Parliament approves $2 billion for cocoa purchases

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• NANA KOFI 9 years ago

  I want Nana ADDO to be the President and NOT that Mahaani

  I want Nana ADDO to be the President and NOT that Mahaani

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• Salifu Ba 9 years ago

  Most of them are purchasing houses with stolen money from Cocoa board in the US. They need to be investigated.

  Most of them are purchasing houses with stolen money from Cocoa board in the US. They need to be investigated.

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• Kwesi Tz 9 years ago

  Nana Addo can and will never rule Ghana.Ghanaians need a leader in John Dramani Mahama to change lives and transform Ghana not a violent leader in Nana Addo who will plunge the entire nation chaos and confusion.
  
  Over 400,0 ...
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  Nana Addo can and will never rule Ghana.Ghanaians need a leader in John Dramani Mahama to change lives and transform Ghana not a violent leader in Nana Addo who will plunge the entire nation chaos and confusion.
  
  Over 400,000 workers such?as masons,carpenters, welders, steel benders,electricians & professionals including architects,plumbers,labourers, painters,landscapers,tilers,drivers,engineers,quantity surveyors, are currently employed @ various sites where direct Gov't investments are resulting in the execution of projects like hospitals,roads,schools,housing units,markets,sport stadium,water,energy & ICT infrastructure.

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• Smart Frempah, UK 9 years ago

  Kwesi TZ, I can't wait for November to see who Ghanaians want as their president after this torturous rule of JMD. This create and loot government have to go. Opinions are like noses, they are never the same and it's my ard ...
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  Kwesi TZ, I can't wait for November to see who Ghanaians want as their president after this torturous rule of JMD. This create and loot government have to go. Opinions are like noses, they are never the same and it's my ardent hope that there will be free and fair elections come November.

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• ABBA ATTA 9 years ago

  SMART FREMPAH, CHANGE WILL NOT COME IN THE WAY YOU ARE HOPING FOR! DO AN HONEST DISPASSIONATE ANALYSIS OF THE TWO DOMINATE LEADERS OF THE NDC AND NPP, JDM AND NANA ADDO, PLEASE TAKE OUT YOUR EMOTIONAL FANATICISM, NANA ADDO DO ...
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  SMART FREMPAH, CHANGE WILL NOT COME IN THE WAY YOU ARE HOPING FOR! DO AN HONEST DISPASSIONATE ANALYSIS OF THE TWO DOMINATE LEADERS OF THE NDC AND NPP, JDM AND NANA ADDO, PLEASE TAKE OUT YOUR EMOTIONAL FANATICISM, NANA ADDO DOES NOT COME ANYWHERE NEAR JOHN DRAMANI MAHAMA, THE 59 YEAR OLD PRESENT LEADER OF THIS COUNTRY. YOUR REFUSAL TO ACKNOWLEDGE THE HUGE NEGATIVES AGAINST NANA ADDO, WILL NOT STOP THE MAJORITY OF GHANAIANS FROM NOTICING. MERING DWELLING ON LAPSES AND OTHER PROBLEMS IN THIS COUNTRY, AND HEAP IT ON THE PRESIDENT WILL NOT WASH, DO YOU SEE US AS FOOLS, LIKE PRINCE KWASI ADADE, A NANA ADDO SUPPORTER SAID WE GHANAIANS ARE FOR ASKING NANA ADDO FOR HIS MANIFESTO. HOW COULD YOU WANT TO BE PRESIDENT WITHOUT LETTING US THE VOTERS KNOW WHAT YOU HAVE FOR US IN STOCK. BY MERELY POINTING OUT FAULTS AND PROBLEMS YOU HOPE NANA ADDO WILL BE VOTED INTO POWER, JUST LIKE THAT? WOULD EVEN RIGHT THINKING NPP SUPPORTERS JUST VOTE BECAUSE OF THEIR SUPPORT. NANA ADDO KNOWS AND IS FULLY AWARE OF THE HUGE ODDS AGAINST HIM, HAS SOUGHT TO GRIP HIS SUPPORTERS BY HYPNOTICISM, HENCE HIS INTOLERANCE FOR THOSE FOR WHOM HE CANNOT GRIP THEIR MIND, HE HAS SORT OF ENCHANTED HIS SUPPORTERS, WHO DO NOT SEE THE HUGE ODDS AGAINST HIM, HE I-S NOT AND WILL NOT BE ABLE TO ENCHANT THOSE OF THE NPP, CPP, APC, PPP ETC AND PARTICULARLY "FLOATING VOTERS" LIFT UP YOUR EYES. PEOPLE ARE BEGINNING TO SEE THROUGH THIS TAGGING OF JDM WITH" CREATE, LOOT AND SHARE" WHAT HAPPENED IN KUFFOURS TIME? SAME CREATE, LOOT AND SHARE, WHAT DID KUFFOUR DO ABOUT IT? NOTHING RATHER PROTECTED HIMSELF AND HIS CROOKS, JDM IS DEALING WITH STEALING IN HIS GOVERNMENT, BELIEVE IT OR NOT.

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• SAM 9 years ago

  I BET YOU THAT MOST OF THIS AMOUNT WILL GO INTO NDC CAMPAIGN.IN 2012 ELECTION IT WAS RUMOUR THAT THE NDC WENT FOR ALMOST ALL THE MONEY IN THE COFFERS OF THE COCOA BAORD FOR CAMPIGN. DR OPUNI WAS APPOINTED TO MAKE SURE HE MAKE ...
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  I BET YOU THAT MOST OF THIS AMOUNT WILL GO INTO NDC CAMPAIGN.IN 2012 ELECTION IT WAS RUMOUR THAT THE NDC WENT FOR ALMOST ALL THE MONEY IN THE COFFERS OF THE COCOA BAORD FOR CAMPIGN. DR OPUNI WAS APPOINTED TO MAKE SURE HE MAKE MONEY FOR NDC THINKING HE WILL BE CHOSEN AS A VICE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE FOR MAHAMA. UNFORTUNATELY IT DID NOT HAPPEN SO LET'S HOPE THIS TIME ROUND DR OPUNI WILL BE STRICT AND NOT ALLOW THE NDC TO DUPE THE COCOA BOARD.

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• neto 9 years ago

  but the money is for ndc what are your problems we will chop the money yafo yafo

  but the money is for ndc what are your problems we will chop the money yafo yafo

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• Paa Joe 9 years ago

  INSTEAD OF PARLIAMENT TO HAVE APPROVED THE TWO MILLION DOLLARS FOR PURCHASE OF COCOA, THIS AMOUNT SHOULD HAVE BEEN USED AS A WAKE UP CALL INVESTMENT TO THE NOISY EDUCATED GHANAIANS WITH MECHANICAL AND ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING A ...
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  INSTEAD OF PARLIAMENT TO HAVE APPROVED THE TWO MILLION DOLLARS FOR PURCHASE OF COCOA, THIS AMOUNT SHOULD HAVE BEEN USED AS A WAKE UP CALL INVESTMENT TO THE NOISY EDUCATED GHANAIANS WITH MECHANICAL AND ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING AND NATURAL SCIENCE DEGREES AND PHD TITLES AND FOR THEM TO COME UP WITH THEIR PATENTS AND INVENTIONS THAT WILL PROMOTE DYNAMIC INDUSTRIES,MANUFACTURING AND PROCESSING PLANTS AND TO ACCELERATE ECONONC GROWTH, EMPLOYMENT,INCOME AND BETTER STANDARDS OF LIVING IN GHANA.
  
  HOW LONG SHOULG COCOA FARMERS CONTINUE TO BE THE BREAD WINNERS FOR THE COUNTRY.
  
  WHERE ARE THE EFFORTS OF THE EDUCATED.

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• MARCUS AMPADU 9 years ago

  $2 billion should make Ghana the number one producer of cocoa in the world, and the value added to make chocolate products, should create boomerang effects throughout the economy; this's a plus for the whole country.
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  $2 billion should make Ghana the number one producer of cocoa in the world, and the value added to make chocolate products, should create boomerang effects throughout the economy; this's a plus for the whole country.
  The majority should market this opportunity.

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• inercycl 9 years ago

  And he won't wait a minute to cash it all out.Then the question is: how viable is this government venture? 2 billion to purchase cocoa.At the end of the day how much profit does government make aside Opuni & brother's
  thief ...
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  And he won't wait a minute to cash it all out.Then the question is: how viable is this government venture? 2 billion to purchase cocoa.At the end of the day how much profit does government make aside Opuni & brother's
  thief thief! Privatisation now! No money to borrow.Farmers get paid on time at the market price, companies get taxed, money for everything...# Ivory Coast!

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• TAVIE 9 years ago

  IT A SHAME WE STILL HAVE TO BORROW FOR EVERYTHING USE LEADERS IN GHANA TIME WILL TELL THEE PALIAMENTARIANS WILL BE FACED OUT EVENTUALLY IF THEY DON;T SMARTEN UP. SOONER OR LATER WHY WILL COCOBOD CONTINUE TO BORROW YEAR AFTER ...
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  IT A SHAME WE STILL HAVE TO BORROW FOR EVERYTHING USE LEADERS IN GHANA TIME WILL TELL THEE PALIAMENTARIANS WILL BE FACED OUT EVENTUALLY IF THEY DON;T SMARTEN UP. SOONER OR LATER WHY WILL COCOBOD CONTINUE TO BORROW YEAR AFTER YEAR TO PURCHASE COCOA LEADERS IN THIS ORGANISATION IF PRIVTE WILL NOT LAST WHEN WILL THI CYCLE OF LAVERY END

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• Emma 9 years ago

  Where did they borrow the money from? Is it not possible for local banks to raise this money locally from ghanaians? It is time we stop running to foreign banks for such funds and give our local banks the chance. How do we im ...
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  Where did they borrow the money from? Is it not possible for local banks to raise this money locally from ghanaians? It is time we stop running to foreign banks for such funds and give our local banks the chance. How do we improve our local banks if we continue to rely on foreign banks to borrow with huge interest? I can understand the challenge the local banks will face but at least if we had given 50% of this loan to four local banks they would find a way of financing it and improve their capacity with time. When are we going to learn?

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