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Mahama can't fight corruption alone - Pelpuo

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  • Kofi 12 years ago

    Are you ready for that? The government is the embodiment of corruption so fighting corruption will be fighting the government. Are the babies with sharp teeth ready to listen to any words of wisdom? Please let Stan Dogbe, Yaw ...
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  • Ben 12 years ago

    he cannot fight himself. He's a disgrace to northern Ghana.

  • Balawo 12 years ago

    That gay and cassanova womanizer creature called Mahama is the problem for Ghana. John Dramani Mahama is connected to all shady deals that has landed Ghana in debts. Mahama is corrupt, most corrupt MP, Veep and prez ever in G ...
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  • Nicholas J Bedzo 12 years ago

    Stop conderming your President in public it does not pay. Why not join
    the crusade to fight the corruption?

  • fredsaid 12 years ago

    WHERE IS THE CRUSADE YOU TALK ABOUT?
    IT IS RATHER A PLANNING, LOOTING AND SHARING BRIGADE ACCORDING TO A HIGH COURT JUDGE.

  • KANIA 12 years ago

    I NEVER THOUGHT A NORTHERNOR COULD BE SO CORRUPT. MAHAMA WILL BLOCK THE FUTURE PRESIDENCY OF A NORTHERNOR. VERY SAD.

  • Chaskele 12 years ago

    so are the other staffers

  • SGT ANANI FIADZOE 12 years ago

    It is stupid monkey like you who do not want to speak the truth hence our nation is now rotten with corrupt, is
    Dramani Mahama above the law, stupid NDC monkey like you.

    Can corruption be administered in the country where ...
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  • HAWA YAKUBU 12 years ago

    Mahama is gay and womanizer only a brain dead koteboto will say this.

  • Corrupt Justice 12 years ago

    Hawa Yakubu, your brother Mahama is worse than words can describe. He is not only disappointing, he is a disgrace to Northerners as a people.

  • kwasi 12 years ago

    but he too busy travling the world
    living in denial that everything in ghana is good ,just like mahama and ndc belive everything is fine

  • CARDINAL 12 years ago

    Oh please, spare us that bunkum. Rawlings stole more than any other President in Ghana.

    He stole Ghanacan

    He stole Caridem

    He stole Star Hotel

    He stole all UTC properties in Accra including 543 acres of land

    Ev ...
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  • Timbuktu 12 years ago

    That half-breed scumbag is probably the most crooked of all the political leaders Ghana has had! And, ironically, the bastard shot people for being 'corrupt'!

  • fredsaid 12 years ago

    JUST GOOGLE IT. HE IS WORTH $50 MILLION DOLLARS FROM A Y0 K3 GARI FLIGHT LT.

  • peace 12 years ago

    ANOTHER PEPENI LISTEN TO HIM TALK DO THIS PEOPLE KNOW WHAT IS GOING IN GHANA

  • Nicholas J Bedzo 12 years ago

    He is fade up.with cat calls dog calls
    During the tenue of his office you know what happened,gues yourself.

  • TRUTH 12 years ago

    IF THE GOVNMNT CAN'T FIGHT CORRUPTION IN THE NATION,THEN IT MEANS THEY CAN'T RULE.MAHAMA HAS ALL THE LAW ENFORCEMENTS AUTHORITIES UNDER HIS CONTROL TO USE TO FIGHT CORRUPTION.HE IS YET TO PROVE THAT HE HAS THE POLITICAL WILL ...
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  • akwasi 12 years ago

    UNLESS, SOMETHING IS DONE , AN EXAMPLE IS SET,THINGS WILL REMAIN THE SAME.IF THOSE IN CHARGE OF GEEDA , WHO PUT THEI HANDS IN COOKIE JAR ARE LEFT ALONE,THINGS WILL GO DOWN THE DRAIN.

  • mohammed 12 years ago

    it does not matter which party prosecute and collect the refund of looted state money.

  • Dovi 12 years ago

    Can an ordinary person like me punish or prosecute the corrupt politicians and corrupt government appointees? Tell me, You are a member of parliament which has given all powers to one man- the president, he is the one who tak ...
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  • KMAN 12 years ago

    WE ARE NOT FOOLS

  • DONBOLI 12 years ago

    John Mahama cant govern ghana, he is corrupted by those corrupted people he is dealing with.
    Schoolboy questions John Mahama asked a foreign company who deals in buss whether we will have local people to repair them. He is a ...
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  • ASS HOLE FOLEY 12 years ago

    IF U SACK TRANSPORT MINISTER EVERYTHING WILL BE FINE SHE IS USEING TAX PAYERS MONEY TO BUY 3 INFINITYS 4X4 SUV FOR HER CHILDREN NOW THAT IS ONE CORRUPT

  • HAWA YAKUBU 12 years ago

    I support you. The state should take those cars away from her children now. This is openly abuse of office. How can you do that. I hope the president is looking into this now. I support you 100% BUT IF YOU DON,T DO SOMETHING, ...
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  • jack 12 years ago

    How can the man on street be asked to fight to stop corruption when the leadership and people in higher places are busily creating, looting and sharing left, right and centre. Pelpuo should be wise and speak the truth.

  • Nicholas J Bedzo 12 years ago

    Listern to what the wise was saying
    and change for the better,very easy
    to do,to reform sometimes hard but you
    have to do it,nobody is above the Law

  • whodini 12 years ago

    Polititions will promise to build you a bridge where there is no river. They will give you umbrella when the sun is shining but when the rain begin to fall they want give you shetter. Fake leaders.

  • CARDINAL 12 years ago

    This Pelpuo should be arrested. Was he not cited as one of those thieves in the GYEEDA scandal? Mahama is not fightiing corruption when he is still keeping thieves like you at the Flagstaff house with a dubious job title.

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  • Ghanaman 12 years ago

    Only in Ghana and under this dumb administration can Alhaji Pelpuo talk about coruption when he has been fingered as having stole from gyeeda funds.

  • Helegbe- Keta 12 years ago

    Mahama is even involved in the SADA scandal so how can he fight corruption. The Northern thieves have been unleashed on Ghanaians.

  • the great Ga man 12 years ago

    look mr pepoul the time mahama is going to suprem court to fight for leadership,who was lead him to get that presidency?my man things are not easy so he should try to fight that corruption.

  • Kojo 12 years ago

    The only thing that can slow down corruption is People revolution that will fumigate the country by killing all these corrupt politicians.

  • BE BOLD 12 years ago

    Amen!

  • AHMED YACOB 12 years ago

    This is funny fumigate the country. But that is very true. We need to fumigate this Mahama led govt.

  • william 12 years ago

    DON'T DECEIVE YOURSELF. THE KIND OF REVOLUTION THAT IS NEEDED AND IS ALREADY UNFOLDING IS FOR GHANAIANS TO HOLD LEADERS ACCOUNTABLE, IN THEIR RESPECTIVE PARTIES, IN GOVERNMENT, IN THE PUBLIC SERVICE, IN THE CHURCHES, IN THE ...
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  • Abransamadu 12 years ago

    How can this happen in Ghana?

  • SUHUM SAMAN 12 years ago

    What about judges, civil servants, & workers who are corrupt?

  • MARCUS AMPADU 12 years ago

    And this is why the whole nation needs a revolution in consciousness as Nana Kobina Nketsia V said.

  • Nyansasem 12 years ago

    They have known that their foolsoldiers are all idiots and therefore think ALL Ghanaians are like that. What does he want Ghanaians to help? To go to the jubilee house to share with the lootings or beg Mahama to appoint intel ...
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  • Jerry bustard 12 years ago

    How can a thief like Mahama fight corruption while he is the master planner for the corrrupt ministers in his Govt NDC is only to loot Ghana money and nothing else and the leader is Mahama

  • YB 12 years ago

    Does Hon. Pelpuo think every Ghanaian is as gullible as his party fool soldiers? What has Prez Mahama done about all the corruption charges? Only committees and insults by his appointees against well meaning Ghanaians who spe ...
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  • The Onipaba of Akyem Maase 12 years ago

    Since when you and your NDC cohort new corruption is treated as a national issue but not political? Go to Asomdwoe park to ask Mills what he and Mahama did not label Kufour about corruption. Now you want Ghanaians to show sym ...
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  • Nsemfoahi 12 years ago

    Look at you Pelpuo Patuo what ever are called The president himself is a thief and how can he fight bribery,take a laptop and vote for me is what?tell the nation,nsemfoarakwa

  • Agyeman 12 years ago

    Mahama's govt is clean and the only corruption in it can be directly attributed to NPP spies and moles working undercover to turnish NDC and Mahama.They reckon if they can soil the govt then they could gain favour.Its an elec ...
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  • Obuoba 12 years ago

    So you think Ghanaians are insensitive to the hardship that is prevailing in the country.Hence your saying NPP is working under cover to tarnish the image of NDC.So you mean to say without NPP Ghanaians will not know that co ...
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  • Agyemang 12 years ago

    You are really stupid, Agyemanvi. Next time you want to steal a name, learn at least how to spell that name.

    AGYEMANG

  • Abransamadu 12 years ago

    Are you an idiot to think this way?

  • Agyeman 12 years ago

    I stand by my words and its the BITTER TRUTH thats why you guys can't handle it...and yes,my name is spelt just right its the name given to me by my parents just the way it is.

  • POOR VOTER 12 years ago

    YES PELPUO, MAHAMA CAN LEAD THE WAY BY TAKING ACTION ON ANY OF THE TOP MEN WE ALL KNOW TO BE CORRUPTED. THEN THE GAME STARTS. FIGHT FROM THE TOP NOT THE BOTTOM.

  • Kofi Kofi 12 years ago

    Is this all that you can say? Do you mean all Ghanains must prosecute gyeeda culprits when the president is unwilling to bring them to book because they are his friends.

  • DICKSON 12 years ago

    its not MAHAMA who needs our help to fight corruption. ......its poor GHANAIANS who need help against MAHAMA's extra ordinary type of CREATE LOOT N SHARE......WE ARE DEAD IN HIS HANDS....

  • Ghana 12 years ago

    Once we get ride of Mahama, corruption in Ghana would go down. He has to be impeached and removed from power now!!!!!!

  • POOR VOTER 12 years ago

    THEY ARE PEOPLE IN GHANA STRONGER THAN THE PRESIDENT.AND MAHAMA FEAR THEM. THAT THE WHOLE PROBLEM.

  • SAK 12 years ago

    U ARE STUPID

  • Pontius Pilate 12 years ago

    a position such as minister for public private partnership are the branches of corruption. that office is just a waste. you are all being paid for doing nothing and that is corruption.

    that portfolio including fiifi kwetey ...
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  • 2K 12 years ago

    TOOOOOO MUCH MINISTRIES HMMMM..JUST TO MILK THE POOR PEOPLE OF THIS NATION.. SMALL COUNTRY LIKE GHANA WITH MORE THAN 100 MINISTERS AND DEPUTIES ....COUPLE WITH 275 MPS...GUESSS..HMMMM....YEAWU..OOOO

  • kwasi 12 years ago

    HE REALY BELIVE EVERYTHING IS NICE AND GOD AND HE WONT LISTEN TO NO ONE
    HE IS BUSY WORKING ON FURTHER DESTROYING JOBS, BUSNISSES AND THE ECONOMY MAHAMA IS IN DENIAL

  • King Curtys 12 years ago

    How can we all get involved to fight corruption when the president himself is shielding those involved in corruption. Why should the president give the GYEEDA report to PV OBENG to do what? to delete certain parts from it. ...
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  • Timbuktu 12 years ago

    Mahama is sooooo corrupt himself that expecting him to fight corruption is simply asking the impossible.

  • OWEN, NEW YORK 12 years ago

    If Mahama lead the way,Ghanaians will join him , but is he ready ? What about those already implicated in corruption cases ? We are not kids. Most people know that Nana Akufo Addo will imprison all these thieves if he is sw ...
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  • Timbuktu 12 years ago

    The NDC shitheads KNEW that Nana would lock their arses up in prison if he came to power. That's why they moved heaven and earth to ensure that never happened! Why on earth, for example, is Woyome still walking around as a fr ...
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  • Voice of Reason 12 years ago

    Taking refuge in dark glasses just like his mentor,Agboti Rawlings,the no.1 crook

  • Kwasi 12 years ago

    The only way Mr. president can fight corruption is to start from the people sitting in parliament. His crocked ministers and disrespectful cabinet members such as Lt. Col. Nunoo. When you go out insulting and disrespecting th ...
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  • FIRE 12 years ago

    Mahama Kill President Mills

  • Majele Gbeke Kofie Mawuko 12 years ago

    I always maintain that this Rashid is so stupid. Would he have made the same comments if NPP were in power. You see it shows the kind of stupid people Mahama is working with
    He wants Mahana to fight corruption with his moth ...
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  • PROFESSOR THOMAS KUBI- McA 12 years ago

    MAHAMA CANNOT SOLVE GHANAs PROBLEMS
    ======================================== MAHAMA LACKS MENTAL & INTELLECTUAL
    APTITUDE TO FACE GHANA PROJECT
    HEAD-ON
    =======================================
    NANA AK ...
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  • OWEN, NEW YORK 12 years ago

    Do you think to be a leader is a joke ? The president should set example for us to know he is serious and he meant business. As Ex. President Kuffour said, if you are outside the government you see things different and if you ...
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  • oba nyansani baako Pe in Ghana! 12 years ago

    Mahama himself is corrupt so how can he solve that problem? How can a president provides laptops for people to vote for him to win power at all cost and also most chiefs in Ghana also received 4x4 cars including pastors. God ...
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  • Ghana Massai-France 12 years ago

    Hon. Rasheed Pelpuo has boldly put to light the hidden feelings of many a Ghan of the aian by ascertaining that Prez Mahama can't solely fight this entrenched, aged-old Ghanaian cancer i.e CORRUPTION.
    I can testify that on ...
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  • Ghana Massai-France 12 years ago

    Ps. The concerned authorities. Ghana must get rid of this cancer but that requires the contribution of every Ghanaian.

  • goofy 12 years ago

    Are you really serious first they want ghanains to live the country now they need public help to fight corruption what is in there for us the citizens if I tell Mahama I know one who stealing what is going to do or to me ther ...
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  • Papa Yaw 12 years ago

    True

  • JH New York 12 years ago

    So Mr Pelpuo, how long have you been in the Country for you not to know that corruption took concrete roots long time ago.It's not President Mahamah who introduced corruption into Ghana but it has reached levels, his govt has ...
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  • JH New York 12 years ago

    Why can't we have a system which automatically takes it cause that does not rely
    on the authority of the President before culprits could be dealt with.
    I strongly suspect our systems needed complete overhauling.

  • con 12 years ago

    mahama is too know during the campaign,now u crying for help.

  • Ghana Massai-France 12 years ago

    Sorry to readers of my commentary which was broken into pieces & orthographic errors. I'm not liable for all that. Problems of connectivity & of language especially from France.

  • Faa 12 years ago

    Mahama is one of the corrupt people in Ghana today so how can he fight it? It got to be a person who is't corrupt to foght it.I hope Ghanaians will think and educated wisely on the next election.Beside a new EC should be fair ...
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  • Kweisi 12 years ago

    How can you allow funds intended to help the masses be embezzled...where are the checks and balances and where is law enforcement...also part of the problem???

  • Terry 12 years ago

    Mama employs, he allocates the money through finance minster, he should check corruption himself. From his cabinet to all governmental departments.

    At the moment vicious cycle of ethnically corruption prevails in ghana. ...
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  • Kweisi 12 years ago

    How can this change? whistleblower hotline if you accept a bribe? from cops, judges, teachers, doctors, lawyers, civil servants, customs and excise etc

  • SHAKAMORA 12 years ago

    pelpuo fawo kwasea k]

  • ohenenana 12 years ago

    The anot-corruption mechanism at the presidency will be the most corrupt. Enlist the services of JJ Rawlings to fight corruption, then you will see results.

  • JH New York 12 years ago

    Some of you sometimes don't know what you talk about.Rawlings and cohorts are not corruptless as they pretend to be.
    Have you heard the names of late Victor Salormey,then deputy Minister of Finance in Rawlings administration ...
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  • JH New York 12 years ago

    Rawlings himself said his friends were taking care of his Children.........

  • Wonderful 6-1 ! 12 years ago

    Let JJ Rawlings be the Anti-Corruption Czar and the rest of the population serve as Whistle Blowers. We will see results instantly. The thieves will eithe flee or go to jail. We have JJ Rawlings who is capable of solving this ...
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  • Bro Mariwa 12 years ago

    Hei John Mahani,we dey suffer,I regret ever voting for you. YOU sit there and enjoy alone.

  • AGYAKU 12 years ago

    Mahama is very corrupt so he cannot do anything on corruption; Mahama is involved in WAYOME SCANDAL INVOVE IN THE GYEEDA SCANDAL INVOLVE IN THE SADA AKOMFEM SCANDAL INVOLVE IN THE TREE ¨PLANTING SCANDAL SO HOW CAN HE FIGHT C ...
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  • JOSEPH BOATENG 12 years ago

    The man himself is corrupt so how can he fight the bloody canker he is overseeing; a bunch of corrupt men and women at work? What happened to the findings out of the Americans brought in to investigate fire outbreaks in the c ...
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  • Tanko Ibrahim 12 years ago

    No one expect the President to fight corruption but we expect leadership in the fight against corruption. Has he declared his assets
    Has he clear he cloud surrounding his complexity in RLG
    How his brother got social securit ...
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  • agbodo 12 years ago

    THE RIGHT TO INFORMATION BILL IS THE ANSWER TO CORRUPTION IN GHANA AS EVERYTHING WOULD TRANSPARENT AND WOULD DEAL WITH OFFICIALS APPROPRIATELY BUT UNFORTUNATELY THE GANG OF CREATE ,LOOT AND SHARE BRIGADE WOULD DELAY OR BLOCK ...
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  • Wonderful 6-1 ! 12 years ago

    Yes, pass the Right to Information Bill, and make JJ Rawlings the Anti-Corruption Czar. We will know who born dog !

  • jones lartey 12 years ago

    this pelpuo man is very stupid. mahama isn't even trying to stop corruption. he leads in corruption. colludes with his hench and party to steal millions. Ghana is doomed as a nation kufuor and his men stole a lot and now maha ...
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  • YEBOPOWER 12 years ago

    As long as these Fulani herdsmen in the names of Dramani, Pelpuo, Ayariga,Atagubugubuguba, Ayana and all these Northern enclave are in charge, our beloved Ghana is not getting anywhere. Ghanaians wake up and throw this Mali e ...
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  • Yaw k 12 years ago

    Press Mahama is not discipline enough to fight corruption else, he would have fired people like Nonoo mensah & the A k 47 minister in d central region from his administration.Fighting corruption begins with discipline.

  • Isaac 12 years ago

    we practice a system dat gives the president all powers to do all dat is right,but here we are gov can't punish. why? cos of fear of loosing votes (power drunk)once they get power they want to stay on forever even where it is ...
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  • Paramus Pasaa 12 years ago

    He is corrupt himself and has inclination to fight corruption .

  • Wofa Koo 12 years ago

    Thanks to democracy and technology that has revealed the intelligence of our leaders proving they are incapacitate to rule Ghana.Corruption is a crime therefore if Mahama and his administration don`t have the tendency of figh ...
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  • YAKUBU 12 years ago

    How can he fight it when he's the originator? What a dumb statement from R.Pelpuo.

  • the truth 12 years ago

    Even though I am not a supporter of Mahama's party, I agree he can't do it alone. If we all leave the fight against corruption, arm robbery and unemployment for Mahama tackle tackle alone, he will fail miserably. No president ...
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  • Senseman 12 years ago

    You are right, Mahama cannot fight it alone. That is the reason the president appoints people to help him. After appointing people, you have to show leadership. If we all have to be part of the government, then we all have to ...
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  • Oso 12 years ago

    Who told you he's a man to ever fight a thing?! Can't even fight a woman, much more a national issue.Prove me wrong what has he ever fought?! Corruption, lies, disgrace, or what; apart from being quite over all things includi ...
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  • ,,,,,,,, 12 years ago

    STOP EATING FRESH MEAT THEN YOUR WORDS WILL BE CONSIDERED.IF YOU WANT TO SACRIFICE A CORRUPT PERSON TO MAKE WAY FOR THE CURE OF DEATH AND BYPASS MOHAMA THEN YOU CAN FIND THE CURE.

  • truth be told 12 years ago

    Mahama must first declare his assets , followed by his ministers and we shall be on our way ...

  • mohammed 12 years ago

    Mahama has the opportunity to take advantage of the situation to prosecute and collect the huge public money with Corrupt NPP and NDC politicians for economic developments else, he shall live to regret this opportunity. I can ...
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  • Corrupt Justice 12 years ago

    This is akin to, and acceptance of former president K4's assertion that corruption is as old as Adam. Thank God the NDC is now in the lead, propagating that notion.

  • de 12 years ago

    What does Pelpuo want Ghanaians to do?Would gov't have brought to light all these monies wasted, stolen; this huge corruption had very vigilant and curious individual Ghanaians - who are persecuted by the same gov't for openi ...
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  • Kofi 12 years ago

    The government has to take the lead and set the tone. During the time of Nkrumah, people were motivated to do what ever they could to help the development of the country. On one instance, a farmer stepped foward and asked "wh ...
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  • mohammed 12 years ago

    stupid man mahama i will kill u if u come to the state( aboa wa te )fool you will be over thrown soon

  • Agbee 12 years ago

    how does honorable Pelpuo want Ghanaians to get involved in the fight against corruption? He should spell out the modalities, the parametres within which the people should operate in the fight.

  • jojo 12 years ago

    The Mahams brothers including the wife are causing the damage. They re people ruling the country. Corrupt government distroys a country. Ghana is fallen back to 1970'S

  • TOTO AFRICA 12 years ago

    ANY GHANAIAN PRESIDENT WHO CAN'T FIGHT THE CORRUPTION IS EITHER USELESS, OR SO NECK-DEEP IN CORRUPTION HIMSELF THAT HE DOES NOT WIELD THE MORAL AUTHORITY TO FIGHT THE PERVASIVE CORRUPTION AFFLICTING GHANA, OUR ONLY COUNTRY, T ...
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  • TOTO AFRICA 12 years ago

    THE PROBLEM WITH FREELOADING IS THIS:

    ONCE YOU START GETTING ALMOST EVERYTHING FOR FREE AT GHANA TAX PAYER'S EXPENSE, YOUR MINDSET GETS STUCK WITH THAT FOR ALONG TIME, THAT YOU FIND IT EXTEMELY DIFFICULT TO PAY FOR ANYTHIN ...
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  • goldfish 12 years ago

    Mahama and his followers are the corrupt ones. where does he's brother gets all his money.? less than 3yrs he's richer than the country. the only way we can fight corruption is starting from Mahama's home

  • goldfish 12 years ago

    taking us back Mahama