We live on gold but beg for silver

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• Joe Naq 12 years ago

  Well spoken, Sir
  At times I even wander whether our state institutions works is very very pathetic.

  Well spoken, Sir
  At times I even wander whether our state institutions works is very very pathetic.

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• me 12 years ago

  We rive on gold and rather beg for coal. God save our souls!!

  We rive on gold and rather beg for coal. God save our souls!!

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• Ryt Rich 12 years ago

  sometime i wounder if our institutions are really working in our favour or in the interest of individuals, else our directors of our institutions will not seat for the president to tell them what to do.

  sometime i wounder if our institutions are really working in our favour or in the interest of individuals, else our directors of our institutions will not seat for the president to tell them what to do.

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• Zufi 12 years ago

  truely we are sitting on gold and but begging for silver.
  Oh Africa !! our self-served leaders are swimming in ignorance .

  truely we are sitting on gold and but begging for silver.
  Oh Africa !! our self-served leaders are swimming in ignorance .

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• Big Joe --- Moscow 12 years ago

  The cause :
  1. High number of misery and ignorance among Ghanaians
  2.The rule of law in Ghana undermined by security agencies for "kick- back'
  3. Unwillingness of local banks to to support local investors, miners, chie ...
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  The cause :
  1. High number of misery and ignorance among Ghanaians
  2.The rule of law in Ghana undermined by security agencies for "kick- back'
  3. Unwillingness of local banks to to support local investors, miners, chiefs, entrpreneurs with much needed capital to revamp the extractive industry .
  
  4.Rising unempoyment and poor salary
  5.Lack of radical leaderships in govt
  at post in state institutions
  6. Lack of action,demonstrations and
  by communities against foreign investors particularly chinese in collusion with chiefs , local district executives , assemblymen and women as well as politicians .
  
  7.Lack of skill and investment capital

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• Whatever 12 years ago

  This is the best article I've read today. You summed it all up nicely "We live on gold but beg for silver"

  This is the best article I've read today. You summed it all up nicely "We live on gold but beg for silver"

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• NON-ALIGNED 12 years ago

  For as long as we have a colonialists education system that makes us believe from our formative years from nursery school.........that we are POOR and continually believe so, in our adulthood. Then, I'm afraid we would not be ...
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  For as long as we have a colonialists education system that makes us believe from our formative years from nursery school.........that we are POOR and continually believe so, in our adulthood. Then, I'm afraid we would not be begging for silver but, for toxic waste to survive on!
  
  If you are brainwashed through your so-called education system to grow to believe that you are POOR.....you will FOREVER remain POOR even though you are 'living' and 'sleeping' on GOLD, BAUXITE, ALUMINIUM, DIAMOND, COCOA, TIMBER, CASHEW, SHEA BUTTER, IRON ORE, COPPER, COPRA and now OIL............
  
  In addition to the belief of being POOR,.....the lingo also makes us feel very inferior to the 'obroni' or nay human with a skin lighter than ours.
  It has made us embrace other peoples' cultures and traditions......and have discarded OURS!!! WHAT A SHAME!
  
  That is why we always take pride in being hospitable to foreigners and hate OUR OWN.............
  Tribalism is now the order of the day in modern Ghana, with the gutter party politics of both the NDC and NPP.
  
  We need to create OUR OWN education system that reflects OUR HERITAGE and takes PRIDE in who we are. And that, which emancipates OUR MINDS from MENTAL SLAVERY FOR GOOD!!!!
  
  GOD BLESS GHANA!
  AFRICAN FOREVER!

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• FOUNDING MEMBER 12 years ago

  abundant of water the fool is thirsty

  abundant of water the fool is thirsty

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• shamu 12 years ago

  Zongonization of ghana is on course...by the time mahama finishes ghana will be a huge zongo..want evidence? Visit bole bamboi

  Zongonization of ghana is on course...by the time mahama finishes ghana will be a huge zongo..want evidence? Visit bole bamboi

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• Justman 12 years ago

  STOP FOOLING AROUND. IF YOU SEE GOLD YOU CANNOT RECOGNIZE IT. KEEP QUIET AND LEARN HARD. THEN YOU CAN KNOW WHAT IS GOLD. GOLD IS NOT FOR LAZY MINDS.

  STOP FOOLING AROUND. IF YOU SEE GOLD YOU CANNOT RECOGNIZE IT. KEEP QUIET AND LEARN HARD. THEN YOU CAN KNOW WHAT IS GOLD. GOLD IS NOT FOR LAZY MINDS.

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• james naru 12 years ago

  good article
  I WILL VOTE FOR THIS GUY ANYTIME.
  I SHARE YOU CONCERNS TOO
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  WE NEED GOOD LEADERS.
  OUR LAWS ARE TAKEN FOR GRANTED; EVEN BY THE POLITICIANS WHO ARE TO UPHOLD THE LAW.

  good article
  I WILL VOTE FOR THIS GUY ANYTIME.
  I SHARE YOU CONCERNS TOO
  .
  WE NEED GOOD LEADERS.
  OUR LAWS ARE TAKEN FOR GRANTED; EVEN BY THE POLITICIANS WHO ARE TO UPHOLD THE LAW.

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• Real Roots 12 years ago

  Praise be to the true god that we still have some sensible and insightful Ghanaians. And for once only one "wise" person is wading in with political / tribal insults; the tools of neocolonialism. Make we shine our eyes, o my ...
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  Praise be to the true god that we still have some sensible and insightful Ghanaians. And for once only one "wise" person is wading in with political / tribal insults; the tools of neocolonialism. Make we shine our eyes, o my brothers; we are being sold all over again.

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