Churches must reach out to disaster victims – Veep

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TRUTH HURTS 10 years ago

AMISSAH-ARTHUR CHURCHES CHURCHES WHERE IS THE OUR RESOURCES MONIES KWASEA THIEVES. LEAVE THE CHURCHES ALONE AND BRING THE STOLEN MONIES PERIOD

AMISSAH-ARTHUR CHURCHES CHURCHES WHERE IS THE OUR RESOURCES MONIES KWASEA THIEVES. LEAVE THE CHURCHES ALONE AND BRING THE STOLEN MONIES PERIOD
Mahmoud 10 years ago

What tribalist trash! How old were you in 1969? Busia’s government in terms of structured and sustainable national development is still one of the best in the annals of Ghana’s troubled history. Of course people like you ...
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What tribalist trash! How old were you in 1969? Busia’s government in terms of structured and sustainable national development is still one of the best in the annals of Ghana’s troubled history. Of course people like you will never see any good thing in anything any Akan does in Ghana.

1. Busia’s Rural Development agenda has never been equaled and it will take someone with courage and foresight to come anywhere close to it. It was Busia’s government that extended pipe-borne water to most villages in Ghana, including some really wretched ones in the Volta Region. That is what led to the elimination of guinea worm (which was causing annual havoc in most parts of the country), in Ghana.

2. His government also wiped out cholera, which is now causing havoc in our national capital.

3. The construction of polyclinics, district hospitals and health posts was meant to free Korle Bu and Okomfo Anokye Hospitals for research, teaching and the treatment of more serious cases.

4. Mass-scale feeder road construction began with Busia, and I witnessed it at Akatsi, Sogakope, Hohoe, Ho Dome, Ho Banque, and many other places, even in the Volta Region.

5. Busia’s cottage industry programme would have created employment avenues in most rural districts in Ghana, to curtail the now unbearable and uncontrollable urbanisation with names like Sodom and Gomorah, Agege, etc, with the resultant “ghetoisation” in almost every town in Ghana.

6. Ever heard of Odorkor/Dansoman Housing Estate development, with replicas in all the regional capitals, Adeweso at Koforidua, Low Cost at Winneba, etc? It was Busia’s idea.

7. How about the major sewerage and drainage system in Accra, which would have connected all homes to a central sewerage system? The remnants of the abandoned trenches are still around.

8. Your reference to education is really dishonest and illiterate. Up until 1969, about 60% of the lecturers in the three original universities of Ghana were foreigners. Their emoluments were paid in dollars. Their families were entitled to at least one paid holiday a year. It was Busia who began the “Ghanainisation” of university lecturers. Everyone who graduated with a first class or second class upper was sent away through Ghana government, Commonwealth or specially arranged American scholarships, to pursue MScs and PhDs and return to Ghana, to lecture. Had the idiot Acheampong not derailed that policy, Ghana’s universities would have been among the leading universities of the world. Many of those who were trained under that scheme are now professors in major universities of the world. Quite a number of those who returned to Ghana have been vice chancellors and some are deans!

9. In 1970, all three universities together had an intake of less than 13,000 students, but the state was still struggling to give everyone free education. Can you imagine what the situation would be today, with 30 or 40,000, when 50% of the state’s treasury is looted and shared among a handful of families? Busia’s loan scheme opened the doors to people like you who were not so bright, but still could go to university, on a loan and pay later, which is what pertains everywhere in the world. What is wrong with that?

10. The JSS system that was botched by your murderer tribesman was meant to transform Ghana’s education policy and make it relevant to national development with vocational s and technical schools and more polytechnics. It began with pilot schools at Kinbu in Accra and others in Kumasi, Takoradi, Cape Coast, and other regional capitals. Their products were to be monitored over a seven year period as teachers were gradually upgraded or specialised, to take over the primary and middle schools. Can you think of any country in Africa that has such a system?

11. Did you ever hear of “two rabbits=equal to one cow in one year?” It was a programme of rabbit rearing, which took off in many parts of Ghana like a storm. It was meant to supplement our low protein intake as a nation. If your low life compatriot Newlove Mammatah had not mismanaged the programme as your lot usually does, it would be changing lives in Ghana today. It was under that programme that poultry farming ballooned in the Central and Ashanti Regions only to be destroyed by your armed tribesman.

12. The Aliens’ Compliance Order enabled many Ghanaians to go into trading in every corner of Ghana. See how the Chinese now control everything in Ghana, including the trade in “buronyi weewu.” The Nigerians are back with a vengeance, buying everything in sight, with cash! And so are the Lebanese. Under the programme, long-standing foreign resident were supposed to regularize their stay. Like the Asians in Uganda, because they used their status to smuggle diamonds and hard currencies out of Ghana, they did not bother. Do you really fault a leader of a bankrupt nation for trying to safeguard local commerce, in order to better the lot of his people?

13. Appollo 568? Hahaaa Have you heard about the rot in the NSS today? It is the same with the civil service. That was what Busia was trying to curb. After Kotoka and Harley filled the civil and public services with every middle school drop-out from the Volta Region, they were as over-bloated as the clueless Mahama has done today. Anybody who takes over in 2017 will have to trim down the public purse, if our overlords the IMF do not do it now.

Come on buddy, if you really hold a PhD in something worthwhile, there are records in the archives that you can research and educate yourself about Ghana, instead of just swallowing the socialist nonsense hook, line and sinker
Good day!
TRUTH HURTS 10 years ago

MAHAMA WHAT DO YOU THINK THE DONATIONS FROM THE CHURCHES WILL DO FOR YOU. THE STOLEN MONIES FROM THE STATE FUNDS LOOTED TO DUBAI MUST BE BROUGHT BACK PERIOD THIEVES. GREEDY MAHAMA

MAHAMA WHAT DO YOU THINK THE DONATIONS FROM THE CHURCHES WILL DO FOR YOU. THE STOLEN MONIES FROM THE STATE FUNDS LOOTED TO DUBAI MUST BE BROUGHT BACK PERIOD THIEVES. GREEDY MAHAMA
TOGBE 10 years ago

NDC ILLGOTTEN DIRTY STINKING FILTHY BLOOD MONIES HAVE BEEN USED TO LINE PRIVATE POCKETS AND BUILD 20 MILLION DOLLARS HEADQUARTERS WHILST ACCRA DRAINS IS NOT THEIR PRIORITY .....NOW PEOPLE HAVE BEEN KILLED SO SADLY AND MAY THE ...
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NDC ILLGOTTEN DIRTY STINKING FILTHY BLOOD MONIES HAVE BEEN USED TO LINE PRIVATE POCKETS AND BUILD 20 MILLION DOLLARS HEADQUARTERS WHILST ACCRA DRAINS IS NOT THEIR PRIORITY .....NOW PEOPLE HAVE BEEN KILLED SO SADLY AND MAY THEIR BLOOD FOLLOW U NDC GUYS FOR UR THIEVERY ......STUPID FOOOOOOOOLLLLSS
TOGBE 10 years ago

NDC HANDS SOAKED WITH BLOOD OF FLOOD AND FIRE VICTIMS...SADA SUBAH GYEEDA JDGT DEBTS MONIES,,,,, WOYOME MONEY...ETC COULD HAVE BEEN USED TO BUILD ACCRA DRAINS....THIEVES

NDC HANDS SOAKED WITH BLOOD OF FLOOD AND FIRE VICTIMS...SADA SUBAH GYEEDA JDGT DEBTS MONIES,,,,, WOYOME MONEY...ETC COULD HAVE BEEN USED TO BUILD ACCRA DRAINS....THIEVES
peace 10 years ago

where is obinim,duncan stop boasting and show some love to the needy

where is obinim,duncan stop boasting and show some love to the needy
abba 10 years ago

Because they don't know their role in society accept for funeral and getting money for people they are completely lost. All the victims needs counseling.

Because they don't know their role in society accept for funeral and getting money for people they are completely lost. All the victims needs counseling.
abba 10 years ago

It is hard to believe that the celebrations of June 4th will only be a history.

It is hard to believe that the celebrations of June 4th will only be a history.
kofi 10 years ago

Did the churches negligence caused the stupid disaster.You have finished the state resources,Yentie Obiaa was your mantle.

Did the churches negligence caused the stupid disaster.You have finished the state resources,Yentie Obiaa was your mantle.
.USMAN. 10 years ago

Go and see how Prez Mahama of Ghana has transformed Gonjaland with Ghana money just within the two and half years that he has been in power. Every town, village and hamlet in Gonjaland has received a facelift with new facilit ...
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Go and see how Prez Mahama of Ghana has transformed Gonjaland with Ghana money just within the two and half years that he has been in power. Every town, village and hamlet in Gonjaland has received a facelift with new facilities such as roads, toilet facilities, markets, mosques, good quality water projects, electricity extension projects, etc. The question is did J. J. Rawlings do the same thing to Voltarians when he was in power for twenty years? What about Atta Mills. The good old Prof was in power for three and a half years yet he was not selfish to only concentrate on his people in Ekumfi Etuam and the central Region but rather his whole thought was for the general good. No wonder under the care of Prez Mills, Ghana achieved a growth rate of 11%, single digit inflation and the smooth implementation of the Single Spine Pay Policy where newly recruited police personnel received the nominal equivalence of 500dollars as monthly salary. Compare these achievements to the nepotism and selfish policies of the Mahama government that has crippled the Ghanaian economy. I really weep for Ewes and Fantis whose votes brought Mahama to power and yet are the hardest hit by the current hardship prevailing in the country.

love 10 years ago

and so what?we stil vote vove JM

and so what?we stil vote vove JM
Kwaku 10 years ago

You are so stupid to d extent that your stupidNess has caused Ghana to experience dumsor,,,,u better stop defending this idiot and reason well foolish talk Mr love

You are so stupid to d extent that your stupidNess has caused Ghana to experience dumsor,,,,u better stop defending this idiot and reason well foolish talk Mr love
Donkor 10 years ago

Too many to count. KetaI sea defense wall, Volta University, regional hospital, reliable water for Ho, Aflao facelift, electricity to almost every village in Volta etc etc etc etc etc etc

Too many to count. KetaI sea defense wall, Volta University, regional hospital, reliable water for Ho, Aflao facelift, electricity to almost every village in Volta etc etc etc etc etc etc
Banaas 10 years ago

@Donkor, you may be right but it's not Rawlings in power now. Yes, it's still NDC but with different group of people with different mindset. Rawlings himself said that the present crop of members in the party constitutes 60% ...
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@Donkor, you may be right but it's not Rawlings in power now. Yes, it's still NDC but with different group of people with different mindset. Rawlings himself said that the present crop of members in the party constitutes 60% or more thieves. Don't you think it is time to look at personalities & their mindset? Looking at the tract record of the 'present' NDC government under Mahama, it appears they are there to 'help themselves but for the good of the nation. Therefore, you have to look at your circumstance to cast your vote. Very soon or Ebola vaccine may be tried on some 'volunteers' IN VOLTA REGION, under the watch of the party you love. Can you predict the outcome of the 'vaccine'? Why not Greater Accra or Ashanti Region with LEGON and KNUST respectively, which has similar or better research facilities than the university in the Volta Region. The NDC party refers to the Volta Region and indeed, Ketu South as their electioneering world bank. Apart from Alfred Woyome, what benefit does the Region get from this government. Don't you think the party takes the life of people in the region cheap hence their decision to put Ebola vaccine to test there? At the moment, by God's Grace nobody has Ebola in Ghana so how shall the efficacy of the vaccine be recorded? Let's do some logic here: A company that is able to manufacture a vaccine also has access to the true type of the active ingredient, in this case, the Ebola viruse. Otherwise they couldn't have cultured a 'weaker version' to formulate the vaccine. Therefore, the efficiency of the vaccine, the same manufacturer can introduce the deadly virus in the region to test the pattern of spread. True or False? My
****((((((****** 10 years ago

Stealing ghana money and buying hotels in white man's country and telling poor church members to donate to flood victims God has punish you already.

Stealing ghana money and buying hotels in white man's country and telling poor church members to donate to flood victims God has punish you already.
Donkor 10 years ago

Let the Christian Council and the Catholic bishops manage money coming in for flood victims

Let the Christian Council and the Catholic bishops manage money coming in for flood victims
king 10 years ago

Now you want help from the church after you spent huge sums in building mosques all over the place by using taxes from Christians majority and the judgment is what you are experiencing in your era of governance and now why do ...
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Now you want help from the church after you spent huge sums in building mosques all over the place by using taxes from Christians majority and the judgment is what you are experiencing in your era of governance and now why don't you go to where your investments went and ask for help. Tell me have you built national church ?? But you are building national mosque. Change your evil ways cos the wrath of God is against you and your children's children cos God of Christians is a jealous God.
Agbeli Kumordzi 10 years ago

The vice president need to tell Ghanains to keep their civil responsibilities as well.

The vice president need to tell Ghanains to keep their civil responsibilities as well.
Kenkey Warriors!! 10 years ago

Are you an agent of the many con artists who are already using the bible to dupe poor and ignorant Ghanaians?
If you have nothing intelligent to contribute STFU!

Are you an agent of the many con artists who are already using the bible to dupe poor and ignorant Ghanaians?
If you have nothing intelligent to contribute STFU!
zombi politician. 10 years ago

The people who contribute to the church has no jobs as such the Church is dry .Create Jobs for people. Your Government put a freeze on employment since you came to power, where do u want the Church to get money to help.

The people who contribute to the church has no jobs as such the Church is dry .Create Jobs for people. Your Government put a freeze on employment since you came to power, where do u want the Church to get money to help.

Unjust 10 years ago

Mr Vice,All you have to do is to stop the corruption we will have enough to maintain a good life for every one that lives in the country.

Mr Vice,All you have to do is to stop the corruption we will have enough to maintain a good life for every one that lives in the country.
BRO DAN -TRC 10 years ago

BLESSED PEOPLE OF AFRICA, DIGNIFIED PEOPLE OF THE NATIONS OF THE WORLD, INNOCENT PEOPLE OF GHANA; "AMEN AMEN'. SELAH. "IT IS FINISHED" THEREFORE; -"OCCUPY TILL I COME". SELAH.
TOGETHER WE CAN! WITH GOD WE CAN!! GOD BLE ...
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BLESSED PEOPLE OF AFRICA, DIGNIFIED PEOPLE OF THE NATIONS OF THE WORLD, INNOCENT PEOPLE OF GHANA; "AMEN AMEN'. SELAH. "IT IS FINISHED" THEREFORE; -"OCCUPY TILL I COME". SELAH.
TOGETHER WE CAN! WITH GOD WE CAN!! GOD BLESS AFRICA AND THE NATIONS OF THE WORLD. GOD BLESS "JOHN" THE VICE PRESIDENT OF GHANA; HIS EXCELLENCY -'JOHN'- PAA KWESI AMISSAH-ARTHUR;THE GOVERNMENT, LEADERS AND THE PRECIOUS PEOPLE OF GHANA. YEA; GOD BLESS OUR HOMELAND GHANA.
NOTE
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DISCERNMENT 10 years ago

Mr. Vice-President:

With due respect, it is not your call to tell the church how to go about its divine mandate. That is Jesus Christ's call.

After all, so many of you in high places cry "separation of church and state ...
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Mr. Vice-President:

With due respect, it is not your call to tell the church how to go about its divine mandate. That is Jesus Christ's call.

After all, so many of you in high places cry "separation of church and state" when the church gives constructive criticism on national issues. Thank you.
Richmond Afrifa 10 years ago

Now you all got notice of churches, God will surely punish those greedy bustards .

Now you all got notice of churches, God will surely punish those greedy bustards .
JDM LOV 2 KILLD PEOPLE 10 years ago

USELESS MAHAMA AND DOGS SAID HE CHOP ALL GHANA MONEY AND LEFT GHANIANS BONES FOOOOLS

USELESS MAHAMA AND DOGS SAID HE CHOP ALL GHANA MONEY AND LEFT GHANIANS BONES FOOOOLS

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