Free SHS: Introduce resources you promised; don’t touch Heritage fund – Kofi Buah to NPP

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Rayo 8 years ago

You are right, these guys have men and brains and all strategies to fund their million promises. I'm wondering why only 260 million dollars reserved are going to be used for funding the free education. Almost one million ...
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You are right, these guys have men and brains and all strategies to fund their million promises. I'm wondering why only 260 million dollars reserved are going to be used for funding the free education. Almost one million students across the country and I ask myself if the said money will be enough. Let's see the magicians.
amuzu 8 years ago

How much is ghana losing from the dally oil production, who and how do check the daily oil product, who is account for daily oil product? The ndc kept sleeping on the job or it was just create loot and share, as usual, that i ...
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How much is ghana losing from the dally oil production, who and how do check the daily oil product, who is account for daily oil product? The ndc kept sleeping on the job or it was just create loot and share, as usual, that is why ghana had only 260million dollars in accunts.npp will not sleep on the job, and open their eyes and save ghana enough money to take care of education.
Zoobie-Zoobie 8 years ago

just steal from the Heritage Fund...AKufo and his competent (incompetent) team

just steal from the Heritage Fund...AKufo and his competent (incompetent) team
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
Ritewing 8 years ago

The strident and shrill voices being raised against funding the Free SHS, is re playing the NHIS card game, at its introduction, by Ndc sympathizers. Now by words and deed, the nation wreckers. If it was alright to use funds ...
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The strident and shrill voices being raised against funding the Free SHS, is re playing the NHIS card game, at its introduction, by Ndc sympathizers. Now by words and deed, the nation wreckers. If it was alright to use funds from the oil money, to pay for fictitious bus branding contract. It must be indeed a good thing, to train the future men and women of the land, from this resource, which was gifted to the nation, in it's Jubilee Year. This was achieved through the visionary leadership of President JA Kufuor and the NPP. Throughout the nation's history, funds from our cocoa receipts, have supported mainly, the education of most of our now amerging leadership. Tetteh Kwashie, another visionary and patriotic Gold Coaster, grew a mono industry for his generation. If the nation had not used CMB cocoa scholarship funds, to train persons from poor regions of the country and in some cases, the bright youth at the time. What would have been the use of accrued funds for untrained nationals. Our situation would have been worse than we have it today. Please, ignore the shameless lot and go on with plans to help struggling Ghanaians put their wards at least, through SHS.
Bernard 8 years ago

Future generation indeed in Ghana when most of the lands have been sold. Thought the land and people are the most important resource of a country how much more oil revenue. So many countries are having oil in Africa so we ne ...
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Future generation indeed in Ghana when most of the lands have been sold. Thought the land and people are the most important resource of a country how much more oil revenue. So many countries are having oil in Africa so we need to re skill our people to be more innovative as a country. If you depend on only few commodities as a country you are doomed. How are we going to industrialise without vocational and technical skills in the country?
Be wise 8 years ago

Can't think far for this letter...Could you please explain the reality of your letter to a dummy like me ?

Can't think far for this letter...Could you please explain the reality of your letter to a dummy like me ?
DusTY-FooT-pHiloSophER 8 years ago

What a fool! You can't even write and read well either, haba!

What a fool! You can't even write and read well either, haba!
amuzu 8 years ago

Substance , the truth and wisdom in write up is more important than insults.

Substance , the truth and wisdom in write up is more important than insults.
amuzu 8 years ago

Substance is more important than insults and queenss english, hope you got my draft.

Substance is more important than insults and queenss english, hope you got my draft.

KOFI-USA 8 years ago

YOU CAN NOT TELL NPP WHAT TO DO. YOU NDC FOLKS USED YOUR MONEY FOR BUS BRANDING AND GNPC USED SOME FOR BUYING VEHICLES FOR BLACK STARTS. THIS IS PART OF THE RESOURCES THEY PROMISED. WHEN IT GOES TO PARLIAMENT TO MAKE ANY AMEN ...
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YOU CAN NOT TELL NPP WHAT TO DO. YOU NDC FOLKS USED YOUR MONEY FOR BUS BRANDING AND GNPC USED SOME FOR BUYING VEHICLES FOR BLACK STARTS. THIS IS PART OF THE RESOURCES THEY PROMISED. WHEN IT GOES TO PARLIAMENT TO MAKE ANY AMENDMENT YOU LOSE BECAUSE NPP HAS THE NUMBERS. SO YOU MUST AS WELL SHUT UP BECAUSE THIS IS FOR A GOOD CAUSE AND NOT LIKE YOU GUYS STEALING THEM AND BUS BRANDING.
ChrisC 8 years ago

Nonsense.

Nonsense.
METWEEEEEW 8 years ago

You are a fool. When did ndc sleep to dream of oil exploration? Mo y3 mmoa,we are going to use the fruit of our labour which is the oil exploration, mo besu ara awu ,you were on power for 8 years which side of the coastal bel ...
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You are a fool. When did ndc sleep to dream of oil exploration? Mo y3 mmoa,we are going to use the fruit of our labour which is the oil exploration, mo besu ara awu ,you were on power for 8 years which side of the coastal belt did you find another oil to benefit Ghanaians? Mmoa obi mmere na nkwaseafuo like you mo di. NPP explored for the oil and have every right to use the funds to benefit Ghanaians you can go drink kerosene ndc. We shall use it. Moka koraa na y3 y3 no more,NPP made the oil money and will use it. Ndc yamutu. Ndc is thinking of the survival of their party not the goodwill of Ghanaians,continue to reject them until that party for evils and thieves is no more. Hahahahahaha mo besu ara awuuuu! Continue talking and we shall continue working for the good people of Ghana ndc can't change nothing to benefit them. Ghanaians have known you proper and you will stay in opposition for over 40 years.
Alex (sunyani ) 8 years ago

Monkey they work banboo they chop thus npp for you,dey go chop am anyhow after all most of their leaders are heading to their grave,so they don't care about future.

Monkey they work banboo they chop thus npp for you,dey go chop am anyhow after all most of their leaders are heading to their grave,so they don't care about future.
Zoobie-Zoobie 8 years ago

just steal from the Heritage Fund... is this the best that Akufo and his competent (incompetent) team can do?

just steal from the Heritage Fund... is this the best that Akufo and his competent (incompetent) team can do?
KOGYAM58 8 years ago

WHO ARE YOU TO DETERMINE WHAT RESOURCES AND HOW THE GOVERNMENT OF THE DAY SHOULD USE.YOU HAD YOUR TURN AND MISMANAGED THE RESOURCES LEADING TO YOUR PARTY BOOTED OUT OF POWER. WHAT NEW IDEAS DO YOU HAVE NOW? ALLOW NPP TO DECID ...
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WHO ARE YOU TO DETERMINE WHAT RESOURCES AND HOW THE GOVERNMENT OF THE DAY SHOULD USE.YOU HAD YOUR TURN AND MISMANAGED THE RESOURCES LEADING TO YOUR PARTY BOOTED OUT OF POWER. WHAT NEW IDEAS DO YOU HAVE NOW? ALLOW NPP TO DECIDE AND STOP PUTTING SPOKES IN THE WHEEL OF PROGRESS.
BOY KOFI 8 years ago

When you promised free shs,you should also know where to get the money from.I just can't believe this afternoon jump,what a jamboree?Don't worry be happy.

When you promised free shs,you should also know where to get the money from.I just can't believe this afternoon jump,what a jamboree?Don't worry be happy.
amuzu 8 years ago

Ghana had only 260 million dollars in our accounts because of ndc create,loot and share.heritage funds is npps energy policy, when oil was discovered in commmercial guantity to fund eduction and future project, after some ye ...
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Ghana had only 260 million dollars in our accounts because of ndc create,loot and share.heritage funds is npps energy policy, when oil was discovered in commmercial guantity to fund eduction and future project, after some years of saves.what is wrong to use part of the saves after six yesrs for future generation.ooo! Ye people without vision and wisdom.
Prince 8 years ago

Who are the future generation that the money is being saved for? A well educated society is an asset to all--anaa!!
Or the money must be there for a generation of illetrate

Who are the future generation that the money is being saved for? A well educated society is an asset to all--anaa!!
Or the money must be there for a generation of illetrate
JKT London 8 years ago

Do you people think Before you talk, you always talk from your Stomach.
Kofi Buah think Well .
(Offuii)????

Do you people think Before you talk, you always talk from your Stomach.
Kofi Buah think Well .
(Offuii)????

kofi Ackah .Ellembele 8 years ago

kwasiaaaa you foolll.talk well.b3l3.

kwasiaaaa you foolll.talk well.b3l3.
Be wise 8 years ago

I think he probably has made wisest statement about the brouhaha of "free SHS". Mr moron just show me where his statement shows that he's a fool?

I think he probably has made wisest statement about the brouhaha of "free SHS". Mr moron just show me where his statement shows that he's a fool?
Kofi 8 years ago

I support npp to use the money is the money not for Ghanaian? So why prevent them to use the money for Ghanaian shut up for them to make Ghana better place ok

I support npp to use the money is the money not for Ghanaian? So why prevent them to use the money for Ghanaian shut up for them to make Ghana better place ok
Yaw Botah 8 years ago

Real Ghanaians too deserve free educatiob

Real Ghanaians too deserve free educatiob
Papa Chicago 8 years ago

Look at what these criminals are saying, after coming into power to deplete all what Ex President Kuffour left them, they have the guts to tell Nana what to do with this Heritage Fund. Kofi Buah and your gang of bandits let m ...
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Look at what these criminals are saying, after coming into power to deplete all what Ex President Kuffour left them, they have the guts to tell Nana what to do with this Heritage Fund. Kofi Buah and your gang of bandits let me tell you Ghanaians eyes are wide open this time unlike before when you guys used all kinds of tricks and propaganda to fool us. Did you guys consulted your chief propagandist Kwasi Pratt before coming out to make this statement? He is even praising this as one bold step Nana has taken
Zoobie-Zoobie 8 years ago

just steal from the Heritage Fund... is this the best that Akufo and his competent team can do?

just steal from the Heritage Fund... is this the best that Akufo and his competent team can do?
ABAAH. 8 years ago

LISTEN TO ANOTHER FOOL,KWASEAKWA WE ALL KNOW HOW MAHAMAH USED THAT MONEY.HOW MUCH DID THEY MAKE WHEN THEY TRANSFERED IT TO DIFFERENT ACCOUNT AT THE BLIND OF SIDE OF PARLIAMENT?.YOU THINK THE FUNDS FOR THAT IMPLEMENTATION WILL ...
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LISTEN TO ANOTHER FOOL,KWASEAKWA WE ALL KNOW HOW MAHAMAH USED THAT MONEY.HOW MUCH DID THEY MAKE WHEN THEY TRANSFERED IT TO DIFFERENT ACCOUNT AT THE BLIND OF SIDE OF PARLIAMENT?.YOU THINK THE FUNDS FOR THAT IMPLEMENTATION WILL COME FROM YOUR DIRTY ANUS?.LITERATE FOOLS,EVEN OSAFO MARFO DIDN'T CONFIRM THAT THEY WILL USE THAT MONEY BUT RATHER SAID IN CASE OTHER OPTIONS ARE NOT MET BUT BECAUSE YOU PEOPLE TOO FOOLS TO UNDERSTAND AND YOU WANT TO DRAG HIS MOUTH TO THAT EXTENT TO COVER YOUR MISERABLY DEFEAT.ONAAAAPO IT WILL BE ANOTHER OPTION IF YOU LIKE OR NOT SO SHUT UP.
THE CRUSADER 8 years ago

Postboy minister,don't be stupid and go and bring all the monnies starched in you dubai accounts with houses bought with our monnies,are they going to brand buses?or wayomize Ghana?.foolishtalk.

Postboy minister,don't be stupid and go and bring all the monnies starched in you dubai accounts with houses bought with our monnies,are they going to brand buses?or wayomize Ghana?.foolishtalk.
Onyame Nipa(Man Of God)USA 8 years ago

NDC THIEVES

NDC THIEVES
Sid 8 years ago

Kofi Bua we'll spare the money for your FUNEREAL

Kofi Bua we'll spare the money for your FUNEREAL

K.O.B 8 years ago

Sometimes I wonder why education was wasted on people like you. heritage fund is for future generation. free education is for future generation. what don't you understand. we will save the money and end a country of uneducate ...
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Sometimes I wonder why education was wasted on people like you. heritage fund is for future generation. free education is for future generation. what don't you understand. we will save the money and end a country of uneducated, unemployable ,depending of government for food and shelter? are you stupid or what?
NDC Evil Party. 8 years ago

What you heritage by you father is education, so we have to use money to educate those who are going to heritage that money. But not for V8 .lack of ideas.ndc

What you heritage by you father is education, so we have to use money to educate those who are going to heritage that money. But not for V8 .lack of ideas.ndc
TUTUGYAGU 8 years ago

Heritage Fund for future generation. Joke! This is how Mahama decided to use our funds when he was in office: .............................. .....SADA (guinea fowl and afforestation contract awarded to Asongtaba ...
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Heritage Fund for future generation. Joke! This is how Mahama decided to use our funds when he was in office: .............................. .....SADA (guinea fowl and afforestation contract awarded to Asongtaba Cottage Industries)
-- Tree planting: GHC 32 million paid to plant trees which was never done
-- Guinea Fowl project: GHC 15 million paid to raise guinea fowls which was never done
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Woyome judgment debt = GHC 51 million
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Vice Presidents mansion = $ 13.9 million
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NSS Scandal: GHC 7.9 million allowance paid to 22,612 non-existent service Personnel. ... How much FREE SHS could have been funded by all this stolen funds? The Free SHS policy, which will also cover agricultural, vocational and technical institutions at the high school level, is estimated to cost GHC3.6 million yearly, as analysed by Business & Financial Times
Ice cool 8 years ago

One of the most stupid and useless man in Ghana kofi buah,

One of the most stupid and useless man in Ghana kofi buah,
Lexus 8 years ago

Anokwale sane!!!

I wish some pit bull had mauled your dumb ass down during your mail delivery days in the D.C area.
The kleptomaniac is now swimming in millions and millions of $$. His sis Diana et al, who were up to no g ...
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Anokwale sane!!!

I wish some pit bull had mauled your dumb ass down during your mail delivery days in the D.C area.
The kleptomaniac is now swimming in millions and millions of $$. His sis Diana et al, who were up to no good in London are filthy rich now.
He has a chip on his shoulder; I don't blame him.
This tribalistic, 'affirmative action' and incompetent thief also thinks that he must have a say on how the oil wealth should be distributed, after he looted so much with fake/ forged contracts.
Ellembele constituency needs a recount of the 12/7/2016 votes.
What a bloody numbskull.
Worst and most corrupt Energy minister ever!!!
OBREMPON USA 8 years ago

Watch out that you are no prosecuted for your
oil loot. Stay low profile or else you and your
family will be investigated and prosecuted if any fishy deal is detected.

Watch out that you are no prosecuted for your
oil loot. Stay low profile or else you and your
family will be investigated and prosecuted if any fishy deal is detected.
TUTUGYAGU 8 years ago

I don't think anyone dictates to the government how he should use the national purse to fund his initiatives.Every government sets its own agenda and priorities and decides how to fund those initiatives. Heritage Fund set asi ...
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I don't think anyone dictates to the government how he should use the national purse to fund his initiatives.Every government sets its own agenda and priorities and decides how to fund those initiatives. Heritage Fund set aside for future generations??? What good and how useful will that future generation be if they do not have quality education NOW? Is it a violation or unconstitutional to touch the heritage fund before it accumulates to 30%?
Ed 8 years ago

Fools incompetent and useless NDC people. We will use the heritage fund for the free SSS in Ghana. Malafaka corrupt NDC party with sharp teeth. NPP decides for the future of the country. God bless Nana Addo and Ghana

Fools incompetent and useless NDC people. We will use the heritage fund for the free SSS in Ghana. Malafaka corrupt NDC party with sharp teeth. NPP decides for the future of the country. God bless Nana Addo and Ghana
dnd 8 years ago

masa are u dreaming if so then wake up cuz we will used it(fawo kwasias3m s)h)

masa are u dreaming if so then wake up cuz we will used it(fawo kwasias3m s)h)
Solomon Argentina 8 years ago

What is your problem? Npp have control over the money we will use that money for the benefit of the good people of.if these is your plan so that Npp cannot do anything, you have failed.

What is your problem? Npp have control over the money we will use that money for the benefit of the good people of.if these is your plan so that Npp cannot do anything, you have failed.
TUTUGYAGU 8 years ago

This is how Mahama decided to use our funds when he was in office: .............................. .....SADA (guinea fowl and afforestation contract awarded to Asongtaba Cottage Industries)
[Tree planting: GHC 32 million pai ...
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This is how Mahama decided to use our funds when he was in office: .............................. .....SADA (guinea fowl and afforestation contract awarded to Asongtaba Cottage Industries)
[Tree planting: GHC 32 million paid to plant trees which was never done]
[Guinea Fowl project: GHC 15 million paid to raise guinea fowls which was never done]
.................................
Woyome judgment debt = GHC 51 million
.................................
Vice Presidents mansion = $ 13.9 million (approx. GHC 62 million )
.................................
NSS Scandal: GHC 7.9 million allowance paid to 22,612 non-existent service Personnel. According to Business & Financial Times, the Free SHS policy, which will also cover agricultural, vocational and technical institutions at the high school level, is estimated to cost GHC 3.6 million per year. The question is: How much FREE SHS could the Mahama government have funded, if all the FRAUD mentioned above was prevented?
Kofi 8 years ago

Must he bring resources from his salary?

Must he bring resources from his salary?
Akua Mansa 8 years ago

Shut the Fuck Up

Good riddance these greedy incompetent greedy NDC bastards

Shut the Fuck Up

Good riddance these greedy incompetent greedy NDC bastards
JC 8 years ago

Use the funds!!! Who is Kofi Buah? NDC would have started using the money long before Parliament and Ghanaians would know of it. Use it !!! Kofi Buah bought land from his own family and resold it a huge price to Ghana and the ...
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Use the funds!!! Who is Kofi Buah? NDC would have started using the money long before Parliament and Ghanaians would know of it. Use it !!! Kofi Buah bought land from his own family and resold it a huge price to Ghana and the NDC shared the money. If we are breeding illiterates where is the future? Use the funds!! We voted for you. NOT NDC! DO NOT BE AFRAID OF NDC THIEVES!!
THE SENTINEL 8 years ago

THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC DECIDES ON A VERY IMPORTANT AND ESSENTIAL PROJECT FOR THE MOTHERLAND. WHETHER HE TAKES MONEY FROM GNPC, HERITAGE FUND OR WHATEVER GHANAIAN SOURCE SHOULD NOT BE WORRY OF AN EMBITTERED EX MINISTER ...
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THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC DECIDES ON A VERY IMPORTANT AND ESSENTIAL PROJECT FOR THE MOTHERLAND. WHETHER HE TAKES MONEY FROM GNPC, HERITAGE FUND OR WHATEVER GHANAIAN SOURCE SHOULD NOT BE WORRY OF AN EMBITTERED EX MINISTER OF THE MOST CORRUPT NDC GOVERNMENT. IN OTHER WORDS, DOES KOFI BUAH WANT NANA ADDO TO PAY THE FREE SHS COST FROM HIS OWN POCKET OR HIS SALARY? STOP THE POLITICAL RIDICULE AND COMEDY, THE NPP IS SERIOUS AND NOT IN FOR JOKES AND JOKERS LIKE KOFI BUAH AND ASIEDU NKETIA!
Champion's Corner 8 years ago

Hmmm. Ghana, only Ghana. Anyway

Hmmm. Ghana, only Ghana. Anyway
Yaro T 8 years ago

Is de heritage fund an acid dat dey culdnt touch mr. Buah???

Is de heritage fund an acid dat dey culdnt touch mr. Buah???
Amega 8 years ago

Is Armah Kofi Buah the owner of Heritage Fund?

Is Armah Kofi Buah the owner of Heritage Fund?
kokofi 8 years ago

This little boy speak as if he has the authority over what belongs to all of our heritage.

This little boy speak as if he has the authority over what belongs to all of our heritage.
Kee 8 years ago

You can't do anything if government decides to use money from the fund. Who discovered the oil for your corrupt government to establish the fund. Are the present kids and youth not part of the future. This is stupid NDC think ...
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You can't do anything if government decides to use money from the fund. Who discovered the oil for your corrupt government to establish the fund. Are the present kids and youth not part of the future. This is stupid NDC thinking
KK 8 years ago

Where did the Heritage Fund money come from? Not through the oil find which you NDC initially mocked at?
You inherited the oil from NPP and massive cocoa yields from the NPP initiative and yet wasted all these moneys on ako ...
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Where did the Heritage Fund money come from? Not through the oil find which you NDC initially mocked at?
You inherited the oil from NPP and massive cocoa yields from the NPP initiative and yet wasted all these moneys on akomfem under the guise of SADA.
So what is your problem if NPP decides to use moneys generated from the oil revenues to fund the education of the young generation who also belong to the future?
yannick(ellembelle) 8 years ago

The money you and mahama alone stole from the oil and gas could help pay for this free shs for 10 years.Thief

The money you and mahama alone stole from the oil and gas could help pay for this free shs for 10 years.Thief
JTETTY 8 years ago

NDC members are really battling for nothing.Sitting there challenging the sitting gov't over heritage fund. this heritage fund is nowhere near the sum of money mismanaged /embezzled and wasted by the former gov't. They are th ...
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NDC members are really battling for nothing.Sitting there challenging the sitting gov't over heritage fund. this heritage fund is nowhere near the sum of money mismanaged /embezzled and wasted by the former gov't. They are the same people who have enjoyed free education introduced to the northerners since Osagyefo dr Kwame Nkrumah regime. Where was Kofi Buah by then. Is he the owner of heritage fund?
BB 8 years ago

Come on kofi Buah, clear off you thief,how much money haven't u stolen from this gas n petroleum outfit, ur brother stole n built that resort in nkrofuo,n u too diverted how much into ur self private a/c abroad. Greedy bastar ...
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Come on kofi Buah, clear off you thief,how much money haven't u stolen from this gas n petroleum outfit, ur brother stole n built that resort in nkrofuo,n u too diverted how much into ur self private a/c abroad. Greedy bastard NDC .lets educate our children and stop this nonsense , after all the money is for Ghana n is gonna be use for Ghanians.
George (Canada) 8 years ago

You couldn't think outside the box during your 8 years of power so be quiet and let the people with best brain to think for you Kofi Buah.

You couldn't think outside the box during your 8 years of power so be quiet and let the people with best brain to think for you Kofi Buah.
wWNanagogogkoY, 8 years ago

That heritage fund is there for what ,while people are finding difficulty to pay school fees ,and when is future generation going to end so that money can be used ,silly Kofi buah ,Stupid fool

That heritage fund is there for what ,while people are finding difficulty to pay school fees ,and when is future generation going to end so that money can be used ,silly Kofi buah ,Stupid fool
Mr Bond 8 years ago

Folks Ghanaweb supports corrupt they are blocking valuable comments that expose corruption.

Folks Ghanaweb supports corrupt they are blocking valuable comments that expose corruption.
Chief amankwa 8 years ago

The newly appointed minister of education has stated unequivocally that the head of secondary schools that register 90% failure rate would be sacked.

The two professional teachers organization in the country GNAT and NAGRAT ...
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The newly appointed minister of education has stated unequivocally that the head of secondary schools that register 90% failure rate would be sacked.

The two professional teachers organization in the country GNAT and NAGRAT are in arms. They should tell Ghanaians what percentage of failure they consider not to be repulsive and obscene.

In my young age, when Cape Coast University Science students registered what was then nationally referred to as 'mass failure', a Canadian visiting professor shocked the teaching staff of the university. He stated: 'when students fail an examination, the professors have also failed'. He added, it was the primary responsibility of professors (teachers) to teach the students to pass their examination.

Teachers, please do not fret. Nana Addo administration has promised to incentivize you. Please accept the challenge by girding your loins and meet your obligations to yourself, your students and mother Ghana.
Dzifa 8 years ago

Just keep quiet and rust in opposition. The government can do whatever it wants with the support of the majority.

Just keep quiet and rust in opposition. The government can do whatever it wants with the support of the majority.
Ken 8 years ago

Where is the oil allocation promised Western Region. We need free SHS or we shall hit the streets and all MPs opposing will be targeted. You promised 200 schools for the implementation of free SHS and you built 47. So NDC w ...
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Where is the oil allocation promised Western Region. We need free SHS or we shall hit the streets and all MPs opposing will be targeted. You promised 200 schools for the implementation of free SHS and you built 47. So NDC was never serious about implementing. You will lose more in the next election.
JTETTY 8 years ago

NDC will remain in opposition for long is the fears of its members, because if Akufo-Addo gov't going to satisfy the electorates their chance of coming back to power is slim.
Kofi Buah don't rush , there's a lot of money in ...
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NDC will remain in opposition for long is the fears of its members, because if Akufo-Addo gov't going to satisfy the electorates their chance of coming back to power is slim.
Kofi Buah don't rush , there's a lot of money in a pipeline when the Special Prosecutor Office commence at work....
kofi Ackah .Ellembele 8 years ago

Hon you did well with NDC to keep such money.NPP please kindly found your ways ooo
..
Nana ado please never try or else...

hmmmmm

Hon you did well with NDC to keep such money.NPP please kindly found your ways ooo
..
Nana ado please never try or else...

hmmmmm
ishaku ali 8 years ago

u started it progressively.u are very good at pretending.hypocrites

u started it progressively.u are very good at pretending.hypocrites
Battle of amoaful 8 years ago

Npp have the men brains etc but you had all the money in your pocket because you are thieves

Npp have the men brains etc but you had all the money in your pocket because you are thieves
MIKY DARLING 8 years ago

STUPID TALK. WHO HAS EVER INTRODUCED RESOURCES IN THIS WORLD. IN ANY CASE THE OIL WAS DISCOVERED WITH HE BRAINS OF KUFFOUR'S GOVERNMENT.NDC YOU INTRODUCED NOTHING YET YOU TOOK AWAY LOTS OF MONEY FROM GHANAIANS ILLEGALLY.

STUPID TALK. WHO HAS EVER INTRODUCED RESOURCES IN THIS WORLD. IN ANY CASE THE OIL WAS DISCOVERED WITH HE BRAINS OF KUFFOUR'S GOVERNMENT.NDC YOU INTRODUCED NOTHING YET YOU TOOK AWAY LOTS OF MONEY FROM GHANAIANS ILLEGALLY.

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