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BBC NEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 10 years ago

HE NEARLY COLAPSE OUR GHANA! FILLING THE PAYROLL WITH HUGE NDC GHOST NAMES! THIS AFGANISTAN ECONOMIST WAS BOOTED FROM FINANCE TO AGRIC (FOREST) HAHAHAHA! YET HE ALWAYS TRY TO EXTEND HIS TOO KNOWN TO OUR ONE AND ONLY MAGIC ECO ...
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HE NEARLY COLAPSE OUR GHANA! FILLING THE PAYROLL WITH HUGE NDC GHOST NAMES! THIS AFGANISTAN ECONOMIST WAS BOOTED FROM FINANCE TO AGRIC (FOREST) HAHAHAHA! YET HE ALWAYS TRY TO EXTEND HIS TOO KNOWN TO OUR ONE AND ONLY MAGIC ECONOMIST DR BAWUMIA
BBC NEWS! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 10 years ago

All these blotted Payrolls and Bungalows was created and shared by the Akan's Npp. The President will steadily clean up those mess and block the source of income for the Akan's Npp party before 2016.

All these blotted Payrolls and Bungalows was created and shared by the Akan's Npp. The President will steadily clean up those mess and block the source of income for the Akan's Npp party before 2016.
OLD SOLDIER 10 years ago

Author:-SOD....
What does the Mahama NDC gov't mean by an Ultra modern Kumasi central market? What comparable ultra modern market in developed countries of the world should Ghanaians compare this Ultra modern Kumasi central ...
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Author:-SOD....
What does the Mahama NDC gov't mean by an Ultra modern Kumasi central market? What comparable ultra modern market in developed countries of the world should Ghanaians compare this Ultra modern Kumasi central market?
We have been in this country when the uncompleted extension of the runway of Kumasi Regional Airport has been described by the Mahama NDC gov't as an ultra modern international airport comparable to any international airport in the US, Germany, France, UK, Holland, China, Hong Kong, etc, etc. So what does the Mahama NDC gov't mean by an ultra modern Kumasi central market because Ghanaians have had it with mediocre leadership and propaganda.
KOLA, LONDON PROPER 10 years ago

After unearthing the fraudulent deals under the NPP, Checking that corruption in the payroll system under the NPP is cleaned, it is only good that the NDC is retained to continue with the Better Ghana agenda.

After unearthing the fraudulent deals under the NPP, Checking that corruption in the payroll system under the NPP is cleaned, it is only good that the NDC is retained to continue with the Better Ghana agenda.
Mahmoud 10 years ago

The president has been saying that he tried to introduce electronic payment and acquisition systems into the public sector {to reduce human contact with cash} in his effort to fighting corruption, but lamented that the system ...
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The president has been saying that he tried to introduce electronic payment and acquisition systems into the public sector {to reduce human contact with cash} in his effort to fighting corruption, but lamented that the systems were often resisted.

This has become so monotonous that Ghanaians are beginning to wonder whether the president is actually serious and interested in fighting corruption as he claims, or it's just another crocodile's tears to deceive Ghanaians into believing that he is making an effort, while the government and its cronies amass billions of dollars at the expense of this struggling HIPC nation.
Why should Ghanaians hire a president that can't even introduce an electronic system successfully into the public sector to save us from criminals masquerading as civil servants? Mr. Mahama must be seen to be fighting corruption with all his might rather than go on lamenting helplessly like the rest of us who hired him to do the job.
KOLA, INSIDE LONDON. 10 years ago

You are right but the system has been implemented though no matter his lamentation.

The idea was Tekper's and that man is disliked by his peers and as you know, Ghanaian culture in this regard stinks to the extent that if ...
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You are right but the system has been implemented though no matter his lamentation.

The idea was Tekper's and that man is disliked by his peers and as you know, Ghanaian culture in this regard stinks to the extent that if you do otherwise you are either eliminated or conspired against in a dirty manner.
a.k, amsterdam 10 years ago

JOSHUA: 7VRS,1 WHEN ACHAN SINED AGAINST GOD THE ISRAELITES WERE DEFETED BY SMALL "AI" MAHAMA MUST TELL GHANAIANS WHO KILL MILLS SO THAT GOD WILL RESCUE GHANA BECAUSE THE BLOOD OF MILLS IS ON MAHAMA'S HANDS.

JOSHUA: 7VRS,1 WHEN ACHAN SINED AGAINST GOD THE ISRAELITES WERE DEFETED BY SMALL "AI" MAHAMA MUST TELL GHANAIANS WHO KILL MILLS SO THAT GOD WILL RESCUE GHANA BECAUSE THE BLOOD OF MILLS IS ON MAHAMA'S HANDS.
OLD SOLDIER 10 years ago

Author:-PRINCE KWASI ADADE (OFIE)...
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 sh ...
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Author:-PRINCE KWASI ADADE (OFIE)...
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.
Kweku Boateng 10 years ago

ye hypocrites,let kuffuor tell Ghanaians who kill Yaa Naa and forty noble men,all Issa Mobila.....

ye hypocrites,let kuffuor tell Ghanaians who kill Yaa Naa and forty noble men,all Issa Mobila.....
Mahmoud 10 years ago

Author: Kafui Ama
Date: 2009-07-23 01:44:06

Please be patient and read this to the end.

By Craig Murray, former Deputy British High Commisssioner to Ghana | Posted: Tuesday, January 20, 2009

... It was Novembe ...
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Author: Kafui Ama
Date: 2009-07-23 01:44:06

Please be patient and read this to the end.

By Craig Murray, former Deputy British High Commisssioner to Ghana | Posted: Tuesday, January 20, 2009

... It was November 1999 and I'd been Deputy High Commissioner in Ghana for almost a year - the culmination of 15 years' Foreign Office service in Nigeria, Warsaw and the equatorial Africa department in London.

I'd always been passionate about Africa and had immersed myself in its minutiae. Nevertheless, my father, who had a timber yard in Ghana in the Sixties, offered a little extra counsel before I departed, aged 40. 'If you see any good-looking girl, aged about 30, light skinned, whatever you do, don't touch her - she could be your sister!'

Not that this was a big concern for me. My most pressing duty was the 1999 State Visit by the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh, Enhanced Coverage Linking the Duke of Edinburgh, -Search using: Biographies Plus News, Most Recent 60 Days, accompanied by Robin Cook, the then Foreign Secretary. It was a three-day blur of activity, the teeming crowds displaying an uncomplicated and old-fashioned reverence.

A warning that the Duke was averse to looking at things without useful purpose proved absolutely right. As we stood looking at the strip of brass laid in a churchyard that marked the line of the Greenwich Meridian, he said to me: 'A line in the ground, eh? Very nice.'

Ghana epitomises much of the best of Africa, but also throws into relief the tragedy of the continent. It has maintained its higher education and has fewer extremes of wealth than elsewhere. But at independence in 1957, Ghana was richer than Argentina, Brazil, Malaysia or Singapore. Today, those countries are at least ten times as wealthy.

Corruption, cronyism, economic mismanagement, irresponsible lending by the West and the dumping of cheap food all did for Ghana. When I arrived with my wife Fiona and children Jamie and Emily, Ghana had been ruled for 20 years by Flight Lieutenant Jerry Rawlings.

The son of a Stirlingshire pharmacist and a local woman, he seized power in a coup in 1979, but claimed to have won presidential elections in 1992 and 1996, despite allegations of vote-rigging.
In his early years, Rawlings unleashed a political terror on Ghana. His campaign against the middle classes resembled Mao's Cultural Revolution. People were persecuted for having savings or two indoor lavatories. Market women were sometimes killed for 'profiteering'.

The Queen's visit delighted Rawlings, who craved international respectability. I, too, was determined to make the most of the trip, by helping ensure Rawlings gave up power by the start of 2001, as the constitution required because he had served two four-year terms.

The Queen's speech to the parliament in the capital, Accra, was to be the focus of the visit and I had contributed to its drafting. It contained the usual guff about a future based upon partnership, but there was a sting in the tail. 'Next, year, Mr President,' the Queen intoned, 'you will step down after two terms in office in accordance with your constitution.' The opposition benches went wild and the Queen stopped, looking in bewilderment at the hullabaloo.

Afterwards, Robin Cook was furious. 'It's a disaster. Who the hell drafted that?'

'Er, I did, Secretary of State,' I said. 'I might have guessed! Who the hell approved it?' 'You did.' Cook's Private Secretary had to dig out the draft he had signed. After the State banquet, I retired to a hotel bar with the Royal Household. The senior staff had withdrawn to allow the butlers, footmen and hairdressers to let off steam.

The party appeared, to a man, to be gay. Not just gay, but outrageously camp. We'd taken the hotel for the Royal party, but allowed the British Airways crew to stay. Now three cabin stewards, two Royal footmen and a Royal hairdresser were grouped around the piano singing hits from Cabaret. I was seated on a sofa and across from me in an armchair was a member of the Household who seemed out of place. The valet looked to be in his 60s, a grizzled NCO with tufts of hair either side of a bald pate, a boxer's nose and tattoos on his arms.

He was smoking roll-ups. I turned to the old warrior and said: 'Don't you find all this a bit strange sometimes?' He lent forward, put his hand on my bare knee below the kilt I wore on ceremonial occasions and said: 'Listen, ducks. I was in the Navy for 30 years.' I think he was joking, but some things are too weird even for me. The lower reaches of the Royal Household are one of them.

One enjoyable aspect of our time in Ghana was the constant stream of visitors. Among them was Peter Hain, the Minister for Africa. Hain, a good footballer, agreed to play in a charity match between children from a community football scheme and the High Commission.

Unfortunately, the ground was hard and the opposition turned out to be super-fit professionals. After a heavy tackle, I went down. Result: a dislocated shoulder. I couldn't move my arm for eight weeks. Other visitors included Clare Short, at the time Secretary of State for International Development.

She was in Ghana to try to persuade it to join a debt relief scheme. At a dinner for her, a Minister had made a speech about how much Ghana had learnt from the British Empire. Short stood up and expostulated: 'The British Empire! Don't tell me about the British Empire. I know about British colonialism. My father was Irish and we know about British colonialism. I'll tell you what the British did to your country. They exploited it, that's what they did. They exploited it.' After a few moments of stunned silence, the dinner continued.

On another occasion we were joined by Bobby Charlton, who came to Ghana seeking support for England's bid to host the 2006 World Cup. He was still an astounding player at 60 and it was good of him to get on the pitch for a local community football programme. Nevertheless, I found Charlton disappointing. He was self-centred and ratty - one of those heroes you wish you hadn't met.

Conversely, Roger Moore, a UNICEF goodwill ambassador, was charming and suave, just as you would expect, with a fund of brilliant stories beginning with lines such as: 'One day, Frank, Dean, Tony and I decided to play a trick on Marilyn ... ' He was also well briefed about children's issues in Ghana and was prepared not just to do PR, but to get his hands dirty helping in refugee camps without a camera in sight.

I was less taken with Jamie Theakston.

The BBC were filming a wildlife programme in Ghana, looking at the endangered green turtle population near Ada. A group of young volunteers had accompanied the BBC team to help the newly-born turtles to reach the ocean. But one girl, in her mid-20s, had streams of mascara running down her cheeks. She claimed Theakston had just broken up with her - yet here he was, surrounded by young women, enjoying the adulation.

I had bigger concerns, however. Ghana's presidential and parliamentary elections were due in December 2000 and there were signs that its 11 million voters might be preparing for a change of government. Enthusiasm for politics was everywhere. Even in the meanest village, people gathered under the banyan tree listening to FM stations on a battered transistor and arguing about the coming change.

In the West, tired of our politicians' deceit, we no longer much value democracy. It is wonderful to see a people exercising for the first time their power over those who would govern them. Our job was to see the elections were free and fair, with Britain funding a £10 million programme for photo-ID cards to reduce electoral fraud. The exercise eradicated one million fake names.

Another practical new weapon was indelible ink: when somebody voted, their thumb was painted to stop them casting more than one vote. India was the only source of a truly permanent ink that could not be washed or rubbed off. I had also persuaded the Foreign Office to provide experts from the Electoral Reform Society. Further valuable additions were two British MPs, Roger Gale and Nigel Jones.

Rawlings's party, the National Democratic Congress (NDC), put up the vice President, John Atta Mills, as its presidential candidate. The opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) fielded John Kufuor. There is a tribal element in Ghanaian politics: the Ewe people vote overwhelmingly NDC; the Ashanti overwhelmingly NPP.

It was clear the governing party would not abandon power easily. Alarmed that it would lose, it had the high court declare the ID cards illegal because they disenfranchised legitimate voters. But the ruling was to no avail - the people took over. Polling station officers decided they were going to use ID cards anyway.

When first- round votes on December 7 were tallied; Kufuor had 48.4 per cent against Atta Mills's 44.8 per cent. The opposition was heading for a small majority but, with no candidate exceeding 50 per cent, a run- off was required. Ghana's 30 or so FM stations were vital in bringing democracy, so it was no surprise that the NDC moved against them.

On the evening before the poll, I took Roger Gale and Nigel Jones to visit Joy FM, possibly Ghana's most influential station. We were sitting in the office when an armed posse of Rawlings's security men arrived, saying they were closing the station on the President's instructions.

‘Good evening,' I said. ‘I am Craig Murray, Deputy British High Commissioner, and these gentlemen are Mr Roger Gale MP and Mr Nigel Jones MP, members of the British Parliament.' Gale added: ' Obviously there has been some mistake.

I thought I heard you say that you were closing down the station, but we are here to visit our fellow democracy, Ghana, and democracies don't close down radio stations.' The goons left. Joy FM never was closed. However, the NDC started to think I was a part of their problem and they assigned a secret service team to follow me around.

As the second round on December 28 approached, we discovered a problem: not enough Indian ink. We had paid for more, but it had to be specially made and would not be ready until December 24. This was cutting it tight and action was needed. Chartering a private plane to set off from India on Christmas Eve was easier said than done. Whitehall was in festive mode and unlikely to sanction spending quickly, so I used the Embassy's budget to pay for it.

Ghana's government did not want the Indian ink to get in and I was concerned it would be delayed by customs officials. So on Christmas Day 2000, instead of eating turkey, I stood baking on the airport tarmac. When our plane taxied in, we unloaded the boxes of little ink bottles on to two trucks. I escorted these out of the VIP gateway, helped by a substantial tip to the guards.

The truck drivers then delivered the ink to regional centres for distribution to constituencies. This was a game being played for high stakes, with real danger of civil war.

Hotheads in the ruling party might claim electoral fraud and mount a military takeover. The Ashanti could also react violently to losing. Every embassy was updating evacuation plans. Around 1am, the results started to come in. There was a more or less consistent swing to the opposition candidate, John Kufuor. You could have cut the atmosphere with a knife.

The coolest man in Ghana that night was the wry, chain-smoking Electoral Commissioner, Kwadwo Afari- Gyan, who received constant threatening phone calls instructing him to fix the result. Each time, the Electoral Commissioner replied: ' The result will be what the result will be. I am just making sure it is fairly counted.' Then, taking his umpteenth call, he stiffened. He summoned me to listen: it was his wife. Soldiers had come to their bungalow, taking her and his children hostage and threatening to kill them if he did not deliver the ' right' result.

Kwadwo barked down the phone: ' Put their leader on.' ‘Listen you little *****,' he snarled. 'How dare you come to my house and threaten my wife and children. I am sitting here with the British Deputy High Commissioner and he knows what is happening. Now get out of my home before we have you thrown into jail!' The soldier said: ' Yes, sir; sorry, sir.' Kwadwo then told his wife not to worry and calmly returned to his work.

By 3am on the second night only two constituencies were still to declare. Even if every voter there went for Atta Mills, Kufuor could still not be beaten.

The opposition had won - an African country ... had shown that democratic change could be achieved peacefully. Kufuor's eight years as President saw economic growth of more than 70 per cent - the first prolonged period since independence when Ghana was not getting poorer. But Ghanaians chose to exercise their democratic right to change and earlier this month narrowly elected Atta Mills.

Ghana is the only country in Africa to achieve the democratic norm of power alternating peacefully between parties at successive uninterrupted elections.

As I look back on my involvement with Africa over 30 years, I remain most proud of helping Ghanaians to attain democracy. It is an example that sadly, the rest of the continent has so far done little to follow.

But Ghana remains there - a glimmer of hope, an example to others and a rebuke to cynics who claim democracy is not possible in Africa.

OLD SOLDIER 10 years ago

Author:-Mahmoud...
The president has been saying that he tried to introduce electronic payment and acquisition systems into the public sector {to reduce human contact with cash} in his effort to fighting corruption, but lame ...
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Author:-Mahmoud...
The president has been saying that he tried to introduce electronic payment and acquisition systems into the public sector {to reduce human contact with cash} in his effort to fighting corruption, but lamented that the systems were often resisted.

This has become so monotonous that Ghanaians are beginning to wonder whether the president is actually serious and interested in fighting corruption as he claims, or it's just another crocodile's tears to deceive Ghanaians into believing that he is making an effort, while the government and its cronies amass billions of dollars at the expense of this struggling HIPC nation.
Why should Ghanaians hire a president that can't even introduce an electronic system successfully into the public sector to save us from criminals masquerading as civil servants? Mr. Mahama must be seen to be fighting corruption with all his might rather than go on lamenting helplessly like the rest of us who hired him to do the job.
Ruth 10 years ago

From Ecomini to Tekpernomics

From Ecomini to Tekpernomics
Mann 10 years ago

IMANI has lost the little credibility it had left. Cudjoe's agenda is to distract.

IMANI has lost the little credibility it had left. Cudjoe's agenda is to distract.
TANII BA! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 10 years ago

TANII IS STILL TANII, WHAT EVER IT IS. MAHAMA IS TANII, NO BRAINS! !!!!!!!!!!!!!

TANII IS STILL TANII, WHAT EVER IT IS. MAHAMA IS TANII, NO BRAINS! !!!!!!!!!!!!!
Kofi Nyame 10 years ago

It is only Big dogs that can rule dogs. I thought Ghanaians are sensible human beings and if they are ruled by dogs then your father and mother and including yourself are less than dogs.

It is only Big dogs that can rule dogs. I thought Ghanaians are sensible human beings and if they are ruled by dogs then your father and mother and including yourself are less than dogs.
Kweku Boateng 10 years ago

Which Tani in Ghana today can you compare yourself with.Can any of your entire family compare themselves to Bawumiah,let a lone Prez Mahaha?Are you not proud to have Bawumiah as your running mate? I think you would have been ...
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Which Tani in Ghana today can you compare yourself with.Can any of your entire family compare themselves to Bawumiah,let a lone Prez Mahaha?Are you not proud to have Bawumiah as your running mate? I think you would have been cultured should prez Mahama or Bawumiah be your father or uncle.Soonest,the entired non Tani(s)will stop selling on the treets but will be sweeping the streets.If dogs are ruling you,i wonder which kind of mamal are you....
Fiction 10 years ago

The most useless n imcompetent finance minister in de history of Ghana stupid guy

The most useless n imcompetent finance minister in de history of Ghana stupid guy
Addison 10 years ago

Finance minister joins payroll fraud fight

Finance minister joins payroll fraud fight
jt 10 years ago

Donors should stop giving us money if we suffer to get money into our covers, we would learn how to a count for it. We would everyday balance the account to make sure every pessewa is accounted for.

Donors should stop giving us money if we suffer to get money into our covers, we would learn how to a count for it. We would everyday balance the account to make sure every pessewa is accounted for.
if the lone crusader 10 years ago

Seth you that woman talking rot betty.b.oduro wampa and the rest pray that nothing happens becos nothing can save you lot .are you not enemies of ghana? Do we need high taxes high duties? Shame unto you crooks it shall never ...
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Seth you that woman talking rot betty.b.oduro wampa and the rest pray that nothing happens becos nothing can save you lot .are you not enemies of ghana? Do we need high taxes high duties? Shame unto you crooks it shall never forgive you generations

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Papa Kwesi 10 years ago

Go and tell it to the dogs . We know what is going on behind the scenes so stop right there. What do you take Ghanaians for, a fool. You are big fool to come and lie to us. We have all the facts. Come on you areLiar God pun ...
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Go and tell it to the dogs . We know what is going on behind the scenes so stop right there. What do you take Ghanaians for, a fool. You are big fool to come and lie to us. We have all the facts. Come on you areLiar God punish you. I wish God will Kill any man or woman in power who lie to Ghanaians
ugly akufo addo 10 years ago

useless oldman

useless oldman
Kweku Boateng 10 years ago

Pls,let's refrain from insullting our elderly.This will not help us.Don't forget we are also growing,aspiring to be future leaders.Afterall,akuffo addo himself knows he will never win any election apart from npp candidacy.... ...
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Pls,let's refrain from insullting our elderly.This will not help us.Don't forget we are also growing,aspiring to be future leaders.Afterall,akuffo addo himself knows he will never win any election apart from npp candidacy.....
dandi 10 years ago

Against the order of president Mills the finance ministry colluded with woyome,Betty Mould and now speaker of the House, to pay Woyome a whopping 51 million dollars. With the help of citizen vigilante AG Amidu in court a High ...
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Against the order of president Mills the finance ministry colluded with woyome,Betty Mould and now speaker of the House, to pay Woyome a whopping 51 million dollars. With the help of citizen vigilante AG Amidu in court a High court has order for monies to be retrieved. It is almost a year ago and the attorney general current has done nothing about it.

Now woyome is one of the top 20 richest people in Ghana with net assets of 75 cool million dollars. This proves that our institutions do not work and the thieves are getting away with it.

Elvis Afriyie, ex sports minister recently found wanting and removed from office following GFA Brazil scandal, has been promoted to the presidency and is also on the list of the top 20 richest in Ghana

Twenty Richest People In Ghana For 2013

1. Ibrahim Mahama -$1.9 billion /Businessman , Brother of the current President of Ghana. Only Ghanaian to own a private jet.

2. Alfred Mahama -$1.3 billion./ Businessman, brother of the current President of Ghana.
3. Roland Agambire – $1.1billion/ RLG (eBay type of business) (Business man )
4. Joseph Agyepong – $1.05billion/Businessman (Zoomlion waste management company and other businesses)….. title=”Company banned by World Bank in Liberia” target=”_blank”>
5. John Mahama – $900 million/President of the Republic of Ghana, Politician.
6. Alhaji Azuma Banda – $724 million./Businessman, owner of antrak air.
7. Ato Ahwoi – $684 million/ Politician, Businessman.
8. Dr. Sam Jonah – $430 Million/Businessman (Executive Director of Jonah Capital, Equity in Johannesberg, south Africa)
9. Haruna Iddrisu – $300million/Politician, Minister of Trade.
10. Alex Mould – $282 million/GMPC
11. Dr. Kwame Addo Kufuor – $250million./ Physician, Politician.
12. Tsatsu Tsikata – $245million/Lawyer, Businessman and Politician
13. Elvis Afriyie Ankrah -$112 million./ Minister of Youth and Sports, Politician.
14. Dr. Kwesi Nduom – $110 million./ Businessman and Politician.
15. Ken Agyapong – $104 million/Politician/Businessman
16. Prince Kofi Amoabeng – $98million/ CEO, UT Bank…… title=”He has an ongoing fraud case gaianst him” target=”_blank”>
17. Asiedu Nketiah – $89million/Politician, Secretary of the ruling NDC Party.
18. Alfred Woyome – $75million/Politically connected Businessman.
19. Tony Lithur – 30million/ Lawyer
20. Baba Kamara – $ 11million/ Politician (Commissioner to Nigeria)

Source: Forbes Ghana

The full list of the 20 Richest in Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa, Ghana, Cote d’ivoire and Morocco would be published in the December 2013 Edition of Forbes Africa
DUKE 10 years ago

POLITICIAN THIEVES EXPLAINS REFUSAL TO DECLARE THEIR ASSETS WHEN THEY ENTER PARLIAMENT, ACCORDING TO THE CONSTITUTION. THIS LAW HAS NEVER BEEN ENFORCED SO GHANA IS A FREE FOR ALL AND ALL FOR FREE BANANA REPUBLIC

POLITICIAN THIEVES EXPLAINS REFUSAL TO DECLARE THEIR ASSETS WHEN THEY ENTER PARLIAMENT, ACCORDING TO THE CONSTITUTION. THIS LAW HAS NEVER BEEN ENFORCED SO GHANA IS A FREE FOR ALL AND ALL FOR FREE BANANA REPUBLIC
FAYA UP 10 years ago

John Mahama-Vice President/Head of economic management team under Ltae President. Atta Mills(deceased), now President.
Paa Kwesi Amissah Arthur-Governor Bank of Ghana, now Vice President and Head of economic management team. ...
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John Mahama-Vice President/Head of economic management team under Ltae President. Atta Mills(deceased), now President.
Paa Kwesi Amissah Arthur-Governor Bank of Ghana, now Vice President and Head of economic management team.
Seth Terkper-dep Minister of Finance under Dr. Duffour, now Minister of Finance.
Kofi Wampah-1st dep. Governor of Bank of Ghana under Amissah Arthur, now Governor of Bank of Ghana.
Grace Adzroe-Controller and Accountant General.
Franklin Cudjoe said and I quote; “I don’t have any problem with Mr Seth Tekper, but I want to understand why he took a decision that is causing us more harm now. I want to understand why the finance minister disobeyed his superior.

“Now we have a situation whereby our donor partners are withholding funds and are saying that we can’t trust your budget, we can’t trust the things you are telling us and it is affecting us. This is a serious matter and we need to understand it properly…I don’t think this matter must go away lightly.”
The Boss of IMANI said, "this is a serious matter and we need to understand it properly...".
Therein lies the crux of the matter. We must bear in mind that the Akatua system(IPPD3)platform is deemed and verified to have much more stricter and stringent controls to check the issue of "ghosting"(the act of pumping to the brim the payroll system with conjured names, accounts, etc,etc by the NDC gov't)than the IPPD2 which is being blamed for the "ghosting" when the solution was captured in the directive issued by Dr. Duffour to arrest the phenomenon of "ghosting", but it was flouted and disregarded.
Ghanaians are yearning to understand how this happened between the afore-listed individuals who have a constitutionally bounden duty to protect the national purse of the country. What happened?
jj 10 years ago

I know the controller is a liar bcos i have used akatua for 15yrs at my place of work and have never encountered these issues in the kpmg report she and terkper are describing. Bloody thieves and liars!!!

I know the controller is a liar bcos i have used akatua for 15yrs at my place of work and have never encountered these issues in the kpmg report she and terkper are describing. Bloody thieves and liars!!!
LAST DON 10 years ago

He goes to muddy the waters from the source and come to complain at the estuary that the water is dirty.

Nana Addo Dankwa Akuffo Addo’s form of power drunk is very primitive, worst than that of Mobutu Sese - Seko.He has ...
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He goes to muddy the waters from the source and come to complain at the estuary that the water is dirty.

Nana Addo Dankwa Akuffo Addo’s form of power drunk is very primitive, worst than that of Mobutu Sese - Seko.He has no respect for anyone either within his party or outside his party; except when he sees you to be buying into his ideology. This extinct primitive ideology, which is stale and unproductive for nation building; an ideology that prescribes hatred and racism against opponents is not only outrageously abhorring but gross indelibly stinking and evil. This does not fit in this digital age where countries everywhere are progressing. Was Nana Addo Dankwa not at the peace council when memorandum of understanding was signed by all parties? Why did he over rule the very memorandum he personally appended his signature to, by organising masses at “obra spot” to protest against an election when he and his cohorts have not done any diligence as to whether there was real evidence of electoral fraud before going to the court? They were not able to bring a shred of evidence that can amount to an unprecedented value of electoral malpractices other than relying on the periphery of some minor human errors to make a case.
Primitive stinking ideology of a dying man with stupid ambition to occupy the space called the “the presidency” shall all end in 2016. He thought it is as easy as peddling cocaine and making use of it in the secret places where he thinks no one will see him.

This man has no conscience or integrity he only fakes his way into everything but least knows what entails to be called a head of state. In broad day light in his party office; officials who were conducting democratic exercise were butchered in his name.

Just as has been his demeanour of keeping silent on all crimes levelled against him from being certificate less, Drug baron, Drug user, and womaniser, son of a traitor, drill ship thievery and his involvement in the release of drug baron from jail only Nana Addo Dankwa Akuffo Addo can tell; till now he has made no comment about this heinous act.

His public speeches are out of date and have no connection with current trends of social developments. He is more manual than mechanical. I wonder if he knows how to use computers or modern applications soft wares. Ghana needs to move forward we don’t need a retarded man who has no achievement in life than living on ill gotten booty bequeathed to him by his father. He thinks democracy means insulting and using foul language against your opponent and cause disaffection in society forgetting that there is something called conscience. It is God who makes people to discern and cause changes for the good of mankind. If Nana Addo has a clear conscience God will make his wish come through but Alas!!! It will be well for Sodom and Gomorrah than for him to force his will on the people. Unless the later generation sincerely shows repentance and move away from the odious deeds of their fathers; the wrath of God shall be visited upon them. ABOWA PANYIN BON, KWASIAPANIN !!!
TANII BA! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 10 years ago

TANII IS STILL TANII, WHAT EVER IT IS. MAHAMA IS TANII, NO BRAINS! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

TANII IS STILL TANII, WHAT EVER IT IS. MAHAMA IS TANII, NO BRAINS! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

paa 10 years ago

Add ups to old news and giving it different heardings

Add ups to old news and giving it different heardings
adacanaen. 10 years ago

Figh them head on.

Figh them head on.
ADA 10 years ago

The controller and Accountant General's Department is the problem. Workers on retirement are still being paid even though it was indicated on their payslips that they will be retiring at a certain point. Some retired staff na ...
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The controller and Accountant General's Department is the problem. Workers on retirement are still being paid even though it was indicated on their payslips that they will be retiring at a certain point. Some retired staff names were deleted but subsequently put back on the payroll. If the Controller can not manage simple retirements which should be programmed on the system, i can not see them do any thing good to stop the leakages of paying over bloated wages to public servants. The staff dont care, period.
If Government indeed is interested in tackling the matter, get professional accountants from practicing firms to put in all the strategic points. I dont mean chartered Accountants but Accountants who have received training for a minimum of 3 years from KPMG, Price water House, Enst young etc.
citizen kofi 10 years ago

the wage bill is a big hill to climb but I will be thrilled if terkper could clamp down on the guilty bugs

the wage bill is a big hill to climb but I will be thrilled if terkper could clamp down on the guilty bugs
Libya Libya 10 years ago

Give thanks to franklin he review this .

Give thanks to franklin he review this .
paa 10 years ago

Imani never reveal this. Is it not work that the Govt did

Imani never reveal this. Is it not work that the Govt did
BP 10 years ago

The finance ministry is knee deep in how corruption thrives in the public service. Every contract or contractors had to have a link at the finance ministry most times before he can get money released for payment.

The finance ministry is knee deep in how corruption thrives in the public service. Every contract or contractors had to have a link at the finance ministry most times before he can get money released for payment.

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