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How Ibrahim came into great wealth - John Mahama details

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  • Dr Mumbi Seraki 3 days ago

    I too was nicknamed Fitter and Engineer as a kid for doing similar things. Wish I had the opportunity for the same exposure he had. Bless him.

  • Kay 2 days ago

    What was Ibrahim Mahama's economic status when he dropped out from High School in UK and relocated to Ghana?What work was Ibrahim doing with Sam Jonah, former CEO of Ashanti Gold?What was his economic status when his Mum took ...
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  • Karikakchar 2 days ago

    You seem to know more than JM revealed, right? Just provide the answers to your questions!

  • Kay 2 days ago

    @ Karikakchar
    His history are already in the hands of those who want to scrutinise his source of wealth..The more you try to derail the success of your enemies the more the camera will be on you.

  • prophet mohammed was a sick dog 2 days ago

    Say no to islam and convert to a real religion.
    Allah is satanic scum and qur'an is toilet paper. Search online for ways to move away from evil islam.........You can join ex-muslim groups online and be safe........ Y ...
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  • BRING BULLDOZERS & EXCAVATORS TO GHANA 2 days ago

    THAT WAS THE BEGINNING OF MODERN GALAMSEY WHEN IBRAHIM’S BROTHER BECAME PRESIDENT

  • Kojo Sromani 2 days ago

    This sort of hatred and envy will not take you anywhere. Human beings reap whatever they sow, and so if you sow mischief and deliberate falsehood, so shall you reap failure, hardships and frustrations in your life.

  • Antaru 2 days ago

    ISLAM IS RAISING EVERYDAY AND PROPHET MUHAMMAD SALLALLAAHU ALAIHI WASSALLAM NAME KEPP RAISING DAY IN DAY OUT SO YOU ARE THE LOOSER

  • Antaru 2 days ago

    SLAM IS RAISING EVERYDAY AND PROPHET MUHAMMAD SALLALLAAHU ALAIHI WASSALLAM NAME KEPP RAISING DAY IN DAY OUT SO YOU ARE THE LOOSER

  • kpotoo 2 days ago

    Absolute nonsense. PULL-Him-Down (PhD) in disguise. Shame on you.

  • Aduomi 2 days ago

    So tell us what you know and stop beating around the bush..do you have any verifiable facts to share, or you are just here spreading stupid rumors because you just hate the mahamas..

  • Dr Dre 2 days ago

    You are on point bro- the man thinks he is smart. Shielding his bro to the detriment of others.

  • becky 2 days ago

    Thank you my brother. if you have the answers, tell us. i see the story as resilience. in this life, we all need someone to hold our hands. Ibrahim was lucky to have people to hold his hands to grow. pray and look for good pe ...
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  • ST GHFUO: Ghana, cleanliness is Godliness 2 days ago

    Lies from Mahamadu as usual o heard this guy inrahim.was broke he was living in America and came to gh with $10gs and started from scratch that way

  • Subsidise petrol to grow economy not cedi dollar 2 days ago

    You did it with free SHS..A booming economy is when consumers are able to spend and spend.....why are people spending, buying in Dubai, UAE? You get an organic economy not an artificial economy...it's still why things are s ...
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  • Solving the nigerian Cyber crime-GIS enforce the 90 days stay rule. Nothing against Nigerians. We just can't have you destroy our country, sorry 2 days ago

    Pass the foreigner rental bill....also start sentencing these nigerian scammers, etc swiftly &publicly as a deterren
    All Landlords renting to foreigners for stay must register their tenants details at the nearest police stat ...
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  • Francis Crabbe 2 days ago

    Truly speaking all the figures are not equal. I wish SHS was there in the 1900s so that some of who were not able to go UK and the America could have been Engineers without borders. Its good for Mr President and your family. ...
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  • Kojo 2 days ago

    Another family and friends award. As for the wealth if it was AFRC 1979 time, the family will beg for a funeral!!!Four legs good, two legs bad. Where is Kwesi Prat the Squealer?

  • Aba Akyere 3 days ago

    Hmm! Drugs deals. Nokoware ye baako. Pe.

  • Kojo Sromani 2 days ago

    It is written that man can onlt reap what he sows; if you sow hatred, envy, mischief, and falsehood just as you have done with your nonsensical comment, so shall you and your lineage reap filures, curses, hardships, and confu ...
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  • Nana K 3 days ago

    Oh, so Ibrahim Mahama saw opportunity while in the UK!
    His company worked for mining companies. I thought John Mahama made him rich. So the NPP goons have lied to us all along!

  • John,Tema 2 days ago

    He was a brokeman runnnng errands for Sam Jonah ,and later considered to cart goods from KIA to Obuasi. He was still struggling till the Mum took him to Kufour.He got some monies there but his current status is questionable.

  • Kotipo 2 days ago

    Naa bro. He wasn’t struggling pre Kuffuor. His firm Engineers and Planners was a major player in contract mining before the NPP and Kuffuor came into office in 2001. The first indigenous contract mining operator. Give him h ...
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  • John,Tema 2 days ago

    @ Kotiipo
    Engineers and Planners was established in the 2000s during Kufour's regime.Find out he could not afford to buy a single tipper truck.He credited them on hire purchase and later on was could not pay for them.He has ...
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  • Kotipo 2 days ago

    Dude you are completely wrong. Engineers and planners existed long before John Agyekum Kuffuor. Just google and come back to call me out if am lying.

  • John,Tema 2 days ago

    Stop wasting your time and data, Ibrahim's wealth is unnatural. There are more questions for him and John to answer. Just as we want Ken Ofori Atta & Chairman Wontumi to answer for their "crimes",the same way the Mahamas will ...
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  • Sammy, Wassa Damang 1 day ago

    You are a big layer. Look I know where he started from, when the Avaime rice project was established. Renting D6 Cat fozers from Tarkwa Bogoso junction. Rental to PW mining International Ltd, Golden star (Setelight). African ...
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  • Paapa Ashun 2 days ago

    Most huge establishments have humble beginnings,so is Engineers n Planners, established in 1997, 3 clear years before Kufour became President Like it or hate it,Ibrahim Mahama is a self made man.

  • Nana 2 days ago

    Nobody hates Ibrahim Mahama, but it's bcoz of the hatred NDC Followers have fior successful Akans biz men that is why we are digging into his past to question his source of wealth.

  • TRUTH BE TOLD 2 days ago

    John, Tema
    WHAT EVER YOU CALLED YOURSELF. YOUNG BOYS LIKE YOUR TYPE SHOULD LEARN TO BE HUMBLE AND LEARNED FROM SUCH INSPIRATIONAL STORIES. INSTEAD YOU ARE STUPIDLY TALKING TRASH OUT OF IGNORANCE.
    IBRAHIM MAHAMA's HUMILITY ...
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  • ST GHFUO: Ghana, cleanliness is Godliness 2 days ago

    His brother Mohamad became.preaident and the rest is HIStory

  • XYZ 2 days ago

    Oh Ghanaians, these politicians will continue to brainwashed you. So you think John Airbus Mahama will come and tell the truth story of how his brother had his riches. You said NPP lied about how Ibrahim Mahama became rich, a ...
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  • TRUTH BE TOLD 2 days ago

    SO XYX
    YOUR FUCKING BRAINS IS NOT TIRED OF AIRBUS.? IF YOU STILL FEEL THE CURRENT PRESIDENT IS GUILTY WHY NOT SUE HIM IN COURT. IT APPEARS YOU'RE ON TRAMO AND RED, SO YOUR BRAINS ARE CAPUT.
    SOON YOU WILL BE SENT TO ANKAFU.

  • XYZ 2 days ago

    Are you worried the tagged Airbus is added to John Mahama name? The reason is international media reported that GO1 is involved in the Airbus scandal, and the two OSPs Martin and Kissi confirmed that GO1 is your John Airbus M ...
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  • Percy 3 days ago

    More grease to the elbows of Ibrahim Mahama.

  • Atta 2 days ago

    More Grease to Ken Ofori Atta and Chairman Wontumi.We pray that this country will be completed sold to the Highest Bidder.

  • @RealNapo 3 days ago

    "Behind every great fortune there is a crime and no body has become filthy rich without lying, cheating or stealing!

  • Kotipo 2 days ago

    Great story. Ibrahim was known all over tAccra secondary schools for his superb driving skills (known as “screeching”) back in those days. The President” story about his younger siblings being sent out of the county ...
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  • Nii 2 days ago

    Stop lying Ibrahim did not attend Secondary school in Ghana. He dropped out from High School in UK. He came back to Ghana and was using Cars and Motors to display on the street. A typical poor boy pretending to be Daadabee

  • Kotipo 2 days ago

    Bro, I don’t know your age, respectfully. Please ask from those who were in secondary school in Accra around 87/89. You will know the fact. Ibrahim was a well known fixture in the secondary school circles. Just check.

  • MO KWAME NKRUMAH NO 2 days ago

    Nii skin pain,Nii ahooyaa, Nii onibrefo,Nii if you can beat them, join them wai

  • kelewele 2 days ago

    Favouritism and politically influenced wealth. Nothing genius or innovative about Ibrahim Mahama.

  • NYEBRO 2 days ago

    DESCENDANTS OF SHIT CARRIERS NOW LOOTING GHANA TO BECOME RICH. PEPENI ABOA. EAT SHIT!!!

  • Me 2 days ago

    Nyebro the pathetic wretched fool, kwasia you are just foolish like your stupid parents. Animal

  • NYEBRO 2 days ago

    PEPENI LOVER. EAT SHIT. EBINI CARRIERS

  • Jon J 2 days ago

    Is he also not tryin to let us kno his bro didnt get his moni thru politiks

  • Jon J 2 days ago

    Is he not tryin to let us kno his bro didnt get his moni thru politiks?

  • Atsu 2 days ago

    John Mahama stop that nonsense we all know where the money comes from. Stolen Ghana money from You. Don’t try to deceive people

  • Emmanuel 2 days ago

    Packed of lies, he stole from us ( the citizens of Ghana ) Why wasn’t he paying his duties assessments at the port

  • Hard work pays 2 days ago

    Hard work, confidence and no turning back.
    Still the same.
    Result is success.
    Not forgetting his massive philanthropic work.

  • Sister Soulja 2 days ago

    That's not a story of humble beginnings, the man was sent to study in Britain as a child. This doesn't qualify as the poster child of rising from humble beginnings to riches.

  • Name 2 days ago

    You are very funny.

    So you mean people who have lived and studied in the UK cannot be humble or have humble beginnings?

    Meanwhile do you know that even the British in general are much more humble than we Ghanaians?

    W ...
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  • Sister Soulja 2 days ago

    You are totally missing the point, how many people in Ghana those days, and even now can afford to send their children to the UK for studies? It's only the Ultra rich and privileged few who can do that, so someone from such a ...
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  • Meet rasyandani Spritual center from India all Spritual problem 2 days ago

    Look am under rasyandani temple … when you meditate great Amal hamzard he is angel of weath it takes 60 to meditate to meet that angel before u can be rich in Ghana or supper powerful only few can meditate Amal hamzard is n ...
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  • Keane 2 days ago

    Hilarious corrupt evil family . Hiding $800 million at one point in Nigeria from corrupt projects . Hundreds millions of loans not paid back. Contracts with crazy bribes . Fell out with brother as he never gave him his 10% .

  • Keane 2 days ago

    Drug deals import export in cars . Juicy mining contracts . Sam the crook funding .

  • Obrempong 2 days ago

    Why his brother is trying to derail the successes of
    His brothet’s opponents ? Previous opponent
    Governments did not touch him, only when he
    was awarded him with Odaw River dregging
    Contract and He turned to freely use ...
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  • Saforo k 2 days ago

    Ghana has already been sold to a certain group of people

  • FACT 2 days ago

    JD MAHAMA IN PREMATURE DEFENSE MOOD
    The NPP has not yet charged Ibrahim Mahama with any offense so JD Mahama does not need to mount any defence for his beloved brother.

  • Victor 2 days ago

    When did he start doing all that? Give us dates? Where were then? Where did he get the capital? Etc. Don't try to throw dust into our eyes.

  • Victor 2 days ago

    When did he start doing all that? Give us dates? Where were you then? Where did he get the capital? Etc. Don't try to throw dust into our eyes.

  • Presidential Praise 2 days ago

    The last time Prez.Akufo Addo spoke and gave testimony of Akonta Mining as a clean business,they are in court after the reign of NPP.
    Un relation to Ibrahim's testimonial I pray it turns out very different.

  • Dr Dre 2 days ago

    Listen to nonfa- we need detail information of he secured loans for his contracts

  • Ahem! 2 days ago

    I just love the company name Engineers and Planners. He currently has a project going on close to my workplace and I like the way his workers arrive and leave the site in busses. He appears to be treating his workers well. Go ...
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  • Free Radical 2 days ago

    We all remember you gave your brother 75 % of our bauxite and twisted Azuma basin hand to take his concession of minerals to give to your brother.we are fools to be manipulated and deceive with lies. We know what you did befo ...
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  • Agondrie S 2 days ago

    If indeed he gave out that contract to his brother, is it better than giving it to foreigners who came to take all our resources away?
    Stop the envy and hatred for this noble family and concentrate on lifting your too.GBEMEL ...
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  • Agondrie S 2 days ago

    If indeed he gave out that contract to his brother, is it not better than giving it to foreigners who came to take all our resources away?
    Stop the envy and hatred for this noble family and concentrate on lifting your too.GB ...
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  • OZYMANDIAS 2 days ago

    He went to school in England in spite of your father being in exile. It shows that you people were born with silver spoons in your mouths. He also benefited from political connections when you became a MP. Did you not dash hi ...
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  • Azaa Story 2 days ago

    Went to school in London to escape political persecution?
    Infantile lies! Even Nkrumah went to Guinea!
    Who was persecuting them? And why?
    Too many gaps in this cooked story! Also Mahama told us politicians steal through ...
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  • Adu-Sei 2 days ago

    Ibrahim Traore revealed where most African Leaders and their families get their wealth from.
    He Traore was given $2Billion to allow foreign interest to rape his country Burkina Faso but he refused.
    Some Leaders in Africa ...
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  • Xxx 2 days ago

    Hmmmm... Mr President, your brother is a genuine mining engineer but all others are galamseyers, right???

  • Billy Bones 2 days ago

    It's not for you to explain to us, allow himself to do so,some of us also know how he came by such huge monies,which ought to be investigated thoroughly

  • Marai 2 days ago

    When the young guys are rich it's wrong and they get judged when this money laundering guys are rich it's okay oh Africa hmmmmm

  • Francis Crabbe 2 days ago

    are not equal. I wish are not equal. I wish free SHS was there in the 1900s so that some of who were not able to go UK and the America could have been Engineers without borders. Its good for Mr President and your family. Do w ...
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  • KWASI IN EUROPE 2 days ago

    You thief. Another JJ will come for you and your criminal brother in the near future.

  • Nyameba 2 days ago

    Ibrahim Mahamas money started from J A K era but when his brother John DAREGA MAHAMA became president then he got a lot of FREEBIES from NDC. He wasn’t paying duties to G R A and supposed to be jailed but Nana Akuffo Addo d ...
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  • THE LONE CRUSADER 2 days ago

    DO YOU HAVE YO PRECH THIS TOO?LIKE GATHER LIKE CHILDREN KOKRO DE KA! 44 FAKE CHECKS MERCHANT BANK THE BUXITE AND THE AMETEFE BOMB! DO YOU REMEMBER? CHICKEN HEADS ALWAYS BRAGE! TOARE CAN LECTURE US AND NOT YOU! SO EAT YOUR OWN ...
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  • Citizen8 1 day ago

    Yooo we hear.

  • Obi 1 day ago

    Instead of finding a way to purchase and pay cocoa farmers, you’re here championing the course of your brother. Family and friends right?