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We didn’t borrow GHC10bn for khebab - Mahama

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  • BBC NEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 7 years ago

    $10bln? WHAT HAVE YOU DONE WITH THIS HEAVY LOANS? THESE BLOCK WORK SCHOOL BUILDINGS AND THE INTERCHANGE? WHERE IS THE REST? SHARED AMONG YOURSELVES, NO WONDER INUSAH FUSENI WAS THROWING MONEY ON THE STREETS, NDC FOOLS

  • PRINCE KWASI ADADE (OFIE P33) 7 years ago

    AUTHOR: NDC------- If presidency was just borrowing to build bridges, construct roads, and schools then any IMBECILE can become president, but Mahama and his government can't use their brains to transform the economy to creat ...
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  • facts 7 years ago

    From where did Mahama learn to be the com. specialist NDC boasts of? Does he know what are insults? Does he take delight in insulting Ghanaians? Ghanaians have short memory, we don't borrow to eat khibab etc. As he is being s ...
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  • .AGBESI. KWESI 7 years ago

    Why did the NDC divert funds Secured by the Kufour government for the people of Upper East and gave it to the Nothern Region - the home region of Prez Mahama of Ghana. Why, don't the people of Upper East deserve their fair sh ...
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  • UX 7 years ago

    When an individual or a country borrows at 24.5% interest, that individual or country will be in debt. This is not politics, it is economics and finance. Ghana is sinking slowly under Mahama.

  • samuel 7 years ago

    And Ghanaians are still going to vote for this stealing and looting brigade

  • HON SHAMO 7 years ago

    MAHAMA CAN ONLY FOOL THE PEOPLE OF LOWER BRAINS AND ILLITERATES, SUCH PEOPLE ARE ALL OVER AT HIS RALLIES

  • ST SIMON 7 years ago

    I NOW BELIEVE ANYBODY CAN BECOME A PRESIDENT. HOW CAN SO MUCH BE BORROWED BUT SO LITTLE IS SEEN FOR THE WELFARE OF THE CITIZENRY. THE FACT OF THE MATTER IS THAT THE PRICES OF ALL THE TOUTED INFRASTRURAL DEVELOPMENT HAVE BEEN ...
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  • Ghanaian 7 years ago

    MR. President, ARE YOU NOT ASHAMED TO SAY THAT YOU HAVE BORROWED SUCH AN AMOUNT OF MONEY? ARE YOU JUSTIFYING SUCH RECKLESSNESS? DON'T FORGET TO ALSO TELL GHANAIANS THAT UNDER YOUR WATCH, YOUR APPOINTEES HAVE STOLEN MONIES: eg ...
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  • Dk 7 years ago

    Bro say that again...thier end time is very near...We will see on 7 dec...is not only. About getting them out..but to discover what they have use it for..

  • Komla Agbeshie (Ho) 7 years ago

    If governing a country is borrowing and build few roads and schools then any idiot and indecisive like Mahama can rule Ghana.
    Mahama you are totally disgrace to your party.Arise for change.
    The wind of change is blowing ...
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  • Dan C 7 years ago

    NDC have spoiled Ghana. Nothing is working. The anger on the streets is so big. If NDC rig to win the elections, they will be chased out of Ghana in their under pants.

  • SCHEMER 7 years ago

    We know you didn't use all for khebab but the chunk of it went to hotels in Dubai and individual pockets. Its all over social media how your people are buying votes in the full glare of the public. Where did those fools get a ...
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  • PRINCE KWASI ADADE (OFIE P33) 7 years ago

    WE ARE TALKING ABOUT OVER 40 BILLION DOLLAR DEBT AND THE RESULT IS THE SHIT GHANAIANS ARE GOING THROUGH TODAY. LOOK AT OUR ELECTRICITY AND WATER TARIFFS , NHIS GONE, TRANSPORT FARES TOO HIGH, SCHOOL FEES RIDICULOUS, SCHOOL FE ...
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  • Keen Observer 7 years ago

    Dan! He is right they didnt borrow money for just chewing Khebabs but also chewing women, especially married ones, like that of the niece of Otumofuo. I feel for Akwasi, perfect gent.

  • Kojo 7 years ago

    Mahama alone has indebted this nation to the tune of GHc 81.5 billion since Atta Mills died. When ATTA Mills took over from Kuffuor the national debt was GHc 9.58billion. When ATTA Mills died in July 2012, the National debt w ...
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  • AGOVE. 7 years ago

    THIS FOOLISH IS A REAL THIEF,AFTER ALL WHO TOLD HIM HE HAS ONLY BORROWED 10BILLION GHANA CEDIS.HIS RUSSIA EDUCATION IS NOT HELPING HIM.HE HAS BORROWED MORE THAN 120BILLION CEDIS.VOTE HIM OUT BECAUSE HE DOESN'T EVEN KNOW HOW M ...
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  • .AGBESI. KWESI 7 years ago

    IF YOU WAN TO KNOW HOW CORRUPT THE EC OFFICIALS ARE THEN READ THE FOLLOWING:
    The Member of Parliament (MP) for Afram Plains South, Joseph Appiah Boateng, has threatened to sue the Electoral Commission (EC) of Ghana if it doe ...
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  • Keen Observer 7 years ago

    Looting and cheating galore is deplorable! They will stop at nothing, Ghanaians are too diplomatic.

  • j boateng 7 years ago

    I thought this President had said the debt figure Bawumia had mentioned several times as being 110bn was incorrect.
    How come he now admits he did not use the 110bn for khebab.INCOMPETENCE GALORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

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  • Ibrahim 7 years ago

    John Mahama is a 419 guy who only thinks about himself and his friends and family. Very corrupt to the bone. Voltarians should not be fooled this time around. VOTE AGAINST MAHAMA AND SAVE GHANA. He is corrupt and dubious. He ...
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  • Bbb 7 years ago

    Ghana is worse off under your administration.Incompetent president with hilarious and atrocious appointees milking and stealing our money.Mahama must go.

  • ROSEMARY 7 years ago

    JOHNMAHAMA your penchant for contract sole sourcing has been used to inflate project costs and share the loot later with contractor cronies..... ..... That's why we're all suffering today.. . UNPRECEDENTED borrowings, unprece ...
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  • Nana Adjoa 7 years ago

    Please don't say no roads no vote. Please vote and vote against NDC. If you don't vote and even one person votes it will be counted as vote for that particular town. Vote against the ruling NDC

  • predator 7 years ago

    john john Manama! what a shame! shame, shame, shame...shaaame! shame.
    m'af3re keke.

  • ROSEMARY 7 years ago

    Condemn NDC contract sole sourcing.... JOHNMAHAMA your penchant for contract sole sourcing has been used to inflate project costs and share the loot later with contractor cronies..... ..... That's why we're all suffering toda ...
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  • Victor A. Young 7 years ago

    But who borrowed GHc 10 billion for khebab? Where did NDC's Asawase MP, Muntaka get to enjoy the meat? Criminals and thieves masquerading as honest people.

  • Pains Of $110 Billion Debt Servicing 7 years ago

    Wow, not one single comment in support of NDC so far! What was I doing all the time writing to support this evil government? I wish I could retract my past comments..$110 billion? Wow! Thanks, snake-the-grass Mahama. You mor ...
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  • Samson 7 years ago

    Lies, lies, lies. You can make your comment without insults. Let's be civil please.

  • AGOVE. 7 years ago

    THE FOOLISH PRESIDENT IS TRYING TO INSULT OUR INTEGRITY SO HE NEEDS TO BE INSULTED.HE MUST STOP HIS STUPIDITIES BECAUSE MOST GHANAIANS ARE FED UP WITH.SAMSON YOU CAN BE CIVILIZED BY TELLING PEOPLE THEY ARE LIARS BECAREFUL OF ...
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  • Futurama. 7 years ago

    You will be suffering from gout if you had eaten khebab worth billions of dollars. Every informed Ghanaian knows you took the loans and shared it among yourselves. Overpriced contracts are the norm of the day. We are not blin ...
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  • Samson 7 years ago

    I am a very well informed Ghanaian, but I do not know about your allegations. Do you have any proof of what you are alleging? If truly people have shared inflated contract prices among themselves the evidence should be availa ...
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  • Boateng 7 years ago

    What evidence do you need? If you have forgotten then let me remind you of 1. The bus branding.

  • Keen Observer 7 years ago

    Jail they deserve, for their looting is much to the detriment of current Ghanaians and generations to come.

  • abba 7 years ago

    GHANA WILL BE STUPID TO VOTE FOR MAHAMA AGAIN TO SWIM IN DEBT STOCK AND CORRUPTION. EVEN WOYOME AND OTHER NDC CRIMINALS ARE ENJOYING WITH GHANA LOOTED MONEY AND WALKING FREE. VOTE THEM OUT.

  • More 7 years ago

    Ghanaians.look.at.john.mahama.the.man.who.call.himself.presidant.of.ghana.john.mahama.talk.like.class.one.child.john.mahama.is.disgrace.to.ghanaians.john.mahama.is.notnot.not.not

  • Truth 7 years ago

    Yes we know you borrowed that money to fuck big pussy and anus. Stupid talk by a useless president.

  • Amega 7 years ago

    If it's just borrowing to build infrastructure, then my grandmother could have done much better!

  • Salassie 7 years ago

    Waaa look, you can’t pay contractors to complete the road yet you say you borrowed money to fill the infrastructure gap. So where is the money if you can’t pay for the roads? You use the money to build big houses in Dubai ...
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  • ROSEMARY 7 years ago

    ...... NDC VOTERS PLEASE CONDEMN CONTRACT SOLE SOURCING HAS DESTROYED GHANA COMPLETELY.... JOHNMAHAMA your penchant for contract sole sourcing has been used to inflate project costs and share the loot later with contractor cr ...
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  • KB 7 years ago

    As a President, you must learn how to speak sense rather than insulting

  • Lordina Mahama 7 years ago

    John Mahama wo maame tw3, kwasia, aboa funu. You think Ghanaians are stupid. Try and see where your level will be. Foolish man

  • change is coming 7 years ago

    have u forgotten the khebab muntaka chewed when he was at de sports ministry. u didn't borrow to fill infrastructural gap, you borrowed to fatten your pockets. desperate thieves. Nana beba

  • ODWAN FUNU 7 years ago

    Of course you borrowed GHC10 to: 1) line your pockets with sole sourcing contracts with kickbacks fou you and family and cronies. The Supreme Court Judge sait it all: YOU CREATED, LOOTED AND SHARED. ALLAH WILL SURELY BRING YO ...
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  • ROSEMARY 7 years ago

    NDC_WITHOUT_JJ IS LIKE ARMED ROBBERS IN SUIT ruling Ghanaians and duping Ghana big time..... NDC VOTERS PLEASE CONDEMN CONTRACT SOLE SOURCING HAS DESTROYED GHANA COMPLETELY.... JOHNMAHAMA your penchant for contract sole sourc ...
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  • Keen Observer 7 years ago

    Their end is near!

  • abba 7 years ago

    THE SPIRIT OF JUNE 4TH 1979 REVOLUTION IS NOW IN QUESTION BECAUSE MAHAMA LED NDC HAS TAKEN THE COUNTRY A HOSTAGE AND LOOTED ITS COFFERS. NOW THE BLOOD OF GEN. ACHAMPONG AND THE OTHER VICTIMS ARE INNOCENT.

  • ROSEMARY 7 years ago

    Voters should not allow contracts sole sourcing at all.... NDC VOTERS PLEASE CONDEMN CONTRACT SOLE SOURCING HAS DESTROYED GHANA COMPLETELY.... JOHNMAHAMA your penchant for contract sole sourcing has been used to inflate proje ...
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  • abiba 7 years ago

    of course mahama you did not borrow for khebab for your pockets and we all know.
    come out and accout for every penny of it.God will vindicate poor Ghanaians from your hands.it will only a matter of time.no matter what the ec ...
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  • Samson 7 years ago

    Lies, lies, lies Daily Guide lies!!!!!!!!

  • Emmanuel wilson 7 years ago

    is that the best you can do indiscipline here and there stilling ,big cars big houses @ the expense of the poor baaaddd leader

  • Samson 7 years ago

    The insults by all those who have commented on this story will surely come back to haunt them. That is God's law which is just and fair. As you sow so shall you reap. So Go on with the insults and reap the consequence.

  • 2mma 7 years ago

    Useless and incompetent President. Well even if you didnt use it for khebab, whatever you are using it for is obviously not working and lifes are getting worse by the day. We will show you where power lies come Dec 7. CHANGE ...
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  • stephen k. Arhin jnr 7 years ago

    u this go8 dnt hv nothing for ghanaians. So u must go

  • Nana Amoh 7 years ago

    This is loose talk by President, You should know how to respect others. This is an insult.

  • Nana Amoh 7 years ago

    This is loose talk, you should know how to talk to others.
    This is big time insult.

  • Citizen 7 years ago

    Nana Amoh the problem with this guy is that in his mind he is the President for NDC and not Ghana. With this kind of mindset, he thinks that anytime anybody is bold enough to raise issues with his bankrupt leadership that per ...
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  • son of man 7 years ago

    Mahama does not have an idea to generate revenue instead borrowing and sharing! Ghanaians vote him out.

  • ODK 7 years ago

    Whoever comes be it AKUFFO ADDO or anybody if you are corrupt if you steal we will change you.Democracy is talking now . We love this country.We cannot allow mediocrity. We are the trailblazers in Africa . Nothing more. Nothi ...
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  • Concerned 7 years ago

    Mahama, you are a fool to say that.

  • Abozo 7 years ago

    CREATE LOOT AND SHARE- SEE THE INSULTING, SARCASTIC DISRESPECTFUL THE MAN IS USING TO INSULT THE INTERLECT OF GHANAIANS --WHO DOES HE TAKE US FOR ? REALLY ?

  • King Adjei 7 years ago

    NPP WILL EMBARK ON A SUSTAINABLE AND INTERGRATED INFRASTRUCTURAL DEVELOPMENT ACROSS THE COUNTRY.THE INTERGRATED PROGRAMME WILL ADRESS INFRASTRUCTURE THAT SUPPORTS A MORDERN ROAD NETWORK .HOUSING,WATER SYSTEMS,AVIATION,PORTS H ...
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  • Kanawu 7 years ago

    Waaaaa look. If you didn't use it for khebab, tell us what you used it for? building mansions in Dubai? Kromfuo like you. You have wasted 8 years of Ghana. time for change is now.

  • King Adjei 7 years ago

    NPP WILL EMBARK ON A SUSTAINABLE AND INTERGRATED INFRASTRUCTURAL DEVELOPMENT ACROSS THE COUNTRY. THE INTERGRATED PROGRAMME WILL ADRESS INFRASTRUCTURE THAT SUPPORTS A MORDERN ROAD NETWORK. HOUSING, WATER SYSTEMS,AVIATION, PIRT ...
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  • Keen Observer 7 years ago

    Wishful thinking but the coffers are empty thanks to the Ndc looters.

  • Norbert 7 years ago

    Not khebab but for zuya and you numerous concubines, harlots and prostitutes

  • Kwame 7 years ago

    Mahama is useless.

  • Latin 7 years ago

    Pple don't have respect for their leaders anymore addressing ur president in this manner will not save u from hardship or solve the challenges facing our our motherland. Instead of praying fervently for God to intercede and ...
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  • Jojoe 7 years ago

    Tell your own Muntaka of Asowase and see how he'll prove you wrong. Your time has come.

  • Deja vu (Dubai) 7 years ago

    Mahama is a piece of shit and a moron

  • akufo addo can't be prez in Jesus's n 7 years ago

    Which part of the Volta Region was prez greeted with protest? Useless journalist

  • Dela 7 years ago

    How can a whole President get up and talk nonsense. Account for the money and fix the economy. Ghanaians are not fools.

  • FO KOKU DZIMAKPLAO 7 years ago

    AGOOD PRESIDENT IS ONE WHO CAN USE HIS BRAINS AND MANAGE HIS COUNTRY RESOURCES WITHOUT BOROWING,,,, DONT BRAG MR PRESIDENT, ,, YOU HAVE PUTTING GHANA INTO A BIG BIG MESS,,, MALAM MAHAMA,,,
    5O TO

  • Tweaa dc 7 years ago

    NO PRESIDENT ON THIS PLANET BORROWS IN THE NAME OF HIS COUNTRY TO USE THE MONEY ON KHEBAB........ONLY GHANA'S PRESIDENT WILL THINK AND TALK SO CHILDISHLY ABOUT THAT. GOVERNMENT SHOULD BORROW WISELY AND JUDICIOUSLY AND NOT AN ...
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  • KWAAMPONG, TEMA 7 years ago

    of course you couldn't have used the over GH.C100 bn in buying khebabs. However, you utilised about 90% of the borrowing in buying houses here and abroad, buying vehicles for cronies, sharing among your appointees to build fi ...
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  • THE CRUSADER 7 years ago

    Don't bring the Hollyghost fires charge on you yourself.,as God hates liers thieves blastphymers and hypocrates.Stop the humansacrifices,would it help you?Nkruma a preacher resulted to kankai nyame to finish bad,with krobo ad ...
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  • Steve 7 years ago

    I never see a president always talking nonsense to his citizens.

  • matt 7 years ago

    Yes you borrowed it for family and friends and hotels in Dubai. Mr incompetent

  • JAMS 7 years ago

    AAAAH!! IS IT GHC110bn or GHC10bn

  • KnYc USMC 7 years ago

    The stupidity of the president continue, if this dead goat continue for the next 4 years Ghana is doom. What a moron mahama is,that is the way to answer a question?

  • Gods will 7 years ago

    U are not serious as a President, wat do u mean by u didn't borrow to chew khebab. If borrowing is d yardstick for d presidency den everyone can be one

  • RPG 7 years ago

    Do you know Alhaji Mubarak Muntaka of Asaawase and one of the NDC whips in your rubber stamp yea yea incompetent parliamentary majority?
    Find out whether he shares your view on the chewing of khebab or kyinkyinga?
    Ask him ...
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  • Kontor Belgium 7 years ago

    oh oh oman ghana all our leaders are Christians and Muslims yet still they are thieves why.Do they fear God at all.I think this time around let us look forward to vote for a Mormon leader maybe all the stealing will stop.

  • Slyster 7 years ago

    No problem just pray that you win because if you lose, you and your thieving gangs will be in serious, serious shit.

  • BB 7 years ago

    This loose talk when will you start to decipline yourself ,in fact your are a baffoon n you want another Germany? Over my dead body.

  • K Mensah 7 years ago

    IDIOT, If you did not borrow the money for your so-called 'khebab' why are the people complaining? Where is the money THIEF?

  • Abusua 7 years ago

    But you borrowed for your family and friends to steal the monies. Show us what you used the borrowed monies for. You just saddled our future generations with debts.
    God should have pity on you mr mahama