World Bank Stirs Truth In Contempt

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• Andy Quaye Mensah 12 years ago

  If KPMG could not do simple Arithmetic(not Maths)of counting pink sheets I will not recognize them for what they claim to be .And I urge all firms not to entrust serious issues like auditing, financial advice etc. to them

  If KPMG could not do simple Arithmetic(not Maths)of counting pink sheets I will not recognize them for what they claim to be .And I urge all firms not to entrust serious issues like auditing, financial advice etc. to them

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• Para Ti Para Mi 12 years ago

  Great read... but you sound fatigued.

  Great read... but you sound fatigued.

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• Yaw Amofa 12 years ago

  Why werent you called to do the count if you were that capable?

  Why werent you called to do the count if you were that capable?

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• Nti 12 years ago

  Sidney, you Ashanti illiterate, I don't care which side of our jungle you come from, ok, but you can have apem and kontomire with me and my family anytime. But something I am wondering though, can you consider changing "Ghana ...
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  Sidney, you Ashanti illiterate, I don't care which side of our jungle you come from, ok, but you can have apem and kontomire with me and my family anytime. But something I am wondering though, can you consider changing "Ghana aha a ye de papa" to "Ghana aha nye de bio"

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• USMAN 12 years ago

  It is only our useless university graduates who will not see anything wrong with ECG,VRA and the PURC because they are all blind. This is how far our useless university education has brought us.

  It is only our useless university graduates who will not see anything wrong with ECG,VRA and the PURC because they are all blind. This is how far our useless university education has brought us.

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• Sensible One 12 years ago

  Excellent piece!

  Excellent piece!

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• BBC NEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 12 years ago

  BLAME THE ASANTI/AKYIM

  BLAME THE ASANTI/AKYIM

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• Kwame 12 years ago

  Re: World Bank Stirs the Truth in Contempt. Mr. Sidney Casely-Hayford in 1983 almost all the leftist in this country made the conclusion that the economic prescriptions of the Breton Wood Institutions will not lift the people ...
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  Re: World Bank Stirs the Truth in Contempt. Mr. Sidney Casely-Hayford in 1983 almost all the leftist in this country made the conclusion that the economic prescriptions of the Breton Wood Institutions will not lift the people out of poverty.
  True to the facts we stated during the meeting of the FORUM at the Workers' College in 1984 we have been vindicated.
  It is a fact that France generate 80% of its electricity from nuclear powered stations, South Korea 75%, China 65% but there has not been any accident in nuclear facilities in those countries. The nuclear accidents in the former Soviet Union was as a result of human error and well as the one which occurred in the Long lsland in the U.S. and that of Japan was as a result of tsumani. Thus there has been major three accidents in nuclear facilities since the world started using nuclear power for the generating of electricity since 1952. Ghana's crude oil power generator exploded only two weeks after it was commissioned in 2003. Thus there has been several accident involving crude oil power generation facilities around with human fatalities. Least we forget that two Ghanaian engineers lost their lives this year when they were welting the West African Gas pipe. We wrote the other day that since people dead whiles drinking water and eating food, then we must ban people from eating food and drinking water.
  It is a fact that one nuclear power station can generate up to 1,000 Megawatts of electricity, whiles crude oil and gas stations can generate a maximum of 300 Megawatts. You need to fed a fossil fuel generation unit with fuel everyday and that is in the interest of crude oil exporters since more use of crude oil brings them more profit. Thus it is a fact that countries that manufacture crude oil power generating units and as well export crude oil are against the use of uranium to produce electricity since in reduce their market and profit.
  We stated that South Korea produces 75% of her electric power from nuclear power stations. So how come that the "international community" is currently preventing North Korea and Iran from producing electricity from nuclear power stations and enriching them, since uranium has to be enriched before it is used for any activity, including its use in agriculture and medicine.
  Having a nuclear power station will enable us make advances in medicine and agriculture by fighting cancer and producing crops that will be disease resistant.
  We stated that by the Petitioners using pink sheets as evidence at he supreme court it amount to an examiner marking rough work rather than the answer sheet. It was the same pulling station returning/presiding officers who announced the results at the polling stations to be representing what took place at the polling station after the results were endorsed by party agents. Based on that they entered the results of the results collecting sheets and handed them together with the pink sheet to their various constituency presiding officers.
  No presiding officer has up to date come out to say that he or she was forced by the agents of the respondents to announce those results on 7th and 8th of December, 2012.
  Video footage of the Ashaman road show clearly that there was machinery and material on the road to construct the road, so it will mean that the demonstrators or the marauding hounds by destroying some of the machines meant for the work were there to let the work progress at a faster pace.
  Unfortunately the Ashaman demonstrators jumped the gun, got into the path of the bullet and got injured.
  On the Egyptian issue and the disturbances in the Arab world the 1960 and 1992 Constitutions of Ghana stated clearly that parties should not be formed on tribal or religious affiliation. Unfortunately NATO pushed the Arab world into the end of the road by forcing on them parties based on religious separatist parties and that is the root of the current disaster.

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• Kobena 12 years ago

  Between 1950 and 2000 there have been 21 serious incidents or accidents involving some off-site radiological releases that merited a rating on the International Nuclear Event Scale, one at level 5, five at level 4 and fifteen ...
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  Between 1950 and 2000 there have been 21 serious incidents or accidents involving some off-site radiological releases that merited a rating on the International Nuclear Event Scale, one at level 5, five at level 4 and fifteen at level 3. Additionally during the 1950s and 1960s there were protracted periods of known, deliberate, discharges to the atmosphere of plutonium and irradiated uranium oxide particulates.[46] These frequent incidents, together with the large 2005 Thorp plant leak which was not detected for nine months, have led some to doubt the effectiveness of the managerial processes and safety culture on the site over the years.
  In the effort to build an independent British nuclear weapon in the 1940s and 1950s, the Sellafield plant was constructed; diluted radioactive waste discharged by pipeline into the Irish Sea.[47] Greenpeace claim that the Irish Sea remains one of the most heavily contaminated seas in the world because of these discharges.[48] However Ocean scientist David Assinger has challenged this general suggestion, and cites the Dead Sea as the most radioactive sea in the world.[49] The Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the North-East Atlantic (OSPAR Convention) reports an estimated 200 kilograms (441 lb) of plutonium has been deposited in the marine sediments of the Irish Sea.[50] Cattle and fish in the area are contaminated with plutonium-239 and caesium-137 from these sediments and from other sources such as the radioactive rain that fell on the area after the Chernobyl disaster. Most of the area's long-lived radioactive technetium comes from the reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel at the Sellafield facility.[51] Technetium-99 is a radioactive element which is produced by nuclear fuel reprocessing, and also as a by-product of medical facilities (for example Ireland is responsible for the discharge of approximately 11 grams or 6.78 gigabecquerels of technetium-99 each year despite not having a nuclear industry).[52] Because it is almost uniquely produced by nuclear fuel reprocessing, technetium-99 is an important element as part of the OSPAR Convention since it provides a good tracer for discharges into the sea.
  1983 was the year of the "Beach Discharge Incident" in which high radioactive discharges containing ruthenium and rhodium 106, both beta-emitting isotopes, resulted in the closure of beaches along a 10-mile stretch of coast between St. Bees and Eskmeals, along with warnings against swimming in the sea.[58][59] BNFL received a fine of £10,000 for this discharge
  
  Kwame,
  The above information is readily available on the internet in relation to just ONE nuclear faacility, Sellafield in DEVELOPED and maintenance conciuos Britain where systems and laws work to near perfection. You see, only the big and disastrous incidents get reported. If as you rigthly said we CANNOT run and maintain a simple, harmless gas power plant how can we ever dream of safely working a nuclear power plant?
  That was Sydney's point!
  
  I sincerely hope the rest of the world will not sit and watch us commit national suicide!

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• Kwame 12 years ago

  Kobena there is vehicle accidents every day thus the British after the report you quoted above have not stopped the use of nuclear technology. The facility as Sellafield is an old facility and there are problems with old nucl ...
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  Kobena there is vehicle accidents every day thus the British after the report you quoted above have not stopped the use of nuclear technology. The facility as Sellafield is an old facility and there are problems with old nuclear facilities. I hope that you are not in the gas import business or members of your family and friends are not in it. It should be on record that the number of people killed on harmless crude oil pipes is more that those who dead or are sick after the Chernobil (Blacksoil) disaster.

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• ********** 12 years ago

  Well the difference between these two types of accidents is that, nuclear accidents when they hapen are almost always catastrophic, the question is Ghana ready to handle such accidents if they should happen?
  I believe the ...
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  Well the difference between these two types of accidents is that, nuclear accidents when they hapen are almost always catastrophic, the question is Ghana ready to handle such accidents if they should happen?
  I believe the answer is no so we should not entertain this type of energy plants.
  Thank God that our location makes it feasible to consider other sources of energy for example solar. We ought to consider this alternative form of energy seriously as it is associated with less risk to the people and the environment.

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• Akua 12 years ago

  I love reading your articles, such a breath of fresh air. Thank you.
  As you said, we still have dumso with us, no water, our roads are bad, business are suffering..it's only a few in this country who are enjoying Rlg being ...
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  I love reading your articles, such a breath of fresh air. Thank you.
  As you said, we still have dumso with us, no water, our roads are bad, business are suffering..it's only a few in this country who are enjoying Rlg being number one. Good for them!
  As for the telecom companies, the less said about them the better. I have ported my number so many times, now I am thinking there is no point. They are all useless!
  Once again thank you.
  Aha a ye de Paa!

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• Prof Lungu 12 years ago

  Columnist Sydney Casely-Hayford,
  
  Do not worry about what others call you on Ghanaweb and in other media. We know you won't.
  
  You have the right knowledge, expertise, and temperament that is solely lacking among many who ...
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  Columnist Sydney Casely-Hayford,
  
  Do not worry about what others call you on Ghanaweb and in other media. We know you won't.
  
  You have the right knowledge, expertise, and temperament that is solely lacking among many who are in politics, certainly among Ghanaweb readers and columnists.
  
  Keep on kicking, sir!
  
  You also are right! Professor Kweku Asare’s letter to the Chief Justice is dead on with respect to the free speech issue and Ken Kuranchie’s front-page story was not contemptuous.
  
  It matters a lot that we stay engaged on this item. It is that important.
  
  We believe that whatever decision is rendered, Ghanaians will accept it. But we cannot expect that all Ghanaians will think it is the right decision when rendered.

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