Gold-for-Oil saved Ghana's economy from collapsing - Dr Bawumia

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  • SD.com 6 months ago

    The criminal is talking. Rubbish

  • Abronoma 6 months ago

    Will you shut up there, Bawumia! Your gold for oil was used to smuggle Ghana's gold outside

  • Stone 6 months ago

    Why do you always want to take undue credit? Yet you run away from problems. You don't take responsibility for bad policies but only trying to take credit for things you have no knowledge. Why are you like that ? If you don't ...
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  • Benji 6 months ago

    But BoG said they had to print 60 billion cedis for the the government, to save Ghana's economy from collapsing.

  • COD 6 months ago

    @Benji:
    They secured $3billion from Murderous IMF and squandered it, so, let us ignore this corrupt thief with his bogus claims. How about the introduction of the destructive E-Levy with it`s loud introduction promises?
    Dr. ...
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  • hmm 6 months ago

    aah Oyiwa deep down in the ndc supporters heart they no their pple hvnt done anything significant for the cedi to appreciate and up till now they hv not paid we govt. suppliers. Bawumia we no is ur handy workthat the cedi is ...
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  • Stone 6 months ago

    Another ignorant one among them

  • hmm 6 months ago

    aah Oyiwa deep down in the ndc supporters heart they no their pple hvnt done anything significant for the cedi to appreciate and up till now they hv not paid we govt. suppliers. Bawumia we no is ur handy workthat the cedi is ...
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  • Stone 6 months ago

    Bawumia knows next to nothing; he is an economist fraud, so so digitalisation, what is that? Even your party is divided on you.

  • concern 6 months ago

    ei how can you say this? Bawumia and Nana Addo spoilt everything Pres Mahama did. a whole gallon of petrol was Ghc 15 yet Nana Addo sent it to Ghc650.
    How was the exchange rate when they left power? It was going up. These p ...
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  • Lori 6 months ago

    Pepeni kwasia. Why was the economy collapsing?

  • jesus 6 months ago

    I GUESS THE RUSSIAN/UKRAINE WAR MUST HAVE ENDED AND THE TURKEY EARTHQUAKE NEVER HAPPENED AS SOON AS GHANAIANS VOTED THE NPP OUT OF OFFICE!

  • Lance 6 months ago

    Earlier this year when the NDC took over, npp members were criticizing John Mahama when the cedi wasn't appreciating. When it began to appreciate, now npp is saying it their doing. Bawuliar is the same person today and yester ...
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  • Kramai 6 months ago

    To bawumia the economy hadnt collapsed because he was not paying taxes and earning kickbacks in dollars to thousands of ghanaians without such benefits the economy had collapsed

  • Kw 6 months ago

    Can't people advice this man?

  • Koo Nimo 6 months ago

    Why were the contributing factors of the collapse of Ghana's economy.

  • Koo Nimo 6 months ago

    What were the contributing factors leading to the collapse of our economy during your time?

  • SA 6 months ago

    Under your watch Mr Bawumiah, and after 8 years in power - worst inflation figures, worst interest rate numbers, worst debt levels, worst foreign exchange rate, worst currency in the world, most corrupt government ever, worst ...
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  • search for Truth 6 months ago

    Bawumia again with his outlandish economic theories.Who destroyed the economy in the first place,your gold for oil and reserve programme was running for a whole year why didn't the cedis appreciate it depreciated instead so c ...
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  • Jkay 6 months ago

    Who took the economy to the point of collapse? How stupid does this Sisifia offbeat head nodding fake economist think we are? You terminated the very existence of many Ghanaians through the brutal implementation of DDEP. Mute ...
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  • Politician 6 months ago

    We don’t want to hear anything from NPP for a long time oooooooo

  • Kaya Man 6 months ago

    The Russian-Ukraine war hasn't stopped!

  • Bobby 6 months ago

    Bawumia if you shut up it will do your clueless self more good

  • Stone 6 months ago

    Masa you have to change oo, this is not helpful for you. We are wide awake. Go away with your gold for oil claims.

  • Pee 6 months ago

    That's a lie, you never played any role and you didn't even know what you were doing. Stop taking people's credit. You were in power for 8 years, what did we see, twaaaaaaa

  • Jebuni Tunno 6 months ago

    A fine gentleman that lies is a danger to society. Bawomia will into his grave nothing can change him.

  • Man of GOD 6 months ago

    Npp NAVER agine

  • AB 6 months ago

    You’re always causing problems and confusion into the system, Why?

  • Kwami 6 months ago

    Your economy was junk status while you ruled. That was not a collapsed economy? Shame, you want to compare 8 years to four + months. You failed, Ghanaians booted you out. Who will listen to your lectures again. Sorry.

  • GREAT 6 months ago

    He makes lots of sense when he is quite than when he speaks. God smuggler.

  • Donald T 6 months ago

    You Again !! My friend shut up

  • MAAPA 6 months ago

    t3 man. you are very annoying foolish bigot NPP man with fulani wife

  • sheik Ibrahim 6 months ago

    You can only say this to your ignorant NPP supporters.

  • @Godisking 6 months ago

    Yes. Because how the NPP managed the economy. A solid team without economic foresight. Theory of economics is different on the ground.

  • Rhoda 6 months ago

    He has started drinking. Bawumia is akpeteshie drunkard

  • Pensioners Barber 6 months ago

    Look at his silly face like a cow. Kwasea. Fulani fucker. Gyimi Bawumia

  • Kojo 6 months ago

    And it didn't saved you and your party. You and Akuffo Addo are very wicked. A vote for Bawumia is a vote for Nana Addo

  • Ajab 6 months ago

    Who took the economy to the point of collapse.
    If you had managed to keep the economy at the level it was handed over to you, we won’t be here

  • Kuraata 6 months ago

    Foolish liar after lying for over 12years you not repent from this behavior okk keep on lying even in opposition

  • Abdulaziz--Accra 6 months ago

    You are a common thief and shut the up

  • Jay in London 6 months ago

    What brought the CEDI TO THE NEAR COLLAPSE STATE, BAWUMIA?

    WHY IS IT NOW THAT THE CEDI IS DOING WELL UNDE THAT YOU COME FROM NOWHERE TO TAKE THE CREDIT FOR IT?

    BAWUMIA HAS STARTED HIS LECTURES AGAIN, EXCEPT THAT THIS TI ...
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  • Nana Owusu 6 months ago

    Bawumia just wants to me relevant again, after he run from Economics to Digitisation. He has suddenly found his voice again, but as usual "once a liar, always a liar" He should give Ghanaians a break

  • Vincent Nkornu 6 months ago

    Rhetorics, when in opposition, in 2016, you lectured as if you were the reciprocitory of economics, but eighty years, the economy was abyssmally managed,wrecked and looted parochially.
    Now talk is cheap , mischievously tryin ...
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  • Zargon 6 months ago

    NDC is not exchanging our gold for oil.. they are consolidating all our gold in one place and selling it.. what has it go to do with your barter or whatever you call it??

  • Abu 6 months ago

    Is gold for oil same as gold board? Bawuliar stop that nonsense

  • Kwadwo 6 months ago

    Formation of Gold board in and of itself does not transform an economy in a few weeks, albeit, a step in the right direction (may be depending on its success).

    Due to President’s Trumps tariff nonsense, most investors gl ...
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  • Doug 6 months ago

    Full circle from digitalization! This guy!

  • Kwadwo 6 months ago

    Those of you spewing GARBAGE! Any seasoned economist may be apart from Ghanaian economists, know that during economic crisis, it takes an average of 18 months for strategies implemented to stem the tide take traction or impac ...
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  • Rod 6 months ago

    Hold IT! if it were so, why did the economy stablise IMMEDIATELY after handover? Your statement would be considered true only if the ecomony had started showing a gradual improvement. FULL credit to President Mahama - he stab ...
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  • Thief oyour Staff - Akosua Frema 6 months ago

    Who managed the economy to be in that state? Useless PhD holder and a cheap popularity person. Senseless, shameless, gormless, gnorant and arrogant fool. Kwasiaa buuluubuuluuu.

  • alan kyeremanteng 6 months ago

    Hey Bawumia, don't let me tell you wo maame twe you and your foolish team 'we have the men' mo ni tweaaase. You've seen how mahama is showing you how to govern the economy for the betterment than your stupid corrupt gold ste ...
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  • Rod 6 months ago

    SHAME for attempting to take credit for an economy that immediately became stable AFTER your government left - SHAME!

  • Versty Ackah Ebuley 6 months ago

    Credit must be given to the former president . It is high time we stop politicizing every issue . The youth should be wild awoken from their slumber . Mind you , NDC and NPP are the enemies of our country Ghana . The two pol ...
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  • Ameedat 6 months ago

    Imbecile

  • John smith 6 months ago

    Look at this fool he is at it again no one will believe you not even your wife Samira

  • Zom 6 months ago

    Rubbish policy

    You acted recklessly and collapsed the economy

  • Hannan 6 months ago

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  • THE GHANAIAN 6 months ago

    BAWUMIA IS A MORON.

    GOLD FOR OIL DID NOT SAVE SHIT WHICH IS THE REASON WHY IT WAS OFFICIALLY SUSPENDED WHEN THE NEW GOVERNOR TOOK OFFICE IN THE BEGINNING OF MARCH.

    GYIMIE SAAAAA. HE WILL NEVER BE PRESIDENT. HE IS NOT ...
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  • Yaw 6 months ago

    Liar. This is what he knows best. 760,000 Togolese on the voter register and the like. Foolish man

  • Tintempa 6 months ago

    One may ask who was collapsing the economy in Africa to be shameless is an asset

  • Kwame Prah 6 months ago

    Lair. Show us the dollar rate at which the gold was pegged at by the oil sellers. You finished the reserves in the BoG dollar account and printed alot of cedis and starting buying gold with the printed cedis. While the deprec ...
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  • Ja 6 months ago

    Gold 4 Oil was a criminal venture initiated by you to siphoned money (dollars) & destroy BOG liquidity.
    Bawumia explain to us why for 8 years the fundamentals was very weak

  • KWAKU BADU (THE MAN HIDING IN THE SPIDER'S WEB 6 months ago

    BAWUMIA MUST STOP TAKING UNNECESSARY CREDIT.
    It is very annoying to hear BAWUMIA speaking like an Economist after having run away from the task of the Chairman of the Economic Management Team.
    Is Bawumia saying that the g ...
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  • Ghana 6 months ago

    Removing npp was a policy..

  • Ghana 6 months ago

    Who was collapsing d economy? Was it not u? Bastard

  • JULOR CAESAR 6 months ago

    Just another lie from Bawumia. Ghana's economy was saved from collapsing when Ghana voters denied Bawumia and his NPP another chance of retaining power.

  • Zargon 6 months ago

    Idiot!!!! Why is this guy still running around kraa… you took the dollar from 4ghs to 17ghs in 8 yrs and they are still talking? Food and everything kept on rising yr in and yr out.. not a single day did anything fall.. his ...
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  • Gslow 6 months ago

    Politicians are the most stupid and dumb people I have known. So today Bawulair has agreed that Ghana's economy nearly collapsed under he and his driver?????

  • Yerebakia Choro 6 months ago

    I didn’t read but what a foolish talk

    You really took us from healthy economy to broken dead economy and coming out to explain how you saved us


    Ghana is gradually becoming a very foolish state

  • Relocate Capital of Ghana 6 months ago

    The government needs to collaborate with civil engineers to do a feasibility study to relocate the capital between Amansaman and Koforidua.

    - Accra has a high density population.
    - Accra is choked with traffic.
    - Accra i ...
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  • Herodes 6 months ago

    Bawumia is a baboon. He is lying again. Lying through his teeth. What a cursed creature!

  • Wakuffo Waddo 6 months ago

    But BoG said they had to print 60 billion cedis to support the economy.
    Bawumia is still lying.
    Foolish man bofrot face.
    Allah will strike you dead one day.
    Mutum banza! sheeegu! shekantata!

  • K.B 6 months ago

    But couldn't save the cedi under you tuner joke of century

  • Dj 6 months ago

    Ahhhh who is talking Abonkye or Odwen go and tell family this story Ofuii bawuliee ___Fa wo giimii free wo koo

  • Asakramitoga 6 months ago

    This fool is still talking. You will know your true position after the repatriation of Ken Ofori Atta.back to Ghana. Naniama

  • Osiadieyor 6 months ago

    Jm u do all , God richly bless, bawumia u did ur best but is not enough cos of ur governments?

  • concern 6 months ago

    no serious economist will use gold to buy oil rather you will back your currency with gold pricing it to strengthen your currency. Jokes always. You blame Nana Addo yet every good thing he did you claim glory. . Don't get us ...
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  • Cheddar Is the real deal 6 months ago

    Oga vice you were in charge before the very mess you are talking about.Please STOP