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Dollar withdrawals over the counter suspended – Isaac Adongo reveals

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  • Major 7 months ago

    Fools. Confine your campaign to Bantama. Ghana has no need of your bush kingdom nonsense.

  • BABYLONNIA 7 months ago

    Let those foolish animals following the NPP know that... "aban papa aba..!!!!" The Russia-Ukraine war has even intensified, but we are now enjoying an unbelievable exchange rate stability under a responsible government. Ghana ...
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  • Dr. Allen Smith Jackson, UK 7 months ago

    Then where’s our Sammy Gyamfi going to get his dollars to do show off

  • Kojo 7 months ago

    Exactly!!!

  • Simeon London 7 months ago

    We told you so! The last economist are back? Taking everybody's dollars and sharing among themselves. They did same between 2013 and 2016. One had to write a love letter to their banks to redraw their own cash .

    This will ...
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  • Simeon London 7 months ago

    **lazy economist***

  • Speaking under influence of pito and dog meat 7 months ago

    How can you lie like this? The governor has assured the nation that you are lying. How do you redeem your image?

  • Kwadwo Afram Saka 7 months ago

    Adongo are you the communication officer of Bank of Ghana? Are board members allowed to sit on radio to enact policy? Who says that once a customer deposits his own money into his bank account a loud mouth idiot can change th ...
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  • TWEAA DC 7 months ago

    ADONGO SAYS THERE WILL BE EXCEMPTIONS....AND SAMMY GYAMFI IS A SPECIAL PRODUCT....MAHAMA'S SPECIAL BOY WILL BE ABLE TO WITHDRAW DOLLARS EVEN IF HE HAS NO DOLLAR ACCOUNT AND FLASH IT ARROUND AT FUNERALS...NO CHALLENGER...TWEA ...
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  • Jet 7 months ago

    True. Why will a cedis country be doing transactions in dollars. Force everyone to use ghana cedis in ghana. No dollar payments within ghana. No one should charge for anyhting dollars in ghana. If u have dollars, spend it out ...
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  • BUT SHARING TAX PAYERS DOLLARS ON THE STREETS IS ALLOWED! 7 months ago

    Go ask Sammy Gyamfi why he is dashing taxpayers dollars on the streets and come and tell me why I cannot withdraw my own dollars from the bank.

  • Sam 7 months ago

    Atta Mills warned that no one should do any transaction in dollars but it didn't work.
    Giving such directive is as important as implementing it.

  • Kojo 7 months ago

    These politicians when it comes to finance they treat people who have learned their money the hard way as if there are not Ghanaians!! That's how the other one thought that using pensioner's money was the way to go. Then they ...
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  • Wwwe 7 months ago

    Animals FF ndc no's that only idiots and fools will b happy for parents paid BECE registration 500gh and received 18gh pad hmmm kwasiman

  • ABSOLUTE NONSENSE 7 months ago

    You stupid politicians steal from us . What right do you have to stop me from accessing my dollar. I kept it there because my son will
    Be traveling to America to study, that’s the money I’ll be sending him away with . I ...
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  • Son of God 7 months ago

    Are you sure you have read the full article? Mr Adongo said there are a few exception such as if you are going to spend the dollars abroad otherwise if you are spending the money in Ghana here you will be given the cedi equiv ...
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  • ABSOLUTE NONSENSE 7 months ago

    Yea I have a problem with that , I’m not traveling anywhere , It’s my son who’s traveling in a few months. I won’t be able to prove I’m traveling because I have no travel arrangements but my son .

  • Kofi Sromani 7 months ago

    Stupid idiot; if you prove with all documents that your son is traveling, he will be given the money. Instead of making enquiries if you truly have a justification, you sit here on social media to write nonsense and insult pe ...
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  • BOG fools 7 months ago

    Foolish man . Then what’s the purpose of the policy. Someone has dollar to put in the bank and you think he can’t find a way to prove he is traveling to take his dollars. You and your Adongo are two big fools

  • Kwadwo Afram Saka 7 months ago

    Kofi Sromani you are a foolish illiterate. Do you know the relationship between banks and their customers. Go back to school and stop writing childish Ananse stories. You think social media awards certificates? Nkwaseasem. So ...
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  • Donkey fool 7 months ago

    That's what these idiots did under Tekper. What was the results of that action that they are going to do the same? Communist idiots with no sense finance

  • DeShawn 7 months ago

    HEY, MR. @ABSOLUTE NONSENSE..!!!!! Why are you spewing out that "raw nonsense??" You are such a stupid man to be having a son. Maybe, your son should be taken away from you and "donated" to an orphanage where his future would ...
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  • Kofi Sromani 7 months ago

    Don't mind him. He is either a dunderhead, or he is already prejudiced and just want to attack the NDC for no reason. Thry surely do not read, or they read and do not understand.

  • John 7 months ago

    Where in America can you withdraw cedis? What nonsense is that? We sit in Ghana and we encourage another country money

  • John 7 months ago

    Go dmf live in America and chop dollar

  • Nii 7 months ago

    Even our airport use dollars for transactions.

  • SACK SAMMY GYAMFI NOW 7 months ago

    Yet sammy gyamfi has millions of dollars for gifts. Is sammy gyamfi now keeping the dollars in Ghana?

  • .mr amin 7 months ago

    Well done adongo restrict the use of dollars internally, well than gold board do more we need a strong and a stable currency to boost our purchasing power to create jobs

  • Nemesis 7 months ago

    GYIMIGYIMIFUO. ANIMALS!

  • Kofi 7 months ago

    Adongo should know, sitting on the Board of the Bank, that if there is undue restriction on legitimate need for withdrawal of forex for external transactions (not domestic) it would in the long run suppress the voluntary comm ...
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  • .mr amin 7 months ago

    Why are you withdrawing dollars from the counter? Unless for foreign transactions, this policy will stop the dollarization of our economy, we should know that a strong cedi means strong people with good purchasing power to dr ...
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  • Kay 7 months ago

    Wrong move

  • Jet 7 months ago

    Good move. Ghana is a cedis country not a dollar country. Tell me us you can spend ghana cedis is the UK, US or whatever. U spend in the local currency. Ghana legal tender is not dollars so if u save in Dollars u will withdra ...
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  • Pelicles. 7 months ago

    NDC never ceases to amaze some of us. With our local currency, the cedi, why should a foreign currency be used side-by-side with our local cedi? This stupidity can only happen in Ghana and nowhere else. Go to the US and see i ...
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  • Kwadwo Afram Saka 7 months ago

    Village boy asking a typical village question. What do you mean by can anyone spend other currencies in America. KURASENI asking nkurasifuo questions.

  • Pelicles. 7 months ago

    A feral fool. A village and a town or city, which came first?

  • Stone 7 months ago

    So how's agradaa going to get some more?. It's going to be hard dam...concert party country.

  • Slycom 7 months ago

    Ghanaweb.....correction
    Board Member of Bank of Ghana.
    Not Ghana of Ghana !!!

  • Kwame 7 months ago

    This is not the first time this is happening. I believe there was a good reason why it was stopped. Bank of Ghana should look at this carefully.

  • K 7 months ago

    This news has the tendency to increase the price of the dollar in the short term as people may rush to purchase some at the Forex bureau or quickly withdraw while there is time. Such information should be well managed.

  • Jet 7 months ago

    That will just make the cedis stronger. Cos the dollar will just be everywhere. To spend it u need to change it to cedis. Simple. If u all withdraw ur dollars there will be plenty I. The system. The more there is the less va ...
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  • K 7 months ago

    Unfortunately Jet, you turned the economics upside down - rather, if people rush to buy dollars at the Forex bureaus or rush to withdraw their dollar savings, there will be higher demand for the dollar (i.e. cedis chasing do ...
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  • Christmas for black market 7 months ago

    So you might as well close the forex bureaus and we head back to the old black market. I for one don’t know how to keep cedis I only keep dollars. Dollar remains the same anytime more or less . As for cedis things can chang ...
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  • Jet 7 months ago

    U are all the reason we are where we are. I agree. If u save dollars u reap cedis. So keep it there and see.

  • Citizen8 7 months ago

    Adongo, are you the Head of Public Relations of the Bank of Ghana? Leave announcements like this to Bank of Ghana to handle, please. It appears you talk too much.

  • Now Now 7 months ago

    Adongo
    Please leave your booklong
    Don't bring in ANY confusion to disturb the cedi gains
    If he brings dollars and you insist you will not give him back dollars
    Which fool will continue to bring the dollars
    Allow the fo ...
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  • ABUSUAPANIN KWAKU PE BIRIBI ADIA WUO 7 months ago

    Why did it take our authorities so long ti block the leakage of dollars from the system? This simple policy, if enforced, will stabilize the cedi. Bravo!!

  • THIS POLICY FAILED BEFORE.........IT WILL AGAIN 7 months ago

    NOBODY WILL DEPOSIT DOLLARS AT THE BANK AGAIN AND SOME OF US WITH DOLLAR ACCOUNT OUTSIDE GHANA WILL NO LONGER MOVE THE DOLLAR BACK TO GHANA.

  • AB 7 months ago

    Simplicita. Implement this kind of policy and significantly reduce diaspora remittances and $ deposits. This will reduce $ supply, encourage $ hoarding. We all know what the consequence is!

    Announcement of policy is an ope ...
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  • Incompetent fools 7 months ago

    They didn't learn from their last fiasco under Tekpe

  • No Nonsense Man 7 months ago

    This is why Dr. Bawumia is no match for Adongo in economics. This is perhaps the Bob's third board meeting and fantastic economic decisions are being taken. Only God can tell the level of the Cedi appreciation by the end of 2 ...
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  • BUT SHARING TAX PAYERS DOLLARS ON THE STREETS IS ALLOWED! 7 months ago

    Nkwaseasem. Withdrawing my own dollars over the counter is not allowed. But sharing taxpayers dollars on the streets is allowed.

    Adongo wrong timing for this announcement. Its shooting oneself in the foot. LOL!

  • Kwabena Dickson 7 months ago

    I don't know why this should turn into insult among citizens. In fact if you go to most countries as a visitor, you can only change your Dollar with a money changer or they'll tell you go to the Bank. Even in some African cou ...
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  • Fox leg 7 months ago

    Today my Email and my phone has break Olympic records as certain morons stinking fools attempt to hackers Email and phone.If you admit to be stinking fool then continue to hack my email and phone.Morons

  • Jubilee House Rat. 7 months ago

    Atinga Frafra, does not know what a horse he’s talking about.

  • Obibs 7 months ago

    Is it any wonder people hide their foreign exchange money under their beds ?

  • Tweaa 7 months ago

    GOOD NEWS FOR BLACK MARKET OPERATORS. YAWIE

  • Shameful 7 months ago

    They are bringing back this stupid forex policy

  • ADONGO WHERE IS THE GOVERNOR? 7 months ago

    Please Adongo Bank of Ghana monetary policies must be communicated by the Governor himself or his deputies acting under his instructions. Who instructed Adomgo to make such sensitive statements on Gank of Ghana's behalf. So t ...
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  • SANTROFIE 7 months ago

    NONSENSE!!!

  • JB 7 months ago

    Nonsense. I deposit dollars and you insist I cannot get my dollars back? Then why don't ban dollar accounts in Ghana then?

  • Henrietta 7 months ago

    How about those selling properties in dollars in Ghana, they should really work on that too.Thank you.

  • Dan 7 months ago

    Yeap who ever needs dollar should go to Sammy Gyemfi

  • Good governance 7 months ago

    Thus is how is done in every devolop country. You can not withdraw dollars from any country banks in Europe just like that as is done in many African countries.In Ghana today everything is in dollars instead of cedis even s ...
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  • Sam 7 months ago

    I hope you are not going do the Npp way where minister's and some people close the government will be hiding the money in their homes like madam CP did.

  • Born again 7 months ago

    Goatee

  • GAKPO 7 months ago

    And the house's at East legon,Airport, Cantonment etc which are been sold in Dollars. What is he doing about it? Talk is cheap..Close all Dollar account and open ways for black market.

  • Bro kwesi 7 months ago

    This man will give bank of Ghana problems peewhhhh

  • Kwaku. 7 months ago

    Mr. Adongo; with all due respect, your understanding of the role of the dollar is too narrow for the good of the national economy at this point in time. Millions of Ghanaians overseas and their local relatives acquire dollars ...
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  • MOG 7 months ago

    Adongo you are too chatty. You will cause panic withdrawal. Who sent you to come and spew this Nonsense.
    The government should get ready for a lot of law suits.
    Hypocrites and parasites!!

  • Agbalagba 7 months ago

    Nobody will ever control my access to my own money

  • TonyB 7 months ago

    That is a good decision The dollar is not legal render in Ghana

  • Edward 7 months ago

    We are back to square one. So this government too is hell bent on stealing depositors US dollars? The reason people are encouraged to deposit hard USD is that the government wants to blot dollars from the markets and keep the ...
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  • 12345 7 months ago

    fear and panic, nothing more nothing less. the banks claim they haven't received any such directive so what is the Bongo Adam smith sayinig?

  • Zionism is racism 7 months ago

    This measure is likely to discourage people from putting dollars in Ghana banks.

  • Erik 7 months ago

    This is insane. How can i be prevented from assessing my own money which I've saved from my bank. If it's to curtail the forex to the black market then what the ought to do is totally ban all transactions in forex in the coun ...
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  • Kwame 7 months ago

    Then you will find more dollars in Cecilia Dapah's room

  • Roce Koran 7 months ago

    Adongo, Pls stop this nonsense, if anything let BOG say it with explanations. NDC did this in 2014 and it backfired. BOG reversed it in 2016 and Bawuliar took credit for it. Politicians don't learn be true talk

  • Why the government use dollar rate to charge duties at Tema port 7 months ago

    Why the government use dollar rate to charge duties at Tema port?
    Why politicians keep their money in dollars?
    Why politicians always seek medical treatment abroad?
    Why politicians invest in abroad
    Why politicians send t ...
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  • AMARIYA 7 months ago

    TIME TO OPEN FOREIGN ACCOUNTS IN LOME

    Sometime ago, Lome was a place for some people to open and save foreign currency because it was difficult to obtain the same funds from A Ghana accounts. We would enrich the The Togole ...
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  • Kwadwo 7 months ago

    Stop the nonsense. You don't speak for BOG, you are only a Board member

  • Obi 7 months ago

    You are telling us to keep our dollars at home instead of the bank. In the long run, who will suffer.? The star right

  • Osei 7 months ago

    You are out there floating in dollars, Sammy Gyamfi eating and sleeping in dollars, but you come out here to tell us not to use dollars, moy3 mmoa

  • Obuobisa 7 months ago

    I strongly believe the president has a very good reason why he didn't appoint this guy to any ministerial position. He's a loose cannon.

  • Jd 7 months ago

    Well said

  • Jd 7 months ago

    The value is the same

  • Abrefa 7 months ago

    Adongo, you stuck your foot right inside your mouth. Don't try to angle for relevance as a BOG Board member.

  • Sycamore 7 months ago

    If i was hon. Adongo i would've slapped the hell outta that npp communicator calling himself a journalist Evans Mensah or simply just walk out. What's that is Evans a journalist or a propagandist?

  • Kennedy and Brian? 7 months ago

    You are a stupid finance man
    Mahama did this before after the senkyi stupid economic dialogue
    What was the result?
    Do you want to cease our hard earned dollars and euros in our various bank accounts?

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  • ODS-USA 7 months ago

    Foolish talk saaaa, so what about if I decide not deposit my dollars or foreign currencies with any Ghanaian bank and keep them in my safe so that I can use it whenever I need it? It's my own money and I have every right to u ...
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  • Nana osei 7 months ago

    Adongo,Are you reasoning?I gave you a cattle to keep for me. You agreed and said anytime I need my cattle you will give me.Now Adongo says instead of cattle I will give you goat

  • Joshua 7 months ago

    NONSENSE

  • Okonengye Kingsley 7 months ago

    A liar . Isack Adongo is not credible one beat.
    Loot at his face.

  • Efo Kofi 7 months ago

    Kwasiaa you talk by heart

  • Kpleke 7 months ago

    Thank you very much Adongo. You've let us see the evil this gov was up to. We'd have woken up one day to this rude shock in the banks: the dollars you sent to them over the counter, you can't get it back over the counter.
    A ...
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  • Zantona 7 months ago

    Now BOG is doing fire fighting, claiming no such plan was on the offing. Now we know the 'apam' BOG was 'paamming'. Onyame ahu mo oooo. Your butt is exposed, mo to ada hɔ

  • Kwame 7 months ago

    He spoke “by heart”. His actions caused a marginal gain by the dollar.
    Government and BoG must sanction who to speak to the issue of the dollar before they start causing fear and panic.

  • SAP 7 months ago

    Adongo must be sick in his head to spue those nonsense. No normal human being will talk like he did. He possibly needs a psychiatrist. Maybe his inability to secure a ministerial appointment is making him crazy!
    I think he ...
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  • Shameful 7 months ago

    They are bringing back this stupid forex policy