Leave when your time is up - Kofi Annan to African leaders

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• sanjay - Abu Dhabi 9 years ago

  Please come out in numbers this coming November, we are voting nana ado to retirement, three time big looser flag bearer, we will make sure his all die be die will follow him to his house but not the whole Ghana, vote mahama ...
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  Please come out in numbers this coming November, we are voting nana ado to retirement, three time big looser flag bearer, we will make sure his all die be die will follow him to his house but not the whole Ghana, vote mahama to prevent war in Ghana, long live mother Ghana.

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• PRINCE KWASI ADADE (OFIE P33) 9 years ago

  SOURCE: starfmonline.com-------The vice presidential candidate of the NPP Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has described President John Mahama as a leader who is “out of touch” with his followers following certain campaign assertions ...
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  SOURCE: starfmonline.com-------The vice presidential candidate of the NPP Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has described President John Mahama as a leader who is “out of touch” with his followers following certain campaign assertions he made during his ‘Accounting to the People’ tour.
  
  “For us, this will be a landmark election and in our point of view, the future is really at stake. In the last few years we have seen a major decline in economic growth, when we found oil and due to the oil discovery, GDP growth hit 15%. Today growth has slumped to 3.5%. Behind these numbers is an even more worrying development because in a country like Ghana, you expect to see Agriculture doing well at the very least.
  
  “However, Agriculture is almost collapsing. Agric which should be the backbone of the economy is growing at 0.04% as at 2015. Manufacturing growth has also been in the negative for the last 3 years – negative 0.5% in 2013, negative 0.8% in 2014 and negative 2% in 2015. So Agric is collapsing and manufacturing is in the negative and yet our President wants to tell us that our economy is resilient.
  
  “Now I don’t understand what resilient means in this context when you look at all the indicators. How can unemployment be increasing, growth be declining, interest rates be high and rising, your debt levels be unsustainable, your health services are deteriorating, you cannot pay teacher training allowances, you cannot pay nursing training allowances, you cannot pay contractors, businesses are collapsing, utility prices are sky rocketing and yet you are claiming that the economy is resilient? This President is clearly out of touch,” the former deputy governor of the Bank of Ghana said.
  Dr. Bawumia also mentioned the steep fall of the cedi, which was now hovering around 4 cedis to a dollar, after depreciating from GHC1.2 to a dollar in 2009, the four-year ‘dumsor’ scourge and the government’s unbridled borrowing and resort to high taxes, which had killed many businesses and made production in Ghana unattractive.

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• sanjay - Abu Dhabi 9 years ago

  apart from kuffour, Anan is the second corrupt person in the history of Ghana, so shut up and lets peace prevail,

  apart from kuffour, Anan is the second corrupt person in the history of Ghana, so shut up and lets peace prevail,

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• NDC IS SATANIC 9 years ago

  Stupid fool john mahama has been mentioned in the Panama of hiding $10billion in Dubai and Singapore. Who is a thief more than john mahama, a fool like you , stupid idiot. Are Kofi Annan and president Kuffuor's sons the same ...
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  Stupid fool john mahama has been mentioned in the Panama of hiding $10billion in Dubai and Singapore. Who is a thief more than john mahama, a fool like you , stupid idiot. Are Kofi Annan and president Kuffuor's sons the same as their fathers? Are their sons babies for their fathers to carry their sins? Woe betides those womb that brought you idiots into this world, some womb are blessed others are cursed, every mother want her son to be an apple of her eyes but sons who will send out the nasty hole they came out from needs to be aborted before they come out to disgrace the family like this thing called sanjay-Abu Dhabi. You are a big disgrace to your mother, family, community, town and region.

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• TWEAA DC 9 years ago

  JOHN MAHAMA EQUALS EMBRAE AIRCRAFT DEAL AND STX KOREA.Ö

  JOHN MAHAMA EQUALS EMBRAE AIRCRAFT DEAL AND STX KOREA.Ö

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• yAW 9 years ago

  Dead goat should open his ears wide.

  Dead goat should open his ears wide.

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• Constable Joy 9 years ago

  SAY THAT TO BRIBEHENE KAPWEPWE DRUG ADDICT AKUFO ADDO.

  SAY THAT TO BRIBEHENE KAPWEPWE DRUG ADDICT AKUFO ADDO.

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• Mary 9 years ago

  WHY NOT GO BACK TO THE NORTH

  WHY NOT GO BACK TO THE NORTH

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• Pelicles 9 years ago

  Some African leaders who never thought of being in any leadership role but have been elected leaders by mistake, are those who do not think of leaving when their time is up.
  
  As we speak, coups are not needed and even if s ...
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  Some African leaders who never thought of being in any leadership role but have been elected leaders by mistake, are those who do not think of leaving when their time is up.
  
  As we speak, coups are not needed and even if some leaders are trying to stay on, the only option is to use mass protest like what happened in Burkina Faso to oust that leader. Some African leaders are insensitive, petty and reckless hence their love to hang defying laid down rules.

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• Dr. Acquah. 9 years ago

  In some European countries such as Germany and GB,the political leaders do stay on for more than 2 terms as long as their party wins the elections.Maybe, that is why some African political leaders also try to stay on when th ...
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  In some European countries such as Germany and GB,the political leaders do stay on for more than 2 terms as long as their party wins the elections.Maybe, that is why some African political leaders also try to stay on when their time is over.The constitutions of countries differ.As we know, portions in the constitution can always be changed if the political leader has the majority in parliament.Even in advanced countries like Germany, this is done.The original constitution of Germany doesn`t allow Germany to be involved in any war.This has been changed that is why we have Germany involved in several wars around the world.If a leader is good, why don`t you keep him?

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• Kofi 9 years ago

  This man is right . Africa wao

  This man is right . Africa wao

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• Nana 9 years ago

  African leaders have sinned against God and the African people. Problems facing African people through greed, selfish and power-drunk murderers; God is blameless, but these leaders must carry the blame to their graves. Rich A ...
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  African leaders have sinned against God and the African people. Problems facing African people through greed, selfish and power-drunk murderers; God is blameless, but these leaders must carry the blame to their graves. Rich African continent has become mockery and open sore of the WORLD

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• Jojo 9 years ago

  ALTHOUGH AFRICAN LEADERS ARE OBLIGED TO LEAVE THEIR RSPECTIVE GOVERNMENTS AFTER EIGHT YEARS,
  
  OPAYN ANNAN,CAN YOU TELL THE WHOLE WORLD IF,THESE CRIMINALS,THIEVES AND CROOKS WERE IN THE POSITION TO TACKLE THE BROKEN INFRASTR ...
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  ALTHOUGH AFRICAN LEADERS ARE OBLIGED TO LEAVE THEIR RSPECTIVE GOVERNMENTS AFTER EIGHT YEARS,
  
  OPAYN ANNAN,CAN YOU TELL THE WHOLE WORLD IF,THESE CRIMINALS,THIEVES AND CROOKS WERE IN THE POSITION TO TACKLE THE BROKEN INFRASTRUCTRUE STILL IN RUINS THEIR VARIOUS COUNTRIES.
  
  WE STILL DO NOT HAVE THE ABILITIES IN TECHNOLOGY,INNOVATION AND CREATIVITY TO TURN THE WHEELS OF INDUSTRIALIZAZION, HENCE OUR CONTINUED ECONOMIC BACKWARDNESS,UNDERDEVELOPMENT AND HEAVILY INDEBPTED POOR COUNTRES IN THE WORLD.
  
  THE WEST CONTINUE TO LAUGH AT US BECAUSE,THEY KNOW WE ARE STILL BEHIND IN SCIENTIFIC INNOVATION.
  
  
  DEGREES AND PHD TITLES IN THE MIDST OF POVERTY.
  
  VERY DISGRACEFUL IN THE 21st CENTURY

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