Mahama’s recent admission of mistakes dishonest – John Boadu

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AGBESI KWESI 9 years ago

IS PREZ MAHAMA NORMAL AT ALL
According to a news story Prez Mahama said he was a teacher before he branched into Communication Studies after his first degree and noted that some graduates need to weigh their interests in the ...
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IS PREZ MAHAMA NORMAL AT ALL
According to a news story Prez Mahama said he was a teacher before he branched into Communication Studies after his first degree and noted that some graduates need to weigh their interests in the job market vis a vis what is available."
How do you lay embargo on employment in the GES that used to absorb large number of job seekers and at the same time ask university graduates to seek teaching jobs.
I think the handlers of the president should discourage him from taking hard liquor.
PRINCE KWASI ADADE (OFIE P33) 9 years ago

NDC POLITICIANS COME INTO POLITICS AS POOR AS CHURCH MOUSE NOT EVEN OWNING A BYCYCLE OR A SHACK BUT WITHIN FEW MONTHS THEY BECOME BILLIONAIRES. MY ARGUMENT NOW IS THAT GHANA IS NOT POOR, OUR ONLY PROBLEM IS CORRUPT NDC CREATE ...
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NDC POLITICIANS COME INTO POLITICS AS POOR AS CHURCH MOUSE NOT EVEN OWNING A BYCYCLE OR A SHACK BUT WITHIN FEW MONTHS THEY BECOME BILLIONAIRES. MY ARGUMENT NOW IS THAT GHANA IS NOT POOR, OUR ONLY PROBLEM IS CORRUPT NDC CREATE, LOOT & SHARE BASTARDS!!!!! HOW CAN YOU STOP NDC THIEF POLITICIANS FROM STEALING GHANA'S MONEY?? THEY WILL NOT GO ANYWHERE TO STEAL APART FROM GHANA'S COFFERS. REMEMBER WHAT NDC MINISTER, VICTORIA HAMAH, WAS CAUGHT ON TAPE BOASTING OF. NDC HAS PLUNDERED GHANA'S COFFERS FOR WELL OVER 28 YEARS. NDC THIEVES KNOW THEIR FATE. THEY ARE NOW WILD LIKE WOUNDED TIGER. LOOK AT THE WAY OMANE BOAMA AND OFOSU KWAKYE ACTED LIKE LAWYERS FOR WOYOME WHEN THEY APPEARED ON NEWSFILE. THEIR DEMEANOUR DEPICTED UTTER GUILT. SHAMEFUL!! VERY SHAMEFUL, REPUGNANT!!!!!
NOBODY 9 years ago

NPP's ugly imp clueless incompetent monumental failure Serial Loser Banza Bakoi Akufo-Addo will lose again come December. The Ghanaian electorate will not waste its vote on a clueless Banza Bakoi Akufo-Addo who was recently l ...
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NPP's ugly imp clueless incompetent monumental failure Serial Loser Banza Bakoi Akufo-Addo will lose again come December. The Ghanaian electorate will not waste its vote on a clueless Banza Bakoi Akufo-Addo who was recently labeled as "incompetent and a monumental failure" by the Alan Kyeremanten camp within the NPP.
ROSEMARY 9 years ago

.. President John Mahama
New Patriotic Party (NPP) has disclosed that the Mahama-led National Democratic Congress (NDC) administration has allegedly paid about GH¢949,661,017 through Ghana Youth Employment and Entrepreneuri ...
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.. President John Mahama
New Patriotic Party (NPP) has disclosed that the Mahama-led National Democratic Congress (NDC) administration has allegedly paid about GH¢949,661,017 through Ghana Youth Employment and Entrepreneurial Agency (GYEEDA), now Youth Employment Agency to Rlg Communications Ghana Limited for no work done.

The information and communications technology (ICT) company owned by a Ghanaian entrepreneur, Mr. Roland Agambire, NPP revealed, was “owing” another GH¢259,000,000 when the December 2012 general elections were over.

“Thus, as much as GH¢1,208,661,017 was spent on an elaborate, corrupt scheme, created mainly to assist President John Mahama hold on to power in 2012, using the false excuse of creating jobs for the young people of Ghana. Four years on, still, everyone in two young persons are unemployed.”

This was revealed by the Policy Advisor of the NPP, Mr. Boakye Agyarko, at a news conference at the party’s headquarters in Accra yesterday.

He pointed out that it was useful to recollect that the NPP’s National Youth Employment programme was launched on October 3rd, 2006.

According to him, by the time NPP left office on January 7, 2009 about 110,000 young people were employed under the scheme, earning incomes and not a single allegation of scandal was linked to the National Youth Employment Programme (NYEP) for two years.

He pointed out that the first innovative policy initiated by the NDC when it took office was to change the name from NYEP to GYEEDA, after which they proceeded to lay off all the 110,000 young Ghanaians under the NYEP.

“Yet, after spending an equivalent of nearly half a billion dollars, the NDC has not been able to employ more than 70,000 young Ghanaians under the scheme in eight years,” he added.

According to Mr. Agyarko, it was by this time in 2012 that hundreds of millions of Ghana Cedis were released for unbudgeted expenditure, including payments to Rlg Communications Ghana Limited, for distribution of laptops embossed with President Mahama’s campaign pictures.

The NPP policy advisor alleged that the amounts fraudulently abused under these so-called employment schemes went to companies with very close links to President Dramani Mahama from the womb of the AGAMS Group such as rLG, Craftpro and Asongtaba.

Some of the payments made to AGAMS, he mentioned, for instance, were laundered and rechanneled to fund campaign spending on billboards, newspaper, TV and radio adverts for the President and his party, the NDC.

“Indeed, such was the impunity used in abusing public funds that the benefiting media houses did not even bother to question why cheques from AGAMS were issued to them for payments of adverts done for the ruling party.

He said an illegal loan of GH¢50 million was also advanced to the AGAMS Group by GYEEDA.

Mr. Agyarko also mentioned that the Ghana National Education Coalition in 2013 complained about the fact that the laptop contract, sole-sourced to rLG, using a cheap Ubuntu software, was twice as expensive as other similar computers on the local retail market.

He indicated that GYEEDA, which replaced the National Youth Employment Programme of the NPP, was set up ostensibly to offer jobs for young Ghanaians.

“Instead, it became a conduit for looting state funds and funding the President’s 2012 campaign,” he averred.
ROSEMARY 9 years ago

UNPRECEDENTED borrowings, UNPRECEDENTED TAXATION.. ... yet were sooooooooooooooo poor due to the NDC government daily thievery...

UNPRECEDENTED borrowings, UNPRECEDENTED TAXATION.. ... yet were sooooooooooooooo poor due to the NDC government daily thievery...
Sas Kumi 9 years ago

Npp is so stupid that , they can't even take the President'soonest admission of making mistakes sometime. At any rate, who doesn't make mistakes.? Only foolish people like npp think, they never make mistakes. Is npp god? How ...
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Npp is so stupid that , they can't even take the President'soonest admission of making mistakes sometime. At any rate, who doesn't make mistakes.? Only foolish people like npp think, they never make mistakes. Is npp god? How can they be so so foolish and ignorant. .
JB (USA) 9 years ago

Thank you Sas Kumi, you are a sensible person May GOD BLESS YOU.Npp is full of arrogant and pride people and we will teach them where the power lies.

Thank you Sas Kumi, you are a sensible person May GOD BLESS YOU.Npp is full of arrogant and pride people and we will teach them where the power lies.
HolyGhost 9 years ago

Especially the bush man boadu,he is such an idiot who never make sense in his criticism, he is an unenlightened person that should never be allowed in politics.

Especially the bush man boadu,he is such an idiot who never make sense in his criticism, he is an unenlightened person that should never be allowed in politics.
Jerry 9 years ago

If only Mr certificateless lawyer could be honest enough to admit that he made a mistake by practising law without a law certificate.

If only Mr certificateless lawyer could be honest enough to admit that he made a mistake by practising law without a law certificate.
GAD 9 years ago

Jerry forget about certificates here, we need someone who can transform Ghana and change the lives of Ghanaians with the availability of jobs not someone with certificates. Ghana has deteriorated to the extent that AKUA Donko ...
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Jerry forget about certificates here, we need someone who can transform Ghana and change the lives of Ghanaians with the availability of jobs not someone with certificates. Ghana has deteriorated to the extent that AKUA Donkor who has not been to classroom thinks she can do better than what Mahama is doing. Focus on your future and forget about infrastructure and certificates. Many people have higher certificates and jobless what is the use of the certificate here my brother? Let's face facts bro.

Xose 9 years ago

The last days of Pepeni mahama, dead goat and his thieves gangs, gbemelawo, fools and concubines. Nobody is going to retract anything or apologize. At the right time we shall explain to you in front of the Nsawam prisons. Foo ...
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The last days of Pepeni mahama, dead goat and his thieves gangs, gbemelawo, fools and concubines. Nobody is going to retract anything or apologize. At the right time we shall explain to you in front of the Nsawam prisons. Fools
BlackMan5 9 years ago

KUFFOUR & BAWUMIA DESTROYED THE ECONOMY

The so called economic miracle under Kuffour for which praises are being showered on Bawumia as some whiz kid was really an economic disaster cushioned by the massive doses of foreig ...
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KUFFOUR & BAWUMIA DESTROYED THE ECONOMY

The so called economic miracle under Kuffour for which praises are being showered on Bawumia as some whiz kid was really an economic disaster cushioned by the massive doses of foreign aid, most of which were even misapplied, showered on the administration as an act of faith in the country for transitioning into "Democracy" since the election-losing NDC had always been regarded in Western Capitals as an extension of PNDC and therefore undemocratically elected.

What government with alleged economists of international repute would think that removing four zeroes at the end of a currency appreciates the currency? For example, did goods costing ¢200,000 cost GH¢20 after the redenomination? Did items selling for ¢200 sell for GH¢0.02 or two pesewas after the redenomination? Certainly no. Prices and costs shot up. If this wasn't inflation, then I don't know what it was. But, that’s what Bawumia did! And then to cushion themselves against this, Kuffour, Bawumia, and Kuffour's inner circle stole lots of the newly-minted currency. Finally, they camouflaged the extraordinarily weakened Cedi as a result of the measures above by supporting it with freed-up money as a result of some foreign debt forgiveness and the payment moratorium on majority of our foreign debts which should've gone into infrastructure development. The result? The bloated Cedi which at some point was even stronger than the US Dollar, made imports cheaper than their local counterparts. The cheaper imports spelt the demise of local industries because the locally manufactured goods weren't patronized enough. One of the industries that suffered the most was the livestock industry. As a result of which Ghanaians couldn’t afford fresh beef and chicken—and even plantain had to be imported from Ivory Coast. Kuffour's government even had the gall to import textile products from China for the corruption-riddled Ghana@50 celebrations at a time when Ghanaian textile factories were either laying off employees or closing down! That was NPP with Kuffour, Osafo Marfo and DOCTOR BAWUMIA! As if this wasn't enough, this Dream Team showed a total lack of understanding of the consequences of dumb economic policies in the present Global Economy on the BBC "Have Your Say" program when Kuffour gave unbelievably stupid reasons for not supporting local industries whereas if he was well informed, he would've known that the so called capitalist societies supported, and still support, local industries in one way or the other.

To hide the real costs of this misguided economic policy, Kuffour, at the behest of Bawumia and others, jettisoned a more reliable economic index and replaced it with a less reliable one. The revised economic figures gave the country favorable ratings but like the Enron Corporation during the energy crises, the country was worse off. By the time the NDC assumed office, there was nothing in the kitty. So when the time came for the country to resume its external financial obligations, the NDC government struggled but pride prevented it from seeking the needed financial assistance earlier until the situation became untenable with the drop in commodity prices to 39% since 2011.

With the “about-face” financial assistance Mahama's administration has sought from abroad, it has embarked on infrastructure development reminiscent of Kwame Nkrumah’s days even though some myopic so-called opinion leaders including Bawumia and Rev Otabil are criticizing him for “mortgaging” our resources because this initiative isn't coming from their parties.

Internally, Kuffour presided over what has so far been the most corrupt administration in the nation's history. Huge sums of monies were paid locally and abroad for services and goods to non-existent companies fronted by NPP supporters. Of course, the goods and services were never supplied. Entitlement programs such as the NHIS and the School Feeding Program which were supposed to benefit ordinary folks also became conduits for siphoning funds to friends and families as government contributions were sometimes paid in cash and paper trails were either intentionally destroyed or vague information provided. It was also under Kuffour that “Ghost names” became a standard feature in public payrolls. One only has to read the Auditor-General's Reports for the eight years under NPP for one to gauge the enormity of the corruption. Kuffour made sure this Report wasn’t widely circulated for ordinary Ghanaians to see his thievery. Mahama has done the opposite. The Report is now available to ordinary Ghanaians to see things for themselves.

Mahama isn't perfect but he is doing far better by scrutinizing the public payroll and purging it of ghost names, exposing corruption and fighting it either administratively or using the courts.

In bilateral relations, Mahama has proved he can be trusted to seek the country's best interests instead of personal interests unlike Kuffour who in one swoop ensured his cronies like Dr. Edusei would benefit at the expense of the country as long as the COSMOS Agreement remains in place.

When people wax about the "Golden Age" under Kuffour when the New Cedi was equivalent to the US Dollar, I ask them to confirm if our economy was better than Canada’s because that was what it meant because the strength, and therefore the value of your currency, is determined by your economy. Of course they say no. Then I ask, “If Ghana’s economy didn’t come close to Canada’s (indeed it has never matched Canada’s) and the Canadian Dollar was less than the US Dollar, shouldn’t it follow that Ghana’s Cedi should be less than the Canadian Dollar and therefore the US Dollar? They agree but can’t explain how Kuffour and Team Bawumia pulled this off. When I explain how, they walk away with their tails between their legs like defeated dogs.

It is your type of loud but half-baked illiterates who're either unwilling or unable to objectively examine Kuffour's economic and fiscal policies and give them the "Disastrous" label they deserve because truth and honesty have been banned from your party's dictionary.

Bawumia's level of expertise is nowhere near the level you people claim. The so-called economic miracle under Kuffour he allegedly authored actually never happened. It was a clever manipulation of facts and figures. It is also becoming clearer by the day that apart from sacrificing long term permanent gains for short-term feel-good ones, developments were far less given the amount of inputs. No wonder Bawumia's economic analysis of the country's present economic situation doesn't resonate with his own peers but rather with people like you who barely understand what they read and cover their shortcomings with insults.

Bawumia was the architect of the "voodoo" economy under Kuffour in which personal enrichment and unprecedented looting from state coffers occurred. He has proved he has no conscience. The nation cannot afford to allow him and his cronies to manage the economy.

Mahama is not perfect but his unprecedented infrastructure development shows he is using our money wisely. So when I hear people like Boadu, who pocketed the proceeds from a fund-raising after he created some fracas as a diversionary tactic, making nonsensical comments,I feel like "puking."
kofi adu 9 years ago

mahama is kutu acheampong reborn. "as3m s3b3"

mahama is kutu acheampong reborn. "as3m s3b3"
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Adu Phillips, Toronto 9 years ago

Sorry to insult you because I'm from the mountains. John Buadu you are stupid to say that okay! The president is not God who can not makes mistakes if in fact there one but your little god unemployed nana addo can not rule G ...
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Sorry to insult you because I'm from the mountains. John Buadu you are stupid to say that okay! The president is not God who can not makes mistakes if in fact there one but your little god unemployed nana addo can not rule GHANA with his big head with small legs.
@ VOTE MAHAMAH.COM 9 years ago

KWASEA WO AFU TESE DADESAN,KWASEATO LIKE YOU COME DOWN HERE AND HEAR THE LIES AND INSULTS THIS ADAKATO MAHAMAH IS POURING ON GHANAIANS.AS MAHAMAH IS NOT GOD THAT CAN'T MAKE MISTAKES THE SAME THING APPLIES TO AKUFFO ADDO AS HE ...
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KWASEA WO AFU TESE DADESAN,KWASEATO LIKE YOU COME DOWN HERE AND HEAR THE LIES AND INSULTS THIS ADAKATO MAHAMAH IS POURING ON GHANAIANS.AS MAHAMAH IS NOT GOD THAT CAN'T MAKE MISTAKES THE SAME THING APPLIES TO AKUFFO ADDO AS HE IS NOT GOD TO CREATE SMALL HEADS LIKE YOUR ABOKO HEAD.I ALWAYS SAY NDC PEOPLE ARE THE MOST STUPID PEOPLE IN GHANA.WO ASOMU FII TE KRAMAN BA.
Adu Phillips .Toronto 9 years ago

Then embrace yourself. The NDC that you are your cronies don't respect will rule you criminal tribal party until thy kingdom comes.

Then embrace yourself. The NDC that you are your cronies don't respect will rule you criminal tribal party until thy kingdom comes.
GAD 9 years ago

I am praying to God that you'll be deported to Ghana from Toronto to witness the life in Ghana now. You better shut up there. If Ghana changes to the better will you bother staying in that cold doing donkey job for your livin ...
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I am praying to God that you'll be deported to Ghana from Toronto to witness the life in Ghana now. You better shut up there. If Ghana changes to the better will you bother staying in that cold doing donkey job for your living?
Kwesi 9 years ago

John Boadu what are you saying? were you able to account for the money you stole from your party ?

John Boadu what are you saying? were you able to account for the money you stole from your party ?
Akuffo Addo the murderer 9 years ago

useless john boadu..you cant even account for the money you stole from your party...may be you are drunk

useless john boadu..you cant even account for the money you stole from your party...may be you are drunk

kere 9 years ago

Self centered NPP . They only know how to sell Drill ships

Self centered NPP . They only know how to sell Drill ships
TVhm 9 years ago

My shout up you never make mistakes in your life nonsense

My shout up you never make mistakes in your life nonsense
Ghana 9 years ago

JDM CAN NEVER BOLDLY SAY HE IS NOT CORRUPT. THAT'S A GREAT SHAME.

JDM CAN NEVER BOLDLY SAY HE IS NOT CORRUPT. THAT'S A GREAT SHAME.
AMA TX USA 9 years ago

Desperate Mahama you have admitted your mistakes why do you need another 4yrs term again no change is coming

Desperate Mahama you have admitted your mistakes why do you need another 4yrs term again no change is coming
Charles 9 years ago

I have listened to the interview. Truth was farthest from his mind. The choice of words was clear indication that he was being manipulative. This man studied communication studies in the Soviet Union as it then was - a countr ...
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I have listened to the interview. Truth was farthest from his mind. The choice of words was clear indication that he was being manipulative. This man studied communication studies in the Soviet Union as it then was - a country that was a specialist in propaganda.
Mama Tula 9 years ago

What a stupidity. By admitting his mistakes, President John Mahama admits that he is also mortal and can make mistakes. Tell us what is the dishonest about some one admitting his mistake(s)???. Sometimes we fail to understand ...
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What a stupidity. By admitting his mistakes, President John Mahama admits that he is also mortal and can make mistakes. Tell us what is the dishonest about some one admitting his mistake(s)???. Sometimes we fail to understand the NPP bashing of the President. We are just tired and fed up with your stupid criticism.
Abui 9 years ago

If Mahama laughs it is an insult, if he crys it is an insult so what should he do now.

If Mahama laughs it is an insult, if he crys it is an insult so what should he do now.
GAD 9 years ago

He should go

He should go
GAD 9 years ago

Most of the people who talk much on this media are those who do not stay in Ghana. They talk for free cos when they come down and spend their money to the bottom they get back to struggle. When you come down stay here for fou ...
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Most of the people who talk much on this media are those who do not stay in Ghana. They talk for free cos when they come down and spend their money to the bottom they get back to struggle. When you come down stay here for four years and witness what is going on here. Be in the shoes of the poor Ghanaian jobless and you will know how to talk. You make a mistake to kill thousands and apologise for another four years whilse Nana can do better. AWAY JM in capital letters.
JOHN MAHAMA THE THIEF MAN 9 years ago

NDC THIEVES/NDC LIARS/NDC KILLERS

NDC THIEVES/NDC LIARS/NDC KILLERS

Fredo 9 years ago

What about your family Thieves.

What about your family Thieves.
NOBODY 9 years ago

The NPP is a den of corrupt hypocritical thieving crooks, murderers, bomb throwers, acid throwers, nation looters and nation wreckers.

The NPP is a den of corrupt hypocritical thieving crooks, murderers, bomb throwers, acid throwers, nation looters and nation wreckers.
Ataa 9 years ago

Where did this akpeteshie drinker hear the president apologise. Apologize for what? He talked about mistakes and as humans we all make mistakes and that is all that he said. Your cult leader does not make mistakes that is why ...
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Where did this akpeteshie drinker hear the president apologise. Apologize for what? He talked about mistakes and as humans we all make mistakes and that is all that he said. Your cult leader does not make mistakes that is why his party is what it is today and none of you have the balls to question him. Useless boy
Abban 9 years ago

Whether Mahama has shown remorse or no remorse he will go.Nobody messes your life's for eight good years then shows remorse at end of his tenure then we vote for him.Mahama is a Mutum banza,a typical tampiri

Whether Mahama has shown remorse or no remorse he will go.Nobody messes your life's for eight good years then shows remorse at end of his tenure then we vote for him.Mahama is a Mutum banza,a typical tampiri
OWARE SIMON 9 years ago

NPP DOESN'T MAKE SENSE AGAIN IN GHANA. THEY ARE ONLY INTERESTED IN HOLDING PRESS CONFERENCES TO TELL LIES. NPP GHANA IS FED UP WITH YOUR EFFUSIONS. THEY SIMLY DON'T MAKE ANY SENSE. WHEN IS THE NEXT PRES CONFERENCE, NPP? WE AL ...
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NPP DOESN'T MAKE SENSE AGAIN IN GHANA. THEY ARE ONLY INTERESTED IN HOLDING PRESS CONFERENCES TO TELL LIES. NPP GHANA IS FED UP WITH YOUR EFFUSIONS. THEY SIMLY DON'T MAKE ANY SENSE. WHEN IS THE NEXT PRES CONFERENCE, NPP? WE ALL KNOW THAT YOUR GUTTER PRESS WILL TWIST WHATEVER YOU SAY TO MAKE SEEM AS IF IT IS TRUE. NPP STOP THE VIOLENCE, STOP THE LIES.
CASSAVA FARM 9 years ago

This idiot too says what?

This idiot too says what?
Johnson 9 years ago

I find it difficult to understand Npp sometimes. You mean JM is god who hasn't made any mistake before? Its Npp Opana Nana Addo who doesn't make mistakes. He is always tight. Ooo npp. Ooo Opana!

I find it difficult to understand Npp sometimes. You mean JM is god who hasn't made any mistake before? Its Npp Opana Nana Addo who doesn't make mistakes. He is always tight. Ooo npp. Ooo Opana!
change is coming 9 years ago

de dog humility exhibited by this commander in thief is what makes me feel nauseous. he is a deceptive tribal bigot. change has caught up with him. Nana beba

de dog humility exhibited by this commander in thief is what makes me feel nauseous. he is a deceptive tribal bigot. change has caught up with him. Nana beba
NOBODY 9 years ago

There's nothing dishonest about the admissions being made by President Mahama. The dishonest ones are you these elephant-riding NPP serial liars who are never willing to admit your mistakes, mistakes that you often, id not al ...
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There's nothing dishonest about the admissions being made by President Mahama. The dishonest ones are you these elephant-riding NPP serial liars who are never willing to admit your mistakes, mistakes that you often, id not always, mask with your usual dose of serial lies and deceptions.

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