Let Us Halt Corruption In Ghana Before It Destroys Our Nation

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• Ghfuo: hang nyantakyi, NOW!!! 11 years ago

  Step 1: id the problem

  Step 1: id the problem

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• Slugger 11 years ago

  Kofi Thompson better address your article: "Let Us Halt Corruption In Ghana Before It Destroys Our Nation," to John Dramani Mahama and his co-equal NDC thieves.

  Kofi Thompson better address your article: "Let Us Halt Corruption In Ghana Before It Destroys Our Nation," to John Dramani Mahama and his co-equal NDC thieves.

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• Victor A. Young 11 years ago

  You sound like an NDC apparatchik who's fed up with his party, the nation and himself.
  
  You should have asked Mr. Rawlings that: "was it justifiable to have executed those Army Officers and innocent Ghanaians in the so-cal ...
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  You sound like an NDC apparatchik who's fed up with his party, the nation and himself.
  
  You should have asked Mr. Rawlings that: "was it justifiable to have executed those Army Officers and innocent Ghanaians in the so-called "revolution" that promised leading Ghanaians to "Sugar mountain" where there would be joy for all?
  
  The very same AFRC/P-NDC gov't is accused of corruption and crimes previously unknown in Ghana's political history. The Woyome case is just a small case. Stop confusing people and try to raise public awareness about the damning economic situation in our dear land.

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• Kofi 11 years ago

  The only way to save the country will be to out-source the presidency and other high offices. The black man, especially the Ghanaian, has proven beyond all reasonable doubts that he is incapable of managing his own affairs.

  The only way to save the country will be to out-source the presidency and other high offices. The black man, especially the Ghanaian, has proven beyond all reasonable doubts that he is incapable of managing his own affairs.

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• Too bad 11 years ago

  Kofi ,bravo ! Ilike your opinion , very good, keep it up and on the field for your crusade more people will join you.

  Kofi ,bravo ! Ilike your opinion , very good, keep it up and on the field for your crusade more people will join you.

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• Pastor Josiah 11 years ago

  Ghana's democracy has become but an avenue for an elite few to continue to loot the resources of our country. The Executive, Legislature and the Judiciary are all involved. An organisation of mafia called democracy. God is wa ...
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  Ghana's democracy has become but an avenue for an elite few to continue to loot the resources of our country. The Executive, Legislature and the Judiciary are all involved. An organisation of mafia called democracy. God is watching them.

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• Kobby 11 years ago

  Listen to this idiota

  Listen to this idiota

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• OTCHERE DARKO 11 years ago

  "Parliament ought to enact laws that empower the courts to seize and order the sale of the assets of convicted white collar criminals who steal public funds - to enable the state recover the stolen money."
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  "Parliament ought to enact laws that empower the courts to seize and order the sale of the assets of convicted white collar criminals who steal public funds - to enable the state recover the stolen money."
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  Parliament to enact laws to stop corruption?
  
  Ha-ha-ha!
  
  Kofi, you make me laugh. Parliament itself is the headquarters of corruption. So, how can you ask a thief to catch his thieving colleague?

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• Obournana 11 years ago

  You did well but still mixed up issues. How to tackle corruption in Ghana is to stop politicizing corruption. A lot people are being used to divert peoples' minds from the perpetrators to the government instead. We should bea ...
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  You did well but still mixed up issues. How to tackle corruption in Ghana is to stop politicizing corruption. A lot people are being used to divert peoples' minds from the perpetrators to the government instead. We should bear in mind that public officials who commit crime are not employed by the NDC government. The country's problems of corruption is due to the state attorneys and judges. The two institutions connive and condone with corrupt officials to dupe the country. Do we blame the government or the judges? We are being used for some people's political ambition. Public officials use Ghanaians politicians to cover their corrupt behaviors. Why, because the politicians come and go after 4 to 8 years. Public awareness does not means the government is corrupt. Do we like the governments who swept corruption under the carpet? This government needs commendation for making the public aware of corrupt behaviors by he officials. We should come together and let these officials including the judiciary system pay for their corrupt activities. NPP leaders and their followers must be ashamed of their behavior towards corruption. They are happy because Kuffour kept corruption secret except when he said corruption started from Adam.

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• HAZOR 11 years ago

  Kofi,did you realize that president Mahama commended former president Kufour for doing the right thing to sell Ghana telecom to VODAFONE and the company has increase it lines from 27,000 to 27 million lines.Kofi it seems you ...
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  Kofi,did you realize that president Mahama commended former president Kufour for doing the right thing to sell Ghana telecom to VODAFONE and the company has increase it lines from 27,000 to 27 million lines.Kofi it seems you don't leave in Ghana and write laughable article.Kofi,Ghana parliament has no locus to draft or write or implement laws.The fanny thing is that our exective is doing the work of our parliamentarians and vices versal which means our parliamentarians are doing the work of the executive.The executive makes the law and our parliamentarians execute the laws by approve the bills from the executive.Kofi when was the first time our parliamentarians subpena ministers to come and render their stewardship on finance of their programmes and projects and its progress and archievements?Our parliamentarians are not in the august house to support the president.but they are the president of their constituency representative in august to fight for the equal share of the country resources to develop their constituencies.When was the first time our parliamentarians from the same region put politics aside come our strong to depand principal road to constructed or demand treated water plant for the region or hospital or electricity or school and want our useless parliamentarians who are there to support president Mahama to destroy our country to make laws that they don't the locus to draft laws.

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• Akyeampong George 11 years ago

  I have alerted government on the Rape of the forest reserve by the elders of Bowiri Abohire in the Biakoye District of the Volta Reg. Yet instead of empowering an independent body to investigate it is the very same corrupt fo ...
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  I have alerted government on the Rape of the forest reserve by the elders of Bowiri Abohire in the Biakoye District of the Volta Reg. Yet instead of empowering an independent body to investigate it is the very same corrupt forestry officials who are doing it why?

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• Kwame Joe 11 years ago

  Throughout the world, political opponents are using charges of corruption to attack one another from Brazil, Indonesia, Italy, Nigeria. Mozambique, Ghana, and Singapore.
  The accused never gets punished.
  
  How do we really f ...
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  Throughout the world, political opponents are using charges of corruption to attack one another from Brazil, Indonesia, Italy, Nigeria. Mozambique, Ghana, and Singapore.
  The accused never gets punished.
  
  How do we really fight it?

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• Mark Donner 11 years ago

  GMO is a dangerous poison. Eating genetically modified corn (GM corn) and consuming trace levels of Monsanto's Roundup chemical fertilizer caused rats to develop horrifying tumors, widespread organ damage, and premature death ...
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  GMO is a dangerous poison. Eating genetically modified corn (GM corn) and consuming trace levels of Monsanto's Roundup chemical fertilizer caused rats to develop horrifying tumors, widespread organ damage, and premature death. rats exposed to even the smallest amounts, "developed mammary tumors and severe liver and kidney damage as early as four months in males, and seven months for females." The animals on the GM diet suffered mammary tumors, as well as severe liver and kidney damage. Everywhere GMO is being grown, food allergies, disorders such as autism, reproductive disorders, digestive problems, and others have been skyrocketing in the human populations.
  
  There has been a drastic decline of crop-pollinating insects all over the world, and what this means for the future of the world's food supply. Wild pollinators like bumblebees, butterflies, and beetles are basically disappearing. GMO industrial agricultural practices are causing this insect genocide. Pollinating insects in general, which include a wide range of insects and other animals, are simply vanishing from their normal habitats and foraging areas. That lower diversity and lower abundance of wild insects means less fruits and destruction of the diversity of plants and their fruits worldwide.
  
  GMOs cross pollinate and their seeds can travel. It is impossible to fully clean up our contaminated gene pool. Self-propagating GMO pollution will outlast the effects of global warming and nuclear waste. The potential impact is huge, threatening the health of future generations. GMO contamination has also caused economic losses for organic and non-GMO farmers who often struggle to keep their crops pure.
  
  GMOs increase herbicide use. Most GM crops are engineered to be "herbicide tolerant"?surviving deadly weed killers. Monsanto, for example, sells Roundup Ready crops, designed to survive applications of their Roundup herbicide. Between 1996 and 2008, US farmers sprayed an extra 383 million pounds of herbicide on GMOs. Overuse of Roundup results in "superweeds," resistant to the herbicide. This is causing farmers to use even more toxic herbicides every year. Not only does this create environmental harm, GM foods contain higher residues of toxic herbicides. Roundup, for example, is linked with sterility, hormone disruption, birth defects, and cancer.
  
  GM crops and their associated herbicides can harm birds, insects, amphibians, marine ecosystems, and soil organisms. They reduce bio-diversity, pollute water resources, and are unsustainable. For example, GM crops are eliminating habitat for monarch butterflies, whose populations are down 50% in the US. Roundup herbicide has been shown to cause birth defects in amphibians, embryonic deaths and endocrine disruptions, and organ damage in animals even at very low doses. GM canola has been found growing wild in North Dakota and California, threatening to pass on its herbicide tolerant genes on to weeds.
  
  By mixing genes from totally unrelated species, genetic engineering unleashes a host of unpredictable side effects. Moreover, irrespective of the type of genes that are inserted, the very process of creating a GM plant can result in massive collateral damage that produces new toxins, allergens, carcinogens, and nutritional deficiencies.
  
  GMOs do not increase yields, and work against feeding a hungry world.
  
  Whereas sustainable non-GMO agricultural methods used in developing countries have conclusively resulted in yield increases of 79% and higher, GMOs do not, on average, increase yields at all. This was evident in the Union of Concerned Scientists' 2009 report Failure to Yield?the definitive study to date on GM crops and yield.
  
  The toxins associated with GMO should never be tolerated. NEONICOTINOID PESTICIDE neurotoxins are absolutely the main factor causing the collapse of bee and pollinator populations along with other lethal chemicals, Agent Orange herbicides, glysophate, etc. When these poisons are banned as they were in Europe the bee populations start to recover. GMO neonicotinoids, roundup etc. MUST BE BANNED OUTRIGHT and all the farmers along with USDA, Biotech and chemical companies told to cease and desist from what they are doing.
  
  An even scarier prospect: the "BT" version of GMO soybeans and corn, (basically pesticides engineered directly into the plant )
  
  The "BT toxin" gene is put into the DNA of the corn in order for it to manufacture its own toxins that kill pests. The BT gene originated from a soil bacteria that also infiltrates the microflora (friendly digestive bacteria) in your gut. The Bt gene converts the microflora in your intestine into toxin-manufacturing machines.
  
  So, to be clear, eating GMO corn products can cause your gut (which is primarily responsible for keeping you healthy) to turn into a breeding ground for tiny little pesticide factories inside your body, actively creating toxins which are designed to kill living things. These toxins are found in the blood and are readily transferred across the placenta to developing babies in the womb.

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• I Can't Think ? 11 years ago

  Kofi,
  Good article. The destructiveness of our leaders is highly developed, some call them Dangerously Destructive Citizens. When do we get any respite from these morons, called "Leaders" superintending over our lives and ma ...
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  Kofi,
  Good article. The destructiveness of our leaders is highly developed, some call them Dangerously Destructive Citizens. When do we get any respite from these morons, called "Leaders" superintending over our lives and making every ones life a misery? The Leaders faculties need desperate improvement but do they care ?

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• ASUMADU EMESEWOELI, HO, VOLTA REGION 11 years ago

  MISMANAGEMENT MANAGING MAHAMA (MMM). CANT YOU SEE? MISMANAGEMENT IS THE CHIEF ADVISOR FOR THIS CLUELESS GOVT.IT IS SIMPLE:MISMANAGEMENT MANAGING MAHAMA AND HIS GOVT.

  MISMANAGEMENT MANAGING MAHAMA (MMM). CANT YOU SEE? MISMANAGEMENT IS THE CHIEF ADVISOR FOR THIS CLUELESS GOVT.IT IS SIMPLE:MISMANAGEMENT MANAGING MAHAMA AND HIS GOVT.

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