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Government must diversify entities it can’t maintain and run – Otumfuo on GRIDCo, ECG, others

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  • Kotoko 6 months ago

    What else will you say after Napo and the NNP stole the Ameri power plant for the Ashanti's.
    So you now want to own it abi???

    Behave yourself.

  • Kwaku 6 months ago

    So myopic and ignorant on what Otumfuo said.He is so wise and well inform to have made those statements .

  • healer 6 months ago

    It simply tells you how stupid the so call wise chief is, very silly

  • Kofi 6 months ago

    I don't agree with you Otumfuo on this issue. Private sector is mainly for making money hence electricity would become expensive for the average Ghanaian.
    We can maintain all these government sectors if measures are put in p ...
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  • ST GHFUO: GH LEADERS ARE NOT ENLIGHTENED 6 months ago

    businesses operate with one sole purpose Kofi. to make money. you cant be a socialist and operate a for profit entity. if people cant pay for electricity then there is an issue with jobs. so the govt n private companies, smal ...
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  • Ruthan 6 months ago

    Even mighty Russia and China are diversifying they are now more capitalist than the West.For e.g. most trains in Russia now are operated by the private sector whilst the state only manages the railway lines and other faciliti ...
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  • Jennifer 6 months ago

    Beautifully put. Awesome. Pure wisdom

  • Kb 6 months ago

    The point Otumfuo is making is that Govt after Govt have failed to put in those checks and balances you suggeted. We cant be stubbornly doing the same ineffective things and expect different result.

  • Sleeping Tablet 6 months ago

    Otumfuo is 100% on point. The government is not father christmas to be giving Gifts to the citizenry. You can't run a country setting up Industries you can't maintain or make Profits.

  • ST GHFUO: GH LEADERS ARE NOT ENLIGHTENED 6 months ago

    thats what china does. almost all state assets are given to private companies to run but must report to the govt. these "private" entites are even listed on global stock exchanges. if it is run as a private for profit entity. ...
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  • Tonto 6 months ago

    No serious country will give its GRID to a private entity especially in Africa where coup detat is so rampant. These institutions can run better if government ceased with the appointment of CEOs and rather advertise this posi ...
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  • Kel 6 months ago

    Otumfuo this is good advice but before Ghanaians realise they (govt) will diversify these companies to their families and cronies to loot and pillage these state companies totally.
    And in case they do diversify without issu ...
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  • ST Ghfuo: Gh leaders are not enlightened 6 months ago

    Once upon a time, these g7 nations and even China whom you Gh troops to for aid operated their national industries thru govt..then, they realized it wasn't helping. Now, the strongest economies on earth have private entities ...
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  • Kobby 6 months ago

    Even our universities can be handed over to private prople to manage to avoid TEWU STRIKES. OUR REGIONAL HOSPITALS DONT NAKE PROFIT ALWAYS GOVERNMENT SUBSIDY. THE CEOS BOARDS ARE CHOPING ALL THE PROFITS

  • Kb 6 months ago

    I agree. I still dont understand why we cant give Accra-Kumasi road to private company to build operate and transfer without the Government paying a pesewa. This is what was done with AMERI plant and now it is for Ghana!

  • seth 6 months ago

    Interesting. What is being proposed here is the direct OPPOSITE of how rich countries in the West and the Asian tigers actually got rich.
    It is the lack of this knowledge that has kept Africa from getting rich.
    Expansive go ...
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  • Sam 6 months ago

    Leadership by example. This is what you should also do for your people with all the wealth the land has

  • Jennifer 6 months ago

    WORDS OF WISDOM. Nana Mo.

    We still hold on to Kwame Nkrumah's Russian- Communist-ideology.

    Even Britain has changed. Led by Margaret Thatcher.

  • NPP = NEW POISON PARTY 6 months ago

    THE ASANTEHENE SHOULD SHUT UP
    Ashanti people, tell your Chief to stop his cluelessness. He doesn't know anything about governance and rule of law. Talk is cheap. Electricity and water are strategic assets. They can't be ...
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  • CJ 6 months ago

    Why does this illiterate moron called Asantehene keep talking about things he knows nothing about? This fool with his class one mentality. How can our nation progress when we have fools like this man who gives their gold to t ...
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  • VP 6 months ago

    There you are. When we say the Asantehene is a stupid man who lacks the ability to think some of you do not believe it. Listen to what he is saying and you will know he is a fool.

  • Woyoo woyo 6 months ago

    I thought you were not in this country oo. Nana Kwaku Dua, please did you hear about something like P.D.S?, If so ,have you ever asked about the monies collected and embezzled? If you and your allies in the NPP having raked ...
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  • Bliss 6 months ago

    Please lets outsource our governance and civil services to a scandedavian leadership company and pay them a fee for a period. Africans lack leadership attributes.