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Asking former Presidents, MPs to queue for visas not a new thing - US Embassy

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  • Buffoon investigators of Boston 6 years ago

    "Quota" Alan and his dumb investigators are liars, bullies, rogues and buffoon braggarts

  • Kwadaso 6 years ago

    I dream of a day when they will be chasing our ex presidents with invitations to speak at their schools and political forums.Right now person can insult our national pride and honour because we are a poor and weak country.Pat ...
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  • THE MADMAN 6 years ago

    if we don't build our nations, we will always and forever be beggers

  • TIME WILL TELL 6 years ago

    POLITICIANS ARE WICKED THIEVES

  • kk 6 years ago

    You said you have suspended courtesies. Which courtesies, if you are just emphasizing existing procedures? Why should you expect someone like Kuffour at his age to come queue for a Visa, seeing the long queues and the uncomfo ...
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  • Lynda 6 years ago

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  • Yaw Nsia 6 years ago

    It is up to Ghana government to nuild Ghana in a way to ask Americans too to form a line to ask for Ghanaian visas. There is nothing Ghanaians can't do. We must try and build Ghana so well that, we can tell any American leade ...
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  • Pathetic Ghanaians 6 years ago

    America is not great? Lol
    In your dreams yet you all want to come here
    Bunch of haters and pretenders rot in Ghana and let us have a nice life here

  • John kofi 6 years ago

    What a stupid comment? Who said every Ghanaian wants to go to America? Please educate your fellow ignorant Americans that Africans don't hate America and that not all of us want to be there.

  • kk 6 years ago

    Americans shooting themselves at random? And that is the nice life you have? 90% of you working to enrich the 10% power brokers is the nice life? Enjoy your nice life then. And true not everyone wants to come to America. Note ...
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  • Richard Abraham 6 years ago

    Never mind Ghanaians, I'm a Ghanain but regret to be Ghanaian everything here is bad. About 30% of Ghanaian made it through USA.

  • Storm 6 years ago

    @Yaw, I know you've not taken your drugs today, kindly do so. America is a great nation filled with smart leaders working to make it the best. I support you on the aspect of we looking inward as a nation, you're on point. Its ...
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  • TIME WILL TELL 6 years ago

    LEADERS ARE FANTASTICALLY CORRUPTS PERIOD

  • Richard Abraham 6 years ago

    Yes! That's right Ghana is corrupt, our bad leaders has impoverish this country. There is no way Ghana can be compare to America, I've regrete been a Ghanaian. Fuck Ghana.

  • Kanawu 6 years ago

    USA doesn't force anyone to travel there. It's their country, their rules!

  • James. 6 years ago

    Is visa the priority of any serious country for us to waste precious time discussing.

    You deserve what you get based on your output in this world.

    China was looked down upon by the west over 40 years ago.

    Now China h ...
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  • Clive 6 years ago

    Very, very well said, James! Your analysis captures every thought of mine.

  • James. 6 years ago

    Thanks

  • NATIVE 6 years ago

    Excellent comments., James. I hope Ablakwa and the rest of the Ghanaian lower, middle and upper classes are taking note. We have no pride.? Our elite must join hands to develop and transform Ghana and stop the arsenine NPP- ...
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  • Storm 6 years ago

    Been a long time I read something reasonable like this your post on Ghanaweb @ James. You're such a smart person. Pls keep comment like this flowing so that we can successfully change the minds of internet trolls who have bee ...
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  • James. 6 years ago

    Will contribute my bit.

    Thanks

  • koffi parker 6 years ago

    I hope Ghanaian leaders will be learning from what seems to be naked or daylight robbery, the rules that may have been overlook by former Presidents, MPs Head of State, etc are now being enforced to strengthen the Laws, it is ...
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  • Togbe 6 years ago

    The latest clarification from the US embassy can be added to the legacies of the last government..They know those who have stolen public money to buy houses in America have a lot of cash to be paying for visas

  • Adika 6 years ago

    Former African Presidents and their officials often take Africans for a ride. They come into power voted by the public and within months start lording over the people they are meant to serve. Take the way Rawlings made himsel ...
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  • Sonny 6 years ago

    Togbe, you need to be re-educated. Go and read the Panama Papers and come back here to tell us where the legacies of past governments should be placed. You may think people only remember yesterday, but there was a day before ...
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  • Storm 6 years ago

    @ Sonny, we can't keep going back and forth on some paper somewhere. This is what I have observed, the judiciary has been a puppet in the hands of political jobbers. As long as we keep paying lip service to matters that borde ...
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  • Ob 6 years ago

    I salute you sir, the whole world is now supporting China to be on top especially the poor countries. US company started our oil and did all the dirty work. The company was sacked and given it Chinese to enjoy because of US. ...
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  • Storm 6 years ago

    Contradictory... Smh

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  • Kwaku darko 6 years ago

    Gyimii when smart minds are contributing towards a very important issue at stake,you are posting this Nkwaseas3m Amotia spiritual thing.
    If u have any help pls help urself and ur entire family cuz I see more poverty in ur fa ...
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  • CHARCOAL SELLER. 6 years ago

    To the thing calling itself Pathetic Ghanaians, I can assure you that many of us who chose to live in Ghana, are living much happier lives than many of you who live in the US and elsewhere. Don't fool yourself, some of us kno ...
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  • Rasta 6 years ago

    Charcoal seller ,u are so true..i had built my life here.how I wish I made it rather in Ghana. Enjoy our beloved country

  • Rasta 6 years ago

    Who cares..You even chose Trump to be your president.Hes living in the 1960s and can't come in terms with today's reality.Oofuunu

  • Agbeli 6 years ago

    I am happy with Donald Trump and his administration especially the current Visa laws for leaders. its good because that of the normal Ghanaian remain the same. I wish they even intimidate them and harass them in the process. ...
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  • PIOTO 6 years ago

    Don't you think big? If it is allowed today it will be there when you become a president or MP so it is important this nonsense is scrapped now before some of us mount the throne and review the system of government in the fir ...
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  • SAQ 6 years ago

    Who is coming to lawless Ghana??
    It is a broken country!! Former MPs must must queue.
    Some of them are illicit drug pushers.

  • Storm 6 years ago

    Its only a bastard that points to his fathers house using the left hand.. This is a public forum.

  • BOY KOFI 6 years ago

    I would like to hear a word from any of the former Présidents,especially Rawlings.
    Ghana has copied the American Presidential Elections system and we have always compared our élections closely since 1992.
    I wonder why Kuf ...
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  • PIOTO 6 years ago

    Will someone ask this man to either shut up or leave our country. What is he talking about, our dignitaries should queue for visa? That is how they look down on everyone the world over and creating enemies for themselves. Do ...
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  • Storm 6 years ago

    @Pioto, every little thing in this country should not be about kicking out. Let's look inward and work on ourselves as a nation. We are not doing so well as a nation that's why we have brought insults upon ourselves. Let's le ...
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  • Big Adolf 6 years ago

    Our leaders are the cause of all this nonsense, if they have developed Ghana like their country, who will be there for their visa's, mediocre is killing our leaders, even the whole capital stint

  • Alhaji Yussif 6 years ago

    Somebody should tell the America embassy to relocate their offices to the middle of the sea so that we can't reach them for visa,if what Amaliba is saying re the reasons why they want to disrespect us so be it,Ghana didn't cr ...
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  • Noah Harrison 6 years ago

    Ghana cannot decide for the USA, if you cannot abide by their rules, go burn the sea

  • k.k. 6 years ago

    after all what is u.s? is there a heaven? give us a break

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  • Sexy Termite 6 years ago

    The United States isn't Heaven and neither are their citizens better off than us in the wider sense. Life is the way you choose to live it and make it. There are people here in Ghana who have never been to the United States b ...
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  • Storm 6 years ago

    Ghana is a small country and I wish the leaders would prevail on this matter. This country should not be put on a diplomatic row with the US government. The USG has been so kind to this country over the years. Let's all under ...
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  • Kwaku 6 years ago

    Fucking arrogant and irresponsible

  • TIME WILL TELL 6 years ago

    THEY ARE GOOD IN THIEVERY PERIOD. NOTHING ELSE, GIVE US A BREAK

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  • SATOKE 6 years ago

    The "gift of comprehension" is very limited among the Ghanain public. Therefore one must be careful what to put out there. People can get lynched to death before they get the chance to clarify what they said. Therefore if it ...
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  • TIME WILL TELL 6 years ago

    ON GHANAIAN POLITICIANS, THEY ARE USELESS INCOMPETENT WICKED EVIL BRAIN DEAD CORRUPT THIEVES PERIOD

  • TIME WILL TELL 6 years ago

    THEIR VISA PERIOD, RULE OF LAW AND GHANAIANS CAN'T MAKE NO DEAL BECAUSE AMERICAS OBEY'S RULES, NOT LIKE GHANA, A COUNTRY ONLY KNOWS LAWLESSNESS NO DISCIPLINE PERIOD

  • Alhaji Yussif 6 years ago

    Americans ve the right to even refuse us visas to their country let alone who applies,the point really is that their policies apply only when we reject them,one time they refused to renew the visa of a sitting agric minister ...
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