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FLASHBACK: 5 Ghanaian factories that could have transformed the economy

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  • Quame 3 months ago

    Really really sad. I cant even think of the number of Presidents that have come after Dr. Kwame Nkrumah and not a single one of the has been able to revive these iconic factories. Democracy is not helping Ghana and Africa as ...
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  • No Mercy 3 months ago

    Quame What is Democracy to do with Transformation the Economy.Ghana leaders detecting from the American and European.Still depending on Foreign aids.That is Why Akufo Addo is borrowing Huge Amount of Money.All our Minerals Re ...
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  • PLANNED EPIDERMIC 3 months ago

    democracy is the problem. look very close.

  • Ghana! 3 months ago

    Quame, The Osagyefo did all he did during a democracy so come again.
    Democracy has done nothing wrong. It is about our leaders we choose. We do not have leaders passionate enough to see Ghana succeed.

  • Kobo 3 months ago

    Sure

  • Nawaa gh 3 months ago

    All across Africa and Eastern Europe thousands of state enterprises collapsed. Only those that were successfully privatised survived. Why would you think Ghana would have been different. They were already failing even under N ...
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  • Quame 3 months ago

    Really really sad. I cant even think of the number of Presidents that have come after Dr. Kwame Nkrumah and not a single one of them has been able to revive these iconic factories. Democracy is not helping Ghana and Africa as ...
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  • Ghana! 3 months ago

    Kennedy Agyapong is the rebirth of The Osagyefo. Unfortunately, those selfish and greedy delegates voted for their stomach!

  • Woyoo woyo 3 months ago

    You are not serious. How many factories has Kennedy Agyapong put up? Where are his so called business located? Apuutor!

  • LAMPS 3 months ago

    You are naive....come to Tema Fishing Harbour. Go to Oman FM...google his companies. Idiot. He is even building the biggest hospital in Ghana.

  • 1 3 months ago

    Managing is a knowladge

  • Blc 3 months ago

    The truth is most of the factories collapsed on their own ghana went through many economic crisis around those periods and hence their collapse the fact that they weren’t operating for that long is proof that they weren’t ...
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  • Fool 3 months ago

    It's pple that manage businesses. Today nothing stops us from reviving them ..we have the resources raw material..only if we can invest amd patronise our own..

  • Blc 3 months ago

    Is not as straightforward as you think it’s not just about the resources it’s about good economic environment,demand etc however today we have dozens of private owned glass factories nationwide

  • Joeboy 3 months ago

    Can they meet the local demand?

  • Asrifi Bonsu Attafuah Akyem Oda timber market 3 months ago

    Very good companies by Dr Nkrumah,but the 1d1f is also one of the areas that need strategic attention.

  • Observer 3 months ago

    Sorry all the factories mentioned are agric dependent and without raw materials can’t function
    As fo glass factory it is gone because the use of glass has reduced and modern machine and tech makes that factory redundant
    W ...
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  • M?br?wa 3 months ago

    Indeed, no matter what changes occur in the business world, the Nestles and Unilevers will continue as long as we humans continue to eat. Most of the companies collapsed not because of technological changes or market conditio ...
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  • Pie 3 months ago

    I agree with you

  • Ghana! 3 months ago

    Who has the power to control those workers? If the president was firm enough to fire those he put in charge, discipline would've trickled down.
    We blame politicians because they have the power to control, and the president ...
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  • Charles Obiri 3 months ago

    Well said big brother..Keep it up..

  • M?br?wa 3 months ago

    As usual, everyone is pointing fingers in the only direction we think we know: politicians! What direct role did they play in the day-to-day management of these companies? It's ordinary Ghanaians who ran these institutions do ...
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  • Social Moral 3 months ago

    The collapse of these industries was the second best president according to western commentators because they manipulated Rawlings to sell all industries and businesses both state and private to render Ghanaians jobless and l ...
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  • The Spear 3 months ago

    "They" didn't manipulate Rawlings into selling them. Both managements and workers of almost all the industries were stealing everything including cash! I was a student them and did vacation jobs in Tema and was witness to the ...
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  • Social Moral 3 months ago

    So you were among those stealing.Now you are vomit your own crimes.

  • Ghana! 3 months ago

    How sad!
    All these industries were collapsed by the clueless ndc party!

  • Woyoo woyo 3 months ago

    Blame the management of these factories for mismanagement. Scholars thieves who don't have the nation at heart.

  • As3m b3ba dabi.... 3 months ago

    We black people are simply evil, wicked, visionless and economic Saboteurs. Because the politicians and their bandit of thieves want to import everything from toothpicks to sweeping brooms, they will sabotage every effort to ...
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  • Prince yoggi 3 months ago

    Lazy Ghanaian politicians. Yet the Chinese are now producing for us to use .shame on Ghana politicians

  • Kobo 3 months ago

    Ghana economy is in the hands of Chinese, libanines, and indians

  • Concern Agent 3 months ago

    This is what takes place when a country with leaders who have no Foresight,Vision, good purpose and sense of direction. Selfishness, evil and corruption has been all what matters to our leaders. They have all fall short and t ...
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  • Assempa( Thanks yo Afrifa ) 3 months ago

    For had it not been Afrifa and his bunch of army thugs these factories would be operational today. Let them rot in hell.

  • Nawaa gh 3 months ago

    Stop the nonsense of emotional patriotism. The fact is that the investment model failed. You cannot finance socialism with other people's money. And for the private sector to capitalise and invest in them very substantially ( ...
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