Politicization/Corruption of "Entrepreneurship" in Ghana

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• Kojo T 13 years ago

  It is called crony capitalism. The NPP claiming to be free entrepreneurs are not true to their ideloy as they are risk averse just as the NDC. They just LOOT the State under private partnership. The so called social democrat ...
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  It is called crony capitalism. The NPP claiming to be free entrepreneurs are not true to their ideloy as they are risk averse just as the NDC. They just LOOT the State under private partnership. The so called social democrat are no better . Shame on us

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• mensah abrampa 13 years ago

  In Ghana it's impossible for a poor man to enter politics because the campaigns are cash intensive.It's only those who have attained the ghana standardized middle class status and above who can venture into politics. For most ...
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  In Ghana it's impossible for a poor man to enter politics because the campaigns are cash intensive.It's only those who have attained the ghana standardized middle class status and above who can venture into politics. For most of these aspiring politicians the cash rewards seem to be the only motivation for their decision to jump on to the politics gravy train to serve their nation. As soon as they're on board the first business is to recoup every dime they spent on their campaign which generally involves bribing people to vote for them. Some of them boost their chances of election by obtaining loans. Now how would anybody in his right mind obtain a loan to serve his nation if he has no fore knowledge of how to pay back the loan with interest in the shortest possible time? About 99.9% of all these office seekers have just one strategy, what I will call reverse Robin Hood in mind. They will rob from the poor and reward themselves with the booty.
  The solution to this culture of greed and corruption is the immediate passage of the Freedom of Information Bill into law. We, the people should not accept a watered down version of a bill whose sole purpose is maintaining the status quo.If we desire the dawning of a new day in the way we do politics in Ghana than we must demand that the legislature put the FOIB on a fast track and make sure it passed into law by the end of the third quarter. Much of our future viability depends on the passage of this landmark bill and we should no longer countenance any further delay.

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