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'Kaya tax' cruel – Braimah

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  • BRAVE MAN 7 years ago

    President Nana Addo God continue make you great for the relief given to these ones.

  • KWAKU KWATENG 7 years ago

    Cutting taxes of Kayayie to get more teenage northern children into Kayayie is even the worse inhumanity. What does Nana Ado mean by cutting tax for Kayayie? so they can be encouraged to continue with the slavery as head port ...
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  • BRAVE MAN 7 years ago

    KWEKU KWATEN so sorry you have a myopic thinking like your masters the horrible NDC, do you think slashing off the Dracula inhuman whatever tax this innocent ones paid into your pockets will edge them to come over in numbers ...
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  • KWAKU KWATENG 7 years ago

    Do you know how many dams exists in the north yet they still troops into kayayie? what do you mean by dam? those dams will only be place for cattle to brink from. Even your so called Zongo fund will make no impact on anyone i ...
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  • AGBESI KWESI 7 years ago

    With the removal of taxes on financial services I have already saved GHS3.50 a month. You just multiply this by 12 months a year and by the next 16 years of the Nana/Bawumia rule. By the time you amortize the results you will ...
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  • Daladam 7 years ago

    BLOOD SUCKERS THANK GOD THEY ARE NO LONGER IN POWER

  • TUTUGYAGU 7 years ago

    For over 50 years, there has been free education in the North up to University level, how many northerners have taken advantage of it? Do you really think, scrapping of the Kayayei tax will lure more people into the busines ...
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  • KWAKU KWATENG 7 years ago

    Who told you that northerners does not pay school fees? it maybe a little cheaper than the south but let me tell on authority that northers pay school fees too. Go there and ask. There are many children in the north who are d ...
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  • SKIPER 7 years ago

    Ah KWEKU KWATENG WHICH PART OF THE PLANNET DO YOU COME FROM? SO YOU THINK IMPOSSING TAX ON THOSE POOR HEAD PORTER WILL DISCOURAGE THEM FROM ATTAINING EDUCATION? WHAT JOB DID NDC CREATED TO IMPOSE TAX ON THOSE POOR WOMEN? BY T ...
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  • Villager 7 years ago

    Those selling dog chains, do they also pay taxes? If yes, OK. If no, will imposing a tax on them discourage then from selling chains to go abroad to continue with the wahaka?

  • Mensa 7 years ago

    nana have the support of all Ghana fool he is doing the right thing

  • APONKYE 7 years ago

    I wonder why NDC people cannot refute utter lies. This tax was imposed in 2002 by KMA and later copied by AMA. By 2003 all the major cities and towns were collecting tolls from the kayayei.

    But now NPP has turned round to ...
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  • Norgbedzie, Ketu 7 years ago

    Aponkye Krakra, whether the ytax was imposed by NDC or NPP the bottomline is that the Kayayei Tax will be abolished, period !

  • Village Lass 7 years ago

    One of the most marginalized in our society, it should not only be about tax cuts but how to make sure they do not live in inhumane conditions,have access to healthcare and education.

  • Sinclear 7 years ago

    that made our life hard here in Ghana with their taxes and fees that coke and destroyed our economy

  • the capitalist 7 years ago

    You have now found your voice and reason.
    Ghana is going to work again under the incorruptible Nana Addo.

  • KWAKU KWATENG 7 years ago

    You want to get more teenage northerners into Kayayie? is that the jobs you promised them? and that foolish Bawumia is watching his fellow northerners being enslaved.

  • Kofi 7 years ago

    And that thief Mahama watched as the guinea fowls flew to Burkina Faso and him and his brothers could not care whether his own people carried shit or water but again taxed them to the teeth. Who is better? I would go for Nana ...
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  • Stephen Donkor, New York. 7 years ago

    You're totally out of your mind and I think you live in illusion because just a couple of months ago, these young woman were paying a potion of their earnings to your criminal Mahama and his Forty thieves with no hope of get ...
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  • ATIA 7 years ago

    COMMOM ANTI MALARIAL , BP, DIABETES DRUGS WERE ALL TAXED. HABA GHANA, ANTIBIOTIC INJECTIONS SELL GCH 150 PER VIAL. HOW CAN YOU TAX A KAYA ?

  • Nana Adwoa New York City 7 years ago

    Arent you sad for them were they to be your brither and sisters would you hsve gone home to sleep with a clean conscience?
    Check what that removal has done for them and then come again

  • Nana Adwoa New York City 7 years ago

    The anove is a response to Kwaku Kwartengs opinion

  • Kwami 7 years ago

    ALL THE EVIL TAXES AND FEES IMPOSE BY THE LOSER MAHAMA THAT DESTROYED GHANA MUST BE CUNCELLED

  • Rastee 7 years ago

    Market tolls simple. Did he abolish market tolls?

  • Rastee 7 years ago

    *like* not lack

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  • Great 7 years ago

    Thank You

  • Kwaku 7 years ago

    I'm an ndc man and I'll never vote for them again cos they're visionless and extremely wicked hope they don't come back again !!!!!!

  • JESSE 7 years ago

    yesterday i thought about and told my family that, i now understand why people President Mahama was a wicked man. How can you tax these poor girls who have no place to sleep. President Nana Addo God bless you.

  • Villager 7 years ago

    have you ever thought of why ppl pay taxes at all? is it fair that poor workers like teachers and nurses should pay should pay taxes for tax workers and poilticians to use the money to buy V8 while the workers walk? taxes are ...
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  • NDC defect 7 years ago

    I am sitting here and wondering how many cars that were "gifted" to the NDC folks after they left office, were purchased from revenue from KAYAYEI tax? h333333. Wicked paaaa nie. NDC should NEVER COME BACK TO POWER. noooo ne ...
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  • Biyariga 7 years ago

    I don't know whether it's out of ignorance or stupidity? There was already nothing like kayaye tax in the country. What they were paying was market tolls which is imposed by local authorities. For somebody who claims to be an ...
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  • THE CRUSADER 7 years ago

    It's too late the deal is done,boy you are late ,or you have just changed your vest? Be smart and punctual next time,NPPhas taken the place.

  • Akwasi 7 years ago

    This is total discrimination against the rest of the citizens that are not exempted from paying their taxes.This is unconstitutional and biased. Although their work is a daily struggle, they are not the only people that strug ...
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  • Kwabena Nkurmah 7 years ago

    So sad and inhuman attitude towards mankind
    God bless you Nana and your finance minister

  • Dj Roberts. 7 years ago

    Mr Braimah,thank you so much for expressing your views on this Kayayei tax cruelty. Your article is well written and everything that I want to say is already shared. How could a Government of a nation like Ghana, impose tax o ...
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  • Villager 7 years ago

    Mr Braimah rides a V8, is it from his salary?
    Ghanaians like cheap popularity. These V8 riders are those killing al of us. Nana should place som high tax on such luxuries

  • Donald Trump 7 years ago

    This is stupid. How do you build and improve facilities for their use. I will only agree if the said tax was not used for their wellbeing.

  • Ritewing 7 years ago

    I agree with the writer. The nation should not have imposed any levy or tax on these young women who have found themselves in this unfortunate situation. Two things may help keep them in the regions they hail from. Free SHS a ...
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  • Ghanaba Bentum 7 years ago

    Are we saying the those selling other things such pure water, ice creams etc they carrying on their heads should pay the 50 pesewas levy the assemblies use to clean the markets. if the government wants to help it should clear ...
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  • Donald Trump 7 years ago

    Again we should be careful not to encourage more of our girls into this kayayie business because of the tax exemption. The unfortunate thing about we blacks is we do not think through policy before it's implementation.

  • Concern citizen 7 years ago

    Why do we have to take money from these ladies(kayayie)and use it yo buy suv for people like Kofi Adams to use.WICKED NDC you gonna rot in opposition.IDIOTS.

  • kk 7 years ago

    stop displaying ya ignorance wai

  • KSK 7 years ago

    Ghanaians would understand now why Afiko Djaba described the former president as very Wicked. You are from the North these girls too are from the North and you closed your eyes or encouraged SADA money to be shared. What is m ...
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  • Bretuoba Kofi Frimpong Boateng 7 years ago

    God bless those who thought about relieving our dear women of this inhuman treatment.The Kayayes use their head and their natural strength to carry out their duties and in this case the local authorities which I have seen tak ...
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  • Kojo 7 years ago

    I am for the abolition of the tax but against the reason being given for it - ie it is inhumane. All over Ghana people are suffocating under the weight of taxes. These include cocoa farmers, small scale traders. As a the chil ...
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  • Stone 7 years ago

    The first day I heard that kayayei are tax I was surprised. The person who introduced that is very wicked.