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In most advanced countries, mobile phones can be obtained for free – Bawumia replies critics

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  • Mnus 1 year ago

    Massa, which country are you taking about. I am interested

  • King 1 year ago

    He is right. Here in Germany and EU uses credit score and it functions. It is possible in Ghana to introduce this system.

  • Papa k 1 year ago

    Maybe you don't understand credit score, it's possible in Germany but not in Ghana.

  • NONSENSE. DONT THROW DUST IN PEOPLE'S EYES. THE PHONE IS GIVEN TO YOU ON A CONTRACT AND INCLUDED IN YOUR MONTHLY BILL FOR THE USAGE OF THE SERVICE 1 year ago

    I never knew Bawumia is such a criminal and complete fraud.

    No company in any country distributes phones free to people. Kwasea. The phones are given to you on contract and the cost included in your monthly payment for the ...
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  • Pelicles 1 year ago

    Germany started from somewhere and remember that no system came from God but humans. If you do not start something you will not know anything about something.

    When drones are being introduced in Ghana, what did we hear fro ...
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  • Joe 1 year ago

    Kwasea Pelicles. 24 hours economy will work big time in Ghana when started. Is your Germany not running 24 hr economy? Fool

  • YOU ARE SUCH AN IGNORANT FOOL. YOU CREDIT SCORE IS USED TO DETERMINE WHETHER THEY SHOULD GIVE YOU THE PHONE ON CREDIT AND NOT FREE. YOU FOOL 1 year ago

    You are so ignorant. Your credit score is used to determine whether you are credit worthy to for the product to be given to you on credit.

    What you pay monthly depends on the cost of the product and not Ghc1 or Ghc2 as you ...
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  • Akwasi Addai 1 year ago

    Do you understand credit Score? In which city in Germany are you? Are you one of the Ghanaian illiterates in Germany who parade themselves as literates?

  • MoonGod 1 year ago

    this man is MAD

  • OXYGEN 1 year ago

    @MoonGod, you are rather ignorant. Our mothers and sisters have been using this for a long time. Ask yourself how your mother was buying her African wax print clothes and silverwares, other enamelwares she was using in her ho ...
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  • John Nankani, US 1 year ago

    THAT IS 200% TRUE IN EUROPE AND THE US. THIS IS REALLY A GAME-CHANGER

  • Free but not really free 1 year ago

    These are some of the reasons people want to stow away, cross the Sahara Desert and Mediterranean Sea to reach Europe. Bawumia’s free narrative is misleading. The phone companies will hide the actual cost of the phone in du ...
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  • FIELD MARSHALL 1 year ago

    ARREST THE DOLLAR AND STOP TALKING ABT PHONES.... THE YOUTH OF TODAY ONLY USE IT TO FILM PONO.... MASA,, NANA TRUMU ADDO BRUGHT YOU TO ARREST THE DOLLAR.... GO & DO YOUR JOB,,, AAAABAH

  • Elhaj 1 year ago

    John Namkani, are we an "advanced" country. IDDIIOOTT

  • OXYGEN 1 year ago

    @Elhaj the ignorant, my mother and other women have been using this from time immemorial to acquire their African Wax Print clothes, Silverwares and other enamelwares for their homes. Dr Bawumia is only making this official t ...
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  • Pee 1 year ago

    Tell me which company gives free phone. Even when this is done they spread the cost of your phone and add them to your bills as well

  • OXYGEN 1 year ago

    @Pee, what does it mean when the Telco put out its advert that you will pay €0,00 for Samsung galaxy S24 and €9,99 monthly for 2years for 10GB volume of "data".

  • YOU ARE SUCH AN IGNORANT FOOL. YOU CREDIT SCORE IS USED TO DETERMINE WHETHER THEY SHOULD GIVE YOU THE PHONE ON CREDIT AND NOT FREE. YOU FOOL 1 year ago

    NONSENSE. DONT THROW DUST IN PEOPLE'S EYES. THE PHONE IS GIVEN TO YOU ON A CONTRACT AND INCLUDED IN YOUR MONTHLY BILL FOR THE USAGE OF THE SERVICE

    I never knew Bawumia is such a criminal and complete fraud.

    No company i ...
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  • OXYGEN 1 year ago

    Oh, look at your pathetic self. This is not rocket science. Try to use the "muster seed brain" given to you by God, at least for once. Some Telcos give out new mobile phones in exchange for your used device and give you cash ...
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  • Ex-Pope 1 year ago

    OK, Mr. USA. Did the USA not just do away with free phones for those financially challenged? If it were a game changer, why did the US Congress refused to renew that program?

  • Ex-Pope 1 year ago

    Typo correction:

    If it were a game changer, why did the US Congress refuse to renew that program?

  • Kosi 1 year ago

    Did Bawumiah listened to himself? "In most advanced countries" is Bawumiah saying ghana is an advanced country? Shithole country indeed!! And people praise this kind of rubbish. Has Bawumiah any idea how much is added to the ...
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  • OTREBOR 1 year ago

    DOES GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS IN THE WESTERN COUNTRIES GO ABOUT PROMOTING FREE PHONES TO ITS CITIZENS TO BOOST INDIVIDUAL CREDIT SCORES? WHY DON'T YOU PROMISE THEM HOMES OR CARS WITH THE PROMISE THAT THEY WILL BE MADE TO PAY 1 OR ...
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  • Mumuni 1 year ago

    Gyimieee nkoaaa.

  • Guv'ner 1 year ago

    "In most advanced countries, mobile phones can be obtained for free"
    These blind copy and paste policies you're experimenting with are costing this nation too much. Which developed country's government gives free mobile phon ...
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  • stop fooling yourself, BAWUMIA 1 year ago

    ALhaji Bawumia, stop fooling yourself and act responsibly as a matured politician who want to lead a nation. Stop these comedies and act as a seasoned politician wanting to govern a nation. Odo fa kaa no mame, free mobile pho ...
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  • King 1 year ago

    You are foolish to understand. You can buy a phone without paying an advance but rather in installments monthly.

  • Original Gh 1 year ago

    U are the biggest fool here,installment is a free will,u chose to pay cash or installment,the govement makes sure the policy works and creates jobs for the people. No gov in europ gives free phone here,u pay it your self. Som ...
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  • Ghanawatch 1 year ago

    King you are as idiot as Bawumia. So paying by instalment is free? Bawumia is truly comical.

  • Pee 1 year ago

    Bawumia you’re a liar. Mobile phones are not free, it is spread over your phone bills so every month you pay part of the phone and your phone bills as well. And that is not the work of government, leave that to private inve ...
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  • Kojois 1 year ago

    Tell the local boys.know nothing but don't want to learn . What is mobile phone.

  • Kay 1 year ago

    Oh garout with your stupid talks.... people are hungry and the only sensible thing you can talk about is phones.... what is dis......

  • Nii Adjei 1 year ago

    This failed Economist does not get it. The advanced country you are referring to, took the trouble to build their economies first. They built their infrastructure first so that development can take off. So that pensioners can ...
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  • Free cell phone 1 year ago

    Am in Canada and have a two year contract with Rogers free cell phone for two years. It’s indeed POSSIBLE

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  • Onipa nua 1 year ago

    BAWULIAR is confused

  • Apio 1 year ago

    In most advanced countries too, their leaders have principles, integrity and values and just don't lie by heart

  • Patriot 1 year ago

    Maybe Bawumia was misquoted? His statement is patently FALSE. Buying a phone on credit, whether it's a 2yr or 3yr contract is NOT free, you actually pay for it. This is why those phones are locked until you finish paying. An ...
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  • Ghanawatch 1 year ago

    Bawumia is a total idiot.A blatanrt liar.In which countries can one get mobile phones for free? They have started again, lying to Ghanaians for power. Bawumia is an unapologetic liar.

  • Naa 1 year ago

    Mad fool. Shut your stupid mouth. The Kwabena Boadu you electrocuted is haunting you. You are already mad

  • Free cell phone 1 year ago

    Credit or no credit you are not paying for two years, travel and see my people before I forget it’s a family plan and my three kids also have free phones.

  • Jim 1 year ago

    Not in the US.

  • Free cell phone 1 year ago

    Am in Ontario I don’t know about the States

  • MY OWN DUMSOR TIMETABLE 1 year ago

    This guy who calls himself NPP flagbearer can lie.

    Doctor of LIES

    WHICH ADVANCE COUNTRY ????????????

  • KomeFia 1 year ago

    Is this guy a moron? what country is he talking about? People like King is the reason Bawuliar will continue to deceive Ghanaians.

  • Fred 1 year ago

    My brother Bawumia, it's not like those days when you used to deceive small girls with phones

  • Shine your eyes Ghanaians 1 year ago

    I love it when people like His Excellency Vice say things like that. In Europe thy have very good road network, good running schools, good hospitals and good banking systems, electricity, water supply but none of this is i ...
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  • Paaaa 1 year ago

    That is possible when the countries own factories that manufacture phones. Where is the factory bawumia established??

  • Obeng Manu 1 year ago

    What is wrong with this man?

  • Free cell phone 1 year ago

    My country men/women it’s not about how many cell phones factories you have, it’s simple about your credit score and phone is yours period. As I earlier on travel and see , BMW mind is too advanced that people just don ...
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  • ROCKY USA 1 year ago

    Bawumia is really retarded person without using his brain. How much is that smartphone?. Which phones company in Ghana here will sell smartphone on credit allowed that person to be paying one or 2 cedis per month?. People are ...
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  • Jevino 1 year ago

    This guy is not matured enough to be a President. In the midst of food insecurity and galloping inflation you are tslking about mobile phones. May God save Ghana. The Bawumia campaign team are not helping him at all. He is co ...
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  • Free cell phone 1 year ago

    I don’t understand you guys its happening life in Canada, all my three kids have IPhone 13 plus and I have IPhone 12 . Am paying on 2yr contract, it’s a matter of having a good credit score and you qualify, if you don ...
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  • Me - Me 1 year ago

    Cheap politics. Advanced countries? Mobile phones are connected to network sales contracts. Ghana is third world and so stop the stupidity and pay your debts.

  • Ex-Pope 1 year ago

    IN MOST ADVANCED COUNTRIES, THERE'S DECENT HEALTHCARE FOR CITIZENS. GHANA DOESN'T HAVE THAT BECAUSE YOUR CORRUPT GOVERNMENT HAS LOOTED TYHE COUNTRY AND THERE'S NO MONEY LEFT TO FUND HEALTHCARE FOR GHANAIANS. IN MOST ADVANCED ...
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  • Yaw uk 1 year ago

    Please someone should tell your stupid vice president that we are in this advanced countries but the mobile phones are not free. He stop deceiving people

  • Kido 1 year ago

    How can a whole Vice President make such a senseless statement. Where in the world are mobile phones free? This is why this man should never be taken seriously. What a deceitful Vice President! Because you want to be presiden ...
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  • kingsley 1 year ago

    Ghanaians by nature are all criminals including the ones yet un-born. They deserve people the likes of bawumia and akufo addo. If even Jesus comes down to earth in a saintly form, he will be rejected by Ghanaians because he d ...
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  • Clement Agoriwo - U. K 1 year ago

    Which country is that? Why can’t you stop the lies for just one minute of your life.

  • Bastie Asantefournyinaahene 1 year ago

    HAHAHAH. Nothing is for free LOL. It's called contract-abonemang. You pay monthly. Bawumiah wants to bring debt on Ghanaians. Africans in general are living credit free. No pressure and monthly bills. Why don't you create the ...
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  • Is true he is a lie wow 1 year ago

    We don't get phones free
    You can have the phone with no cash at the sport as long as you work you will pay double in that free thing he is talking about.
    Cash will reduce the cost we don't get anything free I Canada has wa ...
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  • Let's correct king in Canada 1 year ago

    Paying instulment is not free are you a fool?
    That you and your kids are in Canada and was giving free phones are you a fool?
    Am in Canada to there's no free phones in Canada lies.
    Fools when you pay instulment you pay mor ...
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  • Stone 1 year ago

    This is happening already. MTN is doing this already.

  • Lucifer 1 month ago

    ...gyimigyimi