Comment: NPP boycott of NEF was right, Mr. Pianim

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Axis 11 years ago

Why would you join hands with a leadership that snatches ideas with impunity and patents them as their own.

Why would you join hands with a leadership that snatches ideas with impunity and patents them as their own.
BBC NEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 11 years ago

Half of Ghana's age has been useless by ndc, yet they still has a dirty mouth to talk! 26 useless years

Half of Ghana's age has been useless by ndc, yet they still has a dirty mouth to talk! 26 useless years
Ayetevi 11 years ago

That stupid Ofosu kwakye the arrogand village guy will vomit all what he has been stealing through lies

That stupid Ofosu kwakye the arrogand village guy will vomit all what he has been stealing through lies
KB, London. 11 years ago

You employ people because they have the skills set to do a job. The country is paying incompetent NDCs not only to loot and share, but also hang the nation on the noose of indebtedness. WHERE IS THE NDC MANIFESTO? Did the p ...
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You employ people because they have the skills set to do a job. The country is paying incompetent NDCs not only to loot and share, but also hang the nation on the noose of indebtedness. WHERE IS THE NDC MANIFESTO? Did the party have have one and what happened to it? The 8 interventional years by the NPP set the benchmark for a new era of governance in Ghana. Until then, Rawlings and his minions had subjected Ghanaians to a life of merely surviving. If Mahama and his incompetent ministers, some of which are now going to school on scholarship and still on goverment payroll, cannot do the job they should make public apology and leave Ghanaians alone. Students CANNOT know more than the professor teaching them, if they choose not to listen to his instructions then they will fail. NPP has been there and done it for an example recently, which makes NDC incompetence more glaring.
insight to the bone 11 years ago

Ayigbe JJ is the worst thing that has happened to Ghana and we know for a fact that historians who are not under the influence of his brainwash propaganda or children of the future will very rightly confirm so . i am hoping G ...
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Ayigbe JJ is the worst thing that has happened to Ghana and we know for a fact that historians who are not under the influence of his brainwash propaganda or children of the future will very rightly confirm so . i am hoping God will keep him alive so we can prosecute him in court or at the Hague , As long as he has any influence in Ghana's politics the country can never prosper , its as if Russia still had Stalin or Germany Hitler , people who have committed crimes against humanity are often the very same who promote a perverted propaganda machinery like we see today in Ghana . Criminals like PV are being celebrated but don't realize this man helped set up a dictation that cased the suffering of millions and the exodus of the finest brains of the land ,persecution of the Akans . This is the govt that sets impostors and fakes to rule the majority . We have the Ahvois and Hannah Tetteh who are not Fantis masquerading as such , PV for years made it appear he was Ashanti especially through the Kotoko fb club but he was Guan , many Ewes disguise themselves as Akans so they can coining their phrase ' penetrate and infiltrate' Akan lands . The legacy of JJ is hate everything Akan and deny them real self rule . JJ in any country or normal democracy would be considered a non desirable criminal except cult personality criminally minded north Korea and Qaddafi's Libya .we are tired of the reckless willfulness of these leaders from minority tribal groups who only come with corruption in their hearts and hatred of the values and potential of the majority . this mafia political oligarchy that has a stranglehold on our people needs to be removed by force and if it takes a war to do it so be it
Amanshianyebi Okoe 11 years ago

Ghana does not belong to NDC, NPP or any groups of people who think they know it all. The NEF was a good initiative to charter a course of economic redemption for Ghana in the midst of global economic downturn that affected P ...
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Ghana does not belong to NDC, NPP or any groups of people who think they know it all. The NEF was a good initiative to charter a course of economic redemption for Ghana in the midst of global economic downturn that affected Portugal, Greece, and even the USA. Recently, the USA was bailed out of bankcrupcy due to the cooperation of the Republicans; Portugal and Greece had to be bailed out by World Bank recommended austerities and billions of Euros have been pumped into their economies.
Who is going to help Ghana at her crucial moments, but Ghanaians!! When a group of people put their interests above the interests of the nation, it must be condemned!
Everyone has a vote, but it is to build and not to destroy.
This Okoampa Ahoofe is not a Ghanaian, I swear! And I pity his likes.
MATHS 11 years ago

What okoampa Ahoofe is oblivious of, despite his long English words is that by so doihg NPP continues to alienate the sympathy of floating voters and you all know what that means.

What okoampa Ahoofe is oblivious of, despite his long English words is that by so doihg NPP continues to alienate the sympathy of floating voters and you all know what that means.
Antiochus - London 11 years ago

Oh traitor K. Pianim!

Oh traitor K. Pianim!
Bibini 11 years ago

When you heed to the call to help Gods children find solution for problems, you are not a traitor.

When you heed to the call to help Gods children find solution for problems, you are not a traitor.
BBC NEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 11 years ago

Hahahahaha

Hahahahaha

Kofi Mensah 11 years ago

I have been hearing of this man Pianim for more than 40 years but he has never had any real impact on politics in the country yet he keeps popping his head up on big issues.
Who actually is listening to him I wonder.Is he n ...
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I have been hearing of this man Pianim for more than 40 years but he has never had any real impact on politics in the country yet he keeps popping his head up on big issues.
Who actually is listening to him I wonder.Is he not retiring from politics soon?
His economic brains are not strong at all anymore.
Charles, Dubai 11 years ago

Heeeye, that is not a convincing excuse, just recently before our forum Nigeria organized their own but their opposition attended. Even if u have an intention not to talk, we will have be convinced ur party want good for Ghan ...
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Heeeye, that is not a convincing excuse, just recently before our forum Nigeria organized their own but their opposition attended. Even if u have an intention not to talk, we will have be convinced ur party want good for Ghana, But ur party r full of rebellion n selfish people who want Ghana downfall n they rule, that is their aimed. This forum was beyond sitting in Parliament to discussed it cos they organized it to put Ghana on track for future occurrence n not NDC, n so civil servants, opinion leaders, politicians n our future leaders n governments who think Ghana first before other things to present their idea in helping building Ghana. Remembered after de supreme court wat did ur then party secretary said "we will make Ghana ungoverned country", so ur reactions towards the forum show u don't want good for Ghanaians but rather ur selves.
naa togma 11 years ago

Exactly, God bless u for that guy. N they won't rule Ghana unless they change.

Exactly, God bless u for that guy. N they won't rule Ghana unless they change.
Fo. Koku - Tanyingbe 11 years ago

AKYEM TRIBAL BIGOT. LIVING ABROAD AND IGNITING FIRE IN GHANA.

AKYEM TRIBAL BIGOT. LIVING ABROAD AND IGNITING FIRE IN GHANA.
Ugly Akufu Addo 11 years ago

Npp will never comes to power

Npp will never comes to power
Nii Joromi 11 years ago

Only fools will vote for the NDC after all the mess the country is going through.

Only fools will vote for the NDC after all the mess the country is going through.
Ugly Akufu Addo 11 years ago

Npp will never comes to power

Npp will never comes to power
Asea Ho 11 years ago

Kwamena is a president who never was, curtesy NPP. They hate him because of his peaceful, objective and non-partisan approach to national issues.

When will the NPP learn from Kwame, JAK, A-Kennedy and PV.

Kwamena is a president who never was, curtesy NPP. They hate him because of his peaceful, objective and non-partisan approach to national issues.

When will the NPP learn from Kwame, JAK, A-Kennedy and PV.
Bra emma -Dallas 11 years ago

AS IF I CAN ALWAYS PREDICT HEADLINES. I KNEW IT WAS WRITTEN BY THIS FOOL

AS IF I CAN ALWAYS PREDICT HEADLINES. I KNEW IT WAS WRITTEN BY THIS FOOL
KAKABO 11 years ago

My friends father once said that if you do not have time for nonsense,nonsense will never cease. Kwame Pianim goes about branding himself as a senior member of NPP. The question however is since when did he attend any meeting ...
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My friends father once said that if you do not have time for nonsense,nonsense will never cease. Kwame Pianim goes about branding himself as a senior member of NPP. The question however is since when did he attend any meeting of the party at even the regional level let alone the national level to warrant that accolade. Kwame Pianim should know that NPP does not owe him a dime for for his unfulfilled presidential ambition and that he can not use that failure as a pretext to bring down the party at the least opportunity he gets. The national executive of the NPP decided not participate in the Senchie picnic. Whether good or bad that is the leadership position. After all the members of NPP have given the leadership the mandate to make such decisions. It therefore does not fall in the powers of disgruntled Kwame Pianim to question that decision. After all he cannot pretend to be wiser than the millions of party supporters who voted the leadership into position.So if Kwame Pianim does not have anything to do at home and decides to go for a picnic and free food from the NDC at Senchie that should be his own decision and should not be a pretext for questioning the leadership of NPP. After all the legally binding forum for the discussion of the national economy in terms of our constitution is parliament and not Senchie. That is where we as a nation have given our powers to a select people to make laws and deliberate on important national issue. The Senchie picnic is not legally binding and therefore does not feature anywhere as to whether it takes place or not.

Now back to economy.Since 2009 the world has not gone through any serious shocks to warrant an economy which was until 2009 on its feet with the whole world acclaiming it to all of a sudden fall on its knees. Though prices of commodities are not as high as it used to be, it has neither fallen to the lows recorded in our economic history. The country has not met any serious economic disasters to warrant a sudden fall of the economy. The economic situation we currently face is self inflicted.It arose from the bad policy choices of the NDC government, the unbridled corruption that seems to have infested the entire government, the civil service and all institutions in the country.While the Senchie picnic was in full swing pretending to find solutions for our self inflicted economic woes, the government was busy awarding the contract for the supply of motor bikes to an ICT company. Would McDonalds be ever awarded the contract to supply helicopter gun ship to the US army? Tweaaa and you go to sit at Senchie and waste your time about the economy. We are in this mess simply due to mismanagement and it is the realization and acceptance by those who are managing the affairs of the state of this fact that is going to salvage us from our predicament. If we were able to hold ourselves and turn a HIPC economy into a middle income economy between 2007 to 2008 when the entire globe was on its feet from all angles, why should our economy be in trouble now. Were we not primary commodity producers then. So what has changed. Kwame Pianim, take it from some of us the NDC can organize 100 Senchei picnics and nothing will come out of it. Even the picnic was poorly organised . How could you tell me that a four day planned program could end up being abruptly cut to three days when the program was in progress. There was no proper preparation and deep thinking in the organisation of the forum. So after a lot of hot air has been blown there was nothing else to discuss so the organizers had to cut it short. That 22 point wish list could have been gathered at Mokola
within 30 minutes and at no cost. Which of the points on the wish list has not been discussed in the country within the last 18 months Tweaaa

Quame 11 years ago

Well said my friend

Well said my friend
KKO 11 years ago

Well said, Kakabo,
There are still some Ghanaians with their heads screwed the right way, people who still wash their faces the right way down every morning!
Excellent contribution.

Well said, Kakabo,
There are still some Ghanaians with their heads screwed the right way, people who still wash their faces the right way down every morning!
Excellent contribution.
Milionnaire 11 years ago

Ahoofe, you often provoke valid thoughts, but the substance is often lost in complex sentences that is confusing. You remind me of a professor of mine at KNUST who once screamed at us in class when someone complained of his ...
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Ahoofe, you often provoke valid thoughts, but the substance is often lost in complex sentences that is confusing. You remind me of a professor of mine at KNUST who once screamed at us in class when someone complained of his complex sentences, "if I don't use these words here, where else would I use them". Keep it simple brother!
Y3nboda 11 years ago

Ample notice that he does not target 'Plebians' or 'poor souls' like us when he pens thought provoking articles.

Ample notice that he does not target 'Plebians' or 'poor souls' like us when he pens thought provoking articles.
GHANA FIRST 11 years ago

Ghana is a very good country and about the best place to live in Africa. What Ghanaians are experiencing today is not new. When US President Obama took over, the US economy crashed and known banks collapsed completely. The US ...
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Ghana is a very good country and about the best place to live in Africa. What Ghanaians are experiencing today is not new. When US President Obama took over, the US economy crashed and known banks collapsed completely. The US Treasury had to fall on the national reserves to resuscitate the almighty US economy. Ghana's economy has not broken down neither have her banks collapsed. What are you talking about? NPP is not a ruling party. It is an opposition party and that is what they know best and will remain in opposition until the membership of the party changes from Danquah Busia heritage to something else. The writer is from this heritage and so he thinks that heritage not about Ghana.
ahmed issa 11 years ago

Why are we paying minsters with so much of our resources. When they were borrowing recklessly didn't they know they needed to consult the opposition?
Stay with your mess after all you won't act on any recommendation. TWEAAA

Why are we paying minsters with so much of our resources. When they were borrowing recklessly didn't they know they needed to consult the opposition?
Stay with your mess after all you won't act on any recommendation. TWEAAA
Ghanaian To The Core 11 years ago

I don't belong to any political party. I stand for the national interest alone but I have, to this day, safely concluded NPP is a useless and selfish party to the core. The party stinks, man. One would have thought that in ti ...
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I don't belong to any political party. I stand for the national interest alone but I have, to this day, safely concluded NPP is a useless and selfish party to the core. The party stinks, man. One would have thought that in times of national economic emergency, NPP would have considered the plight of the ordinary man in the street, rise to the occasion, and come to his aid by participating in the economic forum even if they were given a short notice to attend. That would have immensely proved to the ordinary Ghanaian that they were not seeking power for their own selfish aggrandisement or parochial interest but rather for the benefit or welfare of Ghanaians. Having been tagged 'Asante/Akyem, y3n akanyuo party', they ought not to have given Ghanaians the unfortunate impression that in times of emergency they would not be there for them. If they had participated in the economic forum, I believe they would have earned the trust, respect and confidence of most Ghanaians that they, as a national patriotic party, participated in the economic discussion, essentially for the national good, because the whole affair is not about NDC, NPP, PNC, CPP or any other party or person. The whole affair is about the national interest, i.e., the welfare of Ghanaians. Unfortunately, instead of seizing the moment to showcase what they could offer, having been given the opportunity, they let down Ghanaians, not the NDC party, by failing to attend, let alone deliberate in the discussions. It is often said, 'one man alone is insufficient for the full deliberation of an undertaking'. And no amount of explanation or excuse whatsoever they come up with can repair the damage they have done to themselves and their fellow Ghanaians. They should forget about 2016 because NDCs have already won it again. NPPs are their own worse enemies. Please forget about them because you ca't reckon with them when you need them. They are empty barrels making a lot of sound. Sadly to say, you can't trust them with the destiny of millions of Ghanaians both far and near because in times of national emergency, they will betray your trust; they will not be there for you. They are after their own interest, not the interest of Ghanaians. NPP, do the battle no more, period.
DusTY-FooT-pHiloSophER 11 years ago

Amen.

Amen.
Bossman 11 years ago

" Parliament is the most legitimate and authentic forum for any serious deliberation on the state of our nation's economy; it is also the nerve center of policy deliberation and ratification or the lack thereof." Do we really ...
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" Parliament is the most legitimate and authentic forum for any serious deliberation on the state of our nation's economy; it is also the nerve center of policy deliberation and ratification or the lack thereof." Do we really have thinkers in this parliament? Our parliament is a JOKE!
Benash 11 years ago

All of you MF haters, will you stop hating Mr. Okoampa for no reason. You are all jealous and brain dead period. Mr Okoampa just like any of you dumb asses has the right to write on any issue or current affairs topic in his n ...
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All of you MF haters, will you stop hating Mr. Okoampa for no reason. You are all jealous and brain dead period. Mr Okoampa just like any of you dumb asses has the right to write on any issue or current affairs topic in his native country Ghana.
You ass holes will not write or come out with anything but anything he writes then you just start hating and calling him names. If Mr. Okaoampa is that bad why do you mother fuckers still come on the net to read his articles? If I were you once I see any article bearing his name I will not bother to read but you scumbags can't do that. Fuck you all haters of Mr. Okoampa and you are not forced to read anything from him.

Obournana 11 years ago

Have you replaced Akadu Mensema when she went into hibernation? What is Okoampah's beef here. I wonder okoampah was able to come to Ghana to campaign for Akuffo Addo. How many Ghanaians read from Ghanaweb? Not even .0001% of ...
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Have you replaced Akadu Mensema when she went into hibernation? What is Okoampah's beef here. I wonder okoampah was able to come to Ghana to campaign for Akuffo Addo. How many Ghanaians read from Ghanaweb? Not even .0001% of the registered voters read from Ghanaweb. Rational people who know lies, foolishness and stupidity when we see one. Okoampah has never written anything sensible and relevant except to defend UP/NPP. Meanwhile, none was able to bring NPP to powere. Okoampah has not written anything about the Apedwahene murder case because JB Danquah was involved. If you are Akadu, come out from you shell and let us see you.
Lord Mansfield-London 11 years ago

He shall go down in history as the dirtiest professor in the history of our nation Ghana. He writes nothing than garbage.

Was he alive when the Danakwa / Busia confraternity he is dying for ended up in hairdresser’s sal ...
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He shall go down in history as the dirtiest professor in the history of our nation Ghana. He writes nothing than garbage.

Was he alive when the Danakwa / Busia confraternity he is dying for ended up in hairdresser’s salon for loan? What was his stake at the time?

It is unfortunate that idiots like these have left off the hook of psychiatric treatment in the shores of Ghana, feeding on carcasses in foreign land and spew rubbish to think that he knows Ghana’s problems.
They always portray silliness, low self esteemed and endemic mental slavery.

What is so worrying is that he is determining to destroy others by attacking and distracting people he deemed opponents without making any sound alternative. This is not only sickening but also portrays immaturity and emptiness of this dull witted professor. He just wants to write or say anything to grab unnecessary attention. He has no solution???. If you test all his comments by deep analysis, you always end up by cheap and shallow political biases and unfounded allegations. “BANKYE NA NGO PROFESSOR”.
Balertey Gormey 11 years ago

Some people who claim to be nationalistic are indeed growing senile with age and hunger. Some elderly people in this country always want to be fed and heard by the state. So anything labeled "national" attracts them even if i ...
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Some people who claim to be nationalistic are indeed growing senile with age and hunger. Some elderly people in this country always want to be fed and heard by the state. So anything labeled "national" attracts them even if it does not make practical sense. The 22 point consensus has only one item that makes sense- limiting BoG borrowing to 10% of revenue. while should adults attend a big meeting and come out with trash? the major headaches are in the area of procurement- over-invoicing and under-invoicing-period. If you do not do anything about them expenditure with be high. The NDC even sent some leading call girls in Takoradi to Senchi. What is the role of prostitution in national development? We have some idiots who parade as statesmen. Some participants were licking their mouths while talking to journalists at the forum. Sign of over feeding. Pianim is senile.
Dominck owusu afriyie (Dominick&Jamie 11 years ago

It is the right of every Ghanaian to choose to participate in anything relevant to the country. The Government should have consulted with all members of Paliament before setting up the Economic forum event. It is not the N ...
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It is the right of every Ghanaian to choose to participate in anything relevant to the country. The Government should have consulted with all members of Paliament before setting up the Economic forum event. It is not the NPP which is in power to savage the ECONOMY but the GOVERNMENT.(NPP) can choose to participate in the forum or not and it is time for people stop the blame game and find lasting solutions to our economic WOES
VICKY LEE BENTON 11 years ago

JUST SHUT UP AND RELAX YOUR HEELS, MR. PIANIM, YOUR BRAIN IS SQUASHED AND YOU HAVE NO CLUE AS YOU COME OUT TO SAY THINGS, GHANAIANS DON'T NEED YOUR INPUTS.

JUST SHUT UP AND RELAX YOUR HEELS, MR. PIANIM, YOUR BRAIN IS SQUASHED AND YOU HAVE NO CLUE AS YOU COME OUT TO SAY THINGS, GHANAIANS DON'T NEED YOUR INPUTS.
Lord Tennison 11 years ago

The NEF was a pleasure trip,at best.The problems confronting Ghana were self-imposed by incompetent and shortsighted John Mahama,who does not know what he is doing.
With Paa Kwesi Amissah-Atta as his vice president,did he ...
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The NEF was a pleasure trip,at best.The problems confronting Ghana were self-imposed by incompetent and shortsighted John Mahama,who does not know what he is doing.
With Paa Kwesi Amissah-Atta as his vice president,did he have to wait for Dr.Bawumiah to lecture him on the economy?Amissah-Atta was a governor of the Bank of Ghana and a minister of finance and economic planning.Dr Bawumiah was a deputy governor.So who was better disposed to advise John Mahama on the economy?
With such an experienced veep,John Mahama did not need to even listen to Dr.Wampah or Dr Bawumiah.
John Mahama needs to go back to the drawing table and begin again.
crorkservice 11 years ago

eCsAgQ Fantastic blog article. Much obliged.

eCsAgQ Fantastic blog article. Much obliged.
crorkz matz 11 years ago

dXvQb6 Very informative blog.Really looking forward to read more. Really Cool.

dXvQb6 Very informative blog.Really looking forward to read more. Really Cool.

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