UK-based pharmacist petitions Mahama to investigate FDA

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Akua 12 years ago

Thank you, there is more, food and some many things into the Ghana market with no registration. Its the officials at FDA .

Thank you, there is more, food and some many things into the Ghana market with no registration. Its the officials at FDA .
E quarcoo 12 years ago

THE REAL TRUTH IS THAT IF YOU ARE PREPARED TO PAY THE FDA ALLOWS YOU TO BRING UNWHOLESOME MEDICINE INTO THE COUNTRY.
IF YOU REFUSE TO PAY THEN THEY GO AFTER YOU AND MAKE ALL SORTS OF NOISE
THE FDA OFFICIALS ARE CORRUPT JUST ...
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THE REAL TRUTH IS THAT IF YOU ARE PREPARED TO PAY THE FDA ALLOWS YOU TO BRING UNWHOLESOME MEDICINE INTO THE COUNTRY.
IF YOU REFUSE TO PAY THEN THEY GO AFTER YOU AND MAKE ALL SORTS OF NOISE
THE FDA OFFICIALS ARE CORRUPT JUST LIKE ALL OTHER GOVT REGULATORY AGENCIES
KOBLA ZEGO 12 years ago

IAM TOUCHED BY THIS PETITION AND TJE PATRIOTISM IT PORTRAYS

IAM TOUCHED BY THIS PETITION AND TJE PATRIOTISM IT PORTRAYS
Nana Ben 12 years ago

How on earth could products be sent to the FDA for testing and for over one year no response could be made on the aforementioned? This needs to be investigated. Some officials have taken the FDA as their personal properties a ...
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How on earth could products be sent to the FDA for testing and for over one year no response could be made on the aforementioned? This needs to be investigated. Some officials have taken the FDA as their personal properties and without bribe your product would not be approved. Is this the Better Ghana we are experiencing? The complainant is alway correct in Ghana. FDA should be seriously investigated. On submission of any product for testing tom the FDA when should the result be produced?
Nyansa 12 years ago

Thank you Mr. Asiedu. Eyes wide open observing the President and his Government on this matter. Fight against corruption is being tested here. Will Mahama win or lose? We live to see......

Thank you Mr. Asiedu. Eyes wide open observing the President and his Government on this matter. Fight against corruption is being tested here. Will Mahama win or lose? We live to see......
JUSTICE 12 years ago

Kwame we appreciate your timely contribution in this subject. I hope the authorities will heed your advice

Kwame we appreciate your timely contribution in this subject. I hope the authorities will heed your advice
KA AKYIRE 12 years ago

ENVIRONMENT AUTHORITY SHOULD BE NEXT TO BE INVESTIGATED. THEY ARE FULL OF CORRUPT.

ENVIRONMENT AUTHORITY SHOULD BE NEXT TO BE INVESTIGATED. THEY ARE FULL OF CORRUPT.
Kofi Ata, Cambridge, UK 12 years ago

I asked the same questions when this news items was first reported on Ghanaweb. How on earth could the drugs have been imported into Ghana, cleared from the ports and distributed to hospitals without the knowledge of the FDA ...
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I asked the same questions when this news items was first reported on Ghanaweb. How on earth could the drugs have been imported into Ghana, cleared from the ports and distributed to hospitals without the knowledge of the FDA and other authorities such as ministry of health? The story does not add up. There is definitely collusion between the importers, FDA, ministry of health and National Health Insurance Scheme as well as probably the hospitals.

What is shocking is that the officials of the importers and distributors are still free in Ghana and have the audacity to sue FDA. In any democratic country, these officials would have been arrested and charged and prosecuted for the crimes they have committed. But in Ghana, they will end up being paid huge sums of money in judgement debt in a year or two. That is create, loot and share enterprise in Ghana.
AGYA OHENEBA 12 years ago

TWEAAA!PUUH!CALL ME WHATEVER YOU THINK FIT BUT I TELL YOU THIS PETITION WILL BE SHREDDED IN A JIFFY.EVEN COMMITTEE(TIMES 2) HAVE NOT YIELDED ANY RESULT.GUYS PATRIOTISM DOES NOT PAY IN GHANA.HAS ANYTHING GOOD COME OUT AFTER M ...
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TWEAAA!PUUH!CALL ME WHATEVER YOU THINK FIT BUT I TELL YOU THIS PETITION WILL BE SHREDDED IN A JIFFY.EVEN COMMITTEE(TIMES 2) HAVE NOT YIELDED ANY RESULT.GUYS PATRIOTISM DOES NOT PAY IN GHANA.HAS ANYTHING GOOD COME OUT AFTER MR MARTIN AMIDU SHOWED PATRITISM?ASEM SE BE!
Ghana Ba 12 years ago

we need people to help develop the country. you run away to hide in UK and make noise. come home and help build good systems for the country. some people did that for UK. You were a lecturer at KNUST one of the best paying jo ...
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we need people to help develop the country. you run away to hide in UK and make noise. come home and help build good systems for the country. some people did that for UK. You were a lecturer at KNUST one of the best paying jobs GhAna and still you left the country. you could have used your position to train better professionals to guide Tobingo. keep quiet, you betray Ghana.

Kobina Bassaw 12 years ago

Leaving outside Ghana is not a crime. At least he is contributing to the nations growth. What is wrong from his petition? Prof Frimpong Boateng went outside and came to help build the Health sector. Allow them to go and learn ...
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Leaving outside Ghana is not a crime. At least he is contributing to the nations growth. What is wrong from his petition? Prof Frimpong Boateng went outside and came to help build the Health sector. Allow them to go and learn to come and help build our Mother Ghana.
Kofi 12 years ago

Ghana Ba, one does not have to live within the borders of Ghana to help. The guy is outside Ghana but has still been able to raise pertinent issues. Get out of that stupidity and jealousy.

Ghana Ba, one does not have to live within the borders of Ghana to help. The guy is outside Ghana but has still been able to raise pertinent issues. Get out of that stupidity and jealousy.
naa 12 years ago

You are really stupid, you are also somebody help develop GhAna, you still throw trash around and pee where ever you like. Developing can start from you stupit ass

You are really stupid, you are also somebody help develop GhAna, you still throw trash around and pee where ever you like. Developing can start from you stupit ass
Obibini 12 years ago

Travel and see what you can learn. Is just like standing on top of a building and looking down, you notice many things than the person standing next to a situation on the ground level that he/she is not aware.

Travel and see what you can learn. Is just like standing on top of a building and looking down, you notice many things than the person standing next to a situation on the ground level that he/she is not aware.
Kobina Bassaw 12 years ago

I believe the Society is being lead by the same people who are importing the fake drugs. Otherwise why can't they come clean on it. As for the other association, They are busy negotiating salary increment with the government ...
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I believe the Society is being lead by the same people who are importing the fake drugs. Otherwise why can't they come clean on it. As for the other association, They are busy negotiating salary increment with the government and how to go on strike. Pharmacist should hold the profession in high esteem. The association should be separated from being a labour force to a professional association to address issues like these.
KooFori 12 years ago

Folks, Ghana Ba's comment (what are you doing in the UK?) is baseless. Anyone from Ghana or any free country on the planet can choose to go live wherever they want. That certainly do not exclude them from contributing to pert ...
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Folks, Ghana Ba's comment (what are you doing in the UK?) is baseless. Anyone from Ghana or any free country on the planet can choose to go live wherever they want. That certainly do not exclude them from contributing to pertinent national developmental discourse.

It breaks my heart to see Ghana has not changed with every Government's ineffectiveness, inaction, and somnolence. The story of government doing absolutely NOTHING about public complaints and concerns go back after Nkrumah was ousted. Rawlings was the exception (apart from the excesses during his rule). Anyone can shout from the mountaintop about any serious matter in Ghana, and believe me, no action will be taken by the government and its appointed officials. They care only about the millions of Cedis with which they can line the seams of their pockets. They truly do not give a damn about the people who voted them into power.

The offices of GIPC, Customs, Port authority, etc. etc., yes, and the Ghana FDA are filled with CORRUPT inept, money-hungry, Pull-Him-Down individuals masquerading as officials of the state who break the back of Ghana. Those unable to pay bribes can go to hell, according to their rule book. These governmental and quasi-state Agencies revel in frustrating entrepreneurial spirit and anyone they deem progressive.

I also ask in the wake of this latest Tobinco imbroglio; Where is the Ghana Pharmaceutical Council and the Ghana Medical Association? Relevant agencies and individuals in Ghana must mobilize and demonstrate with marches on the streets to make the Government hear it LOUDLY that the people cannot accept this nonchalant Business as usual attitude from the government any more. Ghana has been marking time for more than 50 years, unlike countries such as Singapore, South Korea, Malaysia and other progressive nations.

I do not blame the FDA or anyone; the blame rests fully at the feet of an uncaring, unfeeling, lazy and sleeping government.

Let us all open our eyes and see what the government will do about these infractions. Nothing will be done, but I pray I am proved wrong. The seed of greed, jealousy and apathy is probably embedded in the genes of most Ghanaians - so help us God!
Kobena 12 years ago

Rawlings was no different. He issued government papers to exonerate his corrupt officials! All of us should share the blame. We are too timid to demand accountability from our leaders. We continue to vote for dim witted thiev ...
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Rawlings was no different. He issued government papers to exonerate his corrupt officials! All of us should share the blame. We are too timid to demand accountability from our leaders. We continue to vote for dim witted thieves and con men,
Cry the beloved country!
kwame 12 years ago

The office is located in Accra

The office is located in Accra
Kobena 12 years ago

Good work, Kwame!
Our country is in real trouble because the majority of the people we pay to run the affairs of state are either very incompetent or very corrupt and dishonest. Somehow, they always seem to get away with it. ...
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Good work, Kwame!
Our country is in real trouble because the majority of the people we pay to run the affairs of state are either very incompetent or very corrupt and dishonest. Somehow, they always seem to get away with it.

We have recently heard about GYEEDA, The Ghana National Fire Service Uniform saga, this Jobinco stinker, and many others. So what kind of service does the Ghanaian taxpayer get for all his troubles? All those officials that live on state freebies, riding the latest 4DW vehicles with 'huuhuudious' titles?
The beginnings of a failed state indeed.
Cry the beloved country!
kwame 12 years ago

You see.I have said this time and time again.The CEO of FDA is not a pharmacist. He does not know what goes into these regulatory activities. Who signed the permit? Which FDA official cleared the goods from the ports and why ...
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You see.I have said this time and time again.The CEO of FDA is not a pharmacist. He does not know what goes into these regulatory activities. Who signed the permit? Which FDA official cleared the goods from the ports and why should the CEO tell Tobin to quarantine the drugs.You import something that is not good and you are helped to clear from the port and you are told to quarantine it yourself.You rape a child and you are told to stay with the victim till you are arrested.This guy hates pharmacists. A pharmacist must be appointed in his place.

Obibini 12 years ago

The love of money is killing majority of people. How can one sell bad/fake drugs to another human?

The love of money is killing majority of people. How can one sell bad/fake drugs to another human?
SHAKARA 12 years ago

THIS IS USEFUL IF ONLY THE GOVT WILL ACT ON IT. IN A COUNTRY WHERE CORRUPTION IS THE ORDER OF THE DAY, THE GOVT WOULD JUST TOSS THIS IMPORTANT SUGGESTION IN THE BIN AND THAT WOULD BE THE END OF THE MATTER.IAM SURE THE PERSON ...
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THIS IS USEFUL IF ONLY THE GOVT WILL ACT ON IT. IN A COUNTRY WHERE CORRUPTION IS THE ORDER OF THE DAY, THE GOVT WOULD JUST TOSS THIS IMPORTANT SUGGESTION IN THE BIN AND THAT WOULD BE THE END OF THE MATTER.IAM SURE THE PERSON OR PERSONS IMPORTING THE FAKE DRUGS INTO THE COUNTRY HAVE CONTACTS IN THE GOVT
SO U DONT EXPECT ANY ACTION ON THE PART OF THE GOVT.
Kojovi 12 years ago

Connivance indeed. Asem beba dabi. I once said that the FDA is making all these noise probably because some official didn't get their fair share of the deal to bring unwholesome drugs into the country? Probably the FDA offici ...
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Connivance indeed. Asem beba dabi. I once said that the FDA is making all these noise probably because some official didn't get their fair share of the deal to bring unwholesome drugs into the country? Probably the FDA official do not know that deals in their outfit are open secret. Mr. Aseidu questions are well posed and they must be answered. The answers should be in public domain because public are interested. Public want to know why fake drugs are allowed into the system before they are warned.
Mensah 12 years ago

Ghanaians are so stupid for the sake of pocket change they will close their eyes to allow what can potentially kill thousands into their own country.

Ghanaians are so stupid for the sake of pocket change they will close their eyes to allow what can potentially kill thousands into their own country.
Araba 12 years ago

The management & Board of FDA must sit up!!!

The management & Board of FDA must sit up!!!
Nana Opeimu Ababio I 12 years ago

I agree something should be done about corruption in Ghana in all areas of the society. This anger and frustration is spilling over but the same people who complain about it in the media are the under pinning agents of corrup ...
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I agree something should be done about corruption in Ghana in all areas of the society. This anger and frustration is spilling over but the same people who complain about it in the media are the under pinning agents of corruption in Ghana. If Mr. Asiedu is not trying to make name for himself, then he would direct his anger and frustration to the Ministry of Health. Hold the minister responsible for negligence of duty. Parliament also has a responsibility to set up an investigation body to investigate activities of every department, company or any entity operating in Ghana. Many times, we assume our government is only the Executive branch. Our government consists of Three branches, and if one branch is negligible, other branches must step in and do their ordained duty to expose weakness in our system to meet the check and balances in our constitution. We are expecting too much from one branch, i.e., the Executive branch. Where does Parliament step in and do their duty as peoples' representatives?
Try this system and our society will benefit a great deal.
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