Ghana needs to rectify political polarisation

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• PRINCE KWASI ADADE 10 years ago

  MAHAMA AND HIS CORRUPT NDC MUST TELL US WHAT EXACTLY THEY HAVE DONE WITH THE MASSIVE $20 BILLION THEY HAVE BORROWED IN JUST THE LAST 5 YEARS, IF HE IS SAYING,HE HAS NOT BORROWED FOR DRINK AND MERRY MAKING, WHICH MEANS CREATE, ...
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  MAHAMA AND HIS CORRUPT NDC MUST TELL US WHAT EXACTLY THEY HAVE DONE WITH THE MASSIVE $20 BILLION THEY HAVE BORROWED IN JUST THE LAST 5 YEARS, IF HE IS SAYING,HE HAS NOT BORROWED FOR DRINK AND MERRY MAKING, WHICH MEANS CREATE, LOOT AND SHARE. HOW COULD YOU STEAL MONEY BELONGING TO THE POOR CHILDREN STRUGGLING TO FEND FOR THEMSELVES IN THE MIDDLE OF OUR STREETS, DRIVE PAST THEM AND HAVE A LAUGH???---- GHANAIANS MUST WAKE UP!! OUR FUTURE LOOKS BLEAK. WE CAN'T GO ON LIKE THIS. BAWUMIA HAS ADMONISHED NDC AS A PATRIOTIC CITIZEN BUT THEY WOULDN'T LISTEN. NDC HAS RATHER VOWED TO BORROW MORE TO PLUNGE GHANA INTO MASSIVE DEBT. HABA! NDC.
  NKWASEAFO BI NTI GHANA IS SICK!!! THE CEDI HAS ALREADY DIVED DEEP DOWN!!!!!!!------ WE NEED NANA'S WISDOM. HIS LEADERSHIP WITH BAWUMIA IS EXCELLENT. NANA IS OUR POLITICAL MESSIAH!! WE WILL PATIENTLY WAIT FOR HIM TO COME AND LIBERATE US FROM OUR ECONOMIC OPPRESSORS. WE CAN'T PUT OUR TRUST IN THESE YOUNG NDC THIEVES (WITH NO WORK RECORD) WHO WANT TO LIVE LIKE KINGS OVERNIGHT, OWNING JETS, BIG MANSIONS, BANKS, ROLLS ROYCE, DATING MODELS ETC. AT THE EXPENSE OF THE POOR. BEING A PRESIDENT REQUIRES THE USE OF BRAIN NOT BRAWN. A PRESIDENT DOES NOT "THROW" PICK AXE!!! WHO CAN DO THE JOB BETTER THAN NANA, AT THIS TIME IN OUR HISTORY, WHERE GREEDY CORRUPT , SHARP TEETH ROTTEN PLANK NDC SMALL BOYS, PARADING AS POLITICIANS, HAVE PLUNDERED OUR RESOURCES TO THE BONE, THAT OUR OIL ECONOMY INHERITED FROM THE GREAT KUFFOUR HAS HAD NO IMPACT ON THE LIVES OF THE ORDINARY CITIZENS OF OUR COUNTRY???? LONG LIVE GHANA!! LONG LIVE NANA ADDO. MORE GREASE TO YOUR ELBOWS!! EVERY THIEF IN GHANA, TODAY, IS SCARED OF BOLD AND MIGHTY NANA ADDO. NANA IS CLEAN !! CLEAN TO THE BONE!!!

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• SGT ANANI FIADZOE 10 years ago

  Nkrumah killed tribalism and injected patriotism in Ghanaians.
  
  JJ buried tribalism.
  
  But Kufuor revived tribalism and reintroduced Mati Menu separatist radicalism in Ashantis & Akyems.
  
  Nana Addo escalated Mati Menu se ...
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  Nkrumah killed tribalism and injected patriotism in Ghanaians.
  
  JJ buried tribalism.
  
  But Kufuor revived tribalism and reintroduced Mati Menu separatist radicalism in Ashantis & Akyems.
  
  Nana Addo escalated Mati Menu separatism with the declaration of his All-Die-Be-Die war cry and now the polarisation is uncontrollable.
  
  Nana's trouble-causing capacity is so great that he is now tearing NPP to pieces because he wants to win the flag bearer race at all cost.
  
  Nana never believes in fair contest. Having been trounced at the polls by JM in 2012, he wanted the courts to annul 4.6 million votes from JM's strongholds so that he would be declared winner. What a sick mind! Similarly, he is now using very unfair and unacceptable tactics to gain advantage over the other aspirants. It is surprising people we thought would reason normally still follow Nana.

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• insight to the bone 10 years ago

  i dont see the Europeans offering the other benefits such as the freedom of movement and insisting on visa free entry into their countries. they are not offering half a trillion for infrastructural development and real assist ...
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  i dont see the Europeans offering the other benefits such as the freedom of movement and insisting on visa free entry into their countries. they are not offering half a trillion for infrastructural development and real assistance in bettering the standard of the people of west Africa . this is a war that will destroy any chances of self reliance and self development . see what they have done to our poultry , fish and beef industry . until we have people who understand the issues and the true hidden agendas and dangers of such a one sided agreement where the benefits are only for the Europeans we should not engage in any such devastating experiments . EPA is being pushed now because they are aware pepeni is an illigimate president , even now the video of the murder of atta mills is being circulted in private circles and one day soon he will be overthrown so he is rushing to put another yoke and burden on the people of Akan. this govt can only borrow and can not even secure investments of 30 billion dollars how do they expect to handle a multitrillion agreement which in reality denies your own people the right to develop their own industry. our industrial base is less than 3% by the way. lets not allow this foolishness to pass , its time for a revolution so we restart the future for our children. we shall never surrender

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• DusTY-FooT-pHiloSophER 10 years ago

  The Cotonou Agreement of the EPAs which was further endorsed by the 44th ordinary summit in Yamoussoukro, Côte d’Ivoire, on March 28, 2014, have cement the EU and the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries the sign ...
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  The Cotonou Agreement of the EPAs which was further endorsed by the 44th ordinary summit in Yamoussoukro, Côte d’Ivoire, on March 28, 2014, have cement the EU and the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries the signing of regional Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs), in order to change 30 years of trade preferences that have failed to develop the West African economies. The general philosophy of the EPA is to gradually transform the relationship between ECOWAS and the EU from one of dependency to one of mutual trade partners in the long run. It however recognises the different levels of development of both economic blocks by allowing ECOWAS member countries to apply safeguards to protect their infant industries and sensitive products as well as by foreseeing trade-related support for West African countries under the EPA Development Programme (EPADP - or PAPED in French). Once signed, the EPA will be applied asymmetrically, with the EU fully opening up its market and ECOWAS only over time, while retaining the right to protect a share of its sensitive industries from European competition. So far, two ECOWAS member states, Ivory Coast and Ghana, initialled bilateral "stepping stone (or "interim") EPAs" with the EU at the end of 2007. The interim EPA with Ivory Coast was signed on 26 November 2008.
  
  
  ECOWAS and the EU are currently negotiating a more comprehensive EPA that will eventually replace the interim EPAs. But what are the real benefits of the EPA for West Africa? Sierra Leone, which is currently enjoying full access to the European market under the "Everything But Arms" (EBA) arrangement, might for instance see it preferable not to sign the EPA. However, one has to bear in mind that the EBA arrangement is a unilateral arrangement granted by the EU which may be opened to other Least Developed Countries (LDCs) outside the ACP group and could thereby increase competition for Sierra Leone's main agricultural export products like cocoa, coffee, sugar and bananas on the European market. The benefit of the EPA, which will not only regulate the trade in goods, but also that in services and investments, is that it will provide a unique and secure legal framework for West African producers, businesses and banks to engage in trade relations with the EU market, and thereby give them a competitive advantage towards other emerging economies. Secondly, while the gradual liberalisation of West Africa's tariffs may, over time, increase the flow of European goods into the region, it must be noted that the nature of traded goods between the two regions are different and therefore not in competition with each other.
  
  
  ECOWAS countries mainly import cars, chemicals and other manufactured products from Europe, whereas the EU imports raw products (oil and minerals) and agricultural commodities (coffee, cocoa and bananas) from West Africa. Furthermore, for products where competition exists, the interim EPAs of Ghana and Ivory Coast have for instance excluded the liberalisation of tariffs for products like cereals, flour, oils and vegetables. Reducing tariffs and thereby the costs of importing machinery from Europe will also have benefits for local businesses and industry as trading costs will gradually reduce. This in turn will boost growth, create new employment opportunities and contributes to poverty reduction. In fiscal terms, the EPA will help the ECOWAS countries in moving from a system of tax collection that is excessively reliant on high import duties to a system that relies on domestic taxation. This will help to make revenue generation more predictable and hence stimulate better budget planning and execution practices. The reduction in import tariffs will be progressive (at least 15 years) and will give a country like Sierra Leone enough time to modernise and improve its tax administration, as it is currently doing under the National Revenue Authority (NRA) Modernisation Plan. The introduction of the Goods and Services Tax on 1st January 2010 is in line with the efforts at ECOWAS level to harmonise fiscal legislation and also takes into account the changes that will be eventually introduced by the EPA.
  
  Finally, other than creating a new dynamic in West Africa's development by facilitating trade and regional integration, the EPA is also about making the new trading relationship between ECOWAS and the EU compatible with WTO rules. Under the current arrangement, the EU is giving preferential treatment only to the ACP group (among which West Africa), but not to other developing countries outside of those regions. The eventual step-by-step implementation of the EPA will however align ECOWAS and the EU with its WTO partners and make the multilateral trading regime much fairer.

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• insight to the bone 10 years ago

  what a load of bullshit , how can our traders with the merge capital even begin to think of competing , just to secure a visa is a challenge to most . until they open their borders we can not even think to consider such an ag ...
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  what a load of bullshit , how can our traders with the merge capital even begin to think of competing , just to secure a visa is a challenge to most . until they open their borders we can not even think to consider such an agreement . sorry all these sophisticated language you have used here amounts to nothing , where is your common sense

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• Don Blunt 10 years ago

  And people like you go to Church, and pretend to be Honest.
  I pity your children who have to learn something from their father

  And people like you go to Church, and pretend to be Honest.
  I pity your children who have to learn something from their father

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• Dzifa Yovonoo 10 years ago

  Well said Reverend! Ghana is bigger than any political party; be it NDC, NPP, PPP, CPP, PNC etc! We need a new constitution that will have such a clause entrenched in it.We need all the best brains in Ghana and in the diaspor ...
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  Well said Reverend! Ghana is bigger than any political party; be it NDC, NPP, PPP, CPP, PNC etc! We need a new constitution that will have such a clause entrenched in it.We need all the best brains in Ghana and in the diaspora to come on board to move our great country forward. We have only one Ghana, there is now other Ghana anywhere. I hope all the political class are reading this article. It is time for these politicians to rise up and put to an end "winner takes all" syndrome.

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• Minta 10 years ago

  Before the judgement of the election petition was issued by the corrupt Atuguba and co, Fifi Kwetey, Akwasi Adjei and other NDC scribes were harping on the fact that the winner take all attitude of Ghanaian politics was a hin ...
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  Before the judgement of the election petition was issued by the corrupt Atuguba and co, Fifi Kwetey, Akwasi Adjei and other NDC scribes were harping on the fact that the winner take all attitude of Ghanaian politics was a hindrance to Ghana's progress, and Ghana couldn't afford that practice. Now that the corrupt judgement was issued in their favour, they are mum over the issue while Ghana suffers. These are the kind of opportunistic politicians whose activities are hindering Ghana's progress.

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