Politicians not responsible for huge wage bill - Fifi Kwetey

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• Joe 12 years ago

  Why? Becasue if you pay wages of the public sector after negotiations, the back pay starts from January of that same year. Whilst that of the politicians and article 71 office holders are back dated to 4 years. So for instanc ...
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  Why? Becasue if you pay wages of the public sector after negotiations, the back pay starts from January of that same year. Whilst that of the politicians and article 71 office holders are back dated to 4 years. So for instance in his analysis, GHC60m times 4 years would be GHC240m. We should remember that the articles 71 officer are more than 500 as he is claiming.

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• SGT ANANI FIADZOE 12 years ago

  The only option left for Nana Akufo Addo is to run into the Atiwa Forest following the gargantuan disgrace unfolding before our eyes. He will either concentrate on wee farming in the forest or start a guerrilla warfare.
  
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  The only option left for Nana Akufo Addo is to run into the Atiwa Forest following the gargantuan disgrace unfolding before our eyes. He will either concentrate on wee farming in the forest or start a guerrilla warfare.
  
  How Kofi Coomson (Chronicle owner) was so right in his caution about Nana is too dangerous to be handed the leadership of this nation and that he cannot sleep with both eyes closed with Nana as President.
  
  And did we not hear Pastor Otabil's warning from God that people who say "all-die-be-die" are bad company? And yet some people have disobeyed God and chosen to keep company with the architect of "all-die-be-die"? Nana will bring disaster to Ghana!!!

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• OLD SOLDIER 12 years ago

  Author:Jato Julor (J.J.) Rawlings...
  Hahaaaaa, Afari Djan on the ropes !
  
  Dr. Afari Djan, the self-acclaimed god of elections, currently finds himself between a rock and a hard place.
  
  The noose around his neck is gettin ...
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  Author:Jato Julor (J.J.) Rawlings...
  Hahaaaaa, Afari Djan on the ropes !
  
  Dr. Afari Djan, the self-acclaimed god of elections, currently finds himself between a rock and a hard place.
  
  The noose around his neck is getting tighter and tighter with ever lie that spews out of the mouth of the Tilapia fish-farmer.
  
  The chief returning officer of elections in Ghana is today claiming never to have heard what 'pdf'(portable document format)means.
  
  Lucky for Afari Djan, the NPP will teach him what pdf is all about today for free.
  
  We shall make every NDC foolsoldier see the gargantuan stealing prowess of Afari Djan.

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• Sis Vicky Hammah 12 years ago

  Politicians not responsible for huge wage bill - Fifi Kwetey
  
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  How could they be culpable for our our bloated payrolls and their jumbo salaries and perks? These gullible Ghanians paaa...
  
  It looks like we g ...
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  Politicians not responsible for huge wage bill - Fifi Kwetey
  
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  How could they be culpable for our our bloated payrolls and their jumbo salaries and perks? These gullible Ghanians paaa...
  
  It looks like we got short memories; our politicians are doing brain work, and hence, we must tighten our belts; anaa? Smile.
  
  The audacity of some people...
  
  Well, let's wait and see the out come of the SC judgement; what time is on by the way?
  
  Have we eaten all the meat really down to the bone? How did our politicians do that?

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• Jato Julor (J.J.) Rawlings 12 years ago

  Fiifi Kwety,go tell the Togolese such balderdash.
  
  Are farmers, fishermen or barbers controlling the national purse, or your corrupt govt ?
  
  Wasn't your govt which help created the 45 new constituencies ?
  
  Isn't the cor ...
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  Fiifi Kwety,go tell the Togolese such balderdash.
  
  Are farmers, fishermen or barbers controlling the national purse, or your corrupt govt ?
  
  Wasn't your govt which help created the 45 new constituencies ?
  
  Isn't the corrupt NDC govt that has made you a minister of allied financial bull though we have a finance minister and 2 deputies ?
  
  Can you tell Ghanaians why you Fiifi Kwetey should be living on our taxes as a minister of state ?

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• GHANAVIA 12 years ago

  In real sense, Ghana under the NDC of contemporary government, led by Dramani Mahama has TWO Finance Ministers in the persons of Seth Terkper and Fifi Kwetey.
  
  Clumsily, Mahama's pseudonymous re-designation of the office of ...
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  In real sense, Ghana under the NDC of contemporary government, led by Dramani Mahama has TWO Finance Ministers in the persons of Seth Terkper and Fifi Kwetey.
  
  Clumsily, Mahama's pseudonymous re-designation of the office of Fifi Kwetey could not and will not conceal the functions of the latter as one of the Finance Minister.
  
  Notwithstanding this position of two Finance Ministers (of one nation), the NDC is still incapable of prudently managing the economy.
  
  Did NDC come or go?

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• insight to the bone 12 years ago

  it is nothing new that the great minds and leaders of the Akans are being continuously persecuted , killed or slandered by non Akans at the drop of a hat , now the time has come for freedom from these rivers of Babylon , the ...
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  it is nothing new that the great minds and leaders of the Akans are being continuously persecuted , killed or slandered by non Akans at the drop of a hat , now the time has come for freedom from these rivers of Babylon , the lord shall set us free as he so delivered the children of isreal from Egypt so shall the time come to free us from these evil pepeni and ayigbe devils with their traitors amongst us. we are now ready to fight in any way or form as victory is ours . there will be no mercy for these collaborators and traitors as it is necessary to wipe out their mutant genes by taking out their parents brothers and cousins who have also been polluted by this ndc greed. forward ever backward never , long live the republic of Akan

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• SGT ANANI FIADZOE 12 years ago

  Every NDC so-called politician is just
  an idiot, and considers every Ghanaian
  as senseless, as such they can loot
  from the Tax Payers and later comes out to throw dust into the eyes of civilized Ghanaian people because, ND ...
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  Every NDC so-called politician is just
  an idiot, and considers every Ghanaian
  as senseless, as such they can loot
  from the Tax Payers and later comes out to throw dust into the eyes of civilized Ghanaian people because, NDC claim Ghanaians are idiots when matters comes out they will make noise up to two weeks, they forget about it.
  
  How can NDC Government can grant increment to MPs 100% and back date
  it for 2 years, Ghanaian People where
  are we going as a nation under this
  NDC idiots and total criminals headed by senseless and corrupt Mahama?
  
  Look at a liar such as this Fiifi Quartery a thief like that claiming
  he is a politician, ohhhh!! Ghana.

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• Cold Thunder 12 years ago

  He must do a comparative analysis of the number of MPs, ministers... and the total amount being paid to them as a ratio to the total number of public center workers and the amount being paid to them as percentages of the over ...
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  He must do a comparative analysis of the number of MPs, ministers... and the total amount being paid to them as a ratio to the total number of public center workers and the amount being paid to them as percentages of the overall wage bill.
  If he had done that he would have realised that with their number they contribute the highest percentage in relative terms to the wage bill.

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• ABOKYI 12 years ago

  This is what you get when you vote for idiots and fools. If Politicians who implemented this sick SSSS policy through the lenses of vote buying by trippling the salaries of workers without corresponding production or revenue ...
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  This is what you get when you vote for idiots and fools. If Politicians who implemented this sick SSSS policy through the lenses of vote buying by trippling the salaries of workers without corresponding production or revenue enhancement, that result is the imbalance of budget and wrecking havoc in the economy.
  
  SSSS was not planned to tripple the salaries of workers who ended up not benefitting greatly since their windfall were wittled down by increase in services product prices.
  
  SSSS main plan was to streamline government pay structure amongst government workers with the same qualifications but Ndc saw this opportunity as a political win win situation by first migrating the security forces into SSSS by trippling their salaries that had Tsunami effect on all government workers.

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• ST SIMON 12 years ago

  WHAT ABOUT THE POLITICIANS FREEBIES ON BILLS, FUEL, TELEPHONES, WATER. THEY ALSO TAKE HUGE ALLOWANCES ON HOUSEHELPS, ENTERTAINMENT, TRAVEL, ACCOMMODATION, CARS ETC, ETC. THEIR FRIVOLOUS SPENDING IS THE BANE.

  WHAT ABOUT THE POLITICIANS FREEBIES ON BILLS, FUEL, TELEPHONES, WATER. THEY ALSO TAKE HUGE ALLOWANCES ON HOUSEHELPS, ENTERTAINMENT, TRAVEL, ACCOMMODATION, CARS ETC, ETC. THEIR FRIVOLOUS SPENDING IS THE BANE.

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• KOW Amisah 12 years ago

  I don't have the information to enable me say the total cause of the huge national wage bill. What i can say for sure is that there are so many waste pipes that can be blocked to reduce the national wage bill. Some of these a ...
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  I don't have the information to enable me say the total cause of the huge national wage bill. What i can say for sure is that there are so many waste pipes that can be blocked to reduce the national wage bill. Some of these are the review of allowannces and some funny benefits of state employees. Also there are a lot of people who do not do any work in their offices but take pay. Visit all our MDAs and see things for yourself. Check when people go to work and when they close and decide if we need all of them.

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• WARD GDX - WE THE PEOPLE 12 years ago

  He is very despicable.
  
  Senselessness and loud mouthing got him this useless position and he has now traded his agaba for suits.
  
  Only in Ghana

  He is very despicable.
  
  Senselessness and loud mouthing got him this useless position and he has now traded his agaba for suits.
  
  Only in Ghana

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• Aponkye 12 years ago

  You call a ministerial position as 'useless'? Envy will send you to your early grave.

  You call a ministerial position as 'useless'? Envy will send you to your early grave.

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• Ayariga 12 years ago

  There is a difference between a Minister and the one occupying the position. Whereas the position is honorable, the current occupants have reduced it to uselessness. That is the reason. It is not envy. Look at the trash comin ...
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  There is a difference between a Minister and the one occupying the position. Whereas the position is honorable, the current occupants have reduced it to uselessness. That is the reason. It is not envy. Look at the trash coming from them, the stealing, corruption, empty headedness, insults and you call those things ministers? My foot

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• ATOM 12 years ago

  GHANA'S ECONOMY IS BROKE NOT BECAUSE OUR NATION IS NATURALLY BROKE.
  
  GHANA IS VERY NATURALLY RICH, BUT IT DOES TAKE PRAGMATIC, HARDWORKING AND COMMONSENSE LEADERSHIP TO BUILD UP THE ECONOMY.
  
  WHERE DO GHANA'S EXPORT REVE ...
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  GHANA'S ECONOMY IS BROKE NOT BECAUSE OUR NATION IS NATURALLY BROKE.
  
  GHANA IS VERY NATURALLY RICH, BUT IT DOES TAKE PRAGMATIC, HARDWORKING AND COMMONSENSE LEADERSHIP TO BUILD UP THE ECONOMY.
  
  WHERE DO GHANA'S EXPORT REVENUES FROM GOLD, DIAMONDS, MANGANESE, TIMBER, BAUXITE, OIL, ELECTRICITY SUPPLY TO OTHER COUNTRIES,KILLER TAXES AND TARIFFS, AND MANY OTHERS GO TO?
  
  INCREASING THE NUMBER OF MPs TO 275 WHEN THERE'S NO JOB WHATSOEVER FOR THEM TO DO CERTAINLY DOES NOT GROW THE ECONOMY.
  
  INCREASING THE NUMBER OF MINISTERS, DEPUTY MINISTERS AND OTHER POLITICAL APPOINTEES WILL CERTAINLY NOT PROMOTE ECONOMIC GROWTH.
  
  DON'T FORGET, ALL THESE APPOINTEES ARE TOTALLY REDUNDANT WITH NO PRACTICAL ECONOMIC PRODUCTIVITY WHATSOEVER, YET THEY ALL COLLECT FAT SALARIES, BRIBES, ALLOWANCES AND END OF SERVICE BENEFITS AT THE END OF EVERY FOUR YEARS.
  
  CONSIDER GHANA TO BE A PRIVATE CORPORATION, WITH THE STATE INSTITUTIONS AS THE STRATEGIC BUSINESS UNITS. ALL WITH WAGE BILLS BUT NO PRODUCTIVITY WHATSOEVER. THE CORPORATION WILL COLLAPSE IN NO TIME.
  
  THIS IS THE CASE WITH GHANA PLC!!
  
  ADD THE ABOVE TO SINGLE SPINE SALARIES, AND DISASTER WILL BE STARING AT YOU RIGHT IN THE FACE.
  
  THAT'S WHAT IS HAPPENING IN GHANA NOW.
  
  GHANA IS ENDOWED WITH COUNTLESS NATURAL RESOURCES WITH A HUGE POTENTIAL FOR DIVERSIFIED NATIONAL REVENUES GENERATION, YET OUR LAZY VISIONLESS LEADERSHIP THINK OF ONLY IMPORT DUTIES, TAXES AND TARIFF REVENUES GENERATION TO SHORE UP THE ECONOMY.
  
  THIS IS WHAT MAKES GHANA LEADERS ARE TERRIBLY USELESS.
  
  IF HARDWORKING NKRUMAH HAD NOT HAD THE VISION TO PROVIDE ALL THOSE INFRASTRUCTURE WE NOW ENJOY, WHERE WOULD GHANA BE BY NOW?
  
  THE INDEPENDENCE SQUARE, AKOSOMBO DAM AND MANY OTHERS BUILT BY NKRUMAH ARE WHAT I'M REFERRING TO HERE.
  
  OUR NUMEROUS LAZY LEADERS SHOULD CONTINUE LOOTING THE NATION.
  
  WE SHALL ALL SWIM IN THE SHIT THEY CREATE

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• ATOM 12 years ago

  GHANA'S ECONOMY IS BROKE NOT BECAUSE OUR NATION IS NATURALLY BROKE.
  
  GHANA IS VERY NATURALLY RICH, BUT IT DOES TAKE PRAGMATIC, HARDWORKING AND COMMONSENSE LEADERSHIP TO BUILD UP THE ECONOMY.
  
  WHERE DO GHANA'S EXPORT REVE ...
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  GHANA'S ECONOMY IS BROKE NOT BECAUSE OUR NATION IS NATURALLY BROKE.
  
  GHANA IS VERY NATURALLY RICH, BUT IT DOES TAKE PRAGMATIC, HARDWORKING AND COMMONSENSE LEADERSHIP TO BUILD UP THE ECONOMY.
  
  WHERE DO GHANA'S EXPORT REVENUES FROM GOLD, DIAMONDS, MANGANESE, TIMBER, BAUXITE, OIL, ELECTRICITY SUPPLY TO OTHER COUNTRIES, KILLER TAXES AND TARIFFS, AND MANY OTHERS GO TO?
  
  INCREASING THE NUMBER OF MPs TO 275 WHEN THERE'S NO JOB WHATSOEVER FOR THEM TO DO CERTAINLY DOES NOT GROW THE ECONOMY.
  
  INCREASING THE NUMBER OF MINISTERS, DEPUTY MINISTERS AND OTHER POLITICAL APPOINTEES WITH THEIR OVERHEADS TO PAY WILL CERTAINLY NOT PROMOTE ECONOMIC GROWTH.
  
  DON'T FORGET, ALL THESE APPOINTEES ARE TOTALLY REDUNDANT WITH NO PRACTICAL ECONOMIC PRODUCTIVITY WHATSOEVER, YET THEY ALL COLLECT FAT SALARIES, BRIBES, ALLOWANCES AND END OF "SERVICE" BENEFITS AT THE END OF EVERY FOUR YEARS.
  
  CONSIDER GHANA TO BE A PRIVATE CORPORATION OR PLC, WITH THE STATE INSTITUTIONS AS THE STRATEGIC BUSINESS UNITS. ALL WITH WAGE BILLS TO PAY, BUT NO PRODUCTIVITY WHATSOEVER TO JUSTIFY THE WAGE BILLS.
  
  THE CORPORATION WILL COLLAPSE IN NO TIME.
  
  THAT'S WHY ALL OF GHANA'S STATE INSTITUTIONS ARE HOPELESSLY DEPENDENT ON GOVERNMENT SUBVETIONS.
  
  THIS IS THE CASE WITH GHANA PLC!!
  
  ADD THE ABOVE TO SINGLE SPINE SALARIES MONTHLY PAYMENTS IN THE FACE OF ZERO PRODUCTIVITY, AND DISASTER WILL BE STARING AT YOU RIGHT IN THE FACE.
  
  THAT'S WHAT IS HAPPENING IN GHANA NOW.
  
  GHANA IS ENDOWED WITH COUNTLESS NATURAL RESOURCES WITH A HUGE POTENTIAL FOR DIVERSIFIED NATIONAL REVENUES GENERATION AND OTHER NATIONAL INCOMES, YET OUR LAZY VISIONLESS LEADERSHIP THINK OF ONLY IMPORT DUTIES, TAXES AND TARIFF REVENUES GENERATION TO SHORE UP THE ECONOMY.
  
  THIS IS WHAT MAKES GHANA LEADERS TERRIBLY USELESS.
  
  IF HARDWORKING NKRUMAH HAD NOT HAD THE VISION TO PROVIDE ALL THOSE INFRASTRUCTURE WE NOW ENJOY, WHERE WOULD GHANA BE BY NOW WHEN MOST OF THEM HAVE BEEN SOLLD OFF?
  
  THE INDEPENDENCE SQUARE, AKOSOMBO DAM AND MANY OTHERS BUILT BY NKRUMAH ARE WHAT I'M REFERRING TO HERE.
  
  OUR NUMEROUS LAZY LEADERS SHOULD CONTINUE LOOTING THE NATION.
  
  WE SHALL ALL SWIM IN THE SHIT THEY CREATE

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• ATOM 12 years ago

  GHANA'S ECONOMY IS BROKE NOT BECAUSE OUR NATION IS NATURALLY BROKE.
  
  GHANA IS VERY NATURALLY RICH, BUT IT DOES TAKE PRAGMATIC, HARDWORKING AND COMMONSENSE LEADERSHIP TO BUILD UP THE ECONOMY.
  
  WHERE DO GHANA'S EXPORT REV ...
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  GHANA'S ECONOMY IS BROKE NOT BECAUSE OUR NATION IS NATURALLY BROKE.
  
  GHANA IS VERY NATURALLY RICH, BUT IT DOES TAKE PRAGMATIC, HARDWORKING AND COMMONSENSE LEADERSHIP TO BUILD UP THE ECONOMY.
  
  WHERE DO GHANA'S EXPORT REVENUES FROM GOLD, DIAMONDS, MANGANESE, TIMBER, BAUXITE, OIL, ELECTRICITY SUPPLY TO OTHER COUNTRIES, KILLER TAXES AND TARIFFS, AND MANY OTHERS GO TO?
  
  INCREASING THE NUMBER OF MPs TO 275 WHEN THERE'S NO JOB WHATSOEVER FOR THEM TO DO CERTAINLY DOES NOT GROW THE ECONOMY.
  
  INCREASING THE NUMBER OF MINISTERS, DEPUTY MINISTERS AND OTHER POLITICAL APPOINTEES WITH THEIR OVERHEADS TO PAY WILL CERTAINLY NOT PROMOTE ECONOMIC GROWTH.
  
  DON'T FORGET, ALL THESE APPOINTEES ARE TOTALLY REDUNDANT WITH NO PRACTICAL ECONOMIC PRODUCTIVITY WHATSOEVER, YET THEY ALL COLLECT FAT SALARIES, BRIBES, ALLOWANCES AND END OF "SERVICE" BENEFITS AT THE END OF EVERY FOUR YEARS.
  
  CONSIDER GHANA TO BE A PRIVATE CORPORATION OR PLC, WITH THE STATE INSTITUTIONS AS THE STRATEGIC BUSINESS UNITS. ALL WITH WAGE BILLS TO PAY, BUT NO PRODUCTIVITY WHATSOEVER TO JUSTIFY THE WAGE BILLS.
  
  THE CORPORATION WILL COLLAPSE IN NO TIME.
  
  THAT'S WHY ALL OF GHANA'S STATE INSTITUTIONS ARE HOPELESSLY DEPENDENT ON GOVERNMENT SUBVENTIONS.
  
  IF I WERE THE PRESIDENT OF GHANA, I'LL NEVER APPROVE END OF SERVICE BENEFITS TO ANY WORKER WHOSE INSTITUTION IS DEPENDENT ON GOVERNMENT SUBVENTION.
  
  THIS IS THE CASE WITH GHANA PLC!!
  
  ADD THE ABOVE TO SINGLE SPINE SALARIES MONTHLY PAYMENTS IN THE FACE OF ZERO PRODUCTIVITY, AND DISASTER WILL BE STARING AT YOU RIGHT IN THE FACE.
  
  THAT'S WHAT IS HAPPENING IN GHANA NOW.
  
  GHANA IS ENDOWED WITH COUNTLESS NATURAL RESOURCES WITH A HUGE POTENTIAL FOR DIVERSIFIED NATIONAL REVENUES GENERATION AND OTHER NATIONAL INCOMES.
  
  YET OUR LAZY VISIONLESS LEADERSHIP THINK OF ONLY IMPORT DUTIES, TAXES AND TARIFF REVENUES GENERATION TO SHORE UP THE ECONOMY IN THE MIDST OF PLENTY.
  
  THIS IS WHAT MAKES GHANA LEADERS TERRIBLY USELESS.
  
  IF HARDWORKING NKRUMAH HAD NOT HAD THE VISION TO PROVIDE ALL THOSE INFRASTRUCTURE WE NOW ENJOY, WHERE WOULD GHANA BE BY NOW WHEN MOST OF THEM HAVE BEEN SOLLD OFF?
  
  THE INDEPENDENCE SQUARE, AKOSOMBO DAM AND MANY OTHERS BUILT BY NKRUMAH ARE WHAT I'M REFERRING TO HERE.
  
  OUR NUMEROUS LAZY LEADERS SHOULD CONTINUE LOOTING THE NATION.
  
  WE SHALL ALL SWIM IN THE SHIT THEY CREATE.

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• WARD GDX - WE THE PEOPLE 12 years ago

  I have alway insisted that RECOLONIZATION is the only way out.
  
  Colonial and immediate post colonial Ghana was wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy better Ghana than now.
  
  The country is only getting worse with each passing year.
  
  We ...
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  I have alway insisted that RECOLONIZATION is the only way out.
  
  Colonial and immediate post colonial Ghana was wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy better Ghana than now.
  
  The country is only getting worse with each passing year.
  
  We are just incapable of managing anything.
  
  Everyone will be better under colonial rule

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• NANA NYANSA, GERMANY 12 years ago

  FIFI KWETEY I DON´T BLAME YOU BUT JJ RAWLINGS AND ATTA MILLS !! GHANAIANS KNOW YOU ARE CORRUPT SO SHUT UP WITH YOUR NONSENSE. YOUR TIME WILL COME BOOK A PLACE AT NSAWAM.

  FIFI KWETEY I DON´T BLAME YOU BUT JJ RAWLINGS AND ATTA MILLS !! GHANAIANS KNOW YOU ARE CORRUPT SO SHUT UP WITH YOUR NONSENSE. YOUR TIME WILL COME BOOK A PLACE AT NSAWAM.

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• Oteng.....USA 12 years ago

  You were trying to hang this on NPP. Ndc-Hippocrates did you hear your own ministers?

  You were trying to hang this on NPP. Ndc-Hippocrates did you hear your own ministers?

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• Zombie Killer 12 years ago

  GYEEDA

  GYEEDA

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• Shamu 12 years ago

  It sound foolish. No wonder why the country is not moving forward. If 73% of tax is use to pay public servant, then what is the use of those public servant if they can not work to pay themselves through their respective posit ...
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  It sound foolish. No wonder why the country is not moving forward. If 73% of tax is use to pay public servant, then what is the use of those public servant if they can not work to pay themselves through their respective positions? It really sound stupid.

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• DONBOLI 12 years ago

  Why is the man complainingfor, wrong job he is in. If 75% of the money is used to pay workers, what is wrong with that. If NDC govt decides that is way it should be, why is he complaining.
  John Mahama govt is a failed govt a ...
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  Why is the man complainingfor, wrong job he is in. If 75% of the money is used to pay workers, what is wrong with that. If NDC govt decides that is way it should be, why is he complaining.
  John Mahama govt is a failed govt and they can fix any problem the economy is going thru. They no the problems talk about them and do nothing about them.
  If 75% of the country is employed then we would have a problem. Its only 10% of ghanaians are employed by the state and we are paying the 75% of our national capital.
  Its shows how useless John Mahama govt is.

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• Eric Asamoah. 12 years ago

  How can a man be paid when it work doesn't suit work force capacity.S S SS is implement in a country where corruption is low,where people commited to die for their country,people serious to their time .Look the pay role of Gh ...
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  How can a man be paid when it work doesn't suit work force capacity.S S SS is implement in a country where corruption is low,where people commited to die for their country,people serious to their time .Look the pay role of Ghanaian workers, alot of ghost names ,the institutions are not strong enough to control all the minor errors,and the mind set of the people is low that materialism is killing us and no one don't want to sacrifice for the nation how can this policy hold!

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• Sylvanus Agbemenyah 12 years ago

  Mr. Fiifi should tells ghanaians how much he takes home as basic salary, allowances and other incentives as compared to what politicians were taking 4 years and 8 year back respectively, then we would all, as a nation, know t ...
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  Mr. Fiifi should tells ghanaians how much he takes home as basic salary, allowances and other incentives as compared to what politicians were taking 4 years and 8 year back respectively, then we would all, as a nation, know that politicians with their insanity greed are not responsible for the huge wage bill.

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• GHANAVIA 12 years ago

  Nyebro, 'talk some'.

  Nyebro, 'talk some'.

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• ofori amoako 12 years ago

  Kindly explain to me why a country with a population of 26 million has more ministers and MPs per capita than the United States with a population of 200 million. And why do we have overlapping ministers and departments perfor ...
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  Kindly explain to me why a country with a population of 26 million has more ministers and MPs per capita than the United States with a population of 200 million. And why do we have overlapping ministers and departments performing duplicate functions? Is it because public appointments has turned into a mechanism for rewarding party faithfuls with no qualifications and experience for the jobs they are appointed to?

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• SULE 12 years ago

  Fifi Kwetey should stop his propaganda tinged analysis which doesn't do anybody any good and come out with the figures. He should come out with the specifics which can be independently verified and then Ghanaians can put this ...
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  Fifi Kwetey should stop his propaganda tinged analysis which doesn't do anybody any good and come out with the figures. He should come out with the specifics which can be independently verified and then Ghanaians can put this "huge wage bill" singsong in it's right perspective, because I can bet my last pesewa that, the incompetent and inept propagandist Fifi Kwetey does not deserve a single pesewa of the huge salary, huge emoluments, huge benefits, huge per diems, etc, etc, all of which goes into the wage bill and a host of other article 71 office holders. Ghana needs to know because the John Mahama led administration, whose credibility is at best worthless and not even fit for tender in any transaction, is creating a mountain out of a molehill and Ghanaians need the figures to do the maths. The looting and stealing alone by the Mills-Mahama-Amissah Arthur administration is 10X this wage bill business they are talking about, let alone mismanagement, inefficiencies, negligence, inept and downright incompetence in implementing the SSPP.

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• Afari 12 years ago

  It is unfortunate that such a high government official with some responsibility in helping manage our financial resources can make such an arguement in public. I hope he knows that demand for wages is also influenced by what ...
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  It is unfortunate that such a high government official with some responsibility in helping manage our financial resources can make such an arguement in public. I hope he knows that demand for wages is also influenced by what the public perceives as their fair share of the cake knowing what others who participate in the sharing of are getting. Thus if the labourer thinks that the MP or for that matter the minister is carting home GHc 10,000/month which he or she has not worked for, why will he not ask for an increase in his/her salary. We have a fair knowledge of the financial status of most MPs and government appointees before they take office and we see the drastic change in lifestyle while they are in office so why wont we complain that we also want more money? Are they more equal than us as Ghanaians? Get to the root cause of the problem, stop the leaks in the revenue stream of the country and if you can just shut up!

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• SAMMY 12 years ago

  THIS TOO KNOWN BOY DOSE NOT KNOW THE ECONOMICAL STATE OF THE COUNTRY.FIFI IS JUST BEATING ABOUT THE BUSH.FIFI SHOULD KNOW THAT GHANAIANS ARE NOT FOOLS.THE FACT IS THAT NDC IS VISION LESS GOVT.

  THIS TOO KNOWN BOY DOSE NOT KNOW THE ECONOMICAL STATE OF THE COUNTRY.FIFI IS JUST BEATING ABOUT THE BUSH.FIFI SHOULD KNOW THAT GHANAIANS ARE NOT FOOLS.THE FACT IS THAT NDC IS VISION LESS GOVT.

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• Patience 12 years ago

  There is an old proverb that says when the load is too heavy for the body, then they say the pad on the is not good!. NDC did not consider what goes into governance. They were thinking they had the opportunity to steal, chase ...
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  There is an old proverb that says when the load is too heavy for the body, then they say the pad on the is not good!. NDC did not consider what goes into governance. They were thinking they had the opportunity to steal, chase girls and born more children, celebrating left and right.
  
  Now that reality has dawn on them and they are found wanting in all spheres of management, the are blaming anything. A lot of thought went into the SSSS but because the NDC has no brains, they cannot just conjure anything. Pack of ignorant shallow minded so called leaders. Continue dissipating the funds, a time will come when you cannot even pay your own salaries. By then there will so much public mobilization that your cheap propaganda cannot work. May be a spring may start from Ghana. Just continue and let your ignorant followers be shouting and insulting people. Time will tell.

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• OHO 12 years ago

  A proper computation of the salaries should be done to enable proper analysis of the problem. 3 years salary, i.e. 2010, 2011 and 2012 were all paid in 2012 and so Government cannot use such payment to refer to only year 2012 ...
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  A proper computation of the salaries should be done to enable proper analysis of the problem. 3 years salary, i.e. 2010, 2011 and 2012 were all paid in 2012 and so Government cannot use such payment to refer to only year 2012. Also errors were committed resulting in persons taken salaries that were not due them in year 2012. An audit by a firm of chartered Accountants should be carried out to have these monies refunded to chest. Some unscrupulous controller staff might also have chopped small from the exercise.
  For Government to have a handle on these matters, Government should ensure that the right persons are recruited into these sensitive jobs instead of patronage that is being used to bring in morons into the system, who have no idea about what the professions are all about.

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• YAW BOAFO 12 years ago

  WHY CAN'T THIS STUPID FIIFI LEARN.

  WHY CAN'T THIS STUPID FIIFI LEARN.

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• TONY 12 years ago

  Fiifi Kwetey's analogy is baseless. If he argues without admitting that GHc 60 m is used as emoluments for 500 minister in a year which is a drop in the mighty ocean, he should also consider how many civil servants will the s ...
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  Fiifi Kwetey's analogy is baseless. If he argues without admitting that GHc 60 m is used as emoluments for 500 minister in a year which is a drop in the mighty ocean, he should also consider how many civil servants will the same amount of GHc 60 m be used on as emoluments within a year. In this case we will be making a headway. My little mind tells me that the same amount could be used to pay about 5000 or more civil servants in a year so what is he saying.

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• k.k france 12 years ago

  what are u talking about?lets calculate the salaries and other big time benefits from the president,ministers,MP's(the robbers)all to the last man and lets see how much money is spent on them every month...infact they are the ...
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  what are u talking about?lets calculate the salaries and other big time benefits from the president,ministers,MP's(the robbers)all to the last man and lets see how much money is spent on them every month...infact they are the real cause of the country's breakdown..robbers dress in nice suites...

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• xcyborg 12 years ago

  I wonder if some of these folks(our leaders) really think before they talk. The bid the masses to tighten their belts and yet they grow pot bellies. What happened to conscience?

  I wonder if some of these folks(our leaders) really think before they talk. The bid the masses to tighten their belts and yet they grow pot bellies. What happened to conscience?

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• MENSAH 12 years ago

  The real pay of the POLITICIANS IS THE ONES THEY LOOT AND SAVE ABROAD.
  YOU ARE CORRUPT,SO FIFI KWETEY SHOULD SHUT UP,AND GIVE US A BREAK.
  WHO CAN BE TRUSTED IN GHANA?
  WE ARE ALL PRAYING THAT NPP WINS TO COME ANS SALVAGE T ...
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  The real pay of the POLITICIANS IS THE ONES THEY LOOT AND SAVE ABROAD.
  YOU ARE CORRUPT,SO FIFI KWETEY SHOULD SHUT UP,AND GIVE US A BREAK.
  WHO CAN BE TRUSTED IN GHANA?
  WE ARE ALL PRAYING THAT NPP WINS TO COME ANS SALVAGE THINGS YOU NDC HAS SPOILED.

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• JH New York 12 years ago

  I do not blame you.I blame the one whom employed you straight from School devoid any experience and his lack of Common Sense approach of appointing you Guys as Ministers without passing through the ranks.
  As a former preside ...
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  I do not blame you.I blame the one whom employed you straight from School devoid any experience and his lack of Common Sense approach of appointing you Guys as Ministers without passing through the ranks.
  As a former president was late Atta Mills not the senior politician in the Country? As foolish as he was,when he rushed to implemented someone suspended and discarded idea of SSPP without due diligence because the idea considering the state of our economy,would not be sustainable, what did Atta Mills think he was doing; reducing the Salaries & Wage bill?And your present boss approved a hefty Salary increases to MPs and Ministers with retrospective effect from 4 year and employs more deputy Ministers than necessary,what do you think would be the result? Is your boss and all of you not politician?.Again what are the duties of a Minister for Financial and Allied Institutions.

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• JH New York 12 years ago

  I do not blame you.I blame the one whom employed you straight from School devoid any experience and his lack of Common Sense approach of appointing you Guys as Ministers without passing through the ranks.
  As a former preside ...
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  I do not blame you.I blame the one whom employed you straight from School devoid any experience and his lack of Common Sense approach of appointing you Guys as Ministers without passing through the ranks.
  As a former president was late Atta Mills not the senior politician in the Country? As foolish as he was,when he rushed to implemented someone suspended and discarded idea of SSPP without due diligence because the idea considering the state of our economy,would not be sustainable, what did Atta Mills think he was doing; reducing the Salaries & Wage bill?And your present boss approved a hefty Salary increases to MPs and Ministers with retrospective effect from 4 year and employs more deputy Ministers than necessary,what do you think would be the result? Is your boss and all of you not politician?.Again what are the duties of a Minister for Financial and Allied Institutions.

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• JH New York 12 years ago

  I do not blame you.I blame the one whom employed you straight from School devoid any experience and his lack of Common Sense approach of appointing you Guys as Ministers without passing through the ranks.
  As a former preside ...
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  I do not blame you.I blame the one whom employed you straight from School devoid any experience and his lack of Common Sense approach of appointing you Guys as Ministers without passing through the ranks.
  As a former president was late Atta Mills not the senior politician in the Country? As foolish as he was,when he rushed to implemented someone suspended and discarded idea of SSPP without due diligence because the idea considering the state of our economy,would not be sustainable, what did Atta Mills think he was doing; reducing the Salaries & Wage bill?And your present boss approved a hefty Salary increases to MPs and Ministers with retrospective effect from 4 year and employs more deputy Ministers than necessary,what do you think would be the result? Is your boss and all of you not politician?.Again what are the duties of a Minister for Financial and Allied Institutions.

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