Mr. President, “sarcasm won’t move Ghana forward”.

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• sbrooks 12 years ago

  While I agree with your basic premise (afterall a solution is a solution) whoever provides it. But I have a concern. Don't you think that judging his presidency so prematurely is just as sarcastic? I mean give the man sometim ...
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  While I agree with your basic premise (afterall a solution is a solution) whoever provides it. But I have a concern. Don't you think that judging his presidency so prematurely is just as sarcastic? I mean give the man sometime am sure problems didn't get created overnight solutions won't be either!

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• Nana Antwi-Berko 12 years ago

  Thank you sbrooks! You've exposed the hypocrisy of this rubbish called article.

  Thank you sbrooks! You've exposed the hypocrisy of this rubbish called article.

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• peace 12 years ago

  it is more annoying when people keep on referring the mr kuffour. when we all know he failled miserably as president of this country. if kuffour is the yardstick then it means you people to offer. i hope if mr. addo dankwa a ...
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  it is more annoying when people keep on referring the mr kuffour. when we all know he failled miserably as president of this country. if kuffour is the yardstick then it means you people to offer. i hope if mr. addo dankwa akuffo addo is given opportunity he will reffrain from talk of kuffour's legacy. kuffour keep quiet it will do NPP good.

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• AbasZ 12 years ago

  Kufour noise made the country jump from HIPIC to middle income. The whole international bodies commended his(KUFOUR's) government. Peace, you sound like you know little. Kufour cancelled Ghana debt of $8billion.

  Kufour noise made the country jump from HIPIC to middle income. The whole international bodies commended his(KUFOUR's) government. Peace, you sound like you know little. Kufour cancelled Ghana debt of $8billion.

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• Nana Yaw III 12 years ago

  Going HIPC was in principle, Kuffour's idea of salvaging the country. Yes some debt was forgiven but for your information, most remained intact. Just that the re-payment of principal and/or interest was delayed (postponed) ...
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  Going HIPC was in principle, Kuffour's idea of salvaging the country. Yes some debt was forgiven but for your information, most remained intact. Just that the re-payment of principal and/or interest was delayed (postponed) to a future date.
  
  This delayed payments have now started, and the most important of all, HIPC/MDRI left us with no other option than to go back borrowing.
  
  This will continue in this country until our economists get to the ground and find pragmatic solutions to our developmental budgeting in Oman Ghana. The solutions are here and we have to work it out.
  
  HIPC/MDRI and the World Bank plus IMF never did (and will never) move us out of our problems.

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• Nana Yaw III 12 years ago

  Mr. Quaye,
  
  “In the recent past, sarcasm has reigned so much that everywhere you go people use it as medium to respond or react to statements that affects them” is how you started your article, so I wonder why you find ...
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  Mr. Quaye,
  
  “In the recent past, sarcasm has reigned so much that everywhere you go people use it as medium to respond or react to statements that affects them” is how you started your article, so I wonder why you find the President’s use of the same tactics as offensive.
  
  To follow your trend, let me add that of late Ghanaians have resorted to the use of God and the works of God as the only means towards progress in this country. So is the case that a lady MP (Ursula Owusu?) was quoted as saying the NDC is a cursed party. And there are countless numbers of charlatans, crooks, and thieves parading this country in the name of God, fleecing the people, destroying families, and practically enslaving many thousands of innocents to the extent that these innocents prefer to absent themselves from work, with lies, in order to attend special prayer meetings, special crusades, etc., to the detriment of their employers’ success. I am therefore not surprised that you also find it necessary to state “No body can be perfect in this world except Jesus Christ who was of the spirit of God. Apart from him, no one can be said to be perfect no not one.” I do not know if you felt as if all your readers are Christians. This is an open space, so you must address a wider audience.
  
  I do not think that the President, by employing the same sarcasm implied that he is a perfect man, so do not accuse him of such assumptions of your own. I’m not holding brief for the President, nor am I doing so for others of his party.
  
  What I want you to understand is that it is not the President who has “induced” sleep on public and civil servants at their workplaces. You must know that most of these sleeping employees do so at work for various reasons, the most important of which is their lack of rest.
  
  In this country, especially in the cities, many of these public and civil servants spend their rest times and part of their official hours chasing God from one church to the other, from one prayer meeting to the other, from one prophet (apostle, bishop, overseer, etc.) to the other; at dawn, in the afternoon, in the evening, and at night. This gives them no time to rest, and automatically sends them to sleep (physically and mentally) when their duty is most needed. And as if this were not enough, they spend their weekends attending funerals that have now become parties. After all this how do you expect Ghanaians to be physically and mentally awake when the call of duty comes? And you think Mahama is the cause of this malady? Nation building is not a one-man affair. What is your contribution?
  
  Finally, unlike you, I’m not much surprised about the spate of industrial actions you mentioned. I’m not surprised because it is an expected phenomenon whenever a budget is read and fuel prices are adjusted upwards. You must be an angel, brimming with so much innocence which has inadvertently sent you to sleep, that you have failed to mark this reality in the Ghanaian economic calendar. You can add other interpretations and suspicions to the strike, such as the inconsistencies marked in the front of the unions battling the government on salary issues, and you will wake up from your slumber.
  
  Have a good day.

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• Nana Antwi-Berko 12 years ago

  Well said Nana Yaw III.

  Well said Nana Yaw III.

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• Yaw Amofa 12 years ago

  IF KUFFOUR WANTS TO BE A BEGGER, MAHAMA DOESNT WANT TO BE ONE, DUMBO!

  IF KUFFOUR WANTS TO BE A BEGGER, MAHAMA DOESNT WANT TO BE ONE, DUMBO!

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• Joe 12 years ago

  It does not mean every advice should be taken, too many advices from every orner, please leave the man alone.

  It does not mean every advice should be taken, too many advices from every orner, please leave the man alone.

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• insight to the bone 12 years ago

  here again we see the pepeni try to put cotton wool over our eyes again with his lies and cosmetic moves that solve nothing . as we speak right now there are hundreds of billions worth of projects and investors being frustrat ...
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  here again we see the pepeni try to put cotton wool over our eyes again with his lies and cosmetic moves that solve nothing . as we speak right now there are hundreds of billions worth of projects and investors being frustrated by the ndc 419 politicians and not corrupt civil service as all they care about is thinking of various processes and procedures whose end result is bog down the investor so they can take money from the unaware. where is the bni , police and so called GAF now ,? they also participate in the corrupt crony system that further denies that initiatives of the citizens comes to fruition even if the govt remains incompetent , in short an impossible situation that will sooner or later create a fertile environment for war

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