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We'll focus on economic management, not infrastructure - Osafo-Marfo

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  • ROSEMARY 7 years ago

    NDC was interested in infrastructure because it is the only avenue to engage in CREATE LOOT AND SHARE THROUGH CONTRACT SOLE SOURCING.......

  • ROSEMARY 7 years ago

    .. JOHNMAHAMA has no integrity whatsoever..... And JOHNMAHAMA and ATTAMILLS even projected CPP and sought to extinguish the NDC...... so JOHNMAHAMA and ATTAMILLS hardly acknowledged JJ whilst they touted NKRUMAH like a god... ...
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  • Mr Bond 7 years ago

    Folks,Osafo Marfo is just talking out of ignorance.He is only making noise and teasing NDC of their phantom massive development that nobody sees.Folks,don't listen and pay attention to Osafo Marfo.He is ignorant of NPP plans ...
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  • ...AGBESI KWESI 7 years ago

    Good Economic management will surely put money in our pockets. Mahama's infrastructure development only put money in Ibrahim Mahama's pocket.

  • Jk 7 years ago

    Hope you are not coming to focus on building your pockets. (The unarmed robbers are back)

  • Bill 7 years ago

    I beg don't show a face like that to people. I've just vomited looking at him. He's just toooooooooo ugly

  • MAD COBRA 7 years ago

    Mr Osafo-Marfo we all know that infrastructure is govt's responsibility because it's the tax payer who bears the cost please
    commend NDC for a good job done on infrastructure because without it there will be no economic ...
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  • Fry 7 years ago

    He is right. You need to focus on economic management to help stabilize it which will eventually Stimulates economic activity for growth. The current real GDP of 3.6% need to grow by at least a margin of 4 by 2017. Inflation ...
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  • Kojo 7 years ago

    Seriously, most of these NPP guys don't know what they are talking about. Ghanaians must realize that, real GDP cannot grow at 4% or more and the economy cannot expand or create the job opportunities needed if you don't build ...
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  • OFORI NYARKO 7 years ago

    So Mr. Osafo Marfo, one factory in each of the 216 districts of Ghana, one dam in each village in the 3 Northern Regions is not infrastructure?. What will the 275 constituencies use the 1million dollars each year for?. By you ...
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  • Biyariga 7 years ago

    But JDM is far better you and your entire family. Even your father does not trust your mother. That is why he is suspecting that you are not his real daughter.

  • Nana Appiah 7 years ago

    Listen to this old cow halitosis Osafo Marfo, Talking about infrastructure development is not a big deal, My question is how many was Kuffuor and you able to do during your tenure?? You built hotel and Shopping mall for your ...
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  • rte 7 years ago

    You idiot must be told again MILLS DIED. HIS OPINION NO LONGER MATTERS

  • Afful 7 years ago

    These NPP fanatics will be celebrating way in to 12 /2020 and will wake up and find themselves again on the opposition benches .

  • the lone Prophet of Jehovah 7 years ago

    Thank you Afful JDM will be back in 2020 believe it,,,its a revelation from Almighty God shalom

  • KA 7 years ago

    Without the roads, there is no economy. Without water the factories cant run. Without power, nothing gets done. Without the police chaos will be the order of the day. Yaw, please say something else.

  • GEORGE 7 years ago

    They will destroy all the existing infrastructure and turn Ghana into zongos. Destruction in advance. How do you employ workers without expanding infrastructure? this old school will sink Ghana, they are confused already. I l ...
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  • rte 7 years ago

    this URGLY OAAFO MARFI IS AN OUTDATED POLITICIAN AND A CERTIFIED THIEF! I HAVE NO RESPECT FOR HIM! ONLY IGNORAMUSES WILL RESPECT HIM!

  • Bobo Dialoso 7 years ago

    A government is supposed to provide infrastructure same way a parent is supposed to provide health care and education to his or her child. I have never seen people get voted into power in the advanced worlds because they con ...
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  • Kakashi 7 years ago

    Did you read the whole thing? He didn't say no infrastructural development..... He said it's mediocre to make that your main and only priority like the NDC did...... It's basically the same thing JDM said 2008.... Every gover ...
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  • trop 7 years ago

    I FEAR FOR GHANA FOR ALL THESE RECYCLED THIEVES AND CROOKS! THESE MARFO GUY STOLE AND STOLE AND STOLE AND IS BACK! GOD BLESS GHANA! HE HAS NO IDEAS OFMODERN ECONOMICS AND IS SO BITTER THAT HE JUST LOOKING TO PART SHOTS AT ND ...
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  • aaa 7 years ago

    He want U to feel happy from home be4 get to ur job...Not like , U'll work without seein' money...when ur HSE is empty , U can't invite friends...& there's always one b4 two..exercise ur mind..

  • rte 7 years ago

    WHICH SCHOOL DID YOU ATTEND? WHO SAYS DEVELPING INFRASTRUCTURE IS NOT GOOD FOR ECONOMY? IT PAYS TO BE GRACEFUL SOMETIMES YOU IDIOT!

  • ROSEMARY 7 years ago

    JOHNMAHAMA was so obsessed with infrastructure because it's always an opportunity to inflate costs and share the loot with cronies... .... That's how he got the ford bribery vehicle from the Burkina contractor. .

    JOHNMA ...
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  • ???????????? 7 years ago

    YOUR OBSESSION WITH MAHAMA SHOULD CEASE NOW. YOUR UGLY TIN GOD CALLED AKUFFO IS THE IN COMING PRESIDENT SO GIVE THE MADNESS A BREAK. THINK ABOUT HOW HE IS GOING TO FULFILL THE MILLION AND ONE PROMISES.

  • ROSEMARY 7 years ago

    Seventy-two years old man thrash JOHNMAHAMA mercilessly

  • GEORGE 7 years ago

    That 72 years oluman will soon be exposed, just watch out. All his lies will burry him. Ghanaians will crucify him, watch out!

  • sam Y 7 years ago

    Don't forget he started politics b4 Mahama was born. yet Mahama became president b4 him.... That's massive failure

  • sam Y 7 years ago

    Don't forget he started politics b4 mahama was born... yet mahama became president b4 him.... That's maasive failure

  • rte 7 years ago

    yes he won on lies and deception. Mahama is a Christian so don't lie that is the difference! ponk!

  • trop 7 years ago

    WINNING ELECTIONS BASED ON DECEPTION AND LIES IS NO PRIDE!

  • KWAME BUABENG 7 years ago

    BUT WHO SAYS ECONOMIC MANAGEMENT DOES NOT REVOLVE AROUND INFRASTRUCTURE. SLOWLY, YOU PEOPLE HAVE SKEWED THE MIND OF YOUR SUPPORTERS TO UNDERSTAND ECONOMY TO BE JUST MONEY THEY GET IN THEIR POCKETS AND BECAUSE YOU HIT ON THIS ...
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  • Zoobie-Zoobie 7 years ago

    the guys are clueless

  • Boat 7 years ago

    Yeah, why don't we turn the clock backward and live on trees as done in the stone ages. The Developed world built massive infrastructure and even Donald Trump indicated he will embark on massive infrastructure. Competent ?Clu ...
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  • MARK B 7 years ago

    I thought the NPP would say equal attention would be given to both infrastructural development and the economy because they two go hand in hand. For some people a fixed road, bridge, water system, electricity, schools, hospit ...
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  • 123 7 years ago

    Well said. It is absurd to negate infrastructure to the background all in the name of putting money into peoples pocket. As for the money they will collect it and spend it today and forget about it tomorrow but the infrastruc ...
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  • Molecule 7 years ago

    My friend, get your facts right. Nobody gets voted for in the western world because he says he will make roads,interchanges etc,because that's what the tax payers money is supposed to be used for. Why would Donald Trump say " ...
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  • They Say They Say 7 years ago

    You ran a campaign on 1 district 1 factory, 1 village 1 dam and now you find that unnecessary. Yoooo!!! Time will tell.

  • G. K. Berko 7 years ago

    Thank you very much! That guy may have lost half of his knowledge in Economics for Nation Building. I wonder why he even wants to be part of any Government at this point in his life.

    On the other hand, it could well be t ...
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  • Zoobie-Zoobie 7 years ago

    Ghana back to the stone

  • Zoobie-Zoobie 7 years ago

    no development

  • NDC DEAD AND BURIED (aka Submarine) 7 years ago

    You are crying.
    Go and eat your cat soup hehheeeeee

  • GM 7 years ago

    Exactly, what I said yesterday. Afia. Sika Gomoa. Nkwan. Where's your stinking mouth face? Stupid stinking gyimie gyimie pussy little rat bitch!! Where is your dead mouse mumuie pussy??

  • Justice 7 years ago

    Economic recovery and infrastructure

  • ???????????? 7 years ago

    THIS GUY IS UGLY.

  • trop 7 years ago

    ALL the npp guys have charcoal faces! THESE ASHANTES ARE REALLY UGLY! HOW COME? NANA AND OSARFO WHO IS THE PRETTIEST? EVEN BAWUMIA LOok like an ASHANTE! MUMUNA PEOPLE!

  • GM 7 years ago

    Exactly, what I said yesterday. Afia. Sika Gomoa. Nkwan. Where's your stinking mouth face? Stupid stinking gyimie gyimie pussy little rat bitch!! Where is your dead mouse mumuie pussy?? I know this crooks are in to dry our na ...
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  • Medium 7 years ago

    You see these people. Taking Ghana back. No worries there will be so much money in our pocket within months if not weeks. Useless murderers of Bawumia's aid and other innocent Ghanaians.

  • Pk 7 years ago

    Economy thrives on infrastructure. Good infrastructure attracts investment, opens up opportunities for job creation. Tamale airport will facilitate economic development of SADA region eg exports direct from the north bypassin ...
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  • TVhm 7 years ago

    Thanks to JM you don't have anything to do again JM does everything

  • Busy 7 years ago

    Infrastructure is a key component of economic development and i therefore wonder how you are going to deliver this.I do not affiliate to any party but i think this is not a good sign.

  • Tilayoo 7 years ago

    Follow Ghanaians the NPP has swindle ( 419) us. Just a week after elections Osafo Marfo says they are not interested in infrustracture but "managing the economy". What economy without infrustracture? The 123 community second ...
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  • Afful 7 years ago

    Exactly what i was going to write. Economy without improving infrastructure ?

  • Tuapee 7 years ago

    He can afford to say that because Maham.ma hds built enough infrastructure

  • COSBY 7 years ago

    This man is back to the political stage with his weird thinking and warped, outdated ideas.Where are the young minds in NPP? These recycled octogenarians again to reverse the clock of progress.Nana be warned.

  • FACTUAL 7 years ago

    I LOVE NPP'S GAME PLAN!!! FIRST PROMISE THESE GREEDY GHANAIAN ASSHOLES HEAVEN ON EARTH, THEN JUST MAKE THEM BASICALLY COMFORTABLE BY MAKING SURE THE GAS HAVE A CHEAP & PLENTIFUL SUPPLY OF KENKEY & FISH, CANNED BEEF & SARDINES ...
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  • RAVEN 7 years ago

    Hahahahahahahahahahahahha!!!!!!!! Man you are a good writer, takes a well read
    individual to put this together....Bravoooo...

  • trop 7 years ago

    HE IS OUTMODED AND ACAKED! CONFISED ECONOMIST!

  • Yaw Adu-Asare 7 years ago

    Continuation of the classical bourgeois political-economy will not be helpful to Ghanaians.
    Outcomes of the 8 years of Kufuor's bourgeois economy remain lessons going forward.

  • Yawner 7 years ago

    A former finance minister talking like this? So this man too will be a minister in the next government? Shame on him. U're still fresh in the minds of knowledgeable Ghanaians. U were part of why the elephant was chased into t ...
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  • Kwame 7 years ago

    HOPEFULLY, THIS DOES NOT MEAN SEEKING BILLION DOLLAR LOANS FROM CHINESE NAIL SHOPS.
    OSAFO-MARFO SHOULD JOIN MPIANI IN RETIREMENT. WE KEEP RECYCLING THE SAME BULLSHIT AND CALLING IT EXPERIENCE.

  • Adroba 7 years ago

    Focus on both please

  • Dede 7 years ago

    Someone should please tell Osafo Marfo that the campaign is over and he is no more in opposition.The realities of being in govt is yet to sink in.You don't need to repeat ur campaign messages, just go ahead and do what you pr ...
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  • agooji 7 years ago

    Oyiwa, Does economic Development comes with just tackling the Macro economy? Ghana needs both. If Osafo Marfo is saying then , it means that Mahama has really done his very part. Economic development comes with much infrastru ...
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  • SAMUEL AMOAH. 7 years ago

    Excellent, Oyeade3 yie Osafo Marfo,you really understand the issues of good governance. Fixing,managing,growing the economy to create wealth is a prerequisite, so infrastructure would be from our own resources gradually. This ...
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  • KnYc USMC 7 years ago

    You are the only one on this forum who understanding what Osafo Marfo said. That is the way to manage the economy, infrastructure will fall in place when is needed. Ndc where building schools and hospitals in places where by ...
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  • NANIAMA 7 years ago

    Even in America all the candidates campaigned on infrastructure development with even the massive infrastructure they have they need more, economy is built around infrastructure, NPP us failing Ghana already, they will come ...
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  • Dzigaman 7 years ago

    you seem to have sold dog chains all your life or cleaning toilets. You have no clue what economics is all about.
    Building infrastructure is what kick starts an ailing economy. In Economics we have something we call ''Linkag ...
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  • Nijarman 7 years ago

    Ghana is in trouble. This barber shop loan contracting minister seems to have bought his degree from under the bridge in Lagos.
    My brother what you are saying is absolutely correct. Without infrastructure ,the economy will j ...
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  • CharlesP 7 years ago

    Mr. Osafo-Marfo you ought to have said that if a thing was purchased for 10cedis when NDC took over today 40cedis is required to pay for the same thing.

  • agoli 7 years ago

    Ghana is finished with this dead brain cells coming rule. How on earth can someone say infrastructure does not matter. I don't really blame Osafo-Marfo because that is what Ghanaians love to hear. Ghana first president Nkruma ...
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  • CharlesP 7 years ago

    Adequate infrastructure makes an economy more attractive for conducting business. Quality of Human capital should also be in the same basket when we consider what is required to make an economy good for business.

  • Ali, Toronto 7 years ago

    When there is no infrastructural base to support actual production and distribution, you can "manage" all you want but there would be no aggregate economic performance. You need a balanced approach in managing the economy.

  • Knockout 7 years ago

    Thie

  • Knockout 7 years ago

    Thieves goes

  • Lucky-Ny 7 years ago

    When Infrastructure is being undertaken, my people JOBS are created in the process. Lack of knowledge, my people perish.Wake up Ghanaians. A former Finance Minister with this mindset is no good. Grow up NPP.

  • samuel azumah 7 years ago

    the ndc govt went in for loan from the imf and there were conditions attached to the loan.the president followed these.he also made sure to put infrastructure in place.so the npp should use these to improve the economy,but i ...
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  • NorbertAsante 7 years ago

    Why not do both, which would be the right thing for a developing country? Is this guy clueless or what? How can Ghana ever move forward with some serious infrastructural development?

  • DB 7 years ago

    Did you people read the article before commenting or as usual you read the heading and just commented? He said building infrastructure was the work of every government but you have to manage the economy well to help improve t ...
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  • KONKONSA 7 years ago

    It beggars belief how people contribute to issues without reading and appreciating fully what's being discussed. Very disappointing! Osafo has said that Infrastracture will be developed as a matter of course but will not be t ...
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  • Abdulai Mahamadu 7 years ago

    I always maintained my position that Nana Akufo Addo is a failure,so will his government fail Ghanaians.How can a government manage the economy without placing priority in physical infrastructure?Ghanaians will regret after ...
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  • Ekow Samuel. 7 years ago

    The exactly both of the infastrature and the economie are both to move for the devolopment we need and that can again raiseing our gh/cidi as well and well improvment,God bless you and oman ghana.

  • G. K. Berko 7 years ago

    If any focus on Economic Management does not seriously include Infrastructure, then what progress would the Nation have?

    People do not want to be still living in a Nation where their Infrastructure is left to rot even if t ...
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  • Floating Voter 7 years ago

    Thin veil of economic stability that NPP Kuffour Govt offered Ghanaian.Welll observed Mr Berko.

  • KONKONSA 7 years ago

    And what did JDM not offer? But you voted him out. Allow sensible people to determine a better direction for your life cos you don't even know what you're talking about.

  • Owu Mtensa 7 years ago

    EFO OSAFO MARFO ECONOMIC MANAGEMENT IS ECONOMICS AND INFRASTRUCTURE IS GEOGRAPHY. GHANAIANS ARE SET TO WITNESS THE NPP MIRACLE.

  • JIM 7 years ago

    OSAFO MAARFO JUST DO AWAY YOUR TRIBALISM OR ELSE WE WILL KICK YOUR ASS

  • ######## 7 years ago

    BOY, AM I GLAD JDM PUT UP SOME INFRASTRUCTURE.

  • kofi mensah 7 years ago

    Hope respectable Osafo Marfo will read this. The value of the cedi to the dollar during the re denomination exercise in 2007 was 0.90GHC to 1 USD. The cedi was 1.20GHC to a dollar when NPP left office on January 7, 2009. So w ...
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  • Gbormita I 7 years ago

    Because u people do not buy made in Ghana goods, there is strain on the currency.

    did u check the world major currencies in third world countries like South Africa, the Gambia, Nigeria, Tanzania over the same period?
    Di ...
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  • kofi mensah 7 years ago

    Thought Mr Gbormita was going to dispute my computation, was just trying to emphasise the fact that the cedi depreciated 8.75% per annum under NDC as against 25% under NPP. Please let us discuss, no insults!

  • Kakashi 7 years ago

    Why don't you calculate from 2000 to 2008 for npp? It only doubled the whole 8 years from 0.6 cedis 2001 to 0.9 in early 2008. It only jumped to 1.2 after elections.... Get your facts right and stop this propaganda

  • kofi mensah 7 years ago

    Point of correction, kakashi...The cedi depreciated 25% between 2007 and January 2009, when NPP left office, but the average increment under NDC for eight years..2009 to date (December 2016) is approximately 29%

  • Gbormita I 7 years ago

    Building infrastructure creates jobs for:
    -local artisans like
    .builders
    .carpenters
    .painters
    .electricians
    brick makers
    .drivers
    -equipment managers and technicians
    .food vendors.

    If you build 200 SHS (infra ...
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  • G. K. Berko 7 years ago

    Folks must not settle for either the status quo or any meager improvement below what we all know we deserve.

    We must not allow anymore conning by the Politicians, regardless of their Party affiliations. We should more fo ...
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  • Molecule 7 years ago

    If a government comes to power and makes 200 interchanges, 100 roads, that government shouldn't see it as achievement because it's a responsibility.
    If you are a child at home and your work in the house is to clean the hall ...
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  • what 7 years ago

    where did you school? so infrastructure is not part of developing a country? cheap soul! it's sometimes good to be graceful! that's god way!

  • Adu 7 years ago

    What ideas has Osafo Marfo left with. Please Nana get some young and fresh ideas to manage Gh.

  • PlainPlainTruth 7 years ago

    Ghanafuo,"Oyiwa"!NPP and it's predecessors are not known for nation-development. They're known for scheming to enriching themselves, their families and cronies while deceiving Ghanaians with their brand of "Trickle-down" Econ ...
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  • prince 7 years ago

    the return of the old thieves.. oh God protect our oil money ..protect the govt land and bungalows..

  • SHIP SELLER 7 years ago

    After the inauguration of the new gov't, we predict that HIPC begging cup will start to England, other European countries and America with the excuse that NPP gov't inherited collapsed economy, hence the forgiveness of debt a ...
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  • CharlesP 7 years ago

    my understanding is that the HIPC status can only be used once. It is no longer available to Ghana.

  • Kwadwo 7 years ago

    If you want investors in the country, think of investing in infrastructure. Who wants to be in heavy traffic. Look at Malaysia. Ghana got its independence as Malaysia and because of their infrastructural developments, they ar ...
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  • Fry 7 years ago

    Exactly. You need to focus on economic management to help stabilize it which will eventually Stimulates economic activity for growth. The current real GDP of 3.6% need to grow by at least a margin of 4 by 2017. Inflation will ...
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  • Joseph kweku Otoo 7 years ago

    NPP has never been a party for infrastructural development since its inception and has therefore been a major critic of successive governments that focus on infrastructure. That explains why they never built a single secondar ...
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  • nana 7 years ago

    I have read through ur argument but kindly enlightened me on this case study; if after taken a commercial loan from a financial institution pls which of these is most prudent to invest in 1) my dream house 2) in a business ve ...
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  • Kwadjoe, USA 7 years ago

    Both can be done concurrently. Infact infrastructural development propels economic growth and that's what's done in every advanced economy. I'm unsure if man is qualified for this job. This response actually disqualifies him ...
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  • Victor A. Young 7 years ago

    NDC don't know "kotoo" except corruption and thievery, as well as "buga-buga" tactics to win and stay in power. In just 8 years in govt they have totally destroyed Ghana's economy.

  • S. K. A 7 years ago

    Pls we are waiting for free SHS, reduce Taxation, one district One Factory, one district one Dam in the North, one million Dollars for each constituency Teacher trainee allowance, Nurses allowance.

  • pocket lawyer 7 years ago

    Yaw Osafo Marfo,please be realistic in your pronouncements, you as an economist,what do you think in your economical sense runs a sound economy for a country without infrastructure developments?without good schools,how will t ...
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  • EZEKIEL 7 years ago

    Infra Structure SHOULD go hand-in-Hand with the Economic Management.......OPEN UP the country with MORE ROADS, make transportation of Farm products to the Urban areas. TTHIS could LESSEN foodstuff getting rotten BEFORE they r ...
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  • No Plans Party - NPP 7 years ago

    Why wont you focus on economic management than infrastructure, simply because the ndc government have done all the infrastructure works.