Public protests against economy posing security threat - BIA

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• AL JAZEERA NEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 11 years ago

  Sulley Muntari CLINICALLY TREATED Ghana’s serious disease, CORRUPTION. He attacked corrupt NDC'S CREATE, LOOT AND SHARE BUSINESS! !!!--------
  
  Below is what led to the brawl.
  
  Sulley: WHAT IS THE USE OF SOO MANY G.F.A O ...
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  Sulley Muntari CLINICALLY TREATED Ghana’s serious disease, CORRUPTION. He attacked corrupt NDC'S CREATE, LOOT AND SHARE BUSINESS! !!!--------
  
  Below is what led to the brawl.
  
  Sulley: WHAT IS THE USE OF SOO MANY G.F.A OFFICIALS & OTHERS HERE? You Are Basically Non-Essential and have no role or duties here. Your Number even dwarf that of the players... You receive Bonuses for no work done. You are a drain on the Govt.... You always make money on our back and you see every Tournament as a means to make money.... And You Have The Vim to question us why we want our money?
  
  Moses Armah: Your money will come take time, the captain is speaking….
  
  Sulley: Shut up, are you the one paying the money or you are the Prez?
  
  Moses Armah: I won’t allow you to include me in your list of victims oo…..I'm a gangster more than you.
  
  Sulley: So you can fight me eh (moving towards Moses’ direction disentangling himself from other guys retraining him).
  
  Moses Armah: Am ready for you. You think i'm a coward?
  
  Sulley: (picks a bottle and drop it, surprisingly jumps and slaps Moses) Fuck you!!
  
  Moses: Returns the slap with a blow lifts a fork…and Jonathan Mensah holds Moses’ hand up.
  
  Essien sits quietly, Gyan and Appiah speak Ga to Sulley, calming him down as Moses is whisked away by Saban Quaye

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• Jato Julor (J.J.) Rawlings 11 years ago

  "A hungry man is an angry man" all over the world and Ghana is no exception, but if an unprecedented thieving regime imposes such enormous hardships on its citizenry with all the oil revenues at its disposal, then an instant ...
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  "A hungry man is an angry man" all over the world and Ghana is no exception, but if an unprecedented thieving regime imposes such enormous hardships on its citizenry with all the oil revenues at its disposal, then an instant change of govt is urgently needed.

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• TWEAA 11 years ago

  'ARAB SPRING' IS THE ANSWER...PERIOD.

  'ARAB SPRING' IS THE ANSWER...PERIOD.

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• Fabian 11 years ago

  I some how agree with your assertion. I share NDC iddeology. However, things are not going on right. It seems Mahama is loosing grips of the economy. He shld get some of the old gurus in NDC at the ministries and make these y ...
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  I some how agree with your assertion. I share NDC iddeology. However, things are not going on right. It seems Mahama is loosing grips of the economy. He shld get some of the old gurus in NDC at the ministries and make these your ones deputies. Example, Mutala to employment is out of place. It is not about talking but maturity and respect. Mahama these boys by you are causing more harm than good. Take a second look at your ministers

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• Military Man 11 years ago

  Fabian,
  
  I respect you for saying that although you share NDC IDEALOGY, you still agreed with some of the assertions of BIA. I thinlk you are the first NDC supporter I've come across in this forum who hasn't let partisan p ...
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  Fabian,
  
  I respect you for saying that although you share NDC IDEALOGY, you still agreed with some of the assertions of BIA. I thinlk you are the first NDC supporter I've come across in this forum who hasn't let partisan politics cloud his judgements. Ghanan's problems can't be resolved along party lines. Political parties are just what they are and nothing more. Ghana is more than political parties. She's for all Ghanaians irrespective of politcal party alliances. If Ghana fails, Ghanaians have failed too so we should all help and be bold to voice our opinions about things that are not going right in the governance of our motherland. I hope other NDC members can take a cue from you and not jump down the throats of other Ghanaians who say that this government is not making Ghana a habitable place for all Ghanaians and accuse them of being NPP, CPP or NPN members. The welfare of Ghana should be paramount in everything we do as Ghanaians and shouldn't be misconstrued as a propaganda against the ruling government and party.
  
  No one political party has the sole propieratory ownership rights to GHANA.
  
  You pointed out some of the things the president might not be doing right.
  
  So if you are going to be fair with yourself, do you really think this president and his advisors have a clue of what they are doing?
  
  Everything seems to be falling apart in Ghana. Nothing seems to be working.
  
  Our educational system is in shambles.
  The health care system is non-existant.
  Our roads and highways are death traps for those who use them.
  Armed robbers operate with impunity killing, maiming and raping victims' wives and children.
  Bribery and corruption abound at our seaports and the ministies and nobody seems to care.
  DUMSOR-DUMSOR has become part of our culture now with no end in sight.
  Garbage and filth have now become our 'next door neighbours'.
  
  So if you are Ghanaian and you see these as daily occurrencies, why can't concerned citizens ask question without being labeled as anti-NDC?
  
  
  W

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• Nii from Mamprobi 11 years ago

  This is the first commonsense article I have read coming from any government agency. There is hope after all!
  
  It is not about NDC or NPP since both are corrupted. It would be best to give CPP or another party a chance. Th ...
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  This is the first commonsense article I have read coming from any government agency. There is hope after all!
  
  It is not about NDC or NPP since both are corrupted. It would be best to give CPP or another party a chance. The sad thing is even though I dont agree with alot of NPP ideology, They definitely did a better job economically, yes K4 and co also stole, just as JJ and crew before them but it seemed as if we were making some progress. they problem with NPP is the elitist attitude which fails to connect with common folk. But NDC need to screen their ministers, some of these guys sound illiterate. What schools did these guys attend? There are some good individuals in both parties but its the old guard on both sides who really do not care about the future of Ghana.
  
  Why must we emulate US politics (Dems vs GOP)?. America is going to Sh#t because of partisanship. 2 party system is better then single party or dictatorship but if both parties are only concerned about winning power above the needs of the nation Ghana is doomed.
  
  We need a 3rd party to take power for 4- 8 yrs. CCP needs to get their act together ASAP. This would humble NPP and NDC. Right now its like the Bloods vs Crips in Ghana and ghanaians are smoking the political crack both parties are peddling...smh...

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• Aboatea 11 years ago

  Ghanaians now feel helpless. I challenge the Ghana Armed forces to overthrow Mahama's Government - the most incompetent and corrupt government ever in the history of Ghana. Ghanaians are too coward, I cannot see the public ri ...
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  Ghanaians now feel helpless. I challenge the Ghana Armed forces to overthrow Mahama's Government - the most incompetent and corrupt government ever in the history of Ghana. Ghanaians are too coward, I cannot see the public rising up to do this themselves!

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• Nana Kasa 11 years ago

  What we are facing now is the result of 1966 useless coup which killed patriotism. Everybody in Ghana now is a thief..... and I mean everybody. Until that stops Ghana will keep sinking. So stop blaming Mahama and tell your br ...
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  What we are facing now is the result of 1966 useless coup which killed patriotism. Everybody in Ghana now is a thief..... and I mean everybody. Until that stops Ghana will keep sinking. So stop blaming Mahama and tell your brother, sister, children, pastor, doctor, chief, police, judge, nurse, paao!paa, taxi driver, mate, carpenter, teacher, student, shopkeeper, market woman, mechanic, civil servant, customs officer, tax collector.......,,, to stop stealing.

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• Akua Mansa 11 years ago

  We have all turned thieves because of the example set by Mahama and his incompetent, greedy fraudulent bastards
  
  Ghana is gone to the DOGS.
  
  It has never been so bad before
  
  Nana - things are falling apart because the h ...
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  We have all turned thieves because of the example set by Mahama and his incompetent, greedy fraudulent bastards
  
  Ghana is gone to the DOGS.
  
  It has never been so bad before
  
  Nana - things are falling apart because the head is rotten to the core

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• andy 11 years ago

  May God have mercy on ghanaians,the army force must wake up and overthrow this goveornament.

  May God have mercy on ghanaians,the army force must wake up and overthrow this goveornament.

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• unmisguided African child 11 years ago

  ...please remember that the waves of coups uppon coups that swept across our Continent for 40++ years in POST-IDEPENDENCE ERA crippled the Continent.
  
  ....And in Ghana,let us all remember that nearly 26 out of 53 years of S ...
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  ...please remember that the waves of coups uppon coups that swept across our Continent for 40++ years in POST-IDEPENDENCE ERA crippled the Continent.
  
  ....And in Ghana,let us all remember that nearly 26 out of 53 years of Self Rule
  were all under Military Regimes.....
  
  ...and Ghanaians still travel to fetch the family water on their heads.
  
  "WE MUST ALL LEARN TO CHANGE OUR ATTITUDES AND OUR MINDS"KN

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• Republican 11 years ago

  There could only be four plausible responses to this spate of back governance;
  1. Coup D'etat
  2. Violent demonstrations
  3. Suicides
  4. Deepening corruption and nepotism
  
  Ghanaians, if Mahama and his band of thieves will ...
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  There could only be four plausible responses to this spate of back governance;
  1. Coup D'etat
  2. Violent demonstrations
  3. Suicides
  4. Deepening corruption and nepotism
  
  Ghanaians, if Mahama and his band of thieves will not change, there is nothing else u could do than to choose one of the above. Eh! What about election 2016?

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• Kobo at 11 years ago

  All too often we read or hear from various commentators on national difficulties asking or pleading with govt to act to address the difficulties. I shudder to think as to the brilliance of mind of such people re their pleads ...
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  All too often we read or hear from various commentators on national difficulties asking or pleading with govt to act to address the difficulties. I shudder to think as to the brilliance of mind of such people re their pleads to govt in the sense that if the govt collectively had the answers, why would they not implement them to solve those problems. Fact is, collectively, current crop of people in govt are bankrupt of innovative ideas. PERIOD. It is as if they know their way out of the problems and yet are just being mischievous. Fact is they do not!

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• Papa Yaw 11 years ago

  So

  So

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• Kwame 11 years ago

  It is an undeniable fact that Ghana's economy became ill when the CPP lead by Dr. Kwame Nkrumah was overthrown on 24/2/1966. A few days after the coup the military junta and its rightist intellectual advisers send about 100,0 ...
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  It is an undeniable fact that Ghana's economy became ill when the CPP lead by Dr. Kwame Nkrumah was overthrown on 24/2/1966. A few days after the coup the military junta and its rightist intellectual advisers send about 100,000 Ghanaian workers home.
  The ills of the economy shows that the Breton Woods institutions structural adjustments have not made the economy healthy, but rather made the situation precarious.
  There must be a structural change in the economy. It is an undeniable fact that countries that are outside the dictate of the International Monetary Fund and World Banks have done better. Capitalist countries that are supposed to be doing better depends on undemocratic wage disparities between races and castes system as the case is with the U.S., India and South Africa.
  On the other hand China which depended on mostly state ownership of the means of production and distribution has fared better, so is the case of Cuba in the Caribbean. A look at even Iran whit heavy state ownership has revealed that even under sanctions it has done better than other nations in the Arabian Gulf who have been receiving support and grants from western countries.

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• Jerry Sodeman 11 years ago

  It is sad to see so many who expect the government to create properity for all Ghanaians. How is a governement going to give more to the people than it takes from them? It can try to do this by borrowing more and more money ...
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  It is sad to see so many who expect the government to create properity for all Ghanaians. How is a governement going to give more to the people than it takes from them? It can try to do this by borrowing more and more money that it does not pay back. This present government is already overextending itself and owes one enormous bill after another.
  No goverment can create prosperity for it citizenry. Prosperity comes from God's blessing, moral and responsible living, and work. The complainers will contribute nothing positive to Ghana's economy. They would do better to be thanful for what they have, do something for themselves, and seek God.

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• KKK USA 11 years ago

  THIS FOOLISH PEPENE WILL NOT LISTEN TO ANY ONE WHERE ARE GHANA ARMED FORCES WAKE UP BOYS

  THIS FOOLISH PEPENE WILL NOT LISTEN TO ANY ONE WHERE ARE GHANA ARMED FORCES WAKE UP BOYS

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• Kwesi 11 years ago

  The real problem we have as a country is that, some of you are so troubled by the fact that the President is a Northerner, so you are doing everything possible to discredit his government and make things look worse even if th ...
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  The real problem we have as a country is that, some of you are so troubled by the fact that the President is a Northerner, so you are doing everything possible to discredit his government and make things look worse even if that is not the case. All of these problems the BIA has recounted have been with us all these years and this nation moved on. Where from all of this sudden media campaign to force this guy out or make him loose the 2016 elections. Some of your comments can easily divide this nation. Why describe our president using the "F" word and on top, call him derogatory names to depict where he is coming from? I dont blame some of you, you were not brought up properly by your parent.

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• Ka Ne Wu 11 years ago

  Are you out of your mind? People are demonstrating because of the die situation facing the nation and it is not because we have a Northerner President. Who cares if Ghana President is from the North, South, East or the West? ...
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  Are you out of your mind? People are demonstrating because of the die situation facing the nation and it is not because we have a Northerner President. Who cares if Ghana President is from the North, South, East or the West? Our plight is to have a good leader with vision and can govern.
  With what we have in power now, I am afraid the country is heading down to the sewage line and it will take decades to revive it.

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• Ynakee 11 years ago

  It is sad Ghanaians seem to see government from the stand point of view as being the president,who shd be responsible for all their needs.Enhancing private sector investment is the only way forward to end unemployment.Enough ...
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  It is sad Ghanaians seem to see government from the stand point of view as being the president,who shd be responsible for all their needs.Enhancing private sector investment is the only way forward to end unemployment.Enough of the blame game politics,come out with constructive nation building ideas

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• Akua Mansa 11 years ago

  He should get out if the Kitchne is too hot

  He should get out if the Kitchne is too hot

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• Bretton Woods Chairman 11 years ago

  Definition of a "deer in headlights":
  A state of mental block caused by anxiety over panic management of the GH economy, stunning astonishment at spectacular ministerial incompetence, confusion over poor GH fiscal & monetary ...
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  Definition of a "deer in headlights":
  A state of mental block caused by anxiety over panic management of the GH economy, stunning astonishment at spectacular ministerial incompetence, confusion over poor GH fiscal & monetary policy, a cabinet with a lusty penchant for TONGA, a god-forsaken and failing presidency, and most of all... a hell-hound fear of election 2016.
  
  Riddle, riddle; guess the name of the GH president suffering the "deer in headlights" syndrome?
  
  Hint: he is despondent, miserable, and referred to, infamously, as "Y3n tie obiaa", "Kofi Dubai", and "the king is naked"
  
  IMF MD Christine Lagarde, you may answer the question.
  
  IMF MD answer: Its that irresponsible JOHN MAHAMA, who air-lifted more that 3-Million USD to Brazil ...and yet is on his knees begging for an IMF bail out!!!

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• Solomon 11 years ago

  Like Mahama cares. He really does not care, know not what to do. Lets just hope the masses have the patience to put up until the next time they are asked to pick a leader. The danger, a real danger, what if it is perceive ...
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  Like Mahama cares. He really does not care, know not what to do. Lets just hope the masses have the patience to put up until the next time they are asked to pick a leader. The danger, a real danger, what if it is perceived elections were botched like the last time? This time, voters may not wait to be told a recourse will be sought in court. What it says is that, if you see someone stealing, deal with it right there. Now that may be more than we are seeing in Eqypt, and other places. It sure is a real threat.

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