Author: Kwabena Sakyiama Posted: 2012-09-24 00:28:22 wasting money chain in government should be broken
Nonsense
Author: Kwabena Apuntuah Posted: 2012-09-24 00:41:05 Barton Oduro will never escape prosecution. Manama if you believe in accountability and probity stop this payment. What exactly did Ghana receive for this alleged services? People, this party is fleecing Ghana. My gosh!
Ndc thieves
Author: Theesa Posted: 2012-09-24 00:43:04 Believe me, the thieves behind this professional group are Ndc thieves hiding behind consultancy to steal from mother Ghana. Government has enough employees at Justice department to do any investigative work, why hire outside group?
MILLS DANGEROUS AS HIS CORRUPT BASTARDS
Author: PRINCE Posted: 2012-09-24 00:58:07 EVEN JUDGEMENT DEBTS HAD BEEN PAID TO DEAD CHIEFS BY THESE NDC ROGUES, AND THE SAME GREEDY BASTARDS ARE TELLING GHANAIANS THAT, FREE EDUCATION IS IMPOSSIBLE. MY HEART IS ALWAYS FILLED WITH SORROW AND ANGER WHENEVER I SEE THESE NDC GREEDY BASTARDS BEING CHEERED BY THE VERY PEOPLE THEY HAVE IMPOVERISHED INSTEAD OF EXPRESSING THEIR ANGER. TO ME, MOST OF THESE NDC SUPPORTERS ARE DOLTISH, THEY HARDLY UNDERSTAND THE ISSUES AT STAKE. MAJORITY COULD ALSO BE ILLITERATES SO CAN'T MAKE RIGHT JUDGEMENTS THEREFORE ALLOWING THEMSELVES TO BE FOOLED. INDEED WE NEED NANA'S FREE EDUCATION POLICY ELSE GHANA IS DOOMED.
SHAME
Author: Fred Ayisi Posted: 2012-09-24 01:05:57 this is very bad, Bad indeed,is this the accountability,transparency they preached.VOTE them out. shame
corruption at its peak!
Author: hafis saeed Posted: 2012-09-24 01:23:10 god have mercy and save as from this nation reckles
Where is your evidence
Author: Ahec Posted: 2012-09-24 01:31:15 Let us see these evidence first then we will agree with you.
NDC LEADERS SHOULD BE SEND TO HELL
Author: TerriblY Spe cifiC Posted: 2012-09-24 01:50:45 NDC infact doing nothing for all these big amount is really bad to lead the country.
GOOD FOR NOTHING NDC
Author: Nsohbila Wilson Posted: 2012-09-24 02:44:23 YOU SEE THAT YOUR DEEDS ARE SO STUPID TO FORGIVE. IF YOUR MEN IN CHARGE OF THIS COUNTRY HAVE NO KNOWLEDGE OF GOVERNANCE , JUST HAND OVER AND GO BACK TO SCHOOL AND STOP THOSE NONSENSE.PLEASE STOP DISGRACING GHANA FOR WE BEG YOU IN THE NAME OF ALLAH
NANA ADDO'S FREE SHS, FANTASY OR REALITY
Author: PAUL Posted: 2012-09-24 03:16:35 If a man promises of bringing a cargo ship full of goods to Kumasi we cannot know whether or not he could do it but there are,obviously, basic questions we must ask him such as, "which port will the ship berth?" since we know that there are no seas nor harbours in Kumasi and ships don't travel in the air or on the road.
So it came to pass that during his encounter with the IEA Nana Akuffo Addo promised of making SHS education completely free if voted into power. Then he went on to state the cost involved which was 78 million Ghana Cedis for the 2013/2014 academic year.
However, after careful scrutiny of this promise one finds it flout with all kinds of inefficiencies. For example, the amount quoted is woefully inadequate to cater for the needs of the 728,000 SHS students currently in school. If you divide the 78 miilion Ghana Cedis by the 728,000 students the figure comes to a little over 100 Ghana Cedis per student per year. A further breakdown to three terms will give us a little over 36 Ghana Cedis for each student per term. Meanwhile we know that the barest minimum a boarding student pays for a term is 400 Ghana Cedis. So how will the difference of about 340 Ghana Cedis be paid for? Remember that this calculation did not even take into account the influx (increased enrollment) of students at the SHS that will result from this policy. Again, the additional cost of putting up more infrastructure to absorb increased numbers was also not factored in this estimate.
Nana Addo's source of funding is also unreliable. He mentioned GETFUND and Petroleum Revenue as his main sources of funding. Already we know that the GETFUND is overstretched for which reason sometimes contractors are not paid for work done.
For the Petroleum revenue we only generated something close to 500 million Ghana Cedis last year and this figure is not expected to change that much in the near future. Meanwhile, the constitution states clearly how it should be spent. In fact some percentage has to be reserved for posterity. But assuming we alter the constitution so that we can spend all of this amount on education it will still not be enough. Barring all other costs the 728,000 SHS students will,in fact, require 1.2 billion Ghana Cedis to cater for all their academic needs in a year. Unless he seeks to increase taxes, which he has stated categorically that he wouldn't, I don't see how he is going to implement such extravagant policy. This therefore, is what forms the basis of those who argue that the promise is not feasible, at least for now.
What Nana Addo seeks to do is to build a house without foundation which we all know will collapse.
Just like the man who promised bringing a cargo ship to Kumasi but couldn't tell which port it will berth so does Nana Addo fails to convince Ghanaians how the free SHS education policy would be funded. It is a mere political talk and we should likewise listen with mere political ears. It is a dream but not a reality.
For now what government must do is to increase access to SHS by putting up more infrastructure, supplying adequate teaching and learning materials, continue to motivate teachers and expand government scholarships to cover more needy students. Scholarship, as it was, shouldn't cover only needy but brilliant students but even average students who truly have the need but who have shown certain willingness to learn. History is full of several examples of students who were initially weak but who turned out to be extra-ordinarily brilliant academicians in their latter years. Mention could be made of Einstein, Thomas Edison, Ghana's Prof. Allotey (the only physicist from Africa) etc. Government must pump more money into scholarships to cater for all needy students. This way no child will be left out of our educational journey.
May God grant our leaders the wisdom to lead and implement policies that will benefit us. May they be filled with the spirit of honesty hard work and dedication to make our nation a better place to live, in Jesus name,amen.
Re: How NDC Blew $700k To Witch Hunt
Author: Weysman Posted: 2012-09-24 03:21:01 Kuffour and NPP did worst. Let NPP acount for the change to the new currency. Ask K4 how much was his stake. NPP Thieves!!
These gargantuan criminals
Author: facts Posted: 2012-09-24 05:32:57 If the NDC wins any electios in ghana again it will tell the world that the choice of the people of ghana is denied by nation wreckers .Nobody outside the Non Democratic Criminals group is happy in the country.As looters they have no interest in the welfare of our poor country Ghana.
Arrest the thieves/witches
Author: Francis Ransford Posted: 2012-09-24 06:15:16 Government cannot afford to allow these thieves to go free. The government should do everything to jail them and retrieve our monies for us. The govt. should also go ahead and arrest those who benefited from TOR levy like Egbert Fabile.
After december, is their turn to enter nsawam pris
Author: Salifu Issaka Posted: 2012-09-24 06:47:21 After december, is their turn to enter nsawam prison
What did you expect?
Author: Abeeku Mensah Posted: 2012-09-24 06:53:18 Editorial board members at the Ghanaian Observer must either not understand even the local old adage " wo dzi nam tsitsi nam" or more eloquently said in English "you get what you pay for".
There are two competing interests in Ghana that may never go away and as long as those interests consume most of Ghana politics Ghana will continue to be a phony and grab what you can system of government masquerading as a mediocre democratic nation.
You cannot site any civilized western nation where because one major party hold majority on its Supreme Court a sitting government cannot win cases of fraud, looting of nation coffers and mismanagement of national funds even when it stirs citizens in the face and or a court system that is headed by incompetent prosecutors who look the other way allowing the ruling government to spend money the nation does not have and or steal whatever money the nation has at its disposal.
There was absolute corruption during Kufours 8 years in office; it is only fools and tribal zealots who can pretend there was none. There was absolute corruption and murder under J.J.Rawlings NDC -1 government. Denying these facts will not make J.J. Rawlings and Konadu Rawlings saints. There was unbridled stealing under Atta Mills, whether he chose to look the other way of too cowardly to look and stop his own men from stealing is beside the point. But in all, it takes paying money, and lots of it, to competent,. Principled, incorruptible group to investigate and expose those involved. If Ghana is going to cry about the cost of investigative bodies then I suggest we do not try and accept that stealing, cronyism. tribalism, nepotism and discrimination on gender and place of origin/birth is here to stay and we can collectively move backwards where we should always be.
Re: How NDC Blew $700k To Witch Hunt
Author: Amega Posted: 2012-09-24 07:02:25 Upon all these, late Prez Mills was tagged 'asomdweehene'. There we go.
Ghana @50 saga
Author: Sampson Ofori Posted: 2012-09-24 07:08:43 Africa leaders should be focus on our education so that people will be enlighten.Again my appeal to my mother Ghana is that discrimination can not help our nation so we should be one and stop looking for mistakes and others.PREZ.Mahama is christian so he must listen to the voice of Christ.
Ghana Education
Author: Sampson Ofori Posted: 2012-09-24 07:23:40 Ghana leaders should be serious on our education and stop unnecessary arguments and misapplication of our funds, please we are fed up with lies and hatred attitude in the country.Lets our children be equipped to meet future challenges.
NONSENSE. Outright FABRICATION
Author: Whatever Posted: 2012-09-24 10:15:29 If Mpianim and Tarzan who have stolen our massive moneies needed to be caught, how do you expect they would be cuaght if a paliament approved budget is not spend investigating and prosecuting them. But this story is clear fabrication
Team B, Greedy Bastards
Author: Akua Mansa Posted: 2012-09-24 11:54:46 Lets get rid if these Team B, Incompetent Greedy Bastards - JJ said it all
Clear case of causing financial loss
Author: New Sherrif in Town Posted: 2012-09-24 22:07:46 Ebo Barton-Oduro is waitinh for Nsawam.
“I am forwarding to you an invoice submitted by Professional Group (GHANA), with respect to services rendered in the provision and procurement of Jubilee Toilets and sampled Souvenir for the Ghana@50 celebrations”.
Kwadwo Mpiani and Wereko Brobbey will be the witnesses as to whether this Professional NDC Steales provided any services - toilets or souvenirs - to the Ghana@50
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