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Drama over Mahama’s free SHS: Each to cost US$4.3m

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  • Tibaa 9 years ago

    Stop new loans until we evaluate the effectiveness of the already secured loans.

    The loans are nothing but diabolical attempts by well-placed politicians and their cabal of phony contractors to milk Ghana without mercy.

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  • PRINCE KWASI ADADE 9 years ago

    HELPLESSNESS, HOPELESSNESS & FEELING OF DESPONDENCY HAS GRIPPED MANY IN GHANA TODAY.
    GHANA HAS BEEN RAPED BY THESE NDC IDIOTS. WE DO NOT NEED ANY NATIONAL ECONOMIC FORUM, WE NEED A NATIONAL COURT OF JURISDICTION TO PUT MAHAM ...
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  • KB,LONDON 9 years ago

    STUPID IDIOTS. NDC Akatamaato. You all gone insane. Destroying the country because that is what you done all your lives.

  • New York / Ghanians 9 years ago

    We need you to step down that is all we asking for so resign or face the gods and atta mills ghost again step down......aka resign, mr.

  • Whatever 9 years ago

    I thank the Government for providing free sanitary pad to needy girls to maintain themselves clean. NPP will forever disintegrate in opposition for senseless politics... opposing everything under the sun... I'm disgusted with ...
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  • TEE 9 years ago

    NO NO NO HE WILL WON'T LISTEN. HE IS INCOMPETENT TO BE A PRESIDENT, BRIBE PAID PRESIDENT

  • GHFUO, wat is your Purpose/Legacy?!! 9 years ago

    THE CEDI/CITY....
    THE CEDI/CITY IS LIKE A TABLE. IT NEEDS TO BE SUPPORTED BY 4 LEGS.
    SAMIA NKRUMAH FOR PRESIDENT!
    IN MOST WSTRN ECONOMIES, THEIR CURRENCIES ARE SUPPORTED BY SOUND ECONOMIC PRINCIPLES. IN GH, NO SUPPORT, JU ...
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  • Charles 9 years ago

    NDC "AMONSI PARTY", NDC "AMONSI PARTY", NDC "AMONSI PARTY", NDC "AMONSI PARTY",NDC "AMONSI PARTY"NDC "AMONSI PARTY"NDC "AMONSI PARTY"NDC "AMONSI PARTY"NDC "AMONSI PARTY"NDC "AMONSI PARTY"NDC "AMONSI PARTY"

  • MAHAMA KILLED MILLS!!!!!! 9 years ago

    Only a fool will vote for NDC again!! mahama's free gift is the most expensive item that can ever hit your pocket!! He gives you a free lunch to empty your bank account. WHAT A DEMON!!!

  • Garbby, Toronto. 9 years ago

    I have no interest in the black man governing me again.I'm opting for a white rule Ghana.

  • liv 9 years ago

    Well said, we'll be better of.

  • GBEVU 9 years ago

    GHANA IS GOING THROU THIS KIND OF SUFFERING BECOS OF THE KIND OF APPOSITION WE HAVE, CRITISIZING VERTUALLY EVERYTHING.

  • BE BOLD 9 years ago

    If you do the right thing the criticisms will stop. What business do you have borrowing all the time when we cannot account for the previous loans. Why borrow to grant scholarships to party loyalties and leave the rest of the ...
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  • MAHAMA KILLED MILLS!!!!!! 9 years ago

    mahama worships vagina as his god that's why he will go for loan to spread free sanitary pads. GHANA IS UNDER A CURSE AFTER MAHAMA KILLED MILLS!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Obed Adore 9 years ago

    Ha, ha, ha! Ooh, please stop this nonsense!

  • Shirley 9 years ago

    U are a BIG FOOL with capital letters,are u not a Ghanaian?

  • Danso TDOT 9 years ago

    wow...4 million per school? What kind of schools are these thieves going to build? This is definitely a cocoa season for these thieves!

  • Adjaloo Kweku Nenya 9 years ago

    Lol. There is a reggae song called Harvest Time by Don Carlos. I hope you don't mean that song. Just kidding!

  • MK 9 years ago

    ooh MAHAMA eden koraa na eha woadwene wo Ghana ha now you are going to distroy our education , mr you call YOUR self PRESIDENT, why? stop.NO WATER, NO LIGHT , NO JOB ,NO FUEL, you have finish all the money in Ghana here,so do ...
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  • Nzema K 9 years ago

    NPP AS USUAL

  • Akadu Mensema 9 years ago

    Just taking loans left and right to chop!

  • Favour 9 years ago

    Why can't we live within our means and stop borrowing? We have been subjected to a nation of beggars. It's really sad to watch what the NDC government is doing to our country.

  • Adjaloo Kweku Nenya 9 years ago

    I think the Author of this article is confused. A grace period, in a lay man's language, is a time span within which one usually does not have to pay a loan right away, or a waiting period before payment of a loan begins. How ...
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  • kwaku ansah 9 years ago

    "The protest was marked by a defining silence from the ..." The author needs to go back to the school of journalism. "The protest was marked by a deafening silence from the ..." Kumasi akrakyefoo ebiaa enne nkayafoo.

  • Adjaloo Kweku Nenya 9 years ago

    LOl. Yes, that is exactly what he meant to say: 'deafening silence.'

    However, in English, the expression 'defining silence' also has a meaning, and that is why I left him alone on that front.

  • jah 9 years ago

    wow, sanitary pads for students? what in the world

  • MA HAMMERED 9 years ago

    ARE WE NOW AN AMERICAN STATE??

  • DAN 9 years ago

    Zimbawee switched to usa dollar when their paper reached 10,000 for loaf of bread & the was no bread on shelf to be bought or other grocery goods..Ghana is quickly approaching that same monetary state!

  • mayorchology 9 years ago

    see my people this president is trying to camp our money because he know very will that coming 2016 he is not going to win election so this is the only way that he make money for his party and him self,why all this loans.If i ...
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  • Sena 9 years ago

    Mahama please is governance all about building KVIPs, street lights, buying school uniforms and removing school under trees????? Its pathetic that our leaders fail to think. Come out with policies...and this policies in the w ...
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  • BE WISE 9 years ago

    These are basic necessities of life & it must be attended to. Say tht to NPP.

  • Sena 9 years ago

    Refer to your name...if you give create jobs basic necessities can easily be catered for by people and gov't will only spend few on those things. Am not sure if you know the basic necessities of life dude

  • AD wa 9 years ago

    Is mahama gover't ready to distroy private businesses? Private companies go in for loans from banks to construct school blocks if u canot pay them why go for loan for new schools? Are we serious?

  • Asamoah Gyan 9 years ago

    Why is NDC full of fools? Even though they are starving, unable to educate their children, live in poverty whilst a few enjoy, have their businesses collapse because they have no electricity, they will continue to vote NDC. T ...
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  • JOE . ( UK 9 years ago

    Is a shame I thought you said npp cant do it and is not possibl.How come you are doing it.shame unto

  • Fad 9 years ago

    Drama over Mahama’s free SHS: Each to cost US$4.3m

  • ANKOBEA-HENE 9 years ago

    WHAAAT? 4.3 million dollars for one day School? I never opposed gov't but they must break this down for me to swallow.

  • CONSERN GHANAIAN 9 years ago

    disgrace to the paliamentarians,president & entire nation to go for a loan to buy s pads thinking loans for employment, energy, & gainful items for gh look at this shame to president & those agree for d loan

  • PREKESE 9 years ago

    BEAST AND THIEVES,GHANA IS DOOMED DUE TO THESE STUPID PEOPLE,COMMON SHS COSTING OVER 4MILLION WHAT DO THESE IDIOTS THINK ABOUT GHANAIANS?.

  • EMMANUEL 9 years ago

    THIS GOVERNMENT DON'T CARE ABOUT OUR GENERATION AT ALL. THE PRIORITY OF THIS GOVERNMENT IS RETAINING POWER.

  • engineerasare 9 years ago

    for records sake, u dont need more than 1million USD to construct a day school with classroom block, administration block. 1million USD is equivalent to 30billion old cedis. think abt it well...a school worth 120billion old c ...
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  • We want change now 9 years ago

    So the finance ministry is saying that they need Ghc14,190,ooo (fourteen million one hundred and ninety Ghana cedis) to build one school, what type of school is that? if it were to be his money would he use that kind of money ...
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  • kwaku 9 years ago

    Will anyone support my proposal?
    I am gonig to write to the World Bank to not give the loan to the Ghana Govt until they have put into place how they will monitor and account for how the money is used

  • BE BOLD 9 years ago

    How do we contact you?

  • Joe 9 years ago

    Here we live in a country where there is no light, no water, escalating cedi fall, no gas for cars yet the government finfpds money to buy sanitary pads for girls in school and intention to build new schools while as the exis ...
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  • SHS 9 years ago

    The Mahama led NDC gov't should provide a model of this new community day SHS that it intends to build ie the 23 with the world bank facility for it to be costed independently to put the figure of $4.3million dollars in it's ...
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  • George Bee 9 years ago

    Oh I thought NPP will vote for the loan for the contruction of schools and provision of school items for students following their Free SHS message. Strangely NPP abstained with the flimy excuse that the loan is for sanitary p ...
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  • Akwasi 9 years ago

    Why do we have to borrow to do everything in the country. This is ridiculous. This government should put any project aside and concentrate on water, health and power in the country.

  • liv 9 years ago

    Manufacturing!!! Bring in the chinese to set up a factory for biodegradable pads and diapers. The made in Ghana sanitary pads are not affordable and remove the tax on these items.

  • CALABASH 9 years ago

    Can Okudzeto Ablakwa show Ghanaians where the 50 SHS promised in 2013 are sited, when they were completed, how many students are utilizing the facilities, etc, etc.?
    Ablakwa should provide these figures as part of their so c ...
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  • DOFENYO 9 years ago

    WHEN YOU DO THIS NONSENSE THEN YOU SAY THERE SHOULD BE BI-PARTISAN DISCUSSION ON THE ECONOMY, WHERE ARE YOUR BRAINS? IDIOTS IN NDC.

  • housseni nacro 9 years ago

    President Mahama deserves every support in this regard.This is about education.If there should be a war,every effort will be made to finance it,with a view to winning.Education?That,s the key to progress for the nation.Stop p ...
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  • Chad 9 years ago

    i guess you did support it when it was moved by Nana Addo?

  • ANAS AREMEYAW ANAS 9 years ago

    Look at Mahama face in the picture

  • Ama 9 years ago

    For crying out loud, why's this very corrupt man remain president of this country? Remember the cargo filled with gold enroute to Iran & impounded in Turkey? That story is making rounds again in Turkey news. Why's nobody pres ...
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  • It's well 9 years ago

    Even da children themselves say dey don't want da sanitary pads, why are u forcing it on dem

  • Addo, Akyem 9 years ago

    sss

  • Whatever 9 years ago

    What kind of political party is, who will even oppose good things being done to others? NPP represent the worst form of politicians in world

  • JAMIL MOHAMED 9 years ago

    SHUT UP YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF YOUR THIEVING PARTY , WHAT IN GOD'S NAME A POLITICAL PARTY OF A COUNTRY WILL GO FOR A LOAN TO BUY VIRGINA PADS FOR IT'S CITIZENS END ? ONLY IN GHANA (N D C)HAHAHAHAHAHAHA .

  • Whatever 9 years ago

    I will be more elated if Government spends more than that amount buying sanitary pads for the future mothers of this nation. NPP should be ashamed of themselves for opposing assistance to the future mothers of this nation

  • Close Observer 9 years ago

    You are a fool and a hypocrite. What didn't you fools say about free education. Even to the extent that the idiot called Koku Anyidoho said his niece ask if Nana Addo will also give free sanitary pads to them. What a nation! ...
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  • kbee 9 years ago

    Ghanaweb pls are you sending our messages to them...

  • yaapoti 9 years ago

    t dounhis tankas president will turn Ghana up side dowm very soon

  • Favour 9 years ago

    NDC government has a problem with prioritizing government need. What sense does it make to build more schools now and the graduates can't even get work? Every policy of theirs is designed towards falsely impressing the electo ...
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  • Edwin Bokor 9 years ago

    The Government of Ghana seems to show how ignorant and naive they can be. there are much schools already in the system which cannot be managed properly, not to talk about in availabilty of teachers. what they should be doing ...
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  • Phyl 9 years ago

    sanitary pads s3nn??? have the parents of these girls complained of their inability to buy them for their daughters..oh please address the electricity and fuel issues crippling us as a nation.
    Akpe!!!

  • maame 9 years ago

    What do you want him to do? Did you leave money for him to work with? No harm in borrowing of only the money is used well. At the end of it, all we ask for is schools worth the cost. Leave Manama alone. Your politics is ...
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  • Kantinka 9 years ago

    mahama's faith is hanging on the bar string, he is a dead man walking, a timing bomb is about to explode, folks watch out for action, mahama is a toast,

  • TEE 9 years ago

    MAHAMA IS GOING TO CHOP THE LOAN WITH HIS ZONGOS BOYS

  • Whatever 9 years ago

    NPP are a disgrace, they only think about themselves, their comfort, their ex gratia, stealing even kickbacks to be shared among themselves. Government should move full speed ahead and assist our future mothers and ignore the ...
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  • WILFRED 9 years ago

    What is going on in Mahama's adm. sanitary pads 4 SHS stds, why Mr. Prz?

  • WILFRED 9 years ago

    Please Pastors, Rev. Ministers, Clergies,Imams and other ministers should stop wasting their time and energy praying for the nation why the President and his teams using this amount to buy SANITARY PADS for SHS's students. B ...
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  • Antiochus - London 9 years ago

    Are you not satisfied with all the monies you and your cronies have stolen? What wrong did Ghanaians do to vote for NDC?

  • NANA AKUFO ADDO 9 years ago

    THE ECONOMY IS TURNING AROUND. MAHAMA IS DELIVERING ON THE BETTER GHANA AGENDA. SETH TERKPER IS DELIVERING. NDC IS DELIVERING. THE BETTER GHANA AGENDA IS ON COURSE! GOD BLESS GHANA!!!