“Silent Corruption” vs. Professor Lungu’s thoughts?

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• Dr. Origi Pink Sheets 12 years ago

  Massa, some of us ....our understanding of the Prof thought is clear.
  
  "Mahama's "silent corruption" is useless vs. FOIB!"
  
  The guy was incontrovertibly advocating for Right To Information Act, transparency to be giving t ...
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  Massa, some of us ....our understanding of the Prof thought is clear.
  
  "Mahama's "silent corruption" is useless vs. FOIB!"
  
  The guy was incontrovertibly advocating for Right To Information Act, transparency to be giving to its rightful owners, the citizenry.
  
  
  The saying goes that No Security, No Economy, period!
  
  Ghanians are in the supreme court due to our dearth of comprehensive address system entailing street names, house/apartment #'s/area codes and so on. How do we provide service to the people at their residences?
  
  Without this basic building block in this digital era/age, how do we prevent crime?
  
  How do we make the citizenry accountable to our omissions and commissions?
  
  How do we provide credits and loans to the people and feel secure that they will be responsible?
  
  How do we conduct polls and not suspect that is going to be fraught with irregularities such as over-voting, no verification, no vote is going to be adhered?
  
  Until we implement comprehensive address system, 2016 polls is not going to be any different from 2012.
  
  In order for us to deepen transparency in our governance dispensation, the ministry of justice must be separated from the Attorney General, finished.
  
  How do we get effective governance without Right To Information Act? Remember, power resides with the people, and then rented out to the politician for a duration.
  
  If we truly want to streamline the system of miscreants and the like; where is our permanent national database?
  
  Was the so called unique identification cards a two day wonder? If not, why did the budget requested for 50 million to bring the project to fruition but was allocated a million or two?
  
  Atuguba and his posse (Constitutional Review Committee) spent millions on global gallivanting and what did we get for a constitution revamped in the end?
  
  Check this:
  
  
  Osafo Maafo Pushes For Election Of DCEs
  
  
  But then, the Pres goes on to make 6,000 appointments or job for the boys and girls as recommended by our semblance of constitution.
  
  Massa, why do you think they call it the Ghanian experiment or project?
  
  Nuffsed!!
  
  We are excellent at managing crisis but useless at preventing them - Dr. Tarzan.

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• I have a dream 12 years ago

  You´re right!!!!
  Ghanaians are in the supreme court due to our dearth of comprehensive address system entailing street names, house/apartment #'s/area codes and so on. How do we provide service to the people at their reside ...
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  You´re right!!!!
  Ghanaians are in the supreme court due to our dearth of comprehensive address system entailing street names, house/apartment #'s/area codes and so on. How do we provide service to the people at their residences?
  
  Without this basic building block in this digital era/age, how do we prevent crime?
  
  How do we make the citizenry accountable to our omissions and commissions?
  
  How do we provide credits and loans to the people and feel secure that they will be responsible?
  
  How do we conduct polls and not suspect that is going to be fraught with irregularities such as over-voting, no verification, no vote is going to be adhered?

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• Dr. Origi Pink Sheets 12 years ago

  Massa, why do we have elected dictatorship i.e. the Presidency as prescribed by the constitution?
  
  Massa, is our constitution worth as an ass wipe?

  Massa, why do we have elected dictatorship i.e. the Presidency as prescribed by the constitution?
  
  Massa, is our constitution worth as an ass wipe?

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• Paul Amuna 12 years ago

  I find you guys simply unbelievable. Why does anyone even bother to provide an opinion when people are blinded by their own pre-occupations and will twist whatever is written in the wrong direction!

  I find you guys simply unbelievable. Why does anyone even bother to provide an opinion when people are blinded by their own pre-occupations and will twist whatever is written in the wrong direction!

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• Elected Dictatorship 12 years ago

  Ghana's problems can be attributed to three things:
  
  1. Poor Institutions
  
  2. Semblance of weak Constitution
  
  3. Bereft of cogent laws that make the citizenry responsible.

  Ghana's problems can be attributed to three things:
  
  1. Poor Institutions
  
  2. Semblance of weak Constitution
  
  3. Bereft of cogent laws that make the citizenry responsible.

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• Vuvuzela 12 years ago

  "We are excellent at managing crisis but useless at preventing them - Dr. Tarzan."
  
  Tarzan must have been either so bored or overwhelmed in his trances to have made this assertion. Le him prove it.
  
  Correction: We aren't ...
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  "We are excellent at managing crisis but useless at preventing them - Dr. Tarzan."
  
  Tarzan must have been either so bored or overwhelmed in his trances to have made this assertion. Le him prove it.
  
  Correction: We aren't excellent at anything at all. That's the face of truth.
  
  Anyway, another waste, this article. Let the president seriously begin showcasing his dynamism instead of idle speeches.

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• appeletus 12 years ago

  So, can Ghana really move with attitudes like this? Such attitudes support silent corruption that continues to siphon the needed resources for development. We have to get rid off silent corruption.

  So, can Ghana really move with attitudes like this? Such attitudes support silent corruption that continues to siphon the needed resources for development. We have to get rid off silent corruption.

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• appeletus 12 years ago

  That silent corruption nearly landed Dr Tarzan and co in jail reference to the building of the jubilee house now called Flagstaff is still fresh in the minds of Ghanaians. FOIB is one slide of the puzzle.
  Silent corruption i ...
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  That silent corruption nearly landed Dr Tarzan and co in jail reference to the building of the jubilee house now called Flagstaff is still fresh in the minds of Ghanaians. FOIB is one slide of the puzzle.
  Silent corruption is way over the board in Ghana. Government officials inflating price tags, negotiating deals etc. Silent corruption does not exclude kickbacks. Silent corruption deals with Government deals like Vodacom etc
  Lets get rid off silent corruption and still work on FOIB.

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• Paul Amuna 12 years ago

  I thank you for this rebuttal so eloquently put in an authoritative yet non-pompous way. I condemned Professor Lungu's rather foolish and cheap jab at the president who in my view had used the terms appropriately (in the righ ...
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  I thank you for this rebuttal so eloquently put in an authoritative yet non-pompous way. I condemned Professor Lungu's rather foolish and cheap jab at the president who in my view had used the terms appropriately (in the right context).
  
  We need more Ghanaians like you who will stand and be counted when people abuse their intellectual positions or try to discredit others unduly and unfairly. You have put it so brilliantly and I admire your writing style too!

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• appeletus 12 years ago

  Great to hear from colleagues. We are doing well Paul. Your style is good and admired too. You are right...we need honest and bold people to put people in their right perspective. For me, silent corruption equals kickback too ...
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  Great to hear from colleagues. We are doing well Paul. Your style is good and admired too. You are right...we need honest and bold people to put people in their right perspective. For me, silent corruption equals kickback too. It exists and we must fight it.

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• mojingles 12 years ago

  leave it to Ghanaians to demonstrate to the entire world their arrogance and so called intellectual prowess........why on earth would Lungu criticise Mahama and even more troubling is Cletus lengthy and curiously inept critic ...
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  leave it to Ghanaians to demonstrate to the entire world their arrogance and so called intellectual prowess........why on earth would Lungu criticise Mahama and even more troubling is Cletus lengthy and curiously inept criticism of Lungu....

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• Paul Amuna 12 years ago

  Are you really serious?

  Are you really serious?

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• appeletus 12 years ago

  Hhahahahahaha...hahahaha...wow

  Hhahahahahaha...hahahaha...wow

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• mensah abrampa 12 years ago

  Whether corruption is "silent" or "loud" it's still corruption and very dangerous to our national and individual economic well-being. Whether the reference made by the President was semantics or sociolinguistics the time for ...
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  Whether corruption is "silent" or "loud" it's still corruption and very dangerous to our national and individual economic well-being. Whether the reference made by the President was semantics or sociolinguistics the time for talking is over. How does this debate that seems to be gathering momentum by the day help our flatlined economy? We have heard empty rhetorics and speeches on corruption for far too long.We had more than enough talking from Rawlings and Kuffour on the subject but we only managed to get from bad to worse. Too much water has passed under the bridge already. We need action now, not any more of presidential speeches and empty rhetorics. These are band aids. We don't need band aids any more for a festering sore.
  Whether it's silent or loud it's still corruption and we need to be doing something really substantial and efficacious to arrest this cancer that has eaten into every fiber of ghanaian society. I was surprised some of the serial commentators on this site decided to condemn Akadu Mensema for her satire on widespread corruption.Corruption can be found everywhere wherever humans breathe in Ghana. We need leadership from the President in our desire to have this canker rooted from ghanaian society.

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• appeletus 12 years ago

  So what is Mensah Abrampa now talking about? The President took office barely a year and he is all out to tackle corruption in its various forms. Compare what he has done until now to the several years of Kuffour and Rawlings ...
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  So what is Mensah Abrampa now talking about? The President took office barely a year and he is all out to tackle corruption in its various forms. Compare what he has done until now to the several years of Kuffour and Rawlings and make judgement...Check out all the kickbacks and deals that went through through both defunct regimes... The marauding selfish individuals who did nothing, did not sow a seed, but harvested the most...
  Can Ghana move on this way? For Gods sake, lets put party politics aside and tackle real problems head long

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• Prof Lungu 12 years ago

  Getting to this late in the process.
  
  Article reads like an "interested", and "reflexive" response to our piece.
  
  ITEM: Again, Mr. Mahama ought not waste the people's time and resources by inventing concepts at this stage ...
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  Getting to this late in the process.
  
  Article reads like an "interested", and "reflexive" response to our piece.
  
  ITEM: Again, Mr. Mahama ought not waste the people's time and resources by inventing concepts at this stage, on this narrow matter!
  
  The FOIB will speak for itself!
  
  Let the Mahama administration pass that law, if Mahama and the NDC are serious about controlling the bane of "loud" corruption.
  
  That is more important

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• PASCHALINE KUUNIFAA 12 years ago

  HAHAHAHAHA WOW

  HAHAHAHAHA WOW

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