Sanitary pad was a manifesto pledge – NDC

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Papa Yaw 11 years ago

No

No
HONESTY 11 years ago

The teachers should have taught enough Ghanaians to manufacture cheap chalks by now. What I mean, is that, the teachers are part of the crisis we have in Ghana with their lack of dedication and national sacrifice.

The teachers should have taught enough Ghanaians to manufacture cheap chalks by now. What I mean, is that, the teachers are part of the crisis we have in Ghana with their lack of dedication and national sacrifice.
Angie 11 years ago

Crazy woman, this have nothing to do with politics. The idea behind it is good but the timing is bad. You don't go out to procure a loan, only to use some to distribute free sanitary pads for girls. This free pads won't even ...
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Crazy woman, this have nothing to do with politics. The idea behind it is good but the timing is bad. You don't go out to procure a loan, only to use some to distribute free sanitary pads for girls. This free pads won't even be a long term commitment because the funds will eventually run out. Why not use the money wisely to benefit poorer schools.
HONESTY 11 years ago

So the opposition should spend their time telling Ghanaians what they can do better instead of this age old politics of everything from the other party is bad.
We just need to ask the important questions like, why can't we ...
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So the opposition should spend their time telling Ghanaians what they can do better instead of this age old politics of everything from the other party is bad.
We just need to ask the important questions like, why can't we offer such contracts to Ghanaians to manufacture them and why don't we tax Ghanaians to pay for such provisions and not be dependent on loans and move on to more important issues instead of discussing pads for a year.

I suspect a sense of perverting in the minds of those who want to keep this issue in the public domain. Ghanaians should just move on.
Whatever 11 years ago

NDC is not for the elite. If one wants a party for the Ghanaian elite then its the NPP. So don't be surprised if NPP wail when resources are going to the poor. NDC will show the difference between itself and the NPP. This mov ...
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NDC is not for the elite. If one wants a party for the Ghanaian elite then its the NPP. So don't be surprised if NPP wail when resources are going to the poor. NDC will show the difference between itself and the NPP. This move is step in the right direction
BBC NEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 11 years ago

NDC THIEVES HAS STOLEN ENOUGH THAT THE REST IS THEIR BACK CASE, THEY DONT CARE WHAT EVER HAPPEND!!! THEY WILL USE OUR MONEY FOR PADS AND TOILET ROLLS!! BECAUSE THEY ARE CONFUSED

NDC THIEVES HAS STOLEN ENOUGH THAT THE REST IS THEIR BACK CASE, THEY DONT CARE WHAT EVER HAPPEND!!! THEY WILL USE OUR MONEY FOR PADS AND TOILET ROLLS!! BECAUSE THEY ARE CONFUSED
SGT ANANI FIADZOE 11 years ago

Senseless and Corrupt Dramani Mahama has disgraced our nation, The whole world are laughing at every Ghanaian on the street and every where in the world, saying "so Ghana cannot afford to buy sanitary pads for their children ...
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Senseless and Corrupt Dramani Mahama has disgraced our nation, The whole world are laughing at every Ghanaian on the street and every where in the world, saying "so Ghana cannot afford to buy sanitary pads for their children from their own resources unless they go the world Bank to secure loans and pay interest on it
to buy sanitary pads?" A country with
Gold, Timber, Bauxite, Manganese, Cocoa, diamond with OIL?

Sanitary Pads, Ghana has gone so broke
that our home Government cannot afford
to buy Sanitary Pads unless World Bank
lends them money and pay interest on it before such a commodity can be procured? AO! Ghana, Mahama has let
the nation and the entire people down,
we must be shameful, Ghana shouldn't be like this, this is not our destiny
GHANA PAAA NIE, when are we going to see 2016 so that Nana Akuffo Addo and his credible Team of NPP can come and
save our nation and the majority people in this country? God please have mercy on us.
Oponko Abodam 11 years ago

Mahama will also have to go from school to school and teach how to insert the pad in the right places since the teachers have kicked against the whole idea of sanitary pads.

Mahama will also have to go from school to school and teach how to insert the pad in the right places since the teachers have kicked against the whole idea of sanitary pads.
Kabokabo 11 years ago

Not only school girls who need sanitary pads but all Ghanaians. The nation is breeding because of rape by the government so we need the sanitary pad. NDC understand exactly what they are doing. Ghana is breeding from miscarri ...
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Not only school girls who need sanitary pads but all Ghanaians. The nation is breeding because of rape by the government so we need the sanitary pad. NDC understand exactly what they are doing. Ghana is breeding from miscarriage.......
Politics 11 years ago

I can say with confidence that all NDC politicians are MISCREANTS and EDUCATED FOOLS. Why bother yourselves with SANITARY PADS instead of SCHOOL BUILDINGS OR LEARNING MATERIALS for the less privileged? What is wrong your f### ...
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I can say with confidence that all NDC politicians are MISCREANTS and EDUCATED FOOLS. Why bother yourselves with SANITARY PADS instead of SCHOOL BUILDINGS OR LEARNING MATERIALS for the less privileged? What is wrong your f######g BRAIN? SYCHOPHANTS and BLOCK HEADS!

SGT ANANI FIADZOE 11 years ago

Stupid and corrupt Mahama, if NDC is for an ordinary people, they will not rob the ordinary majority people of their money, they cannot even create jobs for ordinary Ghanaian you claimed they think of, they tax "KAYA YO" to b ...
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Stupid and corrupt Mahama, if NDC is for an ordinary people, they will not rob the ordinary majority people of their money, they cannot even create jobs for ordinary Ghanaian you claimed they think of, they tax "KAYA YO" to buy Land Cruiser for themselves, GYEEDA, SADA,JUDGEMENT DEBTS, ALFRED AGBESI WOYOME, ISOFOTONE, stealing here, stealing there, no petrol in our country, no ordinary water for ordinary people, Mahama kanea eso na adum, all businesses are collapsing no money even to buy sanitary pads unless Mahama go to the world Bank to to beg for money, pay interest on it to come
and buy sanitary pads for school girls
does this make NDC thinking of ordinary people party? KWASEA LIKE YOU

NHS collapsed, ordinary Ghanaian cannot get hospital treatment free as
it was under NPP Government, no free
transport for school children as it was under NPP, school feeding set out by NPP Government is collapsed, free
Maternity care set out by President Kuffour NPP Government is lost, do you call this NDC puppet Government as a
thinking of ordinary person party, MONKEY LIKE YOU, no doubt Ghana's economy is confused by NDC because no
one in NDC has a right frame of mind,
when thinks are going bad, they see it as a good sign but when things are going good they think it is bad, NDC
always goes to the opposite direction,
NKWASEA ASAFO, FOOLS PARADISE. To you
this shows how NDC thinks of ordinary person. ANIMAL WHO EATS SHITS AS DINNER. PIG
ROSE 11 years ago

NDC , is damn primitive party no wonder nobody in his or her real sense want to have nothing to do with them.Where on this earth did you people go to see a government supplying sanitary pads to SHS students ? You are a disgra ...
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NDC , is damn primitive party no wonder nobody in his or her real sense want to have nothing to do with them.Where on this earth did you people go to see a government supplying sanitary pads to SHS students ? You are a disgrace and shameful to this beautiful land called ghana.This will never happen in Nigeria or Ivory Coast, these countries are more advanced and more modern than ghana.Disgraceful and shameful ndc who have no shame , primitive people who have driven this country backwards to the stone age.
DEE 11 years ago

Araba Tagoe, hear me very well, a govt. do NOT get a Loan to buy Sanitary Pads for School girls. Loans are to be paid back with interest......Pads will not pay back the Loan with interest Araba Tagoe Bush woman!!!

Araba Tagoe, hear me very well, a govt. do NOT get a Loan to buy Sanitary Pads for School girls. Loans are to be paid back with interest......Pads will not pay back the Loan with interest Araba Tagoe Bush woman!!!
GHFUO, wat is your Legacy/Purpose?!! 11 years ago

MAHAMA SIGNS HPV VIRUS, VACCINE
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THIS HPV VACCINE WONT HELP YOU. IT WILL SIMPLY MAKE UR SITUATION WORSE....
(NaturalNews) For the last se ...
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MAHAMA SIGNS HPV VIRUS, VACCINE
ITS A HOAX. GO TO WWW.NATURALNEWS.CM AND TYPE IN...The Great HPV Vaccine Hoax Exposed
THIS HPV VACCINE WONT HELP YOU. IT WILL SIMPLY MAKE UR SITUATION WORSE....
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NDC IS A WICKED PARTY
FREE SANITARY PADS, INDEED.
THEY HVE BEEN CHARGED TO BEGIN KILLING OFF OUR POPULATION. BY DESTROYING THE BIRTH CANALS OF OUR YOUNG GIRLS.\
LOOK,
If you haven't yet seen the GMO documentary film Genetic Roulette, I highly recommend it. I had the chance to hear the film's director, Jeffrey Smith speak in April and he showed that the evidence linking GMOs to health issues is something we can no longer ignore.
Inserting a GMO tampon into your vagina several times every month is no different than ingesting GMO food. In fact, it may even be worse. According to Dr. Susan Treiser, MD., the skin around the vaginal area is highly vascular and therefore more permeable to a wide range of compounds. I am not a doctor or scientist, but logic suggests that GMOs, pesticides or chemicals in the body - from either end - can't be good for us.
Pick up a box of conventional sanitary pads and try to read the ingredients. You can't because they aren't listed. Why, you ask? Because sanitary pads are considered to be "medical device" and because they aren't inserted into our body, the ingredients don't have to be listed on the label or disclosed by the company. Many brands of tampons do list some of the ingredients on their package, but full disclosure isn't mandatory. According to the FDA, proprietary ingredients and formulas are legally protected and do not have to be disclosed by companies. REALLY? HMM, HMM...
In closing, I would like to say this is just throwing another log on the fire of corruption, deceit, corporations geared to making money at the health expense of the people, and let's not forget Monsanto's sponsoring of chemtrails so they can determine if their garbage crops are resistant to the adverse effects of arsenic, barium, strontium, and aluminum dropped on them, with no regard for the effects on the people and their thyroid gland (yes, all those chemicals dropped by the chemtrails affect the thyroid gland) or other crops that these poisons drop on. We live in a world where the only importance is the amount of money in a trick's pocket that can pay for the products offered for sale, and as you can see from this article the corporations hide behind loopholes to not label ingredients.
What happens when these toxins infiltrate our systems? What happens is that we get sick and visit a hooker (physician) that is clueless as to how to fix the problem other than prescribing a pharmaceutical to merely treat a symptom. If they know that organic sulfur crystals removed heavy metals, toxins, radiation, parasites and more, they still would not advise it because a business flourishes by repeat business not by a cure.
And the motto of the pimps and hookers? In God we trust. All others pay cash.
We need to have full disclosure labeling on tampons and pads so, as women, we can make informed decisions when it comes to the products we buy.
Please, please, sign the petition - www.chn.ge/10hDRw.
Join me and the Naturally Savvy team, in putting an end to this breach of public trust by signing our petition to force Proctor & Gamble to tell us what's in their products.
Thank you,
Andrea Donsky
NATURAL NEWS
NAA 11 years ago

THEY WILL FAIL BECAUSE OUR GREAT GOD IS IN CONTROL.

THEY WILL FAIL BECAUSE OUR GREAT GOD IS IN CONTROL.
HONESTY 11 years ago

So the opposition should spend their time telling Ghanaians what they can do better instead of this age old politics of everything from the other party is bad.
We just need to ask the important questions like, why can't we ...
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So the opposition should spend their time telling Ghanaians what they can do better instead of this age old politics of everything from the other party is bad.
We just need to ask the important questions like, why can't we offer such contracts to Ghanaians to manufacture them and why don't we tax Ghanaians to pay for such provisions and not be dependent on loans and move on to more important issues instead of discussing pads for a year.

I suspect a sense of perverting in the minds of those who want to keep this issue in the public domain. Ghanaians should just move on.
SGT ANANI FIADZOE 11 years ago

This is such a disgraceful Government,
so Ghana with 56 years of Independence, we have no money to from our coffers to get ourselves sanitary pads, unless we go to the World Bank to secure loans and pay interest on it before ...
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This is such a disgraceful Government,
so Ghana with 56 years of Independence, we have no money to from our coffers to get ourselves sanitary pads, unless we go to the World Bank to secure loans and pay interest on it before pads can be procured? AAAAAAH! and NDC foolish supporters are happy to see this happen to the people of Ghana and encouraging it, $156 million for Sanitary Pads, so can't this money be used to establish some industry to
bring in some employment for youths
and the people of this nation so that
money can be seen in people's pockets
and so doing they themselves can buy
such sanitary pads for their children?
If a parent can pay their children's
school fees after Mahama and his NDC incompetent fools has "AWEM NNAM NO AMA AKA DOMPE" why can't they buy sanitary pads for their own children?

AO Ghana, NDC stupid Cows and their supporters has kill Ghana, our nation
is completely finished both economically, politically and administratively. Under NDC Ghana is doomed nation.
CHAKA 11 years ago

JJ, have you realized the monster you have created? Aren't you ashamed of what is going on in the country? I would love to hear from you and your bootlickers. Tsatsu, open your big mouth. Konadu Agyemang, this is about womanh ...
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JJ, have you realized the monster you have created? Aren't you ashamed of what is going on in the country? I would love to hear from you and your bootlickers. Tsatsu, open your big mouth. Konadu Agyemang, this is about womanhood. Let's hear the nonsense that will pour out of your mouth. YOU PEOPLE ARE FULL OF IT!!! World Bank loan to purchase and distribute sanitary pads to school girls!
HONESTY 11 years ago

So the opposition should spend their time telling Ghanaians what they can do better instead of this age old politics of everything from the other party is bad.
We just need to ask the important questions like, why can't we ...
read full comment

So the opposition should spend their time telling Ghanaians what they can do better instead of this age old politics of everything from the other party is bad.
We just need to ask the important questions like, why can't we offer such contracts to Ghanaians to manufacture them and why don't we tax Ghanaians to pay for such provisions and not be dependent on loans and move on to more important issues instead of discussing pads for a year.

I suspect a sense of perverting in the minds of those who want to keep this issue in the public domain. Ghanaians should just move on.
HONESTY 11 years ago

So the opposition should spend their time telling Ghanaians what they can do better instead of this age old politics of everything from the other party is bad.
We just need to ask the important questions like, why can't we ...
read full comment

So the opposition should spend their time telling Ghanaians what they can do better instead of this age old politics of everything from the other party is bad.
We just need to ask the important questions like, why can't we offer such contracts to Ghanaians to manufacture them and why don't we tax Ghanaians to pay for such provisions and not be dependent on loans and move on to more important issues instead of discussing pads for a year.

I suspect a sense of perverting in the minds of those who want to keep this issue in the public domain. Ghanaians should just move on.

Thinker 11 years ago

Our Leaders should be sensible and ruled the country Ghana people wisely,this kind of pad help should come from some of the charities in the country not from the government of the county this is not cool, please leaders of th ...
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Our Leaders should be sensible and ruled the country Ghana people wisely,this kind of pad help should come from some of the charities in the country not from the government of the county this is not cool, please leaders of the Nation of Ghana , l think you people know what is best for the county that is why you people decided to become a leader to help our country, please leaders you people should used your mind and soul wisely for the Country if you know what you are doing is good it would not be difficult for you people to do your best part what you love to do. Let us be kind to one another. I wish you all leaders the best of success in your every day tasks you do.thanks
pepi 11 years ago

VERY SOON YOU WILL SEE THESE PADS ON SALE IN KUMASI AND TA'DI. MARK MY WORDS

VERY SOON YOU WILL SEE THESE PADS ON SALE IN KUMASI AND TA'DI. MARK MY WORDS
OSAGYEFO 11 years ago

YOU CANT TAKE A LOAN TO BUY PADS, BUNCH OF FOOLS

YOU CANT TAKE A LOAN TO BUY PADS, BUNCH OF FOOLS
Thinker 11 years ago

Our Leaders should be sensible and ruled the country Ghana people wisely,this kind of pad help should come from some of the charities in the country not from the government of the county this is not cool, please leaders of th ...
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Our Leaders should be sensible and ruled the country Ghana people wisely,this kind of pad help should come from some of the charities in the country not from the government of the county this is not cool, please leaders of the Nation of Ghana , l think you people know what is best for the county that is why you people decided to become a leader to help our country, please leaders you people should used your mind and soul wisely for the Country if you know what you are doing is good it would not be difficult for you people to do your best part what you love to do. Let us be kind to one another. I wish you all leaders the best of success in your every day tasks you do.thanks
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Don Blunt 11 years ago

How many girls will be supplied with this thing for how many months?
Only NDC-fooled Folks will beleive young girls are not taught to take care of themselves during such periods.
How did women like de Sooza survive without ...
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How many girls will be supplied with this thing for how many months?
Only NDC-fooled Folks will beleive young girls are not taught to take care of themselves during such periods.
How did women like de Sooza survive without NDC-sanitary pads?
No, there is something else behind this stupigity, but the general public must be kept from knowing the truth
Laura 11 years ago

Dear Madam Araba Tagoe,

Please get your head out of you A**, does this party really want the people of Ghana to believe this crap. Look, you all will find a dumb way to steal money. When you were growing up in you village ...
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Dear Madam Araba Tagoe,

Please get your head out of you A**, does this party really want the people of Ghana to believe this crap. Look, you all will find a dumb way to steal money. When you were growing up in you village did your school provide u such things. That is the responsibility of you parents. Stop embarrassing Ghanaian people with your stupid ideas. Why not use the money to build better roads, better clinics, books. Please do not come on the radio again
The Mask 11 years ago

The President wants to supply students with free sanitary pads when textbooks are in short supply. The government has no business meddling in this issue. Multiply the cost of sanitary pads by the number of female students by ...
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The President wants to supply students with free sanitary pads when textbooks are in short supply. The government has no business meddling in this issue. Multiply the cost of sanitary pads by the number of female students by 12 and then by 5. What do you get??

Are the pads going to be manufactured in Ghana? I hope the MPs (representatives) would be on the look out for this in the next budget that the President is going to present to them.
HONESTY 11 years ago

The question every Ghanaian should be asking is, are the pads made in Ghana to create jobs and not who provides them.
Only fools will question why our girls need sanitary pads. Do you know what some parents give to their gi ...
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The question every Ghanaian should be asking is, are the pads made in Ghana to create jobs and not who provides them.
Only fools will question why our girls need sanitary pads. Do you know what some parents give to their girls as pads?
What is wrong with Ghana? Basic issues become major issues and yet, no one wants to talk about important issues.
GURUNDA 11 years ago

NDC don't know what to do.

NDC don't know what to do.

Areo 11 years ago

The foolishness is people like you defending this nonsense. Is it the responsibility of the government to provide pads? What next, panties and bra?

The foolishness is people like you defending this nonsense. Is it the responsibility of the government to provide pads? What next, panties and bra?
Angie 11 years ago

And you don't think schools without toilets or chalks are not of utmost important than a sanitary pads? Put on your cap & think. The outrage from people is because there are more pressing problems in the schools than this. Ha ...
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And you don't think schools without toilets or chalks are not of utmost important than a sanitary pads? Put on your cap & think. The outrage from people is because there are more pressing problems in the schools than this. Had the government come out & announce funding poorer schools with repairs to their buildings, water or toilets, no sane person will oppose such gesture. This amount of money can build many restrooms that'll benefit all students.
Vinny 11 years ago

Take a chill pill and respect others opinion . Some of these so call schools doesn't even have buildings, chairs , teaching materials , toilets and you are here defending and cursing people out.

Take a chill pill and respect others opinion . Some of these so call schools doesn't even have buildings, chairs , teaching materials , toilets and you are here defending and cursing people out.
Unumi Bununya a.k.a Teteman Boy 11 years ago

Government cannot balance its budget yet continues to find ways to spend. Is it not a shame that that government will borrow money for such a basic need that parents should be able to shoulder? This is another avenue to steal ...
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Government cannot balance its budget yet continues to find ways to spend. Is it not a shame that that government will borrow money for such a basic need that parents should be able to shoulder? This is another avenue to steal funds.
HONESTY 11 years ago

Kufuor did not balance the budget. That peanut of money for sanitary pads can not balance the budget.
The best way, is to cut waste in the ministries, ie, subsidies for fuel and the per dems and not pads for poor girls. Sto ...
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Kufuor did not balance the budget. That peanut of money for sanitary pads can not balance the budget.
The best way, is to cut waste in the ministries, ie, subsidies for fuel and the per dems and not pads for poor girls. Stop the cheap politics.
HONESTY 11 years ago

I nearly missed that. Ghanaians must learn to put their money where their mouths are. We talk too much and sacrifice nothing.

I nearly missed that. Ghanaians must learn to put their money where their mouths are. We talk too much and sacrifice nothing.
Thinker 11 years ago

This kind of gift should come from the nation charities not from the government or the leaders. What are the nation charities doing with alot of donations they get. The charities in Ghana should do their work well.

This kind of gift should come from the nation charities not from the government or the leaders. What are the nation charities doing with alot of donations they get. The charities in Ghana should do their work well.
NDC foot soldiers 11 years ago

In no time NDC Government will go for loan to buy toilet roll and supply to NDC foot soldiers

In no time NDC Government will go for loan to buy toilet roll and supply to NDC foot soldiers
Grace 11 years ago

Hahahaha! Interesting Government! Hmmmm, Where is Ghana going with these clueless people in power? God save this country otherwise there will be a total collapse.

Hahahaha! Interesting Government! Hmmmm, Where is Ghana going with these clueless people in power? God save this country otherwise there will be a total collapse.
Lopez 11 years ago

Why wouldn't you be, nation wreckers like Araba Tagoe will always defend Government even when they are wrong. Giving rural school girls free pad is not a bad idea but my question is it a priority, at a time when teachers are ...
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Why wouldn't you be, nation wreckers like Araba Tagoe will always defend Government even when they are wrong. Giving rural school girls free pad is not a bad idea but my question is it a priority, at a time when teachers are not being paid, even basic teaching materials are not being supplied and you go about trying to defend something that is not defensible, this is pure selfishness. Why should we borrow to do charity just to win cheap political votes. NDC get your priorities right because Ghana deserves better.
GURUNDA 11 years ago

A second Northernor has shown great incompetence as president. In fact Mahama is worse than Liman. I will never recommend a president from the north, bcos they are disappointing.

A second Northernor has shown great incompetence as president. In fact Mahama is worse than Liman. I will never recommend a president from the north, bcos they are disappointing.
osam appeadu 11 years ago

Such investments are amorphous. It will be extremely difficult to monitor the distribution and how will the accounting be done. Now how do you sustain this investment. Considering nature of menstrual cycle being monthly. Will ...
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Such investments are amorphous. It will be extremely difficult to monitor the distribution and how will the accounting be done. Now how do you sustain this investment. Considering nature of menstrual cycle being monthly. Will Government target just a group of girls? Every day some set of girls start menstruation. How will this set be cartered for. Is the Ministry of Education has institutional capacity to do this effectively? What consultation has happen with Ministry of Health. This is a hygiene matter and must
be presented wrongly.The core business of Ministry of Education is quality of education.
NDC is found such bizarre and dubious ways embarrassing us. Where in the world has sanitary pads been rationed to girls as a middle income country?
Such wicked endeavours must stop.
attapayin 11 years ago

Eiii NDC, so distributing sanitary pads for girl was in your manifesto...ebeeeei. It will create much embarrassment for de girls in school. Instead of giving to them in the school, why won't the government allow this initiati ...
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Eiii NDC, so distributing sanitary pads for girl was in your manifesto...ebeeeei. It will create much embarrassment for de girls in school. Instead of giving to them in the school, why won't the government allow this initiative take root in the hospitals, our clinics aid centers in the rural areas by the health ministry... It pities me to a lot, now what most essential for the schools are the learning material... God have mercy on Ghana and its leaders... this is so pathetic.
achipelago 11 years ago

EI, THEN YOU PEOPLE PLEDGED THINGS THAT ARE NOT WORTH VOTING YOU FOR. OH NA SO...? NO WONDER WHEN WE ASKED MAHAMA DURING THE 2012 ELECTION CAMPAIGNS ABOUT WHAT HE WILL DO, HE SAID...EDE BEE K3K3! BECAUSE THEY HAD NOTHING CONC ...
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EI, THEN YOU PEOPLE PLEDGED THINGS THAT ARE NOT WORTH VOTING YOU FOR. OH NA SO...? NO WONDER WHEN WE ASKED MAHAMA DURING THE 2012 ELECTION CAMPAIGNS ABOUT WHAT HE WILL DO, HE SAID...EDE BEE K3K3! BECAUSE THEY HAD NOTHING CONCRETE TO OFFER. GOD SAVE GHANA.
Voice of Reason 11 years ago

THE TEACHERS HAVE SPOKEN AND THEY SHOULD BE LISTENED TO......IT IS THE RESPONSIBILITY OF PARENTS TO PROVIDE SANITARY PADS FOR THEIR DAUGHTERS......NOT DUMB MAHAMA.IT WOULD HAVE BEEN ACCEPTABLE SOMEHOW IF THE FUNDS WERE INTERN ...
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THE TEACHERS HAVE SPOKEN AND THEY SHOULD BE LISTENED TO......IT IS THE RESPONSIBILITY OF PARENTS TO PROVIDE SANITARY PADS FOR THEIR DAUGHTERS......NOT DUMB MAHAMA.IT WOULD HAVE BEEN ACCEPTABLE SOMEHOW IF THE FUNDS WERE INTERNALLY GENERATED.......BUT TO GO FOR A LOAN(THAT WILL BE PAID BACK WITH INTEREST)FOR THIS PURPOSE?.......OH HELL NO
MOTHER 11 years ago

Parents please beware of Mahama sanitary PAD ,its NDC Plan to take ur girls BLOOD for a COVENANT They entered with a SHIRNE to wine 2016 elections.they have to give blood of every tribe to the shirne n since it would be hard ...
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Parents please beware of Mahama sanitary PAD ,its NDC Plan to take ur girls BLOOD for a COVENANT They entered with a SHIRNE to wine 2016 elections.they have to give blood of every tribe to the shirne n since it would be hard to get they used menstrual BLOOD as apoint of contact n they have to give, SO PLEASE as a MOTHER im given this revelation out
Antiochus - London 11 years ago

Stupid woman blinded by politics. If your daughter goes to school well fed, enough stationery, chalk available, well roofed classrooms, teachers teaching happily, compare to free sanitary pads without all these mention facili ...
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Stupid woman blinded by politics. If your daughter goes to school well fed, enough stationery, chalk available, well roofed classrooms, teachers teaching happily, compare to free sanitary pads without all these mention facilities. Which one will you prefer?
adanko 11 years ago

Please come up with better ideas. This is ridiculous.

Please come up with better ideas. This is ridiculous.
George Best. 11 years ago

WHAT IS HAPPENING IN GHANA NOW, HOW IS THIS NDC GOVERNMENT MANAGING THE GHANAIAN ECONOMY AT ALL? IS THE DISTRIBUTION OF SANITARY PADS ONE OF THE PROBLEMS IN GHANA NOW?
MAHAMA AND HIS PEOPLE MUST SIT UP AND WORK IF THEY THIN ...
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WHAT IS HAPPENING IN GHANA NOW, HOW IS THIS NDC GOVERNMENT MANAGING THE GHANAIAN ECONOMY AT ALL? IS THE DISTRIBUTION OF SANITARY PADS ONE OF THE PROBLEMS IN GHANA NOW?
MAHAMA AND HIS PEOPLE MUST SIT UP AND WORK IF THEY THINK THEY ARE RULING GHANA.
odei 11 years ago

Ecclesiastes 10:16 says " Woe to you, oh land,when thy king is a child and thy princes eat in the morning" and Isaiah 3:4 says "i will make mere youth their officials, children will rule over them"
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Ecclesiastes 10:16 says " Woe to you, oh land,when thy king is a child and thy princes eat in the morning" and Isaiah 3:4 says "i will make mere youth their officials, children will rule over them"
If God wants to punish a nation he makes children and servants the rulers, that is the only explanation to the predicament our nation is facing. Who in his right mind will borrow money and buy pads with it, how about setting up a pad factory.
what about the boys are they not humans. oh Ghana my beloved country is doomed.
I just can not explain this, oh no. How sad.
Voice of Reason 11 years ago

FROM A DUMB PRESIDENT AND A DUMB PARTY.......ITS A STUPID AND CHEAP POLICY MEANT TO GET THE VOTES OF THE RURAL FOLK JUST LIKE THE MUCH HYPED SO CALLED "75% ELECTRICITY COVERAGE SECOND ONLY TO SOUTH AFRICA"......WHAT IS THE PO ...
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FROM A DUMB PRESIDENT AND A DUMB PARTY.......ITS A STUPID AND CHEAP POLICY MEANT TO GET THE VOTES OF THE RURAL FOLK JUST LIKE THE MUCH HYPED SO CALLED "75% ELECTRICITY COVERAGE SECOND ONLY TO SOUTH AFRICA"......WHAT IS THE POINT CONNECTING THE RURAL FOLK IF YOU CANNOT GENERATE THE NEEDED POWER......JUST TO GET THEIR VOTE FOR THIS DUMB PRESIDENT
Kwaku 11 years ago

The NDC plan is to use the sanitary pad to win votes of SSS students in yhe rural arears. The majority of the poor are in the three northern regions and the ghettos in the big towns abd Accra. The majority of the population ...
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The NDC plan is to use the sanitary pad to win votes of SSS students in yhe rural arears. The majority of the poor are in the three northern regions and the ghettos in the big towns abd Accra. The majority of the population in the country are youth. And given that the poor constitute the greater percentage of our population they intend to use this programme to win votes in order to retain power.
We should not forget that they won the last election with a slim number of votes. Thus they have devised this dubious means to outmanoevre their opponents to gain an unfair advantage over them.
Building new SSS schools is however laudable.
The New Patriotic Party should handle the sanitart pads issue very well. I suspect if they oppose this programme the NDC would brand them as anti-poor and they do not want
youth in the 3 northern region to improve their quality of life. This would cause disaffection of the youth
cudjoe amuashie,tarkwa 11 years ago

these pads. wil not even be straight forward . if you are not ndc you wont get any. and i am sure the footsoldiers and resell on the open market. i bet my last dollar they wont get to the rural areas and wont reach intende r ...
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these pads. wil not even be straight forward . if you are not ndc you wont get any. and i am sure the footsoldiers and resell on the open market. i bet my last dollar they wont get to the rural areas and wont reach intende recipients
vinny 11 years ago

we are tied of u mahama, your sanitary pad is for spiritual purpose pls spare us

we are tied of u mahama, your sanitary pad is for spiritual purpose pls spare us
HONESTY 11 years ago

Just a friendly correction.

Just a friendly correction.
Man B 11 years ago

Is that the only mistake you can find here. Mr Hypocrite mind your own biz.

Is that the only mistake you can find here. Mr Hypocrite mind your own biz.
Etw3Pad 11 years ago

hahahaaha

hahahaaha
WHAT A CONFUSED NDC 11 years ago

SUPER CHEAP MADE IN CHINA PAD EVER MADE IN THE WHOLE WORLD EYE KEKE & EBI KEKE - . NDC WILL BE SUE IF THE KIDS EXPERIENCE ANY SKIN IRRITATION AND RASH , SOME PADS ARE NOT GOOD FOR OTHERS . NDC IS TOTALLY CONFUSED GIVING CHEA ...
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SUPER CHEAP MADE IN CHINA PAD EVER MADE IN THE WHOLE WORLD EYE KEKE & EBI KEKE - . NDC WILL BE SUE IF THE KIDS EXPERIENCE ANY SKIN IRRITATION AND RASH , SOME PADS ARE NOT GOOD FOR OTHERS . NDC IS TOTALLY CONFUSED GIVING CHEAP PAD AWAY IS NOT GOING TO CREAT A JOB FOR THE PARENT.
jas 11 years ago

It seems NDC government is visionless. How many high schools in Ghana have even good toilets or bathrooms to used when they need to change so call pads or class room resources. what is wrong with Ghanaian leaders . Ghanaians ...
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It seems NDC government is visionless. How many high schools in Ghana have even good toilets or bathrooms to used when they need to change so call pads or class room resources. what is wrong with Ghanaian leaders . Ghanaians need to wake up. why all this unnecessary things at this critical time. why! why!! I'm in New Zealand and I feel really sorry for my country any time I read something in this website. Things something must be done to change the system it is s.....o but!
jas 11 years ago

Why this NDC! how many high schools have a proper bathroom or toilet room for changing after using this pad. where from this and who's ideal is that. Do we even have enough educational resource or class room learning material ...
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Why this NDC! how many high schools have a proper bathroom or toilet room for changing after using this pad. where from this and who's ideal is that. Do we even have enough educational resource or class room learning materials. think this pad need to be secondary matter. NDC think of important issues. Visionless party
jas 11 years ago

It seems NDC government is visionless. How many high schools in Ghana have even good toilets or bathrooms to used when they need to change so call pads or class room resources. what is wrong with Ghanaian leaders . Ghanaians ...
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It seems NDC government is visionless. How many high schools in Ghana have even good toilets or bathrooms to used when they need to change so call pads or class room resources. what is wrong with Ghanaian leaders . Ghanaians need to wake up. why all this unnecessary things at this critical time. why! why!! I'm in New Zealand and I feel really sorry for my country any time I read something in this website. Things something must be done to change the system it is s.....o but!
Ghanaian 11 years ago

The NDC and all those who are speaking in favour of this foolish idea are a total disgrace to the nation. How can a whole president go out there into the world and ask for a loan to purchase sanitary pads? What happens when t ...
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The NDC and all those who are speaking in favour of this foolish idea are a total disgrace to the nation. How can a whole president go out there into the world and ask for a loan to purchase sanitary pads? What happens when that loan runs out: where would the girls get their supply of sanitary pads?
What we would have expected the government to do was to have gone to the world bank to ask for a loan to establish a plant to produce sanitary pads for our school girls. That is what a forward looking president would do. But to ask for a loan to buy sanitary pads makes the nation a ridicule in front of the whole world!
The country is being ruled by these square pegs in round holes. It hurts to remember that we all received our education curtsy of the scarce resources of the country only to turn ourselves into illiterate grab and chop buffoons. Mahama and his gang of crooks are, in fact the worst thing that ever happened to the country. Unfortunately, the majority of our people are still half-illiterates and will continue to vote for these imbeciles come what may! And even if they fail to get the majority during elections, Afari-Gyan and Atuguba and his gang of nine misfits will do all they can to put them in power! God save Ghana!
Ebibiman 11 years ago

Provide basic needs and stop this pad foolishness .

Provide basic needs and stop this pad foolishness .
yaw 11 years ago

So what did they tell the bank we have enough school buildings chalk, books, laboratories so all that we need is sanitary pad for our school girls

So what did they tell the bank we have enough school buildings chalk, books, laboratories so all that we need is sanitary pad for our school girls
Whatever 11 years ago

Congratulations to the NDC for such a master stroke. This shows even the neglect and the discriminated has a future in the NDC and no other party apart from maybe the CPP

Congratulations to the NDC for such a master stroke. This shows even the neglect and the discriminated has a future in the NDC and no other party apart from maybe the CPP
military man 11 years ago

What did Ghana do wrong to deserve these fools stripping Ghana of its dignity?

What did Ghana do wrong to deserve these fools stripping Ghana of its dignity?
Yao Paul 11 years ago

The government should find a better financial means in providing the SP for sch. girls. To borrow money with interest for such project is insane.What will happen when the money finish.mahama/NDC must think wisely to end disgr ...
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The government should find a better financial means in providing the SP for sch. girls. To borrow money with interest for such project is insane.What will happen when the money finish.mahama/NDC must think wisely to end disgracing Ghana.Why blaming NPP, Ghanaian are not retard as they (NDC) considered.Just like KPB and Muntari they out smart Mahama/GFA to fool them. NPP didn`t tell these guy to stand tall for their right.
Peaches 11 years ago

I grew up mostly in the US & attended high school in a poor area. I've never heard of a government giving out free feminine pads in schools even though our school was poor. They instead funds poorer schools with such things a ...
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I grew up mostly in the US & attended high school in a poor area. I've never heard of a government giving out free feminine pads in schools even though our school was poor. They instead funds poorer schools with such things as scholarship, free meals, books, book bags & if the school requires a uniform, they'll give to the poor kids. And most public schools & their upgrades are funded by tax paid by citizens. I can't fathom going to school and not having access to toilet. It makes sense to me to use the fund to build toilets and not pads.
System # Q 11 years ago

Sanitary pad + Condoms should be the perfect combination to help cut down the exploding teenage pregnancies in our rural schools.

Sanitary pad + Condoms should be the perfect combination to help cut down the exploding teenage pregnancies in our rural schools.
Oteng-California USA 11 years ago

Mahama and his NDC are very disgraced before the world. They lack better policies to govern the nation. Is this the BETTER GHANA AGENDA POLICY?
Ghanaians, please stop this disgraceful act. Unbelievable!!!!!!

Mahama and his NDC are very disgraced before the world. They lack better policies to govern the nation. Is this the BETTER GHANA AGENDA POLICY?
Ghanaians, please stop this disgraceful act. Unbelievable!!!!!!
Whatever 11 years ago

Students and girls are dear to our heart and their success are part of the Better Ghana Agenda so stop being apoplectic.

Students and girls are dear to our heart and their success are part of the Better Ghana Agenda so stop being apoplectic.
Rawlings the MURDERER 11 years ago

tweeaaa

tweeaaa
ATONGO (CHICAGO) 11 years ago

i dont know what is hapening in ghana oo, for people who reffer to themselfs as intelectuals whom the good people of ghana have given them the mandate to lead them would fly all the way to the world bank with tax payers money ...
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i dont know what is hapening in ghana oo, for people who reffer to themselfs as intelectuals whom the good people of ghana have given them the mandate to lead them would fly all the way to the world bank with tax payers money for a loan and spend a greater chunk of the loan to purchase and distribute sanitary pads for school children?in this 21st century?
i am very very embarass,i feel scandalize, my goodness ghana is naked is this the government priority???????
mensah abrampa 11 years ago

It's not government's business to supply sanitary pads to school girls and if this administration thinks this is their priority then it means the terminally ill economy is comatose and they're saying they've have no idea how ...
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It's not government's business to supply sanitary pads to school girls and if this administration thinks this is their priority then it means the terminally ill economy is comatose and they're saying they've have no idea how to revive it. The girls'parents should have been empowered economically so they can afford to buy their own children's sanitary supplies. No one should do for another what they should be capable of doing for themselves. If the girls parents cannot afford such basic supplies for their children then why do we need the NDC administration? It's good for nothing like salt that has lost its savor and needs to be "trodden under the feet of men. "
KOFI - USA 11 years ago

WHY ARE YOU BLAMING THE NPP WHEN YOU COME OUT WTIH OUTRAGEOUS IDEAS AND PROPOSALS. DO YOU THINK PEOPLE IN THIS COUNTRY ARE STUPID. THEY KNOW IT WHEN THEY SMELL SOMETHING BAD. PURCHASING SANITARY PADS IS A BAD AND DEMEANING ID ...
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WHY ARE YOU BLAMING THE NPP WHEN YOU COME OUT WTIH OUTRAGEOUS IDEAS AND PROPOSALS. DO YOU THINK PEOPLE IN THIS COUNTRY ARE STUPID. THEY KNOW IT WHEN THEY SMELL SOMETHING BAD. PURCHASING SANITARY PADS IS A BAD AND DEMEANING IDEA. NPP DID OT GIVE YOU THAT STUPID IDEA SO WHY DO YOU BLAME THEM. NDC FOLKS SHOULD THINK THINGS THROUGH BEFORE THEY COME UP WITH IT. THE GIRLS NEED TOILET FACILITIES, CLASSROOMS, GOOD DRINKING WATER, SCHOOL SUPPLIES, HEALTH INSURANCE, GOOD TEACHERS, GOOD FEEDING PROGRAM. SANITARY PADS IS NOT GOING TO HELP THEM ACHIEVE THEIR EDUCATIONAL GOALS. GIRLS IN THE COUNTRY ALL THESE YEARS HAD MENSTRUAL PERIODS AND MADE IT WITH SOME BEING DOCTORS, TEACHERS, LAWYERS, JUDGES AND THEY WERE NOT SUPPLIED WITH SANITARY PADS. THIS IS VERY MISGUIDED AND CRAZY IDEA.
Thinker 11 years ago

Give all the money to farmers since the government don't No what to do with the money. Ghana need FOOD & WATER, SANITATION, GOOD ROAD , HOUSE, NEW IDAELS, THE COST OF CALLS WE MAKES ARE VERY HIGH ETC.

Give all the money to farmers since the government don't No what to do with the money. Ghana need FOOD & WATER, SANITATION, GOOD ROAD , HOUSE, NEW IDAELS, THE COST OF CALLS WE MAKES ARE VERY HIGH ETC.
Favour 11 years ago

We're not a communist country for government to provide everything. This is a parent's responsibility. Get the NDC government off our homes!

We're not a communist country for government to provide everything. This is a parent's responsibility. Get the NDC government off our homes!
Uncle Boat 11 years ago

This is the most stupid move a whole government of Ghana has made.Even the most developed countries have never done or plan buying sanitary pads for school girls.It would be better if that money is used to buy books,pay the w ...
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This is the most stupid move a whole government of Ghana has made.Even the most developed countries have never done or plan buying sanitary pads for school girls.It would be better if that money is used to buy books,pay the workers whose pay are delayed or complete Accra/Kumasi road.what about the Hospitals which are labeled as death traps?.It looks like a bunch of fools are ruling Ghana.
Kofi 11 years ago

Mahama will be know as the "sanitary pad president" for years to come. When schools do not have chalk, register, toilets, etc. should sanitary pads be the priority of government?

Mahama will be know as the "sanitary pad president" for years to come. When schools do not have chalk, register, toilets, etc. should sanitary pads be the priority of government?
EWE MAN 11 years ago

MAHAMA DRAMANI GOVERNMENT ARE THIEVES, HOW CAN STUDENTS USE PADS TO COVER THEIR UGLY PUSSY WILL COST SUCH SO MUCH MONEY. WHAT PADS HAS TO DO WITH GHANA GOVERNMENT, IS NOT THEIR PARENTS HAS TO BUY THOSE FUCKING PUSSY PADS FOR ...
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MAHAMA DRAMANI GOVERNMENT ARE THIEVES, HOW CAN STUDENTS USE PADS TO COVER THEIR UGLY PUSSY WILL COST SUCH SO MUCH MONEY. WHAT PADS HAS TO DO WITH GHANA GOVERNMENT, IS NOT THEIR PARENTS HAS TO BUY THOSE FUCKING PUSSY PADS FOR THEM. MOST GHANANIANS WERE HUNGRY, MAHAMA SHOULD USE THOSE MONEY TO SUPPORT THE PEOPLE IN GHANA. LIVING STANDARD IS HIGH IN GHANA. WHAT IS PAD? FOR WHAT. FRuSTRaTED GHANA GOVERNMENT
Village Headmaster 11 years ago

going for the rural girls which may have effect on the national population and also cut down some filt when these girls become adults. The cocoa and other products farming areas in the country have this funky and awkward idea ...
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going for the rural girls which may have effect on the national population and also cut down some filt when these girls become adults. The cocoa and other products farming areas in the country have this funky and awkward idea that when more children are produced the more the parents will have helping hands in farming. Folks, this idea is bad. The effect is when the chidren grow up and become less interested in farming they move to big cities looking for jobs and when they can't get the jobs they looking for frustration sets in. On the other the hand, when the girls are not used to proper hygiene such as ususage of sanitary pads they therefore don't take care of their surroundings. Everything starts from the beginning. Some researches have shown that the girls in the rural areas don't go to school when they are in their menstrual periods. So doesn't it make sense for the supply of sanitary pads to these poor comminities who cannot afford them? People with chidren of more than ten each are first ones to complain of economic hardships whilst they have not controlled their sexual activities after dark in the rural areas. In short, if we educate our girl child I think it will help in the population control in the country and Africa in general. It's educated women who control their birth rate.
JH New York 11 years ago

An "Amoase" as a Campaign promise could be made only by a person who is bereft of ideas and has not an iota of sense in his/her head and therefore not any better than the Amo-ase itself.
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An "Amoase" as a Campaign promise could be made only by a person who is bereft of ideas and has not an iota of sense in his/her head and therefore not any better than the Amo-ase itself.
Leave the NPP and any other political party out of it.For instance I'm not a member of any of the political party. But the idea is bizarre, disgusting and nauseating.Araba Tagoe, can't you imagine that. Moreover,our neat,Careful, adolescent School girls deserves a better deal like free healthcare,free extra Classes,free text books,free ICT training,or anything that can enhance their studies etc,then we are coming.
So,where from that "Amo-ase" ideology .
Mahama NDC Amo-ase gov't indeed.
Article of no use, officials.
pepi 11 years ago

THESE PAD BE ON SALE SOON AT THE LORRY STATIONS IN GHANA . MARK MY WORD

THESE PAD BE ON SALE SOON AT THE LORRY STATIONS IN GHANA . MARK MY WORD
HAZOR 11 years ago

This shock of awe is not surprise that President Mahama A.K.A sanitary pad could not fine money to buy chalks for schools and can get money to by sanitary pads for schools girls.The outragious thing is that he can not provid ...
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This shock of awe is not surprise that President Mahama A.K.A sanitary pad could not fine money to buy chalks for schools and can get money to by sanitary pads for schools girls.The outragious thing is that he can not provide GHC 60 million to contractors to continue abandon roads.Inventors are asking for help and they receive nothing because they see nothing important in their inventions.The president is more interested in nkonfem,tiger shrimps and sanitary pads.No wander the president manfesto glorify sanitary pads.
Skeptic 11 years ago

What?!?!? If you've decided that this was a bad decision no explanation as to why you want to proceed with the bad idea is necessary. Simply choose not to implement the bad idea!

Sometimes the articles on GhanaWeb and My ...
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What?!?!? If you've decided that this was a bad decision no explanation as to why you want to proceed with the bad idea is necessary. Simply choose not to implement the bad idea!

Sometimes the articles on GhanaWeb and Myjoyonline makes me wonder.
AHMED YACOB 11 years ago

The minister of education is a big disgrace and disappointment to academia. She is telling us that we do not know what goes on in the life of a young girl. She is a stupid fool. In Ghana, the young has no potable drinking wat ...
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The minister of education is a big disgrace and disappointment to academia. She is telling us that we do not know what goes on in the life of a young girl. She is a stupid fool. In Ghana, the young has no potable drinking water, dies early during child birth or from other diseases, goes to school under trees with no textbook, teacher or chalk and also has no form of power like electricity. With all this she unashamedly thinks that sanitary pads are a priority. This is stupidity at its peak.
Okyereben 11 years ago

I am amazed that the learned Prof. and Minister had the guts to defend such a stupid idea for a loan meant for education? Where are her priorities regarding who to finance education in Ghana ? I guess she must as well request ...
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I am amazed that the learned Prof. and Minister had the guts to defend such a stupid idea for a loan meant for education? Where are her priorities regarding who to finance education in Ghana ? I guess she must as well request a loan to buy toilet rolls to wipe the shit/ass of rural girls because they normally suffer from runny stomachs due to bad food and water in the schools.

This is a case of not accepting common sense because it is common? Educated dim wits !
KINGSLEY AKOSAH (LONDON) 11 years ago

Is it not shameful and disgrace to a nation like Ghana to buy sanitary pads for girls out of a loan from world bank. Yes, it may be a campaign promise but why fulfil this promise from a loan. Any parent who could only provide ...
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Is it not shameful and disgrace to a nation like Ghana to buy sanitary pads for girls out of a loan from world bank. Yes, it may be a campaign promise but why fulfil this promise from a loan. Any parent who could only provide sanitary pad for her daughter out of a loan is an irresponsible parent. Why not support parents with jobs so that they would provide their children with such basic needs. NDC government is a disgrace to mother Ghana. This is create, loot and share government. God help mother Ghana.
Akos 11 years ago

Are these pads a lifelong commitment or just a political gimmick? Remember, most menstruation happens every month & that means all this schools need adequate amount of supplies throughout the year. That's no cheap bargain & t ...
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Are these pads a lifelong commitment or just a political gimmick? Remember, most menstruation happens every month & that means all this schools need adequate amount of supplies throughout the year. That's no cheap bargain & this loan that's supposedly also being used for other areas won't even be enough to fund the pads. I bet they didn't even think about that.
Justice 11 years ago

Hmm, very interesting analysis akos. This mahama led government have very poor judgement. There's no way they can fund sanitary pads to so many girls each year and they still have to pay back the loan with interest. Smh

Hmm, very interesting analysis akos. This mahama led government have very poor judgement. There's no way they can fund sanitary pads to so many girls each year and they still have to pay back the loan with interest. Smh
Joe Turkey 11 years ago

Stop the nonsense. The NDC promised Heaven during the campaign. Give the girls sanitary pad to go and sit in empty classrooms. It is the NDC that must be sanitized or, better still, wiped clean on Ghana.

Stop the nonsense. The NDC promised Heaven during the campaign. Give the girls sanitary pad to go and sit in empty classrooms. It is the NDC that must be sanitized or, better still, wiped clean on Ghana.
osibisa 11 years ago

Amonsii has no room in this sphere. Let the kids figure out how to hide their mess - they have been doing this for years (from OLA to MONTS to WEGEHEY to AGHIS)

Amonsii has no room in this sphere. Let the kids figure out how to hide their mess - they have been doing this for years (from OLA to MONTS to WEGEHEY to AGHIS)
Maa`O` 11 years ago

Why, PAD? the secret is the goverment has a secret share in the pad produceing company.Or may be there is a richman in his party behind the company. That is Ghana, No body buys PAD even in The Developed world for students.

Why, PAD? the secret is the goverment has a secret share in the pad produceing company.Or may be there is a richman in his party behind the company. That is Ghana, No body buys PAD even in The Developed world for students.
osibisa 11 years ago

It is called a "Kickback" - 5%.
You know what I mean?

It is called a "Kickback" - 5%.
You know what I mean?
Ajah B. 11 years ago

Mahama should rather grow cotton wool for the girls from the vast land in the northern Ghana. This will provide jobs for his brethren in the area. He can rescue SADA with such a project. It is better than his 'nkonfem' projec ...
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Mahama should rather grow cotton wool for the girls from the vast land in the northern Ghana. This will provide jobs for his brethren in the area. He can rescue SADA with such a project. It is better than his 'nkonfem' project.
Enyonam 11 years ago

How is the school feeding programme going on.Mr president, have you paid all the vendors that you owe.How about the employees.It would be better if the schools are taken care of before you release this loan into the hands of ...
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How is the school feeding programme going on.Mr president, have you paid all the vendors that you owe.How about the employees.It would be better if the schools are taken care of before you release this loan into the hands of the procurement division of your Government.
The vampires of this branch of the Government are ready to suck the money dry soon as it is released.
Think about it our class mates survived survived during the seventies and eighties without the ruling Government intervention
work hard! 11 years ago

The Sanitary pad issue is a diversionary tactic from BS, recent demo, fuel shortage, etc, but has backfired. What about the free shoes that the government also promised?
I have one question. Why are Ghanaians strongly inclin ...
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The Sanitary pad issue is a diversionary tactic from BS, recent demo, fuel shortage, etc, but has backfired. What about the free shoes that the government also promised?
I have one question. Why are Ghanaians strongly inclined to free things? Majority of us will always be manipulated.
GHANA FIRST 11 years ago

Omanbofour nkwasiafour
Why do you do politics at all to truble Ghana?
Mmo nim nyansa
If it is your father's money i that how you will waste it
I dont understand why some people should be allowed to do politics at all

Omanbofour nkwasiafour
Why do you do politics at all to truble Ghana?
Mmo nim nyansa
If it is your father's money i that how you will waste it
I dont understand why some people should be allowed to do politics at all
MAKE ME PROUD, USA 11 years ago

Who is responsible for putting all these people in any position of Power? Where do they get their Human Resources Training? Taking internationalloans to buy sanitary pads for girls instead of spreading the money to reach ever ...
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Who is responsible for putting all these people in any position of Power? Where do they get their Human Resources Training? Taking internationalloans to buy sanitary pads for girls instead of spreading the money to reach every corner of the Nation to help pay school fees, Textbooks for many? DISGRACEFUL!
MAKE ME PROUD, 11 years ago

Is this the Minister Of Education making such a decision? Ha-Ha-Ha.
My country has become a laughing stock in the Public Health World. How sad. I grew up in a village, poor, and our mothers teach us what to do with monthly p ...
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Is this the Minister Of Education making such a decision? Ha-Ha-Ha.
My country has become a laughing stock in the Public Health World. How sad. I grew up in a village, poor, and our mothers teach us what to do with monthly periods. Are you planning to buy Bikinis next? Most of this people that are appointed into positions of Power need to be terminated. Bizarre!
dodo 11 years ago

how long are they going to offer the girls with the pads? what about pantis and bhs? disgraceful country.

how long are they going to offer the girls with the pads? what about pantis and bhs? disgraceful country.
Eric Kenneth-USA 11 years ago

How can you support this if you think you are a mother who love your kids why can't the government use the money to subsides school fees or even build a library this government is a joke

How can you support this if you think you are a mother who love your kids why can't the government use the money to subsides school fees or even build a library this government is a joke
Eddy Sweden 11 years ago

Bunch of liars, and vision less crooks.

Bunch of liars, and vision less crooks.
Evil Plan 11 years ago

After burying the cows alive their next winning formula is sanitary BLOOD. Your Plans have backfired !!

After burying the cows alive their next winning formula is sanitary BLOOD. Your Plans have backfired !!
Akrofi, Netherlands 11 years ago

I don't know how the NDC & Mahama came out with this pad idea They are just disgracing Ghana !It is a great SHAME to our beloved country. It is a very stupid idea. Why did Ghanaians vote for these stupid people ?

I don't know how the NDC & Mahama came out with this pad idea They are just disgracing Ghana !It is a great SHAME to our beloved country. It is a very stupid idea. Why did Ghanaians vote for these stupid people ?
Akrofi, Netherlands 11 years ago

How can a whole professor, who has also a vice-chancellor of a top University come out to support this stupid idea ? She is a total disgrace to academia and Ghana !

How can a whole professor, who has also a vice-chancellor of a top University come out to support this stupid idea ? She is a total disgrace to academia and Ghana !
RICE WATER 11 years ago

I AM SO, SO SO, DISAPPOINTED IN PROF. NAANA. NAAANA, WERE YOU CORRUPT LONG TIME AGO AND WE DID NOT KNOW OR HAVE YOU JUST BEEN BAPTISED WITH THE NDC CORRUPTION OIL? WHICH IS WHICH? EEEIIH SO PEOPLE CAN CHANGE SO SOON? NAANA BE ...
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I AM SO, SO SO, DISAPPOINTED IN PROF. NAANA. NAAANA, WERE YOU CORRUPT LONG TIME AGO AND WE DID NOT KNOW OR HAVE YOU JUST BEEN BAPTISED WITH THE NDC CORRUPTION OIL? WHICH IS WHICH? EEEIIH SO PEOPLE CAN CHANGE SO SOON? NAANA BECAREFUL OOH GOD IS WATCHING OOOH
CONGO SPANNER 11 years ago

THIS SANITARY PAD EXERCISE IS AIMED AT VOTE BUYING BY NDC IN 2016.

THIS SANITARY PAD EXERCISE IS AIMED AT VOTE BUYING BY NDC IN 2016.
RICE WATER 11 years ago

IF ALLAH SAYS YOU WILL LOOSE , SURELY YOU WILL LOOSE, AND IF NOT BY HIS PERMISSION YOU WILL STEAL AND FAIL.
LET US HELP THE PRESIDENT TO REPENT

IF ALLAH SAYS YOU WILL LOOSE , SURELY YOU WILL LOOSE, AND IF NOT BY HIS PERMISSION YOU WILL STEAL AND FAIL.
LET US HELP THE PRESIDENT TO REPENT
Kalahariman 11 years ago

Oh Really...what do you say to NPP taking a 86million dollar loan to buy condoms for free distribution in 2006. What is the difference? Are we just short minded citizens? or quick to react to anything that an opposition party ...
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Oh Really...what do you say to NPP taking a 86million dollar loan to buy condoms for free distribution in 2006. What is the difference? Are we just short minded citizens? or quick to react to anything that an opposition party does? Unfortunately, you have no choice but to wait to place your vote when the time comes and see if your vote is among the majority....Peace...
Kalahariman 11 years ago

Parliament on Wednesday approved a $156 million loan facility acquired from the World Bank to finance the Ghana Secondary School Education Improvement Project.

The loan among other things will fund the construction of comm ...
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Parliament on Wednesday approved a $156 million loan facility acquired from the World Bank to finance the Ghana Secondary School Education Improvement Project.

The loan among other things will fund the construction of community Senior High Schools across the country, provide scholarships for students in deprived communities and the distribution of free sanitary pads to adolescent school girls.

If Ghanaians don't like the idea of providing free sanitary pads adolescent school girls, they can let their member of parliament rep know...they voted for it. So it is a done deal. You voted members of parliament in to make decisions for you. This is a democracy. The loan is not all for sanitary pads as the media make people to believe. Sometimes, the loan provider - IMF will have clauses that will have to be met which will include sanitary pads for girls as one of the requirement for the loan.
ISAAC 11 years ago

HOW come NDC,NO food,water,fuel,but we need sanitary pad to eat, OH N.D.C

HOW come NDC,NO food,water,fuel,but we need sanitary pad to eat, OH N.D.C
Albert Otchere 11 years ago

What a country? Is this a priority for the government? Is Ghana doomed? What kind of Ministers do we have??

What a country? Is this a priority for the government? Is Ghana doomed? What kind of Ministers do we have??
Douglas Enninful, USA. 11 years ago

Why are you people disgracing us like this? Yesterday it was our President sending over 3 MILLION dollars CASH on board a chattered plane from Ghana all the way to Brazil to stop a mutiny. Today, a Managing Director is making ...
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Why are you people disgracing us like this? Yesterday it was our President sending over 3 MILLION dollars CASH on board a chattered plane from Ghana all the way to Brazil to stop a mutiny. Today, a Managing Director is making the argument for the need to obtain a World Bank loan to purchase and distribute sanitary pads to school girls in Ghana. Please stop, stop and stop making Ghana a laughing stock. We don't deserve this. Is this a matter of square pegs in round holes? I can't breathe!!!
Nima Boy 11 years ago

What is this for God sake? Shame on you.

What is this for God sake? Shame on you.
USMAN. 11 years ago

You see the harm university graduates could cause? This is how far our useless university graduates have brought us.

You see the harm university graduates could cause? This is how far our useless university graduates have brought us.
Kwaku 11 years ago

Does the current Ghana Government know what it takes to develop the nation? This idea of taking loan to supply sanitary pad to school girls is myopic and make no sense, especially when schools lack basic teaching materials. ...
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Does the current Ghana Government know what it takes to develop the nation? This idea of taking loan to supply sanitary pad to school girls is myopic and make no sense, especially when schools lack basic teaching materials. How do you develop a nation by distributing sanitary pads? During the 2012 elections we heard of free distribution of laptop, cars etc, where have these taken us to? The net effect is the current economic difficulties we are facing now. Surprisingly, professors and other learned people are still telling us to support borrowing of loans to buy sanitary pads. Where are their reasoning abilities they applied to obtain their degrees?
MENSAH. 11 years ago

Ghanaian businessmen lack business acumen.
Imagine a country of 25 million citizenry,doesn't have even one factory,that produces DIAPERS & SANITARY PADS,yet our businessmen claim they are businessmen.
The government is also ...
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Ghanaian businessmen lack business acumen.
Imagine a country of 25 million citizenry,doesn't have even one factory,that produces DIAPERS & SANITARY PADS,yet our businessmen claim they are businessmen.
The government is also too naive to purchase such a disposable product with an acquired loan,that could have been invested in the production of the same product.
So where are we,as Ghanaians,heading towards?
IT LOOKS LIKE,WE DON'T KNOW WHAT WE ARE DOING.
We have to use the little we have wisely,critically,economically,meaningfully and profitably.
We can't use money to purchase such things,if school children lack:
CHALK,PENCILS,PENS,WRITING BOOKS,TEXTBOOKS AND CLASSROOMS.
Not even one company manufactures CHALK in Ghana.
WHAT A SHAME.
Hugo 11 years ago

Many years gone by before the advent of the sanitary pads - what did our mothers & grandmothers used & even those who went to school in the 1960 s - 1970s. Let's find an environmentally sustainable way to help these girls ins ...
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Many years gone by before the advent of the sanitary pads - what did our mothers & grandmothers used & even those who went to school in the 1960 s - 1970s. Let's find an environmentally sustainable way to help these girls instead of plugging the overwhelmed landfills with used sanitary pads. These folks in position of power are so freaking tunneled visioned. Think outside the box folks!!
kk 11 years ago

foolish so call leaders

foolish so call leaders
Philps 11 years ago

The idea of free sanitary pads for school girls is a pure silly idea. The money must be used to pay the teachers and other government workers whose salaries are in arrears. What a foolish priority is this?

The idea of free sanitary pads for school girls is a pure silly idea. The money must be used to pay the teachers and other government workers whose salaries are in arrears. What a foolish priority is this?

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