This President called John Dramani Mahama.

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Mahmoud 11 years ago

Governing in Ghana under NDC is all about deceit and 'opium of the people'. They enjoy everything under the sun but ask us to wait for the basics in heaven. They are even asking us to wait for utopia in three years after squa ...
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Governing in Ghana under NDC is all about deceit and 'opium of the people'. They enjoy everything under the sun but ask us to wait for the basics in heaven. They are even asking us to wait for utopia in three years after squandering six years in power. The truth is that, everything they promise is a mirage and we will never find comforts with them because; they are conmen with con plans.
Mahmoud 11 years ago

Any Tunisian or Burkinabee-syle revolution in this country will have to start from the parliament as it happened in Burkina Faso. Our parliamentarians are so hopeless that the Executive can easily manipulate them to deplete o ...
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Any Tunisian or Burkinabee-syle revolution in this country will have to start from the parliament as it happened in Burkina Faso. Our parliamentarians are so hopeless that the Executive can easily manipulate them to deplete our coffers or even become dictator. If someone hadn't blown the whistle about the GNPC's $700mln dubious loan, the booty could have been shared and squandered without our notice. And our Parliament should have been at the forefront calling for the CEO to resign.

Obviously, Ghanaians are still not hearing the whole story, and we may never know exactly what the money was going to be used for. We believe that GNPC would have hurriedly approached the parliament for approval, if the massaged justification given by the CEO was really true and the company had nothing to hide.

This whole thing smells like a stinking rot, and the so-called representatives of the people, hired and over paid to examine and authorize expenditure, must live up to expectation and do their work properly. They have a duty to make sure that the dubious loan is either cancelled or used for the intended purpose, and not allow it to go down the drain into the pockets of stomach politicians and their cronies as usual.
Mahmoud 11 years ago

Mr. Kwesi Pratt, could you remember that Nkrumah used to incite workers to strike against the Whiteman, but outlawed strikes in his regime when living conditions were genuinely difficult for workers, and said that strikes wer ...
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Mr. Kwesi Pratt, could you remember that Nkrumah used to incite workers to strike against the Whiteman, but outlawed strikes in his regime when living conditions were genuinely difficult for workers, and said that strikes were unpatriotic?

Could you also remember that Rawlings used to incite TUC workers to strike against Liman's government in order to over throw it fraudulently? And could you remember that he used to take 'Kenkey' to Legon to demonstrate how the size had shrunk under Liman, and we ended up in the "Rawlings's Chain" but nobody could talk? Could you further remember that Acheampong and Rawlings used the mild IMF conditions under Busia and Liman respectively as justifications for overthrowing their governments deceitfully? Could you still remember that PNDC reintroduced IMF and the World Bank with more stringent conditions after the coup without apologizing to Liman?

I don't know what the leftists are talking about, and I don't believe that NPP is behind the present wave of strikes either. As far as I know, NPP is only highlighting the failings and excesses of the government, hopping to translate them into votes for the party in the next elections. And that is, in fact, genuine and legitimate politics because the failings are true and not false. Everybody in Ghana knows that cost of living under the NDC government is unbearable, and NPP is democratically seizing the opportunity to convince the electorate not to vote for NDC in the next elections.

Frankly, I don't see anything wrong with an opposition highlighting the failings of an incapable government to wrestle power from it democratically. NDC is the cause of the strikes because of higher levels of corruption, over spending, reckless borrowing and economic mismanagement that have brought untold hardship on Ghanaians.
ADJOA WANGARA 11 years ago

Someone sholud please do me a favour and call the "by-force and anyhow" writer, Francis Kwarteng to read a real English from both the writer of this article, Daniel Danquah Damptey and the commentator, Mahmoud.

Kwarteng! I ...
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Someone sholud please do me a favour and call the "by-force and anyhow" writer, Francis Kwarteng to read a real English from both the writer of this article, Daniel Danquah Damptey and the commentator, Mahmoud.

Kwarteng! I don't know if your I.Q. will be enough to grasp the way this article is written, I mean the type of English grammar and construction the writer used as well as the first commentator Mahmoud. Just match it to the weed you use to present on Ghanaweb, you will bear and bail me out that you are really bogusly useless.
Kwadwo 11 years ago

I always enjoy your pieces. Dramani justifies intimidation of journalist by the BNI while Nana help repeal the criminal libel laws. Very Draconian indeed.

I always enjoy your pieces. Dramani justifies intimidation of journalist by the BNI while Nana help repeal the criminal libel laws. Very Draconian indeed.
??? 11 years ago

Dam= is close to "mad" in Twi and Danquah-seems to rhyme well with Wanker.

Dam= is close to "mad" in Twi and Danquah-seems to rhyme well with Wanker.
Kpenyigba Kwesi 11 years ago

We should not blame President Mahama and NDC for Ghana's woes for the woes were already deep before they come to power.We now know our woes so we need to collectively find the solutions.

We should not blame President Mahama and NDC for Ghana's woes for the woes were already deep before they come to power.We now know our woes so we need to collectively find the solutions.
SOS 11 years ago

Sorry to say but these are the kind of stories that will surely sink the NPP again come 2016

Sorry to say but these are the kind of stories that will surely sink the NPP again come 2016
jOEy lOndOn 11 years ago

The only people suffering in Ghana are the hard core lazy political commentators!

The only people suffering in Ghana are the hard core lazy political commentators!
pepe 11 years ago

dear commentators, are we sure do our comments commensurate with this article? the world oil price has gone down for even non oil producing countries and we have been slapped with a tax. the Bible says we shall be held respon ...
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dear commentators, are we sure do our comments commensurate with this article? the world oil price has gone down for even non oil producing countries and we have been slapped with a tax. the Bible says we shall be held responsible for what we say and do. we read in the bible, release barnabas and let the blood of jesus fall on us and our children. i doubt this man had an opinion pool before cursing generations. amen

Botchway 11 years ago

If writing such rubbish and utter nonsense is all what freedom of speech is about, then I beg to live in pre free libel state of Ghana. All countries around the world are going tnrough a bit of rough times, even china is stru ...
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If writing such rubbish and utter nonsense is all what freedom of speech is about, then I beg to live in pre free libel state of Ghana. All countries around the world are going tnrough a bit of rough times, even china is struggling to acheive 7 percent growth not to talk about the west where the best for year is 1.2 percent. Greece, Spain, Italy, ireland, iceland, Portugal, brazil, USA and I can go on and on all have some form of turbulence and most have been bailed out by china in one way or the other. The point is their citizen are rallying around the goverments with constructive comments and suggestions and not brainless banters and baby cries like this. Tell us what you will have done differently in their shoes instead of puking around. In anycase the increment is only 3.2 percent at the highest for a any petroluem product as I understand it unless you can prove that you have bought fuel 17.5 percent higher than pre budget announcement, please for the love of Ghana shut your trap. My grand ma said to me once that anytime I said someone's mouth is smelling, I should check mine first because my nose is closet to my mouth
Joe Turkey 11 years ago

Mahama is an armed robber. The Dubai Hotel will soon open.

Mahama is an armed robber. The Dubai Hotel will soon open.
Akwasi 11 years ago

Mahama is SLEEPING, he has no idea whats going around him. Now Ghanaians have realized that not all people with quiet personalities are smart. Mahama looks tall, quiet and talks softly, and many Ghanaians take him for a smart ...
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Mahama is SLEEPING, he has no idea whats going around him. Now Ghanaians have realized that not all people with quiet personalities are smart. Mahama looks tall, quiet and talks softly, and many Ghanaians take him for a smart thinker. What we see is a DUMB guy who is clueless and hardly talk because there's nothing really up there! I hope Ghanaians have learned their lessons. If you vote for a BLIND man, he will lead you to DEATH.
Amadu 11 years ago

Mahama enjoys ladies with big ass. He fires smart men and replaces them with one of his concubines. Mahama dey chop things ooooo. Life of a lazy president sweet well well.

Mahama enjoys ladies with big ass. He fires smart men and replaces them with one of his concubines. Mahama dey chop things ooooo. Life of a lazy president sweet well well.
???? 11 years ago

so people r paid to incite de weak thinkers, should God 4giv these stomach warriors???

so people r paid to incite de weak thinkers, should God 4giv these stomach warriors???
freddie 11 years ago

When some people in other parts of the are thinking to invent and produce to creat wealth in their country in ghana, which is full of lazy hopeless unproductive people like the above writer keep showing their stupidity. If w ...
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When some people in other parts of the are thinking to invent and produce to creat wealth in their country in ghana, which is full of lazy hopeless unproductive people like the above writer keep showing their stupidity. If we don't change the country we think we love would remain the same full of fucken hopeless entities such as franklin cudjo and co.
NICHOLAS 11 years ago

Damptey, let me tell you that your write-up does not make a bit of sense to any right thinking human being.

Is President Mahama going to pocket the money to be raised from the petroleum tax? It is simply not good for Ghana ...
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Damptey, let me tell you that your write-up does not make a bit of sense to any right thinking human being.

Is President Mahama going to pocket the money to be raised from the petroleum tax? It is simply not good for Ghana to always go borrowing. Government needs money to perform its functions, workers have to be paid at the end of every month, where do you expect the government to go and STEAL THE MONEY to perform such legitimate functions?

Do you have to fault the government for marginally increasing the prices of petroleum products with the view of raising some revenue to keep government business going? Damptey, the HYPOCRITE, tell me, how many times did President Kufuor reduced the prices of petroleum products due to a fall in the world market price?

When are some of you going to learn to stop this petrol politics. Are you telling me it makes sense to you for prices of petroleum products to be reduced only for unpatriotic citizens to smuggle them to other countries?

As for petroleum and its price, no government can run away from it. You can be hypocritical by accusing today's government of being insensitive for not reducing the prices of petroleum products. But the fact remains that what accounted for that may not change tomorrow with another government in place.

Let us stop this petroleum hypocrisy to help the country to develop.
Cabo 11 years ago

And he is a Dwarf too

And he is a Dwarf too
I KNOW VERY WELL MAHAMA IS EVIL 11 years ago

SO AM NOT THE ONLY PERSON IN GHANA WHO CAN SENSE EVIL.. I KNOW VERY WELL THAT MAHAMA IS AN EVIL MAN, SENT TO GHANA TO WIN MORE SOULS FOR THE DEVIL...OUR GOD IS NOT ASLEEP...

SO AM NOT THE ONLY PERSON IN GHANA WHO CAN SENSE EVIL.. I KNOW VERY WELL THAT MAHAMA IS AN EVIL MAN, SENT TO GHANA TO WIN MORE SOULS FOR THE DEVIL...OUR GOD IS NOT ASLEEP...
Samuel Sappey Cudjoe 11 years ago

ghanaians will neva 4giv afari gyan n atuguba 4 imposing dis mahama guy on us.

ghanaians will neva 4giv afari gyan n atuguba 4 imposing dis mahama guy on us.

fo dotse 11 years ago

thx to freedom of speech.
some of u guys wll hv bn dumped at where u really blong.

thx to freedom of speech.
some of u guys wll hv bn dumped at where u really blong.
AKOFO NPP 11 years ago

Foolish writer, villager

Foolish writer, villager
ATCHILO ZAKARIAH 11 years ago

I say STUPID COMMENT because the money accrued from the 17.5% oil revenue is not going to the porket of the President but to Ghanaians as a whole. So why insult the President. He is doing his best. Is like some one watching a ...
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I say STUPID COMMENT because the money accrued from the 17.5% oil revenue is not going to the porket of the President but to Ghanaians as a whole. So why insult the President. He is doing his best. Is like some one watching a football match he sees the mistakes of the players give him the ball he can't kick. So Mr writer respect yourself.
gambo 11 years ago

irresponsible commentators like. this shd heed the advice the ochehene and mend their ways. freedom of speech goes. with responsibility and our Presidents must be accorded some respect.

irresponsible commentators like. this shd heed the advice the ochehene and mend their ways. freedom of speech goes. with responsibility and our Presidents must be accorded some respect.
joe BOYE.@fr 11 years ago

buulu TEDZI hélatse.

buulu TEDZI hélatse.
kass 11 years ago

Ur stupidity is at its peak. There isn't even a bit of sense in what u wrote. Have u ever heard that someone died before he/she was bornborn.stupid statement from a stupid person can't even differentiate between u n a goat.

Ur stupidity is at its peak. There isn't even a bit of sense in what u wrote. Have u ever heard that someone died before he/she was bornborn.stupid statement from a stupid person can't even differentiate between u n a goat.
kass 11 years ago

Ur mathematics back ground is not even strong hw can some one be born on 650BC and died in 600BC. If u don't know let me tell u that according to that stupid statement u posted it means that ur Draco guy did (-50years ). Is v ...
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Ur mathematics back ground is not even strong hw can some one be born on 650BC and died in 600BC. If u don't know let me tell u that according to that stupid statement u posted it means that ur Draco guy did (-50years ). Is very stupid on ur part to be thinking negatively. If u know u are stupid keep it to ur self n don't try to exhibit it in platforms such as this. Stupid fool
NOBODY 11 years ago

You claim you owe Mills a post-humous apology, yet you state that you're now naming Mahama "baba Go Slow II", after Mills being the first. The slow one indeed is bribehene Akufo-Addo, the visionless elitist and with an ego bi ...
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You claim you owe Mills a post-humous apology, yet you state that you're now naming Mahama "baba Go Slow II", after Mills being the first. The slow one indeed is bribehene Akufo-Addo, the visionless elitist and with an ego bigger than the bad year blimp, who wrongly believes that he's entitled to be President. Yo asked, "who wins?". Well the amswer should be at your feet, for Akufo-Addo is a serial loser heading for his third loss.
Teacher Emma 11 years ago

The person who wrote this was sent by greedy Akuffo Addo who want to become President n will not happen God have not Aapproved arrogant NPP and leaders to lead his nation

The person who wrote this was sent by greedy Akuffo Addo who want to become President n will not happen God have not Aapproved arrogant NPP and leaders to lead his nation
JAMES ADJEI 11 years ago

If you were really sorry and you wanted us to join you to apolgise to President Mill for tagging him " Baba Go Slow", then there wasn't a " Baba Go Slow", so why "Baba Go Slow 11"? Where is the logic? If you want to use phon ...
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If you were really sorry and you wanted us to join you to apolgise to President Mill for tagging him " Baba Go Slow", then there wasn't a " Baba Go Slow", so why "Baba Go Slow 11"? Where is the logic? If you want to use phonem sounds in names to determine one's character, then go to China.

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