Ghana is on track with IMF programme

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• Pelicles 10 years ago

  Do we have to wait for someone or a group of humans with brains like us to come and tell us to rein in cost? If we are a serious nation, why can't we think like those at the IMF? What is so special about those at the IMF th ...
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  Do we have to wait for someone or a group of humans with brains like us to come and tell us to rein in cost? If we are a serious nation, why can't we think like those at the IMF? What is so special about those at the IMF that we do not have?
  
  We know that there are irregularities with our payroll and whatnots so, why can't we sieve out those irregularities and just do the right thing for our dear nation to move on?
  
  Right now, imagine the austerities that we have invited upon us and are we going to complain if things go awry? This is a clear testament that we cannot govern ourselves or take our destiny into our own hands. That is an undeniable fact and we should accept the fact that we are not good.

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• another one 10 years ago

  It's as simple as ABCD...The country has allowed politics to plague into our soul. They play politics with everything. Majority will rather be dead than see their brother succeed. It's just sad how there has to be some sorta ...
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  It's as simple as ABCD...The country has allowed politics to plague into our soul. They play politics with everything. Majority will rather be dead than see their brother succeed. It's just sad how there has to be some sorta gimmick to everything. Support your own and see what happens. It's amazing how many people want change but fail to see they need to change their way of looking at things as well. Majority claim they are Christians but yet don't love each other. Majority are doctors but can't create home grown solutions. So don't blame the IMF. Some people listen better when their neighbours yell at them instead of their parents.

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• Senior Wisdom 10 years ago

  The IMF must rather be tough on corruption. Bizarre freeze on public sector employment including employing doctors in a country where there no doctors to look after much of the country makes no sense. So mortality rate goes u ...
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  The IMF must rather be tough on corruption. Bizarre freeze on public sector employment including employing doctors in a country where there no doctors to look after much of the country makes no sense. So mortality rate goes up and fiscal consolidation is achieved by killing people. This will be murder by the government and IMF. If there should be a freeze of public employment it should be the political employees All the deputy ministers should be scrapped and the trimming of corrupt government employees is what is needed not the employment o doctors that needs to be encouraged

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• Lord Ziggi 10 years ago

  Ghanaian leaders lack brain power so some one else must do the thinking for us

  Ghanaian leaders lack brain power so some one else must do the thinking for us

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• kofi pataku 10 years ago

  yes ooo we are course we have increased electricity by 51.73*/* fuel by 15*/* water n everything else we will take every pesewa from ghanaians n make them broke

  yes ooo we are course we have increased electricity by 51.73*/* fuel by 15*/* water n everything else we will take every pesewa from ghanaians n make them broke

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• GXEHUs9tip 10 years ago

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• SARPONG 10 years ago

  “They were using it at the road construction site of the company at Tafo and Klagon; the equipment are state assets."
  
  A couple of weeks ago, Ibrahim Mahama and some Policeman attacked a photo Journalist taking pictures ...
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  “They were using it at the road construction site of the company at Tafo and Klagon; the equipment are state assets."
  
  A couple of weeks ago, Ibrahim Mahama and some Policeman attacked a photo Journalist taking pictures at a construction site under the management of Ibrahim's E&P company. At that time, it did not make sense to me why taking simple pictures of road under construction should result with Ibrahim and some Police attacking this Journalist physically and taking his camera from him. Now I know the reason.
  
  According to Nii Lantey Vanderpuije, the Deputy Local Government Minister, a letter from the President Office instructed the Ministry to release these government equipments to Ibrahim Mahama under the pretext of using them for government projects for free not knowing these government properties will be used for Ibrahim Mahama's other contracts.
  
  
  
  
  The earth-moving equipment was brought in after Parliament approved a 2014 loan agreement to help provide funding for a new drive to retool the various local assemblies.But in two separate letters, the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development directed the release of the equipment to E&P.
  
  
  
  The letters were signed by a Deputy Minister for Local Government and Rural Development, Nii Lantey Vanderpuije.The Deputy Minister indicated that he was writing based on directives he had received from the Office of the President.According to Joe Osei Owusu, this amounts to a conflict of interest because the equipment has been found at the private construction site of E&P at Akyem Tafo where the company is executing a contract.He disclosed on the Point Blank segment on Eyewitness News that when the equipment arrived in the country, they were registered in the name of German Equipment Company.“What is suspicious is that they are branded with the name of Engineers and Planners,” he claimed.
  
  
  
  But responding to these claims, Ibrahim Mahama argued that such a professional job cannot be carried out without “putting your name on the equipment.”Explaining why he branded the equipment in the name of his company, Ibrahim Mahama stated that if that is not done, people may steal them and sell its parts.
  
  
  
  “If government gives me a truck to work with and I don’t put my name on it and the next thing you know, it will be at the magazine and they are selling it and breaking the parts. What do I say to government,” he asked.

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• SARPONG 10 years ago

  Since becoming President in 2012 after the death of President Mills, President Mahama has to always explain his half brother Ibrahim Mahama's business dealings with the government due to the cloud of secrecy shrouded in most ...
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  Since becoming President in 2012 after the death of President Mills, President Mahama has to always explain his half brother Ibrahim Mahama's business dealings with the government due to the cloud of secrecy shrouded in most of Ibrahim Mahama's contracts with the government.
  
  The recent brouhaha surrounding Ibrahim's use of government equipment recently brought to the country at a cost of $28 million to help Local government to execute its projects is a case in point. How did Ibrahim get his hands on these equipment? According to letters signed by a Deputy Minister for Local Government and Rural Development, Nii Lantey Vanderpuije.The Deputy Minister indicated that he was writing based on directives he had received from the Office of the President. That means it was President Mahama who directed the Ministry to release the 28 million dollars equipment to his brother to execute a 'philantropic' project for the People of Ghana which would have been a noble cause if that was the main reason.
  
  Let me jog readers memory to something that happened a couple of weeks ago concerning Ibrahim Mahama and a confrontation he had with a Photo Journalist.A couple of weeks ago, Ibrahim Mahama and some Policemen attacked a photo Journalist taking pictures at a construction site in Accra under the management of Ibrahim's E&P company. At that time, it did not make sense to me why taking simple pictures of road under construction should result with Ibrahim and some Policemen attacking this Journalist physically and taking his camera from him. Now I know the reason. Ibrahim was afraid his cover of using government property procured for use at Odaw river were being used at different construction sites in Accra, Tafo and Klagon by Ibrahim's E&P Construction company for contracts that his company stood to make millions of dollars and using government properties to execute, that is plain stealing of Taxpayers money.
  
  
  The earth-moving equipment was brought in after Parliament approved a 2014 loan agreement to help provide funding for a new drive to retool the various local assemblies.But in two separate letters, the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development directed the release of the equipment to E&P.According to Joe Osei Owusu,Npp member of Parliament from Bekwai and a legal Expert, this amounts to a conflict of interest because the equipment has been found at the private construction site of E&P at Akyem Tafo where the company is executing a contract.He disclosed on the Point Blank segment on Eyewitness News that when the equipment arrived in the country, they were registered in the name of German Equipment Company.
  
  Why was government Equipment registered in the name of German Equipment Company? Are these government properties still registered in that Germany company's name?
  
  It might be routine to put your company's name on equipment leased or on rental but in this case, Ibrahim did not lease or rent the equipment so it is very unusual especially it being government property for him to paint his company name and logo on them. If these machines were registered in a Germany Equipment Company's name, was this an attempt to pass these government properties to Ibrahim E&P Construction Company at the blind side of Ghanaian citizens?
  
  When this underhand deal came to light, the reason given by Ibrahim did not make any sense. According to Ibrahim Mahama:
  
  Ibrahim Mahama argued that such a professional job cannot be carried out without “putting your name on the equipment.”Explaining why he branded the equipment in the name of his company, Ibrahim Mahama stated that if that is not done, people may steal them and sell its parts.If government gives me a truck to work with and I don’t put my name on it and the next thing you know, it will be at the magazine and they are selling it and breaking the parts. What do I say to government,” he asked.

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