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Massa, which country are you taking about. I am interested
He is right. Here in Germany and EU uses credit score and it functions. It is possible in Ghana to introduce this system.
Maybe you don't understand credit score, it's possible in Germany but not in Ghana.
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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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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Kwasea Pelicles. 24 hours economy will work big time in Ghana when started. Is your Germany not running 24 hr economy? Fool
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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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?
this man is MAD
@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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THAT IS 200% TRUE IN EUROPE AND THE US. THIS IS REALLY A GAME-CHANGER
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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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
John Namkani, are we an "advanced" country. IDDIIOOTT
@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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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
@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".
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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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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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?
Typo correction:
If it were a game changer, why did the US Congress refuse to renew that program?
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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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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Gyimieee nkoaaa.
"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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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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You are foolish to understand. You can buy a phone without paying an advance but rather in installments monthly.
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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King you are as idiot as Bawumia. So paying by instalment is free? Bawumia is truly comical.
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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Tell the local boys.know nothing but don't want to learn . What is mobile phone.
Oh garout with your stupid talks.... people are hungry and the only sensible thing you can talk about is phones.... what is dis......
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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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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BAWULIAR is confused
In most advanced countries too, their leaders have principles, integrity and values and just don't lie by heart
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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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.
Mad fool. Shut your stupid mouth. The Kwabena Boadu you electrocuted is haunting you. You are already mad
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.
Not in the US.
Am in Ontario I don’t know about the States
This guy who calls himself NPP flagbearer can lie.
Doctor of LIES
WHICH ADVANCE COUNTRY ????????????
Is this guy a moron? what country is he talking about? People like King is the reason Bawuliar will continue to deceive Ghanaians.
My brother Bawumia, it's not like those days when you used to deceive small girls with phones
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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That is possible when the countries own factories that manufacture phones. Where is the factory bawumia established??
What is wrong with this man?
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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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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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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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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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.
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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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
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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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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Which country is that? Why can’t you stop the lies for just one minute of your life.
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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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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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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This is happening already. MTN is doing this already.
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