Sanitation and job creation will be my immediate priorities - Ishmael Ashitey

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• ANDROPOV 7 years ago

  THIS MAN IS AN AMERICAN CITIZEN. HE BARES AN AMERICAN PASSPORT. HE MIGRATED TO THE US YEARS BACK AND THAT IS WHERE HIS FAMILY LIVES. CONFRONT HIM AT HIS VERRING WITH THIS INFO

  THIS MAN IS AN AMERICAN CITIZEN. HE BARES AN AMERICAN PASSPORT. HE MIGRATED TO THE US YEARS BACK AND THAT IS WHERE HIS FAMILY LIVES. CONFRONT HIM AT HIS VERRING WITH THIS INFO

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• Neeqquaye 7 years ago

  How do you know

  How do you know

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• SHAMO 7 years ago

  WHO CARES,WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU GHANAIAN,S THAT IS WHY THE COUNTRY CAN NOT MOVE FORWARD, STUPID.WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO OFFER YOU SELF MY ANDROPV,

  WHO CARES,WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU GHANAIAN,S THAT IS WHY THE COUNTRY CAN NOT MOVE FORWARD, STUPID.WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO OFFER YOU SELF MY ANDROPV,

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• Trump 7 years ago

  Prove it

  Prove it

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• Mr ROMANO . 7 years ago

  HIRE HIM ASAP , BEST CANDIDATE FOR THE JOB COS HE GOT A LOT OF EXPERIENCE.

  HIRE HIM ASAP , BEST CANDIDATE FOR THE JOB COS HE GOT A LOT OF EXPERIENCE.

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• SHAMO 7 years ago

  THANKS MR ASHITEY, THAT IS A GREAT IDEA,BUT PUT PARTY ASIDE AND DO WHAT IS RIGHT FOR THE REGION AND THE COUNTRY,SANITATION IS VERY IMPORTANT,I WISH YOU THE BEST, TOGETHER WE CAN ALL BUILD.

  THANKS MR ASHITEY, THAT IS A GREAT IDEA,BUT PUT PARTY ASIDE AND DO WHAT IS RIGHT FOR THE REGION AND THE COUNTRY,SANITATION IS VERY IMPORTANT,I WISH YOU THE BEST, TOGETHER WE CAN ALL BUILD.

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• Stephen 7 years ago

  Ashitey is dreaming. Is he not aware that Akufo Addo has already set up a ministry for sanitation and water?
  What work does Ashitey want to do if a whole ministry has been set to do that.
  He may need tp gp back to Akufo ...
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  Ashitey is dreaming. Is he not aware that Akufo Addo has already set up a ministry for sanitation and water?
  What work does Ashitey want to do if a whole ministry has been set to do that.
  He may need tp gp back to Akufo Addo for directives.

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• Amponsem 7 years ago

  Many thanks Mr. Ashitey for your sensible and bold step to tackle the sanitation and job creation for the unemployed young adults in the country. As a Ghanaian living abroad and visits home often, I find it hard to understand ...
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  Many thanks Mr. Ashitey for your sensible and bold step to tackle the sanitation and job creation for the unemployed young adults in the country. As a Ghanaian living abroad and visits home often, I find it hard to understand why the capital is still filthy and smells badly in the twenty- first century after obtaining independence since March 1957. Firstly, the toilet smell in and the Bokum estuary through Korle-Bu should be cleared completely and all toilet in the capital should be diverted far of the capital and the beaches of Accra and subordinate towns like Tema and others to create decent beaches for tourism. Above all, the traders on the bridges path ways and railway lines should be cleared just as Dr. Nkrumah's time.

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• PlainPlainTruth 7 years ago

  The Akans say, “When Nakedness promises to clothe you, ask for the name.” If Ishmael Ashietey were the only Akuffo-Addo’s Minister-designate, I would confidently predict the failure of the government. This Ashietey guy ...
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  The Akans say, “When Nakedness promises to clothe you, ask for the name.” If Ishmael Ashietey were the only Akuffo-Addo’s Minister-designate, I would confidently predict the failure of the government. This Ashietey guy is the embodiment of Corruption, Incompetence, and Greed.
  
  First, the question of ASHIETEY being an American citizen and when should be settled by the Vetting Committee at the very beginning of the vetting process before anything else. Depending on if and when, he may have been in violation of the Constitution in the past when he served as MP and Minister or he can't serve the government in any capacity at all. It's easy to find out officially from the Department of Homeland Security through the American Embassy in Accra. I want to keep an open mind even though one of the women he was sleeping with, who incidentally was was also somebody’s wife, has told me he is.
  
  Secondly, there is nothing wrong in encouraging indigenous participation in politics but when it's clothed in ethnocentric remarks as, “Vote Indegene. Others Don't Care About You!” or words to that effect, then there is something wrong here: You're practising politics of exclusion and therefore narrowing your choices of more capable people. Ashietey has been a supporter and purveyor of this nonsense to his advantage but to the disadvantage of his constituents as the indigenes have bought into the propaganda and made it impossible for more capable non-indigenes to hold any public office in his constituency. The result is that since the inception of the 4th Republic,  the Tema East Constituency including Tema Manhean where all the MPs have come from, has seen no development. Tema Manhean is becoming more crowded and filthier by the day and becoming a backwater in the metropolis. It is instructive to note that, Ashietey served as the MP for three consecutive terms. AND HE IS TALKING OF CLEANING UP ACCRA AND CREATING JOBS! The Gas would say, “ANOKWALE PO!”
  
  Corruption? “THE LARGEST FINANCIAL MALFEASANCE IN THE HISTORY OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT,” in the words of then Minister of Local Government in the Kuffour administration, Effah-Dartey, occurred at the Tema Metropolitan Assembly (TMA) in 2002. It involved a waste management contract which was orchestrated by Ashietey with directions allegedly from Kuffour’s Office. Because of the huge amount of money involved, this incident attracted national interest as a result of which Kuffour ordered investigations into the transaction. Even though indictments were handed to the culprits including Ashietey, Kuffour refused to prosecute despite assurances on November 27, 2003  from his sector minister, Nana Akomeah. Instead Kuffour went on to promote him to Ministerial positions first as Minister of Trade and Industry where he was removed for not being alive to his duties and responsibilities and then to Fisheries where he was involved again in pre-mix fuel scandals.  However, Kuffour either bribed those who had called for prosecution in the TMA case or squeezed those who resisted into irrelevance.  HONORABLE Osei-Aidoo, then MP for Tema West who also doubled as Majority Leader, but who had vigorously called for prosecution was labeled an NDC-mole and hounded into oblivion! AKUFFO-ADDO WAS AND IS AWARE OF THIS CASE. For him to nominate this crook as Minister--designate at all is unconscionable. And to create a new and separate Sanitation Ministry only for CROOKED ASHIETEY to also mention sanitation as his priority to “create jobs” when he hasn't identified any source of funding, should alert citizens to a potential collusion for fraud because  Waste Management is one of the few areas vulnerable to financial shenanigans. The Vetting Committee should quiz CROOKED ASHIETEY extensively on this TMA fraud and others involving the IT Center at Tema, the renovation of the Post Office at Tema Manhean and the pre-mixed fuel scandals during his tenure as Minister of Fisheries.
  
  Finally the Committee shouldn’t be shy to delve into his habit of wrecking homes. Some people may not think this is serious enough but it should be. The political, economic, and social costs to a nation are enormous when people don't reach their full potential as a result of family breakups and I’ll be more than happy to help the Committee with FACTS in this regard. That's why in advanced countries, measures are in place to punish the perpetrators financially in courts of law.
  
  The Committee should not be fooled by CROOKED ASHIETEY's impressive CV. That this guy served on many Parliamentary Committees under Kuffour despite his thievery gives credence to the fact that Kuffour rewarded crookery and punished integrity.
  
  I’m sorry the President has added another disappointment to his political capital with this crook’s nomination. The Vetting Committee should help the country by refusing his confirmation.

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