TUC calls for immediate fuel price reduction

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• PRINCE KWASI ADADE (OFIE) 11 years ago

  Ivor Greenstreet said directly to President John Mahama and Vice President Kwesi Amissah-Arthur that: “You don’t care”.
  
  “Nobody is feeling your better Ghana”, Greenstreet shouted when he delivered his party’s s ...
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  Ivor Greenstreet said directly to President John Mahama and Vice President Kwesi Amissah-Arthur that: “You don’t care”.
  
  “Nobody is feeling your better Ghana”, Greenstreet shouted when he delivered his party’s solidarity message to the NDC at the congress at the Baba Yara Stadium in the Ashanti regional Captial, Kumasi – stronghold of the main opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP).
  
  In the full glare of the President, Vice President, former President Jerry Rawlings, and thousands of leaders and supporters of the NDC, a defiant Greenstreet said: “…Currently nobody, I mean nobody is feeling your better Ghana.”
  
  “Continuous ‘dumsor dumsor,’ corruption from top to bottom, left right inside out, and all the challenges you are facing [are] suffocating the Ghanaian people.”
  
  He added: “We would have thought that perhaps you may have used an occasion like this to discuss policies, programmes and solutions to all the difficulties we are facing as a nation, but no, you chose today to share your Christmas gifts with each other.”
  
  “Ghanaians are not happy at all. This ‘bronya’ is dry. Too too dry,” he told the President, adding: “The most painful thing of all is that you don’t care.”
  
  “NDC continue, we are watching you, Ghana is watching you, do what you want to do, we also know what we’ll come and do…make sure you’ll elect executives who will be able to steer your parties affairs when you are in opposition. Boys abr3.”
  
  The wheelchair-bound Politicians has been called names and criticised by leaders and supporters of the NDC after his bluntness. While Majority Leader Alban Bagbin has said he believed Greenstreet was possessed by some demons, which caused him to be “so emotional”, presidential staffer Sam George wrote on his Facebook wall that: “Ivor Greenstreet apparently needs elevation to see the Better Ghana.”
  
  However, Nkrumah said Greenstreet’s message was crafted by the CPP to capture the mood and mind of the entire country.

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• PAA TEE 11 years ago

  YOU ARE DESTROYING GHANA WITH YOUR NONESENSE DEMONSTRATIONS. LONG TERM PLANNING IS GREAT FOR A COUNTRY BUT WHERE THE VARIABLES FLUCTUATE ON WEEKLY BASIS AS YOU ARE INSTIGATING IT KILLS INDUSTRY AND THE PEOPLE YOU ARE LEADING ...
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  YOU ARE DESTROYING GHANA WITH YOUR NONESENSE DEMONSTRATIONS. LONG TERM PLANNING IS GREAT FOR A COUNTRY BUT WHERE THE VARIABLES FLUCTUATE ON WEEKLY BASIS AS YOU ARE INSTIGATING IT KILLS INDUSTRY AND THE PEOPLE YOU ARE LEADING WILL BECOME UNEMPLOYED AND EVENTUALLY YOU WILL HAVE NO ONE TO LEAD BUT YOURSELF. WORKERS GO ON STRIKE FOR MONTHS AND THEY STILL GET PAID. I ADVOCATE FOR A CHANGE IN THE WAGE AND SALARY SYSTEMS IN THE COUNTRY. THERE ARE STILL MORE GHOST NAMES TO BE CLEANED UP AT THE EDUCATION AND HEALTH MINISTRIES.

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• OLD SOLDIER 11 years ago

  Author:-GURUNDA...
  Ghanaians must desist from "worshipping" presidents and begin to hold presidents and leaders accountable. Bravo Greenstreet for showing Ghanaians the right way. Why bow to presidents when they are stealin ...
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  Author:-GURUNDA...
  Ghanaians must desist from "worshipping" presidents and begin to hold presidents and leaders accountable. Bravo Greenstreet for showing Ghanaians the right way. Why bow to presidents when they are stealing millions of dollars of tax payer's money. The NDC people are enjoying while the people are suffering. Is this the better Ghana agenda. Thank you Greenstreet and more grease. May the Lord protect you.

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• Mahmoud 11 years ago

  Mr. Kwesi Pratt, could you remember that Nkrumah used to incite workers to strike against the Whiteman, but outlawed strikes in his regime and said they were unpatriotic when living conditions were genuinely difficult for wor ...
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  Mr. Kwesi Pratt, could you remember that Nkrumah used to incite workers to strike against the Whiteman, but outlawed strikes in his regime and said they were unpatriotic when living conditions were genuinely difficult for workers?
  
  Could you also remember that Rawlings used to incite TUC workers to strike against Liman's government to over throw it fraudulently? And could you remember that he used to take 'Kenkey' to Legon to demonstrate how the size had shrunk under Liman and we ended up in the "Rawlings's Chain" but nobody could talk? Could you further remember that Acheampong and Rawlings used the mild IMF conditions under Busia and Liman respectively as justifications for overthrowing their governments deceitfully? Could you still remember that PNDC reintroduced IMF and the World Bank with more stringent conditions after the coup without apologizing to Liman?
  
  I don't know what the leftists are talking about, and I don't believe that NPP is behind the present wave of strikes either. As far as I know, NPP is only highlighting the failings and excesses of the NDC government, hopping that they would translate into votes for their party in the next elections. And that is, in fact, genuine and legitimate politics since the failings are true and not false. Everybody in Ghana knows that cost of living under this NDC government is unbearable, and NPP is democratically seizing the opportunity to convince the electorate not to vote for NDC in the next elections.
  
  Frankly, I don't see anything wrong with an opposition highlighting the failings of an incapable government to wrestle power from it democratically. NDC is the cause of the strikes because of the higher levels of corruption, over spending, reckless borrowing and overall economic mismanagement that have brought untold hardship on Ghanaians.

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• ADANKO 11 years ago

  Do Mahama sleep on a pillow at night at bedtime or, he has no shame? He looks like he was born and bread in the streets {street boy} Every body is complaining about petrol price but he is not listening. Mahama, be careful.

  Do Mahama sleep on a pillow at night at bedtime or, he has no shame? He looks like he was born and bread in the streets {street boy} Every body is complaining about petrol price but he is not listening. Mahama, be careful.

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• mensa 11 years ago

  THEY WANT THE PRICE OF PETRO TO REMAIN HIGH, A LONG WITH THEIR STUPID TAX ON IT. MAHAMA FAIL GHANA

  THEY WANT THE PRICE OF PETRO TO REMAIN HIGH, A LONG WITH THEIR STUPID TAX ON IT. MAHAMA FAIL GHANA

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• OLD SOLDIER 11 years ago

  BBC NEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WHERE DID GHANAIANS GO WRONG TO SUFFER LIKE THIS? YOU MAHAMA BUILDING YOUR HOTELS ABROAD, AFRIYIE ANKRA BUYING MANSIONS AT EAST LEGON, OKUDJETO ACQUIRING FILLING STATIONS ALL OVER, TOGBUI AF ...
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  BBC NEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WHERE DID GHANAIANS GO WRONG TO SUFFER LIKE THIS? YOU MAHAMA BUILDING YOUR HOTELS ABROAD, AFRIYIE ANKRA BUYING MANSIONS AT EAST LEGON, OKUDJETO ACQUIRING FILLING STATIONS ALL OVER, TOGBUI AFEDE FILLING HIS BANK ACCOUNTS ABROAD< ASIEDU NKETIA SPREADING FILLING STATIONS ALL OVER BRONG AHAFO AND BUYING MANSION IN CALGARY CANADA, HANNA BISSIW ,OYI LITHUR ANITA DISOSO SPREADING MONEY AS IF GHANA HAS NO PROBLEM

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• John 11 years ago

  There shd be no reduction instead the govt shd use the profits they are making to defray our debt & improve mass transport network.GPRTU,PROTOA etc would never reduce transport fares to reflect the changes rather private cars ...
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  There shd be no reduction instead the govt shd use the profits they are making to defray our debt & improve mass transport network.GPRTU,PROTOA etc would never reduce transport fares to reflect the changes rather private cars are going to benefit.Advanced economies don't encourage individuals to own private cars.

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• jerry 11 years ago

  get lost fool you realy trust the govt with money to improve mass transit?you must be either naeve and or afool govt will take this money and buy more cars and luxury staff that don't care a bout falks like you that cant thi ...
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  get lost fool you realy trust the govt with money to improve mass transit?you must be either naeve and or afool govt will take this money and buy more cars and luxury staff that don't care a bout falks like you that cant thing grow up man

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• kwaku addai 11 years ago

  tuc should tell ghanaian workers to hard to increase productivity to justify the call for increament in public sectors salaries.

  tuc should tell ghanaian workers to hard to increase productivity to justify the call for increament in public sectors salaries.

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• Frank Agyena-Karikari 11 years ago

  Tell government to pay workers on time and appropriately and fire them if they don't produce. In the former Soviet Union, they had a saying that "the government pretends to pay us and we also pretend to work." That is what is ...
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  Tell government to pay workers on time and appropriately and fire them if they don't produce. In the former Soviet Union, they had a saying that "the government pretends to pay us and we also pretend to work." That is what is happening in Ghana now.

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• DALADAM 11 years ago

  Ghana the "oil producing nation" where people pay the higest price of petro anywehere is the world have an evil govt that add tax on top of it.
  fools are running this country and they want to be re-elected

  Ghana the "oil producing nation" where people pay the higest price of petro anywehere is the world have an evil govt that add tax on top of it.
  fools are running this country and they want to be re-elected

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• Onipaba of Akyem Maase 11 years ago

  Why will you sit down to this far without acting? This small country with overflown resources surprisingly sells fuel to its citizens at expensive prices than in industrialized countries. Mills/Mahama government is the worst ...
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  Why will you sit down to this far without acting? This small country with overflown resources surprisingly sells fuel to its citizens at expensive prices than in industrialized countries. Mills/Mahama government is the worst nightmare of this nation. The earlier you demand for drastic reduction, the better. Ah why? Oil prices have dropped to the lowest of the low, yet we pay huge prices for a gallon of petrol.

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• MAWUFEAME 11 years ago

  ANOTHER NPP MAN AT HELM OF AFFAIRS AT THE TUC. THIS MAN WAS ALWAYS COLLECTING MONIES FROM MDU MEMBERS BEFORE NEGOTIATING ON THEIR BEHALF.
  SHAME

  ANOTHER NPP MAN AT HELM OF AFFAIRS AT THE TUC. THIS MAN WAS ALWAYS COLLECTING MONIES FROM MDU MEMBERS BEFORE NEGOTIATING ON THEIR BEHALF.
  SHAME

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• BAB 11 years ago

  SENYO IS A FOOL

  SENYO IS A FOOL

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• Lord Tennison 11 years ago

  The TUC has grown up to be an adorable toothless bulldog.
  All the cacophonies have not resulted in any single bile as yet.

  The TUC has grown up to be an adorable toothless bulldog.
  All the cacophonies have not resulted in any single bile as yet.

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• KING 11 years ago

  TUC HAD COME TOO LATE IN CALLING FOR REDUCTION OF FUEL. THEY ARE BED WITH MAHAMA. NONSENSE

  TUC HAD COME TOO LATE IN CALLING FOR REDUCTION OF FUEL. THEY ARE BED WITH MAHAMA. NONSENSE

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• Yakubu Aziz 11 years ago

  Good for nothing Adu Amankwa,can you account for our dues over the years?. You have overlived your usefulness, you are over 60 years and yet you are pecking there feeding on our moneys and doing politics.

  Good for nothing Adu Amankwa,can you account for our dues over the years?. You have overlived your usefulness, you are over 60 years and yet you are pecking there feeding on our moneys and doing politics.

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• DORIS 11 years ago

  BETTER THAN HAVING FUEL SHORTAGE

  BETTER THAN HAVING FUEL SHORTAGE

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• John K 11 years ago

  What kind of hypocrisy the TUC is putting on?. Why are they pushing the government for everything with several warnings? Do we have a single graduate among them to analyze things for them? It seems to me they are all educated ...
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  What kind of hypocrisy the TUC is putting on?. Why are they pushing the government for everything with several warnings? Do we have a single graduate among them to analyze things for them? It seems to me they are all educated illiterates. Enough is enough.

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• Ataa 11 years ago

  is this useless man still around? After his failed attempt to destabilize the country with his npp surrogates, now he is calling for reduction in petrol prices. Thus man dies not have any sense remaining in his head. Did he h ...
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  is this useless man still around? After his failed attempt to destabilize the country with his npp surrogates, now he is calling for reduction in petrol prices. Thus man dies not have any sense remaining in his head. Did he hear the reasons given by govt? As a responsible group the best thing to do us to engage govt and ensure that government is doing exactly that do tomorrow we are not told another story. Instead he has decided to join the serial callers. TUC be a little responsible and think outside the box

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• ghana boy 11 years ago

  this is what you get if you have greedy and criminally minded peoples in power

  this is what you get if you have greedy and criminally minded peoples in power

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• sam 11 years ago

  Thank u.Uncaring govt,they pay themselves huge amts so they dont know people r suffering

  Thank u.Uncaring govt,they pay themselves huge amts so they dont know people r suffering

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• SULE 11 years ago

  There's no way in hell for these high fuel prices, when the commodity on the world market has dropped and continues to drop.
  Indeed, the continued existence of the NPA which is supposed to implement the workings of the auto ...
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  There's no way in hell for these high fuel prices, when the commodity on the world market has dropped and continues to drop.
  Indeed, the continued existence of the NPA which is supposed to implement the workings of the automatic price adjustment formula, carefully crafted to determine the upward and downward movements of fuel prices based on refined crude imported into the country by the BDC's has lost it's relevance, and the NPA from henceforth, needs to be scrapped. There's no reason for the existence of the NPA, there's no valid reason for taxpayers to support and pay for the entrenchment and validation of an illegality, and as a first step towards restoring balance and equity in fuel pricing, and most importantly, in line with austerity measures, it's absolutely crucial and infinitely critical that, as a major first step, the NPA is dissolved, because from all indications, it is monumentally and absolutely clear that, the pricing of fuel in the country has it's origins from the Presidency routed through the Ministry of Energy and yoked on Ghanaians by the NPA.
  The NPA has lost it's relevance and it has become a smokescreen and a waste of taxpayer funds and needs to be dissolved immediately.
  With falling refined crude prices on the world market, as well as a currency which has appreciated against the dollar from highs of about Ghc4:$1, it's a massive and terrifying rip-off of the taxpayer to continue to pay current prices for fuel and it needs to be reduced forthwith. Indeed, such high prices in the face of consistent decrease in price of the commodity on the world market serves no purpose than to cause a continuous and persistent rippling effect of tanking the economy across board, reflected in the high cost/prices of goods and services, and the uncompetitive nature of locally produced products as against cheap imported products, causing a further depression of the unemployment situation in the country.
  There's absolutely no valid and logical reason for maintaining fuel prices at the current level, and it is critical that, fuel prices are reduced now.
  The carpe diem thrust of the nature of governance under the Mahama/Amissah Arthur NDC gov't is untenable and as can be seen from all indications has served to be very regressive for the growth and development of the country.
  The fuel prices need to be reduced now!!!.

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• Say the Truth 11 years ago

  IT IS THIS SAME NDC/MILLS/MAHAMA THAT ACCUSED JAK/NPP WHEN OIL WENT TO AS MUCH AS $140/BARREL AND JAK/NPP GOVERNMENT CAPPED IT WITH A SUBSIDY AND WAS MAKING EFFORT TO USE THE SAVINGS FROM THE FALL THEN ON TO USE THE SAVINGS I ...
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  IT IS THIS SAME NDC/MILLS/MAHAMA THAT ACCUSED JAK/NPP WHEN OIL WENT TO AS MUCH AS $140/BARREL AND JAK/NPP GOVERNMENT CAPPED IT WITH A SUBSIDY AND WAS MAKING EFFORT TO USE THE SAVINGS FROM THE FALL THEN ON TO USE THE SAVINGS IN THE FALL IN THE VALUE OF THE CRUDE OIL TO PAY OF THE DEBT CREATED FROM THE SUBSIDY!!!
  
  NDC/MILLS/MAHAMA USED THAT TO WIN ELECTIONS IN 2008 ....NOW THEY ARE ASKING GHANAIAINS NOW TO UNDERSTAND THEM!!!!!!!
  
  GOD IN HIS INFINITE WISDOM WILL DEAL WITH SUCH HYPOCRATES, LOOTERS, SELFISH,GREEDY UNTRUTHFUL & ACCURESED GROUP NDC AT HIS OWN TIME....MEANWHILE EVERY THING THEY WILL TOUCH WILL COME TO NAUGHT BY THEIR OWN ACCURSE DEEDS!!!!!

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