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World Cup, Ghana Budget, $20M, U.S.A Budget, $2M

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  • Onipa Bone 10 years ago

    Chop chop! Nothing new. Are we ready to face reality? I don't think so? We deceive ourselves when it comes to State finances. We deceive ourselves with a bunch of old men on the soccer pitch.

  • ol 10 years ago

    Justice Sarpong, you too are a Ghanaian and you too would do the same or even more that this gang-Find me 10 000 uncorrupt Ghanaians and Ghana would be like paradise

  • Akadu Mensema 10 years ago

    Duh!

  • AAA 10 years ago

    ol, do you have any head on your neck?. Your sycophancy shall kill you.

  • 1234 10 years ago

    ANOTHER CREATE, LOOT, DIVIDE & SHATE EQUALLY

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  • SHAMU 10 years ago

    Whent it comes to Ghana, is like giving crocodile a large number of ship to take good care of in the water until you come back. This is completely stealing or looting from the nation. Regardless of the amount spent by America ...
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  • John,Tema 10 years ago

    Even though I do not support what Ghana govt is spending on the BS,I also do not believe the figures being provided by the press on other countries on their national teams budgets.How could a whole USA spend only $2M?

  • Kofi Ata, Cambridge, UK 10 years ago

    Good morning SARPONG, as far as football tournaments and Ghana's participation are concerned, they have always been the best times for GFA and Ministry of Sports officials and politicians to create, loot and share and the 201 ...
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  • koby 10 years ago

    You have to be kidding me! but why is everyone venting. Isnt about time the citizens of the country rise up to this ***barred word***? no point in talking without action.

  • Mr.N 10 years ago

    How could a whole USA spend only $2M?*** John Tema.

    The whole USA is spending $2M because they use common sense and it against the law to travel with your family members and girl friends and boy friends.

    Have you ever a ...
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  • Kofi 10 years ago

    We complain when they dont do well and yet when things are being put in place to help the BS do well, we complain. 2M for any country is unrealistic. 20M maybe, just maybe too much but trust the US may end up spending more th ...
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  • SARPONG 10 years ago

    Mister, we spent $19.5 million in South Africa for players, officials and supposedly 1600 supporters who were promised $100 a day per diem excluding their hotel bills and plane tickets and you think a poor country like Ghana ...
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  • j0eY L0nd0n 10 years ago

    Since your fxxk off life depends on it...Expressing yourself with cap on !

  • SARPONG 10 years ago

    You this London watchman, you can't even express your thought that well to have any meaningful discourse with so go back to your watchman's job, you faggot with a worthless dick.

  • Paa 10 years ago

    Looking at the US and how far they have gone with their country and are spending only 2 million dollars compared to Ghana spending 20 million and you a talking tr*ash. I wonder if you are employed and taxes are being deducted ...
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  • gha 10 years ago

    Because the USA supporters who will travel to Brazil are not going there on government expense.

    USA will not send fifty officials with a 23 players.

    USA Officials will not inflate the cost of the team expense by 50% an ...
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  • Chelsea Rolland 10 years ago

    Why

  • Chelsea Rolland 10 years ago

    Corruption is only killer killing all the black race but we turn blind eye to it and rather blaming the whites

  • Tracy Afflu 10 years ago

    Distance alone could make our budget higher. While I do not approve of wanton dissipation of funds, I think we need to subject the eventual budget to scrutiny on its own merit instead of the easy comparison with other associa ...
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  • wise 10 years ago

    because they are not corrupt

  • Kofi 10 years ago

    2M for the US is unrealistic. what can you do with 2M for 30 people in Brazil. Remember they also have to go to camp and play friendlies before the tournament. I think 20M if it can afforded is a good figure and with good tra ...
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  • KOGYAM58 10 years ago

    WE CAN DO WITH $4M , PERIOD!.

  • Kofikyini 10 years ago

    The bulk of the Team USA budget is being financed by corporate entities. The 2mil is the contribution of the FA to the package. GNPC and other sponsors would pay a bulk of the so call 20mil. The difference here is that GNPC i ...
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  • Charles 10 years ago

    Does it cost twice to travel from Nigeria to Brazil too? Let's stop this excuses. The bulk of this expense is earmaked for supporters they are going to transport to Brazil most of them officials families and friends.

    They ...
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  • Slimzee 10 years ago

    I feel we follow the westerners blindly and even overdo it, ignoring the state we find ourselves in. Does a minister really need a body Guard in Ghana and even have him follow her to another country? Hmm we chew more than we ...
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  • Al USA 10 years ago

    If u think you are cheating the nation u are rather cheating your self God is watching from above an will punish steallers

  • kwo 10 years ago

    well guys, what else do you expect? they spend monies without accounting for it.they spend millions of dollars without receipt. huge budget yet the winning bonus for players is nothing to write home about. yet on sundays the ...
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  • Niibi 10 years ago

    This cancer of cycle of curruption must stop. Like cycle of poverty this cancer has eaten into the very fiber of the Ghanaian society it is unimaginably colosal.
    I hate to advocate for this but we need a total purging, cl ...
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  • isaac 10 years ago

    this country is useless leadres they are all stupid!!

  • OGYA 10 years ago

    Ghana be milk. Let these thieves continue to suck it until it dries up. Jullor Kpakpe

  • Aba Father!! 10 years ago

    $M20 to World Cup and what do w e bring back? Oh this poor country of ours !! What are our priorities??? Is it reasonable to spend this amount to win the world cup?

  • Kofi Osei 10 years ago

    They are sharing our beloved money meant for the masses. Stupid politicians.

  • Djake Koku Salif 10 years ago

    Guys this loot will only happen under the NDC with the chief thief being Mahama aided by Elvis Afryie Ankrah. Somebody has to be killed for this and we are willing to just that before this loot. That is why I will pray for an ...
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  • Djake Koku Salif 10 years ago

    Guys this loot will only happen under the NDC with the chief thief being Mahama aided by Elvis Afryie Ankrah. Somebody has to be killed for this and we are willing to just that before this loot. That is why I will pray for an ...
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  • Djake Koku Salif 10 years ago

    Guys this loot will only happen under the NDC with the chief thief being Mahama aided by Elvis Afryie Ankrah. Somebody has to be killed for this and we are willing to just that before this loot. That is why I will pray for an ...
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  • Akadu Mensema 10 years ago

    Such projects is how they steal! Building roads, building schools, acquiring textbooks, state funerals, independence day celebration, contracts and loans with foreign govts, officials traveling; working on weekends away from ...
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  • Cross- Australia 10 years ago

    Sometimes I feel sad and I ask myself, are we coward or just stupid people? It obvious this politician don't care about the tax payer and we the youth sit down and say let leave it to God. It is time we the youth do sometime ...
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  • Kwaku 10 years ago

    hmmmm ghana why

  • george danquah 10 years ago

    mr sarpong, I share your plight but we go sit down bcos we want peace

  • Patrick 10 years ago

    Are we better off not qualifying for WC or qualifying? At the end of the day who benefit from it? The players get fat check bonuses and the leaders finds loopholes to milk the system while our kids school under trees. This st ...
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  • Amankwah Pam 10 years ago

    OOOOOHHHH,Ghanaian politicians enough is enoughoooooooooooooooooooooooo,why are guys soooo corrupt,mahama,god will punish you and your Radicals,thieves,idiots,we dont have water to drink,no roads,children's go to school under ...
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  • Amankwah Pam 10 years ago

    OOOOOHHHH,Ghanaian politicians enough is enoughoooooooooooooooooooooooo,why are you guys soooo corrupt,mahama,god will punish you and your Radicals,thieves,idiots,we dont have water to drink,no roads,children's go to school u ...
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  • MARCUS AMPADU 10 years ago

    Good investigative piece of writing. Surely does qualify you as an investigative journalist.
    Mahama has to investigate and bring those concerned to account for their involvement in this seemingly corruptive $20 million price ...
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  • YOOMOBEGA 10 years ago

    Stealing our money like this just put a big curse on the Black Stars to lose all thei matches.
    Too bad for Ghana, too bad for the BS.

  • hmmmmmm 10 years ago

    We have to wake up Ghana, Minister just take yours and we will managed with the rest.
    20M We have no electricity and water, what can of people is leading us.

  • hmmmmmm 10 years ago

    Stupidity at the highest level.

  • kwakye 10 years ago

    How can our corrupt leaders do this shameful art to us. Enough is enough one day for the thief another day for the master. Youth lets begin to fight for our future, else we will pay all this thief arts.

  • Wabee 10 years ago

    Mr Rawlings have you seen what you've brought to Ghana. These Ndc people and Utuka and Acheampong which are more theives. Look at the Ahoi's Agogohene,the late Oduro Nuapaw, the former Accra city council chairman, and a bunch ...
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  • OGOGLO QUARTER ! 10 years ago

    WE NEVER DO THINGS RIGHT AND NOTHING WILL GO ON CORRECTLY
    LETS GIVE THE MINISTERIAL AND PARLIAMENTERIAL'S WORKS TO CONTRACTORS FROM ABROAD (WHITE/BLACK/CHINESE)..
    THESE GROUPS ARE LOOTING BY THE LEAST CHANCE.IF WE GET TH ...
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  • mankind 10 years ago

    he is going to quit politics after this. we are fools , go out and demo demo demo.

  • Kwame Boakye 10 years ago

    Ghanaians need to wake up and speak up to such impotent leaders of Ghana. How much are they paying the players per game, and why does she even needs a body guard, a secretary and house maid. Why she can't cook so now because ...
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  • Adongo 10 years ago

    Not condoning the looting, but where was this low-life sarpong when Kufour was bleeding the country, globetrotting with an "army" of his tribal, jungle folks, sleeping in a thousand dollar/day hotels. Where did the money come ...
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  • AA 10 years ago

    You can always count on idiots like this smelly Adongo or Atongo to crap stupidities when human beings are talking.

  • Aboagye 10 years ago

    No Adongo wrote this. It was written by an anti Adongo just to flair up peoples anger.

  • Slimzee 10 years ago

    I feel Ghanaians follow westerners blindly and even over do it. Oh Ghana. hmmm.

  • ican 10 years ago

    20m is tooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much for poooooooooooooooooooooooooor Ghana

  • kojo 10 years ago

    How much was spent in 2006?

  • Charles 10 years ago

    Are you a dumb illiterate? Why don't you do your own research?

  • kofi asamaoh 10 years ago

    last world cup gfa spent 3 million on food and accommodation alone why?I guess u part of them

  • ADONGO 10 years ago

    WHAT DO U EXPECT?THEY HAVE TO LOOT TO FINANCE 2016 ELECTIONS!!!

  • Kwadwo 10 years ago

    This is a blatant disrespect to the Ghanaian Nation. These so called ministers or government has no respect for Ghanaians. That is the gist of this.

  • j0eY L0nd0n 10 years ago

    An ingorant fool, who is very
    good at pink shxxt and fabrications, nursing out his paid master's agenda and it is really unfortunate your easy go mind is receiving his wicked agenda..

  • HUMBLE 10 years ago

    GHANAIAN OFFICIALS SEES ANY GIVEN OPPPORNITY AS A WINDOW TO RAIN IN THE LOOT.NYANTAKYI IS EVERYWHERE,EVERYDAY POCKETING BONUSES,PER DIEM,COUNTLESS ALLOWANCES BUT NEVER SATISFIED.GOD SAVE GHANA & DAMN THESE NATION PREDATORS.

  • OpeibeaMyDaughter 10 years ago

    Justice Sarpong “Cardinal of Truth,” can you do us a favor to let us know where you got your information about other countries budget towards the world cup?

    If you cannot tell us, I will appreciate for you to retrieve ...
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  • Dumegah Prosper JNR 10 years ago

    The word research must be sparingly used!! We do a search on Google, Sarpong and not research!!

  • SARPONG 10 years ago

    You dummy

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  • Ghana 10 years ago

    To solve all this nonsense happening again and again we should call for referendum weather to be colonised again by whites after black is not capable to govern his country . We use gods name to so all evil things . Youth let ...
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  • abba 10 years ago

    THE SPIRIT OF JUNE 4TH 1979 REVOLUTION IS TOTALLY DEAD BECAUSE MAHAMA LED NDC HAS LOOTED THE COFFERS OF THE NATION. NOW IT IS OBVIOUS THAT THE BLOOD OF THOSE WHO WERE EXECUTED ARE INNOCENT.

  • abba 10 years ago

    EVEN THE OIL DESCOVERY HAS BEEN THE PERSONAL PROPERTY OF NDC CRIMINALS.

  • fosbee 10 years ago

    oh poor Ghana even the rich nations are cuting down cost what are we doing

  • HAWA YAKUBU 10 years ago

    There is some element of truth in your article. All those team you have mentioned. Ghana had advanced further than them. Ghana was going to the semi if Gyan new how to kick penalty. Which African nation had gone this far in t ...
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  • FA 10 years ago

    UNACCEPT ,even 4m is too much. Nsawam await them one day

  • Godfred 10 years ago

    Frankly there is something wrong with Afriyie Ankrah and his gangs.if there is us $9.5 million for the team upto group stage,then why then do you budget us$ 20 million. what if they come back after the group stage then the na ...
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