Free SHS: Take hands off Heritage Fund – Minority

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Zoobie-Zoobie 8 years ago

just steal the money from the heritage fund

just steal the money from the heritage fund
GaBaa 8 years ago

We need to funds to educate you

We need to funds to educate you
Zoobie-Zoobie 8 years ago

Please sign up for the Free SSS. I doubt if you completed JSS. Did you? Where? When?

Please sign up for the Free SSS. I doubt if you completed JSS. Did you? Where? When?
PAA SEIBOH. 8 years ago

THAT IS WHY FREE SHS IS COMING SO THAT HE CAN FURTHER HIS EDUCATION.LOOK AT THAT UGLY HARUNA IDDRISU STUPID FACE.THAT UGLY APE HAD A FREE EDUCATION BUT WANTS TO BLOCK THE CHANCES OF OTHERS.FOR THE PAST HALF A CENTURY TO THIS ...
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THAT IS WHY FREE SHS IS COMING SO THAT HE CAN FURTHER HIS EDUCATION.LOOK AT THAT UGLY HARUNA IDDRISU STUPID FACE.THAT UGLY APE HAD A FREE EDUCATION BUT WANTS TO BLOCK THE CHANCES OF OTHERS.FOR THE PAST HALF A CENTURY TO THIS TIME YOU IDIOTS HAVE ENJOYED THIS SYSTEM BUT WHEN IT IS THE TURN OF THE WHOLE COUNTRY YOU ARE HERE WITH UGLY HEAD AND IDIOTIC FACE KICKING AGAINST.AFTER ALL WHO ARE THE FUTURE GENERATION?.ALL THOSE PEPES I WENT TO SCHOOL WITH THEM HAD FREE SHS BUT SOME FOOLS WILL DENY IT.
insight to the bone 8 years ago

What Dr. J.B. Danquah Told Nkrumah Before His Death

His Excellency,

Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, P.C, LL.D, etc.,

President of the Republic of Ghana,

Flagstaff House, Accra.

Dear Dr. Nkrumah,

I am tired o ...
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What Dr. J.B. Danquah Told Nkrumah Before His Death

His Excellency,

Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, P.C, LL.D, etc.,

President of the Republic of Ghana,

Flagstaff House, Accra.

Dear Dr. Nkrumah,

I am tired of being in prison on preventive detention with no opportunity to make an original or any contribution to the progress and development of the country, and I therefore respectfully write to beg, and appeal to you to make an order for my release and return home.

I am anxious to resume my contribution to the progress and development of Ghana in the field of Ghanaian literature (Twi and English), and in Ghana Research (History and Culture), and I am anxious also to establish my wife and children in a home, to develop the education of my children (ten of them) and to restore my parental home at Kibi (Yiadom House) to a respectable dignity, worthy of my late father’s own contribution to the progress of our country.

You will recall that when in 1948 we were arrested by the British Government and sent to the North for detention they treated us as gentlemen, and not as galley slaves, and provided each of us with a furnished bungalow (two or three rooms) with a garden, together with opportunity for reading and writing. In fact, I took with me my typewriter and papers for the purpose, and Ako Adjei also did the same, and there was ample opportunity for correspondence.

Here, at Nsawam, for the four months of my detention up to date (8th January to 9th May 1964), I have not been allowed access to any books and papers, except the Bible, and although I was told in January that my application to write a letter to my wife, Mrs. Elizabeth Danquah, could be considered if I addressed a letter to the Minister of the Interior, through the Director of Prisons, I have not, for over three months, since I wrote to the Minister as directed on the 31st January, 1964, received any reply, not even a common acknowledgement from the Minister as to whether I should be allowed to write to my wife or not.

As I had no opportunity to make any financial provision for my wife and children at the time of my arrest, this delay in the Minister’s reply has made it impossible for me to contribute to the progress and maintenance of my wife and also for the education of my children as is my duty to the nation.

Secondly, you will recall that barely a month after our detention in the North in 1948, we were brought down to Accra and released to appear before a Commission of Enquiry set up to investigate the justice or otherwise of our arrest and detention. We duly appeared before the Watson Commission and made history for Gold Coast and Ghana.

It resulted in the finding that the Burns Constitution was outmoded at birth, with a recommendation that our country should attain its independence within ten years, and that a Constitutional Committee (the Coussey Committee) should be set-up to lay down the foundations of such independence and the steps to be taken towards its attainment.

In the present case, since I was arrested four months ago, I have not been asked to appear before any Judge, or Committee, or Commission, and, up to now, all I have been told is contained in a sheet of paper entitled “Grounds for Detention” in which I am accused that “in recent months” I have been actively engaged in a plan “to overthrow the Government of Ghana by unlawful means”, and that I have planned thereby “to endanger the security of the State” (the Police and Armed Forces).

As no particulars of any kind were provided in the grounds for detention to indicate how the Government of Ghana came to formulate such a disgraceful charge against me, I spent in the prison here the greater part of January and February 1964 to write a review of the whole of my activities “in recent months” (roughly, from June 1962 to January 1964).

This writing was done by way of “Representations” in answer to the charge. The review, in two documents of about 50 pages, has been in the hands of the typists in the office of the Assistant Director of Prisons, Nsawam Prison, since the 16th of February, 1964. The final typing was seen by me on the 17th and 18th April, and I understand they are busy making corrections. As, however, they are a busy people, I cannot expect more than this from them.

I confidently assure you, Sir, that when my representations reach you, it will be realized that my contribution in the said period of “recent months” to the intellectual and cultural achievement of the country was such that what should have been sent to me on January 8, 1964, was not a hostile invasion of my home and family, like enemy territory, together with my arrest and detention, but rather a delegation of Ghanaian civil officials and other dignitaries to offer me the congratulations of the nation and the thanks of the Government for my inestimable and distinguished contribution to the higher achievements of our great nation.

This, however, was not to be, and I find myself locked up at Nsawam Prison in a cell of about six by nine feet, without a writing or reading desk, without a dining table, without a bed, or a chair or any form of seat, and compelled to eat my food squatting on the same floor where two blankets and a cover are spread for me on the hard cement to sleep on, and where a latrine pan (piss pot) without a closet, and a water jug and a cup without a locker, are all assembled in that narrow space for my use like a galley slave.

As aforesaid, I am not allowed to do any reading except the Bible, and I am, on the other hand, required to sleep or keep lying down on the blankets and a small pillow for the whole 24 hours of the day and night except for a short period of about five minutes in the morning to empty and wash out my latrine pan, and of about ten to fifteen minutes at noon to go for a bath. I am occasionally allowed to do a short exercise in the sun say once a week for about half-an hour.

That is all I have been engaged on in four months with any talents, such as I possess, going waste and my health being undermined and my life endangered by various diseases without being allowed to be taken to the Prison Hospital for continuous observation and treatment.

Mr. President will be the first to agree with me that when I talk of my talents and contribution, I do not do so from a spirit of empty boasting, but that the examination of my career as a student in England (1921 to 1927) where I and others established the West African Students Union (W.A.S.U.) and the Gold Coast Students Association, and further, the examination of my career as a politician at home, from 1927 to 1957, when I established the Gold Coast Youth Conference (1927 to 1947), and, together with the late distinguished George Alfred Grant and others, established the United Gold Coast Convention (which sent for you from England in 1947 to come and help us), together with examination of the number and quality of books I have written on Ghana–acts which readily justified my position as foundation member and Fellow of the Ghana Academy of Sciences–fully entitle me to say that so long as there is life in me and my energy remains unimpaired, I can yet add a few chapters to the richness of our history, not in particular as what the Watson Commission called “the doyen” of our politics, but in the field of pure literature and pure knowledge for which the Academy of Sciences exists under your direction and presidency.

Osagyefo will, I am sure, readily recall that I wrote my first book, The Akan Laws and Customs, at a time when I was a young clerk (Tribunal Registrar) at Kibi and when I was hardly 25 years of age and had not seen the inside of a College or University. That book is now a classic and has in recent years been quoted with approval by the Privy Council. I have myself no doubt that I have many more years of useful service in me for the nation, and I am anxious to let the nation have use of it.

As for politics, I assure you, Sir, that I have had my fill of it. I feel that the time has amply arrived when I should leave that area of our life to the younger folks coming after us to occupy their talents and strive as much as they can for its tricky laurels. As you may have noticed, from June 1962 to January 1964, after my release from the 1961 detention, I did not attend or summon a single political meeting or committee.

The manuscript of my book The Ghanaian Establishment, which appears to have caused a furore when a copy was seen in the Post Office, or was taken from my bedroom desk by the Ghana Police, is really a collection of matters which are already public property, namely, my public lectures, and my letters to you and certain Government officers, such as the Chief Justice and the Speaker, and also a reproduction, with a short comment by me of your two famous radio talks on the decline and degeneracy of our morals in certain quarters during the last few years.

With regard to this manuscript, I feel very strongly, Sir, that if there was anything about its contents which was objectionable to you, you could have sent for me for a discussion and I would readily have apologized and withdrawn the intended publication or the portion of it objected to by you.

However, I am now left in a prison cell at the Special Block at the Nsawam Prison reserved for “dangerous criminals”, and I am being thereby effectively prevented from making any original contribution to the intellectual and cultural progress of our country, in particular my work on the Ghana hypothesis of our Gold Coast origin is being held up, and the Universities and the students and the scholars of our country are being deprived of the materials which by 36 years of research has made me one of our country’s specialists, a subject which you yourself referred to last year in your speech at the Ghana University that “our friend Danquah has also written some books on Africa”–or words to that effect.

When in this connection, I read the second paragraph of the grounds for my detention and gathered that I am being punished by imprisonment to prevent me from taking any part in the country’s life, not for what I have done at present but for what I may do, or not do, “in the future”. I was completely astonished that in taking that decision Government did not balance my distinguished record at my age 68 against the possibility of an offence entirely foreign to me, and to my career and my way of thinking.

The curious text of the second paragraph of the grounds for detention reads:

“Your detention is necessary in order to prevent you from acting in future in a manner prejudicial to the security of the State”.

This is punishment for a crime not yet committed, and Mr. President will, I am sure, be the first to condemn it when its full implications seize his soul and his spirit in a vision of God.

I was told by the Army Officer who arrested me at my residence, on January 8 that my wife and children and other residents should leave the house within six hours and I noticed that the Arm Officers commenced a search into my papers. I was not told for what purpose the search was being made. If perchance they were looking for evidence of any crime against the State anyone who knows me as a person brought up in the Yao Boakye tradition of respect for authority (SUSU BIRIBI) would assure you Sir, that if a search was made for felonious or treasonable matter in my house and papers, nothing of the kind would ever be found.

However, since the search was commenced in my house by the Army four months ago, no one has approached me on any matter found in that search. I can assure you, Sir that many as are my papers and books, crimes against the State are not to be found in me.

In the circumstances, I respectfully assure you, Sir that it would be more profitable for the nation and people for me to be released and allowed to go on with my intellectual and cultural contribution to the progress of the State. When last year you sent me a complimentary copy of your book, Africa Must Unite, actually autographed with your own signature, I was delighted to note this further evidence of friendship and esteem, and I was happy to note also in the Messenger’s Receipt Book that the other distinguished Ghanaian to whom an autographed copy of your book was likewise sent, was the late Dr. Burghardt du Bois.

In my letter of thanks, I mentioned that I had earlier bought a copy of the book and had wished to meet you to discuss the matter before your departure to the African Summit Conference in Addis Ababa. This, however, could not be arranged by Mr. Okoh, the Cabinet Secretary, and therefore, up to now, you have not obtained my views on this question of African unity. I do hope that when I come out we shall have an opportunity of discussion on how best a United Nations of Africa or an African United States could be brought about around a central unificatory and attractive idea.

I may be permitted to recall here that when in the earlier years I used to speak of a United Gold Coast becoming independent, my old friend Colonel Bamford, Commissioner of Police, used to jeer at me saying that so long as we had separated tribes the idea of a United Gold Coast could not be realized. When, however later on he heard of my theory of a common origin of Gold Coast tribes from ancient Ghana, he took serious notice of my activities by reason of the attractive unificatory idea of Ghana.

In regard to Africa, I should mention that the term “Africa” itself cannot be very helpful. It, like “the Gold Coast”, is a colonial term. It was the Roman name for Libya (“an ear of corn”). Africa as a name is not found in the most ancient books, not in the Bible, nor even in Herodotus.

On the other hand, Ethiopia is found in the Bible, but not in the older authorities, such as Genesis, chapter 10, where it is not mentioned at all in the Table of Nations where Egypt (Mizraim) and Ham and Cush and Seba and Sheba are mentioned. Ethiopia is mentioned in Herodotus, but it turns out to be a Greek colonial term for Cush (Tush), the Greeks having coined the term in place of the Egyptian term for Cush, “Ethaush”, because the Greeks could not adapt themselves to ‘sh’, hence Aethiops. Today, Abyssinia has so thoroughly exploited the Ethiopian idea that I hardly think it may be any longer attractive for a unificatory concept to embrace all of Africa.

The question that is left is this: what is there in this great “Question Mark” of a Continent which had always been responsive to the needs of the world ancient and modern? Why did God take Abraham and his father, Terah, from Ur of the Chaldees and from Haran to promise Abraham and his seed the land of Canaan but He, the Almighty God, deliberately planted Abraham’s seed, Jacob or Israel, through the instrumentality of Jacob’s son, Joseph, in Africa, for 400 years before He called upon Moses to uproot them from Egypt into Canaan? Again, what did God find in Africa to have got the Angel at Bethlehem to advise Joseph and Mary to take the child Jesus into Africa from the threat of death by King Herod?

Why did not the Angel of the Lord advise Joseph to take Jesus into the East where the three Kings had come from with presents to the Baby Jesus, or why did not the Angel advise Joseph to take the child Jesus to Europe, say to Greece or Rome, countries which were at the time the imperial and cultural rulers of the whole of Canaan?

Or to come to more worldly affairs, why did Christopher Columbus visit Elmina in Africa (Gold Coast) before going West to discover the New World, America? It would seem, indeed, that the great discoveries of the fifteenth century, led by Prince Henry the Navigator, both of the Western World and the Far East, must have been inspired by Africa as the pivot and question mark of the universe.

These are some of the ideas to be explored on the Africa question to find out the particular field or fields in which Africa is responsive to the needs of the universe, and thereby to discover an attractive unificatory idea for all Africa to come together around that idea, such an idea, that is to say, as would attract countries like South Africa to join the African union without compulsion, such an idea as would make the great leaders of the world look up to the leader of the new United Africa as a dynamic centre for indispensable consultation.

I do hope that when I come back home we can work out a solution of the Africa idea under the auspices of the Ghana Academy of Sciences or of the Institute of African Studies at the University of Ghana.

I end as I began. I am tired of being kept in prison kicking my heels, and doing nothing worthwhile for the country of my birth and love, and for the great continent of Africa which was the first to give the entire world a real taste of civilization. My labours in African research and Ghana history are well known to you and to many others.

In fact, Professor Hodgkin of the Institute of African Studies has asked me to write my biography for the benefit of the country, but, of course, it is impossible for me to comply with his request if I am kept in prison. My plea and my prayer to you, Osagyefo, is that, I be released to return home for the following specific purposes:

(1) To pursue my vocation for creative work in Ghana literature;

(2) To pursue my vocation for research into Ghana history and culture;

(3) To pursue a home for my wife and children and to promote the education of my children as befits their talents;

(4) To restore my parental home at Kibi to a respectable dignity for use of the younger and older members of the family;

(5) To pursue social and cultural life in Church and State; and

(6) To practice my profession as a lawyer to obtain the wherewithal for the pursuit and promotion of the above interests.

I earnestly appeal to you in the blessed name of God, of Ghana and of George Alfred Grant and of all the great ones of our glorious past as well as the unborn pioneers and guardians of our treasured national liberties and freedoms, to have regard to my national record in the past as a basis for computation of my future activities, and to balance that record against my detention in prison where I cannot lift a finger to add to the nation’s achievements.

For instance, at the present moment, I have three major works out in the world for publication, but I do not know for certain where they are to be found. Assuredly, it is only when I am free at home that I can take steps to retrieve the manuscripts and secure publication.

These are:-

(1) The Ghana Doctrine of Man–Research into the Dual Family System of the Akan People (Ntoro and Abusua) undertake with the assistance of Sir Alan Burns’ Government. (Your Government Cabinet Secretary, Mr. D. A. Chapman, has an earlier copy of the manuscript. The definitive copy is with a friend at U.N.E.S.C.O., Paris.)

(2) The Elements of Ghana Culture.–This is a collection of my lectures and essays on our origin from ancient Ghana. Last year the manuscript was in possession of a friend at Reed College, Oregon, in the United States, but I do not know for certain where it is today.

(3) Sacred Days in Ghana.–This contains additional and conclusive proof of our cultural achievement, in particular the Ghana Calendar of a planetary week of seven days, which confirms my theory of our ancient and undoubted membership of an earlier civilization. This manuscript, too, was in the hands of the Professor of Sociology at Reed College, Oregon, U.S.A., up to last year, but I do not know for certain where it is today.

I trust you will accept this appeal for my release from detention in the spirit of utmost confidence and cordiality in which it is written, and I look forward to my early release from prison with the greatest possible faith, expectation and confidence.

Believe me to be,

Osagyefo,

Yours Very Sincerely and Respectfully

(sgd.) J. B. DANQUAH
Andrews Melbourne. 8 years ago

You can go to a hell! Idiot Ghanaians are using their heritage to educate the second cycle. Why are you involving in issues concerning Ghanaians. Even you as Tani you had free second cycle education, how much more the real Gh ...
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You can go to a hell! Idiot Ghanaians are using their heritage to educate the second cycle. Why are you involving in issues concerning Ghanaians. Even you as Tani you had free second cycle education, how much more the real Ghanaians? Mpepefo are just wicked people, all they think about is to fight over a mere meat. Drink tea to make their penis strong and abuse young women. The heritage funds will be used to educate Ghanaians. We don't need your opinion Ntafo3. When Zongos development funds was created, you guys kept quiet because it will benefit the groups with rotten teeth. Now,it about the real Ghanaians so you speaking shit. Go and fight over birds and animals intestines, kill each no one cares.
J0eY l0nD0n 8 years ago

Prof Mills= NDC - Establish Heritage Fund 2011
Nana Addo= NPP - Chopping Heritage Fund 2017
Who is a visionary leader?

Incapable Npp Government
Copy copy Government
Clueless Government
You see how stupid you are?

Prof Mills= NDC - Establish Heritage Fund 2011
Nana Addo= NPP - Chopping Heritage Fund 2017
Who is a visionary leader?

Incapable Npp Government
Copy copy Government
Clueless Government
You see how stupid you are?
Stephen Donkor, New York. 8 years ago

You better stop that nonsense who told you the heritage fund was an idea of Dr Mills and the NDC looting gangs do your facts check, Three years ago l met the British Deplomat who was tasked by the UN to help set up the fund. ...
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You better stop that nonsense who told you the heritage fund was an idea of Dr Mills and the NDC looting gangs do your facts check, Three years ago l met the British Deplomat who was tasked by the UN to help set up the fund. The idea of setting up the fund was born before Mills became the President. The stake holders of the petroleum industry came up with this idea to prevent Ghana from falling into the " OIL CURSE "
J0eY l0nD0n 8 years ago

Your are the only one talking gibberish. Tell me was this scheme implemented by the Npp?
Why go about with Red eye on a pivotal scheme.
Why promising when you have no clue whatsoever about the projections?
That means yo ...
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Your are the only one talking gibberish. Tell me was this scheme implemented by the Npp?
Why go about with Red eye on a pivotal scheme.
Why promising when you have no clue whatsoever about the projections?
That means you were just talking to win elections whichever equals to incapability,incompatibility,incompetency backups with fraudulence persona top- up with venomous crooked scary character, kapish?
Azoka 8 years ago

This bush Ashanti man , a tribalist to the bone marrow this son of a bitch is still talking. I wish I knew him I'd crack that ugly coconut he calls a head. We will one day get you and you will really who a pepeni is.

This bush Ashanti man , a tribalist to the bone marrow this son of a bitch is still talking. I wish I knew him I'd crack that ugly coconut he calls a head. We will one day get you and you will really who a pepeni is.

Blantyne 8 years ago

I wonder why almost anything that will benefit the masses always get kicked against by the so-called social democrats who proclaim to be for the people. I have come to realize that the minority always seek power so as to keep ...
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I wonder why almost anything that will benefit the masses always get kicked against by the so-called social democrats who proclaim to be for the people. I have come to realize that the minority always seek power so as to keep the majority down. They end up stealing to enrich themselves. What is wrong with creating an educated society that will benefit everybody? The heritage fund is about the future and surely education is paramount going forward.
George 8 years ago

Oil money + Borrowing = Create Loot & Share.

Oil money + Borrowing = Create Loot & Share.
George 8 years ago

Ndc borrowing + more Tax + NCHOBO + V 8 + Babies with Sharp Teeth + Wayome + Incompetent + Create Loot & Share.

Ndc borrowing + more Tax + NCHOBO + V 8 + Babies with Sharp Teeth + Wayome + Incompetent + Create Loot & Share.
Emefa 8 years ago

The minority especially the northeners are big fools and hypocrites. Dr Kwame Nkrumah free education is what has made it possible for them to go to school and are now parliamentarians.
NPP go ahead and use the money to help ...
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The minority especially the northeners are big fools and hypocrites. Dr Kwame Nkrumah free education is what has made it possible for them to go to school and are now parliamentarians.
NPP go ahead and use the money to help the nation.
GaBaa 8 years ago

What will be our heritage if we have an uneducated population. Use the money to invest in the human resources that will yield more revenue later.

What will be our heritage if we have an uneducated population. Use the money to invest in the human resources that will yield more revenue later.
Pak 8 years ago

You see these northerners, they went to school free,but they don't want no -body to have it free

You see these northerners, they went to school free,but they don't want no -body to have it free
MORO O.C 8 years ago

Haha NPP WHERE ARE THE MEN AND WOMEN?? So Npp want to use the Heritage for Free SHS?? What Happens to One Distrit One Factory. Maybe Keykey Factory.

Haha NPP WHERE ARE THE MEN AND WOMEN?? So Npp want to use the Heritage for Free SHS?? What Happens to One Distrit One Factory. Maybe Keykey Factory.
Kwami 8 years ago

This is another waste in the pipeline. Why this short man kept promising free everything when Ghana has borrowed money to pay even salaries all these years

This is another waste in the pipeline. Why this short man kept promising free everything when Ghana has borrowed money to pay even salaries all these years
Ghanaian 8 years ago

YOU CAN RESIST BUT YOU CANNOT DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT.

THE GOVERNMENT WANTS TO DO WHAT YOU COULD NOT DO SO YOU HAVE TO RESIST IT.

FOOLS - ENEMIES OF PROGRESS.

LOOTERS.

YOU CAN RESIST BUT YOU CANNOT DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT.

THE GOVERNMENT WANTS TO DO WHAT YOU COULD NOT DO SO YOU HAVE TO RESIST IT.

FOOLS - ENEMIES OF PROGRESS.

LOOTERS.
Kee 8 years ago

Does it mean that the children and youth of today whose parents are toiling for better tomorrow can't benefit from the fund? NDC, what foolishness is this, the future starts from today. Our present kids deserve better, now be ...
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Does it mean that the children and youth of today whose parents are toiling for better tomorrow can't benefit from the fund? NDC, what foolishness is this, the future starts from today. Our present kids deserve better, now before then.

RASPUTIN 8 years ago

NDC Minority do you have the votes to block NPP in Parliament? Just Noise making. Every Ghanaian deserves to enjoy the fruits of our oil find and where can find that joy than the Heritage Fund. Bravo NADAA !

NDC Minority do you have the votes to block NPP in Parliament? Just Noise making. Every Ghanaian deserves to enjoy the fruits of our oil find and where can find that joy than the Heritage Fund. Bravo NADAA !
Opanin Osei 8 years ago

The government should cancel the Free education for northerners if there is no money to fund for (free for all). Stop funding hajj pilgrimage to facilitate the Free SHS.

The government should cancel the Free education for northerners if there is no money to fund for (free for all). Stop funding hajj pilgrimage to facilitate the Free SHS.
BOY KOFI 8 years ago

How can Nana Addo promise Ghanaians free shs since 2008 when he doesn't know where to get the money?
Is he not aware that the Heritage Fund is meant for 15 years?
Nobody is against free shs but it should be well planned and ...
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How can Nana Addo promise Ghanaians free shs since 2008 when he doesn't know where to get the money?
Is he not aware that the Heritage Fund is meant for 15 years?
Nobody is against free shs but it should be well planned and not like a jamboree.
Let Nana Addo go to Nigeria and ask them what happened to their free education Policy funded by oïl cash.
This is the beginning of incompetence.Don't worry be happy.
DIASPOREAN 8 years ago

NDC short sighted fools. May I remind you Nkrumah spent a lot of our resources to educate the post Independence generation. Some of us ended up in the diaspora and have been sending home $ 2-4 billion annually. Education is t ...
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NDC short sighted fools. May I remind you Nkrumah spent a lot of our resources to educate the post Independence generation. Some of us ended up in the diaspora and have been sending home $ 2-4 billion annually. Education is the critical factor in economic and social development. Go talk to the Singaporeans and South Korea or the Eastern Europeans.
Spending the Heritage Fund on education is strategic for for future. Stop the foolish politics.
BUILD MORE PRISONS 8 years ago

GHANDI SENT THOUSANDS OF INDIANS ABROAD. THEY NOW SEND BULLIONS OF FOREIGN EXCHANGE TO INDIA AND HAVE SCIENTIST ETC IN SILICON VALLEY. ETC ETC.
NKRUMAHS BIT HAS PAID OFF A LITTLE BIT. GHANA SHOULD TAKE ADVANTAGE IN THE DIA ...
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GHANDI SENT THOUSANDS OF INDIANS ABROAD. THEY NOW SEND BULLIONS OF FOREIGN EXCHANGE TO INDIA AND HAVE SCIENTIST ETC IN SILICON VALLEY. ETC ETC.
NKRUMAHS BIT HAS PAID OFF A LITTLE BIT. GHANA SHOULD TAKE ADVANTAGE IN THE DIASPORA.
BUILD MORE PRISONS 8 years ago

THANK GOD FOR NKRUMAH SOME OF US WERE EDUCATED FOR FREE

Nana. Let the NDC pay they have stashed a lot of money away. That will be a start.

THANK GOD FOR NKRUMAH SOME OF US WERE EDUCATED FOR FREE

Nana. Let the NDC pay they have stashed a lot of money away. That will be a start.
Bernard 8 years ago

Massa those of us in the South need it or the whole country should pay for it. We are tired of children dropping out after JSS and becoming fishermen with no catches. NDC had no plan for free SHS we can see now.

Massa those of us in the South need it or the whole country should pay for it. We are tired of children dropping out after JSS and becoming fishermen with no catches. NDC had no plan for free SHS we can see now.
KWAKU DONDOO 8 years ago

We Know how KLEPTOCRACY works. They are looking for a low hanging fruit to pick, and they have found the cookie Jar in the Heritage Fund. Keep your hands off.

RESIST.

We Know how KLEPTOCRACY works. They are looking for a low hanging fruit to pick, and they have found the cookie Jar in the Heritage Fund. Keep your hands off.

RESIST.
kwame 8 years ago

Ghana money belongs to Ghanaians which every single citizen must be benefited from. Nothing wrong with the government to spend Ghana money for the interest of Ghanaians better future. All do you want the government to spend o ...
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Ghana money belongs to Ghanaians which every single citizen must be benefited from. Nothing wrong with the government to spend Ghana money for the interest of Ghanaians better future. All do you want the government to spend on awarding contracts for you to share the profit in your pockets? It's time to think of Ghanaian but not turning the country into private business.
ChrisC 8 years ago

Haruna Iddrisu idiot, you guys and Mahama will account for the fourteen million dollars stolen to build a house for your Veep, Kwaseato.

Haruna Iddrisu idiot, you guys and Mahama will account for the fourteen million dollars stolen to build a house for your Veep, Kwaseato.

kofi 8 years ago

MINORITY THINKS THEY CAN SHARE. IT IS NONSENSE U DO NOT WANT IT TO BE USED TO EDUCATE GHANAIANS ?

MINORITY THINKS THEY CAN SHARE. IT IS NONSENSE U DO NOT WANT IT TO BE USED TO EDUCATE GHANAIANS ?
Tutugyagu 8 years ago

I guess its ok for the president to use the same fund NDC/Mahama used to fund the Vice president's residence.
I am trying to figure out how much free SHS can Ghana can get with $19.3 million. SMDH.

I guess its ok for the president to use the same fund NDC/Mahama used to fund the Vice president's residence.
I am trying to figure out how much free SHS can Ghana can get with $19.3 million. SMDH.
Yaw k 8 years ago

A country's development starts with education and educating the people starts with sacrifice. Not only the heritage funds Nana Addo using but also the pay check out of anyone benefited from free SHS. What is good for the Nort ...
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A country's development starts with education and educating the people starts with sacrifice. Not only the heritage funds Nana Addo using but also the pay check out of anyone benefited from free SHS. What is good for the North is good for the south. Like it or not the ball is already set to roll.
Kofi bo 8 years ago

We from the western region , is warning the government of Ghana to very carefull on how they will use the oil money . In my village we don't have electricity , no good roads , no good schools , no hospital, Thanks . Nigeria w ...
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We from the western region , is warning the government of Ghana to very carefull on how they will use the oil money . In my village we don't have electricity , no good roads , no good schools , no hospital, Thanks . Nigeria was in the same position and they got Niger Delter and Boko Halam . We don't want to talk much but just to tell them to chose one of these Western Deltar or Boko the Boys
Kobi 8 years ago

So what? Who asked you to stay in the village? Give us a break

So what? Who asked you to stay in the village? Give us a break
TUTUGYAGU 8 years ago

Could anyone imagine how much FREE SHS Ghana could have funded with the money squandered in GYEEDA,SADA,Bus branding, Ameri Power, Woyome , VP residence? A lot of jobless Ghanaians are BORROWING just to provide SHS education ...
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Could anyone imagine how much FREE SHS Ghana could have funded with the money squandered in GYEEDA,SADA,Bus branding, Ameri Power, Woyome , VP residence? A lot of jobless Ghanaians are BORROWING just to provide SHS education for their children. I don't see anything wrong if the NPP government take over that burden from them. FREE SHS is a government intervention and it's well deserved. We should be able to fund it with fiscal discipline.
Jonah Bangmarigu Elisha 8 years ago

This Onaapo people should stop making noise.What is the use of this heritage funds the NDC people are talking about.You mean this is not generation,people in the rural areas and even in the Urban areas are surfering for takin ...
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This Onaapo people should stop making noise.What is the use of this heritage funds the NDC people are talking about.You mean this is not generation,people in the rural areas and even in the Urban areas are surfering for taking care of the children.NDC people did not rely feel for ordinary ghanian. Thank God for safing us.
Kobi 8 years ago

Who are you to determine how Nana should rule? Heritage money doesn't belongs to the Minority but Ghana. If anything at all, let there be a voting Patern to determine either it should be used on the free SHS or not. You stil ...
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Who are you to determine how Nana should rule? Heritage money doesn't belongs to the Minority but Ghana. If anything at all, let there be a voting Patern to determine either it should be used on the free SHS or not. You still consider yourself as a Government in Power? Submit yourself as Minority not Majority.
riot 8 years ago

Ghanaians are no against the free shs. but the use of heritage fund. imagine Npp had won 2008 elections, when there was no heritage fund. so you were deceiving us?competent Nana addo indeed. nonsense, foooolllllssss

Ghanaians are no against the free shs. but the use of heritage fund. imagine Npp had won 2008 elections, when there was no heritage fund. so you were deceiving us?competent Nana addo indeed. nonsense, foooolllllssss
Blantyne 8 years ago

Foolish man what is your problem. Nana should go ahead an educate the masses. Anything to benefit the majority gets kicked against by the minority folks in Ghana. What a fuck! So they take over power and destroy NHIS, cocoa m ...
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Foolish man what is your problem. Nana should go ahead an educate the masses. Anything to benefit the majority gets kicked against by the minority folks in Ghana. What a fuck! So they take over power and destroy NHIS, cocoa mass spraying, mass transport system, free maternity care etc etc and replace them with capitation grant in Ashanti Region for 8 years and kill people. BULLSHIT in Ghana where the minority always seek to enslave the majority.
kinsman 8 years ago

Foooolish NDC after looting and sharing Ghana resources you still have satanic gut to speak? If you had used our resources wisely we wouldn't hahave been where we are today. Its only those who are possessed with witchcraft st ...
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Foooolish NDC after looting and sharing Ghana resources you still have satanic gut to speak? If you had used our resources wisely we wouldn't hahave been where we are today. Its only those who are possessed with witchcraft steal like you did. Fire go burn all your assets
THE CRUSADER 8 years ago

The stupid bus branding, what was your talk?.hypocrates,you and your party are doomed forever,wow.

The stupid bus branding, what was your talk?.hypocrates,you and your party are doomed forever,wow.
Amega 8 years ago

Heritage Fund for future generations! When is that future? If care is not taken, this fund will never be utilised because the future will never come.

Heritage Fund for future generations! When is that future? If care is not taken, this fund will never be utilised because the future will never come.
Oheneba 8 years ago

Is the fund your personal property or for Ghanaians

Is the fund your personal property or for Ghanaians
Kofi Thompson 8 years ago

If the Ghanaian media had had the nation's best interest at heart, they would have demanded to know exactly where the NPP was going to find the free SHS funding from during the 2016 election campaign.

As usual, the hard-of ...
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If the Ghanaian media had had the nation's best interest at heart, they would have demanded to know exactly where the NPP was going to find the free SHS funding from during the 2016 election campaign.

As usual, the hard-of-hearing NDC administration ignored those of us who suggested that it was in the nation's best interest that they demand that the NPP should show the nation where it was going to get funding for all its many promises from.

In other words the NPP was effectively given a free pass to power, by the NDC's unconscionable refusal to demand that the NPP tell Ghanaians how it intended to fund its free SHS policy during the election campaign,

We wouldn't be having this argument if the NDC had had the presence of mind to demand that the NPP show Ghanaians how each promise it was making was going to be funded.

I was horrified that that never happend.

Now future generations, already ruined by our refusal to protect what is left of our natural heritage from illegal gold miners, illegal loggers and illegal sand-winners, are going to be denied their fair share of the money generated by the production and sale of Ghana's finite fossil fuel deposit.

Is it any wonder the gods are cross with Ghanaians - and are inflicting effective schizophrenic prophets on our nation?

Hmm, Ghana - enti yewieye paa enei? Asem kesie ebeba debi ankasa.
Collins 8 years ago

How can we move forward as a nation without education...is very important to use every fund to educate the youth for better future..

How can we move forward as a nation without education...is very important to use every fund to educate the youth for better future..
OKOROMANSA 8 years ago

HARUNA IDRISSU AND HIS COHORTS MUST UNDERSTAND THAT THE HERITAGE FUND IS FOR GHANAIANS, NOT FOR NDC.THOSE NORTHERNERS CAN'T STOP GOVT FROM USING PART OF THAT FUND BECAUSE THEY AND THEIR PARENTS, ALL BENEFITED FROM FREE EDUCAT ...
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HARUNA IDRISSU AND HIS COHORTS MUST UNDERSTAND THAT THE HERITAGE FUND IS FOR GHANAIANS, NOT FOR NDC.THOSE NORTHERNERS CAN'T STOP GOVT FROM USING PART OF THAT FUND BECAUSE THEY AND THEIR PARENTS, ALL BENEFITED FROM FREE EDUCATION GOVT CAN'T LOOK ON, KEEP MONEY AND CONTINUE TO PRODUCE KAYAYEIS AND HUNDREDS OF YOUTH WITHOUT EDUCATION AND JOBLESS. GOVT SHOULD TAKE CARE OF THE PRESENT GENERATION AND ENSURE THEIR WELFARE TOO, BUILD A SOUND FURE FOR OUR FUTURE GENERATION. THAT SOUND FUTURE CAN ONLY BE POSSIBLE THROUGH GOOD EDUCATION. IT WILL NOT MAKE SENSE TO SAVE MONEY FOR THE FUTURE WHEN THOSE LIVING NOW SUFFER IN LIFE. THE NATION WILL BE STRONG WITH A WELL EDUCATED YOUTH AND BY THAT THE NATION CAN PROSPER AND BE STRONG. OVER TIME, THE CASH WE SAVE WILL LOSE ITS VALUE AND AT THAT POINT NOTHING CAN BE DONE. AND THAT IS WHERE OUR FUTURE GENERATION WOULD CURSE US FOR DISAAPPOINTING THEM, BECAUSE THEY WOULD COME AND FIND MORE OF THE CURRENT SITUATION OF DUMSOR, KAYAYEIS, UNEMPLOYMENT, OPEN DEFECATION, POOR DRAINAGE, POOR ROADS, SCHOOLS,, HOSPITALS AND THE REST. GOVT SHOULD USE PART OF THE HERITAGE FUND FOR A GOOD CAUSE AND LET NDC GO TO HELL. THAT IS THE WAY THIEVES BEHAVE, THEY AND THEIR JOHN MAHAMA STOLE FROM THOSE PROJECTS - CIRCLE INTER-CHANGE, KASOA OVERPASS AND THOSE FAKE SCHOOLS, AND THEY NOW REGRET NOT GETTING THE CHANCE TO TOUCH THE HERITAGE FUND. THOSE THIEVES CAN'T DETERMINE THE USE OF THE HERITAGE FUND BECAUSE IT IS MONEY FOR ALL GHANAIANS.
Cowboy 8 years ago

I PERSONALLY DO NOT THINK THERE IS ANYTHING WRONG WITH A FREE EDUCATION SYSTEM USING GHANA'S OWN RESOURCES. WE SHOULD BE REMINDED THAT THE FLOW OF CRUDE OIL THAT WAS FOUND WITHIN OUR BOUNDARIES WILL NOT CEASE FLOWING. WHATEVE ...
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I PERSONALLY DO NOT THINK THERE IS ANYTHING WRONG WITH A FREE EDUCATION SYSTEM USING GHANA'S OWN RESOURCES. WE SHOULD BE REMINDED THAT THE FLOW OF CRUDE OIL THAT WAS FOUND WITHIN OUR BOUNDARIES WILL NOT CEASE FLOWING. WHATEVER INCOME DERIVED FROM IT SHOULD BE SPENT WISELY. EDUCATING PEOPLE AT NO COST IS THE EASIEST AND THE MOST SIMPLE WAY OF SHARING THE NATIONAL CAKE. AS A MATTER OF FACT IT WOULD BE BETTER TO SPEND ON THE EDUCATION FOR OUR NEXT GENERATION THAN TO BE PURCHASING EXPENSIVE V8 VEHICLES FOR PUBLIC OFFICERS WHO IN TURN PAY A THIRD OF THE PRICE TO OWN SUCH VEHICLES WHEN LEAVING OFFICE.WHO LOOSES? THE ANSWER IS YOURS.
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E A Boateng 8 years ago

Useless talk please be serious Ghanaians won't vote for you in 2020 to further your fooling course

Useless talk please be serious Ghanaians won't vote for you in 2020 to further your fooling course
P. OSEI 8 years ago

Why are you keeping the money? We need to use the funds for investment. NPP want to use the funds to invest in education. Why are you crying? What are the gains if we don't use the funds for investment? Please think about it.

Why are you keeping the money? We need to use the funds for investment. NPP want to use the funds to invest in education. Why are you crying? What are the gains if we don't use the funds for investment? Please think about it.
Oheneba 8 years ago

The selfishness of the Northerners,they are still having free education but the southerners shouldn't.So what can the NDC do if the Heritage money is used? Go Nana go.I think the Parliament have to decide.

The selfishness of the Northerners,they are still having free education but the southerners shouldn't.So what can the NDC do if the Heritage money is used? Go Nana go.I think the Parliament have to decide.
wWNanagogogkoY, 8 years ago

If n.p.p.take the money ,what can you minority do ,Stupid haruna

If n.p.p.take the money ,what can you minority do ,Stupid haruna
joe,boston 8 years ago

When you were promising everything from "Heaven to earth" like a drunken sailor, "inquiring mind" wanted to know the source of funding. But NPP propaganda and their flag bearer's old age demented mind have secret source - "H ...
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When you were promising everything from "Heaven to earth" like a drunken sailor, "inquiring mind" wanted to know the source of funding. But NPP propaganda and their flag bearer's old age demented mind have secret source - "Heritage Fund"
BBC NEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 8 years ago

What is the benefit of keeping the money? This is the only way every family in Ghana will benefit from. This is the wisest decision ever. Nana do it. After all we are keeping it for the children of tomorrow, so why can't we i ...
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What is the benefit of keeping the money? This is the only way every family in Ghana will benefit from. This is the wisest decision ever. Nana do it. After all we are keeping it for the children of tomorrow, so why can't we invest it into their lives so we can reap on them tomorrow. What are we keepinge money for?

Nana use the money to educate the children of the nation, ndc can go and burn the sea. If they don't want it, let them pay if they send their children to school. The unfortunate thing is that these parliamentarians have enough money to send their kids to schools outside Ghana, while the poor in the nation can't afford.

Nana please, with all the powers invested in you as the president plus your heavy numbers in parliament, endorse it now so that if ndc will not want to be opposition anymore, so be it for them. Nana I say implement this idea as soon as possible.

I was one of the brightest students in my class in the seventies. However, because my parents couldn't afford school fees, I dropped out. Today I hold a masters degree but thanks and glory be to God who made a way for me to travel to US. There are many young people with this peculiar problem, "financial handicap", yet with good brains.

Now consider my case, if I had been in Ghana, what could I have done to earn a masters degree? It would have been impossible. If I had had this free education, maybe I would be a parliamentarian like Haruna, or even a president like Mahama. Haruna and ndc will cry blood, Nana has all the powers to use the money to take care of the children of the land.

When you were educated freely, you did not complain of the source, this is the wickedness of the opposition. They want the money untouched so when they come to power in the next 40 years, they can misuse it.

By the way, Haruna and the rest must be reminded that ndc is dead and sent to oblivion. Ndc will not come to power anymore. We do not want to encourage a party like Ndc in Ghana anymore.

Just as Amaliba is seeking the downfall of Nana, so are some of us seeking the no return into power of Ndc. Bark all the barks you can, as for ruling this nation Ghana, not again shall we allow it to slip into the hands of Ndc.
BBC NEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 8 years ago

I was one of the brightest students in my class in the seventies. However, because my parents couldn't afford school fees, I dropped out. Today I hold a masters degree but thanks and glory be to God who made a way for me to t ...
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I was one of the brightest students in my class in the seventies. However, because my parents couldn't afford school fees, I dropped out. Today I hold a masters degree but thanks and glory be to God who made a way for me to travel to US. There are many young people with this peculiar problem, "financial handicap", yet with good brains.

Now consider my case, if I had been in Ghana, what could I have done to earn a masters degree? It would have been impossible. If I had had this free education, maybe I would be a parliamentarian like Haruna, or even a president like Mahama. Haruna and ndc will cry blood, Nana has all the powers to use the money to take care of the children of the land.

This is why I want the heritage fund to be used if that is the only money available to be used now.

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