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MPs in phone bribery scandal

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  • Never in Ghana 12 years ago

    Money is driving them crazy.ow phone is making them insane

  • insight to the bone 12 years ago

    ndc is trying to make us all foolishly believe that this is all about partisan politics but in reality its a feudal system of governance based on tribalism and ethnic affiliation . there is no partisan politics rather anti Ak ...
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  • Cookie 12 years ago

    Passive Ghanaians, all you do is sit your asses on your computer to vent your frustrations, while your corrupt leaders continue to loot & eat you dry.

  • ZAMIA, LONDON 12 years ago

    OH GHANA POLITICIANS, BOREHOLE NO MOBILE PHONES YEAH. HOW SELFISH CAN OUR POLITICIANS BE?

  • Zongo Boy 12 years ago

    THIS IS BARE FACED BRIBERY.

    MPs SHOULD BE MADE TO RETURN ANY PHONES THEY HAVE RECEIVED.

    DOES IT OCCUR TO THEM THAT THESE PHONES MAY HAVE BEEN RIGGED SO CONVERSATIONS CAN BE INTERCEPTED??

    SECURITY OF THE COUNTRY CO ...
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  • Nii Armah 12 years ago

    Return phones and that ends it? else where people will be in Jail. Including both the chinese company and the MPS and as a matter of fact the entire parliament and you are talking the way you are? please be smart people

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  • Zongo Boy 12 years ago

    YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY RIGHT!!! HOWEVER, REALISTICALLY, THESE PHONES ARE NOT GOING TO BE RECALLED LET ALONE SACKING THE MPs WHO ACCEPTED THEM.

    LET US WAIT AND SEE BUT I CAN ASSURE YOU, THESE MPs HAVE GOT US CORNERED AND KNOW ...
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  • The Ghanaian 12 years ago

    This is very serious. The people who make law not knowing some gifts are bribe? This is a disgrace to the country. People everywhere now know Ghanaians are too corrupt, especially our government. Please dissolve this parliame ...
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  • BE SMART 12 years ago

    THE RLG PROPOSAL,WAS IT NOT NPP GURUS WHO WAS AGAINST BECAUSE THE STUPIDLY BRANDED RLG WITH NDC COLORS,WHEN WE ARE ANALYSING THINGS FOR THE WELL BEING OF GHANAIANS,PEOPLE LIKE YOU AND YOUR NPP SHOULD NOT TALK.NO WONDER YOU AR ...
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  • insight to the bone 12 years ago

    First of all this statement show you still refuse to understand the subtle differences. it really shouldnt matter which party is in power as long as the create a healthy climate and all the potentials of the people are utilis ...
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  • Nii Armah 12 years ago

    Masa Open your eyes and look carefully before you even speak. Please what is this? we are talking about GOONS that we have elected, both NDC and NPP into parliament and you are busily doing tribal politics masa when are you p ...
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  • insight to the bone 12 years ago

    after you at least learn to write properly . everything has turned to tribal politics and exploitation of the others potential

  • GHANAian 12 years ago

    YOU ARE IN THE PARLIAMENT, ALLOWING YOURSELF TO BE USED. NOW THERE IS EVIDENCE THAT YOU TOOK BRIBES BEFORE GIVING THE CONTRACT. NO NEED TO WASTE ANYTIME SINCE WE WANT SANITY IN OUR GOVERNMENT. SO THE ONLY THING YOU SHOULD DO ...
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  • Kofi 12 years ago

    You are 100% right!

  • Ali 12 years ago

    THESE ARE THE ANIMALS THAT WANTS US TO CALL THEM HONOURABLES.WHERE IS YOUR HONOUR? THERE IS NO QUORUM IN PARLIAMENT YET THEY RUSH TO RADIO STATIONS TO RANT LIKE MAD DOGS AND IN THE COVER OF DARKNESS GO TO FUCK THE WIVES OF T ...
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  • Ali 12 years ago

    WHERE ARE THOSE STUPID SELF CENTERED ORGANISATIONS

  • Ali 12 years ago

    WHO IS CORRUPT? MAHAMA OR THE MP'S? THAT THIEVING POLICEMAN SHOULD BE IMMEDIATELY RELEASED AND ALL THE MP'S JAILED. I HOPE JUNE 4 COMES AGAIN.

  • Nana Agyei 12 years ago

    am sooooooo happy i did not vote for any of them. Dishonourable members of phone paliament(MPP). cheap MPP. shame to them all. Thicks leave mother Ghana alone

  • Kwame 12 years ago

    ZTE loan was passed last week despite its stinking nature. Shame on MPs.

  • Sakawa Boy 12 years ago

    China phone

  • Pelicles 12 years ago

    We are being pushed to our burial grounds. How can this be possible? An entire parliament members being bribed?

  • Never in Ghana 12 years ago

    The country died long ago, we are just performing the funeral all these years

  • NANA KASA 12 years ago

    That stupid coup killed our country.

  • SAMMY 12 years ago

    IT IS TRUE THAT GHANA DIED ON 24 FEBRUARY 1966 BECAUSE THEY REMOVED PATRIOT NKRUMAH AND REPLACED HIM WITH THEIR PUPPETS. SINCE THEN, GHANA HAS BEEN PURSUING POLICIES TO THE DICTATES OF THEIR MASTERS BUT NOT IN THE INTEREST OF ...
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  • Vodoo Xebieso 12 years ago

    All of them are brigands pretending to be "honourable" MPs. There is no difference between NDC and NPP. When it comes to cheating or robbing the nation by way of giving themselves hefty salaries and allowances, they team toge ...
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  • Egya 12 years ago

    Any more proof needed? All bought and sold!

  • Tibaa 12 years ago

    Come to think about this: A Chinese company obtains a military security information contract with the government, then that company gives free mobile phones to our MPs and security capos. You know what that means? Chinese sec ...
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  • Never in Ghana 12 years ago

    They act before thinking, then it tends out to be a media defence on bribery. They are just so, so, STUPID. No exemption, from speaker to cleaner.

  • Abena 12 years ago

    Foreign companies know how weak our leaders are despite their book long, (remember the akan adage -Atweni nko nyansa nko)they know they can buy them with a little gift here and there.
    God have mercy on us; our leaders are ea ...
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  • Nii Oshiki 12 years ago

    No wonder developed countries have no respect for our leaders and institutions.

  • JMK 12 years ago

    They are! You don´t need to ask!

  • Senior citizen Bs. Germany 12 years ago

    The acceptance of Chinese phones by the meMbers of the legislature have[MPS]prove beyound all reasonable doubt that the African can be persuaded to do the unthinkable with a pienut of bribe only to sell his conscience to fore ...
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  • KOFI LAWER 12 years ago

    A chinese company shows appreciation for a contract approved by dashing out a mobile phone.
    our MPs accepted this hook line and sinker? be warned
    1. these mobile phones may contain devices that can monitor your conversation ...
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  • VERY BAD.. 12 years ago

    OHHHH GHANA IS INDEED IN THE HANDS OF FOOLS...

  • Never in Ghana 12 years ago

    Look at the way they all dress, FRUMP and always looking serious on even foolish issues. FOOLISh people all over. They think their families need to see them in position and that is all. They are just STUPID people all over

  • Tintin 12 years ago

    Revolution !

  • pepi 12 years ago

    oh efo kofi why???

  • ABUSUA 12 years ago

    Ghana Police Bill and Signboards are donated by LATEX FOAM.Even some individuals also donate to Ghana Police. What about that? Corruption Galore!

  • Never in Ghana 12 years ago

    We police ourselves. They just wear black to beautify Ghana, but they are just nonentities, they police service is there just to fill vacuum

  • PEACE 12 years ago

    all 275 mp taking bribe of phones chines wont the galamsy work gold gold

  • Never in Ghana 12 years ago

    My brother leave them to display their stupidity. They are all STUPID

  • sky 12 years ago

    mahama also took a bribe CELL PHONE SHAME

  • Papa Yaw 12 years ago

    How

  • Never in Ghana 12 years ago

    Ghana is in the hands of dogs, both NPP and NDC

  • JM 12 years ago

    THIS IS NOT ONLY THE POLICE GHANAIAN MPs AND MINISTERS ARE MORE CORUPT

  • JMK 12 years ago

    They are all the same! Crooks, theives, greedy, selfish, bragards, etc!

  • Osei Yao 12 years ago

    Ghana's own communications ministry bribing members of Parliamant on behalf of a foreign company? How does Mahama fight corruption with ministries like this and Members who accept gifts from companies doing business with gov' ...
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  • DICKSON 12 years ago

    I am very ashamed to be called a Ghanaian bcos of how low our MPS have stooped......most disgraceful.....haaaaabaaaaah. ............

  • Jeff 12 years ago

    after building your AU head HQ now they are giving you phone to monitor the whole country...our thinking as black people is too limited....

  • BE SMART 12 years ago

    RLG COMMUNICATION THOUGHT IT WISE TO GET BOREHORES,THESE SAME MP WHO HAVE RECEIVED MOBILE PHONES REJECTED THE OFFER,WHAT A PARLIAMENT WE HAVE.BOREHOLES MEANT FOR THE TOTAL WELBEIG OF GHANAIANS WAS REJECTED AND GHANAIANS ALSO ...
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  • Zongo Boy 12 years ago

    THIS IS BARE FACED BRIBERY.

    MPs SHOULD BE MADE TO RETURN ANY PHONES THEY HAVE RECEIVED.

    DOES IT OCCUR TO THEM THAT THESE PHONES MAY HAVE BEEN RIGGED SO CONVERSATIONS CAN BE INTERCEPTED??

    SECURITY OF THE COUNTRY COULD ...
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  • AKASIRENGO 12 years ago

    ZTE HAS THUS REC RUITED THE MPS INTO ITS INTELLIGENCE SYSTEM! IF THIS WORKS, GHANA MPS NEED NOT DISCUSS CORRUPTION ANY MORE AS AN EVIL

  • Maame Efua 12 years ago

    Oh ! Ghana, What is this?

  • OTCHERE DARKO 12 years ago

    "GO hounds can confirm that all 275 Members of Parliament from both sides of the House have received free branded mobile phones as gift from ZTE Corporation from China through the Ministry of Communications."
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  • Chikay 12 years ago

    The mobile fones could be bugged authorised by the Chinese state who are well noted for its espionage.

  • Jeff, UK 12 years ago

    That is all that rubber stamp parliament is worth. That we are told has been the norm. No single parliamentarian has come out with a comment on the Subah Infosystems saga because they are all in the pocket of the CEO of JOSPO ...
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  • Robin Hood 12 years ago

    And they expect to be addressed as Honourables. What a shameful and pathetic bunch!

  • Kwesi 12 years ago

    If this is true, then Ghana is doomed. Parliamentarians approve a contract for one mobile phone? At least the NPP MPS got $5,000 each to approve the Vodafone deal. And we call them Honourable? God forbid bad thing and may he ...
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  • kwasi 12 years ago

    that is the type of people we have in parlament what ashame

  • Aberinga 12 years ago

    it will be impossible to fight corruption in ghana now that parliament has clearly and openly joined in acts of corruption.shame unto them

  • ananseba 12 years ago

    Be ware of Greeks bearing gifts-These phones are most likely buged.

  • JB Ansong 12 years ago

    I bet you, if any of the MPs simply coughs into the mouthpiece of the phones, the Chinese Agents in Beijing will hear it.

    The Chinese have already bugged the Flagstaff House with spying transcievers. Now they have set up t ...
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  • Nat 12 years ago

    Ghana is in a big trouble! Who is protecting Ghana? Is it the Executive? Who will sell Merchant Bank cheaper for their own selfish personal gains and not the totality of Ghanaians. Is it The Legislature? Who will admit to a c ...
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  • Kwesi 12 years ago

    Naked bribery and they could not discern it. They call themselves honourable. Honourable indeed. Stomach politicians. You should all hang your heads in shame. How many of the free phones were given to the Presidency? This sor ...
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  • nana adu 12 years ago

    oh! God save Us

  • KUTRIKU 12 years ago

    FOOLISH MPS DON'T YOU KNOW AND BELIEVE THESE CHINESE HAVE BUGGED ALL THESE PHONES? WHY SHD YOU CORRUPT YOURSELF SO MUCH?

  • BLACK 12 years ago

    HOW CAN THESE POLITICIANS BE SO CHEAP.CHINA PHONES OH MY GOD.THESE STUPID POLITICIAN ARE EXCHANGING WITH PHONE.CHICKEN BRAIN POLITICIANS.I THANK GOD I HAVE CHANGE MY NATIONALITY.HOW CAN STUPID PEOPLE LIKE THESE LEAD A COUNTRY ...
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  • Abeeku Mensah 12 years ago

    Where is Martin Amidu? And where is Ms Georgina Woods of our wonderful Supreme Court? Is everyone who gets on Ghana radio and TV stations to talk a whole lot of nothing gone deaf and dumb they do not know that a gift prior to ...
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  • akosua nukurefo 12 years ago

    they take bribe for filling papers. for passing bills, for anything they are assigned to do. they are trooping into the offices of companies to collect money.they take 10,000 to table a bill for motion or whatever. the variou ...
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  • KWAKU 12 years ago

    THE AMERICAN/BRITS ARE ALREADY LISTENING IN YOUR CONVERSATIONS MASSIVELY, INCLUDING THE PRESIDENT. SO DO NOT WORRY YOUR HEAD ABOUT PRIVACY, AS AN MP, BECAUSE YOU HAVE NONE. YOU SOLD GHANA TELECOM TO THE BRITS, AND WANT TO TAL ...
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  • bh 12 years ago

    it is very possible. its a apply common sense to it and see. it will force the mps to be much corrupt. i know babes with sharp teeth will no agree with me

  • Kobooh 12 years ago

    Do we have a code of conduct guidelines in Ghana? Does ethics mean anything in this country of robbers?

  • Truth stranger than Fiction 12 years ago

    If I give all MPs porn movies free they probably will let me open adult bookstores with backroom booths for gay, straight but tempted and bi-sexual men to have sex with each other as complete strangers. Ending the foundation ...
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  • .......P 12 years ago

    STUPID STUPID STUPID GHANAIAN LEADERS INCLUDING THAT STUPID IDIOTIC OUT OF TOUCH PRESIDENT.JUSTIFY THE COST OF A MOBILE PHONE AND THE PRIDE OF YOUR COUNTRY!!!!!!!!!!

  • Obed Adore 12 years ago

    If the phones are not their governement supplied official cell phones for their work, they need to be returned as this gesture can easily be construed as an act of bribery.

  • QUASI 12 years ago

    Useless Law makers

  • nana 12 years ago

    Somebody should please tell me that our parliament has a written code of ethics. Please...........

  • Owura kofi 12 years ago

    How stupid can our people be? If this story is true, then Ghana is doomed. If these ignorant and stupid people are ruling the country, how can we expect any progress?

    These buffoons walk around calling themselves 'honourab ...
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  • Nii Oshiki 12 years ago

    You can easily watch the faces of these parliamentarians on TV and come to the conclusion that majority of them are retarded hogs. Others are simply stupid.

  • SC ndc lawyer N JUDGE 12 years ago

    the whole world have seen the corrupt nature of ghanaian politicians, and so they are openly using their usual bribery tactics to win their favour. incompetent selfish stomach-fed ghanaian politicians. GOD WILL PUNISH YOU A ...
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  • koo frank 12 years ago

    oh (me man) Ghana! what a shame to our PMs. They r all corrupted. so who will us from this mess. not npp not ndc nor cpp. eii youth where are u. You too are corrupt. go shops everywhere corruption. who is coming to liberate u ...
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  • Nii Oshiki 12 years ago

    Mahama will soon issue another of his signature directives.Weak President Dolittle.

  • Anthony Peduase 12 years ago

    What a pity!. A sad picture of our parliamentarians. They can be bought easily by a common mobile phone to approve contracts and influence policies. What a shame. First our Ghana was cheaply sold for a mere $3000.00 by the gr ...
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  • still living 12 years ago

    What a shame if it is true.a big disgrace for ghana.you dont even know if this phones even been hacked by some secret service out side ghana in order to influence our desitons.
    return the cell phones immediatly ...
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  • pala 12 years ago

    ZTE is a manufacturer of phones. There a lot of phones on the ghanaian market manufactured by ZTE but customised to other phone suppliers.
    The gift of thwe phones is just to advertise the company and nothing else.
    It has al ...
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