Re: Donor Partners have neglected us – Mahama, Really?

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TEE 11 years ago

MAHAMA SEND BACK OUR MONIES YOU HAVE IN DUBAI IRAN TURKEY SOUTH AFRICA SOUTH AMERICA etc. SO GHANA WILL BE FREE FROM THIS MESS PERIOD THIEVES MAHAMA AND HIS SMALL BOYS STUDENTS MINISTERS DONE

MAHAMA SEND BACK OUR MONIES YOU HAVE IN DUBAI IRAN TURKEY SOUTH AFRICA SOUTH AMERICA etc. SO GHANA WILL BE FREE FROM THIS MESS PERIOD THIEVES MAHAMA AND HIS SMALL BOYS STUDENTS MINISTERS DONE
insight to the bone 11 years ago

the problem with this northern mentality is that thanks to jj they now all have an unquenchable thirst for power but never to serve in a team or accept their fellow countrymen . just look around in Accra and study the majorit ...
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the problem with this northern mentality is that thanks to jj they now all have an unquenchable thirst for power but never to serve in a team or accept their fellow countrymen . just look around in Accra and study the majority of the businesses owned by these northerners and in the majority of the medium and Small sized businesses you notice they only employ their fellow northerners and practically never employ an Akan . Today in Accra the largest religious building in the country will be the mosque being build on our national park at Nima donated by Turkey confirming the Islamic domination of Ghana. Tribalism mixed with chauvinism and despotism from the north has now equaled the hegemony of the ewes . A.C.C.R.A any criminal can roam about so we have them everywhere now . even at the scholarship secretariat hardly ever is an Akan awarded the privilege to go abroad and study now . The Akans are the majority but because most continue to sleep or blindly trust the other tribes these atrocities are taking place . We look at the political strategy of the NDC and see the typical Hannibal wench when he turned the strengths of the mighty Roman army against themselves as they are doing to the Akans . From the south they use part of the Fantis and from the North the Brongs , from behind we have the chariot onslaught of the Gas Ewes Krobos. Yes the political landscape reflects a war which is only meant to destroy the right of self governance of the God's chosen nation of Africa the Akan . For them its a big deal who leads the NPP but we really don't care as our movement grows stronger by the hour as more and more Akans wake up to reality of this dire situation . We did not ask for this war but we will fight it and be victorious as God is with us .
OGYATANAA, LONDON 11 years ago

WHEN THE EPIPHANIC MOMENT COMES, WE AKANS WILL TAKE OVER THE DESTINY OF OUR PEOPLE IN OUR OWN HANDS. A DAY WILL COME AND ON THAT DAY ..........

WHEN THE EPIPHANIC MOMENT COMES, WE AKANS WILL TAKE OVER THE DESTINY OF OUR PEOPLE IN OUR OWN HANDS. A DAY WILL COME AND ON THAT DAY ..........
TEE 11 years ago

MAHAMA AND HIS BROTHER IBRAHIM HAS SYOLEN ALLL OUR MONEY OUTSIDE GHANA, AND NOW WE ARE POOR AND NO ELDER PEOPLE ARE DOING NOTHING. IMPEACH HIM AND TRAIL HIM IN THE DOURT OF JUSTICES PERIOD

MAHAMA AND HIS BROTHER IBRAHIM HAS SYOLEN ALLL OUR MONEY OUTSIDE GHANA, AND NOW WE ARE POOR AND NO ELDER PEOPLE ARE DOING NOTHING. IMPEACH HIM AND TRAIL HIM IN THE DOURT OF JUSTICES PERIOD
LONTO-BOY 11 years ago

MASSA KOFI, it's good you have seen and put things in the best possible light. This is an honest and reasonable piece. Yes, Donor Countries are withholding funds because the NDC Government of President John Mahama is brutally ...
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MASSA KOFI, it's good you have seen and put things in the best possible light. This is an honest and reasonable piece. Yes, Donor Countries are withholding funds because the NDC Government of President John Mahama is brutally corrupt. Given the NDC Government's appalling proven track record of corruption, financial mismanagement and wasteful spending, the Donors, justifiably, don't want to 'prop up' a Corrupt NDC Government!

Isn't it completely insane for an independent country like Ghana, so rich in natural resources and mineral wealth to dependent heavily on Donor countries and foreign aid for its national budget? May be it is time the Donor countries 'abandon' Ghana.
Mr. Figure-Out 11 years ago

I don't know what Ghana would be today if our country was like Burkina Foso, Mali Or Togo where natural resources are so scarce or very scanty. I cannot comprehend or fathom why a country like Ghana, which the Whiteman, in h ...
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I don't know what Ghana would be today if our country was like Burkina Foso, Mali Or Togo where natural resources are so scarce or very scanty. I cannot comprehend or fathom why a country like Ghana, which the Whiteman, in his own wisdom,named as The Gold Gold, a nation so endowed with rich and cultivable lands, cash crops and natural resources of any kind could be wallowing in such a contemptible poverty. We generate electricity to supply Togo and Benin when most Ghanaian sleep in Darkness with about half of the nation not connected to the national grid? We drill oil to feed China whilst fuel prices in our local markets is more expensive than all the greatest economies around the Globe. How can a Country like Ghana pay her ministers of state some $4000.00 per month, give them free accommodation, fuel their cars at the expense of the poor farmers and teachers, give them clothe allowance, free utility bills, government paid drivers, watchmen, cooks and house girls. And these buffoons have the guts to tell us "Edey bee keke", " yen tie obiaa", "are you my coequal " and freakishly fucking stuff like. We shamelessly pay humongous judgement debts to cronies for no work done when government worker have their bonafide pay in areas for several months. Is it not criminal for Mahama to personally by one saloon car and a pickup truck for one "Dr," Asemfofro who came public to thank the president for his kind gesture? Has Mahama got a hardcash minted machine in his home that makes the most generous Father Christmas of our times? Ghana will die, with this current crop of greedy politicians we have at the presidency. I don't think Ghana needs to run to any donor country for funds if we get competent and selflessly incorruptible leaders to run the nation. Rawlings, Kuffour, And Mahama, all of them don't deserve to leave several reasons. Is it not shameful to let EO group to get away with a whooping 3% proceed of our oil wealth. May Allah deal mercilessly with all those who have contributed to this mess.
LONTO-BOY 11 years ago

How profoundly depressing. Cry, The Beloved Country.

How profoundly depressing. Cry, The Beloved Country.
Agyenco UK 11 years ago

Kofi I never thought you will ever see the ineptitude of Mahama's administration.
As fellow commentator has remarked, some of us saw from the beginning that Mahama was not a leadership material but you and Bokor threw commo ...
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Kofi I never thought you will ever see the ineptitude of Mahama's administration.
As fellow commentator has remarked, some of us saw from the beginning that Mahama was not a leadership material but you and Bokor threw commonsense to the wind and lambasted all those who you thought were 'against' people.
Now 'we live to see' syndrome has come back to play and those us who could foretell events of the future have been vindicated.
Anyway Kofi Bravo for being straight forward on your first choice.
Our Lord Jesus once said you will know the truth and when you know the truth, that truth shall set you free. Thank God you are now a free man. Good day Kofi.
Chabba 11 years ago

Ata Kofi well done for this one. If only chief kleptocrat, John Mahama, and his National Kleptocratic Congress will listen.

Ata Kofi well done for this one. If only chief kleptocrat, John Mahama, and his National Kleptocratic Congress will listen.
Omanhene 11 years ago

Well said.mahama ic criminal and clueless .But these stupid ewes and dirty northerners Is the cause of our woes.

Well said.mahama ic criminal and clueless .But these stupid ewes and dirty northerners Is the cause of our woes.

C.Y. ANDY-K 11 years ago

Look, I am a so-called Ewe and I am NOT by ANY yardstick that anyone can stretch out stupid. And, as an ardent pro-Nkrumahist who I don't believe in any form of political prostitution with either the NDC or the NPP, as the CP ...
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Look, I am a so-called Ewe and I am NOT by ANY yardstick that anyone can stretch out stupid. And, as an ardent pro-Nkrumahist who I don't believe in any form of political prostitution with either the NDC or the NPP, as the CPP in particular has been doing. I am aware of 1000s of Ewes and Northerners who are just like me. We have no hands in what the NDC does as a party, not to mention what Mahama does. I therefore detest blanket insult of Ewes and Northerners..

You'd hear from me.

Andy-K
Baffour Agyemang 11 years ago

Massa Kofi I like your articles; the quality of your writing is superb. You reason very well.

Massa Kofi I like your articles; the quality of your writing is superb. You reason very well.
David 11 years ago

This is only a face saving article by this NDC praises singing choir leader. Patriotic citizens saw the criminal mind of the Mills/Mahama regime from day one(January 2009), but he took all who opposed their fraudulent dealing ...
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This is only a face saving article by this NDC praises singing choir leader. Patriotic citizens saw the criminal mind of the Mills/Mahama regime from day one(January 2009), but he took all who opposed their fraudulent dealings to the cleaners. God is alive. The next to follow is M.J. Bokor, the Akufo Addo hater.
Sir Lancelot 11 years ago

Kofi Ata is thinking again,u think Mahama is not aware of all these?It's all just a ploy.He goes around playing yentie obia but wants help from obia!!

Kofi Ata is thinking again,u think Mahama is not aware of all these?It's all just a ploy.He goes around playing yentie obia but wants help from obia!!
Tango & Cash 11 years ago

Why on earth will donors pour their hard earned money into a creaking wasteful basket? If the Brits were still running this place I bet Ghana with all its resources could be looking like Dubai! But you leave it for the blac ...
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Why on earth will donors pour their hard earned money into a creaking wasteful basket? If the Brits were still running this place I bet Ghana with all its resources could be looking like Dubai! But you leave it for the black man and after 57 years they still schooling under trees! With over 83 ministers and clueless deputy ministers swinging around in $150,000 SUVs doing diddly squat, you think Donors don't see these wasteful unproductive behaviours and black man attributes? Come on
Ike 11 years ago

Donors are wise, they cannot and will not waste their taxpayer money. This write up is spot on. It is not perception of corruption and waste because there is nothing to show for the huge debts Ghana has raked up

Donors are wise, they cannot and will not waste their taxpayer money. This write up is spot on. It is not perception of corruption and waste because there is nothing to show for the huge debts Ghana has raked up
Jato .P 11 years ago

Very good analysis. Thank you. I hope the president and his ministers will read this article

Very good analysis. Thank you. I hope the president and his ministers will read this article
Kwapps 11 years ago

Kofi Ata, you never gave Akufo-Addo a breathing space during the last election and now here you are complaining about your own choice.

I however agree with you here and also with the American embassy tweet that this govern ...
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Kofi Ata, you never gave Akufo-Addo a breathing space during the last election and now here you are complaining about your own choice.

I however agree with you here and also with the American embassy tweet that this government is indeed typical of a third world country where everything is in disarray.
Alasa 11 years ago

Now Kwesi Ata is, like the irascible Dr. Bokor, eating his vomit!!

Now Kwesi Ata is, like the irascible Dr. Bokor, eating his vomit!!
KKO 11 years ago

Excellent piece, Kofi,
Some of us knew from 2009 that this Mahama guy is no good. From the Brear Aircraft purchase scandal through his wishy washy answers at the presidential debate, it was obvious that the man (his vice is ...
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Excellent piece, Kofi,
Some of us knew from 2009 that this Mahama guy is no good. From the Brear Aircraft purchase scandal through his wishy washy answers at the presidential debate, it was obvious that the man (his vice is a lot worse) was no presidential material!

Every society deserves the leaders it gets. Ghanaians asked for and have got Mahama.

Abeeku Mensah 11 years ago

Kofi Ata @Cambridge UK should be proud of his own life of learning and working for a living; that is life worthy of every abled body Ghanaian here at home as well. Maybe you should read up, Kofi, on the economic pictures of ...
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Kofi Ata @Cambridge UK should be proud of his own life of learning and working for a living; that is life worthy of every abled body Ghanaian here at home as well. Maybe you should read up, Kofi, on the economic pictures of every major economic power nations of the world to find out that our donor nations are themselves indebted to China and to each other. It's about time we stopped being the bottom of the barrel nation where our leaders mortgage the future of generations of not yet born Ghanaians for the convenience of the now generation of do nothing and have no shame Ghanaians. Kofi do you think people of rural farming and fishing communities in Ghana where the trickle down government largesse never gets to hold out tin cans each day begging and hope against all hope that donors from above or from afar will provide for their daily existence? Being a certified beggar nation is not what you or anyone in the Diaspora should wish for or upon the living in Ghana; come up with feasible, plausible ideas and ideals for Ghana even if our boneheaded, incompetent, immoral leaders in parliament and the office of the president do not care to use rather than the advocacy of sustained beggar nation status most of you seem to delight as equitable
Alasa 11 years ago

NPP, Nana Addo basher!! Now you have finally seen that your beloved, JM superintending the "most corrupt government in Ghana's history".

NPP, Nana Addo basher!! Now you have finally seen that your beloved, JM superintending the "most corrupt government in Ghana's history".
THEY CAME TO DESTROY GHANA.... 11 years ago

Terror Groups In Africa and Middle East

Al Shabaab - Somalia
Al Qaeda - Iraq
Boko Haram - Nigeria
Ansar Al Sharia - Tunisia
Hezbollah - Lebanon
Hamas- Palestine
NDC - Ghana

Terror Groups In Africa and Middle East

Al Shabaab - Somalia
Al Qaeda - Iraq
Boko Haram - Nigeria
Ansar Al Sharia - Tunisia
Hezbollah - Lebanon
Hamas- Palestine
NDC - Ghana
Charles Agbenu 11 years ago

Good points good points

Good points good points
HAZOR 11 years ago

Donor countries has rather realise that President Mahama and his Ministers has taught them a lesson how fools they have made of themselves for sacrificing their tax payers money to support Ghana development and progress and P ...
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Donor countries has rather realise that President Mahama and his Ministers has taught them a lesson how fools they have made of themselves for sacrificing their tax payers money to support Ghana development and progress and President Mahama and his Ministers has made the DONOR AID the world bank and stealing that money meant for developmen.According FORBES Magazine, President Mahama has rape Ghana of $990 million and deposite at Swiss Bank,Afriyie Ankraah rape Ghana of $110 million,Education Minister $85 million and Mahama secure $300 million for free distribution of sanitary pads is an insult to their intelligence instead of using it for development,while you have no good water,no educational aid,no good roads.Donor partners have not even put economic,political,social sanctions on you and you are complaining.
HAZOR 11 years ago

How would you feel when you hear the person you are supporting cry for poverty and need aid took Ghc8.7 billion or $4.6 billion to buy cars for school girls and distributing deodorant to people while some of their parliamenta ...
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How would you feel when you hear the person you are supporting cry for poverty and need aid took Ghc8.7 billion or $4.6 billion to buy cars for school girls and distributing deodorant to people while some of their parliamentarians don't have cars to drive to work but depend on bicycles and public buses to go to work?
Kofi Ata, Cambridge, UK 11 years ago

I will not respond to individual comments but just to say that I appreciate your comments. For those who accused me of being an apologist, anti-Nana Akufo-Addo/NPP and Mahama/NDC fundamentalist, you have the right to hold suc ...
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I will not respond to individual comments but just to say that I appreciate your comments. For those who accused me of being an apologist, anti-Nana Akufo-Addo/NPP and Mahama/NDC fundamentalist, you have the right to hold such views but I disagree with you. May I refer you to click my name on Columnist at the top right of the page and accessed all my articles. You will note that, all the issues I have raised in my article concerning Nana Akufo-Addo/NPP were legitimate and of interest to Ghanaians as well as of public interest. Again, I have been a critic of the Mills/Mahama/NDC governments since 2010, when I posted my first article on Ghana. Let's continue the debate as our contribution to mother Ghana's development.
C.Y. ANDY-K 11 years ago

Kofi,

It is clear you had your fill of the Mahama shenanigans in the face of lackluster performance in a regime dragged by inability to take optimum best decisions fast. We have been told by Sgebefia by he and his former b ...
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Kofi,

It is clear you had your fill of the Mahama shenanigans in the face of lackluster performance in a regime dragged by inability to take optimum best decisions fast. We have been told by Sgebefia by he and his former boss Mills don't think fast and so take decision slowly! Tweah! Commanders-in-Chief who can't take decisions fast, on the spur of the moment but must sleep on it for months, eh? Any wonders their troops are being slaughtered.

When I wrote Staying in the Frying Pan after the elections, I never expected that it'd be turned into a blistering cauldron!

Anyway, the wish to comment on two points you touched led me to write. I'll touch on only two, ghost workers and revenue leakages - my self-allotted time has almost run out.:-)

The problem of ghost workers has been with us for decades, starting from the 1960s. By the early 1970s, it had become a serious issue with tentacles to the powers-that-be. My Dad was an accountant, rising by the early 50s to head the Accounting Dept of John Holt Bartholomew with over 20 white and scores of African staff under him before resigning to start a private practice. He and his British partner, after liquidating the Damongo Settlement Scheme, were contracted by the CPP regime to set up the Accounting Dept. of the newly formed Workers Brigade. He was the substantive Deputy Financial Comptroller and his partner the Financial Comptroller. When he left, my father acted in his until they got another British but a useless one not as qualified as my Dad to fill the post. He also left and my Dad was acting again as the Financial Comptroller when the coup occurred. Since he didn't steal a penny and didn't accept the share of the booty some sector Ministers were ripping off the state through the WB, the NLC people couldn't touch him. Instead of rewarding him for being a faithful and patriotic citizen, they side-lined him and not paid even his full entitlements out of sheer jealousy even after winning a number of court judgements in the '70s! IGP Harlley (the man was married to an auntie with same maiden name like us) personally appealed to him not to be aggrieved after the coup, since there was too much complaints of too many Ewes in high positions, so he was sacrificed to satisfy you know whom interests. They started their own thing, dodgy, dodgy, and it ended in my ironing the shirt that fateful day for my father to appear before the Hearing in Camera which ended with the stepping down of Gen. Ankrah as Head of the NLC. The man was guilty as charge.

Anyway, by the early '70s with arrival of Kutu and his gang, my father's probity in the Accounting Dept of the Ministry where he was reshuffled to led to his being shunted to head the Personnel Dept. There, he said he discovered why the salary bill was unexplainable high: ghost workers! Of course, he took a big pair scissors to pruning them, something which caused alarm in higher places. He was promptly sent back to the Accounting Dept. and later absorbed into the Acct-Gen's Dept., or sort of. He refused to attend the interview which was supposed to make him Principal Accountant because his emoluments at the time surpassed that of the position! All along, he was on contract, being like a white man who was left behind when Ghana got independence. By the late '70s, he was the Accountant in charge of the Long Room in Tema with responsibility for KIA too. Talk about revenue leakages! Papa started plunging the holes too, beating allotted target with request that if he was given the free hand and support, he could raise ten times more! How? No time and space for that right now. The boy he thought he could trust who turned out to be the one behind forging his signature, etc., etc.? When he came home one day saddened and depressed about how he had to run personally to catch someone, we all got pissed up with him! His pressure was already bad. leading to the stroke that killed him eventually.

Yes, some of us know a lot about the rot in the system and can say with 100% certainty that successive govts have simply been toying with it. Even that of the PNDC. It is the PNDC's failure to carry out the necessary institutional reforms and changes that led to the resurgence of corruption with a vengeance from 1993.

Andy-K
Akadu Mensema 11 years ago

The man is just clueless!

The man is just clueless!
HE'S NOT AFRAID 11 years ago

RE:DONOR PARTNERS HAVE NEGLETED US-MAHAMA,REALLY?

RE:DONOR PARTNERS HAVE NEGLETED US-MAHAMA,REALLY?

Kwabena Ansa 11 years ago

Mr. Mahama, why shouldn't you be disappointed? You know you have a reputation as a liar, untrustworthy thief and arrogant. Consequently, when your so called donor partners realized the corrupt individual they were dealing wit ...
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Mr. Mahama, why shouldn't you be disappointed? You know you have a reputation as a liar, untrustworthy thief and arrogant. Consequently, when your so called donor partners realized the corrupt individual they were dealing with, they had no choice but to renege on their promise to you. The fact is, If they did not do that and kept their promise, whatever money they might have donated would have gone into your secret overseas account. Thank God you did not get your hands on the expected donation. By the way, who are these donor partners, Mr. Mahama?

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