RE: Merely using a tax haven isn't a crime - Ace Ankomah (2)

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Dr. Otto 9 years ago

Lungu, you can keep trying but will never be able to make sense, trust me! Your mind set is bogus in the sense that, obvously you are and Asante "nasty boy" disquising yourself to impune your NDC and Ewe friends, calling your ...
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Lungu, you can keep trying but will never be able to make sense, trust me! Your mind set is bogus in the sense that, obvously you are and Asante "nasty boy" disquising yourself to impune your NDC and Ewe friends, calling yourself a Prof. even though you owns no single degree.
BOAFO YENA 9 years ago

Dr. Otto, you rather don't make sense. What don't you understand about Prof. Lungu's well-written piece "Re: Merely using a tax haven isn't a crime - Ace Ankoma (2)"?

Please respond to the gist & logic of what Ace Ankoma ...
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Dr. Otto, you rather don't make sense. What don't you understand about Prof. Lungu's well-written piece "Re: Merely using a tax haven isn't a crime - Ace Ankoma (2)"?

Please respond to the gist & logic of what Ace Ankoma said without obfuscating it in lies & insults, bogus Dr. Otto.

I wish Ace Ankoma himself would explain what he meant by his statement.
Prof Lungu 9 years ago

Thanks for the comments.

It is important to set a record we can live with, even if we have to do it more than once.

Greetings.

Thanks for the comments.

It is important to set a record we can live with, even if we have to do it more than once.

Greetings.
C.Y. ANDY-K 9 years ago

The only waste I smell here is you - "Dr" Otto.

How can you understand the intricate intellectual pattern Prof. Lungu has woven here when you are just a raffia palm wearing savage?

Andy-K

The only waste I smell here is you - "Dr" Otto.

How can you understand the intricate intellectual pattern Prof. Lungu has woven here when you are just a raffia palm wearing savage?

Andy-K
Prof Lungu 9 years ago

Thanks.

Thanks.
Kwabena Yeboah 9 years ago

People in civilized countries often joke that there are two main constants in life; death and taxes. Everyone will die and every living human being will pay taxes. It may be a joke but it is both de facto and de jure.

The ...
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People in civilized countries often joke that there are two main constants in life; death and taxes. Everyone will die and every living human being will pay taxes. It may be a joke but it is both de facto and de jure.

The most intelligent African nonetheless has grasped this simple truths that we all will die one day, and we all will pay taxes as long as we live. Ace Ankomah is an African - he quacks like an African and squeaks like an African in spite of his education, and that is why he can unashamedly support tax havens.

Ace Ankomah's article was ostensibly in support of JA Kufuor and his family named in the Panama Papers. As an attorney and as cognitively adroit as he claims to be, he could have reasoned that Kufuor and his family had no reason to hide money in a tax haven because JA Kufuor as President of Ghana was exempted from paying taxes. But then, I am compelled to cut Ace Ankomah the slack for who he is - a discombobulated African bereft of common sense.
Osei Boakye 9 years ago

Kwabena Yeboah, can you tell me why on God's green, arid & watery Earth, our presidents are excused from paying taxes?
Can somebody tell me the rational behind this non-payment of taxes? Maybe Ace Ankomah can, being that es ...
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Kwabena Yeboah, can you tell me why on God's green, arid & watery Earth, our presidents are excused from paying taxes?
Can somebody tell me the rational behind this non-payment of taxes? Maybe Ace Ankomah can, being that esquire Ankomah is an intelligent attorney.
Kwabena Yeboah 9 years ago

"Article 68(5) of the 1992 Constitution provides that ‘The salary, allowances, facilities, pensions and gratuity [of the President] shall be exempt from tax."

This is the Rawlings' induced constitution and our Parliament ...
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"Article 68(5) of the 1992 Constitution provides that ‘The salary, allowances, facilities, pensions and gratuity [of the President] shall be exempt from tax."

This is the Rawlings' induced constitution and our Parliament agreed. Everywhere in the world, in western democracy one condition for qualifying as a presidential candidate to show proof of your civic responsibility of paying taxes. That being said, the very fact our Constitution exempts our Presidents' and was approved by Parliament in itself is illegal, which I plan to challenge in the coming days.

The basic principles on which our democracy is anchored is three-prong: law, order, and good government. If the law requires all citizens to pay taxes, but exempt the President who is a citizen, there is violation. Violation of anyone of the guiding principles renders our democracy useless and we become a banana republic. And if you have noticed, there is no strict adherence of law in the country, there is no order and there is no good government.

This is African democracy for you.
Osei Boakye 9 years ago

Thank you for educating me. I appreciate it.
I will certainly join ur challenge any time.

Thank you for educating me. I appreciate it.
I will certainly join ur challenge any time.
Prof Lungu 9 years ago

Osei Boakye,
Thanks for the comments.

Yes, Rawlings created that!

But, the NPP did not correct it!

The NDC has not corrected it!

To get the scale in today's context, see our Ghanaweb Feature Article of Monday, 20 ...
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Osei Boakye,
Thanks for the comments.

Yes, Rawlings created that!

But, the NPP did not correct it!

The NDC has not corrected it!

To get the scale in today's context, see our Ghanaweb Feature Article of Monday, 20 July 2015:

Monkey Dey Work, Amissah Attas Dey Chop
(www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/features/Monkey-Dey-Work-Amissah-Attas-Dey-Chop-369570).

Greetings.

Prof Lungu 9 years ago

Kwabena Yeboah,
Thanks for your comment.

If we may re-direct...

Our sense is, this is one "African cultural practice" we cannot say Kwame Nkrumah is responsible for.

Fact is, we know that he was hard on officials ...
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Kwabena Yeboah,
Thanks for your comment.

If we may re-direct...

Our sense is, this is one "African cultural practice" we cannot say Kwame Nkrumah is responsible for.

Fact is, we know that he was hard on officials in his government who were in business for themselves, to the extent he could control the situations. And Nkrumah never had his own private business(es), or foreign accounts, notwithstanding what so many nonentities told the American-funded NLC.

Thanks.
Francis kwarteng 9 years ago

Another great read, Prof Lungu

Another great read, Prof Lungu
Prof Lungu 9 years ago

Greetings!

Greetings!

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