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Mahama: Pay Black Stars in Ghana Cedis

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  • btg 10 years ago

    Yeah, I agree. Pay the rich boys in Cedis since they have a lot of foreign currencies at their disposal.

  • Ka Na Wu 10 years ago

    Even Kwasea and useless like Mahama spends dollars in Dubai and in Wenchi

  • OSEI 10 years ago

    can you use cedis in Dubai?aboa ba

  • Mr.N 10 years ago

    GFA and Mahama's Government all budget in dollars. Fifa money to the world cup would be paid in dollars, all gates and appearance fees would be paid in dollars what the hell you have to pay them their bonuses in Cedis if the ...
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  • Rasheed. 10 years ago

    Why should they be paid in dollars when FIFA is giving us dollars. Ka Na Wu should read your comments.

  • POW@ Brazil b3y3 huhuu hu 10 years ago

    FIFA pays the nation for all her support and preparation towards the world cup and so on in dollars. Remember when FIFA is yet to pay any money, it's the government that pays the players. It'll be nice to pay the players in d ...
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  • Rasheed. 10 years ago

    They are conservatives so they will never spend any currency apart from their pounds.(They want to lose their Queen).

  • Rasheed. 10 years ago

    "they don't want to lose their queen"

  • Mr.N 10 years ago

    Fifa pays everyone in Euro € I do not care if you want to pay in cedis pay everyone in cedis either you are working as consultant in Bank of Ghana or Mining or Oil and Gas.

  • Ghfuo, change ur thinking 10 years ago

    This should have been said by the sports minister, not the president. Also arrest all retail establishments like hotels etc that price and accept foreign currencies or dollars. If you are caught claiming price for service or ...
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  • POW@ Brazil b3y3 huhuu hu 10 years ago

    The dollar seem to be taking over the cedi in our own country, isn't that strange? The government may have worked everything in dollars previously but I guess they've started realizing their foolishness for doing that. It's a ...
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  • Rasheed. 10 years ago

    A tournament is being played outside Ghana and you expect the players to be paid cedis?.If the government is siphoning our dollars into their foreign accounts and has failed us, they shouldn't use the national teams as scape ...
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  • POW@ Brazil b3y3 huhuu hu 10 years ago

    We are called Ghana. The normal thing is for the players to be paid back home not out there. So they'll have to open a cedi accounts in Ghana and keep their dollars elsewhere. When they come to Ghana they can spend their cedi ...
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  • Rasheed. 10 years ago

    Which country in Africa gets paid in their local currency?. Answer me now with vim and alacrity.

  • POW@ Brazil b3y3 huhuu hu 10 years ago

    Yes it's because African countries are branded 3rd world and their currencies keep depreciating by day. The more we as Ghanaians deal in foreign currencies, the weaker we'll make the cedi and rather help those foreign currenc ...
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  • Mr.N 10 years ago

    The directive is discriminatory they are picking on certain sector. The directive should have direct that all institutions should paid any one working for them in cedis including hotels, car rental and house rental. If you ar ...
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  • POW@ Brazil b3y3 huhuu hu 10 years ago

    The directives need to be spread along every institution. Ghana has to stop this crap, retailing in dollars when your local currency is the cedi?

  • Mr.N 10 years ago

    If you were not my half brother we would have taken this outside the government want everyone to pay for their mismanagement and not them.

    Rent a house in Ghana they want you to pay in dollars, try rent a car in Ghana they ...
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  • POW@ Brazil b3y3 huhuu hu 10 years ago

    The government has to clean up this mess. Why should we live in Ghana and be quoting currencies from other nations during purchases? It doesn't add up at all. The money FIFA pays to the nation is not specifically for the play ...
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  • sly 10 years ago

    this should be black stars only hotels buildings and colleges

  • Rasheed. 10 years ago

    Why is John Mahama Kwasea and useless?. If John Mahama is Kwasea and useless and has been able to become our president, then what are you?. A nincompoop or non-entity.

  • CAPII 10 years ago

    THE BLACK STARS ARE GOING TO LOOSE ALL FRIENDLY & WORLD CUP MATCHES FROM THIS DIRECTIVE. WE ARE BETTER OFF NO GOING TO BRAZIL OR CANADA,NDC IS A PARTY WORTH DYIING FOR. CREATE,LOOT & SHARE FANATICS.

  • MAN 10 years ago

    It is better to loose matches than the economy. Why do you think we should always set a bad precedent. No one should be paid in Ghana in dollars, simple.

  • Mr.N 10 years ago

    What Economy? When you have people who do not know what they are doing this is what you get this is only to help Mahama and his family.

    Where on earth would this nonsense happened when Mahama's brother own is a bank and ...
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  • GC/USA 10 years ago

    LET THEM LOOSE. WHO CARES. WORRY MORE ABOUT THE SCHOOLS, HOSPITALS, WATER, ELECTRICITY, SANITATION AND ROADS IN GHANA. THESE GUYS ARE ALREADY EARNING LOTS OF MONEY FROM THEIR CLUBS IN DOLLARS. NOTE THAT COUNTRIES LIKE THE USA ...
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  • OSO 10 years ago

    Kofi Dubai, put back the $900 million into the system so that we can pay our doctors and teachers.When are you going to finish this money before you go to "heaven"?
    Do you own a factory in Ghana to earn this kind of money?
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  • 4 Year Old 10 years ago

    Don't make stories up to discredit someone. Be honest and honorable. If you're sure of what you're saying, don't hide behind an alias. Simply come out boldly to prove your point and I believe all Ghanaians including the presi ...
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  • rard Kotanko Germany 10 years ago

    Ghana money is Cedi so pay them in Cedi. period.

  • Ghana Love 10 years ago

    Yawa president mahama, leave football affairs alone and fix the economy. Your decree does not make any damn sense since most of the players are plying their trades abroad. You should leave this type of ruling to the GFA.

  • Samuel 10 years ago

    Am very sorry for we black people.We are so foolish it does matter whom we are,even the most useless ones are the so called our politicians who have no idea about what they are called. Among which normal thinking beings will ...
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  • bob 10 years ago

    Is TDC complying with the new directives? Not to sell plot in cedis

  • Watchman 10 years ago

    President Mahama should advise FIFA to pay GFA in cedes for a start.

  • OSABERIMA 10 years ago

    Seriously? Mahama and his administration think paying Black Stars players in cedis will help solve the weak economy? Do they even have any sound economist as an advisor? Why are they afraid of currency competition? After all ...
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  • apetupre - usa 10 years ago

    These players are Ghanaians and NOT foreign nationals so why pay them in dollars? Their cedis payout can be converted into dollars for them through their banks if they want.

  • sasha 10 years ago

    good show mr president............well done,they have enough dollars and euros.there are other measures you can put in place too........go ahead.

  • Balderash 10 years ago

    Where the dollar is the money? This man is clueless. FIFA will pay them in dollars. I think there has to be exception to the rule. At least not for the world cup.

  • Osagefo 10 years ago

    If that's the case, then all import duty should be measured in cedis

  • Whatever 10 years ago

    The chips are falling into its rightful places. Well done Mr president

  • Alex Kojo Sammy-Paris 10 years ago

    Ma dodow neyinaara, epe eneiyi,nd....Amen!, the blessing of God be with u, with again acurat comminiom fo this nd.....wober ae yewo ahohenhia muyi nd thancs a lots oman Ghana, nd God bless u all; from Samms!..nd babye from no ...
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  • tweba 10 years ago

    fools ....what is so special about this directives

  • KK 10 years ago

    It will never change the woes Ghana is going through

  • Mr. Asamoah 10 years ago

    That is a good idea and it should not end there.It must apply to other institutions that charge in dollars too

  • TD 10 years ago

    Mr prez what happened to child adoption in Ghana. Poor kids suffering and no help for them, ya'll suck mr prez...

  • BRO DAN- TRC 10 years ago

    DIGNIFIED PEOPLE OF AFRICA, BLESSED ONES OF THE NATIONS OF THE WORLD, INNOCENT PEOPLE OF GHANA, TO THE -BLABK STARS OF GHANA, WE SAY;
    RAISE HIGH -'THE FLAG OF GHANA'- AND ONE WITH -'AFRICA' ADVANCE;
    BLACK STAR O ...
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  • Mr. Questions 10 years ago

    THIS WOMANIZER WOULD PRETEND TO CARE MORE ABOUT SOCCER THAN THE COUNTRY OF GHANA. HE THINKS WINNING A SOCCER CUP WILL ERASE HIS RECORD OF INCOMPETENCE
    AND INADEQUACY AS THE CHIEF MANAGER OF THE COUNTRY.

    AND WHAT IS MORE ...
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  • Nii 10 years ago

    Does the president realize that most of these players work overseas and that the Ghana cedi is not legal tender overseas? If you want to pay them in local currency, then use only local players who can spend that money at Kok ...
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  • BlackC 10 years ago

    The President is not asking the Black Stars to build a nuclear power plant. Convert your Cedi - the legal tender in Ghana - bonus payment into whatever legal tender you plan on using overseas.

  • Kwame USA? 10 years ago

    I came home for a visit and the hotel charged me in dollars.

  • Ibn Batuta 10 years ago

    Please focus on real issues instead of dabbling in side shows. What a good way to inspire your players by paying them in a sinking currency. Penny wise, pound foolish.

  • chantico the great 10 years ago

    pay all foreign ministers the same cedis including yourseif and things will be okay.

  • sikaka 10 years ago

    also stop spending money on people like national team drummers, pips, single mothers as bed warmers in the name of cheering the blackstars

  • POWER GREED 10 years ago

    The presidential order must only be seen as a knee-jerk measure.

    Back it up with LAW by Parliament that no business transaction in Ghana shall be conducted in any currency other than the cedi.

    You must change all your c ...
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  • Victor A, Young 10 years ago

    John Mahama is pathetic! He can't see his way clearly and can only resort to making such bogus decisions. Does he want to say all our national players should quit using dollars or foreign money?

    Mahama should be asked: wh ...
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  • NONSENSE! 10 years ago

    NONSENSE, YOUNG. ARE YOU PAID IN CEDIS IN THE U.S.?
    DON'T PORTRAY YOURSELF AS WISE WHEN YOU ARE CLEARLY STUPID.

    THE PLAYERS CAN SAVE THE CEDIS IN GHANA, INVEST IT IN GHANA, CHANGE IT IN GHANA AT THE BANKS BEFORE THEY LEAV ...
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  • Victor A. Young 10 years ago

    Wonderful! Your name fits you very well. Get a life; Ghana isn't tribal people like Rawlings and Mahama. You seem to be wise. While everyone is complaining in their sufferings, when everything continue to fall apart as a resu ...
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  • FOOL! 10 years ago

    KWASEA, WHY CHANGE THE TOPIC?
    WE ARE TALKING ABOUT MEASURES TO SAVE THE CEDI FROM CRUMBLING AND YOU DECIDED TO TALK ABOUT PEOPLE SUFFERING.

    IS IT NOT BECAUSE HE WANTS TO ALLEVIATE THE SUFFERING THAT HE IS TAKING THESE FI ...
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  • Don munche Italy 10 years ago

    Black star must pay in cedis

  • Don munche Italy 10 years ago

    The black star must pay in cedis

  • Ghana Lover 10 years ago

    The daft President is destroying all the past gains instead of maintaining or creating opportunities for the future. It is strange his experience as vice president is not showing any promise or confidence in him. Ghanaians mu ...
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  • JAMES, MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA 10 years ago

    Where will the players keep the millions of Ghana Cedi? In their pocket or trunk or coffin or "Please House Owner help me to drop my load"? Which one? I regret to be a Ghanaian.