Mensah-Nunoo, Stop The Childish Talk; You Sound Ridiculous

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Military Man 11 years ago

Hey Phil,

Just keep them coming!

These no good "leaders" of our country think they can get on their puritanical high horses and spew any bullshit to the populace without checking themselves to see if they even have that ...
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Hey Phil,

Just keep them coming!

These no good "leaders" of our country think they can get on their puritanical high horses and spew any bullshit to the populace without checking themselves to see if they even have that moral right in the first place.

The last paragraph of your piece exactly mirrors my comment on this subject of indiscipline as seen by Mensah-Nunoo although, not in the same way you captured it. I was a little bit flambouyant with my words.

This was how I put it:

"Just because he happens to be in Government doesn't make him a role model. This particular government is so corrupt and undisciplined. So that's where he should start his crusade on discipline. The ministers in this government have kids showing off their pornographic prowess for all to see in the social media without any fear or guilt. So he should talk to his fellow ministers to have good grip on their morally loose and decadent children.
These useless ministers have no right whatsoever to tell Ghanaians what to do until they have cleaned up themselves."

So having even one other Ghanaian seeing it the way I see it makes me feel vindicated.

Thanks for your piece. It was really hard hitting and right on the money.
Kojo T 11 years ago

Phillip , your are in the UK? Go on strike and see if you will get your check , sorry cheque. In a contract there is consideration, quid pro quo. Money in return for work . Stop being a politician

Phillip , your are in the UK? Go on strike and see if you will get your check , sorry cheque. In a contract there is consideration, quid pro quo. Money in return for work . Stop being a politician
Hon. Ataa Ayi 11 years ago

Nunoo-Mensah has obviously lost his marbles.

Nunoo-Mensah has obviously lost his marbles.
mensah abrampa 11 years ago

Nunoo-Mensah does not only sound ridiculous but ludicrous as well.
Discipline generally has a trickle down effect in much the same way as indiscipline so if the Brigadier General finds it convenient to bemoan the preponderan ...
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Nunoo-Mensah does not only sound ridiculous but ludicrous as well.
Discipline generally has a trickle down effect in much the same way as indiscipline so if the Brigadier General finds it convenient to bemoan the preponderance of indiscipline at the bottom rungs of the ladder then he should not look too far from from his high chair to locate the probable source of indiscipline . When Harry Sawyer, Minister of Education in the Rawlings administration was reporting for work earlier than the stipulated time his subordinates read the message loud and clear. We all know where decomposition of the fish starts from so what the B-G is whining about defies logic; it defies the law of gravity. If the fat cats are only good at pontificating and violating protocols in the same breath then we'd prefer they leave us all alone. No worries. Sooner than later "we'll chase the crazy bald heads out of town".
TEE 11 years ago

NUNOO MENSAH GET OUT

NUNOO MENSAH GET OUT
TEE 11 years ago

MAHAMA IS A THIEF

MAHAMA IS A THIEF
GHANABA 11 years ago

Phil,the quality and the substance of your article is extraordinary.You have consistently proved your worth.How in "God"s name" can Nunoo Mensah tell my farming parents to work any harder? It has not occurred to him that the ...
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Phil,the quality and the substance of your article is extraordinary.You have consistently proved your worth.How in "God"s name" can Nunoo Mensah tell my farming parents to work any harder? It has not occurred to him that the enemies of Ghana are the "Pen Thieves" in government.The venal politicians have many heads and no brains...Well brains to steal at the expense of the poor farmers,Yes!
Abeeku Mensah 11 years ago

Your dog will not hunt Mr. Baidoo from London. I expected better from you but you seem to fail the basic tenants of democracy. It is the voting public that elect these representatives and if those very voters are ill-informed ...
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Your dog will not hunt Mr. Baidoo from London. I expected better from you but you seem to fail the basic tenants of democracy. It is the voting public that elect these representatives and if those very voters are ill-informed by the type of journalism we have in Ghana coupled with a citizenry more loyal to tribe and political party than nation they are bound to choose idiots for office. Mr. Mensah Nunoo was a political appointee who had to operate within the constraints of office. He also has rights as a Ghanaian living within the Ghanaian borders to act in defiance of unjust actions of others while ineffective agencies scratch their heads rather than act.

Instead of talking to Mensah Nunoo, you Mr. Baidoo should be writing to the many comrades of your in the Diaspora who have made life unbearable in Ghana but setting the cost of living in Ghana arbitrary high beyond the means of the living in Ghana. It is only when you and your colleagues stop using Ghana as a dumping ground for the trash you send that Ghanaians can have time to live within their means. Remember that people who are not exposed to greed are less likely to use cut throat means to acquire those luxuries in life. We are being exposed to those finer things in life we cannot afford and thus resort to bribery, corruption, mismanagement and pure hatred for Ghana just as long as elected thieves get money to buy the things you dump on us at unreasonable pricing. I am not against free market and or advances in life style but nations who have chosen to live off credit cards have seen what happens when you live off someone's dime or nickel. It is time to be bold and at times ugly to talk to the people of Ghana where the elite see nothing wrong in setting their own pay scale and benefits while the embassies of the civilized world grant these very thieves amongst us visa to travel and spend their stolen and misappropriated loot in their countries even as Ghanaian suffer. Think Mr. Baidoo for not to talk at all can be bad for Ghana but hypocrisy is fatal for Ghanaians.
KKO 11 years ago

My o my! What is your beef with Philip's article? Philip is responding to one idiot in government who thinks the myriad of problems that have engulfed Ghana is the fault of everybody's else but the people who are elected/appo ...
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My o my! What is your beef with Philip's article? Philip is responding to one idiot in government who thinks the myriad of problems that have engulfed Ghana is the fault of everybody's else but the people who are elected/appointed and handsomely remunerated (perhaps more than they deserve), to solve the problems of the country.

Here is a man who went down from Brigadier General or whatever his useless and ridiculous title was , to salute a Flight Lieutenant, so he could join the rape of Mother Ghana. Next he joined the NPP and got some position to continue his life of comfort. When the going got tough, he jumped ship and joined the NDC. When he failed miserably and was demoted, he did not have the common decency to resign, as any decent school prefect would have done, but took his backroom position from which he continues to spew garbage.

Whose fault is that the Ghanaian market is being bombarded with cheap fifth rate Chinese goods and "buronyi weewu" underwear and towels from all over the place? Once upon a time, there was a thriving Ghanaian textile industry and guess who destroyed it, not Nunoo-Mensah's idol Jerry the armed robber? How about the rice industry in the north? He destroyed it so his wife could bring in American long grain rice.

Oh I forget Ms Coton who was given $20m free, for the opportunity of 'viewing' and American bum!

My 89 year old uncle still wakes up 5, in order to get to his cocoa farm by 5:30 am, only for the proceeds of his effort to be taxed at 85%, so SSSS drop-out ministers can continue to live like sheikhs, as they learn to write their names, and learn some basic algebra! If you think it is easy to live in someone else's country, while at the same time trying to support folks at home, I shall be glad to welcome you at Gatwick tomorrow morning.
Kojo T 11 years ago

Whose fault is that the Ghanaian market is being bombarded with cheap fifth rate Chinese goods and "buronyi weewu" underwear and towels from all over the place? Once upon a time, there was a thriving Ghanaian textile industry ...
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Whose fault is that the Ghanaian market is being bombarded with cheap fifth rate Chinese goods and "buronyi weewu" underwear and towels from all over the place? Once upon a time, there was a thriving Ghanaian textile industry and guess who destroyed it, not Nunoo-Mensah's idol Jerry the armed robber? How about the rice industry in the north? He destroyed it so his wife could bring in American long grain rice.

Jerry did not shut the factories , they were shut by NPP . You closed down all the manufacturing elements, and i ported turkey tail instead . Shame on you. We all have a collective responsibility to rebuild what we especially, NPP DESTROYED

KKO 11 years ago

What makes you think I am NPP? Who closed Kittani Bros in Accra, TTL, Tamale Rice Mills, Kade Match Factory? Who sold Bonsa Tyres, Aboso Glass Factory? Until 1991, 75% of GIHOC was intact. What happened to the industries unde ...
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What makes you think I am NPP? Who closed Kittani Bros in Accra, TTL, Tamale Rice Mills, Kade Match Factory? Who sold Bonsa Tyres, Aboso Glass Factory? Until 1991, 75% of GIHOC was intact. What happened to the industries under GIHOC?

Until such a time that we start looking at things Ghanaian with "Ghanaian eyes", rather than tribal/ political blinkers, our country will continue to grovel in the dust like it is doing now!
Kojo T 11 years ago

IMf wanted them privatised after they were left cash strapped. KKO i worked on those projects so iam not looking at the way you are . From 1966 these factories were made to struggle. The guy you hate and want to crucify was i ...
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IMf wanted them privatised after they were left cash strapped. KKO i worked on those projects so iam not looking at the way you are . From 1966 these factories were made to struggle. The guy you hate and want to crucify was in the them SHS F 5 . I know it as a fact. He effectively came into power in 1982 16 years after . It was Kutu Acheampong for example who got Tema Food Processing back and started some of the projects you are talking about . But by then Ghana was BROKE . Did you ever hear of " Yen tua " marches under Kutu? It was left to ghanaians PRIVATE enterprise to buy and make them work Then just like now our so called entrepreneurs will not go in but have all the excuses . THEY CANNOT COMPETE , so stop your cheap stuff . I grew up in that era and worked for finance so please spare the bull
KKO 11 years ago

I went on the Yenntua March and worked at Aboso Glass Factory as a student! from the vicinity, I knew quite a bit about Bonsa Tyres. Those factories were struggling long before 1966. So how do you pin their closure on the NPP ...
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I went on the Yenntua March and worked at Aboso Glass Factory as a student! from the vicinity, I knew quite a bit about Bonsa Tyres. Those factories were struggling long before 1966. So how do you pin their closure on the NPP, unless you equate the NLC to NPP!

Very typical, just resort to insults.
Military Man 11 years ago

KKO,

I recently 'met' Kojo in this forum when I commented on an article regading JJ. He came at me with the proverbial two-barreled gun blazing. At that time, the name didn't click so I thought he was just one of the blin ...
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KKO,

I recently 'met' Kojo in this forum when I commented on an article regading JJ. He came at me with the proverbial two-barreled gun blazing. At that time, the name didn't click so I thought he was just one of the blind JJ idol worshippers having a fit. You meet all kinds of nutcases on here so I paid him no heed. Then my next comment on the economy drew his ire again but it was only when a different contributor mentioned Kojo's full name in the Woyome case that the pin dropped. Since then, I have come to realize that Kojo T is the most tribalistic, divisionist and a hardcore partisan political follower that you will ever meet. He sees everything happening in Ghana in the order I just mentioned.

So you pegged him right with your last paragraph. He doesn't see things with "Ghanaian eyes" because he lives and breathes tribalism.

I once called him a "closetted tribalism" spewer because he hides behind issues to feed his tribalistic agenda.

He's part of the ruling elite or at least has the ears of someone who is part of the ruling elite so can you imagine if Ghana will ever get out of the "grovel in the dust like it is doing now"?

Not until there's a change of government but I'm not holding my breath because NPP is just as corrupt as the NDC, if not worse. I'm not a fan of either party. I simply hate partisan politics with a passion because it breeds corruption and tribalism.
GHANABA 11 years ago

Abeeku,for once,your analytical brain did not match your input.What stops the govt from imposing a hefty duty on 4+4S while financially helping Kwadwo Safo from developing a viable car industry?.India and Malaysia did it.Why ...
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Abeeku,for once,your analytical brain did not match your input.What stops the govt from imposing a hefty duty on 4+4S while financially helping Kwadwo Safo from developing a viable car industry?.India and Malaysia did it.Why should the govt use our hard earned cocoa money to pay judgement debts? Why should Nunoo Mensa heap insults on the peasants,when the FAT CATS and the nation wreckers are the greedy politicians?On this issue Baidoo, did better.That said,i do agree with you that our elected politicians,do not live to the wishes and the aspirations of the electorate neither do the citizens help by voting on tribal basis.
Master Kwaku 11 years ago

The saying that "a soldier dies for his country" is a FALLACY. If all soldiers sould die for their country, who will be left to defend the country? All the enemy has to do is to walk in and occupy the country! The appropriate ...
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The saying that "a soldier dies for his country" is a FALLACY. If all soldiers sould die for their country, who will be left to defend the country? All the enemy has to do is to walk in and occupy the country! The appropriate saying should be "a soldier makes the enemy die for HIS/HER country". So, Brig Gen Nunoo-Mensah is wrong in demanding that we should die for our country. We all want to LIVE to ENJOY what he and his corrupt colleagues in government are enjoying. God bless Ghana and Ghanaians.
Philip Kobina Baidoo 11 years ago

Are you seriously suggesting that you are writing logic? I don't think.

Are you seriously suggesting that you are writing logic? I don't think.

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