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It is unfair to blame Bawumia for Ghana's economic challenges - Osei Kyei- Mensah-Bonsu

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  • Buluu 1 year ago

    But he Bawumia blamed and quizzed Amissah Arthur

  • Dr Mumbi Seraki 1 year ago

    Hello youth of Ghana. You can take your own life with medicine......for instance 10 paracetamol at once......or combine medicine and akpeteshie or weedicide.

  • FIELD MARSHALL 1 year ago

    WHO WAS PRESENTED TO GHANAIANS AS ECONOMIC WIZKID??? OR HIS CAREER IS DEAD AND HE HAS BECOME ECONOMIC PATAPAA??

  • Fofie 1 year ago

    That is precisely the point!! The man was framed and presented as Economic Messiah and he sold himself as such. Now you have another scammer preaching to us not to blame him. Are you not stingingly dishonest?

  • The The 1 year ago

    #Mahamawillfixit.

  • PRINCE KWASI ADADE (OFIE P33) 1 year ago

    BEFORE COVID-19 AND RUSSIA/UKRAIN WAR, GHANA'S ECONOMY WAS ONE OF THE FASTEST GROWING IN THE WORLD!! WE ADMIT THERE ARE CHALLENGES BUT THE ECONOMY IS SOLIDLY ON ITS FEET.
    ARE WORKERS NOT RECEIVING THEIR SALARIES?
    ARE CHILDR ...
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  • Smh 1 year ago

    Are you stup!d or something? Even if you earn 2k a month, with the current hardship largely due to mismanagement, how many days would you spend it?

    Majority early less than 2k so you can imagine, don’t be stup!d man!!

  • Errortorial Commission of Ghana -EC 1 year ago

    Mr. Osei Kyei- Mensah-Bonsu, who else was the Head of the Economic Management Team (EMT) and Vice president for the past 8 YEARS? Was it not the same Bawumia and Samira who were laughing at the previous NDC that no one rememb ...
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  • PRINCE KWASI ADADE (OFIE P33) 1 year ago

    NPP CAN'T CLAIM EVERYTHING IS IN A STATE OF FLUX AS WE ARE TALKING NOW BUT THE SITUATION IS NOT PECULIAR TO GHANA POST COVID.
    IT IS WORLDWIDE. LOOKING AT NPP PERFORMANCE SECTOR BY SECTOR, WE CAN WITH CONFIDENCE, SAY NPP HAS ...
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  • Fact Checker 1 year ago

    It is worldwide, including our African neighbours! But then how many African countries ran to the IMF for a bail out? Are other countries not part of the same world Ghana is? And yet they managed their meagre resources whilst ...
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  • Kofi 1 year ago

    Resilient economy wont collapse to this extent after a pandemic...even Ukraine where the bombs and weapons are being fired is doing better than us..find something else to clutch on....u are sinking

  • Kk 1 year ago

    Tyei Mensa do not allow your grand son or daughters to insult or slap you be mindful

  • Kk 1 year ago

    Ofie stop taking wee toffee be mindful

  • YSL 1 year ago

    Ok we will blame you for it then, We vividly can recollect who was organizing all the economics lectures in various campuses accross Accra in 2016,we haven't forgotten who was setting questions for Amisah Arthur to answer on ...
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  • Yaw 1 year ago

    Please, Hon Kyei Mensah, tell me. DO GHANIANS GROW THEIR CASSAVA AND OTHER FOOD PRODUCTS IN UKRAINE ??? HOW MUCH MONEY DID GHANA RECEIVE BECAUSE OF COVID ??? Your pathetic, vision less president squandered all these freebies ...
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  • Kofi 1 year ago

    God have mercy on you

  • Ghana Observer 1 year ago

    Kyei Mensah is right. The whole of the NPP is blamable. They were led by Kyei Mensah who shoved most projects through our throats at the midnight hour in parliament acquiesced by the NPP parliamentarians. They must all go f ...
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  • they say they say 1 year ago

    ...and never come back

  • PRINCE KWASI ADADE (OFIE P33) 1 year ago

    YETE SO! NDC NOT AN OPTION AT ALL!!!!!!!
    AUTHOR: Yaw ————//
    - No matter what
    the living conditions may be today, NPP is still the best party for Ghana. Their hard work for Ghana for the past six years in power is c ...
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  • Akufu Ado The Dark Lord 1 year ago

    When will you stop fooling?

  • Ujah 1 year ago

    Ur problems are many 8 yrs or 6 yrs?

  • ANOLD 1 year ago

    Now it is sinking into their fuckin heads, kwasia BAWULIAR bragged management of economic management team,now he shouldn't be blamed?mensah bonsu is a joke,what a wonderful team.

  • Joe 1 year ago

    You npps are so stupid! We don't want you lot including bawumia! Clear off! We hate your ugly faces with passion!

  • Partley. 1 year ago

    So it's an admission that, there's economic hardships. That's enough.

  • BAWUMIAH IS PART OF THE ROT IN AKUFO-ADDO'S GARGANTUAN TRIBALISTIC EFUOM AKANS FAMILY AND FRIENDS GOVERNMENT OF THIEVES, PROSTITUTES, MONEY-LAUNDERERS AND DRUGS PEDDLERS. 1 year ago

    KWASIA! KYEI-MENSAH BONSU IS PART OF THE ROT OF BANKRUPT BACKWARD GHANA.

    ALL AKANS MUST BE KICKED OUT OF DECISION-MAKING IN ALL GOVERNMENT INSTITUTIONS. THEY ARE ALL CRIMINALS, MONEY-LAUNDERERS, GOLD SMUGGLERS, CONVERTIBLE ...
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  • Unpredictable Oye Onye Kwasi Atta 1 year ago

    It was fair for Bawumia to blame the then Veep Paa Kwesi Amissa-Arthur but the reverse should not the same? Idiotically idiot thinking by a seasoned NPP FoolSoldier

  • The bottomless Pit 1 year ago

    Then we should blame your useless father.

  • Kwam 1 year ago

    Eiii you are now shifting the goal poles!!! What has changed from 2016 ? Educate Ghanaians to understand it better?

  • Observer 1 year ago

    When did you realize that a vice president should not be blamed for economic woes, What happened to the 170+ questions posed to Amissah Arthur

  • Stephen Donkor, New York. 1 year ago

    @ Observer:
    GHANA IS 500% RICHER TODAY THAN UNDER P/NDC.

    IN 1992- 1996 UNDER PNDC THE SIZE OF GHANA’S ECONOMY WAS ABOUT $ 5- 25 BILLION PPP WITH ABOUT 16-18 MILLION POPULATION. TODAY GHANA’S ECONOMY IS CLOSE TO $80 ...
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  • Mallam 1 year ago

    What your understanding of a country that has defaulted on its debt. Rich nations pay their debt on time

  • Ntim Anthony 1 year ago

    @Stephan Donkor
    It's true Ghana is rather richer in Sicknesses today as your comparison with the years 1992- 1996 under the PNDC.
    Can money buy life? Think before because if you have money and you are sick and depend on ot ...
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  • Errortorial Commission of Ghana -EC 1 year ago

    Ghana is 500% Richer but can't pay it's debt? What type of Warped logic is this mr. Stephen Donkor????

  • Milly 1 year ago

    What stupid thing to say. So you knew all thus and when the good people of Ghana together with 80 parliamentarians agitated for the removal of Ofori-Attah, you pretended to be the wisest and assisted to have him stay in power ...
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  • THE MECHANIC 1 year ago

    So we should blame you?? You lead government business for over in parliament for 6yrs. You knew about all the rot in this government yet u supported it. U set a bad precedent with former speaker Mike Oquaye and it's hunting y ...
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  • K. Kusi 1 year ago

    But was it fair him to taunt Amissah with his hopeless 170 questions? Even now, he is running round to have championed 33 policies that he believes are benefitting Ghanaians whilst at the same time denying the failed economy. ...
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  • Pee 1 year ago

    But who should we blame? Tell us. Was he not the head of the government economic management team? Tell me again, was he not made the vice president because he brag he can solve Ghana’s economy problems?

  • Stephen Donkor, New York. 1 year ago

    GHANA IS 500% RICHER TODAY THAN UNDER P/NDC.

    IN 1992- 1996 UNDER PNDC THE SIZE OF GHANA’S ECONOMY WAS ABOUT $ 5- 25 BILLION PPP WITH ABOUT 16-18 MILLION POPULATION. TODAY GHANA’S ECONOMY IS CLOSE TO $80 BILLION GDP AN ...
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  • Tanko 1 year ago

    You see the double standard being displayed, when there is any good thing, Bawumia will hurriedly come out to take credit and claim ownership, however, when something goes wrong then he want to isolate himself from it. Balder ...
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  • Kwame pobi 1 year ago

    Hon.! Pls you can’t be serious for once. What did de president say about dr. Bawumia? 2021, in his sona address he praised him for the achievements of de government in de terms of de economy. So where from this ?

  • Joseph Mensah 1 year ago

    Stop taking credit for the growth of 7 and 8 percent in 2017 and 2018. This was predicted in 2015/2016 due to the investment made by the previous government. You did nothing yet you are touting yourself with this achievements ...
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  • Patriot 1 year ago

    Indeed! You took over in January 2017 and the economy was doing well; who built that economy? NDC.
    Remember, Ghana was under IMF up till 2019, so the NPP could start the looting.
    When IMF left in 2019, Akufo Addo, Ofori Att ...
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  • Patriot 1 year ago

    ...could not start the looting.

  • Golden 1 year ago

    ALL PREVIOUS GOVERNMENTS MISMANAGED GHANAS ECONOMY DUE TO LACK OF
    TRANSPARENCY AND STRICT ACCOUNTABILITY,PERIOD!!!!!!!
    TIME TO WAKE UP AND DO THE RIGHT THING FOR THE BENEFIT OF ALL THE CITIZENS- STOP INTERNAL CORRUPTION AN ...
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  • Hannan 1 year ago

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  • Kay, Ohio, USA 1 year ago

    Who do Ghanaians blame if Not Bawulier? Was he not the head of the EMT

  • Sul 1 year ago

    YOU THINK WE ARE ALL STUPID........A LOT OF US REASON PASS YOU. NONSENSE

  • Fofie 1 year ago

    Disingenuous and dishonest. How did you frame and sell the man to the public? Not an economic Wizkid who will come and solve all the economic problems of the country. Did you listen to Nana Addo on campaign platforms? Did you ...
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  • Sycamore 1 year ago

    1.You see these jokers and hardened crooks of the npp and inconsistencies are like 1 and 2. It was fine for Mike Ocquay the former speaker of the seventh parliament to pronounce a seat vacant by virtue of the fact that the me ...
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  • Boldsteven Mother Serpent of Corruption 1 year ago

    Bonsu we were told why Bawumia was brought by Akufo Addo and npp And Bawumia touted himself as head of the solid EMT and yyhe wife described him as an economic wizkid. He told us he has arrested the Cedi and handed over the k ...
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  • okyeame 1 year ago

    Was it ok to blame and ask Mr late Amisa 170 questions? Was it Late Amisa fault then? Sometimes i wonder

  • Myopic Thinking 1 year ago

    Is Bawumia an independent candidate from the moon? The NPP has governed Ghana for nearly 8 years and every governance and economic indicators have gotten worse over the period of the NPP’s stewardship. That is the reason th ...
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  • Emily 1 year ago

    Why not bawumia? then who teachers are suffering market women are suffering doctors are suffering Ghanaian are suffering babies are suffering boys are suffering girls are suffering Ghanaian are suffering contractors are suffe ...
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  • William 1 year ago

    If thats the case, where the President of Ghana makes all the decisions, on how the Country should be run, then its no wonder, the economy has come to a standstill.
    Seriously, what would boofhead
    Know about running a Cou ...
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  • Kofi, Bantama 1 year ago

    Your mother has to be blamed for Ghana's problems. Gyemiiii, naniema

  • Justice 1 year ago

    Have you forgotten the 170 stupid questions this guy posed to Amissah Arthur?
    He bragged about his “ qualifications “ as if he’s the only holder of “phd “ in economics in Ghana!!
    Empty barrel!!!!!

  • Abrefa 1 year ago

    The NPP touted Bawumia as the economic messiah. Because he flopped miserably on the economy, they're trying to re-package him. But we know Bawumia's record on economy. Absolute disaster. When the fundamentals are weak, the ex ...
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  • Eap 1 year ago

    Economic messiah nu who should we blame? You people said he was brought in to save Ghana's economy when it was 4=1 and Ghanaians were complaining.. He claimed to have arrested the dollar bla bla bla Now it's 17=1 so you don't ...
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  • kojo 1 year ago

    Bawumia is the economic wizard who ate our economy day and night to destroy it.

  • Effo 1 year ago

    We should blame you right?

  • Errortorial Commission of Ghana -EC 1 year ago

    Mr. Osei Kyei- Mensah-Bonsu, who else was the Head of the Economic Management Team (EMT) and Vice president for the past 8 YEARS? Was it not the same Bawumia and Samira who were laughing at the previous NDC that no one rememb ...
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  • Agnes 1 year ago

    Sorry, the President told us he is the economist who will solve the challenges so do not blame us for blaming Bawuwia

  • Truth 1 year ago

    Why are most old folks so dishonest in this country... Lord have mercy on us. One day we will all be before the God of truth

  • Kofi NYANTEKYE 1 year ago

    We were told he came to solve our economic problems. Nana Addo said he is not an economic messiah that was why he brought Bawumia. So who should i blame ?Should I blame you the dethroned majority leader.

  • Kofi 1 year ago

    Nana addo told us he chose him to come and head the economic management team so if you say his role was advisory, then he gave wrong advise which has led to the total collapse of our economy...ig his advice wasnt taken, then ...
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  • Listen to me 1 year ago

    Bawumia has been the chairman of the economic management team(EMT) for 8 years,if it went well he would be boasting by now,now that the economy is in crisis you want me to blame your father or who?

  • Ibidun 1 year ago

    Please keep quite if you have nothing to say. What did you guys told us bawumia was? As if we are fools. Don't let's me disrespect you. Have you also joined the bootlickers

  • Royal Rich 1 year ago

    Foolish creature, we shouldn't blame bawuliar for Ghana's economic challenges but rather we should blame your father.

  • Amekese 1 year ago

    Gyimi. gyimi

  • Jonathan 1 year ago

    But we should blame who ?

  • Nonsense 1 year ago

    Kwasea but it is fair for him to take credit when it was booming.

  • Huckenburg 1 year ago

    So we should blame your mother

  • Bastie Tutu Asantefournyinaahene 1 year ago

    He’s the head of the economic management team

  • Kwadwo 1 year ago

    Who should we blame after running continues commentary on the economy that earned him economic messiah . He has failed woefully as the head of the economic management team. He is not fit for purpose.

  • Resi 1 year ago

    Idiot ,so we should blame your mother

  • Abu D 1 year ago

    Even if we have short memory not on Bawumia’s rankings and unguided taunting of himself.

  • Adam Smith 1 year ago

    Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu talks like someone from Suame. Silly me, he is.

  • Edward 1 year ago

    Kissing ass for Speaker of Parliament position

  • Stone 1 year ago

    But why should he tak credit for the good things but when it comes for bad things he becomes a mate?

  • Stone 1 year ago

    But why should he tak credit for the good things but when it comes for bad things he becomes a mate?

  • Amazing Grace 1 year ago

    Hahaha JM afa

  • Jagaban 1 year ago

    Does Bawumia has achievement as a vice president, if yes how did he got it from. Because he is not the president. Senior minister without, Senior sense.

  • Amina Ambassador 1 year ago

    Idiot. Who should we blame?

  • Abusua 1 year ago

    In case Kyei Mensa Bonsu understands what he is saying. Was it not the same Bawuliar that Akuffo Addo told us that he brought him as vice president because of his knowledge in economics?

  • Okyere J. 1 year ago

    It was fair to blame Mahama for the poor performance of the economy and dumsor under him but it's not fair to blame Bawumia for the once going on under him? We are ostriches in this land called GHANA.

  • Mimi 1 year ago

    Should we add you to him? He threw a ball on the wall and it's bouncing back to him now. Are you not in this country when he held economic lectures every month against the ndc Mr Arthur? His talks were cheap

  • Kofi Odro 1 year ago

    You are simply a political lair and a thief.As the head of the economic team who should be blamed.

  • SALY : 1 year ago

    STUPID FOOL then who is to be blamed? Your father or your mother? He is the chairman of the economic committee and vice president, are there BRAINS in your useless head at all?

  • TeeeeY 1 year ago

    Adults that are refusing their responsibility but someone can be made to carry the burden

  • Jojo 1 year ago

    Fooooooool! Where were you when he was been taunted as an economics guru during opposition? What happened to the answers to his numerous economics lectures?

  • Slow 1 year ago

    Politics without principles. On one hand we should credit him with any good thing if there is under this administration and another, we should exonerate him from any failures. So what is the use of bawumia in this government ...
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  • Achakanapaya 1 year ago

    Who is the head of the Economic Management team???
    Hypocrites. NPP is a Satanic organisation, full of shameless dishonest evil demolic wicked minded Humans.

  • Kwesi Kwesi 1 year ago

    Yes is very true okay,is father who is to be blamed Kyei Mensah Bonsu or whatever they call you, nonsense talk.

  • Kojo 1 year ago

    We are not fools Mr osei Mensah okay. We are normal human being. For chirst sake. Accord us with some respect ok

  • Kwesi Kwesi 1 year ago

    Don't mind him my brother.

  • Akajatayogogo 1 year ago

    Osei Kyei Mensah Bonus you"re a fool more than Bawumia himself,Kwasia useless idiot

  • KB 1 year ago

    you are a big fool, sir. I am very disappointed in you sir.

    First, we Ghanaians say that we do not want the NPP because it did not show any sign of caring for the poor.

    The masses are not blaming Bawumia alone. the NPP ...
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  • Ex-Pope 1 year ago

    Why is it unfair when you and the NPP boasted that Aplanke Bawumia is a guru economist who will transform Ghana's economy for the better, only for Ghanaians to discover that Bawumia is nothing but a fake guru economist who wo ...
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  • nana 1 year ago

    NPP must go to opposition to learn, it seems they dont have the men again. Foolish talk everyday just to paint the party black.

  • Sam Fante warrior. 1 year ago

    Elephant family criminals villagers, they talk and behaving like animals.

  • Frank Talk 1 year ago

    These politicians continue to insult the intelligence of Ghanaians, the Akufo Addo told us why he brought Bawumia into the picture. The same Bawumia took the credit at some point claiming he had arrested the Almighty Dollar ...
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  • Iron 1 year ago

    But he is riding on some of the successes chalked by npp to run his campaign? It would be stupid not to tie him to the failures as well

  • Dread 1 year ago

    Such nonsense. Who should we blame? When it comes to praise there's no problem with that.

  • Ab 1 year ago

    So what do you take Ghanaians for?
    Stupid defensce.

  • Castro 1 year ago

    Twaaaa, Bawumia is a continuation of akufo Addo. Kick him out.

  • BA 1 year ago

    But was it fair for Bawumia to blame JM for previous economic challenges that were less severe that what we saw

  • Eric Fynn 1 year ago

    Any good policy we should give credit to him Bawumia,but if it is bad thing then it is Mr President Akuffo Addo. Master you people has failed, accept and go your way out after December 7.
    If Bawumia knew that as you are sayi ...
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  • X Filz 1 year ago

    But is it fair to credit him with NPP successes as such the so called digitalization?

  • Bawuliar 1 year ago

    But is it fair to credit him with NPP successes such as the so called digitalization?

  • Safianu 1 year ago

    Please it is better to remain silent then trying to defend the undefendable. It is unfair to blame bawumia but is fair to blame mahama right.

  • Obempe Mensah 1 year ago

    So it was right for him to blame Amissah Attah and he even gave him 170 questions to answer today his term he is not the one responsible who can you deceive or you think all Ghanaians are from Suame who can't think well and o ...
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  • .com 1 year ago

    You hold the truth to tell Ghanaians that the NPP 's administration deserves a kick-out . What did you witnessed at Ejisu that remains unsolved after lawyer Anthony Boateng's removal.

  • Obroniba 1 year ago

    Gyimiiiiiii gyimii, who is the leader of the economic management team and why do you accord buwuliar all the credits but shield him from the mess? Masa keep your mouth shut and go away with your foolishness and stupidity. Inc ...
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  • NY 1 year ago

    You are right because I am the one put in that position to manage the economy and I abandoned it to pursue IT and digitalisation contracts for money.

    Such as incompetent professional and disastrous liar of a VP

  • Obrempong 1 year ago

    You have confirmed Bawuliar is simply a poodle and Liar who has achieved something he hasn't worked for. Clear off

  • Thief of Staff - Akosua Frema 1 year ago

    Did Dr. Bawumia think same of the former vice president and Head of the Economic Management Team, Mr. Paa Kwesi Bekoe Amissah-Arthur before setting for him 170 questions on the economy to answer? Ugly, senseless, shameless, g ...
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  • Chuck, Virginia 1 year ago

    By the same token, Bawumia should not claim credit for the develpments he is touting, if he is distancing himself from the failures of this government!

  • Kuntu 1 year ago

    It is unfair to blame the head of the economy management for the economic challenges in Ghana, what Dick head, do u want Ghanaians to blame mahama and his vice for the current economic mess, what a foolish statement!!!

  • Martin Luther 1 year ago

    Mr Bonsu we as Ghanaians cannot have double standards in measuring performance of our leaders. The vice president has failed us, he can't in anyway alleviate our suffering even if given he is been given twice the money he inh ...
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  • Lily 1 year ago

    Foolish man.....let me ask you...who is the chairman of the economic management team?

  • Lily 1 year ago

    Fooolish man.....let me ask you...who is the chairman of the economic management team?

  • Mohammed Awal Tahir 1 year ago

    This old fool will not stop amusing me did you remember when bawumia arrested the dollar gave the keys to igp,his 170 question wasn't directed to the president but rather to the then vice president didn't he know the vice is ...
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  • ROGUE LAWYER 1 year ago

    1.didn't he say He has arrested the dollar in 2017 ?
    2. why did Akuffu Addo the Rogue empty lawyer choose Bawumia as a Veep? was it not because of the economy ?
    so if Ghana economy has fallen under him is it fair to also s ...
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  • Kofi Akakpo 1 year ago

    IDIOT WHO DO WANT US TO BLAME

  • Nii Adjei 1 year ago

    But who should we blame? If you misled Akufo-Addo into reposing trust in you as the savior to rescue Ghana from the jaws of the Guggisbergian economy within the first 18 months, and 8 years down the lane we currently find our ...
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  • Nii Adjei 1 year ago

    ***before entrusting
    **"Bank of Ghana has the rate, Abotsi has the dollar

  • IOC 1 year ago

    The majority of Ghanaians are angry o. So, Hon., please don't come and make it worse. Thank you

  • ADU BOATENG 1 year ago

    A party of fools who thought they were so wise to listen to anybody. They thought Ashantes are fools and that they support them to do anything because they are predominantly Akans. They even thought the rest of Ghanaians are ...
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