Do Ghanaian Presidential Aspirants Exploit Ghanaian Diasporeans?

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• anokwale 12 years ago

  I think the most important part of your article is the fact that people need to go home often. What happens is that people sit in the US, UK, Canada, Netherlands, etc... and start to romanticize how they will go back to Ghan ...
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  I think the most important part of your article is the fact that people need to go home often. What happens is that people sit in the US, UK, Canada, Netherlands, etc... and start to romanticize how they will go back to Ghana and end up in a cozy government position with benefits. Once people realize that is not how it works, they will focus more on how to just set up their own business in Ghana. Politics is not the way to go. It is really about private enterprise.

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• Bitters 12 years ago

  Politics could be one's career and one has done all that one could over the years from a base in the US, UK, Neterlands etc. to help parties and individuals achieve their aims but one could be heavily sidelined.... that is ex ...
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  Politics could be one's career and one has done all that one could over the years from a base in the US, UK, Neterlands etc. to help parties and individuals achieve their aims but one could be heavily sidelined.... that is exploitation!!

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• yamoah 12 years ago

  It is very difficult to change the minds of people who are "politically addicted", for political disagreement is almost considered "value laden" and hence it is just not conceivable for some folks to consider the state as the ...
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  It is very difficult to change the minds of people who are "politically addicted", for political disagreement is almost considered "value laden" and hence it is just not conceivable for some folks to consider the state as the point of reference. Most unfortunate is when these politically addictive attitudes are shown by folks like Okoampa Ahoofe who is into academia. We can only hope that an appreciation of the State as a different entity from governments will lead us all to consider the issues that affect the 'whole' as a concern than what is done satisfies units within and without.
  
  NB: The Diaspora Support Unit is within the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and is now located at Airport Junction.Thanks

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• GREAT NANA ANTWI 12 years ago

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• Say 12 years ago

  .....in similar fashion, Ghanaian Diasporeans can also declare, ‘No franchise, no remittance’.....
  I support this and not only based on remitances but also on the way and manner we are treated when we export items to Gha ...
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  .....in similar fashion, Ghanaian Diasporeans can also declare, ‘No franchise, no remittance’.....
  I support this and not only based on remitances but also on the way and manner we are treated when we export items to Ghana.

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• KUSASI KOKU 12 years ago

  Kwesi,
  Are you one of Atopa's apologists and so writing to get a job? Twea! Go read about the Judgement Debt payments and you'll know the type of political leadership we have had so far in Sikaman.

  Kwesi,
  Are you one of Atopa's apologists and so writing to get a job? Twea! Go read about the Judgement Debt payments and you'll know the type of political leadership we have had so far in Sikaman.

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• Kawaanopaado 12 years ago

  Yes, you have touched many issues. Diasporeans must visit home often to advise themselves and stop the ak33, ak33 or y3see, y3see.

  Yes, you have touched many issues. Diasporeans must visit home often to advise themselves and stop the ak33, ak33 or y3see, y3see.

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• YAW- COLUMBUS OHIO USA 12 years ago

  In fact a patriotic and die hard diasporan will go back to Ghana without fear or favour to help in nation building.Although,it takes time and sometimes financial to adjust but if one really want to settle and help in nation b ...
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  In fact a patriotic and die hard diasporan will go back to Ghana without fear or favour to help in nation building.Although,it takes time and sometimes financial to adjust but if one really want to settle and help in nation building,that person can succeed in doing that.President Nkrumah,Kuffour,Dr limann,Dr Mahamah are some of the prominent Ghanaians who decided after their western education to go back,settled and help in nation building.If you have the right profession ,go back and help.You can succeed with determination,hard working and dedication .As a Ghanaian,don,t sit down for a politician who is also a Ghanaian like you to travel Abroad and tell you what you should do.

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• Young Boy 12 years ago

  Where most of you people with brilliant ideas never get supported by the government right??
  
  HOLLAND DIASPORANS have a lot to bring to the TABLE but both NDC and NPP have missed opportunity.

  Where most of you people with brilliant ideas never get supported by the government right??
  
  HOLLAND DIASPORANS have a lot to bring to the TABLE but both NDC and NPP have missed opportunity.

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• Jato Kaleo 12 years ago

  Let us begin by demanding the implementation of the Constitutional Review Committee championed by President Mahama. Now that he is on solid footing, the recommendations have been swept under the notorious Ghanaian political r ...
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  Let us begin by demanding the implementation of the Constitutional Review Committee championed by President Mahama. Now that he is on solid footing, the recommendations have been swept under the notorious Ghanaian political rug. The politicians will begin making noise about constitutional review come 2016.

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• JB Ansong 12 years ago

  by including Kuffour and Akuffo-Addo in the enumeration of sages, savants, gurus, and astute Ghanaians.
  
  Which sage will use a nation's US$ 10.000 to buy a gold chain for self-award? Have we forgotten about Hotel Kuffour so ...
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  by including Kuffour and Akuffo-Addo in the enumeration of sages, savants, gurus, and astute Ghanaians.
  
  Which sage will use a nation's US$ 10.000 to buy a gold chain for self-award? Have we forgotten about Hotel Kuffour so soon? Award of 1Million US$ contract to his son Ewarda Kuffour etc.
  
  What of the other man (Akuffo-Addo) who could not tell us where he got his law degree from - sometimes he says Legon (where he actually did Econs), other times he quotes Middle Temple. The man who beyond doubt used someones certs to get admission to Middle Temple and later built upon that, could be a sage in Ghana?
  
  With Okunini Dr Aggrey, Dr Osagyefo "Ose-Ade-Oyo" Kwame Nkrumah and Mr Busumuru Kofi Annan, they are honest and impeccable Ghanaians we are all proud of.

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