Anas’ exposé on judiciary shocks investors

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• KFK 10 years ago

  Ghana could be seen as leading the way in how to expose corruption and deal with it hence could be positive

  Ghana could be seen as leading the way in how to expose corruption and deal with it hence could be positive

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• Jimmy 10 years ago

  I agree with you.

  I agree with you.

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• MODIN SANE 10 years ago

  THIS STUFF HAPPENS IN ALL THIRD WORLD COUNTRIES LIKE NIGERIA, BANGLADESH ETC. GOOD TO KNOW GHANA HAS PEOPLE LIKE ANAS. THIS COULD BUILD CONFIDENCE IN THE NATION AND THAT IS GOOD FOR FOREIGN INVESTMENT.

  THIS STUFF HAPPENS IN ALL THIRD WORLD COUNTRIES LIKE NIGERIA, BANGLADESH ETC. GOOD TO KNOW GHANA HAS PEOPLE LIKE ANAS. THIS COULD BUILD CONFIDENCE IN THE NATION AND THAT IS GOOD FOR FOREIGN INVESTMENT.

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• Kwamebeba 10 years ago

  Everything has its time and season. For decades the neo-colonialists have have their field days bribing our leaders and soldiers etc. Now the time has come and everything will be backfiring. With their own gadgets there wi ...
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  Everything has its time and season. For decades the neo-colonialists have have their field days bribing our leaders and soldiers etc. Now the time has come and everything will be backfiring. With their own gadgets there will be no hiding place for them and their puppets who are embedded in iniquities against the pure African.

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• Labour Law Not working 10 years ago

  Anas should investigate the foreign companies in Ghana as well. The way they treat our local people. How they cheat them, the labor commission go there and they give them money and forget the problems our own citizens are goi ...
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  Anas should investigate the foreign companies in Ghana as well. The way they treat our local people. How they cheat them, the labor commission go there and they give them money and forget the problems our own citizens are going through especially the Indian and the Lebanese companies. hmmmmm its a pity

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• Obiri 10 years ago

  Why are we so foolishly obsessed with foreign investors? Look at the rotten mining agreements we have. Also look at the silly oil deals we have signed. Our currency was not under so much pressure when we didn't have oil. Now ...
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  Why are we so foolishly obsessed with foreign investors? Look at the rotten mining agreements we have. Also look at the silly oil deals we have signed. Our currency was not under so much pressure when we didn't have oil. Now we haver oil but cannot even stabilize our currency. It is pointless to have foreign investors loot our country so we are better off without them. Let us keep our rivers safe. Let us preserve our natural habitat. Let's keep our gold in the ground if we can't have good deals. After all who said the corrupt judges cannot be bribed by these so called investors? They come here and do shady deals they annot do in their home countries beause they know how to get away with their corrupt deals. They also bribe all our ree arms of government else who will be given them our natural resources at such deals? Foreign Investors my foot.

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• Charles 10 years ago

  Recently, I witnessed in dismay a tirade by a white man in the first class cabin of a mid-size airplane, admonishing another first class passenger, a Ghanaian male, for “begging” for his seat. What is wrong with you Afric ...
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  Recently, I witnessed in dismay a tirade by a white man in the first class cabin of a mid-size airplane, admonishing another first class passenger, a Ghanaian male, for “begging” for his seat. What is wrong with you Africans? All you do is beg, beg, beg for everything!! You can beg all you want; I am not going to give you my seat. Tempers finally cooled down, and the aircraft took off. Unfortunately, I was sitting next to this white man who, a few minutes ago, had insulted my whole race. With nothing else to do, I turned and asked him “what was all that about”? Apparently, the Ghanaian man was travelling with his “wife”; they had been seated in 1st class on separate rows, and apart. The man had asked this white man to exchange his seat, so the couple could be close. The white man had refused, but the Ghanaian man had persisted with numerous “I beg you”; which eventually took the white man to his boiling point. “So what would it have cost you to exchange your seat?” I asked. His response, the essence of this article was this.
  
  “I booked my flight the last minute, and got the last 1st class seat available, this one. This means it was also available to this man, if only he had asked to be seated close to his wife. He did not, but now comes “begging” for what WAS DUE HIM in the first place.” “That still shouldn't get your collar up”, I said. “You may be right; unfortunately, I have just finished a month long negotiations with your Ministers and Government officials over your god given mineral rights, and what my gold mining company should pay.
  
  I come to your country, see all this poverty everywhere, with wealth right under your feet. Your own government gives only foreign companies the rights and privileges to rape and steal your country blind. For a few thousand dollars, your government officials allow these foreign companies to walk away with: (a) Perpetual tax holidays, (b) Duty free imports, (c) Bloated capital and operational investment costs,
  
  (d) under-declared mineral output, (e) minimum wages for local employees doing all the work, but FAT salaries and expense accounts for foreigners who do almost nothing; (f) exaggerated cost of shoddy school blocks and boreholes instead of meaningful royalty to local land owners and communities;
  
  (g) destruction of local farm lands with pitiful resettlement payments; (h) pollution of local drinking water; (i) destruction of local infrastructure, etc.
  
  My bosses had counseled me at a briefing before my departure. I was asked to read your Osageyefo's “Neo-Colonialism”. Then I was told: “be prepared, and the first, to offer the negotiating team, (a) a few thousand dollars each; (b) a center, or a 6-room school block, or a few bore holes for the community; and there will be no mention of the usual above 10% royalties, or an actual government oversight of our operations, or adequate resettlement compensations, etc.”
  
  I did not believe my bosses since I, a mere high school graduate, was coming to deal with officials with Masters and Doctorate degrees. Imagine my shock and disappointment when these officials, instead of demanding what is INTERNATIONALLY ACCEPTABLE COMPENSATIONS AND ROYALTIES for their country and communities, only accepted the 3% royalties, and with ALL KINDS OF GIVEAWAYS, and then came to me later BEGGING me to deposit “something” in their foreign accounts (numbers written on pieces of paper). I do not want to hear the phrase “I beg you” again.
  
  The irony here is that these so called Educated people, after negotiating away the countries wealth, and depositing their “something”s into foreign banks, turn round to go and BORROW their own money from the IMF, World Bank, or “Donor” countries/ “Development Partners”. Do you remember the number of PhD beneficiaries, and the destinations of the Mabey & Johnson kickbacks? It amazes me that your intelligentsia, Ministers and Presidents, who have studied, or have travelled oversea, still don't get the idea that “THERE IS NO FREE LUNCH”. THERE ARE NO “DONOR COUNTRIES” OR “DEVELOPMENT PARTNERS”. THE FOREIGN MINING COMPANIES TAKE YOUR MINERALS FOR NEXT TO NOTHING, DEPOSIT THEIR HAUL INTO THEIR BANKS, AND THEN TURN ROUND TO LOAN THE SAME TO OUR GOVERNMENTS, AGAIN WITH REDICULOUS CONDITIONS.SUCH AS “NO SUBSIDIZED” BASIC EDUCATION.

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• Elsy 10 years ago

  Excellent !

  Excellent !

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• Maame Abena 10 years ago

  Sorry to say but the NDC must be voted out. A government whose motto is "Yebedi bi KeKe"
  No this government if it has been a company would have been bancrupt in her first year of operation.
  It started with Woyome then we he ...
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  Sorry to say but the NDC must be voted out. A government whose motto is "Yebedi bi KeKe"
  No this government if it has been a company would have been bancrupt in her first year of operation.
  It started with Woyome then we heard of minister who will not leave government unless she amassed a whopping one million dollars and was recorded. Thank God Mahama fired her.
  There has been SADA,SUBAH,GYEEDA,NSS,VVIP and world cup fiasco and these are but just a few. The NDC simply speaking has mis-managed Ghanas' resources and Ghana is not ahead at all. Look at the power crises, the bad economy everthing is either broke all getting there.
  Today we read some people has been sellected to look into NHIS? Why?
  Ghana indeed is sick and her cure to vote the NDC out, and bring the competent NPP administration before Ghana dies a slow and painful death.
  We need Nana Akufo-Addo.

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• Yaw Mensah 10 years ago

  There is no doubt Maame Abena is NPP which is okay. The problem we are having now is endemic corruption which cuts across all political divides. The earlier we llok at our problems objectively, the better. Yes the NDC has don ...
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  There is no doubt Maame Abena is NPP which is okay. The problem we are having now is endemic corruption which cuts across all political divides. The earlier we llok at our problems objectively, the better. Yes the NDC has done some pretty bad things to Ghana so has the NPP. Corruption is now part of our everyday life and that is something we should join hands to fight against. I hope if you every read this, you would have the time to look at the bigger picture - one devoid of political leanings. Remember a huge part is the eroded moral fabric of teh society.

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• EDUARDO DOMINGO 10 years ago

  WHY IS IT THAT WHEN SERIOUS MATTERS ARE BEING DISCUSSED YOU DUMB POLITICAL GOONS COME IN WITH YOUR SILLY MIND SETS? IS THIS A POLITICAL MATTER? PLEASE SHUT UP AND LET THE CRIMINALS BE JUDGED!

  WHY IS IT THAT WHEN SERIOUS MATTERS ARE BEING DISCUSSED YOU DUMB POLITICAL GOONS COME IN WITH YOUR SILLY MIND SETS? IS THIS A POLITICAL MATTER? PLEASE SHUT UP AND LET THE CRIMINALS BE JUDGED!

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• JOHN MAHAMA'S BROTHER 10 years ago

  YOU ARE GREAT, ANAS! THAT STUPID LYDIA FORSON GIRL WAS TRYING TO BELITTLE THIS GREAT WORK YOU HAVE DONE. YES, WE KNOW CORRUPTION IS IN THE SYSTEM ALREADY BUT HAS ANYONE, INCLUDING LYDIA FORSON HERSELF BEEN ABLE TO EXPOSE THE ...
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  YOU ARE GREAT, ANAS! THAT STUPID LYDIA FORSON GIRL WAS TRYING TO BELITTLE THIS GREAT WORK YOU HAVE DONE. YES, WE KNOW CORRUPTION IS IN THE SYSTEM ALREADY BUT HAS ANYONE, INCLUDING LYDIA FORSON HERSELF BEEN ABLE TO EXPOSE THE SCANDAL WITH SUCH MONUMENTAL EVIDENCE? AND SHE (LYDIA FORSON) DOESN'T SEE IT IS A HUGE STEP TOWARDS FIGHTING CORRUPTION? WE ARE ALSO WAITING FOR THAT MOVIE BY UK CHRISTIANS WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY SAMMY ANKRAH (WHO THEY SAY IS AN NPP EXECUTIVE!) AIMED AT EXPOSING FAKE AND CORRUPT PASTORS. HOW I WISHED NAMES OF FAKE PASTORS WOULD BE MENTIONED IN THAT MOVIE AS WELL! CLICK ON THE LINK BELOW TO WATCH THIS YOUTUBE VIDEO ON THE MOVIE.
  
  https://youtu.be/UOGk3PbFeGI

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• Jasmine 10 years ago

  "They say the revelations have the potential to negatively affect foreign direct investments into Ghana."
  
  What a pile of rubbish! Who said those "foreign investors" aren't corrupt themselves? They all know what happens in ...
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  "They say the revelations have the potential to negatively affect foreign direct investments into Ghana."
  
  What a pile of rubbish! Who said those "foreign investors" aren't corrupt themselves? They all know what happens in the judiciary in Ghana because they know the extent of the corruption in the country.
  
  On the other hand, we have been talking about this for ages now, so everyone knows. Don't bore our ears.

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• Last warrior 10 years ago

  These investors are in bed with these our corrupt leaders and Chiefs.RECENTLY there was CASE involving a INDIAN pharmacy company which repackaged medicine damaged by the flood after insurance settlement to resell it to GHANAI ...
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  These investors are in bed with these our corrupt leaders and Chiefs.RECENTLY there was CASE involving a INDIAN pharmacy company which repackaged medicine damaged by the flood after insurance settlement to resell it to GHANAIANS and when taken to court reported by concern Ghanaian they WERE LEFT OFF and are still in business in GHANA.INDIA would have make sure you loose your license and jail any Ghanaian who does that to their own.if love Ghana you would think about how you vote 2016,LOOK at ACCRA,TEMA every where is a mess compare it to 8yrs or even 16yrs ago ALL OUR LAND IS SOLD there is nothing left so called investors in GHANA trust me investors know and like what our leaders are doing and it helps their COUNTRY and makes our leaders rich and GHANA LOOSING EVERY THING(gold diamond cocoa timber and oil) how and WHY IMF.HOW DID WE GET HERE IN 8yrs?

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• ZoRRo 10 years ago

  if this cancer is not up-rooted and burnt, this country will go down as one of the poorest countries in the world.

  if this cancer is not up-rooted and burnt, this country will go down as one of the poorest countries in the world.

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• Mino 10 years ago

  They are all part of our problems,especially those greedy crazy europeans.

  They are all part of our problems,especially those greedy crazy europeans.

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• kofi adu 10 years ago

  Get them now and quick. They are menace. Irresponsible

  Get them now and quick. They are menace. Irresponsible

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• E. Amoako 10 years ago

  You guys are Full of shit

  You guys are Full of shit

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• John 10 years ago

  Investors will think twice about investing in business in Ghana after this revelation. If the Judicial system can't guarantee your legal rights under Ghana law, maybe safer to put your money into Ivory Coast or elsewhere.

  Investors will think twice about investing in business in Ghana after this revelation. If the Judicial system can't guarantee your legal rights under Ghana law, maybe safer to put your money into Ivory Coast or elsewhere.

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• EDUARDO DOMINGO 10 years ago

  ADJOURNMENTS HAVE SENT MANY INVESTORS PACKING ALREADY ,!! SO WHAT ARE WE TALKING, I SAID MANY TIMES THAT ASSESSORS
  ARE NEEDED TO MONITORS COURT PROCEEDINGS , COCOA AFFAIRS JUDGES ARE DEMONIC.
  I KNEW JUDGE AZUMAH AND IVY H ...
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  ADJOURNMENTS HAVE SENT MANY INVESTORS PACKING ALREADY ,!! SO WHAT ARE WE TALKING, I SAID MANY TIMES THAT ASSESSORS
  ARE NEEDED TO MONITORS COURT PROCEEDINGS , COCOA AFFAIRS JUDGES ARE DEMONIC.
  I KNEW JUDGE AZUMAH AND IVY HEWARD MILLS 10 OUT OF TEN WILL BE CAUGHT. THIS IS NOT ALLEGATION VIDEO DO NOT MAKE ALLEGATIONS !! WE ARE NOT STUPID STOP BAMBOOZLING THE ORDINARY MAN WITH YOUR LEGAL JARGON!!

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• the lone Prophet of Jehovah 10 years ago

  THE RESULTS OF EVERYDAY CORRUPTION IS NOW CLEAR TO THE ENTIRE WORLD.WE MUST CHECK THE 5 ARMS OF GOV'T AND PUT IN PLACE PEOPLE OF INTEGRITY.

  THE RESULTS OF EVERYDAY CORRUPTION IS NOW CLEAR TO THE ENTIRE WORLD.WE MUST CHECK THE 5 ARMS OF GOV'T AND PUT IN PLACE PEOPLE OF INTEGRITY.

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• JB Mann 10 years ago

  In the whole article not even one supposed "investor" was mentioned - indicating that this is only a write-up by some of the affected corrupt judges.
  
  Do those foolish "investors" believe it is OK for Ghanaian judges to tak ...
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  In the whole article not even one supposed "investor" was mentioned - indicating that this is only a write-up by some of the affected corrupt judges.
  
  Do those foolish "investors" believe it is OK for Ghanaian judges to take bribes and free criminals?
  
  If these are the sort of "investors" in Ghana, then we do nto need them and they should close their investments and get out of Ghana.

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• Ibn Batuta 10 years ago

  These so called foreign investors thrive in a corrupt system. They have been bribing their way to secure deals

  These so called foreign investors thrive in a corrupt system. They have been bribing their way to secure deals

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• Abu 10 years ago

  This is our situation.if some institutions if don't give them money they give you Nicknames by the very people who get paid at the end of the month

  This is our situation.if some institutions if don't give them money they give you Nicknames by the very people who get paid at the end of the month

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• Edem 10 years ago

  The story is full of grammatical errors. It doesn't add up. I can see story lines that hv been manufactured. Go and find better and innovative ways to story lines. And stop deceiving people with cooked up stories, simply taki ...
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  The story is full of grammatical errors. It doesn't add up. I can see story lines that hv been manufactured. Go and find better and innovative ways to story lines. And stop deceiving people with cooked up stories, simply taking advantage of the situation at hand.

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