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Black market at Kotoka Int'l Airport

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  • kyekyeku 10 years ago

    every body is doing is so lets have some peace

  • KANAWU 10 years ago

    Yes, these guys have NO DEFINITE CODE of ethics.

  • ALHAJI KANO 10 years ago

    MAN THIS IS NOT THE FAULT OF NDC ALONE,BOTH NPP AND NDC,BOTH ARE GUILTY.THEY DO NOT CARE ABOUT THE COMMON CITIZEN PERIOD!GREEDY POLITICIANS.

  • Skele-Miami 10 years ago

    I think Ghana really needs to put up a CLOSED sign and say we give up. The country needs to be given up for adoption since we cannot manage shit ourselves.We need to all run up to the hills and cry for help.

  • Ghfuo, change ur thinking 10 years ago

    Too many gyimi in gh. No 24hr forex n u r complaining about wat? Is the airport open from 8 to 6? Leave the hustlas alone

  • wawa 10 years ago

    The profitability of an illegal currency exchange market hinges on the extent the free flow of capital is guaranteed.

    It is the canary in the coalmine.

  • DAN 10 years ago

    Ask mugabee about bread for 10,000 dollars when he destroyed their economy

  • kwasi 10 years ago

    THAT HAVE NO CONTROL OVER GHANA AT ALL

  • Egya Blay 10 years ago

    Ghana is a failed country indeed. Ah! some of the stuff I read sometimes raises my blood pressure.

  • obrefo 10 years ago

    how much are they paying i want to know

  • wise 10 years ago

    ghana has no single active law brother, we are ignorant country in this present world if you don't know.

  • Lomotey 10 years ago

    This is shame and sad , I was in Ghana last month and one of this alhaji or the malams confronted me at the airport if I wanted to change any money . I was upset and asked him how can you do this at the airport and his answer ...
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  • Kofi brutal 10 years ago

    Very sad

  • ghanaba 10 years ago

    i dont travel much to kotoka and cannot grasp the damage. but if one can share stats, it means the traffic at kotoka is a single spine compared to other gargantuan airports in the rest of the world. let alone talking about bo ...
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  • kwasi 10 years ago

    WE ARE GOING THE WORNG PATH AND WILL SOON FALL SO FAR BEHIND THAT ALL THE GAINS WE MADE WILL BLOW UP AND WILL BE GONE

  • VICKY LEE BENTON 10 years ago

    YOUR GOVERNMENT IS CORRUPT AND SO IS YOUR JUDICIAL SYSTEM!

  • Ghfuo, change ur thinking 10 years ago

    I don't deal with forex wen I'm in gh. Hotels charge in foreign but hve no forex exchange. So if u don't want to be ripped off. Go to airport roundabout n change ur money. Ask for almadi

  • Mikky 10 years ago

    KIA has one forex burea that operates regularly hours. In almost all airports I have used, forex bureaus operate 24 hours thereby making it possible for travellers to change money should the need arise. On one occassion at Ko ...
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  • DAN 10 years ago

    i've been to Ghana 5 times and never changed my money at airport in ghana or amsterdam or New York JFK..Most Ghana hotels are happy to charge dollar rates...And taxi drivers are happy to get dollars..I bring lots of $1 like g ...
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  • Len Hobbs 10 years ago

    Employees of the GoG are engaged in ForEx corruption...

    When passengers arrive at KIA - they are 'required' to pay for an arrival fee in US currency - not Ghana cedi's.

    The GoG does not accept their own currency?

  • ALHAJI KANO 10 years ago

    THE BLACK MARKET IS BETTER THAN THE FOREX BUREAU IN MY SENSE, BECAUSE I HAVE CHANGED EUROS TO CEDIS ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS IN FOREX BUREAU BUT NOT VICE VERSA,I MEAN CEDIS TO EUROS.IT IS NONSENSE TO COME TO GHANA AND SEE HOUSES ...
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  • DAN 10 years ago

    @ western union and money gram!!!! Ghana has never went to that point.. Bank Of Ghana is using dollars to pay for imports!

  • Kwesi Brenu 10 years ago

    African people with the exception of Conell Ghadafi cannot run any Nation

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  • Mike 10 years ago

    Leave them alone. They are doing no wrong. At least they are not stealing anybody's money.

  • Opia Mensah 10 years ago

    I have made two reports about this matter to the Police over the last two years, but the situation persists. I am inclined to buy a gun and shoot the black marketers myself

  • ben 10 years ago

    black market was in Ghana already 50 years ago