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Ghana must apply ‘Mugabe laws’ - Herman Chinery-Hesse

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  • Crackadoodledoooo 8 years ago

    Is this man a bit crazy. Are the Mugabe laws working. How well is that economy doing under the Mugabe laws. Sometimes we just want a scape goat for our lazy attitude and lack of discipline in the way we approach our work and ...
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  • Alimau 8 years ago

    Massa what kind of lazy attitude are you talking about?If you own or run a business in this country you will understand what this guy is saying.We need strong local content laws to protect the indigenous companies because the ...
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  • ELINAM 8 years ago

    You're right my brother. Some just don't know what it takes to run a country that deserves a respect amongst nations.

  • ranger 8 years ago

    ZIMBABWE IS NOT THE ONLY COUNTRY THAT ENFORCES MAJORITY SHAREHOLDING BY INDIGENES.

    MANY COUNTRIES ENFORCE THOSE INVESTMENT LAWS.

    MOST GHANAIAN LEADERS ARE BUSH PEOPLE WHOSE EYES ARE NOW OPENING, THANKS TO THEIR MOVE TO ...
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  • Kojo Annan 8 years ago

    List the countries that "enforce those investment laws"

  • ade Chan 8 years ago

    china is number 1 , south korea, japan ..

  • KK 8 years ago

    Botswana, Mauritius enforce local ownership whilst encourage foreign investors. It should not be at the expense of the local people and industry. In Botswana ,if a skill is absent an expert is brought in and he/she and the co ...
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  • Crackadoddledooooo 8 years ago

    Local content law is very different from passing laws to grab someone's business operating in the country just because he is a different nationality. Do you not agree the reason many businesses fail in Ghana is not a lack of ...
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  • kofi kofi 8 years ago

    you need to do some survey crackadooo
    ..

  • ELINAM 8 years ago

    Someone is making sense after all. We should force VODAFON to cede indigenization percent of 51% to the state. How could such a lucrative business like GT be wholly owned by a foreigner?

  • ELINAM 8 years ago

    If you have a brain to think thru the genesis of the Zim situation then there only you could understand. He took the land robbed from them back and that's why the put a sanctions on him by those UK.EU,US who think they only d ...
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  • KWAA 8 years ago

    Is not about changing the laws which will make Ghanaians own businesses in Ghana.If we stop the "skinpain"where when one Ghanaian is trying to make it,another especially those in authority try to pull him down.Just study our ...
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  • Esi 8 years ago

    Please ask Zimbabweans if Mugabe's laws are working for them.

  • Ken 8 years ago

    He is correct. Stay in Southern African and you will see how their people are empowered in everything. Reason why most Ghanaians are refugees all over the world is that we adopt Pull Him Down. If the Siaws, BA Mensahs were a ...
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  • Esi 8 years ago

    Are you even serious with this analysis? South Africa has managed to enrich a few black elite at the detriment of the other 70% of the population. So pray tell, which country in Southern Africa has empowered their people? Bot ...
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  • ELINAM 8 years ago

    Who made you believed it's a draconian law,BBC/CNN?
    The local 250,000 black tobacco farmers had been having bumper harvest.
    In the past, all that wealth belonged to only 5000 white farmers with 1 1/2 children and a dog. A ...
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  • Kojo Annan 8 years ago

    There wasn't a bumper harvest. Many traditional food farms converted to tobacco farms after food prices in Zimbabwe collapsed 15 years ago. There is more tobacco but very little food. As a result, Zimbabwe is expected to face ...
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  • KWABENA 8 years ago

    The Kwame Nkrumah that we revere so much that some see as a god whose mistakes should not be mentioned, more than 50 years ago wanted Ghanaians to be in control of their economy. Now what advantage do local businesses have ov ...
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  • Kojo Annan 8 years ago

    The foreign companies do a better job so they have more customers hence are more successful - this man just wants to eliminate the competition.

  • ELINAM 8 years ago

    Those of you who cheer lead for white capital to suffocate Africans are not going to win this time around.
    We're waking up.

  • Kojo Annan 8 years ago

    How is white capital suffocating Africans?

  • Sankofa 8 years ago

    Mugabe's draconian laws are the example we want to follow.

    As Ephraim Amu famously wrote 'Hen ara asaase ni''Se ebe yie aa efiri yen ara'.

    We must learn to do things ourselves rather than look to foreigners to exploit o ...
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  • Ken 8 years ago

    How are we going to make Ghana are better place if we don't start somewhere. Mugabe was wrong but their mining sector is more efficient than SA ones. We need to look at the good examples around and discard the bad ones. The i ...
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  • DD 8 years ago

    How many citizens of Ghana are General Managers of mines in Ghana but go to South Africa, Botswana, Namibia , Zimbabwe you will find blacks running the mines even if owned by foreign companies or not. We as a nation is movi ...
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  • Foreigner 8 years ago

    Mugabe Laws for Ghana...Are you crazy???

    First, the Mugabe Laws benefit the elite, not the average citizen of the country. The inner circle of the ZANU-PF were able to 'buy' into successful foreign businesses. The averag ...
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  • ELINAM 8 years ago

    CNN/BBC propaganda.

  • OBINNA 8 years ago

    IS THIS MAN FOR REAL? IS THE MUGABE ECONOMY WORKING? HAS THIS MAN VISITED ZIMBABWE LATELY? PLEASE WHEN YOU GUYS GET ON THE AIR, BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU SPEW OUT TO THE PUBLIC.

  • Kwesi Akonu 8 years ago

    You have a bunch of no good politicians in parliament just supporting any stupid bill that benefit the current gov.They forgot that they represent constituent and the state, not their party.

  • james 8 years ago

    What a great idea, this guy should have a medal for stupidity! What happend to Zimbabwe after they passed that law and otheres that favoured the locals over the expats? ? Well, Zimbabwe is now one of the poorest nations on ea ...
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  • ADB 8 years ago

    The man is right. why should we own only 10percent of this petrolleum drill in Ghana here in our own country with our own people working there receiving small salary for same work done.

  • Azumah Nelson 8 years ago

    Tell this man to move to Zimbawe

  • pablo 8 years ago

    This never came up this idea when his company was getting juicy contracts in times past. My brother, come again

  • pablo 8 years ago

    This guy never came up with this idea when he was getting juicy contracts. Thanks to his mother and Kufour. My brother, come again.

  • coolmann 8 years ago

    correct

  • Peter Prosper 8 years ago

    You need your head checked. Just see how Zimbabwe and Zimbabweans are impoverished and suffering under Mugabe. You want this for Ghana? Imagine one of the leaders we have had - rawlings, mahama, afrifa, busia, the original ma ...
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  • Ninii 8 years ago

    Right on son !

  • gk 8 years ago

    You own the largest software firm in Ghana and you are calling for this sort of communist tactics? Shame on you Chinere-Hesse

  • Gateway 1000 8 years ago

    Bad idea - Nobody should be encouraged to emulate Mugabe. Mugabe is failed student of Nkrumaism. Even if Ghanaians are given 10% shares of current business in Ghana, they cannot afford to to buy them (of course, except the ve ...
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  • Kojo 8 years ago

    Yeap The rich wants to get richer. After the Mugabe law why dont we kill all the rich and give their money to the poor. That will be justice. What have you done for the poor in the country?

  • Kwame 8 years ago

    Absolutely. We should follow Mugabe to the Hell Zimbabwe is now. I hope this man owns property in Zimbabwe, so they will take it away from him. Businessman ... joke!

  • SMART FREMPAH, UK 8 years ago

    A few weeks ago Robert Mugabe came out to announce that his government was going to review laws that are anti-foreign to enable foreigners to be lured back in his country and this is one of them. Mr. Herman, What planet are y ...
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  • kweku Pinto 8 years ago

    People are against this man just because he mentioned Mugabe Law. Some Lazy Ghanain students who seek so called knoweldge only through CNN and BBC had showered praises on this man if he had siad the Queen's law. Africans wil ...
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  • Agyeman D 8 years ago

    On what planet is Mugabe's aw working

  • Kante 8 years ago

    Mr Kweku, Mugabe is to be feared. He drove away all whites after seizing their farms. The blacks failed because they weren't prepared for their new roles as farm managers. That led to serious food shortage and despair.

  • SMART FREMPAH, UK 8 years ago

    Hahaha Kante, you make me laugh. That's the point. "The blacks failed because they weren't prepared for their new roles as farm managers. That led to serious food shortage and despair".
    Will you turn around and blame some ...
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  • Ghanafirst 8 years ago

    Mugabe is now begging the IMF and World Bank for back up. Trust me , Ghana will not want to go the way of ZIM. Mr Chinery Hesse is wrong.

  • Nana Yaw 8 years ago

    What an idiotic thought. What shouldn't the Ghanaians try to create their own business or try to be better than the foreign investor so that we can have a competitive market place. If you don't know, our currency (cedi) doesn ...
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  • WALAA 8 years ago

    Blackman is too greedy to apply the so called mugabe laws.

  • Fred 8 years ago

    Yeah! Right!

    And now Zimbabwe is one of the poorest countries in all of Africa!

    Businesses have left Zimbabwe as fast as they could, even the Chinese are having second thoughts.

  • Abingah. London 8 years ago

    Please please if you have nothing to offer keep quiet! After 58 years of coming of age we go back and do what Zimbabwe did in their infancy? Very stupid idea indeed!

  • HARDER@'-89 8 years ago

    That is it chief, pure and simply..just the way the late dan lartey of gccp fame had been advocating, domestication policy and am further proposing at least 50% processing volume for all our raw commodities be it minerals or ...
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  • jj 8 years ago

    Hmmm i didn't imagine that neocolonialism could consume ghanaians to the point that they could feel that they are not worthy of co-investing with foreigners in businesses. Isn't that all this man is saying? Even wireko brobb ...
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  • Kwasi Opoku Amofa Toronto. Canada 8 years ago

    If you have got a handful of honest people kissing your black ass shut the fuck up and count your blessings. Mugabe law? 5000% inflation? One million GH¢ that can't buy a loaf of bread? Where did you sleep last night? Herman ...
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  • Edjah Mensah 8 years ago

    I agree 100% with what Mr.C.Hesse said.too many hipocrites .They hip praises on the first President,Dr.Nkrumah but they were the same people who reversed his achievements .