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This is just cheap politics. Think abt improving the condition of svc and stop this nonsense
Very nice idea.
You can even increase retirement age to 100 years that will not bring your Nana age down to anything. Losers. JM TOASO
What is this guy talking about Rawlings extended the period of retirement of the soldiers as soon as npp came to power in 2001 the forced them to go to compulsory retirement so if this guy does not know he should check the fa ...
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NPP is taking their nonsense to the military. Stop the deceit. No refuge for you in the military. Defeat is staring you in the face, and you are looking for a straw to hang on. It won't work.
Cheap talk
Nice idea but advice ur so called officers and amend the military law too.....Kwame Nkrumahs white man law we still using which is bulshit....
With their 8 years rule it is surprising that NPP don't have any military experts to advice them on policy. Retirement age is different from contract period. The work of soldiers is strenuous and requires strength and youthfu ...
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Good motive.....Amend the military law. We are the Soldiers .....
Do you think doing force job for 25yrs is easy. Am even angry of u . we went it reduces to 18yr ask soldiers b4 u talking ur chip politics.
Massage u can go on voluntary retirement. Vote mahama out.
We need that oh JM can do that too and it must be now. Some retired soldiers wish to come back also. Do it for the officers too. I'm enjoying the competition of who can serve us best. God bless our homeland Ghana
Mass all we need is to amend the military law,what is wrong with as ghanaians why this officers are still using kwame Nkrumah time colonial law to worry.I am telling u the military law is bogus,we want u guys to think and wri ...
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Ignorance is a worm.issues concerning GAF is not your cheap politiking ok.what do you know about life expectancy in ghana for the past 10years. Life is short ok.in certain countries people works 4 days a week right.more rest ...
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100 YEARS FOR SOLDIERS WHO CARES.YOU CAN PROMISE TO BRING GOD DOWN ON EARTH BUT PLS PPL ARE DESCENING OOO.YOU ARE GOING TO CRY LIKE SIR JOHN'S FEAR DELEGATES BUT YOURS WILL BE FEAR THE ELECTORATE.PLS WE ARE TIRED OF THIS GARG ...
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You are not serious
what about the young ones coming
Just increase the UN allowance for them because the moni is tooo small .
Mr Nitiwu, I have not bothered to read your article fully because the heading alone strikes me that it is written to gain political advantage without thinking about the future of Ghana. In my view the way forward for Ghana's ...
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An Army Sergeant Major walks into a whorehouse and approaches the madam and says, " My name is Sergeant Major Dick and I'm here for a woman!" The madam immediately escorts the soldier upstairs and selects the best call girl t ...
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This guy doesn't understand the job of the soldier and that of the civil servant. The former requires physical and mental toughness whilst the later is more academic and bureaucratic hence the need for the soldiers to retire ...
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The military needs better retirement benefits not prolonged service where their tiring physiques can no longer cope. Who has unleashed all these half baked NPP politicians on a noble institution like the GAFFER?
npp shld rada b telling us wat dey did 4 our men in uniform from 2000-2008 and stop making empty promises 4 vote. Only empty headed persons will trust these npps.
Hon I am sorry u do not know what u talking about. Think of something better. This is an incompetent statement if not folishness
You said u'll create jobs but with this move it means the youth have to wait for long periods to join the military cos the old folks they would be replacing in the service would still be in the service for 5more yrs.desperate ...
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Honestly, u are off track. We want reduction in years.