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'Taxes on condoms will be a public health disaster'

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  • KWAME 10 years ago

    Someone is making and talking sense today. Not the NDC lunatic of yesterday

  • Peace 10 years ago

    What kind of decision is this? Besides, will the funds generated be well spent and accounted for?

  • GHFUO, BE SERIOUS NOT PRIDEFUL! 10 years ago

    POPULATION REDUCTION WITH CONDOMS
    Who will be left alive? The smart people.....
    MOVIE: APOCALYPTO....."A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within."
    This is a great quote, ...
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  • BOB OFFINSO 10 years ago

    YOU SEE IN NDC GOVT ANY BRAINLESS PERSON LIKE ANTA CAN SAY ANYTHING WITHOUT THINKING SHAME NDC

  • GHFUO, BE SERIOUS NOT PRIDEFUL! 10 years ago

    BUILD A FACTORY N PRODUCE UR OWN N MAKE IT FREE. THIS SHOULD BE UNDER NHIS

  • afiba 10 years ago

    Thank You

  • Ben 10 years ago

    "Thank you" for the comment made by GHFUO? We are talking about public health and consequences of people not able to afford condoms due to the new prices. Elsewhere, condoms are given to worker free every weekend but in Ghana ...
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  • IMDAADURRAHMAN 10 years ago

    The government should take a look at the benefits citizens derive from condom.It has been able to control HIV/AIDS patially.So we are pleading to the president to do something about this particularly.

  • GREAT NANA ANTWI 10 years ago

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  • mamuna t totobisa 10 years ago

    I wish the ndc women's youth leader, Anita Sooso is listening to Dr Elias Sory's contribution to benefits acruing from the use of condoms in Ghana. I sincerely believe that Anita ought to be kicked out of office by whoever ao ...
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  • Wwahla 10 years ago

    if condoms are taxed, then population growth will double, quadruple, and become exponential in 5 to 10 years. if that if our vision as a nation, bring it on.
    after all, why use condom and pay tax and enjoy little when you c ...
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  • Deblaze22 10 years ago

    Stupid Decision. I'm an NDC voter but this is like the most stupid decision the government could have taken. How much will you make from taxing condoms? What impact will this have on STDs? Who the hell advises this government ...
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  • Kofi 10 years ago

    Looking for money from condoms? Government must be really broke!

  • stupid ndc 10 years ago

    Prior to the 2012 elections, the NDC was going around telling the world that Ghana has reached a middle income status with bogus GDP and fake statistics. This led to most donor countries withdrawing their support for the Gove ...
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  • tinkalo 10 years ago

    Very soon they will put taxes on sex,,that is shameful

  • Nana Ben 10 years ago

    Stupid Anita De Sosoo should read this and learn something out of that

  • The Brains 10 years ago

    After draining our coffers to sponsor your shameful campaign for the 2012 elections, you are shamefully here to impose so called taxes on even condoms!

    Aha! What a BOGUS administration of ndc stupid party with brainless ba ...
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  • Ben UK 10 years ago

    So shameful.

  • KOFI 10 years ago

    where is Ghana going?we have stupid and foolish leaders who come out With ideas that makes one wonder of their abilty to thimk and rule.foolish president,listen to the wise Dr.Elias.

  • Kantankrous 10 years ago

    `TELL THAT TO ANITA DE SOOOOOOOOME!!!

  • tinkalo 10 years ago

    ".....He said the condoms were invented to prevent diseases, first and foremost. “When you look at how much it will cost to fight diseases and the temporary money that [the taxes] will bring into the country,” he told TV3 ...
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  • Ben 10 years ago

    I believe govt was ill-advised on the decision. it is true that the state needs funds but this is just like chewing your own tongue. I hope the gov't considers the suggestion to recind the taxes on condom.

  • BLACK-STAR-STATE 10 years ago

    THOSE WHO ARE NOW HANDLING THE RESPONSIBLITIES OF THE NATION,HAS PRESSURIZED OUR MOTHERS,SISTERS,AND
    FEMINENOS TO LOSE THIER DIGNITIES ON
    WOMAN-HOOD,BECAUSE OF NECESITIES,AND
    NOW TAXES ON CONDOMS AS A SOLUTIONS,FOR
    PREVEN ...
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  • COUNSELOR DALLAS TX 10 years ago

    I KNOW THE GOV'T IS NOW DESPERATE, THEY HAVE TAXED EVERYTHING IN GHANA AND NOW THEY DON'T HAVE ANYTHING TO PUT TAX ON, THAT IS WHY THEY PUTTING TAX ON CONDOMS, YESTERDAY IT WAS AN INCOMING PHONE CALLS, TODAY CONDOMS, TOMORROW ...
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  • oyinasky 10 years ago

    haaaa haaa . You make me laugh. Isnt this whole thing a shame?

  • Ben 10 years ago

    Anita you are a bad, bad policymaker. This is a disaster to are you are calling for.

  • princewilly@ymail.com 10 years ago

    Cover your stump before you hump. It will be sweeter if you wrap your peter No ballon, No party Before you attack her, wrap your wrapper. Don’t be silly, protect your willy. Don't be a prick, Cover your dick When in doubt, ...
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  • AHANTARIAN/AKAN 10 years ago

    WILL THE TAXES ON CONDOMS BRINGS BACK
    THE RESPECTS OF DIGNITIES TO YOUR
    WOMEN-HOODS AFFAIRS??

  • Abla 10 years ago

    Sometimes ignorance goes with our decision makers especially when some of them are not well educated and has no area of expertise on the issues they are making decisions for.

  • oyinasky 10 years ago

    You know how desperate a government is when it starts looking for money and it taxes condoms. This government is really really scrapping the bottom of the barrel.We are Ghanaians are finished.

  • JACK 10 years ago

    AM VERY DISAPOINTED IN ANITA DE SOSOO OR WHAT EVER THEY CALL HER.AS SOMEBOBODY THEY SHOULD LOOK UPTO,AM NOT SURE SHE RELY WORKHARD TO GET THIS SO CALL YOUTH ORGANIZER.SHE HAS TO GO BACK TO PRIM.1 N LEARN SMALL.