NPP vetting committee boosted Afoko’s chances of winning

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• John Aseidu Tabiri 11 years ago

  New Plan for Power. Paul Afoko all the way !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  New Plan for Power. Paul Afoko all the way !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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• KOFI 11 years ago

  THE REPORT WAS WRONG THIS GUY WENT TO DRUG REHABILITATION IN THE UK.

  THE REPORT WAS WRONG THIS GUY WENT TO DRUG REHABILITATION IN THE UK.

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• ERNEST 11 years ago

  Yes, the petition rather boosted Afoko's chances since he is winning sympathy from electorates. Afoko all the way

  Yes, the petition rather boosted Afoko's chances since he is winning sympathy from electorates. Afoko all the way

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• Kofi Osei 11 years ago

  News
  ?EU fear of GM food from US hampers historic trade deal
  March 13, 2014 00:10
  
  Reuters / David Mdzinarishvili
  An ‘enormous gulf’ has been exposed between the EU and the US through Europe’s reluctance to buy hor ...
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  ?EU fear of GM food from US hampers historic trade deal
  March 13, 2014 00:10
  
  Reuters / David Mdzinarishvili
  An ‘enormous gulf’ has been exposed between the EU and the US through Europe’s reluctance to buy hormone meat or GM food from the US. Industry and labor groups voiced concern to EU and US negotiators that the globe’s biggest trade pact was under threat.
  “There is an enormous gulf between the EU and US positions,” said Michael Dolan, a lobbyist for the US Teamsters Union at the fourth round of trade talks between the EU and US in Brussels on Wednesday.
  The talks marked an unusual occasion, being the first time that lobbyists were received, and additionally marking the first time that the forum allowed reporters inside.
  Those involved in negotiating a pact have expressed a desire to finalize a deal before the end of the year. Eight months of talks have already passed. However, tensions which have underscored trade talks worldwide have been a drawback, and continued low public support for the deal has exacerbated tensions over food.
  Despite this, its supporters say the deal would lead to some $100 billion per year in growth on both sides, and the EU says that ‘Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership’ (TTIP) is under threat from protesters it deems ‘anti-globalization’.
  In 2012, the EU exported $16.6 billion in farm produce to the US, while US farmers delivered $9.9 billion to Europe. The gap was largely blamed on the EU ban on GM food imports.
  “Our trade could be way bigger,” Douglas Nelson, a CropLife America adviser told Reuters. “The TTIP is a way to normalize trade with the European Union.”
  However, EU Trade Commissioner Karel De Gucht frequently reasserts that there will be no changes to the EU regulation of GM food even if an agreement is reached with the US.
  The EU is also closed to US beef from cattle raised with growth hormones.
  On March 10, the UK’s Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) secretary, Owen Paterson, added his backing to an EU proposal that may prompt the fast-tracking of GM crops for commercial cultivation in the country.
  Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, GM Freeze, the Soil Association and GeneWatch UK added their signatures to a letter to UK Prime Minister David Cameron condemning the plans.
  GeneWatch UK director, Helen Wallace, stated that Monsanto and other GM companies were “desperate to push their GM crops into other countries before the devastating impacts on wildlife and farming destroy existing markets,” according to local publication Farmers Weekly.

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• DONBOLI 11 years ago

  Whether vetting or no vetting NPP regional executives have decided in favor of Paul Afoko.
  As NPP members we found that Jake the 2012 National chairman failed in his duties as a chairman and as we can all see Afoko is the ri ...
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  Whether vetting or no vetting NPP regional executives have decided in favor of Paul Afoko.
  As NPP members we found that Jake the 2012 National chairman failed in his duties as a chairman and as we can all see Afoko is the right person to chair the party to Win 2016.
  Jake may not know he failed the party by not making sure we had polling agents in every station. he failed and didn't show any apology to the party members. Shameless is Jake to help Nana Addo and Bawumia to file a petition that could have be avoided if he did his job well.
  It was Jake who points out all the rigging and over voting to Bawumia. If Jake was a true chairman he should have been preventing the rigging and over voting, not pointing them out when the elections have already finish and results announced. If NPP had polling agents at all polling stations 2012, we would have been in power now.
  Those people {NPP MEMBERS] who thinks it the duty of the regional executives or district executives to get polling agents is very wrong.
  The first duty of a national chairman is to make sure our votes are save.
  Where there were no polling agents boxes were filled to John Mahama to win. MPs elections are completely different from President, that is what Jake didn't know. He cant say he knew because he left ballot boxes with no agents attending to them.
  Jake best is not good for NPP members, we want people who know what they are doing like Paul Akofo

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