Deputy Trade Minister faced squarely for calling diaporans whiners

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Adika 6 years ago

To be called Whiners is an insult. You are a deputy Minister calling Ghanaians in the diaspora as whiners disgraceful.

To be called Whiners is an insult. You are a deputy Minister calling Ghanaians in the diaspora as whiners disgraceful.
Atsu 6 years ago

This man is really destroying our party and disgracing the Nana Addo an Alan Kyeremateng at MOTI.He is rude and talks to stuff anyhow. if you dont talk care Mr minister,we will kick you out. The president specifically told yo ...
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This man is really destroying our party and disgracing the Nana Addo an Alan Kyeremateng at MOTI.He is rude and talks to stuff anyhow. if you dont talk care Mr minister,we will kick you out. The president specifically told you to be humble and serve nonsense
Concern Citizen 6 years ago

Ghanaian ministers and their arrogance. Calling the diaspora community who paid their own air fares 'Whiners' after traveling over 3000 miles to help develop the country. I thought the president advised them during the swear ...
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Ghanaian ministers and their arrogance. Calling the diaspora community who paid their own air fares 'Whiners' after traveling over 3000 miles to help develop the country. I thought the president advised them during the swearing in to humble and calm in all circumstances. Four information ministers and the same mistakes as the past government's information team. Similar from the agric minister. Dr. Afriyie Akoto and deputy finance mister, Kwaku Agyeman Kwarteng and others. I think the president and his team must wake up. I think the president and his vice's posture are far apart from his appointees.
Nii 6 years ago

This is good. Hopefully the Minister will learn that, not everyone is an idiot like him. The days of saying shit to people and leave is over.

This is good. Hopefully the Minister will learn that, not everyone is an idiot like him. The days of saying shit to people and leave is over.
ASSEM 6 years ago

THIS DEPUTY MINISTER KNOWS BETTER BUT THE POSITION HE IS CURRENTLY OCCUPYING HAS IMMENSED HIM IN THE ARROGANT CULTURE ALL OVER AGAIN. I KNOW HE HAS LIVED IN THE STATES OR SO FOR MANY YEARS. BEFORE THE ELECTION, I WATCHED AND ...
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THIS DEPUTY MINISTER KNOWS BETTER BUT THE POSITION HE IS CURRENTLY OCCUPYING HAS IMMENSED HIM IN THE ARROGANT CULTURE ALL OVER AGAIN. I KNOW HE HAS LIVED IN THE STATES OR SO FOR MANY YEARS. BEFORE THE ELECTION, I WATCHED AND HEARD HIM ON NEWSFILE A COUPLE OF TIMES AND HE WAS SO AFFABLE, HUMBLE AND CONCERNED ABOUT THE ROT HAPPENING IN THE NDC. NOW HE HAS GOT A PRIVILEGED POSITION SO HE CAN TALK ANYHOW HE LIKES. HE KNOWS BETTER BECAUSE HE IS AWARE OF THE RELENTLESS PRESSURE MINISTERS AND SECRETARIES OF WHERE HE LIVED FOR MANY YEARS ARE UNDER EVERYDAY. WHAT HAS CHANGED IN HIS LIFE AND CIRCUMSTANCES? AFRICAN POWER. IT CAN BE ARROGATED WITHOUT QUESTION. IT CAN BE LORDED OVER SUBJECTS AND THEY DO NOT HAVE A RIGHT TO COMPLAIN. THEY ARE NOT PUBLIC SERVANTS BUT PUBLIC MASTERS. NO WONDER THE AUDITOR GENERALS REPORT AND THE PUBLIC ACCOUNTS COMMITTEE ARE JUST A CHARADE. HOWEVER, HEW HAS MET HIS MATCH WHICH IS REFRESHING.
LOOK, HIS HEAD SHOULD ROLE. OTHERWISE THE PRESIDENT SHOULD BE INFORMED THAT THERE IS MORE OF THIS ARROGANCE TO COME. THE PRESIDENT SHOULD ALSO BE ON NOTICE THAT MANY PEOPLE WHO USED TO VOTE FOR THE NDC DID NOT TURN UP TO VOTE IN 2016 AND IF HE CONTINUES TO SIT ALOOF, THE CARPET WILL BE DRAGGED FROM UNDER HIS FEET.
THIS IS A TIME THAT THE CITIZENRY HAVE TO SEND A CLEAR MESSAGE TO WHOEVER IS IN POWER THAT THEY ARE THERE TO SERVE NOT MASTERS AS PER THE CONSTITUTION.
Mentie 6 years ago

It is this kind of inconsiderate expressions from this jerk of a minister that repel patriotic goodwill.

We all know he went through exasperating experience before his current position, but that does not have to dull his ...
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It is this kind of inconsiderate expressions from this jerk of a minister that repel patriotic goodwill.

We all know he went through exasperating experience before his current position, but that does not have to dull his brains into complacent and dismissive "I don't careism"!
Mensah 6 years ago

I REMEMBER HIM AT GIPC. HE HAS NOT CHANGED. HE HAS A SERIOUS PROBLEM AND IN ANOTHER COUNTRY THIS WILL BE SUFFICIENT GROUNDS TO KICK HIM OUT BUT NOT IN GHANA. HOW CAN HE STOOP SO LOW. I LOVE THE RESPONSE HE GOT.

I REMEMBER HIM AT GIPC. HE HAS NOT CHANGED. HE HAS A SERIOUS PROBLEM AND IN ANOTHER COUNTRY THIS WILL BE SUFFICIENT GROUNDS TO KICK HIM OUT BUT NOT IN GHANA. HOW CAN HE STOOP SO LOW. I LOVE THE RESPONSE HE GOT.
STONE 6 years ago

This is unacceptable on the part of the minister.People spend their time and money to come to this conference and you call them Whiners.

This is unacceptable on the part of the minister.People spend their time and money to come to this conference and you call them Whiners.
Nana Addo Ba 6 years ago

Hon. Ahomka Lindsay
Hon. Adwoa Sarfo
Hon. Benito Owusu-Bio
Hon. Afriyie Akoto
Hon. Kwaku Kwarteng
Hon. Catherine Afeku

Fantastic state officials.

Hon. Ahomka Lindsay
Hon. Adwoa Sarfo
Hon. Benito Owusu-Bio
Hon. Afriyie Akoto
Hon. Kwaku Kwarteng
Hon. Catherine Afeku

Fantastic state officials.
Jo Jo Nice 6 years ago

County Judge Ed Emmett has appointed Kwame B. Acheampong to the newly created Harris County International Advisory Council.
The core responsibility of the Advisory Council is to advice the County Judge and the Commissioners ...
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County Judge Ed Emmett has appointed Kwame B. Acheampong to the newly created Harris County International Advisory Council.
The core responsibility of the Advisory Council is to advice the County Judge and the Commissioners Court on economic development opportunities involving foreign countries and businesses.
Harris County is the largest county in terms of population - over four million and with enormous resources in the State of Texas and the fourth largest county in the United States.
Kwame, a long-time resident of Harris County brings to the Advisory Council an experience in international business development. He is a businessman and expert in public policy and local government development.

He has previously served in a similar capacity for Harris County by promoting small to medium-sized businesses in Harris County, the Gulf Region of Mexico and The Caribbean.

He also served as Ghana’s Trade and Investment Representative to the United States under Ministry of Trade & Industry, Private Sector Development and President’s Special Initiatives during President Kufuor’s government. He has for 16 years served as an Adjunct Professor of Government at the Houston Community College.

The Harris County International Advisory Council envisions to expand trade missions abroad from Harris County and its neighboring counties while effectively interacting with foreign delegations that visit the county which includes City of Houston.

”I will endeavor to leverage my presence on the Council to promote Ghana as an attractive investment destination to the numerous CEOs and business executives I will have the privilege of interacting with.
Houston is the energy capital of the world and Harris County has a strong medical research and aerospace technology presence, as well as the third largest port in the United States and I believe all of these will present some opportunistic synergies for Ghana”, according to Mr. Acheampong.
Kwame is a graduate of Rice University and the prestigious Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin.
Jo Jo Nice 6 years ago

The government has a penchant for pedantics regarding involving Ghanaians in the diaspora but it is all chatter and empty rhetoric. For 30 years, we have had a white American as the Ghana Honorary Consul to Houston when we ha ...
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The government has a penchant for pedantics regarding involving Ghanaians in the diaspora but it is all chatter and empty rhetoric. For 30 years, we have had a white American as the Ghana Honorary Consul to Houston when we have very qualified people who could better do the job of promoting foreign investment in Ghana. The Consul's job is not only about issuing visas but creating trading relationships for Ghana and in that regard, the current Consul has failed abysmally.
Besides running to Ghana every 3 months to ingratiate himself with the officials and singing their praises to ensure that he keeps the job, he doesn't really do much. To add insult to injury, not a single Ghanaian works or has ever worked in his office. And now he has his grandchildren working over there as he physically does not do any of the work.Is the Consul job a dynasty to be passed on from generation to generation? And what is he hiding by excluding Ghanaians from working at his office? We appreciate his service but 30 years is enough as we have enough qualified Ghanaians in Houston with the advantage of understanding the culture and economic dynamics of the country who can do a better job. And you should never discount the intangible benefit of patriotism and loyalty to one's place of birth, no matter how long one has been away. The current Consul's loyalty when push comes to shove is to the USA and not to Ghana. He needs to go!
Fresko 6 years ago

Have you researched the "operational expenditure and function of Honorary Consul"?

This kind of juvenal PHD (Pull Him Down) is better left @ the port of Tema!

Have you researched the "operational expenditure and function of Honorary Consul"?

This kind of juvenal PHD (Pull Him Down) is better left @ the port of Tema!
Uche 6 years ago

Jo Jo Nice--------
--"And you should never discount the intangible benefit of patriotism and loyalty to one's place of birth, no matter how long one has been away."
----this has got Ghana nowhere. Many Ghanaians are unpatri ...
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Jo Jo Nice--------
--"And you should never discount the intangible benefit of patriotism and loyalty to one's place of birth, no matter how long one has been away."
----this has got Ghana nowhere. Many Ghanaians are unpatriotic and disloyal.
Some non-Ghanaian do better for Ghana.
Go find a job for yourself.
Abigi 6 years ago

A broke country looking for skill force and investors does not have customer service and managers to talk confidence into investors. Who invests in a fool? Who puts money in the hands of an arrogant person? This USELESS guy s ...
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A broke country looking for skill force and investors does not have customer service and managers to talk confidence into investors. Who invests in a fool? Who puts money in the hands of an arrogant person? This USELESS guy should be kicked out immediately, otherwise the diasporan investments Ghana is looking for will elude Ghana.
Fresko 6 years ago

The fat-arse, despite his many years experience in the States, still has this frat-boy inclination of talking down to people.

A public figure with zero public relations common sense!

The fat-arse, despite his many years experience in the States, still has this frat-boy inclination of talking down to people.

A public figure with zero public relations common sense!
nonsense corrector 6 years ago

I was in Ghana checking on my enterprise there and attended part of this conference - wasn't there for this so called minister's comment but was for the response - this so called minister is a twat - diasporans know that Gh ...
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I was in Ghana checking on my enterprise there and attended part of this conference - wasn't there for this so called minister's comment but was for the response - this so called minister is a twat - diasporans know that Ghana should and could easily be so much better because we've seen what countries in the outside world have done without a fraction of the resources that we have - my co-workers at my enterprise in Ghana are ordinary people who have not had the opportunity to travel abroad and see how things are done outside, but this twat of a minister and the rest of the "elite" have - yet they allow the ordinary mass of Ghanaians to suffer in shoddy squalor - go to Tema station or Madina or Circle stations in Accra and tell me that I am lying - we complain that the weather is too hot - heat is energy - why aren't we converting it - we complain about the intensity of the rains -- water is power, it can run turbines - why aren't we doing so - it's easy to import small quantities into Ghana but difficult to export at reasonable cost - i often can't produce because the current is low - i've had to cement part of the gutter in front of my office/shop because the local authority hasn't - etc., etc., etc., why shouldn't I complain when i've invested time and money in Ghana - when you've eliminated my whingeing Mr Minister, you will have done your job and justified your salary, 4x4, travel expenses etc., etc., etc.,...all paid for by the ordinary suffering Ghanaian - until then, stop your own whingeing or go back Coca Cola or whatever corporate largesse-filled life you led before and let someone who will actually eliminate the "whingeing" and not simply be a rent-seeking occupier of space, do so
Koforidua Bob 6 years ago

Okay I will stop whining instead I,ll invest my money in another country that provides the services and infrastructure a modern buisness needs.

Okay I will stop whining instead I,ll invest my money in another country that provides the services and infrastructure a modern buisness needs.
nyamekye 6 years ago

The deputy minister is an idiotic fool with fake slang english accent.

The deputy minister is an idiotic fool with fake slang english accent.

Deputy Trade Minister faced squarely for calling diaporans whiners

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