Shine Shine 10 years ago

    Why can't she start the gap narrowing by giving away her riches and living like the poor? Live what you preach..preach what you live!!!!!! No taxes on pure water because it's just water and look how filthy our streets are wit ...
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  • Boss 10 years ago

    After abacha's case, she is no more talking about corruption. God has seen u. Give the Nigerians their money. Shame

  • KWAME-BELGIUM 10 years ago

    Yes, taxes must be paid to generate revenue for the state.

  • John BOAKYE 10 years ago

    You konadu you are not shame of your self when you were in power what do you do for Ghana? You and JJ only kill innocent people

  • pocket lawyer 10 years ago

    Nana, so how would your government generate income for the country to run the economy if your party, the NDP is voted into power for no taxes on hygienic commodities such as pampers,toilet rolls and other cleaning materials ...
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  • jacob 10 years ago

    Shame unto u. The law of karma will catch up with u. U will never ever come close to power again. If u were a good mother u wud give ur children d chance to continue from where ur husband left off. U are now a valueless woman ...
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  • Osono 10 years ago

    $2m gift.Your family benefited a lot from that. Talk about that and stop this bullshit

  • Addrah Bright 0247267894 10 years ago

    Risk it Win it lottery welcomes you to a thursday and for that matter a key day "
    whatsapp or call now ... it might be your turn!

  • AMB 10 years ago

    I listened to Nana Konado's presentation and was very disappointed. There no Country in the world where tax evasion and avoidance is not an issue. Our major problem is evasion and avoidance of Direct Tax and we need to addres ...
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  • power 10 years ago

    hypocrite woman. bring back the 5million dollars u and ur husband chop. who is more corrupt than u and ur husband. u think u are the only ppl to enjoy. come out and talk about the moni.

  • paparazi 10 years ago

    konadu shd shut up. every single commodity is taxed in everywhere. we African think we so wise to condemn smone for a position. greedy woman.

  • Freddie 10 years ago

    Even in the so called developed countries when you buy pampers in wall mart you pay taxes. Your husband brought VAT to Ghana when he was the president. We paid VAT on household things, what was about that to you.

  • Patriotic citizen 10 years ago

    When you and your husband were in power, you did not taxed any body. You funded projects from your pockets and questionable gifts from Abacha. Ha ha ha. When you and your husband were in power, you did not taxed any body. Yo ...
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  • PABI 10 years ago

    was she not advisor and manipulating the husband J J rawlings to plunge the country into hipc after ruling for that long period of 19 years.She is old and should not be talking this way.There is nothing different between the ...
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  • sonkrolo 10 years ago

    MADAM YOU ARE OUT OUF TOUCH EVEN WATER HAVE TAXES ON IT.

  • Kwame 10 years ago

    When the thief shout arrest the thief...
    I am of the view that Nana Konadu Agyemang-Rawlings did not say that Ghanaians are over taxed. Her husband John Rawling increased taxes and even introduced Value Added Tax, made sanit ...
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  • bio kotey 10 years ago

    IEA is confused they should also invite akua donkor,Kofi wayo and ayariga too,konadu is just like them.konadu give us nsawam and your husband's $2 m bribe from abacha.corrupt family. Mahama has than more in one term than your ...
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  • kobby 10 years ago

    I want to ask ooo, who will a government control inflation and how does a country develop?
    Nana it hard to understand u

  • bio kotey 10 years ago

    bribe taking family

  • paparazi 10 years ago

    is konadu saying those selling de pampers shd earn without paying tax? does she kn de number of pampers used a day? what does she expect de government to tax. weeds, grasses, thrash or what? she shd better shut up.

  • Maame 10 years ago

    YOU BITCH WHAT DO YOU CARE. YOU STOLE FROM US AND WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT.

  • David 10 years ago

    Well said , and still under borrowing curse , Please john do something about it . I like u JDM , but.....hmm

  • Amidini 10 years ago

    Hahahaa!! bse age is catching you (Nana Konadu) rapidly, you says things out of your sense. Konadu and co re greedy politicians, things does not go your way as you expected "NDC should go opposition" You ve disgrace yourself ...
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  • Jeff, UK 10 years ago

    Her performance wass mediocre. It wwas like a senior high school pupil standard. The platform was for her to tell the people what a government with her as leader would do differently. I listened to Ivor and that was a serious ...
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  • JOE 10 years ago

    Neither Michelle Obama nor Hillary Clinton would be found to be uttering these vulgar words. Caution and decency has been thrown to the wind and womanhood is being debased all in the name of politics. Why has Nana Konadu bein ...
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  • Bishop Blay 10 years ago

    Finally,finally,finally, her performance at the I .E. A. was too puerile. Intact l bowed down my head in shame for her poor performance.

  • STRIKER 10 years ago

    Nana Konadu, remember the events of 30th June 1982? Remember the keys to Fiat Campagniola jeeps on the table in your sitting room at Ridge? Remember what happened when some 4 men came for the keys later on that evening? Remem ...
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  • KONADU THE ACHIMOTA SCHOOL DONKEY 10 years ago

    Her face looks like a donkey's face. jUST LOOK CLOSELY.

  • amoah w. 10 years ago

    WRONG !''

    Come to Denmark (the most happiest nation " in the world

    we run the country with taxes and

    with very little natural resources,
    we are still one of the most developed country in the world.

    and there a ...
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  • James Mahmoud Awotwe-Braun 10 years ago

    You want to become president but does not even know that everything is taxabe.

    If you care to know, let me tell you tahat we pay 19% tax on pampars in Germany.

    Very Cheap politician!

  • Kwame Anshong 10 years ago

    Mahama is working for Ghana by developing various areas of the country.

    The NPP in their eight (8) years in office never established one (1) single SHS ....... but the NDC government is currently establishing 123 SHSs; so ...
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  • Paa Joe 10 years ago

    WITH ALL THE MANY DEGREES AND PHD TITLES THAT GHANAIANS ARE HOLDING IN THE COUNTRY, IS IT NOT A SHAME TO BLAME THE GOVERNMENT ON THE IMPORTATION OF PAMPERS.

    WHY ARE WE NOT IN THE POSITION TO PRODUCE COMMON PAMPERS, BANDAGE ...
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  • Koo 10 years ago

    If you need new road, flyovers, schools and all these amenities are being taken care by taxes .Unfortunately we aren't used to taxes but great countries have always depend on taxes to build their country so Ghanaian get use t ...
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  • prince , dansoman 10 years ago

    NANA KONADU IS VERY FUNNY . I SEE HER AS A DESPERATE OLD WITCH , WHO WANT TO BE PRESIDENT AT ALL COST LIKE AKUFFO ADDO . NANA KONADU WAS FORMERLY NANA ADDO GIRL FRIEND .. SHE IS USING ALL MEANS TO DISCREDIT THE SITTIN ...
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  • JJ 10 years ago

    Yr time is over, don't yu get it , that yu can't be president
    Yu can never be president

  • Kwame 10 years ago

    Nana Konadu please Ghanaians are feedup with your cheap campaign promises you should give people some of the money you have to the poor .

  • Kwame Anshong 10 years ago

    Mahama will continue working for Ghana because he is on track and has done a lot of things already.

    The NPP in their eight (8) years in office never completed one (1) single housing unit ...... but the NDC government has ...
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  • sammy 10 years ago

    Konadu you are a disgrace to womanhood the