Speaker ‘shamed’ as he dismisses motion to investigate Mahama’s Ford gift

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ONE LOVE 9 years ago

What do you expect ayigbe thieves for helping their Pepe counterpart to destroy Ama Ghana? Time will tell

What do you expect ayigbe thieves for helping their Pepe counterpart to destroy Ama Ghana? Time will tell
John Akurugu 9 years ago

You're as evil as your black dwarves useless parents. How dare you, you stupid idiot what you mean.
Instead you to comment on the issue you're there attacking a group

You're as evil as your black dwarves useless parents. How dare you, you stupid idiot what you mean.
Instead you to comment on the issue you're there attacking a group
Nana Kuffuor, Abeka 9 years ago

Evil minded NPP idiots. They don't have progressive issue in mind but vindictiveness.

Evil minded NPP idiots. They don't have progressive issue in mind but vindictiveness.
CJ 9 years ago

Dilma Rousseff Is Ousted as Brazil’s President in Impeachment Vote

The Brazilian Senate on Wednesday impeached Dilma Rousseff, Brazil’s first female president. Ms. Rousseff spoke after the vote to convict her on charge ...
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Dilma Rousseff Is Ousted as Brazil’s President in Impeachment Vote

The Brazilian Senate on Wednesday impeached Dilma Rousseff, Brazil’s first female president. Ms. Rousseff spoke after the vote to convict her on charges of manipulating the federal budget. By SENATE TV, VIA REUTERS and
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS on Publish Date August 31, 2016.

BRASÍLIA — The Senate on Wednesday impeached Dilma Rousseff, Brazil’s first female president, and removed her from office for the rest of her term, the capstone of a power struggle that has consumed the nation for months and toppled one of the hemisphere’s most powerful political parties.

The Senate voted 61 to 20 to convict Ms. Rousseff on charges of manipulating the federal budget in an effort to conceal the nation’s mounting economic problems.

But the final removal of Ms. Rousseff, who was suspended in May to face trial, was much more than a judgment of guilt on any charge. It was a verdict on her leadership and the slipping fortunes of Latin America’s largest country.

The impeachment puts a definitive end to 13 years of governing by the leftist Workers’ Party, an era during which Brazil’s economy boomed, lifting millions into the middle class and raising the country’s profile on the global stage.

But sweeping corruption scandals, the worst economic crisis in decades and the government’s tone-deaf responses to the souring national mood opened Ms. Rousseff to withering scorn, leaving her with little support to fend off a power grab by her political rivals.

“She lacked it all,” said Mentor Muniz Neto, a writer from São Paulo who described Ms. Rousseff’s final ouster as a “death foretold,” asserting that she lacked charisma, competence and humility. “We deserved better.”

To her many critics, the impeachment was a fitting fall for an arrogant leader at the helm of a political movement that had lost its way. But Ms. Rousseff and her supporters call her ouster a coup that undermines Brazil’s young democracy.

Moreover, her impeachment may not restore public confidence in Brazil’s leaders, or diminish the corruption that pervades the country’s politics. To the contrary, many Brazilians note, it transfers power from one scandal-plagued party to another.

Michel Temer, 75, the interim president who served as Ms. Rousseff’s vice president before breaking with her this year, is now expected to remain in office until the end of the current term in 2018.

But Mr. Temer’s centrist Brazilian Democratic Movement Party, which anchored the Workers’ Party’s governing coalition for more than a decade, was also deeply enmeshed in the colossal graft schemes staining Brazil’s political system in recent years. It arguably benefited as much as the Workers’ Party from huge bribes and illicit campaign financing.

Since becoming interim president in May, Mr. Temer has had approval ratings nearly as dismal as Ms. Rousseff’s. Shifting the government to the right, he named a cabinet without any female or Afro-Brazilian ministers, outraging many in a country where nearly 51 percent of people define themselves as black or mixed race, according to the 2010 census.

Several of the men named by Mr. Temer have already resigned under the cloud of scandal, including his anticorruption minister and his planning minister, amid claims that they were trying to stymie investigations into the bribery engulfing the national oil company, Petrobras.

Mr. Temer was recently found guilty of violating campaign finance limits, a conviction that could make him ineligible to run for office for eight years. Beyond that, a construction executive has testified that Mr. Temer was the beneficiary of a $300,000 bribe, an assertion Mr. Temer disputes.

The impeachment effort has divided the nation and stirred passions on both sides. Of the four Brazilian presidents elected since Brazil’s democracy was re-established in the 1980s, Ms. Rousseff is the second to be forced from office through the impeachment process. In 1992, Fernando Collor de Mello resigned before the Senate could convict him on corruption charges. (Under Brazilian law, a president is not impeached until he or she is convicted by the Senate, legal scholars say.)

“It’s painfully obvious that Temer is a slap in the face to Brazilian democracy,” said Creuza Maria Oliveira, the president of the National Federation of Domestic Workers, which represents millions of maids who benefited from the strengthening of labor laws by Ms. Rousseff.

“Dilma is a champion of the poor,” said Ms. Oliveira, who was among the supporters of Ms. Rousseff who accompanied her to the Senate this week. “Temer is a champion of his own political class, which he wants to shield from justice.”

Some prominent business and political figures in Brazil counter that Mr. Temer, a former speaker in the lower house, has the political skills needed to muster support in a fractious, discredited Congress for ambitious measures aimed at increasing investment in the economy and easing a major pension crisis.

Mr. Temer’s administration has “all the conditions needed to embark on a new route,” Philipp Schiemer, the head of Mercedes-Benz’s operations in Brazil, told reporters in recent days. “We need to decide if we want a Brazil like Venezuela or a Brazil inserted in the new world.”

Still others, including Ms. Rousseff, contend that the ease with which the political elite shunted aside the president will bring more divisiveness and political tumult in Brazil.

“This is serious because other presidents of the republic will have to deal with this,” Ms. Rousseff said this week in her testimony in the Senate, comparing her ouster to the coups toppling Brazilian leaders throughout much of the 20th century. “If that isn’t political instability, then I don’t know what is.”

Unlike many of the politicians who led the charge to oust her, Ms. Rousseff, 68, remains a rare breed in Brazil: a prominent leader who has not been accused of illegally enriching herself. Instead, her trial revolved around a contentious legal question of whether she committed an impeachable offense by employing budgetary tricks to conceal yawning deficits.

Ms. Rousseff repeatedly insisted that she did nothing illegal, pointing out that her predecessors also manipulated the federal budget. But her opponents argued that the scale of her administration’s transfers of funds between giant public banks, to the tune of about $11 billion, seriously eroded Brazil’s economic credibility and helped her get re-elected unfairly in 2014.

Ms. Rousseff will not go to jail after her conviction, but she expressed defiance throughout her trial, insisting that Brazil’s economic crisis was largely the result of shifts in the global economy that cut commodities prices.

A bureaucrat who specialized in overseeing giant public companies in Brazil’s energy industry, Ms. Rousseff had not held elected office until her predecessor, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, anointed her as his heir after other leaders in the Workers’ Party were tarnished by a vote-buying scandal. As a divorced grandmother known as an avid reader of literature, she was an exception in the male-dominated political scene.
In addition to serving as Mr. da Silva’s hard-charging chief of staff, she was known for her involvement with the Palmares Armed Revolutionary Vanguard, an urban guerrilla group, in her youth. Agents of the military dictatorship captured Ms. Rousseff and tortured her repeatedly in the early 1970s.

But the qualities that made her a compelling chief of staff did not carry over when she became president. Her autocratic persona and short temper became legendary in Brasília, a capital where back-room deals are customary when forging and nurturing alliances with an array of bickering parties.

Many voters also felt betrayed after Ms. Rousseff’s re-election campaign, when she narrowly won on promises to maintain extensive state control over the economy, resulting in generous public spending. But once re-elected, she went in another direction, appointing a finance minister who tried to win approval for market-friendly policies.

“She simply lied through her teeth to get re-elected, forming a wave of national indignation,” said Antonio Risério, a historian and cultural commentator. “Upon perceiving that they voted for one person and elected another, the majority of the population started to want her head.”

With Ms. Rousseff deposed, the Workers’ Party, a dominant force in Brazilian politics for much of the past decade and a half, is now scrambling to find its way in a political landscape where conservative voices are growing more powerful.

João Santana, the party’s campaign strategist who helped Ms. Rousseff win two presidential elections, faces charges of illegally receiving millions of dollars in offshore accounts from the bribery scheme involving the national oil company.

Even more damaging for the party, federal investigators are seeking graft charges against Mr. da Silva, the former labor leader universally known as Lula, who was president from 2003 to 2010. The move adds to mounting legal problems faced by Mr. da Silva, who is still signaling that he plans to run for president in 2018.

Ms. Rousseff found herself increasingly isolated in recent months, with many in her party quietly withdrawing their support. But senators offered her a morsel of consolation by voting to allow her to run for public office, overruling an effort to make her ineligible from doing so for several years.

And some in Ms. Rousseff’s party defended her as she made her last-ditch effort before the Senate this week.

“You veered from the narrative when you were elected president of the republic as a woman, from the left, a former militant against the dictatorship, without a husband to pose by your side in the photographs,” said Regina Sousa, a Workers’ Party senator from Piauí in northeast Brazil.

“You never fit in the cute little dress designed by the conservative elite of this country,” Ms. Sousa added.

Heated tempers marked the trial in the Senate. Crying as she spoke, Janaína Paschoal, the law professor who was an author of the impeachment request, said she had been inspired by God and that she was seeking impeachment for the good of Ms. Rousseff’s grandchildren.

Ms. Rousseff’s lawyer, José Eduardo Cardozo, said he was stunned that her opponents had dragged Ms. Rousseff’s family into the acerbic debate, pointing out that Ms. Rousseff was never accused of embezzling public funds to benefit her family.
tanii ba 9 years ago

The speaker of parliament is as rotten as Mahama

The speaker of parliament is as rotten as Mahama
Mike 9 years ago

So where is the "shamed" in the headline?

So where is the "shamed" in the headline?
kwam 9 years ago

If it true that CHRAG is investigating this issue why will Parliament want to also do its own investigations? is it not a waist of state resources? so Mps can't trust CHRAJ to do a good job?

If it true that CHRAG is investigating this issue why will Parliament want to also do its own investigations? is it not a waist of state resources? so Mps can't trust CHRAJ to do a good job?
judas 9 years ago

But let it be known that no man can escape God's judgement. Its really a big shame to the speaker. But I guess he had no choice else, his daily bread will be cut off. Infact these politicians have no shame. As for mahama, ...
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But let it be known that no man can escape God's judgement. Its really a big shame to the speaker. But I guess he had no choice else, his daily bread will be cut off. Infact these politicians have no shame. As for mahama, he is as disgusting as the most disgusting thing I have ever seen. President my foot
Judith usa 9 years ago

What is shame here?The speaker did the right thing.You know what ,many of the minority are from deep forest in ashanti villages so they behave like bushmen and talk anyhow.

What is shame here?The speaker did the right thing.You know what ,many of the minority are from deep forest in ashanti villages so they behave like bushmen and talk anyhow.
Cq 9 years ago

Judith u ignorant nothing stops parliament from taking up the matter. Adjaho is making excuses cos he knows it was very unethical what mahatma did

Judith u ignorant nothing stops parliament from taking up the matter. Adjaho is making excuses cos he knows it was very unethical what mahatma did

fairplay 9 years ago

When Kuffour collected the three mecedece Benz was it okay? Evil dwarfs.

The minority are the same since the 1950s. They are evil to the core. God will never again allow them to come to power.

When Kuffour collected the three mecedece Benz was it okay? Evil dwarfs.

The minority are the same since the 1950s. They are evil to the core. God will never again allow them to come to power.
Aponkye B33 9 years ago

This short man also wants to rule human beings. Tweaaaaaa!!!!!!!!

This short man also wants to rule human beings. Tweaaaaaa!!!!!!!!
ONE LOVE 9 years ago

Hopeless prostitude Judith, are you sure you are in USA? Hell no!!!!!! See that the farmers in Europe and USA are the respected people. Which hole in ghana do you come from just tell me. Idiot you will be proud of being an as ...
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Hopeless prostitude Judith, are you sure you are in USA? Hell no!!!!!! See that the farmers in Europe and USA are the respected people. Which hole in ghana do you come from just tell me. Idiot you will be proud of being an ashanti you second class citizen
Kombonyun Sampson k 9 years ago

everyone knows that Npp will win this election except ndc fools. can ndc bring any good thing to Ghanaians? may God take away that cup of suffering from Ghanaians

everyone knows that Npp will win this election except ndc fools. can ndc bring any good thing to Ghanaians? may God take away that cup of suffering from Ghanaians
TULA 9 years ago

Ghanaians are just aliens in their land ;who appointed Joe Adjaho to that position -Jon Mahama so how on earth do you expect Joe Adjo another EWe thiffman with no credibility to sunction an investigation against Jon Mahana ...
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Ghanaians are just aliens in their land ;who appointed Joe Adjaho to that position -Jon Mahama so how on earth do you expect Joe Adjo another EWe thiffman with no credibility to sunction an investigation against Jon Mahana ; the man has already picke his dollar cheque for $100,000 payable into his account in the US ; this politics and do think the speaker will add more Wahala on the plate of Jon Mahama -you are dealing with a corrupt mafia bribe organisation in Ghana day - MESSEE EBON PAPE NA 'DZI BEBIARA'
Alex 9 years ago

Why Africaians/Ghanains always need gifts?The hole Ghanains from A to Z needed gifts,John Mahama can take a gift but not from single person.If the President deal with single person that means He has take bribe.

Why Africaians/Ghanains always need gifts?The hole Ghanains from A to Z needed gifts,John Mahama can take a gift but not from single person.If the President deal with single person that means He has take bribe.
Mr S 9 years ago

Evil akans can neither run nor hide. Is time to accept the bitter truth that the pepefour and other minority tributes are taking over the governance of Ghana. akans are full of empty pride, lies, hate,short,dark and ugly.

Evil akans can neither run nor hide. Is time to accept the bitter truth that the pepefour and other minority tributes are taking over the governance of Ghana. akans are full of empty pride, lies, hate,short,dark and ugly.
Concern person 9 years ago

Nonsensical being. Uncultured MrS as you called your self. How could you dare insulting all Akans, is it because of your dirty politics of tricks and corruption. Be careful. Your big mouth will lead you where you may not know ...
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Nonsensical being. Uncultured MrS as you called your self. How could you dare insulting all Akans, is it because of your dirty politics of tricks and corruption. Be careful. Your big mouth will lead you where you may not know.
KKO 9 years ago

It really doesn't matter. Your President is just a cheap, corrupt man who takes bribes in secondhand cars and toy Chinese telephones!

It really doesn't matter. Your President is just a cheap, corrupt man who takes bribes in secondhand cars and toy Chinese telephones!
Kwame 9 years ago

Say that to your evil dwarf. What political party will make a 3rd class degree in economics and a certificateless lawyer their leader?

Say that to your evil dwarf. What political party will make a 3rd class degree in economics and a certificateless lawyer their leader?

KKO 9 years ago

Your founder didn't even pass "O" Levels!

Your founder didn't even pass "O" Levels!
Sam 9 years ago

Why do politicians take joy in wasting our scarce resources. This was a useless motion and the minority knew that. But because of elections, they are prepared to waste the state resources to call parliamentarians back over is ...
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Why do politicians take joy in wasting our scarce resources. This was a useless motion and the minority knew that. But because of elections, they are prepared to waste the state resources to call parliamentarians back over issues that everyone is aware of. The minority should be ashamed of themselves for wasting our resources even in opposition.
LET GHANAIANS THINK 9 years ago

LET GHANAIANS THINK

LET GHANAIANS THINK
JOE CASH 9 years ago

If 3 suspended persons in NPP makes Nana Addo a dictator and dangerous per the warped analogy of Prez Mahama then the underlisted 44 persons who have been suspended before or still under suspension in NDC would then make JM t ...
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If 3 suspended persons in NPP makes Nana Addo a dictator and dangerous per the warped analogy of Prez Mahama then the underlisted 44 persons who have been suspended before or still under suspension in NDC would then make JM the anti-Christ. Abi? We should be serious in this country.

1. KOFI ADAMS ( NAT ORG)
2. Dr Nii Josiah.(frmer Gen. Sec).
3. Ebenezer Arkutu(Chairman, Ayawaso Central).
3.Dr Kofi Agyarko-Danquah(Aspirant, Fanteakwa South 4.Joseph Omari(DCE fr Kwahu South).
5.George Lamptey (Exe Member U.S.A).
6.Isaac Nottey(Exe Member U.S.A).
7.Mr Mensah(Exe Member U.S.A).
8.Alhaji Bello(Ho central Const).
9.Mr.Daniel Idikoko(Ho central const).
10.Radan Kobliga(Exe Member U.S.A).
11.Sampson.O. Boateng(DCE Atebubu).
12. Obeng Agyenim ( NDC member, Atebubu).
13.Mohammed Sulemana( member , ATEBUBU)
14.Mr sly Akakpovie(Fmr Reg Sec Ash Reg).
15.Justice Alpha(Frm A/R Propaganda Sec).
16.Alhassan Kusi(Chairman Kwadwo const).
17.Cornelius Atoborah(Yth Org, Kwadaso Const)
18.Bright Boateng(Comm Director, Akuapem North).
19.Henry Kuku Dadzie(Ex member,Ahanta West Const.
20.Richard Hanson Kobina(Ex member,Ahanta West).
21.Habakuk Yankey(Ex member Asante West)
22.Issahuk Ibrahim(PC Aspirant, Walewal const).
23.Abdul Abubakari(Dep Org Savelugu Const)
24.Mr.Lord Essien(Prop Sec fr Ahant West Const).
25.Cosmos Macarthy (Exe Member,Evalue Gwira ).
26.Emmanuel Kwofie(Ex mem, Evalue Gwira).
27.Daniel Armah NDC member
28.Emmanuel Boama member .
29.King Philip Henry Anikloe, member.
30.Charles Anokwasi ( Constituency Chairman fr {?} 31.Nana Amaning Ampong (Council Of Elders Fanteakwa North)
32. Capt Rtd Anthony Cudjoe , member.
33.Alfred Ekow Gyan .
34.Mr. Christopher Eleblu(North Tongu Const).
35.John Colerman(Exe member, Klottey Korley)
36.Gloria Huzey (PC Aspirant fr Ejisu).
37.Mr.Bede A. Ziedeng(Frmer Deputy Gen.Sec )
38. Nii Amasah Namoale.
39.Sam George.
40.Ekow Buckman(Ch,Ekumfi centeral Const).
41.womans organiser fr Klottey Korley Constituency 42.Youth Organiser fr klottey Korley constituency 44.Constituency Organiser fr Klottey Charley
By JANET AKWELEY WILSON
NDC USA WOMAN ORG.
Jew 9 years ago

This shameless holder of a 3rd class degree in economics and a certificateless lawyer popularly known as all die be die, thinks he can become president of Ghana through the back door.

This shameless holder of a 3rd class degree in economics and a certificateless lawyer popularly known as all die be die, thinks he can become president of Ghana through the back door.
t.t 9 years ago

Advice ur John ford to respect the judiciary 1st !

Advice ur John ford to respect the judiciary 1st !
Danso 9 years ago

The current speaker is the most autocratic and unfair speaker Ghana has ever had since independence . He should change for betterment of our their country. Thank God he had only 4months to leave the seat

The current speaker is the most autocratic and unfair speaker Ghana has ever had since independence . He should change for betterment of our their country. Thank God he had only 4months to leave the seat
Issah 9 years ago

What legacies are leaders of this country living to us.May Allah have mercy.

What legacies are leaders of this country living to us.May Allah have mercy.
apuuuu 9 years ago

Truly Ghana is a laughing stock the speaker of Parliament is adding and abetting dead goat President John Ford Drama Mahama with their power corrupt what ashamed apuuuu

Truly Ghana is a laughing stock the speaker of Parliament is adding and abetting dead goat President John Ford Drama Mahama with their power corrupt what ashamed apuuuu
DRK Kofi 9 years ago

We should be carefull the way we address national issues.Until the contractor was given a cintract did he give gifts to the president? When did the President release the vehicle to the presidency?
Was it immediately after th ...
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We should be carefull the way we address national issues.Until the contractor was given a cintract did he give gifts to the president? When did the President release the vehicle to the presidency?
Was it immediately after the gift was received or after the story began making rounds?
Those arguing for the presidency e eshould not forget that the judgement day is comming whether they believe or not.
Unless they come back to necessary restitution they will miss heaven

DRK Kofi 9 years ago

Is there anything the Govening Party and the Hon Speaker are hiding?
Why the haste?
God is wacthing them

Is there anything the Govening Party and the Hon Speaker are hiding?
Why the haste?
God is wacthing them
Nanagoygo 9 years ago

This adjaho is Stupid ,everybody knows its a bribe to Mahama ,and why wasnt the car given to me as he has not benifited from me .aboafu thieves .

This adjaho is Stupid ,everybody knows its a bribe to Mahama ,and why wasnt the car given to me as he has not benifited from me .aboafu thieves .

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Speaker ‘shamed’ as he dismisses motion to investigate Mahama’s Ford gift

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